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Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Cycle Oregon preparing to ride through Grant County
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
The length of the ride
will vary, with riders having
the choice of a short route
of 272 miles with no ride
day options, an alternate
paved route of 352 miles
and a route with all optional
routes (including traveling on
gravel) that is 443 miles. The
longest trek of the event will
be a more than 70-mile ride
from Mitchell to Dayville on
the event’s sixth day.
The appearance of Cycle
Oregon in Grant County
provides opportunities for
local organizations to raise
money through signing up
for paid tasks like serving
dinner and manning rest
stops for the riders. Tammy
Bremner of the Grant County
Chamber of Commerce said
people are still needed to
serve dinner to the riders on
Friday, Sept. 16, in John Day.
A number of jobs still
JOHN DAY — Around
1,000 cyclists are prepar-
ing to descend on Grant
and Wheeler counties for a
weeklong ride that will start
and end in John Day while
passing through Monument,
Fossil, Mitchell and Dayville.
Riders will arrive in John
Day on Saturday, Sept. 10,
and spend the night in town
before starting their ride on
Sunday. Setup crews for the
event will arrive in town on
Wednesday, Sept. 7.
Also coming with the
riders will be an array
of services and support
personnel for event partic-
ipants, including a beer
tent, food trucks, a coff ee
wagon, showers, bike tech-
nicians, live music and even
a massage service.
Contributed Photo/Cycle Oregon
Cycle Oregon is coming to Grant and Wheeler counties
Sept. 10-17, 2022. Around 1,000 cyclists will ride through
Monument, Fossil, Mitchell and Dayville before ending
where they started in John Day.
remain to be fi lled in Monu-
ment, Spray, Mitchell and
Dayville from Sunday,
Sept. 11, to Friday, Sept. 16.
Cycle Oregon will pay $500
to any organization willing
Forecast for Pendleton Area
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
hot
90° 61°
91° 52°
92° 56°
93° 53°
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FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
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Pleasant with
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Sunny and not as
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to be a green team/cleanup
crew, $1,000 to conduct a
site teardown and clean-
ing sweep and $1,200 to
staff a rest stop or provide a
baggage unloading crew.
Project builds barn
in time for Baker
County Fair
By LISA BRITTON
Baker City Herald
89° 61°
82° 50°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
90° 58°
85° 51°
83° 50°
OREGON FORECAST
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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Lewiston
85/54
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Astoria
73/55
Pullman
Yakima 89/52
82/50
95/65
Portland
Hermiston
90/60
Salem
The Dalles 92/56
96/60
90/55
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Records
La Grande
96/56
PRECIPITATION
John Day
Eugene
Bend
92/56
95/61
Ontario
101/62
Caldwell
Burns
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Albany
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HERMISTON
Enterprise
Pendleton 95/55
92/57
Corvallis
84°
60°
83°
53°
99° (1932) 36° (1892)
PRECIPITATION
Moses
Lake
79/50
Aberdeen
87/58
87/61
Tacoma
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Spokane
Wenatchee
78/55
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Medford
106/66
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NE 4-8
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Boardman
Pendleton
WSW 7-14
W 7-14
SUN AND MOON
Klamath Falls
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HALFWAY — Lynda
Bird clipped the ribbon to
officially dedicate the new
horse barn at the Pine Valley
Fairgrounds on Thurs-
day, Sept. 1 — just one day
before the 101st annual Baker
County Fair.
“We want to thank every-
body for coming, and for all
your donations,” Bird said to
those gathered in the mid-day
sunshine.
This was a project of the
Friends of the Pine Valley
Fairgrounds.
“We’ve talked about this
for years,” Bird said.
The new barn is 12 feet
wide and 120 feet long. It is
divided into 10 horse stalls,
each 12 feet by 12 feet.
According to Bird’s
research, horse racing in
Halfway dates to the early
1900s.
The Baker County Fair
started in 1921, and the orig-
inal race horse barns were
built in 1935.
“They’d race during the
rodeo,” Bird said.
A 1936 program lists Buck,
owned by Chas. Whiteley and
ridden by C. Summers, and
Blue, owned by Vera Jones
and ridden by D. Summers.
Horse owners and racers
in 1946 included Benita
Smelcher, Jane Smelcher,
Ralph Cook, Don Rock,
Ve Makinson, Percy Laird,
Ray Harding, Wayne Curtis,
Doc Summers and Dorothy
Summers.
In the 1950s, local racers
were joined by Native Ameri-
cans from Warm Springs. By
that time, all 20 stalls in the
horse barn were fi lled, with
overfl ow into the cow barns.
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HALFWAY HORSE RACING
Danny Summers, who grew up in Halfway, became a pro-
fessional horse jockey and rode at major racetracks on the
West Coast and Canada.
He died in 1937 at the age of 22 when his horse fell during a
race at San Mateo, California.
He is buried at the Pine Valley Cemetery in Halfway.
In 2007, the horse races
were replaced by mule races,
which are still held during the
Panhandle Rodeo, a main-
stay of fair weekend.
The horse barn — one of
three original buildings at
the fairgrounds — fell into
disrepair.
(The other original struc-
tures are the grandstand,
which was reconstructed in
2012, and exhibit hall, which
was rebuilt after suff ering
snow damage during the
winter of 2016-17.)
In 2019, a fundraising
eff ort began to build a new
horse barn, kick-started by
a grant from the Leo Adler
Community Foundation.
In all, 85 donors contrib-
uted $95,000 to build the new
barn. Much of the money
Crews making signifi cant
progress on Mount Emily
Fire outside La Grande
LA GRANDE — Fire crews are making
progress on the 5.4 acre Mount Emily Fire,
approximately 5 miles north-northwest of La
Grande.
“The forward progress has been stopped,”
said Hunter Pretucci, of the Blue Mountain
Interagency Dispatch Center, at about 1 p.m.
on Sunday, Sept. 4.
Union County Emergency Manager Nick
Vora said fi refi ghters are now in a mop-up
phase of putting out the fi re.
The fi re, which was fi rst reported around
11 p.m. by a member of the public on Friday,
Sept. 2, is still 0% contained but this is not
expected to be an issue because a hand dug
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came from individual dona-
tions, in addition to contribu-
tions from Baker County and
the county Transient Lodg-
ing Tax.
Each horse stall features
a Dutch door — the top and
bottom open independently
— and the exterior is built
with blue-stained pine.
Smokey Creek Bar n
Company, owned by Donnie
Higg i ns, ha ndled t he
construction.
It’s not quite finished
— an addition of 16 feet is
planned for storage with a
six-foot sliding door.
“It’ll make it convenient,”
Higgins said.
The 101st Baker County
Fair and Panhandle Rodeo
was Sat urday th rough
Monday, Sept. 3-5.
line has been dug around it, Pretucci said.
Crews from the U.S. Forest Service and the
Oregon Department of Forestry are working at
the fi re, which is about 5 miles north of Inter-
state 84. A helicopter was used to help fi ght
the fi re on Sept. 3 but no air support is being
utilized on Sept. 4.
No structures are threatened by the fi re,
Pretucci said. The cause of the fi re is under
investigation.
Smoke from the fi re may be highly visible
on the south slope for days while the crews
continue to work. Union County Emergency
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fi re information or to report the fi re. If there
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Lynda Bird handles the scissors during a ribbon cutting to ded-
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IN BRIEF
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high
not all going to be together.
Most of them have done this
before and Cycle Oregon is
very safety conscious. That
doesn’t mean that something
isn’t going to happen, just be
aware that there is going to
be a lot of cyclists,” Bremner
said.
Bremner said she expects
Cycle Oregon to donate over
$20,000 to various local
groups and organizations for
the work they have signed
up to do in support of the
group’s 2022 ride through
Grant County.
Participants can also be
expected to spend money
at area bars, restaurants,
grocery stores, retail shops
and other local businesses.
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They’ve picked this area
because it is beautiful.”
Racing to fi nish a horse barn
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Bremner said there are 14
diff erent groups from around
the county that have elected
to raise money through sign-
ing up for jobs during the
Cycle Oregon ride.
With so many cyclists
coming into town, Bremner
said it is important to be
aware that cyclists will be
riding on Highway 26 and
other local roads, meaning
motorists will have to drive
with caution to prevent acci-
dents.
“Just be aware that on
Sunday morning they’re
going to be leaving here,”
she said. “There’s no set time.
Everybody is on their own
schedule. … They’ll be leav-
ing here probably anywhere
from 7:30 (a.m.) to 9 (a.m.).”
Bremner also wants to
remind everyone that there
will be 1,000 participants in
the ride this year. “They’re
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