Community & History
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
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WHAT’S
HAPPENING
The deadline for What’s Happening items is 5 p.m. Friday.
Call the Eagle, 541-575-0710, or email editor@bmeagle.com.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
Wind Down Wednesday
• 5-8 p.m., John Day Elks Lodge patio and parking lot, 140
N.E. Dayton St.
An open-air market featuring food and drink specials,
games, entertainment and shopping from local vendors will
take place Wednesdays through Aug. 3. An Elks membership
is not required. For more information or vendor applications,
contact Sandie Gilson, 541-575-1529, or the lodge, 541-575-
1824.
SATURDAY, JULY 9
Farmers Market
• 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Southwest Brent Street, John Day
Weekly features include vendors offering a variety of lo-
cally grown produce, homemade food and handmade crafts,
plants and more. The markets continue every Saturday through
mid-October. Call 831-596-0656, email johndayfarmersmar-
ket@gmail.com or visit johndayfarmersmarket.com.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, JULY 12-13
Spay and neuter clinic
• John Day River Veterinary Center
Dogs on Tuesday. Cats on Wednesday. The vet center is at
59989 Highway 26, west of John Day. Call 541-932-4428 for
more information.
O UT OF THE P AST
A look back on news from
Grant County over the past
100 years, pulled from past
issues.
July 4, 1941
Blue Mountain Eagle
75 years ago
Chicken Feed: We sup-
posed that nickels and dimes
were chicken feed; they were
big money back in the depths
of the depression days. But
what’s a dime to millions of
Americans now making from
$10 to $15 a day? Chicken
feed. What’s a fi ve dollar bill
these days– chicken feed.
Skilled labor, by the millions,
now can make from $1.25 to
$2.00 per hour. We never re-
alized that an hour meant so
much or that the time would
come when dollar bills were
chicken feed.
July 7, 1966
Blue Mountain Eagle
50 years ago
Tailings and Slash
It was about 5 in the af-
ternoon, not “High Noon”,
when a couple of John Day
city policemen and hardware
dealer Leo Hehn were having
some sort of shooting contest
recently in the vacant lot by
theSan Juan mill offi ce. We
had heard rumors of a shoot-
off out there.
Defi nition of a poor loser–
frustrated dieters.
The only time Prairie
City’s Joe Stewart catches
anything when he goes fi shing
is when he returns home.
There’s a new toothpaste
that contains food particles for
people who don’t have time to
eat between every brushing.
There are always some
people who don’t mind their
own business, because they
have no mind, and about the
same about of business.
July 4, 1991
Blue Mountain Eagle
25 years ago
Mushroom pickers, log-
gers in the same area
Mushroom picking has
mushroomed into a big busi-
ness within Oregon in what
one buyer termed a multi-mil-
lion dollar industry which
runs virtually throughout the
year.
Currently, pickers are
working the Logan Valley
Area for the valued morel
mushroom which grows only
once in areas burned by for-
est fi res. The head buyer for
Cascade Mushrooms, Inc.,
who asked that his name not
be used, said pickers now are
earning from $3.75 to $4.50 a
pound.
“This has been ideal mush-
room weather,” he said. “It’s
been cool and wet, it’s that 90
degree weather and wind that
kills you.”
He said pickers travel
throughout the Pacifi c North-
west harvesting a variety of
mushrooms, many of which
regenerate on an annual ba-
sis. The season even extends
into the winter into the win-
ter months when pickers
head toward Fort Bragg in
Northern California to har-
vest winter mushrooms.
Pickers and buyers work-
ing the Sheep Mountain fire
area and surrounding sites
agreed that the season to
date has been slow, and they
complained that manage-
ment practices enacted by
the Forest Service put pick-
ers in potential danger by
forcing them to pick in areas
where logging salvage oper-
ations are underway.
“Cutting trees covers the
mushrooms so we can’t pick
them,” said Vign, a Cambo-
dian who manages one camp
for pickers. “All the rangers
worry about is the money.”
Pickers stressed that they
have no problems with log-
gers in the area, but they said
the Forest Service should
have established a manage-
ment plan for the area which
would have separated pick-
ers from loggers.
“This is the first time in
10 years that we’ve had any
[law] enforcement in a burn
area,” one buyer said. “Its
about time they started it.”
The buyer is a native Orego-
nian who now lives in Mon-
tana. He said he has picked
mushrooms his entire life,
but he has spent the last 10
years in commercial mush-
room operations.
With mushrooming be-
coming a big business, all
agreed that the Forest Ser-
vice needs to develop a uni-
form policy regarding har-
vesting practices and fees to
pick. One buyer complained
that each forest has a differ-
ent set of rules.
“We don’t mind the en-
forcement. We welcome it,”
he said. “We’re all legal
pickers here. There’s just too
many complications.”
He said the quality of this
season’s morel crop is good,
but the quantity is down.
They try and work cooper-
atively with loggers in the
area, but the reality is that
logging operations destroy
mushroom habitat.
“But the trees have to be
harvested too,” he said. “We
don’t want to upset any log-
gers.”
He said the area should
have been closed longer.
Opening it to logging forced
pickers to harvest prema-
ture mushrooms. Leaving it
closed a little longer would
have allowed the mush-
rooms to mature thus in-
creasing the tonnage of the
harvest while still allowing
tree salvage operations to
continue.
“We need to control the
harvests,” one buyer said,
“but I hate to tell the Forest
Service that because they will
screw it up.”
Blue Mountain
Hospital District
170 Ford Rd., John Day
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Eloise ‘Lois’ Hill was born on September
1, 1924. She has lived nearly her entire
life in the communities of Kimberly,
Monument and Spray.
BLUE MOUNTAIN
CARE CENTER
Resident of
the Month
ELOISE HILL
As a young girl, she helped to cook for
harvesting crews and this led to her love
of cooking and baking. She cooked at
Monument schools, first as an assistant
cook and later as the head cook, until
her retirement in 1989, after 23 years of
cooking for the school. She is always
delighted when one of the ‘kids’ (now
adults) sees her and compliments her on
the great meals and especially the hot
rolls she served.
Lois married a young rancher, Charles
“Son” Hill who had several Ranches
along the John Day river between
Kimberly and Spray. They worked hard
with their cattle herd and growing
hay. They also raised their two
children on the ranches; son,
George “Gus” and daughter, Jean.
Lois always had a big garden to
help feed the family and canned
fruit every summer from the
Kimberly orchards. Lois was “Son’s”
constant companion and caregiver
during the last 10 years of his life,
following a series of strokes.
Lois was also an avid quilter and
spent many afternoons quilting
with her friends around Kimberly,
while “Son” was taking his
afternoon nap. The Kimberly bunco
group was a source of great support
and she loved the bunco get-
togethers.
Lois came to the Blue Mountain
Care Center on January 7, 2014.
Presents...
July Visiting Specialists
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11th - Dr. Rushton - Baker
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18th - Dr. Rushton - Baker Podiatrist
19th - Korina Farris - Bend Neuro
20th - Dr. McLellan - Bend Cardio
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