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A6 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018 NEWS Race for governor shows east-west divide in GOP By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER HH FILE PHOTO Umatilla County Fair Princess Raylee Lenhert throws candy during the Umatilla County Fair Kick-Off Parade in 2016. Fair board looking for parade organizers By JADE MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER Hermiston’s biggest — and some years only — parade needs someone to run it this year. Gay Newman, chair of the Umatilla County Fair board, said the board is looking for an organization or group of volunteers will- ing to handle the fair parade on Aug. 4. He said the two people who usually orga- nize entries are both unable this year due to health issues, and it’s difficult for the fair board to be on site wrangling entrants when they are busy with last-min- ute preparations up at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center. “I need help, that’s the bottom line,” he said. Last year’s fair parade had 139 entries, and New- man said the city estimated between 6,000 and 7,000 people came out to watch it. Organizing the parade means taking information from entry forms and stak- ing out space for each entry — ranging in size from semi-trucks to golf carts — to line up on the old fair- grounds, school parking lots and streets in a way that allows them to fall into line numerically when the parade starts. About 15 vol- unteers are then needed the day of the parade to help entries check in and find their spot, and to be asser- tive about keeping people from trying to cut in line or park in spots that need to stay clear. Newman said overall the project should take a little preparation ahead of time, about four hours the day before and about four and a half hours the day of the parade. The city of Herm- iston, including the police department, handles block- ing off streets for the parade route. Interested individu- als or organizations can call Newman at 509-521- 1632 or the fair offices at 541-567-6121. 2018 will be the second year of the fair being held at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center. Newman said preparations are going well, simplified by the fact that the fair board can now deal mostly with the man- agement company Venu- Works instead of needing to talk to the city of Herm- iston, Umatilla County and EOTEC board about every- thing. Concert tickets and wristbands are already on sale. It also helps that this year, construction of EOTEC is already complete. New- man said construction of additional office and stor- age space for the fair, and construction to improve the roads around EOTEC, won’t start until after the fair so that it doesn’t inter- fere. Newman said things should go more smoothly with traffic and parking now that organizers and law enforcement have seen how things flowed during the first fair at EOTEC. “This will be a lot easier than last year,” he said. Republican voters across Oregon selected Knute Buehler to run against Democratic Governor Kate Brown in November’s gen- eral election. But while Buehler received 47 percent of the vote in the statewide pri- mary to Sam Carpenter’s 29 percent, the majority of voters in eight Eastern Ore- gon counties would have preferred to see Carpenter represent the party on the November ballot. In Umatilla County, Car- penter garnered 36.6 per- cent of the vote, while Bue- hler, a state representative from Bend, received 29.9 percent. Candidate Greg Wooldridge came in third with 27.4 percent. Umatilla County Repub- lican Party chair Larry B. Moore said the spread of votes for each candidate represented a difference in ideologies around the state, even within the Republican party. “There’s a battle going on, just for philosophy,” he said. “A lot of folks feel we have to have someone more moderate, like Knute, to appeal to Democratic vot- ers who are dissatisfied with Kate Brown.” Moore said there were several factors at play in RANDY L. RASMUSSEN/ THE OREGONIAN VIA AP RANDY L. RASMUSSEN/ THE OREGONIAN VIA AP Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, running for re-election, talks with student government members at a get-out-to- vote event on the campus of Portland State University in Portland last Tuesday, when Oregon held primaries. Buehler’s win — more name recognition, previ- ous campaigns for state offices, and a longer time campaigning. But he said it came down to two groups of voters: those voting based on ideol- ogy, and those voting based on the candidate. He said Carpenter’s message reso- nated with a lot of people on the east side of the state. “I’m not saying this is me,” he said. “But I under- stand what they’re getting at. Sam has styled himself as another Donald Trump, and there’s a large element of the Republican party who that appeals to. That he’s not a politician.” He noted that Carpen- ter, a businessman from Bend, had previously run Republican gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler gathered with supporters in Wilsonville on Tuesday. Buehler, a doctor and state representative from Bend, won last Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary and will face Gov. Kate Brown in November. for office, making a run for U.S. Senate in 2016, but losing to Mark Callahan in the Republican primary. Moore said Republicans would now need to focus on improving voter turn- out. In Umatilla County, 42.6 percent of Republicans returned primary ballots compared to 34.5 percent of Democrats, 23.3 percent of Independents and 11.3 percent of non-affiliated voters. “If you look at the num- bers (for voter turnout), for once, Umatilla County is not in the bottom,” he said. “But that’s not because we made any progress, but sev- eral counties slipped behind us. That’s not a good thing.” Crash sends Wyoming man to hospital HERMISTON HERALD UMATILLA — A Wyo- ming man required an emer- gency flight after a crash near Umatilla. Oregon State Police reported Viktor S. Vasilchuk, 56, of Portland, was driv- ing a Volvo semi west in the slow lane on Interstate 82 near mile-point 2.5 at about 3:20 p.m. Monday he hit the back of a Ford van. The col- lision pushed the van into the back of a third vehicle and then over an embankment. Vasilchuk was not injured, according to the report, and the driver of the third vehicle, Kaleb A. 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