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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
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Rendezvous regales Mt. Vernon again
Fun includes
parade, socials
and potluck
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
MT. VERNON — Roy
and Evelyn Cates celebrated
the Cinnabar Mountain Ren-
dezvous as grand marshals
for Saturday’s parade in Mt.
Vernon.
This year’s parade theme
was “Let’s Bring the Timber
In.”
As one of the original Ren-
dezvous members, Roy Cates
said the event is similar to
how it was in the mid-80s.
“We tried to make the Ren-
dezvous a fun time for the
whole family,” he said.
Cates said he and fellow
city council member Clayton
Dobbins joined then Mayor
Larry Lemons to organize the
irst event.
“Larry Lemons was the
founding father of the whole
get together,” Cates said. “He
was raised right here around
Cinnabar Mountain. We were
the main push in the Rendez-
vous, with several others in-
volved.”
He said he likes the people
of Mt. Vernon.
“It’s a close-knit commu-
nity,” he said. “It’s a good
place to live. It’s a quiet little
town, and we like it.”
This year’s three-day event
included a potluck on Friday,
a parade and contests on Sat-
urday and a kids day and horse
shoe tournament on Sunday.
Karen Hinton, a member
of the current Rendezvous
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Tatyn Harper, 7, pedals a loader in Saturday’s Cinnabar Mountain Rendezvous
Parade with his dad Terry and brother Bransyn, 3, who is riding a pony. Tatyn
received a first-place ribbon for kids floats, and Bransyn won a first-place
ribbon and buckle for youngest rider.
Paige Wolffe-Cloud and Ellen Wolffe-Cloud trade
candy they collected at Saturday’s Cinnabar
Mountain Rendezvous parade at the Mt. Vernon
City Park.
group, said they didn’t have
as many participants this year,
but the turnout was still good.
“Everything went well,”
she said. “It was a lot of fun,
and the kids got a lot of can-
dy.”
Cinnabar Mountain
Rendezvous results:
Parade
Equipment, blue ribbon and sweep-
stakes, LL Excavating, brushcutter
Working trucks, blue ribbons, Neil
Schaffer and Brad Cates, Thunderbolt
Pony, belt buckle for youngest rider,
Bransyn Harper
Bike loat, blue ribbon, Tatyn Harper
Float, blue ribbon, Malheur National
Forest with Smokey the Bear
Classic Car, blue ribbon, orange
Mustang driven by Karen Chadwick
sponsored by Silver Spur
Contests and races
Horse Shoes, irst, Bryce Bartlett and
Toby Thomas; second, Troy Wells and
Jeromy Majors
Men’s Choker Setting, Terry Harper
Children collect candy during Saturday’s Cinnabar
Mountain Rendezvous parade.
Women’s Choker Setting, Mandy
Weaver
Men’s Ax Throw, Terry Harper
Women’s Ax Throw, Ersela Dehiya
Men’s Bore and Buck, James Moss
Women’s Horse Shoe Throw, Simmie
Waddel
Women’s Frying Pan Toss, Sheri Clarke
Men’s All Around, Terry Harper
Women’s All Around, Ersela Dehiya
Kids Day
Watermelon Eating, Jeremy Stansbury
Roy and Evelyn Cates ride in the parade as grand
marshals of the Cinnabar Mountain Rendezvous.
Wheelbarrow, Dan Hall and Taylor
Thomas
Three-leg, Dan Hall and Taylor Thomas
Crab walk, Austin Cates
Hop over skip back, Mariah Kerr
Sack, Austin Cates
Bear crawl, Mariah Kerr
Dash, Austin Cates
Small kids dash, Vera Hunt
Rafle
Spotting scope donated by Cinnabar
Mtn Rendezvous, Sue Horn
Propane ire pit donated by Ace Hard-
ware, Drew Harmer
Smoker donated by True Value Hard-
ware, Greg MacArthur
Al ine: Music teacher Mary Ann Vidourek closes 25-year career
healthy and active.”
She said when her Grant
Union choir had a fundrais-
er, offering singing Valen-
tine’s, they visited an as-
sisted living center where
an elderly man, who was ill,
requested a song he found
consoling.
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Music director Mary Ann Vidourek leads the
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class Wednesday, May 25. She also conducts the
elementary choir students in grades 3-6, and the
Grant Union Junior-Senior High School bands and
combined choir.
When asked what she’s
enjoyed most about teaching
music, she recalled her choir
students singing “Photo-
graph” by Ed Sheeran during
the district concert.
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song on their own time —
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edge — with eighth-grader
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give them the tools to become
musicians, and they can take
those tools and make music”
is what she enjoys most, she
said. “When they learn music,
that is something they have
for the rest of their lives. It’s
a lifelong skill.”
Vidourek herself learned
music at a young age. She
was in eighth grade when she
became the organist at her
church, and she also learned
piano, accordion and guitar at
that time.
“My mother is 88 years
old, and gives 25 piano les-
sons a week,” Vidourek said.
“It helps keep your brain
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JOHN DAY — Grant
Union Junior-Senior High
School choir members ser-
enaded their director Mary
Ann Vidourek, “Mrs. V,” on
Tuesday, May 24, during the
inal district band and choir
concert.
It was a grand inale for
Vidourek as she plans to retire
at the close of the school year,
after 25 years of teaching.
Vidourek taught for nine
years at Seneca School, John
Day Junior High and Mt. Ver-
non School; 11 years at Grant
Union High School and Mt.
Vernon Middle School; and
ive years at Humbolt Ele-
mentary and Grant Union Ju-
nior-Senior High School.
She had planned to be a
sixth-grade teacher, majoring
in elementary education with
a minor in music education at
Ohio State. She fell into music
education when she moved to
Grant County.
Starting out as a substitute
teacher in the District, she was
asked to ill in as conductor of
the Christmas concert when
music teacher Al Olson fell
ill. Vidourek said he told the
principal of John Day Junior
High she was “the only person
who could pull it off.”
Later, when Dr. Ed Car-
withen retired as the high
school band and choir teach-
er, Vidourek, who had by then
earned a master’s in music
education, took on that role as
well.
Currently, Vidourek di-
rects the Grant Union junior
and senior bands, the Grant
Union 7-12 combined choir,
the Humbolt 3-6 choir and the
Humbolt sixth-grade band.
Her students have per-
formed at various state com-
petitions and jubilees; Disne-
yland in Anaheim, California;
Honolulu, Hawaii; the West-
ern International Band Clin-
ic in Seattle; and in Europe
through the Oregon Ambassa-
dors of Music program.
Vidourek said she and
her husband plan to move to
Redmond to be closer to their
children and grandchildren.
She also plans to contin-
ue some of her current music
pursuits, staying on as a staff
member for the Western In-
ternational Band Clinic as a
facilitator for the honor band,
housing chair for the Oregon
All-State competition and
music staff for the Oregon
Ambassadors of Music pro-
gram.
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she said. “If people would
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