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News Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, November 30, 2016 A3 DeWitt Museum added to endangered list Restore Oregon provides grant to form preservation plan By Rylan Boggs Blue Mountain Eagle The Eagle/Rylan Boggs Kim McDonald, left, and Cory Jewell Jensen stand outside the Grant County Regional Airport on Tuesday, Nov. 15. The science of sex offenders Presentation provides tools to prevent child predators Facts about sex offenders By Rylan Boggs Blue Mountain Eagle Child sex abuse is often difficult to talk about, but Cory Jewel Jensen has cen- tered her career around just that. Jensen, the co-director at CBI Consulting, drew a crowd of roughly 80 people to the Grant County Region- al Airport for a presentation about sexual predators on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Judges, lawyers, police officers and others learned how sex offenders think and operate. The presentation showed the selection, en- gagement and seduction of children and adults by sex offenders. Jensen explained scien- tifically why sex offenders become offenders, how they groom victims and how to identify them. Andrea Officer, victim as- sistance director at the Grant County District Attorney’s Office, attended the presen- tation and said Jensen had “an amazing wealth of in- formation.” Officer said the presentation would help her perform her job by giving her additional tools, informa- tion and contacts. She said she was impressed with the range of people at the pre- sentation. Officer said she learned during the presentation of- fenders often molest many children before being caught. Jensen identified exposure to pornography at a young age as a common thread for of- fenders. They reviewed research on what kind of interview techniques work with offend- ers, learned about factors that contributed to confessions • 35 to 40 percent of sex- ual crimes against children are committed by juve- niles. • 52 percent of adult sex offenders say people knew they were offending and failed to report them. • One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped during their lifetime. • Children who have been molested are more likely to be re-abused by a new offender. • 4 to 7 percent of the population are child sex offenders. The DeWitt Museum has been named one of Oregon’s most endangered places by Restore Oregon, a nonprofit committed to preserve historical sites. The museum, once the old Sumpter Valley Railway Depot, has been preserved as a railroad museum and RV park. It houses a collection of items left from the railroad that once ran through the John Day Valley, as well as other artifacts from the past. The railway depot is leftover from a time when the railroad was the backbone of the John Day Valley. The locomotive was slowly pushed out by the automobile as personal transportation became more accessible to the average person and more roads were built. The Prairie City Depot was construct- ed in 1910 and used to help transport sup- plies and personnel for logging, mining and ranching activities from Baker Coun- ty to Prairie City. Later in its life, the depot was used for passenger service to Prairie City but was abandoned in 1933. The Olp family moved into the depot in the early 1940s, The Eagle/Rylan Boggs The DeWitt Museum in Prairie City has been named one of Oregon’s most endangered places by Restore Oregon, a non-profit committed to restoring and preserving historic places. and in 1947, the tracks were pulled up, according to Museum Curator Bob Shive. The Olp family lived there until 1973. Following their departure, the depot fell into disrepair and was almost torn down. However, a local group gathered donations and awareness by hiking the old rail line to preserve the building, accord- ing to Shive. The building was added to the Nation- al Register of Historic Places in 1976, and the museum moved into the building in 1983. In 1984, Prairie City assumed con- trol of the museum from Grant County. Though the museum is in need of a number of repairs, the situation could be worse, Shive said. The museum has tremendous support from the commu- nity, and he isn’t worried about the building being torn down anytime soon. “We certainly haven’t given up be- cause back in the ’70s it was in really bad shape,” Shive said. As well as railroad memorabilia, the museum is also home to the remainder of the DeWitt family collection, consisting of everything from horse tack to medical instruments and medicine from past eras. Restore Oregon compiles a yearly list of endangered places selected from nomi- nations sent in from across the state. Each location is historically significant and in danger of being lost through development, demolition or neglect. Each endangered place receives assistance from Restore Oregon and a seed grant for preservation. The DeWitt museum will receive a $2,500 seed grant from Restore Oregon to form a preservation plan and budget for repairs. Shive said the building is structur- ally sound but needs a new coat of paint, repairs to the siding on the building and, most of all, volunteers. Volunteering at the museum is ”a great way to study the area, history and learn more about it,” Shive said. One such volunteer is newly elected Prairie City City Council member Frank Primozic, who has been volunteering at the museum since 2005. Primozic said he started volunteering because he enjoys history and the museum helped him appreciate it. “The railroad opened up the John Day Valley to the 20th century,” he said. Helen Bogart awarded for senior center service Seniors applaud Bogart’s contributions By Angel Carpenter Information from Cory Jewel Jensen’s Nov. 15 pre- sentation in Grant County. Blue Mountain Eagle and heard testimony from those who confessed. Jensen said very few sex offenders are treatable, but support systems can be built around them. She said it re- quires a lot of treatment for them to not be a danger to society. Jensen previously served as the executive director at the Association for the Treat- ment of Sexual Abusers. She was the recipient of Oregon’s Commercial Crime Preven- tion Award and has been a featured guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Jensen donated her time, and the presentation was free for those who attended. She said she enjoys work- ing in her field, but there is a high demand for more peo- ple due to a high burnout rate among workers. A full house of diners at the John Day Senior Center’s Nov. 17 Thanksgiving meal applaud- ed Helen Bogart for her years of service at the facility. Chris Labhart presented a plaque to Bogart, on behalf of the seniors and people of Grant County. “This is for her outstanding and dedicated service to the John Day Senior Center,” he said. “She and Ken had a vision of what could be to make it the wonderful facility we have to- day.” The plaque hangs in a place of honor at the center, alongside her late husband Ken’s plaque, next to the American flag. The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Helen Bogart receives applause and a plaque, presented by Chris Labhart, for her dedication and outstanding service to the John Day Senior Center at the Nov. 17 Thanksgiving luncheon at the facility. Helen, 93, said she was tak- en by surprise when presented the award. “It kind of threw me,” she said. Helen said she’s loved “be- ing with the group and helping Cowboy Chapel Hour KJDY, Sunday, 7 a.m. “Bluegrass Christmas” AUXILIARY BAZAAR Saturday, December 3rd, 9AM - 4PM Grant County Fair Grounds Pavilion 04654 Mostly Handcrafted Items Soup & Pie Available Pictures with Santa - Bring Your Camera! Mary 541–620-4283 out and helping decorate.” But she’s done much more than decorating the tables for all the holidays and seasons and calling for sponsors to provide meals. Helen and Ken opened a trust fund for the center’s build- ing construction and operating costs before it was built 39 years ago. Several founders and con- tributors to the trust fund helped make the senior center a reali- ty, donating $100 to $1,000 to get the building project off the ground. Volunteers also helped with many fundraising events. Grant County senior pro- grams manager Veanne Weddle said Helen has been an example to her over the years. “I hope that I will be at least half as active at her age,” Weddle said. “She’s one of the most selfless people I’ve ever worked with. It has never been about Helen, but about the se- nior center and the people who go there.” This is a “thank you” to ODFW’s J.R. Goin, Pam Alley and Russ Powell, for their willingness to complete a spring development that Charlie and Pam Ubler started in 2005. The spring (on FS land) had to be dug up and piped to our property, and two troughs put in, one on FS land and one in our pasture. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough water for two troughs so only one was put in, on our property. We were wanting two - for wildlife and permitted cattle. J.R. Goin found out about this in early 2014 and started the ball rolling. He handled all negotiations. We didn’t foresee any problem but unfortunately, there were. In 2015 we were ready to give up. 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