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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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Members of American Legion Post 106 stand ready
for the gun salute as part of the Memorial Day
remembrance at Prairie City Cemetery.
Commemorating
Memorial Day
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Prairie City School students shake hands with local veterans following a May 19 parade and
presentation in honor of Armed Forces Day on May 21.
PC celebrates Armed Forces Day
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PRAIRIE CITY — Prairie
City School students and local
veterans gathered on May 19 for
a parade down Front Street in
Prairie City and a presentation
at the lagpole across from City
Hall.
The event, in honor of Armed
Forces Day on May 21, included
songs, the pledge of allegiance
and introductions of each veter-
an, their branch and time served.
The students were then al-
lowed to shake hands with the
veterans and thank them for their
service.
Prairie City School students and staff salute for the pledge of allegiance during
a May 19 parade and presentation in honor of Armed Forces Day on May 21.
Grant is now a ‘Purple Heart County’
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant County has be-
come the second in Oregon
to be designated a “Purple
Heart County.”
According to Robert Van
Voorhis, the “Purple Heart”
proclamation, which was
driven by John Day Elks
Lodge No. 1824 and the
Military Order of the Purple
Heart, was passed unani-
mously by the Grant County
Court on May 11.
Van Voorhis said Doug-
las is the only other county
in Oregon thus far “to join
our efforts to honor those
wounded or killed in all the
nations’ conflicts.”
Several towns in Crook
and Deschutes counties,
however, have signed on to
Your Rural Fa mily Health Clinic
Grant County
HEALTH
Department
528 E. Main, St. E,
John Day
Monday - Friday
8am - 5pm
Services Provided:
Karen Triplett, FNP
• Primary Care
• Acute Care
• Women’s Health
Exams
• Men and
Children Exams
• Immunizations
• Family Planning
• Contraception
• Pregnancy Testing &
Referrals
• HIV Testing &
Referrals
• Cacoon
• WIC
• High Risk Infants
• Maternity Case
Management
Grant County Health Department does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin,
disability, or age in admission, treatment, or participation in its programs, services and activitie s, or in employment.
become Purple Heart cities.
Signs marking the Pur-
ple Heart designation will be
erected at Grant County en-
trances on highways 26 and
395 and state routes 7 and 19.
Memorial Day will be ob-
served in Prairie City with a
short flag ceremony, gun sa-
lute and prayers, at 11 a.m.
Monday, May 30, in the
Prairie City Cemetery.
The remembrance will
be led by American Legion
Post 106.
Both Prairie City and
Canyon City cemeteries
will be ablaze with the red,
white and blue of large
mounted American flags,
and hundreds of smaller
flags posted at each mili-
tary grave site. The flags
are courtesy of Post 106 in
Prairie City, and Ellis Tracy
Post 77 does the honors at
the Canyon City Cemetery.
The federal holiday re-
members military person-
nel who have died while
serving in U.S. Armed
Forces.
T hank Y ou
to everyone who donated
to Jake Wilson’s fund for
eye surgery. He had the
surgery and has tunnel
vision in one eye.
We hope to get
the other one in the fall.
Thank you,
Wilson Family 39 The Furgersons
Van Voorhis said the John Day
Elks will purchase the signs
through donations as it did
with the “World War I Memo-
rial Highway” signs, now in
place on Highway 395.
John Day
Fire Station
O PEN H OUSE
Saturday, June 4, 2016
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
316 S Canyon Blvd., John Day
Tours - Free Food - Beverages
Appointments
available
Call and schedule your
appointment today!
TOLL FREE
888-443-9104
or 541-575-0429
“Freedom
is Not Free”
Grant County Chamber would like to pay special tribute to the men and women
who served and sacrificed to protect the lives and freedoms of Americans. We
celebrate their courage, honor their memories and thank them for all they
gave. Their legacy lives on, and we will never forget them.
WE SALUTE OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS
Grant County Chamber • 301 W. Main St., John Day • 541-575-0547 • www.gcoregonlive.com
Better Blooms and Gardens
would like you to plant your
favorite colors this
Memorial Day Weekend
We prefer
Red , White
10% off and Blue!
All Nursery Stock on
Memorial Day Weekend,
Sunday & Monday.
Better Blooms
& Gardens
Between Prairie City & John Day • Open Sun-Fri 9-5:30 • Closed Sat