Business
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
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Pressure washing service started
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
Residents and business
owners in Grant County with
a heavy-duty cleaning project
now have a service to turn to.
Wayne Saul of Mt. Vernon,
who grew up in Grant Coun-
ty, has started a mobile pres-
sure-washing business this
year called Saul’s Pressure
Washing.
Mounted on a trailer
that can be pulled to a site,
his equipment offers hot
or cold pressure washing,
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Wayne Saul has started a new mobile pressure washing
service in Grant County.
vide painting preparation and
house washing — and more,”
he said.
Saul said he drove to Salt
steam-cleaning and surface
cleaners for concrete surfaces.
“We can clean gutters,
decks and patios, and pro-
Lake City to get the trailer
with all the equipment ready
to go, including a diesel-fired
water heater and a gasoline
powered water pump that
keeps his operation totally
self-sufficient.
Saul also will clean ve-
hicles and heavy equipment
used for construction or log-
ging. This includes cleaning
firefighting vehicles to pre-
vent the spread of noxious
weed seeds, he said. The trail-
er is set up with two washing
hoses so two people can work
at one time to speed up jobs at
a wildfire incident.
“I’ve been keeping pretty
busy so far,” he said.
For more information on
Saul’s Pressure Washing, call
541-620-2282.
Bed & breakfast opens in John Day
British ambiance
amidst Old West
landscape
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By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
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Andrea Martinez and her husband, Pete, have opened the Victorian Lane Bed & Breakfast
in John Day. The home is well furnished with upcycled items with an English flair.
The Eagle/Richard Hanners
Andrea Martinez stands in front of the Victorian Lane
Bed & Breakfast at the end of Chimney Gulch Road in
John Day.
shops,” Andrea said, noting
that her website features a list
of the local shops.
Visitors at the bed and
breakfast have come from
Holland, the United Kingdom
and Germany. Two couples
on motorcycles from the Port-
land area stopped at Victorian
Lane last year on their way to
see Hells Canyon, she said.
“Members of the Dutch
TV reality show ‘Who’s The
Mole?’ stayed here last year,”
Andrea said.
She said she was encour-
aged by news about a sister
city relationship being estab-
lished between John Day and
a village in China connected
to the Kam Wah Chung Her-
itage Site, which could draw
more visitors to the area.
Guests at the bed and
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breakfast are served an after-
noon appetizer when they first
arrive and a full breakfast in
the morning. Breakfast-to-go
is available for guests who
must depart early, and packed
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The Victorian Lane Bed
& Breakfast is open from
the end of February to the
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information, visit their sites
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286-5548.
Rachel and Ty Sharp are
the new owners of the Sil-
ver Spur Cafe on Highway
26 in Mt. Vernon.
Longtime
residents
of Grant County, they re-
opened the cafe April 8 af-
ter it was closed for a few
months.
The cafe has been in
business for about 40 years
under different ownership
and names. Rachel worked
at the cafe for 13 years.
Open from 6 a.m. to 8
p.m. every day of the week,
with breakfast available at
any time, the cafe is pop-
ular with locals but also
attracts motorcyclists, bi-
cyclists, hunters and other
travelers passing through
on their way to John Day,
Rachel said.
“Ty and I are bowhunt-
ers,” she said, adding that
word about the cafe will
get around.
Prime rib is served ev-
ery Saturday night, and the
breakfast skillets are very
popular, Rachel said, but
the cafe also offers a wide
variety of burgers — in-
cluding the ranch, cowboy,
bacon-cheese and rodeo.
“That’s what we’re
known for,” she said.
Rachel’s mother, Kathy,
has been helping out at her
sister Penny’s bakery in
Caldwell, Idaho, but will
come to Mt. Vernon to start
baking at the Silver Spur.
“We’ll have pies, cakes,
cinnamon rolls, cookies
and brownies,” Rachel
said. “And Danishes for the
coffee drinkers that come
in early.”
The couple has done
some painting at the cafe,
but remodeling plans are
in the works to accommo-
date electronic gambling
machines in the future.
They also have plans to get
a beer and wine license,
which would be new to the
cafe, Rachel said.
The Silver Spur Cafe
is located at 150 Ingle St.
in Mt. Vernon. For more
information, visit them on
Facebook or call 541-932-
4449.
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New owners take reins
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Burgers,
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By Richard Hanners
The landscape view is
Eastern Oregon, but the atmo-
sphere inside at the Victorian
Lane Bed & Breakfast in John
Day has a slight British flair.
Decorated with fine upcy-
cled furniture and antiques,
the home on a ridge high
above the John Day Val-
ley features four bedrooms
named for places in classic
English literature, Andrea
Martinez explained.
The Kensington room,
named for a park in London
featured in James Barrie’s
well-known children’s book
“Peter Pan, or The Boy Who
Wouldn’t Grow Up,” comes
with a double bed and a
children’s bunk bed perched
above a playhouse built into
an eave of the house.
The Plumfield room,
named for the school in Loui-
sa May Alcott’s “Little Men,”
offers two single beds for
visitors who want to share
a room. A family room with
a large-screen television is
shared by the four bedrooms.
Andrea and Pete Martinez
moved to John Day about four
years ago to escape the crowds
and pace of Southern Califor-
nia, where Pete worked as an
engineer in the aerospace in-
dustry. They remodeled the
house on 13 acres near the
end of Chimney Gulch Road
and opened up the bed and
breakfast in March 2017.
Visitors can enjoy a spec-
tacular view of Canyon
Mountain from the back deck,
watch an Old West sunset or
peer at the Milky Way through
a reflecting telescope.
“We counted more than 30
falling stars during two mete-
or showers last year,” Andrea
said.
A piano and guitar in the
music room sees some use,
but many visitors come to
see the Kimberly orchards
or the John Day Fossil Beds
National Monument, to swim
at Magone Lake or hike up to
Strawberry Lake.
“One group of women
came to visit antique and thrift
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Rachel Sharp, left, and waitress Kendre Littlefield in
front of the Silver Spur Cafe in Mt. Vernon. Sharp and
her husband, Ty, are the new owners of the cafe.
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