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Community Blue Mountain Eagle The deadline for What’s Happening items is 5 p.m. Friday. Call the Eagle, 541-575-0710, or email editor@bmeagle.com. For meetings this week, see our list in the classifi eds. THURSDAY, NOV. 16 W HAT’S HAPPENING 4-H international education night • 6-8 p.m., OSU Extension classroom, 116 NW Bridge St., back entrance A night of cultural activities, food creation and a movie is planned, centered around local international exchange student and hosting opportunities. For more information, call the OSU Extension offi ce at 541-575-1911. A7 SUNDAY, NOV. 19 2018 queen coronation • 5 p.m., Grant County Fairgrounds pavilion The public is invited to a festive evening with a tri-tip dinner, no-host bar, live and silent auctions and a dessert auction. 2017 Queen Jessica Carter will pass the crown to 2018 Queen Trinity Hutchison. The cost to attend is $15 each or two for $25. Tick- ets can be purchased at the fair offi ce or online at grantcounty- fairgrounds.com. For more information, call the fair offi ce at 541-575-1900. THURSDAY, NOV. 23 Community Thanksgiving dinner SATURDAY, NOV. 18 • 1 p.m., The Teen Center, 145 W. Front St., Prairie City The Prairie Baptist Church will host a community Thanksgiving dinner. Everything will be provided for diners. For more information, call the church at 541-820- 3696. Christmas on the Prairie • Downtown Prairie City The theme for this year’s holiday event is “A Vintage Christ- mas.” Activities include an ornament hunt, gingerbread house building and other children’s crafts, bazaars, merchant sales, vintage camp trailer tours, open mic night at Hotel Prairie, FFA auction, art exhibit and tree auction and photos with Santa and the elves. Santa Paws will be available from 9-10 a.m. for pho- tos with pets. Maps will be available showing where and when each event is taking place. For more information, call 541-820- 3675, read the article below or see the ad on Page A9. Community Thanksgiving dinner American Legion Auxiliary Christmas bazaar • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Prairie City High School gym The annual bazaar will feature local vendors with various items for sale. For more information, call 541-820-3692. Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Contributed photo/Nicole Israel Grant County Fair and Rodeo Queen Jessica Carter, right, and Princess Trinity Hutchison at the NPRA Finals Rodeo in Prineville. • 1-4 p.m., John Day Elks Lodge, 140 NE Dayton St. A free holiday meal with all the trimmings will be of- fered. Contributions of side dishes and desserts are wel- come. The lounge will be open for pool, shuffleboard, card games and football on big screen TVs. Home deliveries are available for those who cannot make it to the lodge. Call the lodge in advance to make arrangements. Volunteers are also needed to help cook, set up, clean up and deliver meals. For more information, call the lodge at 541-575-1824. Scarecrows decorated Dayville streets By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle Eagle file photo Three-year-old Blake Jacobs asks Santa for play clothes at the Teen Center during last year’s Christmas on the Prairie in Prairie City. Christmas on the Prairie 20th annual event set Saturday By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle Christmas on the Prairie, set for Saturday, is a citywide tradition in Prairie City that’s been going strong for 20 years. This year’s event will fea- ture the popular Ornament Hunt, with a drawing for a prize basket that includes gifts from each of the town’s mer- chants. People can fi nd ornaments at local businesses, the Amer- ican Legion Auxiliary bazaar at the school, post offi ce and DeWitt Museum and Sumpter Valley Railway Depot. DeWitt, which is open for free that day, will also have a children’s art exhibit and an auc- tion of decorated trees to benefi t the museum. Photos with pets, by do- nation, will be available from 9-10 a.m. at the Teen Center, at 145 W. Front St., benefi ting the nonprofi t Hope 4 Paws. The famous gingerbread houses for children, also at the Teen Center, are available for “construction” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or until supplies run out. This will be the fi fth year Anna and Tom Smith have provided the handmade ginger- bread houses. They started with 100 fi ve years ago, and this year they’ll offer 135. The “labor” of love starts in August, when they buy the ingredients. Then it takes one week for Tom to make the dough, and one week for Anna to roll it out and bake it. Their daughter Rose from Portland also helps bag up candy used to decorate the houses. Anna said she started offer- ing gingerbread houses to add an activity for kids during the festivities. “I thought this would be nice for the kids to have something to do,” she said. “Someone sug- gested graham cracker houses, but I said no, they want to have a full gingerbread house.” For four of the fi ve years, the couple provided everything out of pocket — this year’s cost is $1,500. She said people offer donations, but she never asks for money. “It’s not a cheap thing, but I enjoy doing it,” she said. Another highlight for the kids is a visit from Santa from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Teen Center. The cost is $5 for an 8-by-10-inch photo, or people can bring their own camera. There will also be a chil- dren’s scavenger hunt with a couple of age divisions, which will begin at the Public Works building at 2 p.m. There will be an FFA dinner, which includes petite sirloin steaks with all the trimmings, at 5 p.m. with an auction at 6 p.m. at the Prairie City Community Center. Wanda Winegar, who is or- ganizing the event along with a committee of merchants and volunteers, said another fun event will be decorated vintage trailers at the blacktop near the town reader board. She said more trailers are expected this year, but the number depends on the weather. “I would like to invite everyone to come up,” she said. “It’s a good chance to get some Christmas shopping in and visit with friends, and most merchants are having drawings, special sales and refreshments.” For more information, call Winegar at 541-820-3675. Eagle file photo There were gingerbread houses galore at the Prairie City Teen Center during last year’s Christmas on the Prairie. Here, AmeriCorps volunteer Abby Luu of Albuquerque, New Mexico, helps Emma Charette, while Kaitlyn Charette and her mom, Amy, work on her creation. The city of Dayville held its fi fth annual Scarecrow Contest, sprucing up the town with 16 creative entries. “It’s always fun to have these ‘new residents’ join us for a month or so,” said city recorder Ruthie Moore. This year, the scarecrows were up for three weeks, beginning with the town’s Oct. 3 Fall Festival pot- luck. Lyndee Billar of The Fish House Inn had the top-placing creation, a hunter/fi sherman. Dayville teacher Carrie Sullivan and her third- through fi fth-grade students won second place. Voted for the most creative scarecrow was Connie Moore for a horse, which had a skull for a head with refl ector eyes. Rachael Tobin won the potluck award for her rodeo scarecrow. Winners received candy scare- crow necklaces, with a small con- tainer of caramel dip for the head, Cracker Jacks for the body and miniature candy legs and pepperoni sticks for the arms. “They defi nitely liven up our town, and people get a kick out of Contributed photo it,” Moore said. To see more of the scarecrows Rachael Tobin stands with an NFR rodeo entered in the contest, visit the scarecrow she created for Dayville’s scarecrow Friends of Dayville Facebook page. contest, winning the potluck award. Contributed photo The scarecrow by Grayson Schmadeka and his mother, Tiffnie, was a crow. Contributed photo Lyndee Billar of The Fish House Inn won the Dayville scarecrow contest with this friendly looking hunter/fisher. Hello Grant County, We just finished our Installation Dinner, which was a great success! The Elks Club prepared a delicious dinner, and the cupcakes from Kim from Eve’s Sweets were wonderful! Thank you to all who attended and a special thanks to those businesses who donated items for our silent auction and raffle. A very special thanks to our master of ceremonies Jack Southworth and guest speakers Ted Ferrioli and Nick Green. We welcome Sally Knowles and Elaine Livran as new Directors to the Chamber Board and thank Scotta Callister for agreeing to serve another term. I am looking forward to serving as Chamber President for the next year. We have great plans for the upcoming year, and we will keep you posted. Due to the holidays and just having had our annual meeting, we will not have a meeting this week. Our next meeting will be December 21st. Don’t forget – “The best road trip across Oregon goes through Grant County to John Day where the high desert meets the mountains!” Have a safe and very happy Thanksgiving, Bruce Ward President, Grant County Chamber of Commerce 23649