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Though he was the young-
est competitor in his division,
he earned irst prize, which
included a trophy, belt buckle
and a spot in the Buckmasters
event. He also was the young-
est competitor at Buckmasters
event, where he placed third
and earned a $1,200 Mathews
bow and a plaque.
“It’s pretty convenient the
way it all worked out,” Gomes
said. “A piece of my hunting
bow broke off and I had to
borrow a bow for this hunting
season.”
As a bonus, he also met and
posed for pictures with Jack-
ie Bushman, a Gomes family
favorite and renowned bow
hunter who hosts his own show
on the Outdoor Channel. The
competition aired on the Out-
door Channel as well.
The Bushman connection
paid off in other ways.
“Jackie Bushman went out
of his way to help kids,” Julie
Gomes said. “It’s the irst time
he let kids be on the show, and
he devoted about four hours to
us. He also gave all the (com-
petitors) tickets to the Kentucky
Headhunters concert. He just
did that out of the kindness of
his heart.”
Cole Gomes said the two
tournaments were quite differ-
ent. “4-H had its speciic guide-
lines, and it was a stationary tar-
get shoot. The 4-H is great; it’s
what brought me to Alabama
and to the Buckmasters, which
is a whole different thing. It had
pop-up targets, and it was nice
— a cool indoor range where
you’re surrounded by people,
and we shot off of a pedestal.”
The most challenging part
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of the competitions for Gomes
was trying to hold up under
pressure.
“That and the weather,”
he said. “For the 4-H, it was
100-degree weather and 100
percent humidity.”
“He wore his cowboy boots
and his jeans just like he does
every day,” his mom said.
“People looked at him like he
was nuts.”
Gomes wasn’t born with a
bow in his hand. Because of a
childhood birth defect called
tethered spine allowed Cole
only limited involvement in
contact sports. His sister and
brother-in-law got him started
shooting around age 9, and he
quickly excelled at the sport.
His parents also took up the
sport and now function as lead-
ers of the White Tail Legends
4-H Archery Club.
Gomes’ fame as an archer is
spreading outside of Wallowa
County. He recently was fea-
tured with a photo in Nation-
al Field Archery Association
magazine and a feature story in
Oregon Bow Hunter magazine.
However, the new-found fame
doesn’t leave Gomes much
time to rest on his laurels. Upon
his return from Alabama, he
hustled off to elk camp for the
season and bagged a 7x7 elk
just two days before the end of
the season. The White Tail Leg-
ends club is starting up again in
November.
Already, he is preparing
to attend 4-H nationals in Ne-
braska in June. He currently
is raising funding for the trip
by collecting aluminum cans
while also planning a future
bow-hunting seminar with oth-
er well-respected archers from
the region.
The trip left Gomes with a
profound sense of achievement
and an extra appreciation for
4-H.
“The experience of being
able to go that far and com-
pete at that level while meet-
ing Jackie and appearing on
television means a lot, but 4-H
is what brought me there,” he
said.
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Director of the Enterprise Cemetery Board Perry Davis (left) and board member Jim Butner (right) accept a Pacific
Power Foundation check for $3,500 from Pacific Power Regional Business Manager Bill Clemens. Davis holds the
remote control for the water sprinklers that allows him to turn on any one of the 43 watering zones (235 heads) from
within a two-mile range. It’s the second check that the Pacific Power Foundation has contributed to the cemetery
project. “We love to support our communities and this will support the entire community over time,” Clemens said.
The sprinkler running behind the men is one in the zone that waters the lower old section of the cemetery. “It’s been
remarkable how fast we got this done,” Davis marveled. Not pictured, but attending the event, were supporters Sondra
Lozier, Pat Willis of the Cemetery Board and Betty Butner, who also stood in for her hard-working cemetery project
partner Judy Wortman.
Popular evangelist plans stop in Athena
By Kathy Aney
East Oregonian
Evangelist Luis Palau,
dubbed by some as the Latin
Billy Graham, travels around
the world, attracting millions
of believers and non-believ-
ers alike with his enthusiastic,
personal style. Last summer,
the popular Argentina-born
pastor, radio host and author
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For about 40 years, Athena
farmer Bob Johns has been
pestering Palau to preach in
his tiny Northeast Oregon
town. Next month, Johns will
get his wish when Palau ap-
pears in the Weston-McEw-
en High School gym. When
Johns tells people about this,
he gets looks of incredulity.
“They say, ‘You’ve gotta
be kidding. Luis Palau in Ath-
ena, Oregon? No way,’” Johns
said, grinning broadly.
The idea of Palau com-
ing to Athena struck Johns in
1978 when he attended a lead-
ership conference at Overlake
Christian Church in Redmond,
Washington, where he irst
heard Palau speak.
“The Lord leaned on my
heart right then that Luis Palau
was to come to Athena,” Johns
recalled.
He phoned Palau’s Beaver-
ton headquarters and request-
ed an appearance. When they
offered to send another evan-
gelist, Johns insisted, “No, it’s
got to be Luis.”
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was simply following the lead.
The farmer waited patiently.
When he wasn’t tending his
wheat and pea crops, he often
had his nose in one of Palau’s
books.
Johns, a member of the
Athena Christian Church,
loves Palau’s preaching. You
don’t get a lot of lowery pros-
elytizing with Palau, Johns
said.
“His message is simple and
direct,” Johns said. “It sinks
into your heart.”
In 1998, Johns found
himself sitting beside Palau
during a prayer breakfast in
Washington, D.C. Eventually,
Johns got around to sharing
his vision of Palau coming to
Athena.
“I told Luis ‘You’re sup-
posed to come to Athena, Or-
egon,’” Johns said. “He just
looked at me.”
Over the next 18 years,
Johns continued to call and
email the Palau organization
with the message that “Luis is
supposed to come to Athena.”
“Bob Johns has known
Luis and the team for years,”
said Colin James, a vice-pres-
ident for the Palau organiza-
tion. “He’s always kidded Luis
that ‘someday you’re coming
to Athena.’ Recently, he invit-
ed us again and this time it just
kind of clicked with us.”
Finally, in January, Johns
inally got the oficial thumbs
up. Palau will speak at 2 p.m.,
Oct. 15 at Weston-McEwen
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gelist’s message, starting at
noon. The day before, Palau
will meet with area pastors at
a gathering in Walla Walla.
Palau’s executive assistant,
Jane Stradley, has known Pa-
lau for 50 years and worked
for the organization for the
last 27. She said the idea of
the mega-evangelist going to
Athena wasn’t outlandish.
“It doesn’t matter the size,”
Stradley said. “Whether its
Central Park or Athena, it
doesn’t matter.”
She said the visit to such a
tiny town isn’t the irst for Pa-
lau. The evangelist downsizes
occasionally and has spoken
in Lakeview, Parkdale and
other small places in the re-
gion as part of Operation Pa-
ciic Northwest.
“We wanted not to neglect
our own backyard,” James
said.
Doing things on a smaller
scale means some change in
the model, but the message is
the same.
“Whether its New York
City or Athena, Weston, Helix
or Adams, it’s the same dy-
namics,” James said.
Johns can’t wait. He’s like
the proverbial little kid on
Christmas morning. Luis Pa-
lau was meant to come to Ath-
ena and now he is.
“I ask, ‘Why not?” he said.
“Why not Athena?”
He hopes people will ill
the gym, which seats 800.
However, he said he’s not
worried about the minutia.
“It’s the Lord’s work,”
Johns said. “I’ll trust him to do
what he’s going to do.”
The free event is sponsored
by the churches of Athena,
Helix, Weston and Adams and
the Luis Palau Association.
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