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The sun sets over the crowd Saturday, Aug.
7, 2021, along East Main Street, Hermiston,
during the annual Umatilla County Fair
Kick-Off Parade.
Fair
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On Aug. 12, the day will begin with
a series of swine, cattle, sheep and small
animal showmanship competitions in the
barns and pavilions. Attendees can see
magicians, jugglers and a circus in various
Splash:
places throughout the fair. That night, the
rock and roll band Everclear will perform
on the Wildhorse Main Stage at 9 p.m.
The weeklong festivities will ramp up
on Aug. 13 with more 4-H/FFA showings in
the Burns Pavilion in the morning and mas-
ter showmanship competition announced
at 6 p.m. A group of Latino musicians will
take to Wildhorse Main Stage from 8 p.m.
to 1 a.m. that night. Those performers
include Tierra Cali, Diana Reyes, Alfa 7
and Fortaleza De Tierra Caliente.
The fi nal day of the fair will begin with
the youth livestock auction at the Burns
Pavilion at 10 a.m., and a cutest baby con-
test at the Les Schwab stage at that same
time. The carnival opens at noon instead
of 2 p.m. A Hermiston watermelon seed
spitting competition takes place at the Les
Schwab Stage at 2 p.m., and at 4:10 p.m.,
the Steppin’ Country Dance Club from
Walla Walla takes the same stage. The
Umatilla County Fair concludes with
country, blues and rockstar Frankie Ballard
at the Wildhorse Mainstage at 9 p.m.
For a more detailed fair schedule, go to
www.umatillacountyfair.net/fair-schedule.
— Staff writer Bryce Dole contributed
to this feature.
the professionalism that
they run those things, that’s
why we felt comfortable
with” the splash park event.
For those work crews,
one offi cer tags along,
TRCI offi cials say. But for
the upcoming programs,
groups will be joined by a
bigger group of counsel-
ors and law enforcement
offi cers.
“This event is so every-
one feels comfortable,”
Perry said. “But what they
don’t realize is that this
event is also therapeutic
and rehabilitative.”
Last month, inmates
went fi shing with their
families at ponds near
McNary Wildlife Nature
Area. A group of local den-
tists donated the fi shing
poles, which children got
to bring home with them.
The Oregon State Police
also attended the event and
handed out free bracelets to
kids.
“The positive interac-
tion with police at that fi sh-
ing event, the children,
the care providers and the
AICs, was phenomenal,”
said Kaycie Thompson, a
spokesperson for TRCI.
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sion than arresting the chil-
dren of people who we deal
with all the time.
The inmates who partic-
ipate are carefully screened
by offi cials to be those
with exceptional behavior,
Perry said. The prison also
does “pretty intense intel”
by listening to phone calls
and reading letters between
inmates and their families
to “make sure they have
established a positive and
healthy relationship with
their families,” Perry said.
They also are inmates
who regularly go out into
the community as work
crews, pulling weeds,
mowing lawns and helping
set up for local rodeos.
“We, the city, we uti-
lize TRCI for work crews
fairly regularly,” said Mark
Morgan, Hermiston’s assis-
tant city manager. “We feel
pretty confi dent and com-
fortable having used them
in those capacities in the
past, knowing the level of
security detail that comes
along with that, and with
“And if we keep doing that
kind of thing, we’re going
to help break the cycle
of incarceration for these
families.”
The event at the Hermis-
ton Splash Park takes place
8:30-10:30 a.m.,
when
the facility is not open to
the public. The Hermis-
ton Police Department is
attending to handing out
gift certifi cates for free
Slurpees at 7-11.
Perry said it’s meant to
be a therapeutic event for
inmates and their families.
Thompson said this is
an important opportunity
to “get beyond the razor
wire.”
“We’ve had AICs come
up to us while we’re watch-
ing our grandchildren in
our community and say,
‘Hey, I’m out and I’m stay-
ing out and I’m down here
with my child,’” said Kay-
cie Thompson, a spokes-
person for TRCI. “This is a
transition.”
Perry said the prison has
yet to plan any more events
in the future because of the
status of COVID-19 cases
in the county, but said she
hopes more will come.
Supplies:
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fees while federal relief
money, known as Elemen-
tary and Secondary School
Emergency Relief (ESSER)
funds, will cover school
supplies.
This round of ESSER
funds, the third install-
ment of Education Stabili-
zation Funds from the fed-
eral CARES act, became
available for K-12 after the
Department of Education
approved their release on
July 15.
Oregon, which has been
granted about $1.1 billion
in education funding to
recover from the COVID-
19 pandemic, can spend the
ESSER funds to address a
long list of issues.
According to the press
release, “The approval of
these plans enables states
to receive vital, additional
American Rescue Plan funds
to quickly and safely reopen
schools for full-time, in-per-
son learning; meet students’
academic, social, emotional,
and mental health needs; and
address disparities in access
to educational opportunity
that were exacerbated by the
coronavirus pandemic,” said
U.S. Secretary of Education
Miguel Cardona.
Mooney said they calcu-
lated how much each dis-
trict would receive by look-
ing at the average number
of students enrolled and
placed restrictions on how
they could spend the money.
Hermiston School Dis-
trict has received a total of
$16.75 million in ESSER
grants according to data
compiled from the Oregon
Department of Education.
“Because of how those
funds are targeted and being
able to provide opportuni-
ties for students, because
of COVID, we were able to
utilize those funds to pro-
vide the school supplies,”
Mooney said.
In prior years the school
district would release a sup-
ply list and have parents pur-
chase all necessary supplies.
If they couldn’t aff ord sup-
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021
plies, community groups and
organizations would often
donate supplies to those who
didn’t have access to them.
“I think it’s fantastic that
the school district is provid-
ing supplies,” said Reagan
Bass, an employee of Uma-
tilla-Morrow County Head
Start, an agency that pro-
vides services to families in
the Hermiston School Dis-
trict and neighboring areas.
“When you have six kids it
adds up,” she added.
The idea to provide
school supplies started last
year when COVID-19 hit,
said Briana Cortaberria,
Hermiston School District’s
communication offi cer and
executive assistant.
Cortaberria said each
class began to have its own
supplies in response to safety
measures and to maintain the
health and safety of students.
“It kind of came out of
a progression of what we
learned last year,” Mooney
said.
While the total cost of
school supplies that Hermis-
ton School District requested
in 2019 ranges between $25-
$50 if buying the cheapest
items at Walmart, this num-
ber can quickly add up as
the number of children in a
family increases. This num-
ber also increases as school
supplies, such as pencils and
paper, run out throughout the
school year, forcing parents
to buy replacements.
This number does not
include other common back-
to-school shopping supplies,
such as clothing and elec-
tronics, which Hermiston
School District will not be
providing.
This move to provide
basic school supplies comes
as spending for back-to-
school shopping continues to
hit record highs, according
to the National Retail Feder-
ation. A survey published by
the NRF that involved 7,704
participants found that fam-
ilies with children grades
K-12 plan to spend an aver-
age of nearly $850 per fam-
ily in 2021, up from an aver-
age of almost $700 in 2019
— an increase of more than
21%.
“Coming off what’s been
a diffi cult year for all of our
families, and I think we have
a lot of families that have
some fi nancial uncertainty,
we just felt like this was a
good use of those funds to be
able to provide that oppor-
tunity for all of our kids
to have access to the same
equity in their school sup-
plies,” Mooney said.
She said the district
plans to reassess whether
school supplies are a priority
going forward.
Ben Lonergan/Hermiston Herald
Boxes of school supplies line a meeting room Thursday,
Aug. 5, 2021, at Armand Larive Middle School in Hermiston.
The Hermiston School District purchased the supplies with
emergency relief funds from the CARES Act and will provide
the items at not cost to all students in the district to alleviate
the fi nancial burden on families of purchasing school supplies.
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