Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
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WEDNESDAY
June 1, 2016
WOODEN
WELCOMER
A new wooden
sculpture, created
by Ken Justice
of Prairie City,
welcomes visitors
to the Seventh
Street Athletic
Complex.
New sculpture stands at Seventh
Street Athletic Complex entrance
Carving features
baseball player
at the plate
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — A new baseball
player now welcomes visitors to
the Seventh Street Athletic Com-
plex — a carved wooden statue.
Ken Justice of Prairie City cre-
ated and donated the work of art.
He installed it in March, and land-
scaping touches surrounding the
statue, by Levi Voigt, are nearly
complete.
“It ties in to the facility real-
ly well,” said Kim Ward, who is
program coordinator for John
Day-Canyon City Parks and Rec-
reation.
The complex is used for youth
through high school baseball and
softball, and youth football and
soccer.
Photos by The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
See STATUE, Page B10
A Vince Lombardi quote with the sculpture reads: “The
measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
Hands-on
learning in
the outdoors
Teacher partners
with ODFW for
science lesson
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo
Brent Smith of ODFW hands Humbolt fifth-grader
Riddick Hutchison a net of fish to place in Trafton
Pond. Behind Hutchison, in line, are Edi Hernandez
and Tucker Carpenter.
DAYVILLE — “I hear,
and I forget. I see, and I re-
member. I do, and I under-
stand.”
That quote by Confucius
is one that Humbolt Elemen-
tary fi fth-grade teacher Geor-
gia Boethin takes to heart as
she guides her class.
Her students had a lot of
hands-on “doing” during a
May 25 fi eld trip just outside
of Dayville, partnering with
biologists from Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife
for an ecosystem unit.
“This part of science is
probably my favorite, be-
cause I get to teach about our
local ecosystem and how we,
as humans, both interact with
and affect the ecosystem,”
Boethin said. “The overar-
ching concept in fi fth-grade
science is all about systems
See OUTDOORS, Page B10
Contributed photo
Humbolt fifth-graders in Georgia Boethin’s class
handle a bullfrog during a field trip near Dayville.
From left: Trenton Winegar, Quinn Larson, Amelia
Hall, Rio Reeves and Laci Pentzer.
Youth rodeo series starts June 11 Get ready for
the Gold Rush
Run and Walk
Events held
at fairgrounds
rodeo arena
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — The Cinna-
bar Mountain Playdays Youth
Rodeo Series for youth up to
age 18 is just around the corner.
New this year is the loca-
tion of the events, all held at the
Grant County Fairgrounds.
There are fi ve days of rodeo
on the schedule this year: Sat-
urday, June 11; Saturday, June
25; Saturday, July 16; and Sat-
urday and Sunday, Aug. 20-21.
Youth can participate in bar-
rel racing, pole bending, goat
tying, dummy roping, keyhole
racing, fl ag racing and fi gure 8
racing.
CANYON CITY – Ev-
eryone can run, or walk,
“for the gold” in this year’s
’62 Days Gold Rush Run
and Walk in Canyon City
at 7 a.m. Saturday, June 11.
The 5K course is a
scenic loop that begins
and ends in front of Sels
Brewery in Canyon City.
It passes such historic sites
as Humbolt Diggings, Hog
Point and Rebel Hill.
The event, sponsored
by The Strawberry Striders
and Whiskey Gulch Gang,
attracts novice and experi-
enced runners, as well as
walkers of all ages.
See RODEO, Page B10
Eagle file photo
Sam McCracken swings the rope in his favorite event, dummy roping, at a 2015
Cinnabar Mountain Playdays rodeo.
Last year’s winner Tan-
ner Elliott finished the
course in 19 minutes, 33
seconds.
Walkers joining the
event can expect to cover
the course in about 45 min-
utes.
The overall men’s and
women’s winners in two
age divisions, 39 and un-
der and 40 and over, will
receive ’62 Days com-
memorative awards. The
top finisher in each 10-
year age division will re-
ceive ribbons. All children
12 and under will receive
medals.
See RUSH, Page B10