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Blue Mountain Eagle
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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.
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