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Swim team talent show earns more money than last year
Tiboni wins top
honor again
BY SEAN HART
HERMISTON HERALD
Musicians and dancers
took the stage at the Hermis-
ton High School auditorium
Saturday raising funds for the
swim team, and the audience
voted singer Corrina Tiboni
as the best performer for the
second consecutive year.
Tiboni, who was accom-
panied by pianist Josh Rist,
said she spent a month prac-
ticing the song “I Have Noth-
ing” for the fourth annual
HHS Swim Team Variety
Show, and this year’s compe-
tition went well.
“I thought it was really
good, and I had some really
good competitors that were
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served to win, too,” she said.
“I never expected to even win
last year, let alone two years
in a row. It’s really crazy.”
The contest featured 34
performers, and audience
members voted with their
wallets, giving $186.33 on
behalf of Tiboni. She won the
$50 top prize. The $25 sec-
ond prize was awarded to the
Filipino American Commu-
nity Dancers, who generated
$157.91 from the audience.
Tiboni said she started
singing when she was about 7
SEAN HART PHOTOS
The Filipino American Community Dancers perform ‘Tinikiling,’ which won second place at the Hermiston High School swim team’s annual talent show Saturday.
years old in church.
“Singing, I guess, is just
the one thing that I love,”
she said. “When I’m either
happy, sad, angry, surprised,
singing, and music in general,
is always just there to comfort
me or to make me even more
happy. It’s my passion.”
Tiboni is in three HHS
choirs and said she enjoys
performing.
“I love being able to just,
even for one moment, show
someone not necessarily my
own talent but how beautiful
it can be,” she said. “I just like
being able to give that to other
people, as well.”
HHS swimming coach
Kevin Hamblin said he was
impressed with the talent at
the show.
“I love this fundraiser be-
cause, four years ago when
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of those things that I’ve nev-
er been around a stage and
performance, and somebody
said, ‘Oh, you should try it,’
because they used to have (a
talent show),” he said. “Now,
I look forward to it because
we have some great perfor-
mances. It’s just amazing
watching the talent that those
kids have.”
He said the event raised
$3,687.65 this year, $600
more than last year, and the
funds will be used to help
offset the $5,000 in transpor-
tation costs the team incurs
each season.
“We have the highest bud-
get for transportation in the
high school because we trav-
el to Pendleton and swim at
Blue Mountain Community
College every single day, and
From left, Remington and Terika Christensen dance to ‘Footloose’
during Saturday’s Hermiston High School Swim Team Variety Show.
then, on the weekends, we go
to swim meets away because
we don’t have an indoor
pool,” Hamblin said. “I have
to really tell everybody this
is a fundraiser for the swim
team so we can participate in
swimming. ... It’s one of those
things we just want to make
sure they have in this area.”
His wife, Lynne Hamblin,
has helped organize the fund-
raiser each year, and she said
the event went well Saturday.
“Overall, I think it was a
hit,” she said. “We had three
more acts than we did last
year, and we got done in less
time. I think there were more
people here than last year.
We gave back to the com-
munity, and the community
helped us, so it was a win-
win. So now we book the au-
ditorium and start planning
for next year.”
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Members of the Hermiston High School boys swim team perform a synchronized dance at the
team’s annual talent show Saturday.
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Umatilla robotics kicks off season
BY MAEGAN MURRAY
HERMISTON HERALD
The Umatilla robotics
team was one of sever-
al teams across the world
watching intently Saturday
morning as For Inspiration
and Recognition of Science
and Technology announced
its new game set up this
year through a live stream.
Nearly 75,000 teams
joined the 2015 kickoff via
a live Comcast NBCUni-
versal broadcast, which
announced that the teams
would be competing in a
new game known as Re-
cycle Rush. The challenge
requires teams to use their
robots to stack boxes and
recycling bins to score
points.
Some of the Umatilla
team members were also
at Eastern Washington
University for the kick-off
event to pick up their kit of
parts and give a demonstra-
tion to other teams.
Members of the Uma-
tilla team, which has been
successful in their last two
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the world championships,
said they are excited about
the new challenge.
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my four years that we’ve
seen something like this,
but I’m certain that our
team will be able to rise
to the challenge of Recy-
cle Rush,” Anabel More-
no-Mendez, senior project
manager for the team, said
in a press release.
Elijah Pine, sophomore
structural build team mem-
ber, agreed.
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ly incorporates a different
aspect,” he said in a press
release. “We’ve never had
to create a robot that must
be designed for precision
and accuracy as opposed to
speed and dexterity.”
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history of the program, an
engineering mentor, Trent
Weatherby, will aid the stu-
dents.
“This game is more a
battle with ourselves than
against others,” team men-
tor Kyle Sipe said in a
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press release. “We’re truly
trying to engineer a robot
that will compete against
the clock and our own lim-
itations.”
This year, 42 members
are on the build team,
the most it has ever had.
When the program started
four years ago, it had nine
members.
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