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Ferrioli appointed to regional power council
Bentz interested
in Senate seat
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
A major shakeup is in the works
for Oregon Senate District 30.
Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day,
was recently appointed to represent
Oregon on the Pacific Northwest
Electric Power Planning and Con-
servation Council.
His appointment
must be confirmed
by the Senate Rules
Committee,
which
will take up the ap-
pointment Nov. 13-
State Sen. 15.
Ted Ferrioli
Ferrioli told the Ea-
gle he wants to see the
security of the regional power grid
enhanced to protect it from cyber-
attacks and even an electromagnet-
ic-pulse attack by North Korea.
“Power distribution systems are a
favorite target,” he said. “The Pacifi c
Northwest has long known a sense of
peace and security.”
He also cited his work on the Sen-
ate’s Natural Resources Subcommit-
tee protecting steelhead and salmon.
“We can’t have any species go ex-
tinct on our watch,” he emphasized.
Ferrioli said he’s not a climate
change denier.
“The question of anthropogenic
impacts is like asking how many an-
gels can fi t on the head of a pin,” he
said. “What difference does it make?
The fact is that adding carbon to the
environment has been a concern of
Oregonians for a decade.”
Ferrioli noted that the regional
power council has focused on carbon
reduction by way of conservation,
which he characterized as the “cheap-
est solution.”
See FERRIOLI, Page A10
Fall into fun
Contributed photo
Long Creek Ambulance
crew member Craig Palmer
assists injured hunter
James Moyer (out of view)
with other volunteers.
In the foreground is the
six-point bull elk, shot
by Moyer, which he was
field dressing when he
wounded himself.
Injured
hunter
rescued
Mapleton man
stabs himself
while field
dressing an elk
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Humbolt Elementary School kindergartners Trig Hutchison, front, and Javier Barajas chase through a maze
Thursday during a field trip to the John Day Community Garden.
Youngsters pick out pumpkins
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
G
iggles and chasing were all
part of the fun for 40 Hum-
bolt Elementary School
kindergartners Thursday as they en-
joyed a fall fi eld trip to the John Day
Community Garden.
Dayden Dobell picked one of the
many pumpkins grown by commu-
nity gardeners for the children.
“I got a big one,” he said.
He and the other students enjoyed
tracking through a straw bale maze
set up by Grant Union High School
FFA.
“I like it,” Dobell said. “You can
hide in the maze and run around.”
Briar Burril said playing hide and
seek in the maze was fun.
Thomas Shaw also enjoyed the
maze, and said he found a spider —
not a real one.
Kindergarten teacher Becky
Rhinehart said a parent decorated
the maze that morning. The embel-
lishments included friendly looking
spiders, pumpkins and a mummy.
Rhinehart and Adriane Ineck’s
classes, as well as a few younger
children, joined in the fall fun. This
is their third year visiting the pump-
kin patch and the second year they’ve
had the maze, Rhinehart said.
“It’s an opportunity for them to
get out and be kids,” she said. “They
get to pick out their own pumpkin
and they also have apple cider and
popcorn.”
See more photos on Page A10
Fredrick Maurer, 1, chooses a
pumpkin, just his size.
Meadowbrook complex gets major face lift
Apartment
buildings are
37 years old
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Meadowbrook II
apartment complex on East
Highway 26 in John Day is
getting a major face lift that
will present a whole new
look – for outsiders and in-
siders alike. Warm, sunny
weather helped kick off the
project last week.
Boise-based Northwest
Real Estate Capital Corp. be-
gan managing the Meadow-
brook II housing complex in
2001 and acquired the prop-
The Eagle/Richard Hanners
Workers and materials gather at the Meadowbrook
II housing complex in John Day as a $3.15 million
renovation project kicked off in sunny weather.
erty through bankruptcy in
2012, project developer John
Vance said.
“Meadowbrook II has
provided John Day and Grant
County with an affordable
housing option since 1980,
but has not received any
signifi cant renovations over
that time,” Vance said. “This
rehab project will ensure
Meadowbrook II continues to
serve this community for an-
other 37 years, if not more.”
Meadowbrook II has 19
units ranging from studio
apartments to three-bedroom
units. All residents are in-
come-restricted, Vance said.
The company will pay the
motel expenses of residents
who stay in motels during the
renovation and provide a sti-
pend for those who choose to
stay with relatives or friends.
The residents also receive a
meal voucher, he said.
The apartment complex
was given a 94b score by
the U.S. Housing and Urban
Development’s Real Estate
See COMPLEX, Page A10
An injured hunter was
flown to a hospital in Bend
on Thursday afternoon, after
emergency workers packed
him out of a remote site in
northern Grant County.
James Lee Moyer, 51, of
Mapleton shot a six-point
bull elk across the Indian
Creek drainage, about 15-20
miles east of Meadowbrook
Summit, early that morning,
Grant County Sheriff Glenn
Palmer said in a press re-
lease.
Moyer made his way to
the elk and was field dress-
ing the animal when the
knife he was using slipped,
stabbing himself about two
inches above the navel,
Palmer said.
Moyer’s wife, who was
650 yards across the can-
yon with her husband’s
parents when the incident
took place, made it to his
side where cellphone ser-
vice was available and a
call was made to 911 at
11:31 a.m.
Long Creek and John
Day medical units were
dispatched as well as the
Grant County Sheriff’s Of-
fice and the sheriff’s Grant
County Search and Rescue
team. Oregon State Police
and the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
also responded.
Palmer said Air Link
from St. Charles Medical
Center in Bend landed about
150-200 yards above Moy-
er’s location.
Palmer credited search
and rescue crews as well
as hunters in the area, with
clearing logs, trees and re-
growth from the road where
the helicopter landed. Moyer
was carried on a backboard
to the helicopter.
Search and rescue per-
sonnel, ODFW and Oregon
State Police assisted Moyer
in field dressing and packing
the bull elk to an awaiting
vehicle.