WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017
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Animals
Inside the fairgrounds,
4H and FFA students
worked hard to keep their
animals cool and clean in
EOTEC’s brand new barns.
“When you’re wash-
ing the animals, you want
to make sure the water’s
cool, but you can’t just
spray them or they’ll go
into shock,” said Kennidy
Baker, a Hermiston High
School sophomore who
shows beef, lambs and pigs.
“You start at the feet, and
work your way up.”
It’s also important to
make sure the animals have
clean, fresh water, and
keep them cool in between
showings.
“With the pigs, there’s a
lot of skincare needs,” Bak-
er said. “Their skin’s like
ours, so we use gentle soap.
We also put sunscreen on
them, because if we’re not
careful, it can scar.”
In addition to wetting
down the animals’ bedding,
competitors will also sprin-
kle water on the animals’
skin, or wipe them down
with cloths.
“When they’re hot or
overheated, you put wa-
ter in their armpits or put
a cloth on them,” said Tali
Leetch, 19, from Pendleton
who shows a market lamb
named Wilma. Leetch said
she also tries to avoid put-
ting a coat on her animals,
which many people do to
keep them clean before
showing.
“I’ll wash her tonight
and put a coat on her right
before she shows,” Leetch
said. “But they pant and
foam, and it’s not good.”
Tejeda Urenda, 16, cared
for her steer Wyoming and
her two yearling heifers,
Boons and Miss America,
who will give birth to calves
sometime next March.
The herd is like a big,
happy family, Tejeda Uren-
da said. More important,
it represents her ticket to
college. Steers like Wyo-
ming can fetch as much as
$5,000 at auction, and Te-
jeda Urenda has already set
STAFF PHOTOS BY E.J. HARRIS
Fair goers walk the promenade Wednesday evening at the Umatilla County Fair in Hermiston.
aside $13,000 to pursue a
degree in agriculture. Over
the course of three years in
4-H and now two years with
Hermiston FFA, she has es-
tablished her own livestock
program from the ground
up, complete with breeding
stock and market animals
“This is the only way,
aside from scholarships, I’ll
be able to go to college,”
she explained. “It’s going
to fund my future.”
would have been hard to
predict for the fi rst year.
“It’s so hard to know,”
she said. “I’m sure they’ll
make adjustments.”
Activities
Food
Closer to the fair’s en-
trance, food vendors — lo-
cal restaurants, nonprofi ts
and out-of-town business-
es — served up favorites
like elephant ears and snow
cones.
“We’ve got the best burg-
ers here,” Phil Hamm said
as he worked a volunteer
shift in the bright red Lions
Club food trailer.
The mobile trailers for
the nonprofi ts were new this
year, provided by the East-
ern Oregon Trade and Event
Center to make up for the
loss of the permanent struc-
tures at the old fairgrounds.
SUPER CROSSWORD: M-T SET
Indie Loveland, 12, of Hermiston, checks her social media while relaxing on her duroc hog,
Gunner, in the animal’s pen in the swine barn Tuesday at the Umatilla County Fair in Hermiston.
Hamm said they were a
“great replacement” for the
old buildings and the Lions
Club was grateful for the ac-
commodations.
Ruth Carollo, who was
taking orders for ice cream
at the Vange John Memori-
al Hospice food truck next
door, said the nonprofi t had
no problem switching to
their new digs.
“The old fairgrounds
booth was bigger, but the
nice thing about this is it’s
air-conditioned,” she said.
The one problem she did
see was that the nonprofi ts,
which were located along
the wrought iron fence on
the southern edge of the
fairgrounds, were seeing
less foot traffi c, but Carollo
said she understood the fl ow
At the “Fun at the Fair”
camp, 40 children got a
chance to enjoy the sights,
sounds and fl avors of the
fair up close.
“It started out as just for
vendors, so when they were
working here they had a
place for their kids,” said
Tammy Wagner, the camp’s
founder and director. “And
then we opened it up to the
community.”
During the week, Wag-
ner took the kids on trips
to the animal barns, to the
different shows, and to ex-
plore the exhibits located
inside the main building.
After lunch on Thurs-
day, some kids relaxed, and
others ran to greet someone
dressed as a wyvern, a two-
legged dragon, that was
roaming the grounds that
day. Others played “Simon
Says” with the counselors,
and some did art projects.
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