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Junk Barn Girls host 10th event, following last year’s hiatus
Organizers say
they will come
back for 2022
By ERICK PETERSON
East Oregonian
HER MISTON — A
two-day event showcasing
the repurposing “junk” for a
new life returned to Herm-
iston.
Junk Barn Girls was
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1
and 2, at the Eastern Oregon
Trade and Event Center in
Hermiston. Katie Ander-
son and Angela Ditchen,
members of the Junk Barn
Girls, organized the event.
This year was special,
Anderson said, because it
marked the 10th year of the
event. Last year should have
been No. 10, but COVID-19
prompted the cancellation.
Junk Barn’s comeback
included 30 vendors. This
is 10 fewer vendors from
2019, but the organizers
still felt pretty good about
the turnout. The pandemic
is continuing, and many
vendors are choosing to stay
home, Ditchen said.
Ditchen, a Junk Barn Girls
founder, started the organiza-
tion with Shannon Snyder on
Golden Valley Farms. Their
event, which outgrew the
farm and moved to EOTEC,
and the Junk Barn grew until
the pandemic, Ditchen said.
Anderson has been part of
the event, at least helping out,
from the beginning, Ditchen
said.
This year, Junk Barn’s
comeback included 30
vendors. This is 10 fewer
vendors from 2019, but the
organizers still felt pretty
good about the turnout. The
pandemic is continuing, and
many vendors are choosing
to stay home, Ditchen said.
The event chooses a char-
ity each year. This year, the
charity was Campus Life, a
cause Ditchen and Anderson
said are close to their hearts.
They are both mothers and
appreciate charities that look
out for children.
Inside Junk Barn, vendors
seemed to be doing well.
They kept busy most of the
time with transactions, and
they said they were enjoying
Erick Peterson/East Oregonian
Walla Walla resident Neva Gould shows off her vintage tools
Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at Junk Barn Girls at the Eastern Ore-
gon Trade and Event Center, Hermiston. The event marked
its 10th year.
through Junk Barn, she said.
Also, several charities have
benefi ted, and she likes that,
too.
Neva Gould, of Light-
hearted, said she does a few
shows throughout the year.
She sells vintage furniture,
tools and hardware.
“This is a great show,” she
said, adding the customers
are her favorite part because
everyone is pleasant.
themselves.
Kris Bennett, KRISan-
themums owner and Herm-
iston Chamber of Commerce
board chair, said she is a
regular at Junk Barn.
“I’ve always enjoyed
coming here,” she said.
She explained she likes
supporting an event that
supports the community.
Many people are able to
promote their business
Graffi ti vandals deface mural and fence
Police have reported 71
incidents of graffi ti this
year in Pendleton
PENDLETON — Two recent inci-
dents of vandalism along the Pendleton
River Parkway have caught the eye of
some local residents who say graffi ti is
becoming a bigger problem in the area.
In one location, the graffi ti covers a
mural behind Horizon Project Inc. on
Southwest Court Avenue. The mural,
made by Pendleton High School
advanced art students in 1993, depicts
a scene involving American Indians
and white settlers in the 1800s.
“It’s upsetting, because it’s artwork,”
said Deborah Dougherty, the nonprof-
it’s site manager, who said they had a
maintenance request out to remove the
graffi ti.
The other graffi ti, which is mostly
indecipherable but appears to show
expletives, covers a white fence behind
a home along the walkway just west of
the East Oregonian newsroom.
Pendleton Police Chief Chuck
Byram said police have provided
paperwork to the property owners for
them to obtain supplies from Zimmer-
man True Value Hardware and remove
the graffi ti, per the city’s graffi ti abate-
ment program, a local law that gives
property owners three days to remove
or cover the graffi ti from the time of
a notice.
Mark Vichaf, a homeow ner
whose white fence was recently hit
with graffiti, said his fence has been
defaced several times recently. He
said he recently purchased supplies
to clean up the markings on his
fence. But he doesn’t like having to
use the supplies to clean up the fence
because it leaves ugly marks that
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Graffi ti covers a mural Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, along the Pendleton River
Parkway behind the Horizon Project Inc. on Southwest Court Avenue, Pendleton.
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Graffi ti covers a fence Wednesday,
Sept. 29, 2021, along the Pendleton
River Parkway near Southeast Second
Street in Pendleton.
attracts people because of its scenery.
“I don’t want it looking like the levy
with the large grey spots,” he said.
Having recently moved back to town
from Portland, Vichaf said, “It’s shock-
ing how non-evolved this town is.”
Pendleton police have reported 71
incidents of graffi ti this year, according
to police Lt. Tony Nelson.
“It shouldn’t be there,” said Rick
Rohde, who frequents the parkway and
commonly notices graffi ti. “It scares
you. The longer it sits there, the more
it gets.”
Byram said police do not have
video showing any possible vandals
and therefore they have no suspects
for the latest incidents. Byram encour-
aged anybody with knowledge of the
incident to “say something if they see
something.”
Byram said the graffi ti typically
depicts gang symbols but are most often
painted by people who are not associ-
ated with gangs but like to believe they
are.
Dougherty said the mural behind
Horizon has been defaced twice in her
eight years at the nonprofi t. But news
articles show at least one other time the
Pendleton records near normal temps in August
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The
Pendleton area experienced
near nor mal tempera-
tures during the month of
September, according to
preliminary data received
by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration’s National Weather
Service Office in Pendle-
ton.
The average temperature
during the month was 63.7
degrees, 0.2 degrees above
normal. High temperatures
averaged 78.5 degrees,
1.1 degrees above normal,
according to the monthly
climate summary.
The highest temperature
was 90 degrees recorded
Sept. 5.
Low temperatures aver-
aged 48.8 degrees, 0.6
degrees below normal. The
lowest temperature for the
month was 38 degrees,
recorded Sept. 16.
Precipitation for the
month totaled 0.63 inches,
which was 0.06 inches
above normal, the report
said. Measurable precipita-
tion — at least 0.01 inch —
was received on four days
during the month, accord-
ing to the monthly climate
summary, with the heavi-
est, 0.32 inches, recorded
Sept. 27.
Precipitation for the year
is 4.99 inches, which is 3.67
inches below normal. Since
October 2020, the water
year precipitation at the
Pendleton airport has been
9.44 inches, 3.22 inches
below normal, accord-
ing to the monthly climate
summary.
The highest wind gust
was 52 mph on Sept. 18, the
report said.
The outlook for Octo-
ber from NOAA’s Climate
Prediction Center calls for
near normal temperatures
and above normal precip-
itation. Normal highs for
the Pendleton airport fall
from 71 degrees at the start
of October to 57 degrees
at the end of the month.
Normal lows fall from 44
degrees to 37 degrees. The
30-year normal precipita-
tion is 1.01 inches.
sell coff ee and promote their
business. They are fi xing a
Heppner building to house
a café.
This was their fi rst year
with their own business at
Junk Barn. Laura said she
has been at the event in previ-
ous years but she was with
another company then.
Donna Rogers, antique
and craft seller, has been a
vendor for eight years. A
Hermiston resident, she goes
to Portland for her inventory.
She visits antique stores and
estate sales to fi nd treasures
to bring back and sell at Junk
Barn.
She said she loves the
“thrill of the hunt,” an expe-
rience she shares with her
friend, Rhonda Campbell,
with whom she was selling
items.
Campbell said she has
a good time at Junk Barn.
More than the fun of selling
goods and the opportunity to
make money, she likes spend-
ing time with her friend.
“This is a lot of fun,” she
said, and Rogers agreed.
They hope they can do it
again next year.
ODFW OKs killing two
wolves in Umatilla County
East Oregonian
By BRYCE DOLE
East Oregonian
Average recorded
temperature during
the month was
63.7 degrees
Alexis McCarthy and
Angela Pursel, owners of
The Next Chapter Book-
store, took a break from
their Hermiston store to sell
books and puzzles at Junk
Barn. This was a good event,
McCarthy said, because she
could sell more home decor
books and cookbooks than
she could normally sell at
her store.
Also, McCarthy enjoyed
being a seller at an event she
had often attended as a buyer.
“We love Junk Barn,” She
said. “When we got the call,
we jumped right on it.”
As her store is new, this
event served as a good
chance for publicity.
Erin Gunesch, Illie owner
and Salem resident, said she
was disappointed the event
did not occur last year. She
appeared at it in 2019, and she
liked it.
“It’s good to be back,” she
said. It gave her a place to
market her home décor and
clothing.
Travis and Laura Winters,
Browne House Coff ee Co.
owners and Heppner resi-
dents, were at Junk Barn to
UKIAH — The Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife on Friday, Oct. 1,
approved the killing of up
to two wolves for repeated
depredations in the Ukiah
Valley area Umatilla County.
ODFW announced it
authorized lethal action and
will provide a kill permit to
a livestock producer who
requested the option after
confirming two depreda-
tions in a three-day period in
the Ukiah Valley area. The
depredations were confi rmed
on private land pastures on
Sept. 25 and Sept. 28, result-
ing in the death or injury of
eight calves.
Fish and Wildlife can
authorize the killing of
wolves in chronic depreda-
tion situations when there is
signifi cant risk to livestock
present in the area.
The permit allows the
producer or their agents to
kill up to two wolves on a
portion of the private land
they own in the Ukiah and
Heppner units, accord-
ing to ODFW. The permit
expires Oct. 31, when the
two wolves are killed or
when the producer’s live-
stock are removed from the
area, whichever comes fi rst.
The permit also restricts the
method of removal to shoot-
ing the wolves from the
ground.
Under the Wolf Plan
rules, livestock producers
must be using and docu-
ment non-lethal methods
appropriate to the situa-
tion before lethal control
can be considered. Also,
there can be no identified
circumstances on the prop-
erty (such as bone piles or
carcasses) that could be
attracting wolves.
ODFW reported it found
no “attractants.” During
each livestock investigation
as well as during each trip
to the investigation sites,
the department searched
the immediate area for any
bone piles, carcasses or other
attractants and found none.
Prior to the fi rst depreda-
tion, the producer removed
dead animal carcasses from
the landscape, and continu-
ally monitored the health of
the cow herd and removed
animals that were sick and in
risk of attracting predators.
Since the first confirmed
depredation, the producer
has additionally had employ-
ees stay with the cattle each
night and use hazing tools to
deter wolves from the area.
At the time of the depre-
dations, there was no area
of known wolf activity,
or AKWA, designated in
the area the depredations
occurred. The location of
these events is less than 2
miles from the estimated
boundary of the Fivemile
Pack. There is limited loca-
tion data for the Fivemile
Pack, according to ODFW,
and it is possible these
wolves are now using areas
east of the current AKWA
boundary. Recent public
reports also have indicated
multiple wolves within 10
miles southeast of the depre-
dations.
ODFW reported it has
identified an initial area
around the presence of the
depredating wolves in the
Ukiah Valley area to address
associated risk to livestock,
and staff are monitoring the
region to confi rm resident
activity by new wolves as
well as confi rm the current
movements of the Fivemile
Pack.
The goal of lethal action
is to end chronic depre-
dation, according to the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife, but livestock
producers also will continue
to use nonlethal measures.
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