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Umatilla County Fair names grand marshals
By BEN LONERGAN
HerMIsTOn HeraLd
The room erupted with
applause as Umatilla County
Fair Board Chair Steve Wal-
lace announced Tammy
and Lucas Wagner as the
2022 grand marshals during
the fair’s annual apprecia-
tion dinner Saturday, Jan.
29, at the Eastern Oregon
Trade and Event Center,
Hermiston.
“We chose this year’s
winners from a long list of
deserving people,” Wallace
said.
Tammy Wagner, who’s
husband Lucas was not pres-
ent, was escorted to the stage
by her son, Andy Wagner,
who recently joined the fair
board. According to Tammy,
Lucas was unable to attend
the event as he is pursu-
ing his captain’s license in
Alaska.
“Thank you everyone for
this, I really did not know
that I was getting this,” she
said as she accepted the
award. “Otherwise I would
have made my husband be
here.”
Tammy Wagner, a long
time fair volunteer, was
instrumental in founding the
Fun at the Fair Day Camp
for youths in 2012. The
camp, originally meant as a
place for the children of ven-
dors and other workers at the
fair to have fun while their
parents were working, has
been opened up to all mem-
bers of the community.
Lucas Wagner served as
chair of the Umatilla County
Fair Board as well as numer-
ous other volunteer roles
over the years.
In addition to announc-
ing the grand marshals, the
Ben Lonergan/Hermiston Herald
Judy Bracher accepts her award as the 2021 Female Volunteer
of the Year on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, at the Umatilla County
Fair Appreciation Dinner in Hermiston.
Ben Lonergan/Hermiston Herald
Tammy Wagner, escorted by her son Andy Wagner, left, accepts her and her husband Lucas
Wagner’s award as the 2022 grand marshals of the Umatilla County Fair during the Umatilla
County Fair Appreciation Dinner on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, at the Eastern Oregon Trade and
Event Center, Hermiston.
fair celebrated its plans to
move past the COVID-19
pandemic in 2022 with the
theme “Moo-ving Forward
Together.”
The fair bid farewell to
outgoing court princesses
Brielle Youncs, Madaline
White, Alexis Bowen and
Keeva Hoston and wel-
comed princesses Kylie
Temple, 17, and Ashlynn
Cutburth, 15, to the 2022
court.
The girls are students at
Hermiston High School,
Temple is a junior and Cut-
burth is a freshman.
As the fair looked back
on 2021, it announced Uma-
tilla Electric Cooperative
as the 2021 Business Part-
ner of the Year. And Dennis
Doherty and Judy Bracher
were honored as the 2021
Male and Female Volunteers
of the Year.
Doherty
began
his
involvement in the fair in
1951 as a child in 4-H and
has continued to be involved
as a volunteer around the
fair since.
“I enjoy it just as much
today as I did then,” he
said. “Maybe more. Who
knows?”
Bracher is a longtime vol-
unteer at the fair who said
she can usually be found
around the home economics
displays, but added she usu-
ally makes her way to every
corner of the fair throughout
the week.
“The fair is absolutely in
my heart,” she said. “It has
been since I was 9 years old,
it’s pretty special to me so
wherever I can be a part of
it, I’m there.”
Ben Lonergan/Hermiston Herald
Dennis Doherty accepts his award as 2021 Male Volunteer of
the Year during the Umatilla County Fair Appreciation Dinner
on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, at the Eastern Oregon Trade and
Event Center in Hermiston.
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