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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1,2015
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By Gina Perkins
Eldon (Buck) Buckner made some Cub Scouts quite
happy Sunday afternoon. Pack 422 hosted Buckner who
shared slides from two separate African safaris he took,
one in 1987. in Botswana and the other in 2002, in Tanza
nia. The event, which was held at the Keating Fire hall,
attracted a full house who came not only to enjoy the slide
show, but to help raise funds so the Pack can attend Cub
Scout Camp this coming June. By the end of the show, the
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kids had raised $400.
Besides amazing photos and stories of his adventures,
Buckner shared with the Cub Scouts his commitment to
conservation saying, “ Conservation means the ‘wise use’
of animal and natural resources. Conservation is much dif-
I ferent from preservation. Preservation means ‘no use’ or to
lock up, and that has devastating consequences, opposite
of what one might think,” explained Buckner.
“These are ranch kids who enjoy hunting and are
interested in learning about guns, so the slide show was
right up their alley. They really enjoyed seeing all of the
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Anyone remotely familiar with local history
involving skiing and the humble begin-
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Champ and Lois Bond. Likewise, those .-xL
who spent time watching the Olym
pic skiing events may very well have
heard of David Wise. A young skier
from Reno who won the first-ever
gold medal in half pipe skiing,
Wise is a larger-than-life, yet very
humble, 23 year old man. The
un-dude'as The New York Times
calls him, just happens to be the
g^ndson jfthe late Champ and
Cubmaster Patti Pickard helps Quinton Jo nson
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According to multiple web particular interest to the Ballards: lards consider the forests their many others, the reason they visit
sites which provide the origins of the restriction of access to four home. They don’t just spend a
The Ballards are not casua
names, “De Forest” has the follow wheelers and other motorized ve casual weekend or two during the weekend adventurers. This isn’l
hicles to roads which they’ve uti
ing meaning: of, from, or living
summer camping. “I am 65+ years a hobby or something they dream
near the forest. Similar resources lized for over half a century.
old and I have spent my entire life of doing “someday.” They don’t
Words like compromise and with complete access to open for spend their weekends strolling
state the meaning of the surname
BaUard as being “an ancient An collaboration have been tossed ests,” said Tork Ballard.
the aisles of places like REI or
glo-Saxon name given to a person around. Adjectives such as ex
Four generations of the Bal Cabelas or thumbing through the
known for their lack of hair.” As treme, unreasonable, and over- lards—and many, many families mail order catalogs, planning for a
the-top have been used to label living in Eastern Oregon just like
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once-a-year outing. They live it.
those not wanting to lose access to them—camp, fish, pick huckleber
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only source of heat for the Ballard
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letters
to
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editor
and
public
word ball-ard, which means a bald
site see, nature watch, pick mush home. Fish, game and huckleber
officials; heated public meetings
headed man.”
rooms, and photograph wildlife ries make up much of what is in
in which hundreds of people who and beautiful scenery. For many,
their freezer. Christmas lists and
do not consider themselves .public it
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m no* going there
speakers have
shown up, to live in Eastern Oregon and for
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Eleven young adults chose to spend their Christmas
Vacation helping people much less fortunate m Honduras.
The youth traveled with a medical mission team headed up
by Dr. Jon Schott of St. Luke’s Eastern Oregon Methcal
Associates, his wife and pharmacist, Dawn Schott, den
tists, Dr. Sean Benson of Baker City, Dr. Warren Whitnah
of Richland, and Dr. Jensen from Bend. In addition, the
team was comprised of five nurses and three skilled nurs
ing staff. Chris Folkman, an engineer from Marvin Wood
Products and his wife, Carrie Folkman, also accompanied
the group. Mr. Folkman designed and installed a sand wa
ter filtration system in a remote village and an ultra violet
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The class which collected the most pop can tabs had
the privilege of seeing their teacher kiss Sparkle, a faint
ing goat owned by Mrs. Marlia’s daughter, Paige. Chris
Aldrich’s second graders brought in the most tabs making
her the lucky smoocher of the goat. Sparkle was all decked
out for the event wearing a wig (or two!) and a pink feather
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teacher kiss Sparkle, a fainting goat
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In conjunction with this event was the grand opening
of ‘Riki’s Room.” This was a labor of love started by the
late Riki Anderson. She saw students without coats and ad
equate clothing so she started a small closet which housed
the things kids were needing—everything from pants to
shoes to coats. In honor o
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Osprey
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| Avian Manager, Jeff
Casey Mitchell, installed a winder
on the nesting platform Fn
day morning.
nest on the power line which
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derson. “We contacted the
was not a good tiling, sal
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land owner and installed _PAcommumty member
made a suitable nesting plattonm
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then noticed the osprey
Me adding die
off in the wind, so we cam
windbreak,” he added.
pro-active with
Anderson saidfeat OTEC is very
p
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and so is
their Avian Progr
Evie? a Girl’s BesfFriend
By Gina Perkins
diagnosed with autism. As a pan of ttat
dwwosis 011er suffers from Sety has
table sleeping, and experiences
difficulty in social situations
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Thursday, January 1,2015
nicate her wants and heeds. After starring
school at the Morgan Autism Center in
California in 2011, she began using a more
sophisticated speech generating device.
While this has allowed the child to signifi.
cantly increase her ability to communicate,
Maria's mother really felt her daughter
would benefit from having a companion
dog.
Theresia Oller said, "I applied to Canine
Companions for Independence in 2012 and
was placed on the waiting list. Fast forward
[wo years. It's our first week in team train
ing with canine companions. Maria was
pre-matched with Evie and it was love at
first sight. Our first night with Evie was the
first night our family got the «am» nine
and has area
pride. Evie
and Maria
ceptionally
well
to
gether. Our
family
couldn't be
happier,"
said Maria's
mother.
"Thanks
to wonder
ful people
like Sheila
[Holman] who take the ti
traordi
Submitted photo
Evie and Marla