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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
COOKIE POWER!
Prairie City bakers prepare treats for spike camp crews
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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.
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HOSPITAL is MOVING!
Fundraiser Eene¿ ts
Eastern Oregon
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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.
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