THE SPOKESMAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021 P3
April building permits
FLASHBACK
Redmond’s one-man track team, Art Tuck
100 years ago
May 12, 1921 — Tuck Breaks Javelin Record:
Redmond Man Throws 192 Ft.
Arthur M. Tuck, University of Oregon athlete
who on May 9 at Seattle broke the Pacific coast
Javelin throw record and set the new mark at
192 feet 4 inches, was formerly a participant in
Central Oregon track and field meets.
As a member of the Redmond track and field
team, Tuck entered the competition at Madras
in 1919 and virtually alone won for Redmond
the pennant offered that year by the Central
Oregon school day association.
Tuck still holds several records as a result
of his work at the Madras meet. The 220-yard
dash he made in 23 4-5 seconds, breaking the
existing record and establishing a mark not
since equaled. His javelin throw records stands
in Central Oregon at 167 feet, 5 inches. He also
has the shot put record at 44 feet, 7 inches.
Later in the spring, Tuck won wide recogni-
tion when he represented Redmond union high
school and won the state championship for his
school at a meet held at the University of Ore-
gon at Eugene. He won over entire teams repre-
senting Portland, Salem, Eugene, Medford and
other of the larger schools of the state.
After his latest triumph at Seattle, Coach
“Bill” Hayward claimed for him the national
javelin throw record, declaring the best previous
mark in America to have been set a year ago by
Milton Anguier of Boston, who threw 192 feet, 2
inches in Olympic try-outs. Other records how-
ever, show G. Higgins of the University of Chicago
to have made the mark of 194 feet, 11 inches.
Tuck is the son of John Tuck, principal of the
Redmond grade school.
75 years ago
May 16, 1946 — Odem Car Found;
Police Warn All to Lock Vehicles
Milton L. Odem’s 1939 Chevrolet coupe, sto-
len from in front of the Mayfair theatre May 8,
was recovered Wednesday at Boise, Idaho, where
it had been abandoned, reports Chief of Police
Jesse Edgar.
Odem telephoned the Boise chief of police,
who told him that the car had been found on the
streets with the key gone and had been towed to
a garage, but that it was apparently in running
condition. Odem is arranging to have the auto
brought back here. It was stolen between 10:30
o’clock and noon while Odem was inside the the-
atre. Along with the auto, the thief got away with
all Odem’s theatre projector tools, including an
electric drill.
Redmond has been experiencing an epidemic
of stolen cars in recent weeks. Monday city police
Money for the tree had been brought to
s school by the young students.
Mrs. Wanichek gave a history of Arbor Day
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which was a day set aside by Nebraska’s gov-
e ernor in 1872 since the area had few trees,
v violent winds and desert land. One million
t trees were planted that day and now nearly
o one billion trees have been planted in the mid-
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western state.
Fourth grade girls presented a choral read-
in
ing of “Trees,” by Joyce Kilmer and the group
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sang “America the Beautiful.”
The tree was dedicated to Mrs. Barker and
M Wanichek who are retiring this year. Mrs.
Mrs.
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Barker
has taught 30 years, the last five in Sis-
te Mrs. Wanichek has taught 23 years and
ters.
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has been in Sisters for three years.
Children from grades one to four partici-
pa
pated in the affair.
25 years ago
Spokesman file photo
Art Tuck, Redmond’s star athlete, as pictured in 1921.
recovered a 1942 Chevrolet sedan in the junipers
near Roberts field. Three wheels and tires and
the radio had been removed. The car is owned
by Lawrence Carr of Redding, Cal.
About the time Odem’s car was stolen, the po-
lice recovered another auto, a 1938 Buick sedan
belonging to a man in Klamath Falls. The Buick
was found in Redmond.
Edgar warns all car owners to remove their
keys and, in addition, to lock their cars.
50 years ago
May 12, 1971 — Arbor Day observed in Sisters
A birch tree was planted by students of the
Earl Russell School in Sisters April 30 in honor of
Arbor Day and the first shovel of dirt was turned
by Mrs. Jo Wanichek, third grade teacher, and
Mrs. Edith Barker, fourth grade teacher. Mothers
of the children gathered on the lawn to witness
the ceremony.
Names of all lower grade students and staff,
which had been written on a strip of paper, were
placed in a glass jar and buried at the roots of the
tree.
Children took turns holding the tree and shov-
eling in the dirt.
May 15, 1996 —
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Classroom awarded plant grant
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The Outdoor Classroom at Redmond High
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School received an $11,000 grant from the Gov-
ern
ernor’s Watershed Enhancement Board last
wee
week.
J Jan Erickson, a member of the Outdoor
Classroom
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team, said the money will be used
to create a mix of five plant communities on the
fenced half-acre plot at the high school.
One of the communities will be riparian, a
type of habitat associated with water, to take ad-
vantage of work already done at the site. Students
will choose between other communities ranging
from grasslands, bitterbrush and desert to transi-
tional forest.
A screening of wildlife-friendly plants is
planned for the perimeter of the lot to shield the
project.
The classroom is not just for students. The
project will be available as a research tool for
anyone who wants to landscape with native spe-
cies.
“As water becomes more and more of an is-
sue,” she said, “native plants will be of more in-
terest.”
The project will get started this spring when
loads of topsoil are brought in and spread. In
the fall, students will begin designing the proj-
ect and propagating native plant species in the
high school green house. Kimmel Landscaping,
which specializes in native plant species, will
provide some of the stock.
Future classes will maintain and upgrade the
facility and conduct studies and sue the outdoor
classroom as a laboratory. The project also offers
a forum for discussion of topics such as pub-
lic-lands grazing and water rights.
City of Redmond Commercial structural
permits
Redmond Pacific Associates LLC, 1238 SW Obsidian Ave.,
Foundation for new 8-plex (Obsidian Apartments Building
1), $1,041,920
Beulah’s Place, 1055 SW Deschutes Ave., Tenant
improvement of existing 4,000 sf facility to be occupied by
four classrooms and staff area for a neighborhood Head
Start program, $400,000
MRE ROR LLC, 1500 NE Hemlock Ave., Medline expansion
including underground utilities and interior buildout of
shell, $6,900,000
MW Cousins 1555 LLC, 1555 S. U.S. Highway 97 suite
102,Tenant improvement for dental office in 2406 sf
existing space, $280,000
Fortuna Land & Trade LLC, 725 SW Umatilla Ave.,
Installation of pallet racking cognitive surplus, $70,000
Albany-Pacific LLC et al, 1629 SW Odem Medo Rd, Tenant
fit out with new finishes (Ross), $900,000
Almina J Larson Trust, 2775 SW 17th Pl., Interior remodel
including three new sinks, relocating doors and adding
interior walls (One Peak Medical), $30,000
Residential new construction, single family
Bend-Redmond Habitat For Humanity:
• 2398 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2386 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2374 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2360 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2354 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2342 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2338 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2326 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2314 NW 8th St., $164,019
• 2302 NW 8th St., $164,019
Chloe Chhuop, 3530 SW Hillcrest Ct., $253,281
Carol and Donald Dunbar, 3638 SW 45th St., $281,151
JD Neel Construction Inc., 3745 SW 44th St., $348,930
Funston Family Trust, 3533 SW Hillcrest Ct., $325,339
Landon Construction Inc., 281 NW 29th St., $231,631
Landon Construction Inc., 291 NW 29th St., $200,957
1789 NE 5th St., $207,999
1764 NE 4th St., $234,302
1742 NE 4th St., $206,389
Arch Holding Company LLC, 547 NW Rimrock Ct.,
$213,966
JD Neel Construction Inc., 3767 SW 44th St., $354,994
DR Horton Inc. Portland, 3210 NW 14th Loop, $171,834
DR Horton Inc. Portland, 1397 NW Varnish Ave., $307,196
COBC Holdings LLC, 4332 SW Badger Creek Dr., $303,583
Arch Holding Company LLC, 559 NW Rimrock Ct.,
$225,735
WH Redmond LLC, 3300 NW Birch Ave., $221,708
Pahlisch Homes at Triple Ridge LLC:
• 4 541 SW 36th St., $260,796
• 4529 SW 36th St., $282,889
• 4517 SW 36th St., $240,648
• 4476 SW 36th St., $314,244
• 4500 SW 36th St., $347,527
• 4512 SW 36th St., $330,174
Talmage Construction Inc., 4447 SW Antelope Ave.,
$293,127
Talmage Construction Inc., 4415 SW Antelope Ave.,
$312,630
Arch Holding Company LLC, 550 NW Rimrock Ct.,
$225,097
Obsidian Avenue LLC, 3732 SW Metolius Ave., $261,291
Obsidian Avenue LLC, 3710 SW Metolius Ave., $287,664
Hayden Homes LLC, 2423 NW Kingwood Ave., $270,000
Hayden Homes LLC, 2467 NW Kingwood Ave., $220,910
Talmage Construction Inc., 3794 SW 44th St., $318,622