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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
PARADES
SHOOTING
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“She’s really good at
horseback work and haying,”
Delmas said.
At one time, he ran a crop
dusting business. He became
involved in the town’s Fourth
of July celebration in the ’80s,
piloting an airplane with par-
achutists.
“The paratroopers would
land right on the main street,”
he said. “Some laws came
along, and they had to do
away with it.”
Delmas’ grandparents John
and Gerty Ray homesteaded
on Dixie Mountain near Prairie
City, and his parents Ross and
Irma Ray settled in Prairie City
during the Depression, when
Del was just 1 1/2 years old.
“I’ve lived most of my life
right around here,” he said.
“I’ve always liked the country
and most of the people.”
“It’s a nice, small communi-
ty,” Mary said. “We have a lot
of friends around here, and it’s
a nice ranching community.”
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On Sunday afternoon,
Grant County Undersher-
iff Zach Mobley spotted
Kodesh’s vehicle in Prairie
City, and detained him.
Rand made the arrest
with assistance from Mo-
bley and Oregon State Po-
lice.
A weapon has not been
recovered, Rand said.
In a separate case, Walk-
er was arrested in John Day
Sunday afternoon, for pro-
bation violation and posses-
sion of methamphetamine.
Both Kodesh and Walk-
er are in the Grant County
Jail in Canyon City.
Kodesh was scheduled
to appear in Grant County
Circuit Court for arraign-
ment Tuesday, past press
time.
TOURISM
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months, and the local travel
industry was eager to see tour-
ists return.
If May and June are any in-
dication, neither fear of lame
nor politics are keeping travel-
ers away.
The 8 percent transient
room tax, which is assessed on
each booking of a hotel room,
RV park space and campsite
in the county, is one method
for tracking how many peo-
ple are visiting the county. It
has steadily climbed since the
chamber began collecting the
funds in 2012, with roughly
$90,000 brought in April-Sep-
said of Dayville. “I grew up in
a suburb of Portland, so when
we moved here, it had a good
home, family feeling.”
She taught grades kinder-
garten through third the past
seven years, and also taught
preschool, fourth grade and
Title 1.
Skip was a history teacher,
athletic director and coached
sports.
“We’ve seen kids grow up
and come back, and we’ve
taught their kids,” Cindy said.
“That’s been a blessing. Our
lives have revolved around
school, sports and church.”
The Inscores have two
grown children. Skip said
they haven’t missed many of
the Dayville Fourth of July
celebrations in the last 30
years.
“It’s a time of community,”
he said. “People come home,
and we touch base with kids
tember of 2015 compared to
$59,000 in the same time pe-
riod in 2012.
The chamber receives 75
percent of that money, and has
used it and funds saved since
the executive director position
was eliminated in June 2014 to
increase its advertising reach.
Bremner said the chamber
spent $30,000 on ads in its
last iscal year, targeting even
out-of-state and international
audiences through the travel
magazines.
Travel Oregon, the state’s
tourism commission, also gave
Grant County a boost in 2014
when it highlighted the Paint-
ed Hills in neighboring Wheel-
er County in its “7 Wonders”
campaign. As people venture
Contributed photo/Tanni Wenger Photography Studio
Staff members of the Blue Mountain Care Center walk
with residents in Prairie City’s parade on Monday.
is gathering for breakfast
at the Dayville Community
Church.
“Some of the most enjoy-
able times have been when the
older folks have met up at that
breakfast at the church and
told stories about how Day-
ville used to be,” she said.
we’ve taught and their parents
and families.”
The best part, Cindy said,
Monument
Mitch and Jennie Mund
said the festivities in Monu-
ment give them an opportu-
nity to visit with friends and
honor the country.
They’ve lived in Mon-
ument for 30 years, since
Mitch’s transfer with Oregon
Department of Forestry. The
couple have three grown chil-
dren.
Jennie recently retired after
21 years as administrative as-
sistant of Monument School.
east from Bend, south from
Pendleton or west from Boise
to visit the John Day Fossil
Beds National Monument,
Bremner says they ind their
way to other corners of the
county.
“They come here and they
want to see it all,” she said.
“They don’t realize how big
this area really is.”
One of John Day’s top
tourist draws is the Kam Wah
Chung & Co. Museum, oper-
ated by the Oregon State Parks
from May to October, which
pays homage to the 2,000 Chi-
nese immigrants who lived in
the county a century ago.
Christina Sweet guides
tours at the state park and said
this year has already seen 400
more visitors than last year,
300 more in June alone. Each
day Sweet and Carol Faulkner
can take about 60 people, eight
at a time, on a free tour of the
immaculately preserved med-
ical clinic/general store/com-
munity center. During Memo-
rial Day weekend every ticket
was spoken for before noon.
This year they have already
had visitors from 43 states and
many international travelers,
fascinated by the history of the
American West. Chinese tour-
ists in particular have come to
visit the site of the third larg-
est Chinatown in the United
States, knowing their great un-
cles came to the states looking
for a better life.
Matt Wastradowski and
Alicia Like from Portland
were on an afternoon tour of
the Kam Wah Chung house,
and are spending the weekend
in the Fall Mountain outlook
the Malheur National Forest.
He said the furthest east in the
state he had previously been
was Bend.
Wastradowski followed the
standoff at the Malheur Wild-
life Refuge through news me-
dia, he said, which made him
realize that rural Oregon issues
Contributed photo/Jeanne Strange
Desiree Robison leads
out the Fourth of July
Jubilee Parade in
Monument on Monday.
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One of the best parts
about the town’s celebration,
she said, is the fireworks dis-
play.
“They’re big and beauti-
ful, and everybody’s gath-
ered in one spot, and it’s fun
to hear them visit,” she said.
“Monument is a nice commu-
nity to live in.”
Mitch shared his thoughts
on honoring the country for
Independence Day.
“The Fourth of July is
all about our country being
founded,” he said. “Even
though we’re a very small
part of it, we are part of it. It’s
very important that we cele-
brate that. There are so many
people who have given their
lives, their service, their work
so that we can have the rights
and privileges we have to live
in this country.”
are real issues to a lot of peo-
ple.
“I felt like I needed to get
east of the Cascades and ex-
plore the rest of the state,” he
said. “We’re different, but we
all ly the same lag.”
While tourism has seen
consistent growth in recent
years, it will see a massive
spike next summer.
A total solar eclipse, which
will completely envelope
much of Grant County on Aug.
21, 2017, has every room and
campsite in the county already
booked. The chamber of com-
merce has been working to
ind additional places for vis-
itors to stay, including local
ranches willing to convert to
campgrounds for the occasion.
Local stakeholders have be-
gun meeting to address issues
like ire safety, porta-potties,
trafic control and opportunities
to give visitors a positive expe-
rience while in town. Bremner
said they are a little ahead in
their planning efforts, but it will
be a big task to keep things run-
ning smoothly next year.
Bremner has heard from
Travel Oregon that half of the
visitors will be from other
countries, giving the county
a chance to spread its tourism
brand even further.
They have already adopt-
ed a tagline for an advertis-
ing campaign, “Come for the
eclipse, stay for the starry
nights.”
DUNCAN
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worked hard for the school
district. Every superinten-
dent before me had noth-
ing but good things to say
about Joe. People visiting
Monument had nothing but
compliments for Joe on his
grounds and buildings.”
A longtime Monument
resident, Duncan stayed in-
volved in the community.
In August of 2004, Joe
and his wife, Alice, and Bar-
bara Hawkins hosted an ice
cream social in the city park
to introduce new students to
the school and town.
When a lawn mower
race was held in September
2004 to support the local
ire department, it was not-
ed that Mayor Duncan was
“OK after being run over
twice.”
Duncan smiled and said,
“Next year, the advice will
be to stay away from the
lawn mowers.”
Jerry Boyer, a Monu-
ment business owner, added
his thoughts.
“We really appreciate
his dedication for all his
volunteer work and all the
extra stuff he did behind the
scenes,” he said. “He will be
missed.”
Darlene Muzzy of John
Day said she and her hus-
band, Wally, developed a
friendship with Duncan
through church.
“He was so handy — he
could ix anything — and he
was always helping some-
one else,” Darlene said.
A funeral service will
be held at 10 a.m. Saturday,
July 9, at The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in John Day, followed
by interment at the Monu-
ment cemetery. A luncheon
will then be held at the Mon-
ument Senior Center.
Duncan is survived by
his wife, Alice.
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