Blue Mountain Eagle
News
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
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HAPPENING
The deadline for What’s Happening items is 5 p.m. Fri-
day. Call Cheryl at the Eagle, 541-575-0710.
MONDAY, JAN. 25
Transportation Vision Panel meeting
1 a.m., Grant County Regional Airport, John Day
Community members are welcome to offer their thoughts
and ideas on Gov. Kate Brown’s Transportation Vision Pan-
el’s preliminary ¿ ndings. The panel will use public input to
re¿ ne its recommendations to the governor on the future of
Oregon’s transportation system. For more information, call
03-6-3 or email transportation.visionpanel#oregon.
gov.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27
Soil anG :ater seminar, meeting
10 a.m.-2 p.m., Monument Senior Center
Monument Soil and Water Conservation District will hold
its annual landowner seminars and district meeting. Seminar
topics include “Oregon’s Allocation of Conserved Water Pro-
gram,” “Toxic Plants in Your Fields and Around Your House”
and “Water Rights – Exactly What Do They Mean?” The annu-
al meeting will follow at 21 p.m. Monument School FFA will
serve a barbecue brisket lunch for a plate. For more infor-
mation call 1-3-211 or emailing mswcd#centurytel.net.
Democrat meeting
630 p.m., St. Thomas Episcopal, Canyon City
Local democrats are encouraged to attend the meeting in
the St. Thomas Episcopal parish house, 13 S. Washington
St., Canyon City. Call 1-2-2633.
SATURDAY, JAN. 30
Grange pancaNe IeeG
- p.m., Mt. Vernon Grange
All are welcome to the annual all-you-can-eat pancake
feed featuring regular and sourdough pancakes, eggs, ham,
coffee and Muice. The cost is for adults, 3 for children
under 12 and free for those under 6. People can also try for
a chance to walk away with a sweet treat at the cake walk.
The event is one of two annual fundraisers organized by the
grange each year. Call 1--100 for more information.
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Eagle file photo
From the Jan. 18, 2006, issue of the Blue Mountain Eagle, members of the Grant County Special Olympics
basketball team include, front row, from left, Ben Joslin and Katie Latham, and back row, from left,
coordinator Kim Joslin, Russell Reigel, Brian McKrola, Jaylon Brock, Jay Colson and coordinator Ryan
Joslin. This was the first year Grant County participated in the Special Olympics.
O UT OF THE P AST
Jan. 20, 1916
Grant County Journal
100 years ago
Hard luck has overtaken a
Prairie business man. With a
forethought that is character-
istic of him he followed the
doctrine of state-wide pre-
paredness with a thorough-
ness that was found on every
hand prior to January 1st, and
then on the night of the 31st
he cached his supplies for the
long dry spell and had such
a good time while the going
was good that he has entirely
forgotten where his cache is
located.
Jan. 17, 1941
Blue Mountain Eagle
75 years ago
Slot
machines
are
con¿ scateG
On a complaint, slot
machines operating at Mt.
9ernon were con¿ scated
by Sheriff Hazeltine. It is
unlawful to operate the ma-
chines and it is made the duty
of the sheriff to seize and
destroy them. There was a
picture of the con¿ scated ma-
chines, in the Eastern Orego-
nian, showing Sheriff Hazel-
tine, Deputy Morris and State
Police Guy Church.
Jan. 20, 1966
Blue Mountain Eagle
50 years ago
StocN testing at yarGs
reTuesteG
$ reTuest has been ¿ led
with the State Department of
Agriculture to reinstate cattle
testing at sale yards by the
Grant County Stockgrowers
disease committee.
The action was taken by
the committee in an effort to
certify Grant County as bru-
cellosis free.
By testing cattle at sale
yards it will be possible to
prevent brucellosis from com-
ing into the county. Another
advantage of testing at sale
yards is that it will enable the
county to test a large number
of cattle at a common loca-
tion.
Jan. 17, 1991
Blue Mountain Eagle
25 years ago
Missing Slane EelieYeG
GoZneG in Grant County
An eight-day search and
rescue operation for a pilot
traveling from Madras to
John Day failed to turn up any
clues of his whereabouts.
According to Grant Coun-
ty Sheriff Fred Reusser, Or-
egon State Aeronautics of¿ -
cials reported during the late
afternoon of Jan. 2 that Steve
Welch, 36, of Madras and
Alaska was missing. Welch
was À ying alone in a 1 Su-
per Piper Cub. Seattle air con-
trol personnel tracked a plane
¿ tting the characteristics of a
Super Piper Cub from three
miles east of Madras to an
area between Aldridge Moun-
tain and Fields Peak.
The Sheriff’s Department
was asked to send search
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planes into the area.
“We were only able to send
one airplane before dark,”
said Reusser.
Although Grant County
Search and Rescue planes
were fogged in Jan. 3, an ini-
tial ground assessment was
undertaken. ...
Finally on the morning of
Jan. after days of searching
by air and land), the search
was called off after poor
weather limited the air search
to two planes from the local
area.
“The perimeter was cov-
ered as safely as it could be
covered,” Reusser said. He
added that no one knows for
sure whether the aircraft be-
ing tracked by radar from Se-
attle was the plane Welch was
À ying. The situation could be
reevaluated when the snow
melts or possible clues sur-
face, according to Reusser.
He said he hopes the plane
can be found but added that it
could be anywhere.