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8 1 Record-Courier THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016 Art Exhibition: Paintings in Oil by George Keister Opening First Friday, June 3 May5News youover! I hope this last week was a great Now for my helpful hint for the week for all! I do know this silly week; use your old newspaper as a weather needs to make up it's mind mulch and deter noxious weeds. arid l don't even care to discuss Simply wet the sheets and put the how I feel, about the wind. I sup- layers around your plants and gar- pose the weather does · give ' )JS den beds, covering with soil as you something to taJk about! go. The weeds won't be able to get The big event in North Powder through the wet newspaper. this week was the 95th Annual Once again, a reminder! If you Silver Tea, hosted by the Women of take your pet out for a walk, please the United Method,i st Church. remember to clean up after your Barbara Cambell· . and Joyce pet. Not eve:ryone loves them as Lawyer do 99.9% ofthewodc, they you do. are very appreciated for their many rve eajoyed sharing this little bit wonderful works. The Food Box of news with you this week, hope giv,en out on the third Wednesday you.will enjoy reading it. every month, Fresh Alliance every May12News Thursday and The Lunch Bunch the Pinochle Club met a few ever Friday are fruits of Joyce weeks ago at ibe Wolf Creek Lawyer's many works. She de- Grange. This week's party was serves much more of those '' atta hosted by Janet Lawyer. Eleanor boy's" than she tecei ves! · Blankenship took ~ place, Janet Wa1king into the Multipurpose Lawyer took~ ooming in last room at the elementary school was was Mary Jane Spradling. Prizes like stepping back in time, "the 50' were won by Janet ap.d Joyce s" with poodle skirts and an old Lawyer. fashioned ice cream social. By our Calendar of Events; sign in sheet we had 45 present May 1') N.P. Community with 12 decorated individual tables, Partners Meeting 6:30pm @ each with their owri interpretation · Wolf Creek Grange of a 50's ice cream social. All May 2~ City Budget Committee simply beautiful. For our entertain- 6;30pm@ Wolf Creek Grange. ment, the High School Choir May 28 Graduation@ 1pm treated us to a few little ditties from May 30 Memorial Day the era, job well done! Mr. Carlson Jwie 6 at 10am "Wolf Ceeek rut$ plenty to do with his music pro- Grange, Women.is Tea and Bible gram, I am certain he needs kudos Study. Everyone is for a great job! welcome, we are studying the After being entertained it was women of the bible. We are · time for announcing the wiane.i;s now using the Grange b ~ e with their tables. There were three we want more to come plus categories; THEME, MOST there are sta:irs to climb. IlEAUTIFUL AND MOST June 6 City Counsel @ 7pm, Wolf CREATIVE. :Jacki,e Calhoun took Creek Grange Best in Theme. Marie Johnson June7@ 6:30pm- Wolf Creek took Most Beautiful and Margie Grange Hall Meeting Lind took Most Creative. Ms. Mar- jorie Peck was the oldest person Been a busy month, even saw there, but a lady tries not to reveal · Teddy Roosevelt, thanks for her true age. attending, it was both amusing and I also would like to invite every• informative. Nothing like taking a one over to North Powder to Bhop step back into history, after all it is our City Wide Garage Sales on why we are here today or at lel!St May 7. We realize that there is a lot how·we got here. going on in our surrounding little Thank you for reading, till next towns, but we would love to have tune .... 'hsr.-1' t ,.,t no ,(l · ~ KILLAMAQUE Continued from page 1 For the month of June 2016, Crossroads Carnegie Art Center is pleased to present the exhibition - Paintings in Oil by George Keister - featuring the art work of George Keister. George's career as a Wildlife Biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife brings a unique perspective to his landscapes and still life paintings. George Keister approached Crossroads with the idea of auctioning off his paintings during the month of June. We will be working with www.winningcause,org, an on-line auction platform which works with non-profits to manage auctions. We will have staff available to help patrons set up an account to participate in the bidding opening night and during the month of the show. Once an account is set up, the buyers can then continue to bid throughout the month, at Cross- roads, on-line from home, or on their smart phones. Paintings in Oil by George Keister opens during FirsfFriday Art·walk in Historic Baker City, June 3 with an informal talk in the main gallery with the featured artist at 5:30 p.m. Paintings by Keister will be on display and the auction will be live until 5 p.m: Saturday, June 25. This exhibition is generously sponsored by Rob and .l)ianne Ellingson. Crossroads Art Center, Inc., is a 501(c) (3) non-profit founded in 1963.Our mission is to create opportunities for the entire community to be engaged, inspired, and transformed by the arts. Spring storm, Oil, 16H x w . ~oH, · LeAnne Woolf 541-894-2303, leannemywo@gmail.com Calendar Mondays: first Masons 8 pm, second Powder River Rural Board 7pm Tuesdays: first & third SVFD and PRR both 6:30 pm, second City Council 7 pm, fourth .Eastern Star 8 pm; SVFD Auxiliary on hiatus Thursdays: first &'third Planning Commission 7 pm, second- FoD time varies and SVCV 6:30 pm, third Bag Ladies noon Fridays: third Bingo 7 pm Saturdays: second SVRR time varies and SVBMSC 6:30 pm (but only O9t to Apr) Friday, May 27 - Sumpter FJea Market starts bright and early, Bingo and Pie at Masonic Hall Friday through Sunday evenings Monday, May Sumpter Flea Market ends around noon and crops worth thousands of dollars were swept away. Newly planted trout in Killamaque Lake perished. Even trains were temporarily delayed by deep water in the Haines area. Inspection of the dam the next day rev.ealed that just the top twelve feet of the dam, which was earth fill on top of the dam's In this column I i11clude some natural lower end, gave way due to unusually high spring runoff of material from the unprinted melting snow in the Elkhorns. Residents feared other dams might April 28 and May 5 columns. also burst. And they worried that loss of water from Killamaque Reservoir would cause further losses in the fall, when City crops would have to go without irrigation water. In the second hour of the April Initially owners of Killamaque Reservoir suspected a farmhand 12 Council meeting (first· hour named Gray of having blown up the dam .. But inspection of the appeared jn April 21 column), dam soon cIe·ared him of having any hand in the dam's failure. the desir~ to open a marijuana The town of Rock Creek was located a little ways below where consignment shop in Sumpter the namesake creek enters Powder River Valley. The creek's was presented. Huntington is origin is Rock Creek Lake/Reservoir several miles southwest of seeing a lot of economic activity the town. Killamaque Creek is a west tributary of Rock Creek and with marijuana-related business. has its origin in Killamaque Lake located on the east side of Red Sumpter did not opt out of Mountain. Several of the glacial lakes in the Elkhorns have had their marijuana sales so now must outlets augmented to make them higher to increase the acre-feet discuss and pass an ordinance for of water for irrigation in the summer. Years ago owners of how the City will handle thel!l, Killamaque Reservoir had engaged.miners to drive a 400-foot-long including the possibility of sales , tunnel under the terminus to drain out even more water for tax- up to three percent. irrigation. Sumpter Valley Blue Mountain The day after the flood the Oregonian reported, "Big forest trees Snowmobile Club (SVBMSC) were borne on the crest of the column (of water) and these ~ked for permission from City became a weapon of the flood, striking buildings as battering Council to spend $800 toward rams. The flood reached Rock Creek at 8:45 o'clock (a.m.). The installing band.tails along the poolroom and store building of the Farmers Trading Company, the entrance ramp into the Commu- . Toll House, the blacksmith shop and hall were destroyed, and only nity Center and adding a cover debris and a few tin cans are left to mark the site of the hamlet. A roof above the ramp. Council horse tied in front of the store was killed. Fences were all demol- approved ibe project and ished, and as far down as Haines all of the bridges are reported to appointed Cary Clarke as liaison. have been taken out." A Special Council Meeting At first Rock Creek ·residents thought the sound they were hearing was held April 22 to determine was the wind, until they heard "snapping of telephone poles and whether to send a letter to Baker grinding of debris," alerting them to an impending disaster. As City Building Department to quickly as possibly they took to nearby hills. The flood waters activate on a building project in caught up with the James Ashwood family trying to escape in a wagon. The water rose so high it almost floated the family's wagon · downtown Sumpter an existing bed. Emery Powders, who was out irrigating his fields, found . agreement for nuisance himself cut off from his house by flood waters. He had to travel all ordinance enforcement. The the way to Haines to find a road that would take him home. letter was ·approved three to two. Some other farmers and ranchers who suffered damage: H.P. The project was first asked to Carter, Joseph Carter, Charles Castor, Frank Castor, Andrew stop building in November 201 S. Delong, Charles Long, H.E. McCullough, Arthur Polley, John . Because the project impeded on Schmallenberg, John Simm~ns, Alva Spence, Ed White, and Harry · the City•s sewer easement, no Young. i.oning permit could be issued It may not be common knowledge that the high lakes in the and thus no building permit Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains are the result of glaciation. Hiking could be issued. Building contin- downhill from Twin Lakes in the Elkhorns years ago, I noticed ued despite lack of permits and grooves in several granite rocks rooted i~ the landscape. I ca'!'le inspections. to the conclusion that other rocks caught m the bottom of a glacier Discussion on the abuse of the had carved the grooves, as the glacier slowly slid southward. City's public burn pile followed. Geologists speculate that during two periods of glaciation of North Signs about materials allowed in America-150,000 to 200,000 years ago and 10,000 to 30,000 the burn pile have been posted years ago-glaciers carved out the high lakes in the Elkhorn and and ignored. Rather than allow- Wallowa mountains. Here are some lengths of the glaciers in the ing safe dispersal of small yard Elkhorns beginning with the longest: ~orth Powder River 9.3 m!·• debris by the fire department, the Rock Creek 8 mi, Anthony Creek 7.5 mI., Dutch Flat Creek 7:3 mI., burn pile is costing money .and Pine Creek 3.6 mi., and Goodrich Creek 1.6 mi. The long North Powder River moraine has a classic shape and is clearly visible . time (which equals more money) from Highway 30. (The internet program Google Earth, based on to haul away _garbage. 'The possi- satellite photos, is an excellent way to view the moraines of t~e bilities of fencing, locked gates, Elkhorns from above. A research article -may be found at this and cameras were brought up. website address: Glaciation of Elkhorn Mts, Emily Geraghty.pdf) The bum_pile is closed to general The little town of Rock Creek never quite rebounded from the admittance. Killamaque flood of June 28, 1917, .that carried it away ninety-nine Sumpter City.,Council metin years ago. · regular session May 10. Utility s·o - Comments on this article may be sent to tubingen@eoni.com orcall 541.523.6760. Light refreshments will be provided by Triple C. Music by Marvin Sundean Other events Going On in June Art Access: Wednesday, June 8th from 10:30am to 11 :30am George Keister will give a demonstration on painting a still life in oil. Free to the public. Refreshments served. Tl")e Art Access Programs are made possible through the generous funding of The Oregon Community Foundation. , Manager Jeff McKinney reported lots of work on mait1te- liacnce at the water tower. Sumpter Volunteer Fire Depart- ment was called on one medical, one structure, and two brush fires from April 2~-28. About ten minutes later, they were called out of the meeting to another brush fire. They were abfe to put it out and returµ:b,e- f ore the end of the meeting. ' · Two street vacation ordinances were, passed and one conditional permit approved, Sumpter Valley Community Volunteers (SVCV) requested and wete granted permission to use Volun~ teer Park for September l 7-18's Music in t)le Meadow. In public input, lively discussidn ensued on an audience member's ques- tions to Councilor Robert Arm- bruster about: 1) voting to put the proposal for a new City Charter on -the ballot and then sending out a mass· mailing thatremoved his suppo:t:t, and 2) the statements he'd made on his petition to re- call Mayor Leland Myers. Enough petition signatures have been gathered to hold a re- call election for Mayor Myers and Councilors Cary Clarke ano Samantha Rowan. The recall election has yet to occw, but the proposed new Charter was de- feated 33-54. The City of Sumpter will continue operating. under its 1972 Charter. On May 19, :Mayor Leland Myers attended the Mayors' Council in Halfway. Ther!!was a good roundtable on several items. Councilors Robert Arm~ bruster and Annie Oakley and Planning Commission Vice Pres- ident LeAnne Woolf went. to ~e- regional League of Oregon Cities meeting in John Day where there were insurance and legislation updates, and a short training on new court interpretations of pub- lic meeting law. Sumpter Volunteer Fire De- partment opened the community burn pile for a few hours Satur- :day morning, May 21. Each load was inspected to prevent the in~ troduction of garbage or other in• appropriate materials. Several hous.e holds took advantage of the opportunity to rid their yards Q"f pine needles and small branches. Hate posters were found on City Hall doors Monday the 16th and on a business door and win- dow the 20th. Two of the. posters referred to John Young ~d LeAnne Woolf as dictators, per- haps because they're on Planning Commission. Another poster called Ms Woolf, in part, an un- trustworthy sow. The poster di- rected at City staff had words not , tq be printed in a family paper. The Sheriff's Dypartment has collected all four posters in case -there is escalation. -out' use Orga1dzations At the April 14 SVCV meet- ing, members regretfully ac- cepted the resignation of Mark Luker from the Board and Presi- dency. SVCV discussed the pros and cons of various venues for September'.s Music in the Meadow. SVBMSC's proposal for .a joint project at the Commu- nity Center was awarded $400, with more potentially being granted 1f it is needed. SVCV will take the lead on the project since SVBMSC is in its off-sea- son. SVCV provided refresh~- ments and a moderator for'- ar Candidate Tqwn Hall on April 21. Sheriff Travis Ash and County Commissioner Candi- dates Kody Justus and Jeff Nelson participated. . SVCV also met on May 12 and Jiadi a work party at Volunteer Fark on May 20. Details and photos will appear in the ne~t column. People Sumpter mayor and Oregon Professional Land Surveyors President Leland Myers ·and his wife Nancy attended the Western Federation of Land Surveyors Conference Aprii -17-19. It was held in Las Vegas in conjunction with the state convention for Nevada land surveyors. Nancy commented there is some very interesting geology along Highway 93. Part-time resident Lee Whitlow passed away recently. He is the younger brother of Norm Whitlow, part-time Sumpter Valley resident. 01lt deepest condolences to Norm, his wife Judy, and the Whitlow family. . The home ofMick and Kama Allen was heavily damaged by sinok~ and water in an electrical fire around 3 am on Tuesday, April 26. Assistant Sumpter Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jim Sheller says their smoke alarms saved their lives. A spaghetti dinner benefit was held at the Elkhorn for Mick and Kama -on Saturday, May 21J' Elkhorn owner Sharon Epler said the benefit went very well, and sends out a big thank you to all who attended and made it such' a success. A yard sale wiU.be held at St Brigid's Episcopal Church during the Memorial Day Flea Market also to raise money for Mick and Kama. If you wish ~ donate items to this yard ljale, contact Jay or Barb Phillips at 54 l •894-0084. Prices will not be marked on items as any and all donations will be accepted. Churches , Sunday morning services are held at St. Brigid's in the Pines at Auburn and Bonanza in Sumpter . on the first .and third Sundays of the month at 11 a..tn, followed by a coffee 'hour.· Weekly services at McEwen Bible Fellowship include Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., Morning Worship at 11 · a.m., and· Wednesday evening prayer at 6:45 p.~. Deadline and Disclaimer Send in news and/or photos by Sunday evening to be included in the Sumpter column the follow- ing week. Include captions with photos. I am involved in several of the organizations appearing in this column, but I do not report as an official representative of any of them.
