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WEDNESDAY
March 16, 2016
Dancers spring
into spotlight
Audience enjoys
performances
from 60 dancers
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Friday’s
Spring Showcase highlighted
the talents of 60 dancers per-
forming for a full house.
Showcase
coordinator
Shannon Adair said the eve-
ning’s presentations were
“excellent.”
“There was a great vari-
ety, and the kids who choreo-
graphed their own routines
did an outstanding job,” she
said.
From the youngest Level 1
group to the Grant Union var-
sity dance team, the groups
spotlighted an array of dance
styles.
Levels 1 and 2 are led
by coach Chandra Holliday,
Level 3 by Sierra Elliott, the
Junior Team by Kattie Pi-
azza and assistant Rebecca
Batease, and the varsity team
head coach is Adair with as-
sistants Jessica Moore and
Kattie Piazza.
The highlight of the
event came when several of
Adair’s alumni dance stu-
dents joined her for a final
hip hop routine.
Although Adair is step-
ping down as head coach at
the close of the school year,
she said she’d like to stay in-
volved with the program.
See DANCERS, Page A9
Photo contributed by Andi Harmon/LC Ranch Photography
Contributed photo/Stephanie Parsons
The Body Fitness and Dance Junior Platinum team
is in ready mode for their performance, including
Rhea Mead, Madison Spencer, Taylor Osgood, Harli
Grove and Brianna Majors.
Mark calendars
for spring sports
pete in Prineville on Thursday
at the Breaking the Ice: Ice-
JOHN DAY — Spring breaker. Grant Union will host
sports athletes are in training, the Small Schools Invitational
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clude: Dayville, Long Creek,
Grant Union has track and Prairie City, Mitchell-Spray,
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golf teams.
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The Prospector track and
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Blue Mountain Eagle
Long Creek resident Cauy Pool, 16, takes a wild ride at Prineville’s Challenge of Champions junior
bull riding competition, winning first place last Saturday.
YOUNG BULL RIDER ASPIRES TO
BE THE BEST
Local teen is a
champ at junior bull
riding event
tition in Prineville last Saturday.
Pool said he and three other competi-
tors in his division drew good bulls.
“It was a good rodeo and a lot of
good competition,” he said. “It’s a sport.
I like the competition, and I can go out
By Angel Carpenter
there and make a career out of it.”
Blue Mountain Eagle
Pool’s family moved from Klamath
County this year to Long Creek where
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School junior Cauy Pool is on his way
He’s still involved as a member of
up as a rodeo cowboy.
the District 1 high school rodeo club
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state event.
He’s competed in bareback, saddle
bronc and bull riding events and hopes
to qualify for the July 17-23 National
High School Finals Rodeo in Gillette,
Wyoming. His goal is to eventually
make it to the National Finals Rodeo in
Las Vegas.
Pool’s mom, Karla, said her son
“lives and breathes rodeo,” working out
every night and traveling to rodeos each
weekend, while keeping his grades up.
See POOL, Page A9
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By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Hunters
Education is big in Grant
County.
A total of 40 students com-
pleted the Feb. 22 through
March 3 Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife-spon-
sored class .
The class had more stu-
dents than usual for area co-
ordinator and instructor Bry-
an Nelson, though he said his
largest class had 51 students.
The Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife-spon-
sored class is open to all
ages.
Most students were be-
tween the ages of 9 and 16,
with three adults taking the
course to receive their con-
cealed weapons permit.
“The class is about gun
safety and being a respon-
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and being a responsible hunt-
er and treating wildlife with
respect,” Nelson said.
He noted girls completing
the class outnumbered boys,
23-17.
Nelson had assistance
from a team of instructors/
volunteers: Katy Nelson, as-
sistant coordinator Deanna
Maley, Dillon Maley, Mike
Springer, Gordon Black,
Mark Boss, Ken Kincaid,
Mike Billman and parent vol-
unteer Gordon Larson.
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dents’ skills was held March
12 at the law enforcement
gun range west of Prairie
City, with an additional test
day held March 16.
Students shared what they
learned and enjoyed most
about the course.
“I learned a lot about
survival and how to identi-
fy different animals,” said
12-year-old Riley Robertson.
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locks and sidelocks.”
“I learned responsibility
and how to tell the difference
between stalking and post
(when hunting wildlife),”
said 12-year-old Dakota Bal-
lou. “In stalking you go and
look for tracks, and in post
you stay in one place and
wait for herds or single ani-
mals.”
She added, “I also learned
that if you mix up .20 gauge
with .12 gauge (ammunition)
you will explode your gun,
and you could possibly lose
your eyesight.”
Jack Strong, 11, said
he enjoyed learning about
bolt-action and lever-action
guns.
What part did he like best
about the class?
“Shooting,” he said.
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watches as Jack Strong, 11, takes aim during a field
day test with students Dakota Ballou, 12, and Riley
Robertson, 12 (right), watch. All the students received
their hunters ed certification after completing a
course and passing the practical skills/safety test at
the field day held at the law enforcement gun range
outside Prairie City.
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