WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2017
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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. At
Les Schwab Tires, Jenni-
fer Sword was scrubbing
dirt off vehicles with her
children Emmylou, 4, and
Tucker, 9.
“I hope they learn to
help others, and to show
that Jesus loves everyone,”
she said.
After Saturday’s event,
volunteers attended a joint
worship service at 10 a.m.
Sunday at the Eastern Ore-
gon Trade and Event Cen-
ter.
———
Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
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