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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016
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HERMISTON FALLS
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ALL-STARS
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Pacifi c Ag acquires Calagri
Hermiston Relay for Life celebrates 20th
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ON THE
MAIN STAGE
Fair to
include top
entertainers
HERMISTON HERALD
T
he Umatilla
County Fair
is gearing
up for top-
notch per-
formers each
night during
the Aug. 9-13 event, includ-
ing Creedence Clearwater
Revisited, who will take the
stage Saturday, Aug. 13.
Other main stage musi-
cians include A Thousand
Horses (Tuesday, Aug.
9), The Bellamy Broth-
ers (Wednesday, Aug. 10),
Brothers Osborne (Thurs-
day, Aug. 11) and a trio of
Latino bands (Friday, Aug.
12). The concerts are at 9
p.m. (except Friday’s show,
which begins at 8 p.m.) on
the Wildhorse Resort & Ca-
sino Main Stage at the fair-
grounds in Hermiston.
General admission seat-
ing is available with fair
admittance. Reserved seats
are $12 each, which does
not include fair admission.
Stu Cook and Doug
“Cosmo” may not have
intended it, but their band
Creedence Clearwater Re-
visited has taken on a life
of its own. The Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame rhythm
section from the legendary
group Creedence Clearwa-
ter Revival launched the
project in 1995 to perform
Creedence Clearwater Re-
vival hits.
Though the pair initial-
ly only planned to play
private parties, Creedence
Clearwater Revisited now
performs up to 100 shows a
year and released the album
“Recollection.”
“We never really had any
intention of playing for the
public,” Cook said. “But a
friend wanted to promote a
couple of concerts. We got
See FAIR, A12
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY JEFF DOW VIA UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR
Creedence Clearwater Revisited will perform Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Umatilla County Fair.
ABOUT TOWN
Landing Days
fi reworks and
entertainment
set for Saturday
Blue Tattoo will
headline Landing Days
in Umatilla on Satur-
day.
The
Hermis-
ton-based cover band,
which bills itself as
“classic rock with atti-
tude,” will play at the
Umatilla Marina from 6
p.m. to dusk, followed
by fi reworks over the
river.
Earlier in the day
visitors to the marina
will also have the op-
portunity to watch per-
formances from a vari-
ety of local artists from
1-4 p.m. Food vendors,
ranging from Polyne-
sian food to elephant
ears, will be on hand.
The Landing Days
parade will begin at 11
a.m. Saturday at the
marina. The Umatilla
Chamber of Commerce
is still accepting entries.
Months ago the
chamber
announced
that Landing Days had
been canceled for a lack
of volunteers, but after
renewed interest in the
event, a scaled-back
version was planned for
Saturday. The annual
event celebrates the his-
tory of Umatilla.
For more informa-
tion contact the Uma-
tilla Chamber of Com-
merce at 541-922-4825.
Hermiston
Municipal
Airport
closed for
construction
A Thousand Horses will perform Tuesday, Aug. 9.
FOR MORE INFO:
co.umatilla.or.us/fair
Brothers Osborne will perform Thursday, Aug. 11.
The Bellamy Brothers will perform Wednesday, Aug. 10.
Montez De Durango will perform Friday, Aug. 12.
Fire damages Columbia Court Club building
By ALEXA LOUGEE
Staff Writer
STAFF PHOTO BY ALEXA LOUGEE
Firefi ghters work to contain a structure fi re at the Columbia Court Club.
A Monday fi re at Co-
lumbia Court Club in
Hermiston has been ruled
accidental by Hermiston
Fire Marshal Tom Bohm.
The fi re, while still under
investigation, appears to
have started from an elec-
trical short in the attic.
Bohm stated there was a
power strip, extension cord
and space heater all with-
in a three foot radius, but
the specifi c point of origin
has not been determined.
The fi re closed one lane of
northbound traffi c on High-
way 395 Monday morning.
Hermiston Fire Depart-
See FIRE, A12
Hermiston Munici-
pal Airport is closed for
construction until July
9.
The closure is part
of an ongoing series of
upgrades at the airport,
which started with Fed-
eral Aviation Adminis-
tration funding to move
the taxiway to comply
with FAA standards for
the distance between
taxiways and runways.
The project has since
expanded to include
moving and enlarging
the fuel station, new
paving and new taxi-
way and runway light-
ing.
Mark Morgan, as-
sistant city manager,
said the airport is also
getting new signs and
paint after being in-
formed that the runway
must be renamed. Run-
ways are named based
on magnetic heading,
and after decades of
shifting magnetic fi elds
on Earth, Hermiston’s
runway will now be
Runway 5-32 instead of
4-22.
The airport has an
estimated 30,000 take-
offs and landings per
year, including aerial
applicators, corporate
planes, hobby planes,
10 UPS freight planes
per week and helicop-
ter traffi c. The airport
is currently closed to
all of them for safety
reasons while contrac-
tors work near the run-
way and there are open
trenches.
— Jade McDowell