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O BITUARIES
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
E AGLE ON V ACATION
Board desires to sell
Bates School building
Phillip A. Lynall
Nov. 21, 1964 — April 7, 2016
HERMISTON — Phillip A. Lynall, 51, of Irrigon, for-
merly of Long Creek, died April 7 in Hermiston.
Lynall was born Nov. 21, 1964, in Stoneham, Mas-
sachusetts, to Ronald and Delores Humphrey-Lynall. He
was raised in Los Angeles, and served for eight years in
the U.S. Army. After an honorable discharge, he returned
to California where he attended college and earned an
associate degree.
On Sept. 16, 1987, he married Elizabeth Salo in San
Pablo, California. He worked as a truck driver both in
long haul and local transport.
The couple lived in Long Creek for 15 years where
they served on the volunteer fire department.
In 2010, they moved to Irrigon. He was a member of
the Masonic Lodge, and enjoyed socializing, watching
court TV, playing video games and liked animals and
football, especially the San Francisco 49ers.
Survivors include his wife, Liz Lynall of Irrigon;
daughter, Jennifer Lynall of Bend; mother, Delores Var-
gus of Los Angeles; siblings, Ron, Gary, Lyle, Shirley,
Carolyn, Pamela and Cheryl; and numerous aunts, un-
cles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father.
Memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Hos-
pital for Children.
Arrangements are under the care of Burns Mortuary of
Hermiston, 685 W. Hermiston Ave., P.O. Box 289, Herm-
iston, OR 97838.
For online condolences, visit burnsmortuaryhermis-
ton.com.
By Robby Bullock
For the Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo
Grant Union class of 1970 alumnae Meredith
Cole Olsen, Carolyn Conklin Stephens, Kathleen
Curtis Yencopal, Roxie Watson Lissman and
Christine Martin Edwardsen took the Eagle on
vacation to Portland where they met for a Girly
Girl Minds gathering. Their get-together included
a walking tour of trails, the OHSU tram, Tillicum
Bridge, Max, downtown and more.
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S TUDENTS OF THE M ONTH
A PRIL — P RAIRIE C ITY S CHOOL
Jacquelin Winegar
A funeral service will be held for Jacquelin Winegar at
11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 23, at Redmond Memorial Cem-
etery in Redmond.
Winegar, of Prairie City, died Oct. 23, 2015, at age 76.
Memorial contributions may be made to Blue Moun-
tain Care Center in Prairie City through Driskill Memorial
Chapel, 241 S. Canyon Blvd., John Day, OR 97845.
For online condolences, visit www.driskillmemorial-
chapel.com.
Contributed photos
Prairie City School
junior Lindsay Wall
was named student
of the month for April.
Wall was noted by
teacher Raymond Field
for her outstanding
achievement on and
off campus, and for
showing determination,
responsibility and
quality work in media
arts, fine arts and as a
student leader. “She is a
joy to have in class and
has a very bright future
ahead her,” Field said.
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A MAN
WAKES
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morning
after sleeping on...
an advertised bed, in advertised
pajamas.
Prairie City School
seventh-grader Declan
Zweygardt was named
April student of the
month by school staff,
for his drive, excellence
and determination to
grow in every class.
Zweygardt performs
at an outstanding
level in weights and
conditioning, according
to staff, and has a
natural talent as an
artist. He is a stand-
out leader and has
an outstanding future
ahead of him.
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ADVERTISED WATCH. He’ll ride to work in his ADVERTISED CAR, sit at an
ADVERTISED DESK and write with an ADVERTISED PEN. Yet this person
hesitates to advertise, saying that advertising doesn’t pay. Finally, when his
non-advertised business is going under, HE’LL ADVERTISE IT FOR SALE.
Then it’s too late.
AND THEY SAY ADVERTISING DOESN’T WORK?
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PRAIRIE CITY — The fu-
ture of the Bates School build-
ing was the topic of an April
18 town hall meeting in the
Prairie City School cafeteria.
Prairie City School Board
members invited the public to
hear the school district’s plans
for the facility, actions they
have already taken and discuss
moving forward with remov-
ing the building from school
grounds. Tours were given of
the facility prior to the meet-
ing.
Robert Waltenburg, Grant
County ESD superintendent,
facilitated the gathering, at-
tended by school board mem-
bers and local citizens on both
sides of the issue.
The school building, which
once served students in grades
1-8 in the logging town of
Bates, was moved to Prairie
City School property in 1977.
It was used as classroom
space until 2012, after the el-
ementary library was moved
out and music classes ended.
After that time, the building
was used for storage of the
Camp Logan supplies, and has
been empty since 2015.
The school board has come
to the consensus the district
needs to sell the building, due
to concerns over maintenance
and/or remodeling costs need-
ed to make it usable again. The
school board deems it would
be too expensive to rectify the
likely issues of mold, asbestos
and lead-based paint in the
structure. As enrollment at the
school has dropped off in re-
cent years, school staff are also
unable to justify a need for the
added space.
“The School Board desires
to sell the Bates Building be-
cause we do not foresee need-
ing the classroom space,” Su-
perintendent Julie Gurczynski
said. “Thousands of dollars
are needed for maintenance in
the main school building and
to educate our students with
modern technology and cur-
riculum, and that’s where we
would like to focus the money
and resources.”
Educational priorities in-
clude continuing to increase
student computers, acquiring
Smart Boards for all class-
rooms and math textbook pur-
chases, in addition to salary
and insurance cost of living in-
creases for staff and increased
PERS costs.
However, Frances Preston,
Bates School Class of 1965,
disagrees with moving the
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building. In addition to see-
ing it as a historical site, after
talking to local residents about
what they would like to see
done to the Bates building, she
now feels it still offers practi-
cal uses.
Preston went door-to-door
polling Prairie City residents
last February on their interest
in “saving the Bates building.”
At the town hall, she said,
“As a result of my obtaining
signatures, I listened to what
the people had to say, and at
that point, I changed my rea-
son for saving the building
from historical, moving the
building to the Bates State
Park to establish a museum, to
educational.”
Citizens she spoke to had
different ideas of uses for the
building. Some of the ideas
were a charter school, a com-
munity learning center, a dorm
to house foreign exchange stu-
dents, housing for families in
emergencies and a vocational
tech center.
Several at the meeting
who went to school at Bates
spoke out in favor of saving
the building or portions of it.
Suggestions included using
the lumber for re-building ef-
forts by those burned out of the
Canyon Creek Complex fi re,
and re-visiting the Friends of
Bates and Oregon State Parks
— both of which declined of-
fers in recent years to take the
building — to see if they might
now be interested.
Others were concerned
about the cost of maintaining
the building. Diana Smith said
the building has too many is-
sues to merit the costs of keep-
ing and restoring it. She said
she understood the sentimen-
tality of saving the building,
but that was outweighed by the
issue of practicality.
Teacher Christie Winegar
said, “It’s beyond it’s func-
tionality,” adding, even if en-
rollment should go up, there
are already a half-dozen emp-
ty rooms in the main school
building to accommodate
them.
Wanda Voigt questioned
how expensive it would be
to demolish the building, be-
cause getting rid of some of
the health hazards in the build-
ings, such as lead-based paint,
can be costly.
Most at the meeting were
against demolishing the build-
ing before other options were
explored further.
Mike Wall, school board
chairman, said, “Our main ob-
jective is to have someone pur-
chase it and move it. We don’t
want the Bates building torn
down. It has too much history.
It just needs to be moved away
because there is no use for it.”
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The Eagle/Robby Bullock
Prairie City resident
Frances Preston, a 1965
graduate of the Bates
School who is leading
the effort to save the
40-year-old building,
points out details in the
structure’s woodwork
during tours prior to
the town hall meeting
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