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Essay: Water Follies

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  • The Unlimited Final heat gets underway in the Columbia River during the 2010 Water Follies.<br />
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What once was a rowdy, booze-fueled event that even sparked a riot in 1987 has since become a more family-friendly gathering of roughly 60,000 every year that still has some of its hard partying roots.
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  • The Unlimited Final heat gets underway in the Columbia River during the 2010 Water Follies...What once was a rowdy, booze-fueled event that even sparked a riot in 1987 has since become a more family-friendly gathering of roughly 60,000 every year that still has some of its hard partying roots.
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  • Lt. Col. John Klatt of the Air National Guard and Bill Stein display their aerobatic skills in 2010.
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  • Jeremy Dahl, left, Hosa Gonsales, and Lindsey Butterworth watch the C-17 fly by in 2008.
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  • Jon Zimmerman, driver of the U-9 Miss VisitTRI-CITIES.com, gets some rest Saturday during the air show while hanging out with his son Jack, 5, in the Lampson Pits.
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  • The Kennewick shore, as seen from the air.
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  • A family drags wooden miniature hydroplanes through the pits in 2010, where fans can tour and get an up-close view of race crews at work.
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  • Matt Griffin of Seattle backflips out of the a party island shared with, clockwise from right, Rachael Hiatt, Dana Werner, Natalie Corcimiglia, Alisha Martin and Max Hubbard at Greg and Jan Bowers' Pasco home as an unlimited heat runs on the river in 2010. The group are former college friends with their son, Scotty Bowers, a Southridge High School graduate and got to enjoy some of the best seats in the house.
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  • Nick Conley of Walla Walla drinks his beer while slip 'n' sliding alongside Brian Campbell of Pasco at Peter Lampson and Nolan Clark's riverfront home in 2010.
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  • Ethan Wetterling, 4, of Kennewick slips and slides at Story Group's private tent in Pasco in 2009. After the slide ripped, Ryan McMenamin drilled holes in a bucket and routed the hose through it to keep the water flowing for the kids. Pasco was the site of the 1987 riot, but has since become the more family-friendly side.
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  • Spiderman gives an impromptu performance while heading to the Kids' Zone in Kennewick.
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  • Michelle Roach of Seattle and Nick Conley of Walla Walla share some carne asada that Emmanuel Navarro of Pasco cooked up at Peter Lampson and Nolan Clark's house in 2010.
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  • Casandra Romero licks a spilled drink off her friend Jesus Alquicira's shoulder in the "Lagoon Saloon" at Columbia Park in Kennewick in 2010. The two Kennewick 21-year-olds were experiencing the adult side of Water Follies for the first time, and Jesus was enjoying his first boat race ever. Restricting alcohol to beer gardens was one strategy in taming Water Follies.
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  • Marty Gregory of Benton City, left, hangs out with his father Cecil "Spur" Gregory, friend Danielle Emerick of Kennewick, and sister Mel Gregory of Finley.
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  • Martin Celt, center, bass player of Eclectic Approach, hangs with Curtis Magelsen, both of Seattle, at Steve Wolfe Engineering's VIP tent on Sunday in Pasco. Celt said he partied all night and took a 30 minute nap at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday and woke up covered in the stickers.
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  • Sights from the Kennewick side of the river during Water Follies 2011 on July 30.
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  • Race fans stay entertained between heats.
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  • Scenes from Pasco, Kennewick and above on Sunday, July 28 during the last day of the 2013 Lamb Weston Columbia Cup. Helicopter ride courtesy of Inland Helicopters in Spokane.
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  • Erica Gutierrez, right, of Kennewick, dances with her husband Al on Saturday while on one of seven boats tied together among dozens of boaters on the Columbia River west of the race course.
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  • Cody Taylor of Bend shows off the Flyboard on Saturday, July 27 among the party boats at the 2013 Lamb Weston Columbia Cup.
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  • Lamont Cloy of Pasco jumps off a 59-foot house boat on Saturday during the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup. Brothers Jesse and Jerry Medrano of Kennewick co-own Versatile Media Group and rented the boat for their family, friends and employees for boat race weekend. Jesse says they may make the party boat an annual tradition after attending Water Follies on land in both Pasco and Kennewick throughout the years.
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  • For some people, staying afloat at Water Follies is the only way to enjoy the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup. Here are scenes from Saturday, July 27, 2013.
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  • Benton County sheriff's Deputy Scott Belcher keeps an eye on boaters on Saturday, making sure people celebrated safely and lawfully. The sheriffs worked with the U.S. Coast Guard to make sure boaters stayed far enough away from the race course.
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  • Samantha Nixon, 11, gets blasted by water from her brother Rhett, 13, on Saturday while playing on a docked patrol boat with their mother Lisa and Lisa's boyfriend Mike Maloof, all of Richland.
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  • Mike Maloof of Richland drives a patrol boat on Saturday, July 27 during the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup. "If I wasn't involved, I probably wouldn't come," he says of the volunteer gig he's had for nine years.
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  • Theodore Morrison, 9, hangs on while Andrew Walli, 10, lays on an inflatable version of the U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto during Unlimited Heat #1C as Steve David speeds by in the real hydroplane.
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  • A young attendee naps along the shore. as Water Follies wraps up in 2008.
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  • Francisco Cervantes, left, of Statewide Rent-A-Fence in Seattle, rolls up some of the 18,000-feet of chain-link fence while Benjamin Howard, 12, of Pasco, whose grandfather is Water Follies Pasco Operations Chairman Chuck Keltch, rolls up some of the 950-feet of plastic fencing on the Pasco side after the 2008 races.
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