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A6 News Blue Mountain Eagle The deadline for What’s Happening items is 5 p.m. Fri- day. Call the Eagle, 541-575-0710, or email editor@bmea- gle.com. For meetings this week, see our list in the classi- fieds on Page B11. Wednesday, August 16, 2017 W HAT’S HAPPENING FRIDAY, AUG. 18 Eclipse country music dance and concert • 7-11 p.m., Prairie City Senior Center Residents of all ages are welcome to enjoy music by the Copper Ridge Band. Refreshments of iced tea, lemonade and water will be provided, and no alcohol, vaping or smoking will be allowed. The cost to attend is by donation, and all funds raised will benefi t the Prairie City Senior Center. Eagle file photo Marcus Perkins sings “Rockin’ Robin” at last year’s Grant County Talent Search. He is scheduled to perform at the MoonLIT Music Festival Saturday. SATURDAY, AUG. 19 John Day Farmers Market • 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Southwest Brent Street, John Day The market features crafts, baked goods, produce, kids ac- tivities, entertainment and information booths. For more infor- mation, call 541-792-0958 or email johndayfarmersmarket@ gmail.com. The rural, folk rock, Americana singer will perform an acoustic set. Doors open at 7 p.m. for VIP and at 8 p.m. for gen- eral admission. Suds Pub will provide food and beverages, and all ages are welcome. Tickets start at $30 and may be purchased at maddenbrothers.tix.com or by calling 1-800-595-4849. MoonLIT Music Festival • 2 p.m. to midnight, Grant County Fairgrounds, John Day Several local and regional artists will present multiple genres of music, including country, alternative, rock, pop and folk. Headliner bands include Jane N The Jungle, Hit Factory, Wind Fields, VCI Audio and Jamie Rachelle. Local musicians include Les Church of Prairie City, performing with Gary Battle of Oakridge and Prairie City; Marcus Perkins of John Day, joined by Nathan Delano of Pendleton; Samantha Floyd of Canyon City; Austin McKrola of Mt. Vernon; sisters Aliciana and Ma- leah Archibald of John Day; and Peter and Rachel Lyttlewood of Long Creek. Tickets are available at MoonLitMusicFestival. com. For more information, call 541-575-0547. SATURDAY-MONDAY, AUG. 19-21 Art show • 9 a.m. to dusk, Prairie City Motors, 222 NW Water Alley, Prairie City An open-air, two-man local art show will be open and free to the public. The show will feature modern fi ne art from the Eagle file photo Jamie Rachelle, known locally as Jamie Cernazanu, sings the national anthem before this year’s demolition derby. She will perform at the MoonLIT Music Festival Saturday at the Grant County Fairgrounds. Rev. David Seacord and welded creations of repurposed and found metals by Ingo Wedde. The artists will be present to host attendees. MONDAY, AUG. 21 Total solar eclipse • 10:21 a.m., Grant County Observers will see approximately 2 minutes, 6 seconds of darkness as the moon totally blocks out the sun. The partial eclipse will begin at about 9:08 a.m. Chris Knight acoustic concert • 9 p.m., Madden Brothers Performing Arts Center, John Day Hospital, clinic increasing staffi ng, access for eclipse Blue Mountain Eagle To accommodate visitors for the eclipse, Blue Moun- tain Hospital and Strawber- ry Wilderness Community Clinic are increasing staff- ing from Aug. 17-23. Increased emergency room volume is expected, so wait times may be longer than usual. Strawberry Wil- derness Community Clinic access has been increased and will be open on the weekend as well for walk- ins with urgent needs. The clinic will be avail- able from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 17-18 and Aug. 22-23; from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 19-20; and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 21. Phones open at 7 a.m. on the week- days and at 8:30 a.m. on the weekend. Two ambulance crews will be running full time in John Day from Aug. 17-23 with volunteer ambulances also available in Monument, Long Creek, Seneca and Prairie City. Both Life Flight and AirLink air ambulances will also be available. For more information, call the hospital, 541-575- 1311, or speak to a pa- tient navigator who will be available during regular business hours at the down- stairs and ER entrances. REPORTER The Blue Mountain Eagle, a family-owned weekly newspaper in a stunningly beautiful Oregon community, seeks an energetic, dedicated reporter. The Eagle is located in John Day, where seeing deer in front yards is normal and traffic is unheard of, just three hours from Bend and Pendleton. Surrounded by scenic forests and dissected by mountain streams, the location offers year-round recreational opportunities, including fishing, hunting, backpacking, camping, snowmobiling and horseback riding. Despite the picturesque environment, the community is at the center of an evolving natural resource restoration economy, which gains statewide and even national attention. Despite the small-town charm, the residents are engaged and politically active in local and national debates, and hard-hitting stories are never hard to find. Ongoing topics include state and federal policies, forest health, logging, public lands grazing, water supply, wildlife habitat improvements and wildfire resilience, in addition to coverage of small-town life and local government. The position offers a wealth of breaking news and enterprise opportunities. Serving the community for 146 years, the Eagle is the oldest weekly newspaper in Oregon and is part of EO Media Group, an award-winning and innovative news organization with an active family of owners. This position offers excellent advancement opportunities in a company that prefers to hire from within. EO Media Group owns 11 newspapers and 17 websites that provide accurate, fair and timely reporting about the people and issues impacting the communities we serve in the Pacific Northwest, reflecting the responsibility and spirit of a free press. We seek a journalist who is passionate about local news and excited about the opportunity to publish in print, online and through social media. Candidates must be able to develop story ideas, take photographs, develop sources, prepare website and social media updates and work in a cooperative team environment. Journalistic integrity is a must. SATURDAY, AUG. 26 Grant County Fair Kids/Junior Rodeo • 10 a.m., Grant County Fairgrounds in John Day Admission is free for spectators. Entries for the Kids/Junior Rodeo must be received by Aug. 24 at the Grant County Fair offi ce, 411 Bridge Street in John Day. There is a fee of $5-12 for each event. For more information, call chairperson Jim Hamsh- er at 541-620-2861. SUNDAY, AUG. 27 Annual past members memorial trap shoot • 9:30 a.m., Seneca Trap Range The Seneca Range will host a trap shoot honoring past mem- bers Myrtha Fields and Dale Rushton. The shoot has fi ve trap events, and the cost is $35. Money prizes will be awarded in each event and in the all events category. Sign up is at 9:30 a.m., and the event starts at 10 a.m. All ages of trap shooters and spectators are welcome. Shells and food will be available. For more information, call Nancy Chase at 541-575-0243. Special NOVA eclipse presentation airs Aug. 21 Interactive online content provides learning opportunities Blue Mountain Eagle On Monday, America’s eyes will be glued to the skies as the mainland United States experi- ences the fi rst total solar eclipse since 1979, and the fi rst to cross the country since 1918. PBS’ award-winning science series, NOVA, produced by WGBH Boston, will capture the spec- tacular event in a special pre- sentation to air hours after it takes place. This extraordinary cosmic spectacle will pass through 14 states, and everyone in the con- tinental U.S. will have the op- portunity to see at least a partial eclipse, possibly making it the most widely viewed American eclipse of all time. Commenc- ing at 10:15 a.m., a lunar shad- ow 73 miles wide will take 93 minutes to travel from Oregon on the west coast to South Car- olina on the east, allowing con- tinuous observation. NOVA’s most extensive fast-turnaround fi lm to date, “Eclipse Over America,” will follow teams working on the forefront of solar science and solar storm detection, incor- porating immersive CGI an- imation to reveal the sun’s secret mechanisms, stunning sequences of the eclipse itself, NASA footage and more. “NOVA is thrilled to pro- vide our audiences across the U.S. with an up close, in-depth look at this extraordinary event,” said Paula S. Apsell, Senior Executive Producer of NOVA, in a press release. “We are excited to share the experience with viewers and provide a scientifi c perspective on the celestial mechanism be- hind this total solar eclipse and what it can tell us about the in- ner workings of our sun.” Also during the eclipse, NOVA will present a Facebook Live event in partnership with PBS “NewsHour.” Hosted by PBS Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien, the event will feature commentary by Jason Kalirai from the Space Science Institute and other experts gathered to watch the eclipse from a location about 40 miles east of Irwin, Idaho. NOVA “Eclipse Over America” will be available to stream the morning after broadcast on all station-brand- ed PBS platforms, including PBS.org and PBS apps for iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Chromecast. To learn more about the sun, viewers can visit the NOVA Sun Lab, a web-based interactive lab, where teens and other users can explore solar weather using the same data, images and tools scien- tists use to track and predict solar activity. In addition, 10 short videos explain the sun’s anatomy, why the sun is so volatile and how and why we study it. As users explore, they learn about the threats posed by strong solar storms and space weather that could disrupt communication and electrical systems for weeks, months or even years. The Sun Lab is supported with re- sources for science educators including a lesson plan and discussion questions on PBS LearningMedia. Additional new PBS spe- cials will also offer an in-depth look at the solar system and beyond. “The Farthest - Voy- ager in Space” is a two-hour special about NASA’s historic Voyager mission to explore the solar system and beyond, air- ing Aug. 23. Two more NOVA specials, “Death Dive to Sat- urn” on Sept. 13 and “Black Hole Apocalypse” on Jan. 10, 2018, explore the Cassini space probe’s mission to Sat- urn and the frontiers of black hole research, respectively. In November, “Beyond a Year in Space” chronicles Scott Kel- ly’s return home after a year in space and provides a glimpse of a new generation of astro- nauts training for mankind’s greatest leap yet: the journey to Mars. PBS KIDS’ hit space- themed series “Ready Jet Go!” takes young viewers on far-fl ung learning adventures through astronomy, technolo- gy, scientifi c exploration, in- novation and invention. PBS Digital Studios’ “Space Time” explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astro- physics, the possibilities of sci-fi and anything else imag- inable beyond planet Earth. NOVA “Eclipse Over America” is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston. Senior Ex- ecutive Producer for NOVA is Paula S. Apsell. National corporate fund- ing for NOVA is provided by Draper and 23andMe. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the David H. Koch Fund for Science, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. Additional funding is provided by the Neil and Anna Rasmussen Founda- tion. Now in its 44th season, NOVA is the most-watched primetime science series on American television, reaching an average of 5 million viewers weekly. OUTDOOR Headquarters No Matter What Your Game Is, We’ve Got You Covered! da m’ s Journalism education or experience is required for this full-time position offering insurances, a 401(k)/401(k) Roth retirement plan and paid time off (PTO). Send resume, letter of interest and up to five clips to EO Media Group, P.O. Box 2048, Salem, OR 97308-2048; by fax to (503) 371-2935 or by email to hr@eomediagroup.com. Ny 195 N. Canyon Blvd. John Day, Oregon The helpful place. 06023 652 W. Main, John Day • 541-575-0549
