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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.
FRIDAY, OCT. 7
‘Beyond Burns’ patriot movement presentation
• 7 p.m., Canyon City Community hall
Rural Organizing Project, a nonprofi t organization, will
present information about the political and economic roots of
the patriot movement and its impact on communities in Ore-
gon. The event is sponsored by Blue Sage Ministries and Grant
County Positive Action.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, OCT. 7-15
Local art exhibits
• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., DeWitt Museum and Sumpter Valley
Railway
The exhibit will feature work from local artists. A $3 admis-
sion fee includes entry to the museum.
SATURDAY, OCT. 8
WHAT’S
HAPPENING
Dinner will be served at the school cafeteria from 5:30-6:30
p.m. with the game starting at 7 p.m.
Cost is $10 a person for dinner and the game. All proceeds
benefi t the Grant Union football team.
For tickets, contact a Prospector football player or call head
coach Jason Miller at the school 541-575-1799, ext. 22.
Second Saturday Gathering
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. Call 831-596-0656, email johndayfarmersmarket@
gmail.com or visit johndayfarmersmarket.com.
• 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Outpost Restaurant in John Day
Ladies of Grant County are invited to Second Saturday
Gathering at the Outpost. Chris McKinley will be guest speak-
er on the topic of “The Glory of God”. Kathy Rogers and Lis
Davis will present music at the no-host breakfast. Coffee and
tea are complimentary.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 8-9
Grant Union Alumni Football and Taco Feed
• 5:30-7 p.m., Grant Union Junior-Senior High School
It’s game time on Saturday for former Prospector football
players during Saturday’s Grant Union Alumni Football and
Taco Feed fundraiser.
Sissy Dawson
Agent
Dawson Farmers Insurance Agency
342 W Main St.
John Day, OR 97845
541-575-3518
sdawson@farmersagent.com
OR Producer LIC #17936489
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Country Chicks Fall craft bazaar
• 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday
• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, Mt. Vernon Community Hall
The bazaar will feature all handmade items: vintage, prim-
itive, refurbished and reinvented. Lunch will be served both
days from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a choice of taco soup or chick-
en chili, with chips and salsa and a drink. Desserts will also be
available. For more information or to rent a space, call Bonnie
Cearns at 541-571-3284.
Contributed photo/Nicole Israel
Grant County Fair and Rodeo Queen Jessica Carter,
right, and Princess Trinity Hutchison at the NPRA
Finals Rodeo in Prineville. The community is invited
to meet the fair and rodeo royalty from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Oct. 15 at the Corner Cup Coffee House in John Day.
SATURDAY, OCT. 15
Farmers Market harvest festival
• 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Southwest Brent Street, John Day
Celebrate the arrival of fall at the annual harvest festival
with games, crafts, music, produce and baked goods, pumpkins
galore and more. The cider press will be available all morning.
For more information, call 831-596-0656, email johndayfarm-
ersmarket@gmail.com or visit johndayfarmersmarket.com.
Meet and greet with the rodeo royalty
• 6:30-8:30 p.m., Corner Cup Coffee House
The community is invited to meet Grant County Fair and Ro-
deo royalty Queen Jessica Carter of Seneca and Princess Trin-
ity Hutchison of John Day, as well as Li’l Miss NPRA Rowdy
Israel of Dayville. The girls will hold a 50/50 raffl e to benefi t
travel and wardrobe expenses for the queen and princess. For
more information, call royalty adviser Nicole Israel at 541-620-
2624.
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Oct. 3, 1941
Blue Mountain Eagle
75 years ago
Smiled over a switch-
board 19 or 20 years
Mrs. Linnie Grant of
Canyon City and Mrs. Lau-
ra Bradford of Prairie City
have smiled and said more
pleasant things than any oth-
er two women in all Grant
County.
To hold your tongue and
keep a peaceful mind when
a thousand telephone users
ring over a switchboard ev-
ery day for a period of 20 or
more years is a very unusual
disposition. To the knowledge
of the writer, it would try the
patience of Job to talk nice
to one million persons yearly
when all is rush and jam so
far as telephone offi cers are
concerned.
Robbins Farm Equipment
3850 10th St.
Baker City
10218 Wallowa Lake Hwy.
La Grande
1160 S Egan
Burns
86812 Christmas Valley Hwy.
Christmas Valley
541-523-6377
541-963-6577
541-573-6377
541-523-6377
Eagle file photo
From the Oct. 4, 2006, edition of the Blue Mountain
Eagle: SPANISH TRIP FUNDRAISER — Some of
the members of Grant Union’s Spanish Club, left
to right: Andrew Judd, Caleb Sturgill, Matt Becker,
Rhett Elliott, teacher’s aid Alejo Ortiz, Angie Allen,
Sheila Mezzo and Sabrina Hoffman.
Oct. 6, 1966
Blue Mountain Eagle
50 years ago
Deer hunting report good
Hunter success for the open-
ing weekend was considered
good. Hunter checks revealed
a 25-percent success ratio for
hunters to the north of the main
John Day river, and a slightly
higher ratio to the south. Hunter
numbers appeared to be lower
than normal in many areas of
the county, while many popular
hunting spots revealed near av-
erage pressure. Overall hunter
participation is rated lower than
in previous years.
Heavy rains with sleet and
snow at higher elevations re-
duced the hunter success Sun-
day as many hunters left the
county early. However, the same
conditions that caused the week-
end hunter to quit early should
help ensure good hunting condi-
tions throughout the next week.
Most popular areas produced
good hunting during the open-
ing weekend and hunting should
continue good throughout the
medium to high elevations this
coming weekend. Deer are in
general kegged up in heavy
brush on north slopes and will
probably remain there until
weather conditions move them.
Best areas in the county should
continue to be east of Highway
395 in the Murderer’s Creek and
Northside units. In addition, the
brushy areas through the Beulah
unit should continue good. Chu-
kar hunting is poor with rains
and new green grass scattering
birds back into the rims. Few
grouse hunters have been out
as most hunters are concentrat-
ing on deer. Duck season opens
Saturday and hunting should be
good to excellent along the main
John Day River and in dredge
ponds for mallards and some
teal. Geese have not as yet ar-
rived in any numbers along the
lower river. Duck limits are fi ve
per day and 10 in possession
with no more than two wood
ducks in possession.
Oct. 3, 1991
Blue Mountain Eagle
25 years ago
New county phones up and
running, and almost pain free
Installation of a new phone
system for the county, at least on
the surface, seemed like a pretty
simple, straightforward process,
and although it’s taken some un-
expected turns with some unex-
pected expenses, it should be in
operation this week within bud-
get. Grant County Court Com-
missioner Sondra Lino updated
court members last week on the
transition and related problems.
The fi rst involved the health
department, which has two ex-
isting lines and a request pending
for the installation of a third long
distance line. Unfortunately, the
existing system in the building is
at capacity with two lines, so in-
stallation of the third line would
cost an additional $2,700 for
the new equipment. Lino said
the health department opted to
retain the two existing lines but
make one a long distance line
at a cost of $1,200. The mental
health department also proved
to be an interesting twist when it
was learned that former director
Dan Kroy purchased an entirely
separate phone system through
AT&T.
The system has three lines,
and it also is at capacity. The
AT&T system allows expansion,
but it would require doubling
the number of lines at a cost
from $700 to $800, which will
be paid by the department. Lino
had a copy of mental health’s
long distance phone bill, which
amounted to approximately
$400 per month. The expan-
sion of the system and addition
of a long distance line — at a
cost of about $800 now to the
department — could save the
department more than $300
per month in long distance
charges. Although Lino had
not yet presented the proposal
to Charles White, director of
the mental health department,
she and other court members
felt comfortable with what the
probable answer would be.
Debbie Ausmus
245 South Canyon Blvd.
John Day, OR 97845
OPEN WED. & THUR.
9 am - 5 pm
541-575-1113
24 hrs/7 days wk
debbie.ausmus@
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