News
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
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Bingo! The spacious Seneca School gym is home to community events and gatherings as well as school activities, often drawing
visitors from throughout Grant County.
TOWN
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Current city councilors are Sue
Holliday, Brad Smith, Melissa
Wenick and Bill Williams.
Combs said Seneca is working
to move forward with improving
the town’s wastewater system.
The town completed a recent sur-
vey of residents on the issue as an-
other step in that process.
Annual events in town include
the Seneca Oyster Feed in May,
a tradition 20 years strong that
draws visitors from throughout
Oregon and other states as well.
The Oyster Feed is hosted by the
Bear Valley Meadows Golf Com-
mittee to fund improvements to
the golf course. Currently, the
committee is working to have new
greens put in at each hole.
The
Seneca
Stampede
cross-country horse race also has
been held in the area in recent
years.
Seneca School serves students
in grades K-6. The prominent
red building in the center of town
hosts not only school activities, but
community gatherings and events,
too.
While homesteaders had been
moving into the Bear Valley as far
back as the late 1880s, it was the ar-
rival of the Edward Hines Lumber
Co. in the 1920s that established
Seneca as a thriving company town.
The town is noted in histo-
ry books for having the cold-
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recorded in Oregon – neg-
ative 54 degrees on Feb. 10,
1933. But don’t be fooled by
the town’s nickname, “Oregon’s
Icebox.” Seneca gardeners have
learned to adapt to the harsh con-
ditions and short summer season in
this geographic “bowl” and even
have their own community garden.
City council meetings are at 6
p.m. the second Tuesday of each
month at City Hall, 106 A Ave. in
Seneca.
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City hall hours are 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Chances are, on any given school day, passers-by will see a rainbow of
Monday-Thursday.
For more information, call Sen- bicycles parked outside Seneca School. “Cruiser-style” bicycles have
become popular with many of the girls at the school.
eca City Hall at 541-932-4688.
CAPITAL BUREAU
C OPS & C OURTS
Nov. 5: Arrested a Mt. Ver-
non man on a Grant County
warrant.
Nov. 6: Report of theft of
service at the west Shell station.
John Day Fire Depart-
ment:
Nov. 3: Report of a power
line down in the Hillcrest Ave-
nue/Highland Place area in John
Day.
John Day ambulance:
Nov. 4: Responded for an
81-year-old woman.
Nov. 5: Responded for a man
who fell.
Nov. 7: Paged for a 27-year-
old man with pain and numb-
ness.
Nov. 8: Responded for a
94-year-old man with numbness
and high blood pressure.
Prairie City ambulance:
Nov. 2: Responded for a
56-year-old woman with swol-
len legs.
Justice Court
CANYON CITY – The
Grant County Justice Court re-
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judgments:
Failure to properly use
safety belt: Russell Brook, 47,
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Carl David Harger, 55, Estaca-
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Cory Allen Trexler, 35, Bea-
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Raymond Glenn Dunten, 69,
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David Edwin Folsom, 20, San
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Sarah Nickol Thomas, 35, On-
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No operator’s license: Joey
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Burning without a permit:
Richard C. Werner, 56, Monu-
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violation of restrictions: Cory
Dennis Queahpama, 27, Burns,
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Releases: 7
Arrests: 1
Citations: 2
Fingerprints: 4
Civil papers: 14
Warrants processed: 5
Asst./welfare check: 5
Search and Rescue: 2
Dispatch
John Day dispatch worked
157 calls during the week of
Nov. 2-8. Along with the various
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jured animals, noise complaints
and juvenile complaints, these
calls included:
John Day Police:
Nov. 2: Report of a stolen car
in John Day.
Nov. 4: Responded for a re-
ported hit-and-run at Blue Moun-
tain Hospital; arrested a John
Day man on a felony warrant.
Nov. 5: Cited a Lincoln,
Neb., man for speeding; cited a
John Day man for failure to use
turn signal and failure to obey a
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Nov. 6: Responded to an
accident on Highway 395 just
south of County Road 63.
Nov. 8: Cited a Silver Lake,
Wash., man for speeding.
Grant County Sheriff:
Your Rural Fa mily Health Clinic
Grant County
HEALTH
Department
528 E. Main, St. E,
John Day
Monday - Friday
8am - 5pm
Karen Triplett, FNP
Services Provided:
Arrests and citations in the
Blue Mountain Eagle are taken
from the logs of law enforce-
ment agencies. Every effort is
made to report the court dispo-
sition of arrest cases.
Circuit Court
CANYON CITY – The
Grant County Circuit Court re-
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judgments:
David James Darling, 41,
pleaded guilty to perjury. He
was sentenced to bench proba-
tion for 18 months and 80 hours
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$350.
Kimberly Mae Williams,
36, was convicted, based on
an Alford plea, of delivery of
methamphetamine to a minor.
She was sentenced to jail for
30 days, supervised probation
for 36 months and 120 hours
of community service. She
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complete the Active Parenting
Program. She pleaded guilty
to possession of meth, and was
sentenced to supervised pro-
bation for 18 months and 40
hours community service, and
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based on an Alford plea, of two
counts of endangering the wel-
fare of a minor. For each, she
was sentenced to supervised
probation for 18 months and 20
hours community service and
ordered to complete the Active
Parenting Program. She was
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two counts of endangering the
welfare of a minor and one for
unlawful possession of meth.
Grant County Sheriff
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reported the following for the
week of Oct. 30-Nov. 5:
Concealed handgun licens-
es: 5
Average inmates: 16
Bookings: 9
Conservation
groups
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Coalition have described
the staff recommendation as
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requires that the study be peer
reviewed by other scientists.
The coalition includes Oregon
Wild, Cascadia Wildlands and
the Center for Biological Di-
versity.
If the ODFW commission
agrees with the staff recom-
mendation, it would mean
wolves in the eastern third of
the state are not protected un-
der either state or federal en-
dangered species laws. Feder-
al ESA protection would still
be in force in Oregon west of
Highways 395, 78 and 95.
Delisting wouldn’t mean
open season on wolves in
Eastern Oregon, however.
The state wolf plan would
remain in force, and it allows
ODFW-approved “controlled
take,” or killing, of wolves
in cases of chronic livestock
attacks or if wolves cause a
decline in prey populations,
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ers, as they can now, would be
able to shoot wolves caught in
the act of attacking livestock
or herd dogs. None have been
killed in that manner.
Oregon’s wolf plan does
not allow sport hunting of
wolves in any phase of the
recovery timeline, department
spokeswoman Michelle Den-
nehy said.
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wolves. The number stood
at 85 in July, but the Sled
Springs pair was found dead
of unknown cause in Wallowa
County, and a man hunting
coyotes shot a lone wolf, OR-
22, in Grant County. ODFW’s
wolf program coordinator,
Russ Morgan, estimates Or-
egon has 90 to 100 wolves
and said the population might
reach 150 within three years.
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