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Planning for Ontarioâs upcoming Tater Tot Festival is underway and that means arranging the physical layout of the event will be getting plenty of attention.
This is the first Tater Tot Festival to happen in Ontario and is planned for September 17 and 18 in downtown Ontario.
Thursday afternoon saw city staff including Ontario City Manager Adam Brown and Ontario Chief of Police Steven Romero show up to accompany members of local non-profit organization Revitalize Ontario and event coordinators from Go Out Local, a marketing agency out of Boise, to discuss the arrangement of the festivalâs features.
The group met in Moore Park and reviewed a tentative map showing the various road closures, standard vendors and information booth, among other elements of the event.
ONTARIO
The new water trail, one of the upcoming recreational projects budgeted by the City of Ontario, will need to undergo some changes before moving forward â specifically being relocated to a different body of water.
The trail, which would utilize the lower Malheur River for floating purposes and include places to launch canoes and other small watercraft along the way, was pitched to the Ontario City Council by City Manager Adam Brown in May of 2020. In a meeting at that time he likened the idea to a similar one where he had located from in Michigan.
According to documents released in late March from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Malheur River has the second-worst water quality in the state, according to a rating by the Oregon Department of Environment Quality.
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