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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
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THE OREGONIAN VIA AP
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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. Shu-
mard, 25, of Tippecanoe,
Indiana, went to a hospital
for a medical evaluation.
Chester R. Broadment,
24, of Riverton, Wyoming,
the van’s driver, suffered
more serious injuries.
Tow
trucks
hauled
away the semi and the van.
State police also reported
Vasilchuk
received
a
citation.
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