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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2017
NEWS
SUMMER
CHAMBER
including lots of new and
fun games where kids can
win prizes galore. Also,
adults won’t want to miss
a chance to enter the Cash
Machine.
More than 50 booths,
including
activities,
games, merchandise and
food will be available to
festival-goers. In addition,
Debbie Pedro, Hermiston
Chamber of Commerce
executive director, said
there’s a fantastic line-up
of main stage entertain-
ment, including Big Top
the Clown, Gems and
Gents, Abigal Hernandez,
Bram Brata Youth Steel
Band, Josephine Reli and
Joseph Konty.
Returning to the event
are the popular Outlaw
Lawn Dragsters. The
souped-up mowing ma-
chines will tear up Main
Street with racing action.
Also back, are a group of
wood carvers. The chain-
saw-wielding artists will
be making and selling
their unique wooden cre-
ations.
After Funfest, stick
around for Around the
World in One Fun Day. A
cultural event highlighting
Polynesia, Nepal, the Phil-
ippines, American Indians
and more, the event fea-
tures stage entertainment,
food sampling and educa-
tional information. It runs
from 4-7 p.m. at Second
and Main streets.
For more information,
call 541-567-6151 or visit
www.hermistonchamber.
com.
to create offices, a reception
area and a conference room
and had offered to let the
chamber move in after the
remodel is complete.
Instead, the chamber
is striking out on its own.
Burns said they’re looking
to lease something visible
from a main thoroughfare
like Main Street or High-
way 395 that has office and
storage space, a lobby and
hopefully space for a con-
ference room where groups
like the chamber’s Leader-
ship Hermiston class could
meet. He said the city is
willing to let the chamber
continue to hold some of its
traditional events like the
Business 2 Business lun-
cheon and the Distinguished
Citizens Awards banquet at
the conference center.
The chamber’s new
space would also have to
be affordable for a not-for-
profit organization.
“We don’t have a lot of
resources, so it is going to
take some creativity for us,”
Burns said.
During the meeting in
April when the city coun-
cil voted to end its contract
with the chamber, passions
ran high as chamber sup-
porters turned out in force
to testify they felt it was
disrespectful to try to put
the chamber in a basement.
They said the city had seri-
ously damaged its relation-
ship with the chamber in the
way it had handled the situ-
ation and complained about
a lack of communication.
Since that time, howev-
er, Burns said he felt rela-
tions between the city and
chamber had improved, and
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STAFF PHOTO BY TAMMY MALGESINI
The 22nd annual Cool Rides Car Show is July 7-8 at McKenzie
Park in Hermiston.
Eastern Oregon
Arts Show
Desert Arts Council is
joining forces with Funfest
to present the Eastern Ore-
gon Arts Show.
“This will be a great
partnership of the arts with
community spirit and the
fun of Funfest,” said Mary
Corp, Desert Arts board
member.
Adult and teen artists
are invited to enter up to
two pieces of their work for
the show. Juried by Rober-
ta Lavadour, executive di-
rector of Pendleton Center
for the Arts, prizes of more
than $1,700 will be award-
ed at the show’s opening,
Saturday, July 8 at 9 a.m. It
will be under a tent next to
Hermiston City Hall.
Only original work creat-
ed in the last five years will
be exhibited. The entry fee
is $10 per work for adults
and $5 per piece for teens.
Virtually every medi-
um is accepted, including,
paintings,
photography,
drawings, prints, mixed
media, sculpture, instal-
lation and fabric arts. All
artwork must be fami-
ly-friendly. While not re-
quired, organizers hope the
majority of the artwork will
be available for sale.
For more information
and entry forms, visit www.
desertartscouncil.com. For
questions, contact Heather
LaBeau at 541-667-5010 or
hlabeau@hermiston.or.us.
Cool Rides Car Show
In its 22nd year, the Cool
Rides Car Show will cruise
into town Saturday, July 8
with registration from 7-11
a.m. at McKenzie Park, 320
S. First St.
Activities rev up Friday,
July 7 for registered partic-
ipants. A poker run starts at
6 p.m. at the park. Dinner,
which is provided by the
Hermiston Classics Car Club,
will be served when everyone
returns after the poker run.
Advance vehicle regis-
tration is $20. Day of car
show entries are $25 each.
Dash plaques and T-shirts
will be given to the first
150 registrants. There is no
fee for spectators. Vendors,
live music and food will be
available at the park.
BTW
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five year tradition of “slim-
ing” the principal on the last
day of school. To reward the
students for reaching an end
of the year reading goal, the
top readers from each grade
level earned the privilege of
pouring a bucket of slime
on principal, Jerad Farley.
Winners were: Tad Far-
ley, 4th grade, Cate Doherty,
3rd grade, Keely Burns, 1st
grade, Taw Braden, 2nd
grade, Jacob LaBeck, 5th
grade and Leslie Mendoza
Romero, 5th grade.
Romero earned the dis-
tinction of “Super Slimer”
by reading the most words
in the school while also
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY
HOLLY MOSS
Taw Braden slimes Rocky
Heights Principal Jerad
Farley June 14 in Hermiston.
maintaining a high level of
reading accuracy as mea-
sured by the Accelerated
Reader Program.
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he personally appreciated
how “open and transparent”
Mayor David Drotzmann
has been their meetings to-
gether to discuss ways for
both entities to continue to
be partners moving forward.
“The fact that the city
offered us any location illus-
trated that the city wants to
keep working with the cham-
ber, because they didn’t have
to do that,” Burns said.
He said the chamber is
still interested in running
a visitor center for Herm-
iston in the future. If the
city follows through on
longterm plans to remodel
the upstairs and exterior
portions of the Carnegie Li-
brary and possibly turn the
upstairs into some sort of
visitor center and museum,
he said the chamber would
be interested in discussing
a partnership involving the
building at that point.
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