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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
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Powell, Johnson receive inspiration awards
Dayville teachers
nominated by
former students
Rylan Boggs
Blue Mountain Eagle
Two Dayville educators
have won the Inspirational
Teacher Award from Eastern
Oregon University.
Marguerite Powell, nomi-
nated by former student Han-
nah Flower, and Cis Johnson,
nominated by former stu-
dent Jamie Waltenburg, were
honored at Dayville School
during an assembly on Thurs-
day, April 6.
The school has about 45
K-12 students which allows
the teachers to develop and
maintain close relationships
with the students. Powell
teaches language arts, health
and social studies to the high
school students at Dayville.
She has known some of her
students since they were in
second grade. She often stays
in touch with former students
and recently downloaded
Snapchat, a picture sharing
app popular with younger
generations, to stay in touch
with a former exchange stu-
dent now back in Germany.
She also plans on meeting a
former student in Salem for a
campus tour with current stu-
dents.
Powell has worked at Day-
ville School since 2005 and
worked as a paralegal and
taught night classes prior to
moving to Dayville.
Johnson, an educational
assistant and librarian at the
school, said she was proud of
her former students now out in
the world and said receiving the
award made her feel like she
was making a difference.
Johnson helps students with
college applications, finding
scholarships and meeting dead-
lines to get into college.
“There’s a whole lot of
money out there that nobody
knows about,” she said about
scholarships.
She said one of the most
rewarding parts of her job is
helping a student from a family
where no one has ever attended
college get into a university.
“It’s fun to step back and
look at them and how they
grow,” she said.
Johnson and Powell are
among 18 educators from Ida-
ho, Nevada, Oregon and Wash-
ington nominated by first-year
honor students at Eastern Ore-
gon University to receive Inspi-
rational Teacher Awards.
Students who maintained
dean’s list standing during fall
term were given the opportu-
nity to nominate a high school
teacher who influenced them
on their road to higher educa-
tion and academic excellence.
EOU presents the Inspiration-
al Teacher Awards annually
in recognition of outstanding
high school teachers who en-
courage and represent the im-
portance of higher education
to their students.
New bistro highlights
timber industry, offers
fast homemade cooking
The Eagle/Rylan Boggs
Marguerite Powell recently
won the Inspirational
Teacher Award after being
nominated by former
student Hannah Flower.
The Eagle/Rylan Boggs
Cis Johnson recently
won the Inspirational
Teacher Award after being
nominated by former
student Jamie Waltenburg
Timbers Bistro in John Day, which opened in January, offers a
full espresso bar, breakfast and lunch.
Breakfast, lunch, coffee on Timbers menu
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The crew at Timbers Bistro
in John Day has been hopping
since opening for business in
January.
Located at 742 W. Main
St., the bistro offers a full
espresso bar featuring Dilla-
nos Coffee Roasters products.
There is a drive-thru, as well
indoor dining for breakfast
and lunch, which includes a
salad bar.
Timbers manager Tammy
Clark, who has been in the
customer service and coffee
industry for 15 years, said the
idea behind the business is a
return to the area’s roots.
“I wanted to put the timber
industry front and center, be-
cause it’s very much a part of
this community,” she said.
The business is owned by
Iron Triangle and employs 10
people.
“I wanted to go back to old
school, fast homemade cook-
ing and keep the menu very
simple,” she said.
Located in the former
McDonald’s
Restaurant,
the building has undergone
a complete transformation.
The interior design includes
a mixture of barn wood and
corrugated metal panels with
tractor seat chairs.
“Every piece of the barn
wood in here had to be
planked,” Clark said.
She said the busyness
they’re experiencing has
made all the effort worth it.
“My girls work hard,” she
said. “We love all the feed-
back we’ve gotten from the
community at the drive-thru
and on Facebook.”
Recently, baristas Cher-
ise Holmstrom and Taylor
Smith were keeping up with
the morning drive-thru cus-
tomers, preparing espressos,
lattes, ice rages and infused
Red Bull drinks.
Holmstrom said she’s en-
joyed seeing the transforma-
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Barista Cherise Holmstrom
prepares a drink at
Timbers Bistro.
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Timbers Bistro manager Tammy Clark steams milk for a latte.
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Customers enjoy lunch at Timbers Bistro on Thursday,
April 13, served by Taylor Smith, left.
tion of the building.
“We’re bringing some-
thing new to the community,”
she said.
“I love that it’s staying
busy,” Smith added. “It’s nice
that they’re showing a lot of
support throughout the com-
munity.”
Clark said they’ve been so
busy during the lunch hour
they sold out of cheesy broc-
coli soup before noon recent-
ly. Other soups served — and
there’s a new one each day
— include chicken tortilla,
cheeseburger and bacon po-
tato.
Breakfast
sandwiches
are available on a variety of
breads including croissant,
bagel, English muffin and
waffles, and breakfast burri-
tos are also on the menu.
Deli sandwiches, includ-
ing paninis, are available for
lunch, and recent hot lunch
specials have included Philly
steak sandwiches and enchi-
ladas.
The salad bar has 18 items
to choose from, including po-
tato and pasta salad, and there
are eight dressings.
For the sweet tooth, pas-
tries by Stephanie Coleman
range from cherry pie and
blueberry oatmeal bars to
jumbo-sized brownies and
rice crispy treats.
A gift section features hats
and hydro flasks, which Clark
says they plan to expand in
the future, and gift cards are
available.
They’ll also add outdoor
seating and fire pits.
Clark said she’s not been
surprised by the positive re-
sponse customers have had to
Jodi Ranft, left, and
manager Tammy Clark set
up the salad bar.
the business.
“It’s nice in here, and fun,
and as long as we have really
good coffee and food, that’s
what they want,” she said.
“I have an amazing crew,
and we love what we do. We
hope that resonates with our
customers, because we want
them to feel at home here.”
Timbers is open from
5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays
through Saturdays, and they
will eventually be open on
Sundays. For more informa-
tion, call 541-575-0151.
Point and shoot: Simulations test officers, public
By Rylan Boggs
Blue Mountain Eagle
German foreign ex-
change student Antonia
Mueller-Axt has just pulled
over two men driving a car
without license plates in a
bad part of town.
They both exit the vehi-
cle and begin yelling and
swearing at her as she steps
out of her patrol car. She
commands them to stop but
they both reach for guns
in their waist bands. She
shoots one, but the other
The Eagle/Rylan Boggs
draws his weapon and fires. John Day Police Chief Richard Gray demonstrates the
The simulation stops. proper way to hold a gun to German foreign exchange
The screen reads: “You did student Antonia Mueller-Axt using a training prop April 20.
not take action.”
Mueller-Axt is fine, and ulator called MILO-Range. partment from the Oregon
the two men are just film ac-
The simulator was loaned Department of Public Safe-
tors in a police training sim- to the John Day Police De- ty Standards and Training.
All John Day officers are
required to use the simula-
tor, Police Chief Richard
Gray said.
The simulator contains a
variety of scenarios police
officers would encounter
in the field, including ac-
tive shooters and suicidal
subjects. Officers have only
seconds to analyze the sit-
uation, give commands to
the simulator and make a
decision whether or not to
shoot.
Officers have replica
pepper spray, pistol, stun
gun, flashlight and extra
magazines they can use.
“It gives the officer a
safe environment to train
and engage a situation,”
Gray said.
Scenarios require the
user to determine wheth-
er or not subjects have the
means, intent and opportuni-
ty to kill or do harm.
Means refers to the sub-
ject’s ability to inflict harm,
such as having a weapon.
Intent refers to showing be-
havior indicating they wish to
harm you. Opportunity refers
to being at a range or in a sit-
uation where they can cause
harm.
Gray makes the simulator
available to those wishing to
use it so they can see what po-
lice officers undergo.
“It’s important the public
sees both sides,” Gray said. “If
the public can see how quick
things happen, maybe they
will have a better understand-
ing of what we go through on
a day-to-day basis.”
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German foreign exchange
student Antonia Mueller-
Axt uses the MILO-Range
law enforcement training
system for target practice
at the John Day police
station April 20.