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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
Wind Down Wednesday
HAPPENING
plants and more. This week features en-
tertainment from children from Monument
playing violin and a special attraction
for children. The markets continue every
Saturday through mid-October. Call 831-
596-0656, email johndayfarmersmarket@
gmail.com or visit johndayfarmersmarket.
com.
SATURDAY, JULY 16
SUNDAY, JULY 17
• 8 a.m., Canyon City Park
This new event features a 2-mile hike,
12-mile bike ride and 3-mile run. Partici-
pants can sign up for one or all legs of the
challenge either as an individual or part of
a team. Poker cards will be drawn at five lo-
cations throughout the hiking leg. For those
also doing the biking and running legs,
there will be two additional cards drawn
that can be discarded or make a better hand.
The event starts and ends at Canyon City
Park. Poker hand tally and door prizes will
be awarded at the end. Winners must be
present. Entry fees are $20 a person or $40
per team, up to three members. Children
under 10 can participate for free. For more
information, email canyoncitychallenge@
gmail.com, or visit Canyon City Challenge
on Facebook.
Farmers Market
Ritter, Range and Three-Mile
schools 41st reunion
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
• Noon, Ritter Hot Springs
Students, families and friends are invited
to a potluck at noon with coffee, lemonade,
paper plates, silverware and napkins fur-
nished. Call Vivian Morris, 541-421-3868,
for more information.
Visitors mingle at the Wind Down Wednesdays event at the John Day Elks
Lodge this week. The event features vendors with everything from fresh fruit
and candles, to jewelry and chair massages. The Elks Lodge offers food and
drinks (soda, beer, wine) for sale, and music and games are provided as part
of the event — no Elks membership is required.
TUESDAY, JULY 19
Weekly wind down
Wednesdays at the Elks
Grant County Air Search meeting
• 6 p.m., Grant County Regional Airport,
John Day
The public is invited to the bi-monthly
meeting in the training room at the airport.
Membership applications will be avail-
able. Call 541-620-2708 for more infor-
mation.
SATURDAY, JULY 23
Gospel concert
• 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Southwest
Brent Street, John Day
Weekly features include vendors offer-
ing a variety of locally grown produce,
homemade food and handmade crafts,
• 3 p.m., Long Creek SDA Church
Everyone is welcome to attend the concert
by Ladies Praise from Walla Walla, Washington.
Call Vivian Morris, 541-421-3868, for more in-
formation.
O UT OF THE P AST
July 13, 1916
Grant County Journal
100 years ago
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Each week through the
summer, members and non-
members alike can enjoy an
evening at the John Day Elks
Lodge No. 1824 for Wind
Down Wednesdays from 5-8
p.m.
The open air market fea-
tures vendors with everything
from fresh fruit and candles to
jewelry and chair massages.
Food, drinks, games and
music are also offered, and no
Elks membership is required.
Vendor Sherrie Rininger,
who also sells her handmade
jewelry at the John Day Farm-
ers Market on Saturdays, said
several customers said it would
be convenient to shop at an
open-air market on a weekday
evening.
“We’re trying to give people
an opportunity to have some
place to come after work,” she
said.
She, Sandie Gilson and
others planned together to cre-
ate Wind Down Wednesdays,
Eagle file photo
From the July 14, 1966, edition of the Blue
Mountain Eagle: Civil Defense Check– Grant
County Jaycee Wives have been working with
the local Civil Defense system this month in
locating sheltered basements in John Day homes.
Information obtained by club members is being
turned over to Civil Defense, who will be able to
assist home owners in improving their basements
under shelter regulations. The Civil Defense office
is seeking to find out how many basements there
are in John Day for possible shelter use. Public
shelters are available for families not having
basement shelters. Above, Mrs. Ed Gunther (in
basement stairway) answers questions for Jaycee
Wives Mrs. Jim Dolan (left) and Mrs. Phil Hirl.
July 11, 1941
Blue Mountain Eagle
75 years ago
Bear awakens man from
deep slumbers
Ira Harer was awakened
one dark night not long ago
from heavy slumbers when
a bear opened the fl ap of his
tent and scratched Ira’s back.
He developed chills and high
temperatures. From the tent,
the bear went to the grub box
and helped himself with Mr.
Harer making no audible ob-
jections.
Coughlin & Leuenberger, P.C.
Welcomes
Andrew G. Martin, Attorney at Law
Mr. Martin has joined our firm effective July 1, 2016.
He is an experienced lawyer licensed in Oregon and Idaho
and has been practicing law since 2006.
His practice will focus on business, natural resource,
real estate, agriculture, land and water law.
Coughlin & Leuenberger, P.C.
David R. Auxier ~ J. David Coughlin
Martin Leuenberger ~ Andrew G. Martin
1705 Main Street, Suite 400, Baker City, Oregon 97814 (541-523-6535)
1513 North Whitley Drive, Fruitland, Idaho 83619 (208-452-6535)
www.bakercitylaw.com
GHOSTBUSTERS PG-13
Comedy reboot with a new cast, including
Kristin Wig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate
McKinnon & Chris Hemsworth.
FRI-THURS
(12:45) (4:00) 7:00 9:30
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS PG
A terrier named Max regularly invites his
friends to hang out at his place while his
owner is gone.
FRI-THURS
(12:45) (4:20) 7:20 9:35
MIKE & DAVE NEED
WEDDING DATES R
Comedy. Two brothers place an online ad
to find dates for a wedding and the ad goes
viral.
FRI-THURS
(12:45) (4:10) 7:10 9:40
$9 Adult, $7 Senior (60+), Youth
04158
A Wise Old Geezer
There was an old geezer,
and he had a lot of sense. He
started up a business on a
dollar eighty cents. The dol-
lar for stock, and the eighty
for an ad brought him three
lovely dollars in a day, by
gad!
Well, he bought more
goods and a little more
space, and he played that
system with a smile on his
face. The customers flocked
to his two-by-four and soon
he had to hustle for a regu-
lar room. Up on the square,
where the people pass, he
gobbled up a corner that was
all plate glass. He fixed up
the windows with the best
that he had and told them
all about it in a half page
ad.
He soon had ‘em coming,
and he never, never quit,
and he wouldn’t cut down
his ads, not one bit. And
he’s kept things humping in
the town ever since and ev-
ery-body calls him the Mer-
chant Prince.
Some say it’s luck but
that’s all bunk – why he was
doing business when times
were punk!
People have to purchase
and the Geezer was wise –
for he knew the way to get
them was to advertise – As-
sociated Advertising.
A3
WHAT’S
• 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 mem-
bership is not required. For more informa-
tion or vendor applications, contact Sandie
Gilson, 541-575-1529, or the lodge, 541-
575-1824.
Canyon City Challenge
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Enjoying the open air market are JJ Collier, left,
Kristy Haberly, Sherrie Rininger and, back right,
Amber Hensley.
which will be on the schedule
through the week of Labor Day.
Rininger said the dif-
ference with Wind Down
Wednesdays’ open air mar-
ket is that vendors are also
allowed to sell items that are
not handmade if they’d like.
Vendor tables are $5 for
each evening.
For more information or
vendor applications, contact
Sandie Gilson, 541-575-1529,
or the Lodge, 541-575-1824.