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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
John Day temps cool in September
temperatures averaged 38.6
degrees, which was 2.1 de-
According to preliminary grees below normal. The
data received by NOAA’s lowest was 31 degrees, on
National Weather Service in Sept. 4.
Pendleton, temperatures at
There were two days
John Day averaged colder with the low temperature
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degrees on Sept. 13. Low days with the heaviest, 0.22
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inches, reported on Sept. 5.
The highest wind gust
was 25 mph on Sept. 12.
The outlook for Octo-
ber from NOAA’s Climate
Prediction Center calls for
above normal temperatures
and near normal precipita-
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Grinning Henry Miller, 6, is ready to speed away on his new bicycle.
WINNING RIDERS
Two children win
bikes in library
summer program
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Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY – Two young readers are
now new bike owners, thanks to the Grant
County Library.
Emma Charette, 2, and Henry Miller,
6, each won a new set of wheels in the
library’s 2015 summer reading program.
Each time a child attended story time,
their name was put into a jar for the
drawing. Emma and Henry’s names were
drawn at the conclusion of the program.
The bikes were donated by the Grant Emma Charette, 2, gets ready to ride
away on her new wheels.
County Library Foundation.
Trish,
You’re the best of the best
and we couldn’t do it
without you!
Happy Bosses Day!
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Here to help,
even before the
smoke clears .
The Prairie City Ath-
letic Complex Committee
formed in 2001 with the in-
tent on renovating the facility,
and groundbreaking began in
2006.
The work, which includ-
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building the track and adding
lighting, has been in several
phases, with funding com-
ing from a variety of sourc-
es in grants, donations and
fundraisers.
Lighting at the facility’s
Don L. Parker Memorial foot-
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September 2011, allowing the
Prairie City Panthers to play
night football games for the
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Joe Hitz of Sisul Engineer-
ing has been the consultant
and project engineer on the
project.
The school requests people
in the community who walk
and run on the track to use the
outside lanes, 4-8, preserv-
ing the inside ones for school
track athletes.
National Fossil Day celebrated
By Blue Mountain Eagle
John Day Fossil Beds Na-
tional Monument celebrated
National Fossil Day on Sat-
urday with two public pro-
grams.
Park Paleontologist Dr.
Joshua Samuels led a tour
of the fossil exhibit at the
Thomas Paleontology Cen-
ter in the morning. Later in
the afternoon, Samuels led a
group of about a dozen peo-
ple on a hike along the Island
in Time Trail at Blue Basin.
National Fossil Day, part
of Earth Science Week, is of-
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as a way to promote public
awareness and stewardship
of fossils and a greater appre-
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educational values.
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