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A8 News Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Truckers light up downtown John Day Parade hearkens back to timber era By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle John Day was merry and bright Saturday night as the Timber Truckers Light Parade brought cheer to spectators on Main Street. “We had a wonderful vari- ety of entries,” said organizer Leslie Traylor. There were 26 entries rep- resenting the “A Hometown Christmas” theme — some blaring sirens or music, or blasting “Jingle Bells” with their horn. Traylor said she was im- pressed with the creative dis- plays this year. Rude Logging’s float, driv- en by Tim Rude, won the top sweepstakes prize. He pulled a trailer featuring a miniature parade within a parade, which showed a log truck driving past downtown businesses. Traylor said seeing the kids jumping up and down in anticipation of the parade, and hearing the positive com- ments, “made it all worth- while.” After the parade, all were invited to the John Day Elks Lodge for a by-donation din- ner by Elks members, which included cinnamon rolls by Kathy Bishop. “Prairie Wood Products started the parade as a way to Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter Santa with an elf and a helper in the Timber Truckers Light Parade. Tim Rude of Rude Logging parades the sweepstakes-winning commercial float in Saturday’s Timber Truckers Light Parade. The trailer features a log truck passing by a scene of downtown John Day. recognize the timber indus- try,” Traylor said. “Over the years, we’ve enlarged on that to include the commercial, farm and ranch, community organizations and individual entries.” Boyd Britton and Mark Baggett were the parade announcers, and commit- tee members helping Tray- lor included Brenda Mosi- er, Curt and Lisa Pereira, Jody Moulton, Mary Ellen Brooks, Chantal DesJardin, Tasha Lundbom and Dan Bishop. Timber Trucker Light Parade results: TIMBER First: Rude Logging Second: Iron Triangle Logging Third: Iron Triangle Logging COMMERCIAL First: One Guy & A Wrench Second: Frontier Equipment Third: John Day Auto Parts Farm and Ranch First: CLP Ranches Second: CLP Ranches Third: Bauer Land & Cattle Co. The Whiskey Gulch Gang pauses at the stoplight in John Day while the crowd joins in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the Timber Truckers Light Parade. COMMUNITY First: Grant County Snowbal- lers Second: Blue Mountain Hos- pital Third: John Day Post Office PEOPLE’S CHOICE First: Rude Logging Second: Frontier Equipment Sweepstakes: Rude Logging Shotgun winners: Lisa Perei- ra and Ron Grebs Magone Lake Project moves forward Project encompasses roads, trails, trees and wildlife By Rylan Boggs Blue Mountain Eagle The Magone Lake Project is moving forward, and the Forest Service is preparing to accept another round of com- ments on the project. The Forest Service re- ceived roughly 300 comments about the project, which were taken into account to make the current draft of the plan. The plan encompasses multiple aspects of the area, including roads, trails, silvi- culture, forest health and im- pact on wildlife. The project will yield ap- proximately 16 million board Refreshments and door prizes all day Enter to win the 6 foot Christmas stocking for the kids and a compressor for the adults. All tools, equipment and auto parts will be on sale. Save the date! Dec. 15th 7am -7pm. 721 W Main St., John Day 541-575-1850 Open Mon-Fri 7am-6pm Sat 8am-5pm, close Sun feet, create 164 jobs for two years and will create a direct, indirect and induced income of about $4,500,000. There will be roughly 28,500 acres of prescribed burning as part of the project. “It’s a critical component of managing our forests, and we’re trying to get a handle on it so we don’t have the catastrophic wildfires we’ve seen here,” Malheur Nation- al Forest Supervisor Steve Beverlin said of the Magone project. Twenty six miles of new trails will be added in a three-phase process with work being completed by lo- cal mountain biking groups. Improved trail heads and in- terpretive signs will also be added. An improved day use boat dock on the southwest corner of the lake is planned as is a replacement for the current boat mooring on the northwest corner of the lake with a handicap-accessible mooring. To improve the ecosys- tem of the lake, 15 to 20 fish cribs — cage like habitats for fish — and 70 to 100 fish sticks — trees sunk vertically in the lake to provide habitat and cover for fish — will be placed in the lake. Almost 100 miles of road maintenance are also planned. One mile of road will be closed permanent- ly because it is overgrown and unusable, and almost 50 miles of roads will be closed temporarily, according to the Forest Service. The plan can be viewed at the Forest Service office in John Day or online at fs.usda. gov/malheur. Those who sub- mitted comments during the last phase of the project are el- igible to submit objections in a 45 day window starting Jan 1. 04907 Thank you for your patronage this year. Wishing you the best in 2017. MERRY CHRISTMAS! Gibco Ag & Industrial 311 N Canyon Blvd. Canyon City 541-575-2050 THE GRANT COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE reminds you to shop these local chamber members. Advantage Dental America’s Best Motel Arrow Appliance Repair Bank of Eastern Oregon Benchmark Land Surveying Bisnett Insurance Blue Mountain Care Center Blue Mountain Chiropractic Blue Mountain Eagle Blue Mountain Hospital Canyon Mountain Center CenturyLink Chester’s Thriftway City of John Day City of Long Creek City of Mt. Vernon City of Prairie City City of Seneca Claws & Paws Pet Sitting Columbia Power Co-op Community Counseling Solutions Country Preferred Realtors Dawson Farmer Insurance Agency Debbie Ausmus Insurance Agency, Inc. Doug’s Motor Vehicle Repair D.R. Driscoll Books Driskill Memorial Chapel Duke Warner Realty Eastern Oregon Realty Eastern Oregon University Ed Staub & Sons ER Printing and Graphics Families First of Grant County Ferguson Surveying & Engineering, Inc. Fossil Shift Bike Shop Four Seasons Plumbing Grant County Farm Bureau Grant County Geneological Society Grant County Historical Museum Grant County Kruzers Car Club Grant County People Mover Grant County Snowballers Grant/Harney County CASA Hair It Is John Day Farmer’s Market John and Linda Shelk Foundation John Day Golf Club John Day Senior Center John Day Taxi John Day Trailer Park Juniper Press KJDY Land Title of Grant County, Inc. Malheur National Forest Malheur Employees Association MD Enterprizes Mossy Oak/Cupper Creek Land Company Northfork John Day River Watershed Council Old West Federal Credit Union Oregon Telephone Company Oregon Trail Electric Oster Professional Group Prairie Springs Fish Farm Ritter Hot Springs Robert Bagett PLS, CWRE Silvies Valley Ranch State Farm Insurance Step Forward Activities Town of Canyon City Valley View Retirement Center Virginia McMillan D.D.S. Grant County Chamber of Commerce 301 W. 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