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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Flying the friendly skies of Grant County
Eighty kids and
adults enjoy
bird’s-eye view
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Children took to the skies
with volunteer pilots Sat-
urday for a bird’s-eye view
of the area during the Grant
County Fly-In.
The annual event is spon-
sored by the Grant County
Regional Airport with help
from the county air search
volunteers.
Seven-year-old twins Na-
than and Stephan Miller of
Bear Valley, who were in line
for their first-ever flight, said
they were looking forward to
it.
They went up with pilot
Doug Ferguson in his Cessna
182.
Other pilots were Charles
McKenna, Barbara Smith,
Bob Bagett and Robert Watt.
Colter Handley, age 7, of
Canyon City stepped off Fer-
guson’s plane as the Miller
brothers prepared to hop in.
“It was really fun because I
got to fly it for a little bit, in the
air and landing,” Handley said.
Eleven-year-old Zack Ost-
berg of John Day flew with
Watt.
“It’s my fourth or fifth
time flying,” he said. “I can
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Stephan Miller, 7, of Bear Valley gives a thumbs up, ready to fly with pilot Doug
Ferguson. Stephan’s twin brother, Nathan, and their dad were also along for the ride.
It was Stephan’s and Nathan’s first time flying.
see the world in a different
view.”
Air search president Ron
Lundbom said the event was
rescheduled to Sept. 30 be-
cause of poor air quality from
fires earlier in the month.
Other events, including
the opening day of hunting
season, gave the event some
competition, Lundbom said.
Attendance was down by
about half, he said, but they
still gave 80 people, mainly
children, free flights.
Some parents flew with
their younger children.
Snafflebit Dinner House
offered a hearty breakfast
menu.
Lundbom provided a can-
dy drop for the kids, flying
over the airport in his ultra
lite.
Dave Traylor also passed
over in his powered para-
chute with the U.S. flag, as
the national anthem played
during the event.
Lundbom said they hope
to have more activities for
children next year, includ-
ing a rappelling demonstra-
tion.
“I’d like to thank every-
body for showing up, and I
look forward to next year,”
he said. “All in all every-
body had fun, and it was a
success.”
Ron Lundbom, president of
Grant County Air Search,
flies above the airport for
a special “candy-drop”
delivery for the children
below during the Fly-In.
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Bentz sets series of
town hall meetings
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontar-
io, will hold a series of town
hall meetings across District
60 over the next three months,
including one
in Dayville.
At each
meeting, Bentz
will review the
2017 legisla-
tive
session
and the state-
Rep. Cliff
wide Transpor-
Bentz
tation Package
and will pre-
view issues such as water
measurement and fees, car-
bon cap and trade, wildlife
management, Department of
Environmental Quality rules
regarding cleaner air and
storm water discharge, tax
reform, the public employee
retirement system and other
issues that are likely to come
up in the future, according to
a press release.
“It is important to share
what has happened and is
likely to happen in Salem,
and these meetings also pro-
vide an opportunity for peo-
ple to share their concerns
with me,” Bentz said.
“Although I have already
met with and reported to
each of my five county courts
(Malheur, Baker, Grant, Har-
ney, and Lake counties) and
several of the area chambers
of commerce, these meetings
have been held during the
middle of the day when most
ranchers and farmers cannot
attend.
These next six meetings
are scheduled in the eve-
nings and in smaller towns
so that people who live far
from the county seats and
work during the day have a
better chance of being able to
attend.”
Dayville: Wednesday, Oct.
18, at 7 p.m., Dayville School,
285 School House Drive.
Jordan Valley: Thursday,
Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. (MST), Li-
ons Hall, 902 US 95/Bassett
St.
Crane: Thursday, Oct. 19,
at 7 p.m., Crane Union High
School, 43277 Crane Venator
Lane.
Haines: Tuesday, Oct. 24,
at 7 p.m., Haines School, 400
School St.
Adel: Monday, Dec. 4, at
7 p.m., Adel School, 18286
Twenty Mile Road.
Halfway: Date and time
to be determined, Pine Eagle
High School, 375 N. Main St.
Contact Bentz’s District
Office in Ontario with any
questions at 541-889-8866 or
via email at rep.cliffbentz@
oregonlegislature.gov.
Poll: Half have unfavorable view of Brown, but would re-elect her
SALEM — Half of Orego-
nians view Gov. Kate Brown
unfavorably yet would re-elect
her by a narrow margin if the
election was conducted now,
according to an online survey
by Nashville-based pollster
icitizen.
Forty percent said they
would vote for Rep. Knute
Buehler, R-Bend, to unseat
the first-term governor, the
survey shows.
The survey of 645 respon-
dents, paid for by icitizen,
is the first glimpse into the
mindset of Oregonians more
than a year before the No-
vember 2018 gubernatorial
election.
Jim Moore, director of the
Tom McCall Center for Poli-
cy Innovation at Pacific Uni-
versity, said the responses to
Brown are unsurprising.
“While she is a fairly pop-
ular governor, she hasn’t re-
ally done anything to put her
name on,” Moore said.
“Clearly, this is a message
for her campaign to commu-
nicate what she has done that
makes her worthy to be gover-
nor again.”
The respondents — part of
a “convenience panel” of Or-
egonians icitizen uses for on-
line polls – were not confirmed
as registered voters, said Cyn-
thia Villacis, the company’s
polling director.
Favorable opinions for
Brown were stronger in the
Portland Metro area and the
Willamette Valley, 45 percent
and 55 percent, respectively.
In the rest of the state, only
37 percent of respondents said
they had a favorable opinion
of her, while 62 percent gave
unfavorable feedback.
Out of all respondents, 341
were members of the GOP. In
Oregon, only 26.7 percent of
registered voters are Repub-
lican, 29.5 percent are unaf-
filiated and 36.7 percent are
Democrat, according to the
most recent statistics from the
Oregon Secretary of State’s
Office.
“That sounds to me as if
(icitizen) oversampled Repub-
licans,” Moore said.
Leslie Rich, a senior vice
president of client services,
said the results are weighted
to reflect the state’s electorate
makeup of different party affil-
iations.
Political pundits see the re-
sults as a bad sign for the Re-
publican challenger, an ortho-
pedic surgeon who was elected
as a state representative in
2014. Buehler also challenged
Brown in 2012 for her then
position as Oregon secretary
of state.
When Oregonians were
asked their preferred Republi-
can to face off with Brown, a
majority chose a Republican
who hasn’t even filed as a can-
didate and has had no media
attention.
About 31 percent of re-
spondents said Greg Wool-
dridge, a former commander
of the Navy’s Blue Angels, is
their preferred GOP candidate.
Meanwhile, only 28 percent
identified Buehler as their pre-
ferred choice.
Wooldridge is familiar to
conservative circles, where he
has served as a delegate to the
National Republican Conven-
tion, but is lesser known out-
side his party.
Wooldridge is considering
a bid for the Republican nomi-
nation and has met with sever-
al former gubernatorial candi-
dates and political consultants.
He would run as a conserva-
tive alternative to Buehler’s
more moderate platform, said
one political strategist.
Happy Valley Mayor Lori
Chavez DeRemer, who is still
exploring a gubernatorial bid,
was named by 8 percent of re-
spondents. Another 6 percent
gave names of “other” candi-
dates, and 26 percent said they
are undecided.
“It means simply, people
don’t know who these candi-
dates are,” Moore said. “We
know they don’t know who
Knute Buehler is because
somebody who is nobody is
polling better than him.”
Buehler’s mistake may
have come from failing to tour
the state and introduce himself
when he announced his inten-
tion to run for the office in late
August, Moore said.
“He clearly needs to start
doing that stuff so he is at 60
or 70 percent” as the preferred
Republican candidate, Moore
said.
Rebecca Tweed, Buehler’s
campaign manager, did not
respond to a request for com-
ment on the survey results.
Thomas Wheatley, the
governor’s campaign manag-
er, didn’t comment on the re-
sults specific to Brown. How-
ever, he said the survey looks
like “a Republican effort to
cook the books against Knute
Buehler.”
“It’s not a voter poll; it’s
a membership survey, and
the key finding from it that
is intriguing is that they put
forward this Air Force captain
and gave him the right framing
and he came out ahead of Kn-
ute Buehler,” Wheatley said.
“The question is — Who paid
for it, and why are they trying
to show Buehler is vulnerable
in a Republican primary? That
is the most intriguing thing
here.”
The survey was funded by
icitizen, which regularly takes
the pulse of residents on po-
litical and policy issues, Rich
said.
DeRemer said she plans to
make an announcement on her
intention to run for the position
later this month.
“My internal polling
showed that we have a path to
victory,” she said. “My record
as mayor resonates with Ore-
gonians.”
Despite Oregonians’ feel-
ings about Brown, she had a
clear advantage from her po-
sition as a Democratic incum-
bent, Moore said.
“She has people who are
just not going to vote for a
Republican,” he said. “That
is a bigger number of people
than Republicans who won’t
vote for a Democrat, but this is
clearly not a race she can coast
through, regardless of who her
opponent is.”
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