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RIP ROARIN’ RODEO
Top NW competitors shine at NPRA Rodeo
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Last weekend’s Northwest Profes-
sional Rodeo Association Rodeo at the
Grant County Fairgrounds in John Day
offered one more opportunity for cow-
boys and cowgirls to qualify for the
2017 NPRA Finals Rodeo.
Rodeo announcer Lindsey Wyllie
said he was impressed with the skill on
display Friday and Saturday.
“That was one of the best rodeo per-
formances that I’ve seen — the action,
the cowboys and
cowgirls and the NPRA Finals
talent we had,” he
Sept. 22-23
said. “We had the
in
Prineville
top competitors
in the Northwest,
including the 2016 Pendleton Roundup
All-Around Cowboy, Shane Erickson.”
Local sporting events may have put
a damper on Friday’s attendance, but
Saturday brought out a crowd of 350.
Among the competitors was Charlie
Barker of Culver who placed second in
saddle bronc riding.
“Got a nice little horse, an old cam-
paigner — one you know you can win
on,” he said. “It went good.”
See RODEO, Page A10
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
OVER HYDRATED
Tucker Wright of
Canyon City steer
wrestles Saturday
for his home
crowd at the Sept.
8-9 Northwest
Professional
Rodeo
Association
Rodeo in John
Day.
Eagle photos/Rylan Boggs
Standing water on Rich
Boren’s property in
Dayville on Wednesday,
Aug. 2.
Some Dayville residents complain
of saturated properties
“
By Rylan Boggs
Blue Mountain Eagle
D
Tim Briggs measures water over 5 feet deep
on his property in Dayville, Wednesday, Aug. 2.
Briggs dug this hole to demonstrate how much
water runs down into his property.
Mother Nature doesn’t flood this
property, it’s man.” — Rich Boren
AYVILLE — Despite the hot, dry sum-
mer, some Dayville residents are experi-
encing highly saturated properties.
Mildew, mold and fl ooding have
damaged Dayville resident Rich Boren’s
property, as well as that of his neighbors.
Boren said the water stems from two different
sources. The fi rst is the fl ood irrigation of property
above the South Fork Road, and the second is the
Cummings Ditch, which he said is leaking.
Boren said a handful of property owners are im-
properly irrigating, and thus damaging properties
below. He said he has communicated with the land-
owners repeatedly, but they refuse to change their
watering practices.
The problem has been going on for decades and
Boren said people are fi nally fed up with it.
See WATER, Page A6
Oregon’s non-unanimous
jury law under scrutiny
Supreme Court
may tackle case
in Louisiana
‘Nitro Circus’ comes to town
TV personalities swing
by on America expedition
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
By Paris Achen
Capital Bureau
Oregon’s long time law al-
lowing felony convictions by
non-unanimous juries could
be tested if the U.S. Supreme
Court accepts a case challeng-
ing a similar law in Louisiana.
Only in Oregon and Loui-
siana can a defendant be con-
victed of a felony with a 10-
to-2 jury vote. All other states
and the federal government
require a unanimous verdict.
Lawyers for defendant
Rich Boren gestures across his property in Dayville on
Wednesday, Aug. 2.
Courtesy USDA
A case appealed to the
U.S. Supreme Court
could impact Oregon law
allowing 10-2 convictions.
Dale Lambert argue that the
court should overturn its pre-
vious rulings that Louisiana’s
and Oregon’s non-unanimous
jury laws are constitutional.
See LAW, Page A6
Personalities from the television series
“Nitro Circus” made a pit stop at John Day
Polaris, as they ventured on a coast-to-coast
trip across America.
Hubert Rowland, in the TV show cast, and
his crew pulled up in Polaris RZR side-by-sides
to visit with business owner Gregg Haberly.
Rowland said they were traveling “the
non-mainstream way across America,” driv-
ing dirt and gravel roads.
He said the purpose of the trip was to
show how UTVs can be used for exploration.
“Our main path is country roads and back
roads,” Rowland said. “We had to get on the
highway for roughly three miles to cross the
Mississippi River.”
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Hubert Rowland of “Nitro Circus” headed
up the coast-to-coast trip called “Hubert’s
Big RedNek Adventure with 4x4 Barbie.”
“Nitro Circus” partnered with “Warfi ghter
Made” for the cross-country trip, which start-
ed in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and end-
ed near Florence on the Oregon Coast.
See NITRO, Page A6