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Blue Mountain Eagle
BLM seeks nominations
for advisory councils
Blue Mountain Eagle
PORTLAND — The Bu-
reau of Land Management
seeks public nominations
for open positions on 34 Re-
source Advisory Councils,
including six in Oregon and
two in Washington state.
Advisory councils are
composed of 10-15 mem-
bers who help the BLM
carry out its stewardship of
245 million acres of public
lands. They are citizens who
have interests or expertise
in public land management,
including conservationists,
ranchers, outdoor recre-
ationists, state and local
government of¿cials, tribal
of¿cials and academics.
For more information
about RACs in Oregon and
Washington, visit http://www.
blm.gov/or/rac/index.php.
Wanted: Candidates
Several positions open in Prairie City
Blue Mountain Eagle
PRAIRIE CITY — Open-
ings are available in Prairie
City for the mayor’s position
and three city council seats in
this year’s general election.
Councilors are elected for
a four-year term and the may-
or for two years.
Candidates may ¿le no
sooner than June 1 and no
later than Aug. 30. The last
date to withdraw a candi-
dacy ¿ling is Sept. 2. The
general election this year is
Nov. 8.
For more information,
contact Taci Philbrook, city
recorder and election of¿cer
for Prairie City, at City Hall,
541-820-3605.
8SDA seeks proposals
Blue Mountain Eagle
PORTLAND — 8SDA’s
Natural Resources Conser-
vation Service is seeking
applications from conserva-
tion groups, local and state
agencies, tribes, nonpro¿ts,
private companies and oth-
ers for the next round of the
Regional Conservation Part-
nership Program.
Interested partners can
learn more by contacting their
local 8SDA Service Center.
Pre-proposals are due by
May 10.
The John Day Service
Center is at 721 S. Canyon
Blvd., John Day.
Call 541-575-1274.
To learn more about the
partnership program, visit
www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/
portal/nrcs/main/national/
programs/farmbill/rcpp/.
Sonshine accepting preregistrations
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Son-
shine Christian School is
accepting preregistrations
for the 2016-17 school
year.
Spots will be reserved
for children who have
been preregistered. The
deadline is Aug. 1, and
there is a fee.
Students must be 3
years old by Sept. 1 and
toilet-trained for pre-
WOLVES
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Oregon Wild, a Portland
based conservation group with
long involvement in wolf is-
sues, opposes lethal control.
³ODFW should not be kill-
ing members of the Imnaha
Pack, or any wolves for that
matter, while the wolf plan re-
mains under review and out of
date,” Executive Director Sean
Stevens said in a prepared
statement.
³Given ambiguity in the
current wolf plan, increased
poaching, premature (state
endangered species) delisting,
and renewed calls from special
interest groups for aggressive
killing, the public has every
reason to be concerned for Or-
egon’s recovering wolf popu-
lation.”
Oregon Wild questioned
whether the livestock pro-
ducers involved have taken
suf¿cient defensive measures
against wolves.
Morgan said the sheep
producer had three protection
dogs with the sheep, checked
the livestock three times a day,
employed a range rider to haze
the wolves and used midnight
spotlighting. The cattle pro-
ducer delayed pasture rotation
to keep cattle closer to a public
road, pastured yearlings with
cows, frequently checked calv-
school, and 4 years old by
Sept. 1 for prekindergarten.
Preschool sessions will
be from 9-11 a.m. two days
a week, and prekindergar-
ten from 9-11:30 a.m. three
days a week.
Sonshine
Christian
School is located at John
Day Church of the Naza-
rene, at 521 E. Main St.
For more information,
call 541-575-1895 from 9
a.m. to noon or 1-4 p.m.
Mondays-Fridays.
ing cattle and used range rider
patrols as well, Morgan said in
a news release.
The onset of lambing and
calving season made more at-
tacks a possibility, he said.
³Even more cattle and
sheep will be on these private
lands soon as calving and
lambing season continues, in-
creasing the risk for even more
losses from this group of dep-
redating wolves,” he said.
Cascadia Wildlands, a
Eugene-based conservation
group, said it was ³deeply sad-
dened” by the ODFW action
but said it appears the state
agency ³has meaningfully de-
liberated over its decision.”
The group said it doesn’t
condone using public taxpayer
money to ³kill wolves on be-
half of private interests” but
acknowledged the ³situation
appears to be escalating in
Wallow County.” The group
said lethal control is allowed
under the state’s wolf plan.
The inclusion of OR-4 in
the kill order is particularly
dif¿cult because he’s sired
many wolf pups over the years
and ³fueled wolf recovery
across the state,” said Josh
Laughlin, executive director
of Cascadia Wildlands. ³His
role and that of the other three
wolves should be celebrated
and remembered.”
The Oregon Cattlemen’s
Association supports the kill
Your Rural Fa mily Health Clinic
Grant County
HEALTH
Department
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
MURAL
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Poppenga is in the midst
of a two-week visit at the
school, which ends this week.
The community is welcome to
meet Poppenga at a reception
at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April
7, in the school gym.
She is the ¿rst artist-in-res-
idence at Dayville School in
several years. Her visit was
made possible by a grant from
the Juniper Arts Council.
The project has been done
in stages on large sections of
plywood laid out on the gym
Àoor. After the initial ³four
seasons” background theme
was decided and colored ar-
eas were blocked in, students
played the primary role in the
what Poppenga calls ³chil-
dren’s narrative art.”
They helped brainstorm
what elements and animals
they felt should be included in
the scene such as harvesting,
feeding cattle, fences, snow
falling, geese Àying in the sky
and, of course, the ³D” on the
mountain outside town. Then
they were assigned to ¿nd im-
ages for those elements. Print-
outs of animals in various po-
sitions and perspectives from
which to choose were taped
on the gym wall for reference.
The process also involved
an ³introduction to line,”
Poppenga said, in which
the students learn that every
mark leads to the next mark.
Students worked on different
parts of the mural each day.
Whatever element or section
a student painted one day,
was continued or added to by
someone else later.
A Dayville Tiger head
and paw prints will be added
alongside the ³Welcome to
Dayville” lettering at the top.
Exterior paint was used for
the mural, which will then be
Eagle photos/Cheryl Hoefler
Artist-in-residence Carol Poppenga talks with Dayville students Bud Farmer,
left, and Tanner Walczyk as they add a beaver to the mural.
Skylar Powell makes an
owl come to life on the
summer panel of the
Dayville mural.
Dayville School juniors and seniors work on a
mural depicting the four seasons of Dayville, under
the direction of artist-in-residence Carol Poppenga,
standing at the far end. The mural will be mounted
over the existing one comprised of handprints at
Dayville City Park.
covered in a 89 ¿lter coat-
ing, Poppenga said, to protect
it and preserve the colors as
much as possible.
Poppenga, of Lewiston,
Montana, is a muralist and
a studio artist, who has also
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been visiting schools across
the country since the late
1990s. She is also retired from
the Air Force and Montana
Air National Guard.
Poppenga has been staying
at the home of Cindy and Skip
Inscore, who both teach at
Dayville School.
Cindy said school staff
looked over several artists’
portfolios, but their ¿rst
choice was Poppenga, for her
work at schools and her spe-
cialty in mural work.
Poppenga said she has of-
fered guidance, suggestions
and encouragement along the
way, but said, ³My role is to
facilitate what they are doing,
show them how and then turn
them loose.”
³It’s their work,” she said.
To learn more about Pop-
penga, visit poppenga.com.
Public comment sought on station proposal in Clarno 8nit
KIMBERLY — The John
Day Fossil Beds National
Monument has released an
environmental assessment for
a proposed ranger station/of-
¿ce in the Clarno 8nit.
Public comments on the
issue will be accepted until
Sunday, April 10.
The current substandard
condition of the water treatment
building as a ranger of¿ce and
vehicle storage area, lack of site
security and safety features and
the inadequate size of the build-
ing are cited among the reasons
warranting a new ranger station.
A new facility would im-
prove operational ef¿ciency,
enhance resource protection,
order, acknowledging it is a
³dif¿cult” decision.
³It’s an unfair situation
for the livestock owners and
the wolves themselves,” said
OCA wolf committee chair
Todd Nash, a Wallowa County
rancher.
³Wolves are doing what
they naturally do, but have
been put in a situation in Or-
egon where they are going to
be in constant conÀict with
livestock and hunter’s game,”
Nash said in a prepared state-
ment.
Blue Mountain Eagle
meet or exceed health and
safety standards and building
codes and enhance visitor ex-
perience and safety.
Public comments may be
made online at http://park-
planning.nps.gov/clarnorang-
erstation, by email to joda_su-
perintendent@nps.gov, or by
mail to Superintendent, John
Day Fossil Beds National
Monument, 32651 Highway
19, Kimberly, OR 97848. Call
541-987-2333 for more infor-
mation.
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A TTENTION G RANT C OUNTY
V ETERANS :
Did you know there may be VA benefits available for
you as a result of your spouses’ military service?
See your Grant County Veteran Services
Officer today for more information,
located at Grant County Court House.
Call 541-575-1631 for an appointment
Do you recycle?
Open: Mon, Wed, & Fri 10am-4pm by appointment.
Do you want to keep the
recycling program going
in Prairie City?
16th Annual Grant County
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