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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.
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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.
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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. Main St. • John Day, OR 97845
541.575.0547
www.gcoregonlive.com
Wishing you an
Old-fashioned
Country Christmas.
We appreciate your business & support.
Lori Hickerson, Principal Broker, GRI
Office: 541-575-2617
ljh@ortelco.net
Sally Knowles, Broker, GRI
Office: 541-932-4493
sknowles@ortelco.net
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Office: 541-987-2363
ddwr@ortelco.net
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