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A2 Family Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, September 2, 2015 COOKIE POWER! Prairie City bakers prepare treats for spike camp crews By &heryO +oeÀ er Blue Mountain Eagle PRAIRIE CITY — It was a cookie campaign that spread about as fast as a wildfire. On Tuesday, Aug. 25, Linda Kinnaman of Prairie City announced on social media her plan to give fire crews up in the spike camps homebaked cookies with their dinner one night. Within hours that day, a big batch of bakers from all over were pulling out their recipes, bowls and baking pans to contribute to the cause. “It blew up like the fire,” Kinnaman said. By the end of the week, Friday, Aug. 28, Kinnaman and three volunteers — Lin- da Rockhill, Dolores Young and Amanda Rockhill — were busy in the backroom of The Hitchin’ Post in Prai- rie City, bagging up cookies and loading them into box- es. The successful effort provided 350 individual baggies, each containing a variety of half a dozen Eagle photos/Cheryl Hoefler Linda Rockhill, left, and Linda Kinnaman prepare to take a load of homebaked cookies and other treats from Prairie City bakers and Blue Mountain Care Center residents down to the John Day fire camp to go with dinners for spike camp crews. cookies, brownies and zuc- chini bread. Kinnaman and Linda Rockhill then drove the goodies down to the fire camp in John Day in time to ride along with the dinners being taken up to crews in the spike camps that night. The load included treats from Blue Mountain Care Center: Residents and staff packaged juice, candy, goodie bags and cookies and added notes of thanks to the firefighters and prayers for their safety, health and endurance. The day before Kin- naman launched the cookie campaign, she baked about 15 dozen cookies on her own to send up to the spike camps. Encouraged by their ap- preciative response, she decided to solicit other in- terested bakers, via social Thanks to a team of local bakers, baggies of homemade cookies are ready to be transported with dinners for spike camp crews on Aug. 28. media, for the effort’s sec- ond batch. Kinnaman said she’s overwhelmed and grateful for all the help. “I want to thank every- one in the community for responding so well and so quickly,” she said. She added it was such a success they are consider- ing doing it again. )DPLO\SKDUPDFLHVVHUYLQJ(DVWHUQ2UHJRQRYHU\HDUV Cowboy Chapel Chaplain Richie Colbeth will still be airing on KJDY Sunday mornings from 7AM-8AM. Tune in to KJDY every Sunday, 7AM-8AM for the Cowboy Chapel. Heppner and Condon, Oregon /HWRXUIDPLO\RISKDUPDFLVWVVHUYH\RX :HDUHKDSS\WRWUDQVIHUDQGPDLOSUHVFULSWLRQVDQGZRXOG ZHOFRPHWKHRSSRUWXQLW\WRYLVLWZLWK\RXDERXWRXUVHUYLFHV 541-676-9158 We Gladly Accept Visa or MasterCard Prineville’s community HOSPITAL is MOVING! Fundraiser Eene¿ ts Eastern Oregon ZiOd¿ re YiFtiPs LA GRANDE — A pub- lic auction to raise money for area residents affected by wildfires is set for 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, in the Gilbert Center at Eastern Or- egon University. Valerie Purnell-Kandle, of Elgin, is organizing the fundraiser with help from Chris Cronin, regional direc- tor for EOU’s Grant County Center in John Day, and Dixie Lund, retired interim EOU president and current governing board trustee. Funds raised will bene- fit all Eastern Oregon fire victims who have lost their homes and livelihoods, par- ticularly those in Grant, Baker and Wallowa coun- ties. Purnell-Kandle grew up in the John Day area and personally knows about half of the families impacted by the Canyon Creek Complex fire that has destroyed 43 residences and consumed 105,687 acres since Aug. 12. “There’s been a tremen- dous outpouring of support for Grant County,” Pur- nell-Kandle said, “but fami- lies in Troy and other areas need help too, and unfortu- nately not all of them are get- ting it.” At least ¿ ve residences have been reported lost in Troy where the Grizzly Bear Com- plex is burning over 74,000 acres. Progress was made over the weekend near Med- ical Springs, where the Eagle Complex is now 60 percent contained at 12,504 acres. Purnell-Kandle attended EOU and is a former univer- sity employee. By holding the auction in La Grande, she hopes to engage more organizations and individ- uals in the relief efforts for these communities. Approx- imately 75 businesses have already contributed specific items or gift cards, and the university is donating use of the Gilbert Center. The live auction starts at 6 p.m. and a silent auction will be ongoing throughout the event. Tax-deductible cash do- nations are also being ac- cepted by Emergency Equip- ment Solutions in Burns. Call Jeffrey Cotton at 541- 573-6139, or Purnell-Kan- dle, at 541-663-6050, for more information on how to donate. O BITUARY Peggy Bond Oct. 1, 1928 – Aug. 23, 2015 REDMOND — Peggy Bond, 86, of John Day, died Aug. 23, surrounded by her children. A service will be held in John Day at a later date. Mrs. Bond was born Oct. 1, 1928, in Butternut, Wis., the oldest of 14 chil- dren to Boyd and Millie *rif¿ th. In 1951, she married Lewis Bond — whom she met in the Seneca-John Day area — in Ely, Nev. They had four chil- dren, Joe (Carrie) Bond, Larry (Bren- da) Bond, LaVelle (Randy) Evans and Heather (Tom) Halter. The couple’s travels took them to Eugene for several years. After her husband died in 1976, she moved back to John Day to be near family. She enjoyed spending time with family and friends, attend- ing local events and gatherings and telling her stories to young relatives to keep the family history alive. Her kind heart loved children, nature and animals. She was preceded in death by a sister, Christina; and three brothers, Bruce, Jerry and John. Memorial contributions may be made to Partners in Care Hospice House in Bend. About Obituaries News obituaries are a free service of the Blue Mountain Eagle. The paper accepts obituaries from the family or funeral home. Information submitted is subject to edit- ing. Obituaries submitted to the Eagle with incorrect information may be corrected and republished as paid notices. Send obituaries by e-mail, cheryl@bmeagle. com; fax, 541-575-1244; or mail, 195 N. Canyon Blvd., John Day, OR 97845. The deadline to submit an obituary is noon Monday for the Wednesday paper. For more information, or to inquire about a paid memorial, call 541-575-0710. W EATHER F ORECAST Your community hospital is moving Sept. 21 at 4 a.m. St. Charles Prineville will be located at 384 SE Combs Flat Road. For more information, visit our website at StCharlesHealthCare.org. Ochoco Hwy. 20% chance of showers Wednesday 74/41 20% chance of showers Thursday 67/36 Chance of P.M. T-storms Friday 68/39 Slight chance of showers Saturday 66/34 Slight chance of P.M. T-storms Sunday 72/32 Sunny Monday 77/40 Partly sunny Tuesday 83/44 St. Charles Prineville 380 Melrose Dr. Willowdale Dr . Combs Flat Rd. 26 L AST WEEK A UG . 25 John Day 26 27 28 29 30 31 90/NA 94/56 90/56 84/56 83/60 70/53 79/47 24/7 F ORECAST A UTOMATED : 541-575-1122 R OAD CONDITIONS : 511; WWW . TRIPCHECK . COM WWW . BLUEMOUNTAINEAGLE . COM / INFO NOAA W EATHER R ADIO FOR J OHN D AY — 162.500 MHz
