WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2017 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 LOCAL NEWS Volunteers spread the love with city wide cleanup day By JADE McDOWELL Staff Writer PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY PHILIP PALERMO The Restless Vocal Band, an upbeat and energetic a cappella group, will perform Saturday at Hermiston High School. Sponsored by the Desert Arts Council, tickets are still available. A cappella group belts out harmonious fun Hermiston Herald An upbeat performance that promises to bring au- dience members to their feet singing and dancing is featured in the upcoming Desert Arts Council event. The Restless Vocal Band is an a cappella group who perform music from multiple decades and genres. The energetic mu- sicians, powered by vocals alone, belt out hits from the likes of Bill Withers, Maroon 5 and Bruno Mars to The Temptations, Taylor Swift and Michael Bublé. The event is Saturday at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Hermiston High School, 600 S. First St. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. Advance tickets are $20 for adults or $10 for students. They are available at the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce, Hermiston Parks & Rec- reation and www.deser- tartscouncil.com. There’s an additional $5 charge for tickets bought at the door. The Seattle-based group was named the 2016 Pacific Northwest Harmo- ny Sweepstakes Cham- pions and they placed second in the Best Local Band Seattle A-List in 2016. Their goal is to en- sure audiences are having as much fun listening as they are performing. The Desert Arts Coun- cil promotes both per- forming arts and visual arts through activities and performances. In addition, it creates opportunities for cultural and educational outreach. The final event of the 2016-17 season is the Eastern Oregon Arts Festi- val and Garden Show. Fea- turing artists from across the region, the exhibit and show is Saturday, May 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown Hermiston. In addition to art dis- plays, the event features live music and food. Also, local nurseries and master gardeners will be on hand to share their expertise with exhibits and work- shops. For more information, contact 541-667-5018 or parksandrec@hermiston. or.us. IN BRIEF Hospital auxiliary sells crafts, baked goods Many members of the Good Shepherd Medical Center Auxiliary are known for their baking skills — and they’ve been busy gearing up for today’s Easter sale. To taste for yourself, stop by Wednesday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the hospi- tal’s Conference Rooms 5-6, 610 N.W. 11th St., Hermis- ton. The sale also features craft items and a variety of Easter goodies. Money raised helps in providing scholarships for area students pursuing ca- reers in the medical field and to purchase needed medical equipment at the hospital. For more information, contact June Rosenberg at juner1942@gmail.com. Captain Jonny slings fish from bus Captain Jonny Rush is back in Eastern Oregon. The colorful fishmon- ger said he recently re- ceived a revelation from God. Rush, AKA Carl Trentadue, will be giving away fish samples to peo- ple who stop by on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Rush is slinging fish from his 1974 GMC Thomas bus. He’s parked next to C&C Secondhand, 30654 Baggett Lane, located off Highway 395 between Hermiston and Umatilla. Rush sells salmon, hali- but, sea bass, ling, shrimp and whatever else is bit- ing out his bus, which he refers to as Red Dog. The mobile market also serves as a traveling billboard and catch-all for artwork, souvenirs and memorabilia from Rush’s music career. For more information, call Rush at 503-860-1851. There was less garbage and more love in Hermis- ton Saturday after volun- teers came out in force to support the biggest “I Love My City” event yet. Community members washed cars, picked up lit- ter, collected old tires and helped wherever else they were needed Saturday to spruce up the city and show their neighbors they cared. “I volunteered and said ‘put me anywhere,’” said Nikki Griffin. Saturday morning she was manning the plastics trailer at the city’s free re- cycling event, helping un- load broken slides and oth- er large items people were bringing by to get rid of. Over at the miscella- neous trailer, which held an old hot tub and several pieces of broken furniture, high school students Justin Shasteen and Anani Medi- na said they were having fun tossing items up into the trailer. “It makes you feel good you’re helping someone who would normally do this by themselves,” Shasteen said. The “I Love My City” campaign began last fall, when members of Hermis- ton Assembly of God felt they needed to do more to help heal the communi- ty from tragedies that had recently struck. The con- gregations of New Hope Community Church and the Templo of Fe Esparanza Y Amor joined in for Sat- urday’s event, which also drew other members of the community who simply wanted to serve. The churches hope to do some sort of “I Love My City” event in Hermiston every 90 days. The goal of each event is, as one organizer told volunteers at the start of the morning, to “bless your community” and show people they are STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL Volunteers for the “I Love My City” event unload scrap metal in the UEC parking lot as part of the city’s free recycling event. STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL Siblings Emmylou Sword, 4, and Tucker Sword, 9, wash cars during the “I Love My City” event in Hermiston. loved. Alberta Wilkerson of New Hope Community Church said she volun- teered because she has lived in Hermiston for 42 years and wants to give back. “I just like our city and want to take care of it,” she said. Wilkerson was bent over in the blowing dust along the railroad tracks that run through town on Saturday, pulling pieces of garbage out of the dirt and adding them to her plastic bag. She said there was broken glass and wire everywhere along the tracks. “I even found an old li- cense plate,” she said. Farther downtown, just off of Main Street, Gail Sar- gent was one of the swarm of volunteers pulling weeds from cracks in the side- walks. Others nearby were sweeping bark dust back into planters and collecting piles of dead leaves from along the curbs. Sargent said she be- lieved everyone living in a community has a respon- sibility to get out and help improve it. “What we’re hoping is that we’ll get everyone in- volved, to get out and do something to make their city great,” she said. Many parents brought their children along to the event, particularly at the free car washes at several locations around town. 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