STANFIELD â Jeff Bemrose still owns the car he built with his dad back in high school. Over their four years working together on the 1941 Ford Coupe, he found his passion for the classics. Today, however, heâs still fixing the mistakes he made as a teenager.
âIâm still paying for my fatherâs sins, I guess,â said Bemrose, a member of the Hermiston Classic Car Club.
Standing beside rows of 87 classic cars at the Stanfield Street Fair on Saturday, April 17, Bemrose echoed a sentiment held among many locals.
âPeople have been itching to get out,â he said.
Recently, Cecili Longhorn, director of the Stanfield Public Library, contacted Bemrose and the car club to help put on the first-of-its-kind street fair, which saw hundreds of people gather in downtown Stanfield for the communityâs first major public event for over a year, organizers said.
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After months of closed doors, takeout or dining in tents, restaurants in Umatilla County are bringing diners back indoors for the first time since November 2020.
At the Cozy Corner tavern on Hermistonâs Main Street, Anna Shuttleworth was serving five patrons late Monday afternoon, March 1. The tavern had been completely closed during the prohibition on indoor dining and drinking, and Shuttleworth said she and the other two bartenders are thrilled to be âup and roaringâ again.
âWeâre all here and all excited to be back to work,â she said.
Umatilla Countyâs move from the extreme risk category for COVID-19 to high risk on Friday, Feb. 26, doesnât mean business is back at full throttle for restaurants, but they are allowed to serve patrons at 25% of the buildingâs capacity, with no more than two households and six people to a table and parties spaced at least 6 feet apart. Capacity caps will continue to rise as the county moves down through