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PROSPECTORS START SEASON
WITH SHUTOUT
– PAGE A10
The
Blue Mountain
EAGLE
Grant County’s newspaper since 1868
W EDNESDAY , S EPTEMBER 7, 2016
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DR. MOSIER IS IN
Dr. Lincoln
Mosier made a
return trip to his
hometown of
John Day for an
eight-week stint
on a rotation
at Strawberry
Wilderness
Community
Clinic.
Native returns to John Day for family practice rotation
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Life is making a full circle for Dr.
Lincoln Mosier, a third-year osteopath-
ic medical student, who returned to his
hometown John Day for a family practice
rotation at Strawberry Wilderness Com-
munity Clinic.
Mosier attends Pacifi c Northwest Uni-
versity’s College of Osteopathic Medi-
cine in Yakima, Washington, and worked
eight weeks at the local clinic.
His last day at Strawberry Clinic was
Friday.
In John Day, he dealt with a full range
of medical issues, from helping patients
with diabetes and high blood pressure
treatment to an appendectomy and deliv-
ering a baby.
“It was my second delivery,” he said. “My
fi rst delivery was my daughter, Abigail.”
Mosier and his fi ancé, Brittany Pym,
and their 7-month-old daughter stayed
with his mom, Brenda Mosier, while in
town. His father, Dale Mosier, also lives
in John Day.
A 2009 graduate of Grant Union High
School, some may remember Mosier
as the 2008-09 student body president,
Grant County Safe Communities Youth
Coalition president at the school and
board chairman of Grant County Com-
mission on Children and Families.
The Eagle/
Angel Carpenter
See MOSIER, Page A18
BIOMASS
OR COAL?
Oregon’s only remaining coal-fi red
power plant to test alternative fuel
Contributed photo/Oregon Torrefaction
In order to use as biomass,
woody debris must undergo
a process called torrefaction,
described as a “half-step below
making charcoal.”
Company to supply
8,000 tons of material
By George Plaven
EO Media Group
leaning up forest clutter might be good for more
than just curtailing large wildfi res in Oregon.
It might just be the answer Portland General
Electric is looking for to convert the Boardman
Coal Plant to 100 percent biomass.
Later this year, PGE will use nothing but woody debris to
power the station for one full day as the utility continues to
test alternative fuels at the 550-megawatt facility. A success-
ful test burn was conducted last year at Boardman using a
10-to-1 mix of coal and biomass, which has project leaders
feeling optimistic. But this will be the fi rst time the plant is
fed exclusively biomass for 24 straight hours, which will go
a long way toward determining whether the plan is feasible
long-term.
The future remains uncertain at Oregon’s only remaining
coal-fi red power plant. Rather than install expensive new emis-
sion controls, PGE has decided to either convert the station to
cleaner burning biomass, or shut it down entirely by 2020.
Wayne Lei, director of research and development for PGE,
said biomass is an intriguing though challenging concept for
Boardman. First, in order to feed biomass into the plant’s pul-
verizers, it must undergo a process called torrefaction — simi-
lar to making charcoal, or roasting coffee beans.
See BIOMASS, Page A18
C
EO file photo
Portland General Electric coal fire plant in Boardman.
PGE has decided to either convert
the station to cleaner burning biomass,
or shut it down entirely by 2020.
Grant County rodeo royalty prepare to ride
NPRA Rodeo
action on tap
Friday, Saturday
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant County Fair and
Rodeo Queen Jessica Carter
and Princess Trinity Hutchi-
son will welcome the crowd
at Friday and Saturday’s
Northwest Professional Ro-
deo Association Rodeo at the
Grant County Fairgrounds in
John Day.
Carter said she considers
herself blessed to be a part of
Grant County.
“I really appreciate the
culture and the heritage of
Contributed photo/Simmie Waddel
Queen Jessica Carter,
left, and Princess
Trinity Hutchison pose
for a photo after the
Aug. 22 tryouts.
it,” she said. “I also appreci-
ate rodeo, because it refl ects
my own life, somewhat, so
I want to represent Grant
County throughout all of Or-
egon and my own lifestyle of
ranching.”
Carter is the daughter of
Mat and Jennifer Carter of
Seneca, and she is a senior at
Grant Union Junior-Senior
High School.
At the Aug. 10-13 Grant
County Fair, Carter was
awarded champion senior
showman for steer and the
grand champion market
steer. She also won champi-
on senior livestock judge and
won reserve champion for a
4-H educational display.
At school, Carter is vice
president of Grant Union’s
FFA chapter and is treasurer
of FFA’s Strawberry Moun-
tain District.
See RODEO, Page A18
City seeks solution
to dog problems
By Sean Hart
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Eagle/Sean Hart
Wiley, a Corgie mix,
was attacked by a
much larger dog
in John Day. City
officials are seeking a
solution to dogs as a
public nuisance at the
Sept. 13 city council
meeting.
Dalena Norton was walking
her dog, Wiley, a Corgie mix, in
John Day when a pit bull that was
loose jumped out from behind a
hedge and attacked the small dog.
Her friend Cindy Bolman,
Dayville, quickly jumped in
and pulled the pit bull’s jaws
apart, saving Wiley, but the at-
tack sent her to the hospital with
a cut requiring four stitches.
Bolman said she is afraid to
walk the little dog after the inci-
dent and that it could have been
much worse.
See DOGS, Page A18