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NEWS A10 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM Cases: Continued from Page A1 be traced back to a known source. Those numbers have also been decreasing in Umatilla County. Despite decreasing case levels, the Oregon Health Authority’s weekly work- place outbreak report for Aug. 12 listed a Umatilla County workplace as the largest workplace outbreak in the state. The report linked 199 COVID-19 cases to Eastern Oregon Correctional Institu- tion since the start of OHA’s Fair: Continued from Page A1 “That’s huge that they just trusted us with their money,” Linnell said. Fair manager Angie McNalley said she was, as always, impressed by the amount of support the com- munity showed during the auction. “I know people’s busi- nesses are struggling, but they still showed up for the kids,” she said. Volunteers still showed up as well, to help with the weigh-ins as students dropped off their animals and to handle the live- stock during judging since 4-H and FFA rules pre- vented students from doing so themselves while Uma- tilla County is at a baseline rules during the pandemic. Families were instead able to watch a livestream of the judging online, set up by Hermiston School Dis- trict and emceed by Gay Newman. “Tell the guy who walked pig 363 Thank You from the Smith family,” one observer wrote on a Facebook post about the livestream. “He never liked to stay still too much when walking him.” Linnell said the lives- tream was a hit. Extended family were able to watch from out of town, and she heard that one veterinary clinic had the livestream running in its waiting room. Staff photo by Ben Lonergan, File A sign at the Good Shepherd Health Care System campus in Hermiston advises that masks or face coverings are required on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The medical center has been linked to 29 COVID-19 cases. “One family told me it was like watching a football game, and they were cheer- ing the whole time,” she said. Both she and McNalley said that the fair planned to continue the livestream option during future fairs when people are able to gather once again. Plans for the fair changed several times in the weeks leading up to it, as it became clear the county would likely go back to Phase 1 of reopening, and then ended up being put back to base- line instead. McNalley said she was proud of the fair’s stakeholders for not giving up on the kids and for mak- ing it work under the cir- cumstances, but she was also grateful for the commu- nity’s patience. “I just want to thank everyone for hanging in there with us,” she said. Usually, the fair uses rev- enue from concerts, booth rentals, ticket sales and more as seed money for the next year’s fair, and while the fair had lower expenses this year, McNalley said they will still need commu- nity support to jumpstart the 2021 event, whatever it looks like. People can fi nd information about dona- tions, sponsorship and add- ons for the auction on the Umatilla County Fair web- site at umatillacountyfair. net. Linnell said it was “bit- tersweet” watching children WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2020 investigation on July 8. Other workplace out- breaks listed in the Aug. 12 report, which only lists worksites with 30 or more employees and fi ve or more cases linked to them within the past 30 days, were: • Lamb Weston, Hermis- ton, 170 • Shearer’s Foods, Herm- iston, 42 • Lamb Weston East, Boardman, 42 • Walmart Distribution Center, Hermiston, 40 • Walmart store, Hermis- ton, 39 • Atkinson Staffi ng, Hermiston, 31 • Smith Frozen Foods, Weston, 30 • Good Shepherd Medi- cal Center, Hermiston, 29 • Two Rivers Correc- tional Institution, Umatilla, 37 • Lamb Weston West, Boardman, 25 • McDonalds, Hermis- ton, 24 • Columbia Basin Onion, Hermiston, 17 • Oregon Potato Com- pany, Boardman, 14 • Threemile Canyon Farms, Boardman, 13 • Hill Meat Company, Pendleton, 12 • MJ’s Labor Services, Hermiston, 11 • Home Depot, Hermis- ton, 9 • Port of Morrow Ware- housing, Boardman, 8 • River Point Farms, Hermiston, 8 • Marlette Homes, Herm- iston, 8 • Boardman Foods, Boardman, 8 • Keystone RV, Pendle- ton, 7 • McDonald’s, Stanfi eld, 7 • Taco Bell, Hermiston, 5 • Pacifi c Ag, Hermiston, 5 • J&J Snack Foods, Weston, 5 East Oregonian reporter Alex Castle contributed to this report. Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Carter Keys, 11, wrangles his turkey into a pen in the small animal barn at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center for the second day of the 2020 Umatilla County Fair Modifi ed Youth Livestock Show on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. and teens show up at the fairgrounds all dressed up in their show clothes, only to drop their animals off for weighing instead of spend- ing the week with them, but people were understanding. “Nobody really com- plained,” she said. “They knew we were doing the best we could do, and that was kind of the tone for the whole week.” Now that the auction is over, local meat proces- sors have their work cut out for them. Eastern Oregon Mobile Slaughter, Follet’s Meat and Mike’s Mobile Slaughter usually block out the week after the fair just for processing animals pur- chased at the auction, Lin- nell said. 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Staff photo by Ben Lonergan UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR CHAMPIONS Market Swine Grand Champion: Broc Erickson (purchased by Elmer’s Irrigation) Market Swine Reserve Grand Champion: Lydia Vander Stelt (purchased by AgriNorthwest) Market Rabbit Grand Champion: Kaitlynn Bombela-Post (purchased by Mid-Columbia Producers) Market Steer Grand Champion: Alyson Terry (purchased by Helena Chemical) Market Steer Reserve Grand Champion: Blake Betz (pur- chased by Simplot Grower Solutions) Market Turkey Grand Champion: Carter Keys (purchased by Les Schwab Hermiston/Pendleton) Market Turkey Reserve Grand Champion: Tanner Miller (purchased by Gregory Smith & Company) Market Goat Grand Champion: Kelli Nelson (purchased by Threemile Canyon Farms) Market Goat Reserve Grand Champion: Quinn Duff (pur- chased by Copeland Show Calves) Market Sheep Grand Champion: Michael Rosselle (pur- chased by Nutrien Ag Solutions) Market Sheep Reserve Grand Champion: Gavin Bolen (pur- chased by Bank of Eastern Oregon) Volunteers lead steers into the arena for judging Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. 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