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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
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Birders brave cold weather for
John Day Christmas Bird Count
26 bald eagles
spotted during
bird count
By Tom Winters
For the Blue Mountain Eagle
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Mikeala Donohue styles Taylor Edgar’s hair at her
salon called Just Teasin’ at 142 E. Main St. in John
Day.
Just Teasin’ hair
salon offers cuts,
color, convenience
Main Street
shop provides
services for the
family
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The hair salon Just Tea-
sin’, owned by Mikeala
Donohue, is conveniently lo-
cated at Java Jungle & Tropi-
cal Tan at 142 E. Main Street
in John Day.
Donohue said clients can
order coffee or lunch while
they have their hair styled
and walk-ins are welcome.
Her colorful and cozy
shop is located inside the cof-
fee and tanning business, tak-
ing a space where there once
was an extra tanning room.
Donohue said she likes
earning a living doing what
she loves.
“I enjoyed doing hair
when I was younger, so I
wanted to pursue it,” she
said. “I love to make people
feel good about themselves
and give them a new look.”
Donohue worked as she
spoke, giving her friend Tay-
lor Edgar a stylish curled
look.
She said she grew up in
Mt. Vernon and graduat-
ed from Grant Union High
School in 2014.
She studied cosmetology
Mikeala Donohue
at Walla Walla Community
College in Washington, then
transferred to Eastern Oregon
College of Industries and Arts
in John Day, graduating last
April.
Her list of services include
haircuts for men, women and
children, as well as all-over
hair color, partial highlights,
full highlights, shampoo and
style, deep conditioning, updo
hairstyles and facial waxing.
She said haircuts and color are
her specialties.
“I love visiting with my
clients and catching up on
their life between appoint-
ments,” she said.
Donohue’s hours are
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays
through Fridays, with walk-
ins welcome. Saturdays are
by appointment only.
To make an appointment
or for more information, call
541-792-9039.
The 36th Annual John
Day Christmas Bird Count,
held Saturday, Dec. 17, set
the record for the coldest
temperatures, dipping to -2
degrees for a low and 13 de-
grees for a high.
Eight
well-insulated
birders braved the chilly
day: Mike Bohannon, Su-
san Church, Karen Jacobs,
Clarence and Marilyn
O’Leary, Tim Shelmerdine,
Jim Soupir and Tom Win-
ters, with Anne Frost and
Cecil Gagnon keeping track
of their yard birds.
The weather cooperated
with a few light snow show-
ers and plenty of sunshine.
The number of birds seen
was 86 percent of average,
mostly due to low number
of participants.
There were two new
bird species seen this year:
Two red-breasted sapsuck-
ers were spotted (counted
once before during “count
week,” but never on the
count day) and a hybrid
woodpecker, an intergrade
flicker. Red-shafted flick-
ers are common west of the
Rockies, and yellow-shaft-
ed are common east of the
Rockies. They occasion-
ally hybridize and create a
flicker that shows features
of both species. A couple of
these birds have been seen
in the John Day area for the
past several months.
All told, 58 species were
found with 3,489 individu-
als counted.
Other highlights of this
year’s count were 125 wood
ducks in Canyon Creek —
the last highest count was
55 mountain quail in 2014
— only the fifth time count-
ed and not seen for 11 years;
Williamson’s
sapsucker,
only the seventh count for
this species; 33 western
scrub jays, second high-
est was 16 in 2013; horned
lark, only the third time and
not seen since 1994; lots of
Bohemian waxwings – they
often don’t migrate this far
south; and gray-crowned
rosy-finch, only the third
time. Other notable data in-
Contributed photo/Jim Soupir
Jim Soupir spotted
this red-breasted sap
sucker during the Dec.
17 John Day Christmas
Bird Count.
Contributed photo/Jim Soupir
This red-breasted sapsucker was photographed
by Jim Soupir during bird count week in
December in the John Day Valley.
Contributed photo/Tom Winters
A mountain quail
spotted by Tom Winters
during the Dec. 18
Antone Christmas Bird
Count.
Contributed photo/Tom Winters
Susan Church participates in the Dec. 17 John
Day Christmas Bird Count, looking for birds at
Holmstrom Ranch.
clude higher than average
counts of California quail
and bald eagles, and low-
er than average for Cana-
da geese, great blue heron,
Steller’s jay, Townsend’s
solitaire, American robin,
and house finch. There were
no turkeys seen this year
within the count area.
Birds seen were Cana-
da goose (28), wood duck
(20), American wigeon
(14), mallard (130), green-
winged teal (5), ring-
necked duck (2), hooded
merganser (3), common
merganser (3), chukar (4),
mountain quail (5), Califor-
nia quail (730), great blue
heron (3), bald eagle (26),
northern harrier (2), sharp-
shinned hawk (2), Coo-
per’s hawk (6), red-tailed
hawk (36), rough-legged
hawk (6), American kestrel
(6), Eurasian collared dove
(178), mourning dove (23),
barn owl (1), great horned
owl (2), belted kingfisher
(5), Williamson’s sapsucker
(1), red-breasted sapsuck-
er (2), downy woodpecker
(5), hairy woodpecker (5),
northern flicker (28), log-
gerhead shrike (1), Steller’s
jay (1), western scrub jay
(33), black-billed mag-
pie (104), American crow
(8), common raven (142),
black-capped
chickadee
(13), mountain chickadee
(12), red-breasted nuthatch
(1), pygmy nuthatch (4),
canyon wren (1), American
dipper (3), golden-crowned
kinglet (5), ruby-crowned
kinglet (7), Townsend’s
solitaire (35), hermit thrush
(1), American robin (191),
varied thrush (3), European
starling (307), Bohemian
waxwing (267), cedar wax-
wing (113), spotted towhee
(3), song sparrow (22),
white-crowned
sparrow
(24), golden-crowned spar-
row (3), dark-eyed junco
– Oregon (626), slate-col-
ored junco (7), red-winged
blackbird (7), Brewer’s
blackbird (1), gray-crowned
rosy-finch (1), purple finch
(2), house finch (19), red
crossbill (8), lesser gold-
finch (37), American gold-
finch (52), and house spar-
row (140). Species not seen
on the count day but during
the count week include
Northern goshawk, Merlin,
and evening grosbeak.
B IZ B UZZ
Electric
cooperative
returns $2.6
million in credits
to members
Oregon Trail Electric Co-
operative will return $2.6
million worth of credits back
to its members in December.
The cooperative operates
at cost with any excess rev-
enue being returned to mem-
bers when financial condi-
tions allow, according to an
OTEC press release.
The return, stemming
from a decision made in an
October board meeting, re-
turns the remaining balance
of credits from 1994.
“This is the largest
amount of credits we have
ever retired in one year,”
Chief Financial Officer An-
thony Bailey said in the re-
lease, adding it was double
what they gave back last
year.
To date, the cooperative
has retired approximate-
ly $31.5 million dollars in
credit.
Members with more
than $15 in eligible credits
will be receiving a check,
while those with less will be
credited on their December
bill.
“Being a member owned
non-profit
cooperative,
this is always a good time
of year and a great oppor-
tunity for the cooperative
to give our member-own-
er’s credit in the form of
a check for continuing to
help build,sustain and grow
their electric cooperative,”
General Manager Les Pen-
ning said in the release.
Former OTEC General
Manager Werner Buehler
also received the Oregon
Rural Electric Cooperative
Association’s highest honor,
the Distinguished Service
Award, at its 74th annual
meeting in Salem recently.
BEO Bancorp
announces 75
cent per share
dividend
BEO Bancorp has an-
nounced a $0.75 per share
dividend for 2016.
President and CEO Jeff
Bailey said in a press release
it will be paid to sharehold-
ers of record as of Dec. 5,
payable by Dec. 15.
“The dividend of $0.75
per share is 7.14 percent
higher than last year’s divi-
dend of $0.70 per share and
shows a continued upward
trend in dividend pay out
to our shareholders,” Bai-
ley said. “It is indicative of
Bank of Eastern Oregon’s
strong capital position.”
According to Board
Chairman George Koffler,
the company has paid a divi-
dend 30 of the past 31 years.
Bailey said the board of
directors and employees
work hard to improve the
overall strength of the bank,
add value to our sharehold-
ers and provide the brand of
banking customers appreci-
ate and expect.
“The support of our
shareholders, communities
and employees have made it
possible for us to succeed,”
he said. “We are pleased to
be in a position to provide
this dividend to our share-
holders.”
Timbers Bistro
plans to open in
January
New John Day restaurant
will offer salad bar, coffee
A new eating place
is coming soon to John
Day.
Timbers Bistro will offer
a breakfast and lunch menu
with drive-thru espresso.
Inside the restaurant, din-
ers can enjoy a salad bar and
much more.
Timbers Bistro is located
at 742 W. Main St., the for-
mer McDonald’s restaurant
location.
Canyon
City
resi-
dent Tammy Clark said
the
restaurant
honors
the community’s timber
industry.
“We’re getting back to
our Grant County roots,” she
said. “I’m excited to see my
customers again.”
An opening date has
not yet been scheduled,
but Clark expects they’ll
have their doors open in
January.
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Thank You Grant County!
With my retirement from the office of Grant County Treasurer, I want to take
this opportunity to say how much I’ve appreciated all your support and
confidence over the last 36 years as your County Treasurer. Throughout my
years in office, I always tried to keep our county’s finances balanced and
secure. There were certainly challenges, but the work was also very personally
fulfilling, and always along the way, I had your trust and assurances.
As I set my sails for the next adventures of my life, I go knowing the new
Treasurer will do her best and that the integrity of the office’s operations for
the public will continue.
Thank you Grant County, and wishing you a Great New Year 2017!
Kathy Smith
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