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EOTEC improvements continued during pandemic

HERMISTON — The pandemic threw a lot at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center, but General Manager Al Davis feels confident in its future. “COVID still kicked us in the gut, but we did a lot better than a lot of other venues,” he said. Part of that was thanks to EOTEC’s outdoor areas, which were able to hold some events even as indoor conventions and dinners were canceled. The rodeo arena hosted a variety of rodeo-related events, Davis said. To help draw more of those kind of events, EOTEC recently installed a second arena area using fencing, some movable bleachers and irrigation. The space is on the same footprint that EOTEC’s master plan calls for an indoor arena someday, so that the infrastructure can be reused after basically placing a building on top of it.

Farm-City Pro Rodeo, other Umatilla County events press on for 2021

As summer plans hang on the race between COVID-19 vaccines and the spread of new, more contagious COVID-19 variants, some major Umatilla County events are trying to plan ahead the best they can. Farm-City Pro Rodeo board member Dennis Barnett said the rodeo will go on in Hermiston in August, after being canceled completely in 2020 while Umatilla County was under strict COVID-19 restrictions. “There will be a rodeo, we just don’t know if there will be no fans, or some fans or 100%,” he said. Barnett said there have already been other rodeo events held at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center without fans present since the pandemic began, establishing a precedent for using the arena. So the board is making three plans — one for an event with no live spectators, one in an arena at partial capacity, and one for an event that looks like years past.

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