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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
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Juniper Arts Council offers grants to local nonprofits
Grant application
training planned
Thursday
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Juniper Arts Council is once
again partnering with the John and
Linda Shelk Foundation to offer
small grants to Grant County non-
profits.
After a year off in 2016, the
council is gearing up to once again
offer small grants this fall. The 2017
grants will total almost $3,000.
The grant application is due by
5 p.m. Nov. 2. Grant applications
will be reviewed, scored and funds
distributed on Nov. 9. The maximum
grant awarded will be $1,000, and
grant funds must be spent within one
year of receipt.
The council is offering a grant
application training from 5:30-6:30
p.m. Sept. 14 in the John Day Fire
Hall community room. The trainer
will use the Juniper Arts Council
Shelk Community Grant application
and budget as a model at the train-
ing. All are welcome to attend the
training from organizations interest-
ed in small grant applications, not
just those interested in this grant.
The local grant application will
be available after Sept. 14 at Karin
Barntish’s office at 131 W. Main St.
in John Day.
The council began its partner-
ship with the Shelk Foundation in
2014. During the first two grant
cycles, it awarded almost $12,000
in Shelk Foundation money to
Grant County nonprofits. Fund-
ing for projects went to the track
project at Grant Union Jr./Sr. High
School, Strawberry Mountain Out-
door Club, Grant-Harney County
CASA, Prairie City Ministerial
Association, Cinnabar Mountain
Playdays, Grant County Fair, Grant
County 4-H Leaders Association,
Grant County Library Foundation,
Healthy ‘N Fit Kids, Mt. Vernon
Grange, OSU Grant County Exten-
BRIEFLY
Local woman
wins a year’s
worth of
groceries
Denice Seebart of John
Day must have thought she
found the end of the rain-
bow when she picked up the
phone, recently.
She found out she’s the
winner of $400 worth gro-
ceries a month for one year
from Chester’s Thriftway in
John Day after her name was
drawn in a Lake Creek Youth
Camp fundraiser.
Store owner Bob Thomp-
son partnered with the non-
profit for the big giveaway.
“I was just putting money
towards it because I thought
it was a nice fundraiser and
going to a good cause,” See-
bart said. “Little did I think I
would win.”
Seebart ran Golden Heri-
tage Adult Care Home in John
Day for 27 years, retiring four
years ago.
She said her husband Jack
bought a ticket for both her
and her daughter.
“I was the lucky one,”
Denice said.
When asked if she’ll
share the winnings with her
husband, she jokingly said,
“Maybe.”
Lake Creek Youth Camp,
located about 32 miles south-
east of John Day, caters to
youth groups and families as
well as other groups and indi-
viduals.
The site includes a main
lodge with fireplace and an
eating and meeting space, five
A-frame bunkhouses, bath
houses and an open grassy
area. For more information,
visit lakecreekcamp.org.
Researcher
offers wildfire
presentation in
John Day
The Blue Mountains For-
est Partners collaborative
group, in conjunction with the
Malheur National Forest, will
host a presentation on wild-
land fire called “Era of Mega-
fires” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 21, at the Grant County
Regional Airport in John Day.
The “Era of Megafires”
is a 70-minute, multimedia,
traveling presentation hosted
by Dr. Paul Hessburg, who
has conducted fire and land-
scape ecology research for
more than 27 years.
This presentation is de-
signed to help audiences bet-
ter understand fire, its natu-
ral role in forest health, how
management practices over
the years have altered this and
created conditions that con-
tribute to larger, hotter, more
destructive wildfires and how
we can better meet this chal-
lenge.
Hessburg is a research
ecologist with Forest Service
Research and Development.
He has been studying histor-
ical and modern era forests of
the inland West for the last 32
years, publishing extensively
to office at the Nov. 7, 2018,
general election.
Local precinct commit-
teeperson candidates may file
for office from Jan. 31, 2018,
to 5 p.m. March 6, 2018; these
are two-year terms and are
elected at the primary. Forms
and manuals are available on-
line at sos.oregon.gov/elec-
tions.
Forms are also available
at the Clerk’s Office in the
County Courthouse at 201 S.
Humbolt St., Canyon City.
For more information, call
541-575-1675.
sion and Prairie City FFA.
The council is also hosting Kerry
Grombacher in concert Sept. 20, as
well as a meet and greet with local
author Don Jones during all-school
reunion tours Sept. 23
For more information about the
Juniper Arts Council, contact Presi-
dent Kris Beal at 541-932-4892.
The council meets at 5:30 p.m.
the second Thursday of each month
in the John Day Fire Hall communi-
ty room. New members are always
welcome.
We’re gonna need a
bigger thermometer!
Grant County
seeks committee
volunteers
Contributed photo
Lake Creek Camp board members Carl and Vicki
Heckman of Canyon City, left, and Amber Wright,
president of the board, were present Sept. 4 at Chester’s
Thriftway for a big grocery fundraiser drawing. notforsale
in leading national and inter-
national journals. His work
documents large changes in
forest conditions and how
these changes have set the
stage for large and severe
wildfires or megafires.
This presentation is an out-
growth of his research and his
concerns for the future.
The public is welcome and
encouraged to attend this free
presentation.
For more information on
the Malheur National Forest,
visit fs.usda.gov/malheur.
Free parks
passes offered for
fourth-graders
and families
Fourth-graders can print
out a paper voucher for free
entry into all federal lands
by visiting the Every Kid in a
Park website at everykidina-
park.gov.
The Every Kid in a Park
pass allows free entry into all
federal parks, forests and rec-
reation areas for a full year.
Students and their families
can also redeem their paper
voucher for a plastic pass at
any Forest Service office. The
voucher and passes are valid
from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31, 2018.
The Forest Service is part-
nering with schools and ed-
ucators across Oregon and
Washington to plan Every Kid
in a Park events in local com-
munities and distribute passes
at back-to-school events this
fall.
Teachers or adults who en-
gage fourth-graders through
a youth-serving organiza-
tion can print paper passes,
and find activities and lesson
plans, at www.everykidina-
park.gov/get-your-pass/edu-
cator.
7, 2017, to 5 p.m. March 6,
2018.
Candidates will be elected
to office for the nonpartisan
positions of county commis-
sioner No. 1, a four-year term
currently held by Boyd Brit-
ton, and justice of the peace,
a six-year term currently held
by Kathy Stinnett.
Candidates for county
judge, a six-year term current-
ly held by Scott Myers, and
district attorney, a four-year
term currently held by Jim
Carpenter, will be elected to
office at the primary but must
file to run for the position
with the Secretary of State’s
Office.
Candidates for the nonpar-
tisan county clerk position, a
four-year term currently held
by Percy, will be nominated
at the primary to be elected
Grant County is recruit-
ing volunteers to serve on
boards and committees. Ap-
plications are available at the
Grant County Courthouse,
and applications are due
Sept. 22.
Applicants are sought for
the Extension & 4-H Service
District Advisory Council, the
Fair Board, the Mental Health
Advisory Board, the Planning
Commission and the Senior
Citizens Advisory Council.
For more information,
contact Laurie Wright, 541-
575-0059,
wrightl@grant-
county-or.gov.
Blue Mountain
Hospital installs
new advanced
CT scanner
The radiology department
at Blue Mountain Hospital
recently upgraded to a new
80-slice computed tomogra-
phy machine.
This new machine acquires
more information in less time,
Monday - Thursday
7am- 6pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Mendy Sharpe FNP
Apppointments
available
Training & Employment Consortium
Training Opportunities Available NOW!
•Are you unemployed? Are you wondering what you are
going to do now? Maybe you have skills and years of ex-
perience, but the labor market for the type of work you do
is no longer there.
•Are you finding it hard to compete in the job market
these days without the proper education? Most employers
require a high school diploma or GED at the minimum.
•Maybe you have a high school diploma or GED, but
need more skills to compete for jobs because without em-
ployable skills and education you are not being considered
for positions.
This may be a good time for you to think about your op-
tions for getting the education or training you need to build
a career because we just may be able to assist you with
the educational or training costs to get on that career path.
If you are an Oregon resident and would like to speak
with someone about training opportunities and eligibility re-
quirements, please stop by the Training & Employment
office at 530 E. Main STE 5 in John Day or
give us a call at (541) 575-0251.
Don’t let your gambling addiction
play you for a fool.
W E CAN HELP .
The City of John Day is seeking
candidates to fill a vacancy on
the John Day City Council.
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cal, surgical or radiation treat-
ment. CT scanning is often
the best method for detecting
many different cancers since
the images allow a doctor to
confirm the presence of a tu-
mor and determine its size
and location.
CT is fast, painless, non-
invasive and accurate, but
is particularly well suited to
quickly examine people who
may have internal injuries
from car accidents or other
types of trauma.
and services available upon request. TTY 541-962-0693.
Grant County Clerk Bren-
da Percy will conduct the
2018 primary election by mail
May 15, 2018. Candidates
may file for office from Sept.
Applications are due by
noon on September 22.
is safer for patients and is
comparable to machines in
larger hospitals in Bend and
Boise, according to a hospital
press release.
Patients who visit out-of-
town specialists can also re-
quest their scan order get sent
to John Day to avoid another
trip out of town.
Computed
tomography
can be used to visualize near-
ly all parts of the body and is
used to diagnose disease or
injury as well as to plan medi-
TEC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Program. Auxiliary aids
Candidates may
file now for 2018
primary election
One candidate to be appointed for a
15-month term to run September 26, 2017
through December 31, 2018. Primary
residence has to be within the city limits of
John Day to apply. Interested candidates can
pick up an application at City Hall or
download it at www.cityofjohnday.com
under “Latest News”.
Contributed photo/Eddie Smith
It was a little warm directly in the sun at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 2, at Eddie Smith’s residence in
Prairie City.
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