The
Blue Mountain
EAGLE
Grant County’s newspaper since 1868
W EDNESDAY , O CTOBER 14, 2015
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Sheriff’s deputies
create own forest plan
By George Plaven
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photos/Eric Sines
Tucker Garinger, left, and Charles Kreamier get
ready to dig into their tacos during a Sept. 25
fundraiser in Long Creek for fire relief.
Long Creek rallies
Ior ZilG¿ re relieI
Taco feed,
bottle recycling
efforts raise
over $2,500
Blue Mountain Eagle
LONG CREEK – Small
in size and number but not
in power, the community of
Long Creek raised $2,538
from two recent fundraisers
for the Canyon Creek Com-
plex Fire Relief Fund.
The Long Creek School
Booster Club cashed in the
cans and bottles ¿ lling its
“Kans for Kids” trailer for a
hefty sum of $1,163, which
they donated to the fund.
Following that success, the
community rallied for a
by-donation taco feed fund-
raiser on Sept. 25, raising
another $1,375.
The Relief Fund was es-
tablished by Old West Fed-
eral Credit Union to assist
those who lost homes or
were otherwise impacted by
the wild¿ re.
Unhappy with the U.S.
Forest Service after a summer
of devastating wild¿ res, Grant
County Sheriff Glenn Palmer
has made his own natural re-
sources plan to inÀ uence the
management of public lands.
Palmer deputized 11 county
residents to write and adopt the
local plan, though it remains
unclear whether they have
legal standing to coordinate
with the feds.
The move
caught county
commission-
ers off guard
at a Sept.
30 meeting,
Sheriff
where Palm-
Glenn
er declined to
Palmer
put his plan on
the agenda and
instead brought it up during
public comment. He said he is
invoking coordination through
the sheriff¶s of¿ ce, and asked
WHAT DO YOU THINK? We value your
opinion and want to hear what you think
on this issue. Write a letter to the editor.
for the commissioners’ support.
“I ask for things from the
Forest Service to do my job,
and I get the door shut in my
face,” Palmer said at the meet-
ing. “I’m having a heck of a
time getting out to do my job.”
Commissioner
Chris
Labhart said they are seeking
an opinion from their attorney,
and criticized Palmer for a lack
of transparency.
“No other citizen of Grant
County has seen this document
at all,” Labhart said. “Those
(deputies) are the only people
who had access to this before it
was presented to the court, out
of the blue.”
See PLAN, Page A9
‘GRATEFUL FOR MY
DANCE WITH CANCER’
Q&A
Contributed photo
Blue Mountains Forest Partners formed in 2006
to help address natural resource challenges in
Grant County. The group works with the Malheur
National Forest to identify and prioritize areas
that need treatment.
Group works to restore
forest, communities
Blue Mountain Eagle
In 2006, the Blue Moun-
tains Forest Partners (BMFP)
was formed in Grant County
by a diverse group of in-
dividuals who wanted to
restore and sustain the Mal-
heur National Forest and the
communities it supports.
The collaborative now in-
cludes loggers, ranchers, en-
vironmentalists, landowners,
elected of¿ cials and other
stakeholders who are work-
ing together to maintain the
forest as both an ecological
and economic asset.
Supporters of the forest
collaborative say prior to the
group’s establishment, man-
agement of the forest was
mired in litigation brought
by stakeholders with com-
peting interests.
The group has worked
with the Forest Service to de-
velop vegetative management
See Q&A, Page A10
INSIDE
Contributed photos
The Moore family at Thanksgiving in Phoenix in 2010. The family was undergoing a period of
uncertainty with Ruthie’s (center) breast cancer diagnosis, and chose a ‘pink’ celebration to
brighten up the holiday. Ruthie underwent a lumpectomy four days later.
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‘In this of¿ ce everyone is facing death right sTuare in the face ’
S
ome moments you just
don’t ever forget.
Ruthie Moore of Day-
ville says she remembers
as if it was yesterday – the
moment she got the “dreaded phone
call” from her doctor relaying the
breast cancer diagnosis.
That was almost ¿ ve years ago,
Oct. 19, 2010 – at 3:21 p.m., to be
exact.
Today, Moore is celebrating good
health and “¿ ve years of surviving
and thriving”
Dayville woman
survives, thrives
¿ ve years later
By Cheryl +oeÀ er
Blue Mountain Eagle
“I really cannot even imagine
what my life would be like right now
without the ‘Big C,’” Moore said. “It
may have tried to take my life, but
what it actually ended up doing was
give me back far more than it took.
I know that because of this cancer
journey I’ve been on, I am a much
better person today than I was ¿ ve
years ago.”
Moore was diagnosed with stage
one invasive breast cancer. Her tu-
mor was eight centimeters with clear
margins and no cancer in her lymph
nodes. It was caught early, due, she
said, to the short time span between
mammograms – only 15 months.
See RUTHIE, Page A3
Local
McDonald’s
restaurant
closes Oct. 31
– PAGE A10
Ruthie Moore, second from the left, enjoys a ‘girls weekend’ with, from left, her daughter, Kristi
Moore of Phoenix, Ariz., granddaughter, Alcie Moore, and daughter, Kalli Wilson of Springfield.
October is National
To schedule your mammogram today, call:
541-575-4163
Month
See page A9 for
more information