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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 classifieds on Page B7.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
W HAT’S
HAPPENING
Community blood drive
• 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Dayville School gymnasium
To schedule an appointment or for more information, contact
Dayville High School Leadership or visit redcrossblood.org and use
the sponsor code “DayvilleSchool.”
SATURDAY, MARCH 18
Ron and Carol Hyder Memorial Jackpot Shoot
• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kimberly Rock Products pit, milepost 9 on High-
way 402
Events include jackpots, Annie Oakley and more, plus men’s, wom-
en’s and children’s competitions. Concessions will be available on site.
The cost is $3 per shoot. Call 541-934-2143 for more information.
SUNDAY, MARCH 19
Trap shoot
• 9:30 a.m., Seneca Range
Practice starts at 9:30 a.m., and the shoot begins at 10 a.m. Ev-
eryone is welcome. Food and shells are available. For more informa-
tion, call Ab Bezona at 541-240-1452.
Lenten luncheon
• 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Seventh-day Adventist Church, John Day
A soup meal will be served, followed by a service. All are wel-
come. For more information, call 541-521-2247.
MONDAY, MARCH 20
THURSDAY, MARCH 16
Americanism essay dinner
Social artwork guided painting class
• 5:30 p.m. Outpost Restaurant, John Day
Blue Mountain Community College is sponsoring a social
artwork guided painting class. Artist Kim Randleas will lead
the fi rst class. The cost is $25 and includes instruction, canvas,
supplies and light refreshments. All skill levels are welcome.
Participants should “dress for the mess.” For more information,
or to reserve a spot, contact Ashley Armichardy at 541-575-
1550. Preregistration is required, and forms may be picked up
at the Grant County Education Service District at 835 S. Can-
yon Blvd.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17
Contributed photo
People in Long Creek line up for a St. Patrick’s Day
dinner at the Long Creek Community Center. The Long
Creek Historical Society will host a benefit dinner for the
Fort Townsend Museum building from 5-7 p.m. Friday,
March 17, at the SDA Friendship Hall in Long Creek.
CASA benefi t prime rib dinner
St. Patrick’s Day benefi t dinner
• 5-7 p.m, SDA Friendship Hall, Long Creek
The Long Creek Historical Society will present an evening featur-
ing live music by the Grant County Jammers, with corned beef and
all the fi xings on the menu. Proceeds will benefi t the Fort Townsend
Museum building. Reservations are not required. For more informa-
tion, call 541-421-3010.
• 5:30 p.m., John Day Elks Lodge
Doors open for a benefit dinner with silent, live and des-
sert auctions at 5:30 p.m. with dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. In-
dividual tickets cost $25, and couples cost $45. Tickets will
not be sold at the door and must be purchased by March 15.
For more information, call 541-575-5574 or visit grant-har-
neycasa.org.
• 6:30 p.m. Legion Hall, John Day
All are welcome to the annual potluck dinner honoring local
American Legion Americanism essay contest winners. Ham will be
furnished; attendees are asked to bring a side dish. The event is spon-
sored by the Ellis Tracy American Legion and Auxiliary. For more
information, call 541-575-0766.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
Lenten luncheon
• 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Canyon City
A soup meal will be served, followed by a service. All are welcome.
For more information, call 541-521-2247.
Local Advisory Committee biennial review
5-8 p.m., Monument Senior Center
A biennial review of the North and Middle Forks John Day River
Agricultural Water Quality Management Area Plan will be presented by
the local advisory committee. Members of the public are welcome to
attend. For more information, call Bryan Vogt at the Monument Soil and
Water Conservation District at 541-934-2141.
Geologist educates public on local rocks
O UT OF THE P AST
Blue Mountain Eagle
March 12, 1992
25 years ago
Local author gets pub-
lished
Robert Stubblefi eld, a
1979 graduate of Monument
High School, will receive his
undergraduate degree this
June from Eastern Oregon
State College with plans to
attend graduate school, but
in the interim, he is work-
ing to establish his writing
career. Stubblefi eld, son of
George and Cora Stubblefi eld
of Monument, fi rst gained
recognition as a writer while
attending Clackamas Junior
College, where he won the
Writer’s Club writing contest
two consecutive years in the
fi ction category. While attend-
ing Clackamas Junior Col-
lege, he transferred to EOSC.
During the 1990-91 school
year, he served as assistant
editor for EOSC’s literary
publication, Oregon East, and
this year he served as the ed-
itor. He is also a contributing
writer to Writing and Fishing
the Northwest, by the au-
A11
By Rylan Boggs
Blue Mountain Eagle
Eagle file photo
From March 12, 1992:
Prairie City Police Chief
Tom Hebard (left), Oregon
State Police Trooper Mel
Pendarvis and OSP Sgt.
Dick Tenderella (right)
traveled to the Prairie City
Elementary School to
give youngsters in grades
kindergarten through
four an opportunity to
see the department’s new
Chevrolet Camaro patrol
unit up close and personal.
thors of Blue Heron. It is the
fi rst volume of a new literary
magazine showcasing writers
from the Pacifi c Northwest.
For the fi rst edition, authors
were turned loose on the sub-
jects as “fi shing as metaphor
and writing as the naming of
truth,” according to an excerpt
from the Nov. 15, 1991, issue
of Publishers Weekly.
A Forest Service geologist has been
giving monthly talks about the geology
of Grant County.
Seventy-four people packed into the
St. Thomas Episcopal Church to see
Hannah Grist’s presentation on the sedi-
mentary rocks of the Aldrich Mountains
March 8.
She explained a variety of deposition
environments, ranging from glacial to
oceanic, in which sedimentary rocks are
formed.
Through crowd participation and
examples, Grist revealed the Aldrich
Mountains were formed by marine
shoreline and offshore deposition pro-
cesses.
This is known based on the presence
of chert-rich conglomerate, beach sand,
marine shell fossils and marine micro-
fossils, such as plankton and other small
organisms.
“Sedimentary rocks are the great re-
cyclers of the world,” Grist said.
The next talk, focusing on the gran-
ites of Dixie Butte, will be April 12. A
fi eld trip to explore fossils, chromium
mines and stitching plutons is planned
for a yet-to-be-decided date in May.
Grist said she started the talks after
The Eagle/Rylan Boggs
Forest Service Geologist Hannah
Grist shares examples of extrusive
and intrusive igneous rocks during
a geology talk at St. Thomas
Episcopal Church in Canyon City
Wednesday, March 8.
hearing observations, interpretations
and questions about the geology from
local miners.
She wants people who attend the
talks to take away an understanding of
local geology, allowing them to make
observations and draw conclusions of
their own while out recreating.
Grist said Grant County is an inter-
esting place to study geology because
there have been no lava flows to cover
the process of accretion, the addition
of material to a tectonic plate, which
shaped the west coast. This has left the
process that formed the region avail-
able to study.
Susan Church, the priest at St.
Thomas, said she thought Grist was a
great teacher and enjoyed the interac-
tive portions of the lecture, especially
the rock identification.
“It was wonderful to learn about
the area I live in,” Church said.
She was grateful to learn more
about the local geology and about how
the Aldrich Mountains had formed.
She expressed interest in seeing sim-
ilar events on different topics and
planned on attending next month’s
meeting as well as the field trip in
May.
For Church, it was also about build-
ing community. In the wake of recent
divisive events, she said it was nice to
be able to find common ground with
other groups.
“It’s a way for people who hold
different ideas and positions to come
together and talk,” Church said.
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