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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015
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year,” Wagner said. “Over-
all, it went great.”
The biggest challenge
for this year’s fair turned
out to be the weather. The
rain stayed away this year,
but heavy winds all day
Friday had vendors scram-
bling to keep their tents and
wares from blowing away.
The National Weather Ser-
vice station at the Hermis-
ton airports reported sus-
tained winds in excess of
20 — and sometimes 30
— mph throughout the day
on Friday with just gusts
of more than 40 mph and a
peak gust of 51 mph shortly
before 4 p.m.
When the high winds
caused
Hinder’s
tour
manager to make the call
that it wasn’t safe for the
multi-platinum rock band
to perform on the Wild-
horse Stage, the band was
under no contractual obli-
gation to stay. They would
have gotten paid anyway if
the show was canceled due
to an “act of God,” which
is what Wagner thought he
would have to do.
“They came out and said
‘Listen, we didn’t come out
for a paycheck, we came
out to put on a concert,’”
Wagner said.
The band ended up put-
ting on a shorter show from
inside the beer garden tent
without most of their equip-
ment, playing an impromp-
tu mix of acoustic covers
before spending the rest of
the night mingling with the
crowd.
Some people were dis-
gruntled when they arrived
and found out that the new
seating arrangement was
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my Rosenbalm (Heppner)
and Brennan Whittaker
(Culver) have teamed up to
put together a relief effort
to help the Speth’s get back
on their feet. It includes co-
ordinating donation drop-
off locations in each of
their towns for clothing and
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL
Customers at the Umatilla County Fair are asked to stand back as a food vendor goes to get a ladder and remove a set of banners whipping dangerously in the high
winds.
¿ rst-come,
¿ rst-served,
meaning some attendees
who had paid for seats near
the front ended up standing
behind people who had re-
served tickets for back-row
seats.
But others who had driv-
en to Hermiston speci¿ cal-
ly to see the band play were
grateful that the organizers
and band had worked to-
gether to make sure their
trip wasn’t in vain. Jack
Halsey of Imbler said he
believed organizers made
the right call not to use the
main stage for the safety of
the band.
“I think the guys were
very gracious to do an
acoustic show,” he said. “...
As for the show, it was a
very up-close and personal
thing. I have seen them be-
fore and the acoustic setting
just showed how passionate
they are about performing.”
Cecili Martin-Long said
she and her son were disap-
pointed to see the new seat-
ing arrangement but still
ended up having a great
time meeting the band.
“I think we were one of
the few that understood that
sometimes you do what you
can to make things work,”
she said.
Anderson said she ap-
preciated that not only Hin-
der, but also country star
Dustin Lynch, were willing
to spend hours hanging out
with the fans after the show.
other necessities for Steve,
Shae and their two sons Eli
and Trejan.
For a few of the coach-
es, there was no second
thought on what to do after
hearing the news.
“I saw Steve’s Face-
book post (after) and I
immediately thought we
should do something,”
said Rosenbalm. “I text-
ed Brian (Pickard) and he
said the same thing.”
Aside from the clothing
and necessities donations,
a Go Fund Me account has
also been set up to gath-
er monetary donations at
GoFundMe.com/John-
Daywild¿ re. The account
was started on Monday,
and has already received
$1,000 from 15 donors in
just one day of being ac-
tive.
According to Pickard,
people have been con-
stantly contacting the or-
ganizers and wanting to
help in any way they can.
“It sorta snowballed
into what it is now,” Pick-
ard said. “It’s just one of
those things, to do what-
ever we can to help out.”
Donations are being
collected from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. at the Eastside Mar-
ket in Hermiston, Heppner
High School, Culver High
School, and Weston-McE-
wen High School until
Saturday. After that the
donations will be gathered,
sorted and then delivered
to the family soon after.
For more information,
you can visit the Heppner
boys basketball Facebook
page to ¿ nd clothing and
shoe sizes for each of the
Speth’s. Questions can
also be directed to the re-
spective coaches in each
area.
Hats off to
Hermiston High School's
Project Graduation
Celebration
Sponsors & Donors
Advanced Orthopedic
AJ’s Printed Apparel
All That Wood
American West Properties
Anderson Hansell PC
ASAP Flying Service
Atkinson Staffing, Inc.
Barak & Associates
Barnett & Moro PC
Bellinger Farms
Big River Golf Course
Bi-Mart
Blue Mountain Community College
Karen Bounds
Bud-Rich Potato, Inc.
Burger King
Burns Mortuary
Calpine
City of Hermiston
CMH Manufacturing
Community Bank
Cottage Flowers
Cottage Rentals
Desert Lanes
Devon Oil Co., Inc.
Domino’s, Pendleton
Eagle Ranch
Eagles Auxiliary
The East Oregonian
Elmer’s Irrigation
Ann and Dean Fialka
Fiesta Foods
First Community Credit Union
Gordon’s Electric, Inc.
Granite Construction
Chris Harder
Hermiston Foods
Hermiston Generating Co., LLP
The Hermiston Herald
Hermiston Veterinary Clinic
Hometown Office Supply
Dr. Durk Irwin, DMD, PC
Jim Purswell’s Pump Company, Inc.
Kiwanis Club of Hermiston
Ruth Konningrud
KUO Testing Labs
Lifetime Vision
Madison Ranches
Midway Tavern
Northwest Farm Credit Services
NW Metal Fabricators
Obie’s Express
Oregon State University
O So Kleen
Pacific Ag
Park Terrace Townhouses
Payless Shoe Source
Pea Ridge Embroidery & Signs
Pendleton Building and Construction
Pepsi Cola Bottling Company
Pizza Hut
Lisa and Ken Reardon
Rock, Inc.
Rogers Toyota of Hermiston
Safeway
Shelco
Simplot
Simply Divine
60 Minute Photo
Sorbenots
Southern Oregon University
Starvation Ridge Farming, LLC
Stratton Insurance Agency
Subway, Hermiston
Swire Coca-Cola
Tom Denchel Ford Country
Brenda Turner
Two Rivers Correctional Institute
Umatilla County Fair Board
Union Pacific Railroad
Universal Realty
University of Oregon Duck Store
Rita Walker
Walmart Supercenter #1817
John Wambeke
Western Oregon University
Wheatland Insurance Center, Inc.
... and to all the parents and other individuals who donated time,
money and/or supplies to help make our party a huge success we say,
“THANK YOU!”
HHS Project Graduation Committee & HHS Class of 2015
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