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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
G RANT C OUNTY M EETINGS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
12 p.m. – Seniors Meal
Program at the Strawber-
ry Grange Hall, Prairie
City.
12 p.m. – Women’s
Support, by Heart of Grant
County. Free lunch. 541-
575-4335.
1:30 p.m. – Strawber-
ry Grange, Strawberry
Grange Hall, 204 N. McHa-
ley, Prairie City. 541-820-
3530.
5:15 p.m. – Grant
Union High School Grad
Night Committee, GUHS
library.
6 p.m. – Long Creek
Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, City Hall.
6 p.m. – Prairie City,
City
Council/Planning
Commission. City Hall.
6:30-8:30 p.m. – Fam-
ily History Center open,
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, John
Day. Also by appointment.
541-656-8069.
7 p.m. – Monument
City Council, City Hall.
7 p.m. – Dayville City
Council, City Hall.
7 p.m. – Girl Scout
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Leaders, 60545 W. High-
way 26, John Day. 541-
575-1106.
7:30 p.m. – Let Go
Group
of Alcoholics
Anonymous, St. Elizabeth
Parish Hall, John Day. 541-
575-0114.
THURSDAY, MAY 14
9 a.m.-5 p.m. – Fam-
ily History Center open,
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, John
Day. Also by appointment.
541-656-8069.
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. –
Grant County Family Vi-
olence Council, Adult and
Family Services, 725 W.
Main St., John Day. 541-
575-4335.
Noon – Seniors Meal
Program and bingo, John
Day Senior Center, 142
N.E. Dayton St. 541-575-
1825.
5:30 p.m. – Juniper
Arts Council, United
Methodist Church, John
Day. 541-932-4892.
5:30-7:15 p.m. – Youth
Connection, Living Word
Christian Center, Mt. Ver-
non. Kid-friendly dinner
and Bible activities. Van
rides available. 541-932-
4910.
6 p.m. – Long Creek
City Council, Community
Hall. 541-421-3601.
6 p.m. – “The Girl-
friends” Women’s 12-
step Recovery, John Day
Church of the Nazarene.
541-620-0065.
6:30 p.m. – Grant
Debbie Ausmus
245 South Canyon Blvd.
John Day, OR 97845
OPEN WED. & THUR.
9 am - 5 pm
541-575-1113
24 hrs/7 days wk
debbie.ausmus@
countryfinancial.com
A MAN
WAKES
UP in the
morning
after sleeping on...
an advertised bed, in advertised
pajamas.
He will bathe in an ADVERTISED TUB, shave with an ADVERTISED RAZOR,
have a breakfast of ADVERTISED JUICE, cereal and toast, toasted in an
ADVERTISED TOASTER, put on ADVERTISED CLOTHES and glance at his
ADVERTISED WATCH. He’ll ride to work in his ADVERTISED CAR, sit at an
ADVERTISED DESK and write with an ADVERTISED PEN. Yet this person
hesitates to advertise, saying that advertising doesn’t pay. Finally, when his
non-advertised business is going under, HE’LL ADVERTISE IT FOR SALE.
Then it’s too late.
AND THEY SAY ADVERTISING DOESN’T WORK?
DON’T MAKE THIS SAME MISTAKE
Advertising is an investment, not an expense. Think about it!
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Don’t get left behind, call today! Kim Kell 541-575-0710
County
Stockgrowers,
Keerins Hall.
7 p.m. – Monument
School Board, high school.
7 p.m. – John Birch So-
ciety, Grant County Chap-
ter, Mt. Vernon. 541-932-
4547.
FRIDAY, MAY 15
3-6 p.m. – United
Methodist Church, food
box distribution, 126 N.W.
Canton Street, John Day.
6 p.m. – Alcoholics
Anonymous, , Long Creek
Community Center. 541-
421-3888.
7 p.m. – Whiskey Gulch
Gang, Sels Brewery, Can-
yon City. 541-575-0329.
SATURDAY, MAY 16
9 a.m.-noon – Old re-
cycling center in Prai-
rie City, accepts glass for
crushing.
12 p.m. – Oregon
NORML-Eastside Chap-
ter, Long Creek. Commu-
nity Hall. 541-620-0768.
4 p.m. – Bingo and pot-
luck, Mt. Vernon Commu-
nity Hall, corner of Ingle
and Cottonwood streets.
SUNDAY, MAY 17
Fun Jam, musicians and
listeners welcome for blue-
grass, gospel and tradition-
al country western music,
Call for time and location,
541-575-1927.
MONDAY, MAY 18
10 a.m. – Grant Coun-
ty Senior Site Council,
John Day Senior Center,
142 N.E. Dayton St., John
Day.
Noon – Seniors Meal
Program, John Day Senior
Center, 142 N.E. Dayton
St. 541-575-1825.
6 p.m. – Mt. Vernon
Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, 541-932-4688.
7 p.m. – Dayville Vol-
unteer Fire Department,
fire hall.
7:30 p.m. – Outlaw
Group
of Alcoholics
Anonymous, Presbyterian
Church in Mt. Vernon. 541-
932-4844.
TUESDAY, MAY 19
10-11 a.m. – Story
Hour, Grant County Li-
brary, for preschoolers 0-6
years old. 541-575-1992.
12 p.m. – Seniors Meal
Program at the Monument
Senior Center.
5-7 p.m. – Food Bank
and ‘Soup’s On’ Commu-
nity Meal, Teen Center,
Front Street, Prairie City.
541-820-3696.
5:30 p.m. – Canyon
City City Council, City
Hall.
6 p.m. – Watershed
Council, 691 Hwy. 395 N.,
Long Creek, across from
the post office. 541-421-
3018.
6 p.m. – Humbolt El-
ementary School PTA,
school cafeteria. 541-932-
4998.
6:30 p.m. – Grant
County Bird Club, with
potluck. 541-575-1598.
6:30 p.m. – Long Creek
School Board, school li-
brary.
6:30 p.m. – New Begin-
nings Recovery Group,
Living Word Christian
Center, Mt. Vernon. 541-
932-4910.
7 p.m. – Prairie City
Rural Fire Board, City
Hall.
7 p.m. – Venturing
Club, Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica, Church of the Naza-
rene, John Day. 541-575-
2765.
7 p.m. – Granite City
Council, Granite City Hall.
7:15 p.m. – Boy Scout
Troop 898, John Day
Elks, John Day. 541-575-
2531.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
9 a.m. – Grant County
Court, courthouse, Canyon
City.
9 a.m. – Shepherd’s
Closet, open, with free
clothing for all ages and
coffee, at Prairie City As-
sembly of God. 541-820-
3682.
9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. – Vet-
erans/families services,
John Day Elks Lodge.
Topics
include
PTSD
services and individual
needs.
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. –
TOPS weigh-in, meet-
ing. United Methodist
Church library, 126 N.W.
Canton St., John Day.
541-575-3812, 541-932-
4592.
Thank You!
The Eagle/Cheryl Hoefler
Rappellers from several regions train from the
rappel tower at the Forest Service John Day Airbase
at the Grant County Regional Airport in John Day
April 22 during a weeklong refresher session.
Rappellers
descend on
John Day
Training hones
skills on towers,
simulators, more
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY – The Mal-
heur National Forest Airbase
at Grant County Regional
Airport hosted a weeklong
helicopter rappel refresher
training course at the end of
April.
Approximately 80 rap-
pellers from several regions
trained using the airbase’s 50-
foot rappel tower, two rappel
simulators and four Bell me-
dium helicopters to complete
the program with the National
Rappel Academy.
New recruits began with
classroom sessions, learning
equipment and basic safety
procedures, before continuing
on to the advanced levels of
the training.
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rapid deployment of person-
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Residents may
see smoke as
burns continue
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JOHN DAY – The Mal-
heur Rappel Crew will con-
duct a small prescribed fire
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training exercise as part of
their five-day fire and med-
ical training.
Ignition
will
occur
Thursday, May 14, in the
Murderers Creek project
planning area, and will end
the next day.
The rappel crew has
been conducting their train-
ing on the Aldrich Moun-
tain Range for the past 15
years.
This training exercise
will be in an area previously
burned as part of the Mur-
derers Creek Fuels Reduc-
tion Project. The total size
is expected to be less than
3 acres.
While weather-depen-
dent, crews will also imple-
ment landscape prescribed
burning in the Knox treat-
ment unit, in the southeast
corner of the Prairie City
Ranger District, as early as
this weekend.
Up to 800 acres are
planned for the burn.
Smoke may be visible in
the areas as crews complete
their training, which in-
cludes constructing control
lines and “mopping up” the
prescribed fire.
Mopping up is the pro-
cess of locating and extin-
guishing all fire brands in
the burn area. Crews will
continue to monitor the
fires until they are declared
out.
Burning may have some
short-term impacts on air
quality levels, but any burn-
ing will be done during
weather conditions that
should minimize impacts
of smoke on local commu-
nities.
Prescribed burns are
designed to both reduce
the risk of catastrophic
wildfires, as well as to re-
store overall health of the
National Forest System
ands.