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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
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Local board game creator searches for capital
“Accession”
inspired by time
spent in real
estate industry
By Rylan Boggs
Blue Mountain Eagle
A local man is working on
raising capital to sell a home-
grown board game.
Accession is a real estate
investment game that, on its
surface, looks similar to Mo-
nopoly.
However, game creator
Everett King said it’s not
much like Monopoly at all,
and he designed Accession to
be less punitive.
Two to six players move
about the board purchasing
property, building property
value. The goal of the game
is to “outsmart opponents
and attain the greatest net
worth by buying and selling
income-producing proper-
ties,” King said.
King said he designed the
game while working in real
estate in the ’70s. He had
roughly 1,000 boards made
at one point, but was unable
to sell them because of manu-
facturing defects, he said.
The game encourages
player interactions and re-
quires decision making and
planning, according to King.
People who are interested
can join King and other play-
ers at The Corner Cup from
6-8 p.m. Thursdays.
“I think I like it because
it’s a pretty accurate repre-
sentation of the real estate
game,” said Caleb Maples-
den, who regularly plays the
game.
“I like that you never
know who is going to win,”
Sara Lambeth, who also plays
the game regularly, said. “We
like that Everett doesn’t win
all the time. He’s the inventor
so you think he would always
outsmart us, but you would
be surprised.”
The Eagle/Rylan Boggs
Everett King plays Accession, a real estate investment board game he created, at The Corner Cup in John Day on
Thursday, Aug. 17.
City hires agribusiness manager
By Rylan Boggs
Blue Mountain Eagle
Caution advised at
Olive Lake boat ramp
Blue Mountain Eagle
Due to lowering water
levels, Forest Service offi-
cials are requesting visitors
use caution when launching
boats at the Olive Lake boat
ramp.
Continued loss of water
out of the Olive Lake Dam
combined with lack of sig-
nificant rainfall over the
summer have lowered the
level of the lake to the point
that the boat ramp may be
difficult for larger trailers to
use, according to a Forest
Service press release.
“The lake level is now
well below the end of the
boat ramp concrete pad, so
that there is an 8- to 10-inch
gravel drop-off from the end
of the ramp to the water. It
could be very difficult for
boat trailers to get over this
drop-off when pulling boats
back out of the water,” said
Shaun Oliver, facilities engi-
neer.
Forest officials closed a
small portion of Olive Lake
on the North Fork John Day
Ranger District to complete
maintenance work on the
dam and spillway on Aug. 7.
The closure prohibits boating
and swimming within the clo-
sure area. Work will be inter-
mittent and is anticipated to
last until Oct. 1.
The area closed to public
entry is approximately one-
half acre in size and is signed,
fenced and defined by a string
of buoys (extending from the
dam into the water about 200
feet) to notify swimmers and
boaters of the closure. The
closure area is located on the
northeast side of Olive Lake.
The campground remains
open, but sites near the dam
should be avoided. The hik-
ing trail in the vicinity of the
dam and spillway is closed
during construction, but boat-
ing and swimming are still
allowed outside the restricted
area. Currently less than 1
percent of the 149-acre lake
surface area is affected by the
closure.
Construction activities on
the dam and spillway include
rip rap placement on the lake-
side face of the dam, removal
and filling of the access tun-
nel on the backside of the
dam, as well as removal of
vegetation and debris in the
spillway.
Olive Lake is a popular
mountain lake and camp-
ground located 12 miles west
of Granite. The natural lake
was deepened by a 30 foot-
high dam built in the early
1900s by the Fremont Power
Company to provide hydro-
electric power, generated at
the Fremont Powerhouse, to
the then-booming gold min-
ing community.
For more information
about permitted recreation
activities on Olive Lake, con-
tact the North Fork John Day
Ranger District at 541-427-
3231.
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THE JUNIPER ARTS COUNCIL
& JOHN DAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRESENT
KERRY GROMBACHER
in concert
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017, 7 PM
AT THE JOHN DAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
“Kerry Grombacher is the best kind of songwriter, with lyrics that
take us on journeys to places we’ve never visited before, and melodies
so pure and true that they seem to rise up from the plains…”
- Nalini Jones, Newport Folk Festival
The Juniper Arts Council is pleased to bring this modern-day
troubadour back to Grant County for an encore concert.
“There is no truer example of a troubadour than Kerry Grombacher.”
Dave Stamey, 2016 Inductee, Western Music Hall of Fame
The concert is free
and open to the public.
The Juniper Arts Council will accept
donations for its scholarship fund.
In 2017, the JAC gave three $500
scholarships to Grant County graduates.
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We will be giving away several prizes,
gift certificates, a pair of Muck
boots....Purina Antlermax feeds and
blocks as well as game bags.
toward his degree.
On a different path than
most farmers, Manitsas is
excited to be working on a
unique project like the green-
houses.
“This is kind of a one-of-
a-kind opportunity,” he said.
“Down the road in 5-10 years,
I’m going to have a tremen-
dous amount of experience
working for the city and with
public works.”
The city’s plan for the
greenhouse includes using
reclaimed water from a pro-
posed wastewater plant also
on the Oregon Pine Property.
A feasibility study for the new
wastewater plant is scheduled
to begin in September.
Controlled climates in
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ATTENTION BIG GAME HUNTERS
• Bring your trophy down to Pioneer Feed and have your picture
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• Open to all ages starting now through
November 13th 2017!
• Big or small, we want to see them all!
The Eagle/Rylan Boggs
Matt Manitsas is the
agribusiness project
manager for the city of
John Day.
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Contributed photo
A small portion of Olive Lake will be closed for dam and spillway work through Oct.
1. The half-acre closure represents less than 1 percent of the 149-acre lake.
A Grant Union and Ore-
gon State University graduate
has been hired to oversee the
city of John Day’s hydroponic
greenhouse project.
Matt Manitsas was hired
on as the agribusiness manag-
er for the project on Aug. 14.
“Coming back to John Day
with an agriculture degree and
getting to continue my edu-
cation through practice and
working with guys like Aaron
(Lieuallen) and Nick (Green)
makes me feel really excited
and fortunate,” Manitsas said.
Growing up, he often
helped family friends with
ranching and became more in-
terested in agriculture during
high school.
“Through the FFA pro-
gram here at Grant Union and
the ag classes, I developed my
passion for agriculture,” he
said.
Manitsas graduated from
OSU in four years with an
agribusiness degree and a mi-
nor in communications. Pro-
grams through Grant Union
gave him college-level credits
greenhouses bring plants to
fruition more quickly and al-
low for multiple growing cy-
cles, according to Manitsas.
“John Day has a short
growing season,” he said. “Us-
ing the greenhouses, you can
expand that to year-round.”
Manitsas said the city was
looking at growing produce
including tomatoes and let-
tuce that could be sold at lo-
cal markets, restaurants and
schools.
This would result in fresh-
er produce at lower prices for
consumers.
If the yields were high
enough, the city could also
look at exporting produce
beyond the county. Manitsas
explained many trucks bring-
ing goods into John Day leave
empty providing an opportu-
nity.
The city’s goal is to be in
construction by May and oper-
ational by August.
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Manitsas a
Grant Union,
OSU grad
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