WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015
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FAIR
Umatilla
County
Fair 2015
in pictures
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL
Cate Doherty, left, and Alejandro Montellano, right, help Addison
McClure hold Cate’s rabbit Pippin at the Umatilla County Fair.
STAFF PHOTO BY SEAN HART
Kari Tripp, left, chows down on an apple pie without using her
hands in the pie eating contest at the Umatilla County Fair on
Saturday. The 1-year-old from Weston À nished in second place
behind Matthew Demianew, a 14-year-old from Pendleton.
STAFF PHOTO BY GARY L. WEST
Safety harnesses keep the riders in their seats, but can’t keep the riders’ hair, or stomachs, in place Saturday, Aug. 15. The more
daring carnival attendees at the Umatilla County Fair sampled rides like the Power Surge, which sent riders on a twisting, Á ipping,
spinning Á ight high over the fairgrounds.
STAFF PHOTO
BY SEAN HART
STAFF PHOTO BY
SEAN HART
Front row from
left, Umatilla
County Fair
court chaperone
Machelle Watts
holds a balloon
for Dex Jones, a
5-year-old from
Pendleton, as
princess Catie
Krumbah Kuhar
holds a tape
measure during
the fair watermelon
seed spitting
contest Saturday.
Jones spit a seed
11-feet, 7-inches in
the contest.
From left,
10-year-old Lilly
Wallace, from
Hermiston, meets
the 2015 Umatilla
County Fair
Court princesses
Elizabeth Olsen,
17, Pendleton,
Kaleigh
Waggoner, 17,
Pilot Rock,
Sevana Patrick,
16, Hermiston,
and Catie
Krumbah Kuhar,
17, Milton-
Freewater, on
Friday at the fair.
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL
Rhea Flores applies an airbrushed tattoo to a customer at the Umatilla County Fair.