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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 2016)
Community Blue Mountain Eagle The deadline for What’s Happening items is 5 p.m. Friday. Call the Eagle, 541-575-0710, or email editor@bmeagle.com. For meetings this week, see our list in the classifi eds on Page B9. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21 Congressional candidate meet and greet • 6:30-8 p.m., Canyon City Community Hall Democrat Jim Crary, who is running against Republican Rep. Greg Walden for the U.S. House of Representatives 2nd Congressional District, will give a presentation and answer questions. Hosted by the Grant County Democrats, information will also be presented about Measure 97. For more information, call 541-542-2633. FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 23-25 Three-man/Last Chance Golf Scramble • John Day Golf Course For more information call the golf course at 541-575-0170. SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 Farmers Market • 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Southwest Brent Street, John Day Weekly features include vendors offering a variety of locally grown produce, homemade food and handmade crafts, plants and more. Children from Kimberly will provide entertain- ment this week. The markets continue every Saturday through mid-October. Call 831-596-0656, email johndayfarmersmar- ket@gmail.com or visit johndayfarmersmarket.com. Color Me Free Fun Run and Walk • 9 a.m. registration, Grant County Airport Industrial Park, John Day Heart of Grant County will kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month with the third annual run and walk, which begins at 10 a.m. The cost is $20 per person or $40 per fami- ly. For more information call 541-575-4335 or email heartgc@ ortelco.net. Wednesday, September 21, 2016 A7 WHAT’S HAPPENING $25 per couple and $7.50 for children ages 6-12, with under 6 free. For more information call 541-934-2244. Alleluia! concert • 2 p.m., Prairie City Community Center Strings & Beyond and friends will present a celebration of praise and worship with doors opening at 1:30 p.m. Admission is by donation, and all proceeds benefi t the Prairie City Ministerial Association and Prairie City Community Center renovations. SUNDAY, SEPT. 25 Contributed photo Ghost Town Blues Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Diamond Hitch Mule Ranch in Kimberly. will be served at 6 p.m. For more information, visit mulesacros- samerica.com or call 541-934-2140. George Winston benefi t concert Rally for the Cure women’s golf scramble • Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m., Prairie City Community Center George Winston will appear in a solo guitar concert. Pro- ceeds will benefi t the Prairie City Community Center Resto- ration Project. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased in advance at Roan Coffee in Prairie City. For more information, call 541-620-1492. • 9 a.m., John Day Golf Course A continental breakfast and registration kick off the event, followed by tee-off at 10 a.m., and a Rally KP con- test and balloon launch after golf. A hamburger feed and an auction will begin at 4 p.m. The cost for golf and dinner is $40 and includes a goodie bag and magazine subscrip- tion, and the cost for dinner only is $8. Proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation and will stay in Grant County. RSVP by Sept. 30. For more information, call the clubhouse at 541-575-0170 or Kimberly Ward at 503-583- 0362. SATURDAY, OCT. 1 Harvest Bazaar in Unity • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Unity Community Hall Start holiday gift shopping season early at the third annual Harvest Bazaar. Several vendors will have a large variety of items available: crafts, art, jewelry and more. Call 541-446- 3314 for more information. Monument Buckaroo Festival and Harvest Auction Ghost Town Blues Band in concert • 12-7 p.m., Monument The event, benefi ting the Monument Senior Center, begins with food booths in the park at noon. A beer garden and music are available at 1 p.m., and a live auction in the park will start at 3 p.m. An elk and salmon dinner, with additional auctions and raffl e drawings, will be held at the senior center from 5-7 p.m. The cost for dinner is a suggested donation of $15 per person, • 6 p.m. dinner, 7:30 p.m. show, Diamond Hitch Mule Ranch, Kimberly. Enjoy horns, harmonies and homegrown instruments all the way from Beale Street in Memphis. Ghost Town Blues Band will perform at the ranch 2 miles south of Kimberly on High- way 19 between mile posts 107 and 108. Tickets cost $20, and camping costs $15. A barbecue pork dinner by Gypsy Spoon SUNDAY, OCT. 2 Rally for the Cure co-ed golf scramble • 9 a.m., John Day Golf Course Sign-ups for the four-person teams are at 9 a.m. with sign-up sheets available in the clubhouse prior to the event. Tee-off is at 10 a.m. A bring-your-own-meat barbecue dinner will be held at 4 p.m. Salad will be provided. The cost for dinner is $3, and the fee for golf is $10 per person. Nonmembers will also have to pay the green fee. The proceeds will be split 50/50 between prize money and Rally for the Cure. RSVP by Sept. 30. For more information, call the clubhouse at 541-575-0170 or Kim- berly Ward at 503-583-0362. O UT OF THE P AST A look back on news from Grant County over the past 100 years, pulled from past issues. Sept. 19, 1941 Blue Mountain Eagle 75 years ago Oct. 5, 1916 Grant County Journal 100 years ago IMPORTANT CHECK- ING STATION One of the important deer checking stations in the county will be at the Taylor Service sta- tion at the Y near Bates on the John Day highway. Many check in and out of here each year and there will be a 24-hour service maintained. Full camp equipment can be had at the store ranging from ammunition to everything in the food line for camp life. Mayme Taylor, the boss, is giving away a beautiful 17 jewel Waltham watch for the largest doe brought in. Contestants to be eligible must have placed a $5 order at the store. She is also running the Bashe Sage big buck contest. per conference was held La- bor Day week at Suttle Lake. Washington, Idaho and Ore- gon were represented and the speaker for the conference was from Washington, D.C. The Game Commission and Forest Service attended the meeting where 56 shooters compet- ed. Ivan McDaniel of Long Creek won fi rst in the scope shoot with a score of 29 out of a possible 30. Bob Asher of Mt. Vernon placed fi rst on the iron site shoot with 21 out of a possible 30. Chuck Daniels of Baker county placed sec- ond in the iron site contest. Jim Chitwood of Umatilla county received second honors in the scope shoot. Eldon Deardorff of Baker county placed third in the scope shoot. Six winners were tagged with fi ve of them coming from Eastern Oregon. Sept. 22, 1966 Blue Mountain Eagle 50 years ago Sept. 19, 1991 Blue Mountain Eagle 25 years ago Clay Porter of Long Creek is the best buckaroo in the county. That was the decision of the judges of the bucking contest at the county fair, and there were very few of those who followed the contests from day to day that ques- tioned the decision. It was not walk away, for there were a number of the boys on the job who ride bad ones in their ev- ery day work. Porter would be a good rider in any company. He is reported to have ridden at the Round-up right up to the fi nals and some of those who saw the show even claim that he would have stood an excel- lent show for the prize saddle had he been fortunate enough to have drawn one of the hard- est bucking horses. Trappers Win At Matches MONUMENT — A trap- With the season underway, hunters in Grant County are being asked to be alert to signs that could help solve the mys- tery of Steve Welch, a pilot from Madras whose airplane vanished in the John Day area this past Jan. 1. Extensive search and res- cue efforts have failed to turn up any traces of the missing plane or pilot. A search lasting several days was initiated just after the New Year. Welch was on a fl ight from Madras to John Day last Jan. 1. He was tracked on radar from Madras to Aldrich Mountain. The radar signals faded at 2:29 p.m. southeast of Fields Peak. He had intended to return to Madras that afternoon. It is presumed the airplane went down somewhere be- tween Aldrich Mountain and Madras, and that it is obscured from aerial view by the forest canopy. On the day of the fl ight, he was wearing brown duck jeans and chore jacket with an un- der-jacket of charcoal and ol- ive camoufl age, a brown plaid wool cap, brown leather pull on boots with white rubber soles and wedge gloves and eyeglasses. He also had a bag with green nylon shell and yel- low lining. Anyone fi nding or sighting anything out of the ordinary is asked to contact either Grant County Sheriff Fred Reusser at 575-1131 or Ray or Shirley Welch at 475-6523. Missing plane believed down in John Day area 04499
