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Musher competitions, floods and strong winds
75 years ago
mushrooms Assn. and by team
sponsors. Jim Keller is local co-
ordinator.
A mushers’ banquet will
be held Saturday night at the
VFW Hall. Ruth’s café will ca-
ter the food, with Mrs. Rol-
lie Ludwig is in charge of the
meal.
Jan 9, 1947 — Complete
faculty hinges on housing
Prospects for filling the
last vacancy on the Redmond
Union high school teaching
staff appeared good today,
when superintendent M. E.
Larive announced receipt of a
wire from Thomas McLough-
lin of Portland, who stated that
he would accept the faculty po-
sition if he can obtain adequate
housing here.
McLoughlin, who is a grad-
uate from Gonzaga University,
is expected to arrive here Sun-
day. Tentatively, he is scheduled
to teach sophomore English,
world history, dramatics and
orientation. In the faculty re-
organization, Clayton Norton
will become assistant principal,
and teach world geography and
three classes of general science.
Allen Mueller will teach ju-
nior and senior social sciences
and commercial law, Larive
added, and Mrs. Maude Lee will
teach another class of sopho-
more English. Hugh V. Hancock
is the new basketball coach.
25 years ago
50 years ago
photo by mrs. W. h. hilands
Jan. 5, 1972 — Musher due
for annual Sisters Dog Sled
race
Sisters — upwards of 150
dogs representing more than
30 teams will be in Sisters this
weekend for the 12th annual
Sisters Sled Dog Race Jan. 8
and 9. Action will begin at
11 a.m.
Signs will be posted direct-
ing spectators to the race site.
The race will be held as near
town as snow conditions allow.
Sisters Dog Race chairman Jim Keller warms up for the 12th annual event, where out-of-staters vie with local contestants in three classes of race
competition.
Mushers will come from
Washington, Idaho, Califor-
nia and Oregon. Local racers
will include gym Keller, Jerry
Klatt, Elmer Schwartz, Doug
Willams and Stan Rasmussen,
Sisters and Lloyd Van Sickle,
Camp Sherman.
Art Christiansen, Jeffer-
son, is favored to win the race.
Competition between Oregon
mushers and out-of-state con-
testants is expected to be keen.
The race is divided into
three categories, Class A, Class
B, and Class C. A purse of
$1,000 will be divided among
Class A winners. Trophies will
be given to all winners.
Class A drivers travel a 12-
16 mile trail both Saturday and
Sunday. Racers will leave at
1 p.m. with a dual start at two
minute intervals. There will be
no limit on the number of dogs
used. The first place man will
receive 15 per cent of the prize
money each day.
Starting time for Class B
team will be 12 noon, with
dual starts at two minute in-
tervals. They will cover a 5 to
7 mile course. Drivers cannot
run more than five dogs.
Only three dogs can pull a
sled in the Class C division.
LETTERS AND COLUMNS
PREP BASKETBALL
Panthers see an IMC title in their
future even with early growing pains
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
The Bulletin
Just a short four years ago,
Redmond boys basketball
coach Reagan Gilbertson was
giddy watching a young eighth
grader on the hardwood.
Coming up the pipeline was
Garrett Osborne.
“I could just tell by the way
he moves on the court, the way
he handled the ball, finished
around the rim, that he was
going to be a big part of our
program for four years,” said
Gilbertson.
And exactly that has hap-
pened.
Osborne began as a role
player on varsity as a freshman,
then went from a second-team
all-conference player as a soph-
omore to the Intermountain
Conference’s first-team as a
junior. How far the Panthers
go this season could be deter-
mined by how their 6-foot-3
combo guard plays in his final
season.
“As he goes, we go,” said Gil-
bertson.
The college prospect headed
for Oregon Tech is leading the
charge for what the sixth-year
head coach called his most ath-
letic team in recent memory
and what Osborne believes is
one of the better teams in the
IMC and in Class 5A .
“We are big, athletic and can
get out and run,” said Osborne.
“We are really solid. I think
we are a top-10 team in the
state and have a chance to win
league. I know we can compete
with other teams.”
The Panthers have won
seven of their 12 nonleague
Teams will leave at 11 a.m. and
run a three to four mile trail.
They will take off singly at one
minute intervals.
A peewee race on Satur-
day will show the skills of the
younger fans.
On Sunday a weed pulling
contest will determine the best
pulling dog.
The event will be sponsored
by the central Oregon dog
Jan. 8, 1997 — Flood waters
receding, wind uproots trees,
sheds
A week of wild weather
across the Northwest left a
small imprint on the Redmond
area.
Jerry Rank of Lone Pine
watched as flood water from
the Crooked River turned his
60-acre alfalfa field into a shal-
low lake. The water rose as
far as the back door of a dou-
ble-wide trailer Rank owns and
rents out.
Although he’s seen worse
floods in the valley between
Redmond and Prineville,
Ranks said last week’s water
was the highest in the nine
years he’s owned the Lone Pine
property.
On New Year’s Eve, storage
sheds in Redmond were tossed
around like lawn furniture
during an abrupt wind storm.
Melba Olson reported a
large metal shed blew off its
foundation and landed on her
car. As a police officer was in-
vestigating, the wind picked up
the shed and rolled it over his
patrol car as well.
The same night, three trees
blew over in the 400 block of
NW 8th St., breaking power
lines and damaging a power
pole.
Redmond’s Garrett
Osborne (10) attempts
a shot around a
Mountain View de-
fender while playing
in the Oregon Holiday
Hoopfest at Summit
High School on Wednes-
day night.
ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
games this season with three
of their losses coming to 6A
teams Mountain View (twice)
and Summit. Still, since Dec. 7
the Panthers have been a fix-
ture in the OSAA coaches poll,
reaching as high as No. 6 ear-
lier this week.
There has been a steady
ascension of the basketball
program since joining the re-
configured IMC in 2018. That
year, the Panthers finished
fourth in the conference, the
next year third, and last spring
they finished second to Crook
County.
While the team’s sights are
set on winning a league title,
there have been some growing
pains through the team’s first
games of the season.
In a rematch against Moun-
tain View Wednesday evening
in the Oregon Holiday Hoop-
fest at Summit High, the pains
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showed in the first
quarter when Moun-
tain View jumped out
to a 16-6 lead. And
while the Panthers
rallied in the second
quarter to take a 22-
21 lead into halftime,
Mountain View re-
captured the lead in
the third quarter and
cruised to a 51-44 win.
Gilbertson was a little un-
sure why his team came out flat
in a rematch against the Cou-
gars. It is an issue that needs to
be fixed prior to league play.
“We have to be ready to play
every night. We can’t just go
into games just to have fun. We
have to execute our systems
and play hard,” said Gilbertson.
“Winning and losing isn’t that
important right now, it is all
about getting our team ready
for the league.”
It is still a rather inexperi-
enced team with Osborne be-
ing the only returning starter
from last year’s squad. With
players like guards Yoshi Saito,
Tanner Jones and 6-foot-8 big
man Evan Otten taking on big-
ger roles this season, there is
confidence that those growing
pains will not be around in the
second half of the season.
“Not all of us are ready for
varsity pressure quite yet,” said
Osborne. “But we will get bet-
ter the more that we play.”
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