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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Carrie Young Memorial
raises thousands for seniors
Proceeds
increase 30
percent to
$24,000
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Suzy Burton, left, has help from Pat Holliday
at Saturday’s Blue Mountain Hospital Auxiliary
Bazaar at the Grant County Fairgrounds in
John Day. The fairgrounds parking lot was filled
to capacity, and shoppers were packed in the
pavilion as well as Keerins Hall, where the Grant
County Holiday Bazaar was held.
Christmas shoppers
throng to bazaars
Blue Mountain Eagle
Three Grant County
Christmas bazaars had shop-
pers browsing a variety of
handmade goods, including
aprons, pillows, blankets,
hats, scarves, jewelry, lotion,
knives with antler handles
and an array of goodies,
from specially made dog
treats to divinity.
Shoppers’ options in-
cluded a bazaar in Dayville
and two at the Grant County
Fairgrounds in John Day.
Vendors at the Blue
Mountain Hospital Auxil-
iary Bazaar at the pavilion
and in Dayville displayed
handmade items, and the
Grant County Holiday Ba-
zaar at Keerins Hall featured
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Heather Bailey, left, of
Canyon City looks at
wool hats handmade
by PJ Winter, back,
along with her children
Eliza, front, baby Agnes
and Madelyn.
mainly brand-name items.
While the events gave
people a chance to purchase
gifts, they also had the op-
portunity to catch up on
visiting with friends and ac-
quaintances.
A portrait of Carrie
Young sits on a table
in the Elks Lodge
during the 23rd annual
memorial auction.
By Rylan Boggs
Blue Mountain Eagle
After the death of her
sister, Carrie Young, Lucie
Immoos decided instead of
wallowing in grief she would
continue what her sister had
started.
The fi rst year Immoos
put on a memorial auction
in Young’s name, she raised
$175. Last year, she raised
$18,000 to help local seniors
in need.
The 23rd annual Car-
rie Young Memorial drew a
crowd of close to 350 Friday
night at the Elks Lodge. The
auction of 196 items and the
raffl e of a .22-caliber rifl e,
two cords of fi rewood and
half a beef, cut and wrapped,
raised roughly $24,000.
Eagle photos/Rylan Boggs
Lucie Immoos stands for a photo in the Elks Lodge
before the Carrie Young Memorial Friday, Dec. 2.
The money helps seniors
pay for utilities, buy groceries
and other essential items.
“They’re a very proud gen-
eration,” Immoos said. “They
don’t ask for help.”
All of the items are do-
nated by local businesses,
family and friends, Immoos
said.
“I would say probably 98
percent of the businesses in
this town are so generous,”
she said. “I’m just blown
away.”
Immoos receives help
from all over the county, but
she said a small group of core
women have been key to mak-
ing the event happen this year
and in past years.
Terri Bowden, the owner
of A Flower Shop & More,
helps organize all the dona-
tions into baskets for auction.
“She’s the one who makes
these things pretty,” Immoos
said.
Sharrie Slinkard donated
her time and warehouse space
to help assemble the baskets.
Dawn Wood makes all the
bows, Carol Jean Schumacher
helped put everything togeth-
er and Immoos’s sister, Chris-
tie Winegar, helped prepare
the spaghetti dinner.
“I’m very grateful, not just
for the people who donate
but for the people that come,
because this wouldn’t be
anything if I didn’t have peo-
ple show up to bid on these
items,” Immoos said.
Top Grant Union musicians perform in concert
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Eight Grant Union High
School students were selected
for honor band and honor choir.
The musicians traveled
to McLoughlin High School
in Milton-Freewater for the
OMEA District 6 concert that
Joan Kay Kilpatrick Rohm Ouellette was born at home in Canyon City, January 29th,
1939, to Blanche Bernadine Johnson Kilpatrick and LeRoy Judson “Roy” Kilpatrick.
She died peacefully in her own bed on November 23rd, 2016 at the untimely age of
77.
Joan was a woman of superlatives: for most people, she was by far the most vital,
bravest, and most intelligent person they would ever meet. She was a person of
intense convictions, a deeply loving and fiercely devoted Mother and Grandmother,
an Atheist & yet an Animist, a lover of Liberty & Chaos (and Fire!), a Peripatetic Stoic
Epicure, and an unrepentant all-around mischief-maker with an extremely irreverent
sense of humor.
She loved to travel anywhere, anytime, all over our planet, from Beijing to Machu Picchu, Morocco (on a camel) to
Stuttgart (to pick up her honeymoon Mercedes), Petra to Chichen Itza, every ocean, most seas, and six of the seven
continents. Her favorite travel companion for decades was Sandra Lee “Sandy” Thompson Stallcup, R.I.P.
Joan was a voracious reader throughout her life, typically a book or two a day -- after reading everything in the
John Day library, she moved to Portland to attend Reed College at the age of 16.
She was an avid gardener, once planting 5,000 gladiolus bulbs (she’d ordered 500) and then delivering those
flowers throughout Grant County and to friends across the country.
Joan was an accomplished horsewoman, a graceful skier, a keen marksman, a windsurfer & a whitewater rafter,
and a gifted artist in ephemeral and lasting media.
After the passing of her parents, and then her beloved older sister Gayl Kilpatrick Pope, Joan became the keystone
of a large and loving family. We are all the better for having known her, and she will of course live forever in our
hearts.
Joan is survived by her ultimate beloved Airedale Zoe, her siblings Dorcas Helen Kilpatrick Tapper, Earl Wayne
Kilpatrick (Carol), and Patrick Michael Kilpatrick (Cindy), her two adoring & bereft sons, William Anton Rohm and
Michael Tigger Rohm, her exceptional daughter-in-law Susan Marie Reid Rohm, Tigger & Sue’s contribution of two
fine grandchildren, Zuriah Judson Rohm and Sela Ylan Rohm, and a wonderful host of nieces and nephews and
grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
A Mom-morial celebration will be held at the Mount Vernon Grange Hall on Saturday the 17th of December from
2pm to 7pm. Everyone who knew Joan is welcome.
Paid for by the family of Joan Rohm
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included 90 students from 13
Eastern Oregon schools.
Grant Union students select-
ed for honor band were: Annie
Wall, clarinet; Samantha Floyd,
trombone; and Alyssa Hoff-
man, French horn.
Students participating in
honor choir included: sopranos
Manao Kanazawa and Nikki
Jones; altos Tiana Allen and
Avery Hughes; and bass James
Mabe.
The students are led at Grant
Union by music director Mary
Ann Vidourek.
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The honor band concert
was led by conductor Brandon Grant Union honor band students, from left, are
Beck, a music director at Walla Samantha Floyd (trombone), Alyssa Hoffman
Walla University, and the honor (clarinet) and Annie Wall (clarinet).
choir was directed by Dr. Dean
Luethi, an associate professor
of music at Washington State
University.
“It was nice to be able to
hear a larger choir and all the
parts,” Mabe said.
There are only four boys
singing bass for the Grant
Union choir.
“It was really fun getting to
see people we haven’t seen in
awhile and fun to sing in a big
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choir,” Jones said.
Wall said she enjoyed hav- Grant Union honor choir students are: from left,
ing Beck as the director be- Nikki Jones (soprano), Manao Kanazawa (soprano),
cause “he knew how to connect James Mabe (bass), Tiana Allen (alto) and Avery
Hughes (alto).
with the kids.”
Wall also was selected as
Grant Union junior and se-
fi rst chair clarinet for the Nov.
“I didn’t want to be fi rst
18-21 Western International chair, but it happened,” she nior bands and grades 7 through
Band Clinic in Seattle, where said. “We had a combined piece 12 choir will hold a winter con-
she was part of a 300-student with the band that turned out re- cert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.
14, at the school’s old gym.
band.
ally well.”
JUNIPER ARTS COUNCIL/GRANT COUNTY
CULTURAL COALITION IS SEEKING
GRANT PROPOSALS FOR OREGON
CULTURAL TRUST GRANT AWARDS
Refreshments and door prizes all day
The coalition has $6,000 from the Oregon
Cultural Trust to distribute in Grant County to
organizations for projects relating to culture.
Projects may be related to the visual or
performing arts, heritage, and/or humanities.
Enter to win the 6 foot Christmas stocking for
the kids and a compressor for the adults.
Applications are available from Karin Barntish,
131 W. Main Street, John Day or call Kris Beal at
541-932-4892 for more information or an
application.
All tools, equipment and
auto parts will be on sale.
Save the date! Dec. 15th 7am -7pm.
Grant applications will be accepted until
January 13, 2017 at 5:00 pm.
721 W Main St., John Day
541-575-1850
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