Community
Farmers market kicks off
season with new manager
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Grand marshals honored at
three Fourth of July parades
By Angel Carpenter
What better way to cele-
brate Independence Day than
with a parade?
Three Grant County pa-
rades will honor grand mar-
shals representing Dayville,
Monument and Prairie City
on Wednesday, July 4.
river on the Fourth.
She added 4-H kids will
hold a color run that morning,
the Long Creek chuckwagon
will sell food and the Jubi-
lee group will have hot dogs,
snowcones and cotton candy
available.
“I enjoy the entire commu-
nity and the camaraderie,” she
said.
Monument —
Judy Harris
Dayville — Mary
MacArthur
Grand Marshal Judy Harris
will be in Monument’s Fourth
of July Jubilee parade at 10
a.m.
She says
what makes
her town spe-
cial is the way
people look
out for one an-
other.
Judy
Harris,
Harris
born in Bend,
spent most of
her first 18 years in Monu-
ment. Her dad worked at the
sawmill in town and her mom
raised a large garden.
“I loved the freedom of be-
ing able to ride horses, swim-
ming in the creek and the
closeness of the community,”
she said.
She was gone for 50 years
and came home with her hus-
band, Aaron, three years ago.
Harris said, while living
away from Monument, she
stayed in close contact with
the residents, including fami-
ly members.
“The friendship has nev-
er left,” she said. “There are
still a lot of people that I went
to school with who still live
here.”
She worked for 27 years at
Woodgrain Millwork, seven
years in the mill and 20 in the
office. She and her husband
also had a farm in Culver.
Married for 53 years, the
couple have two daughters,
Julie Erickson of Condon and
Trisha Jones of Lone Pine,
four grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren.
Harris has been the fund-
raising chairman for the Mon-
ument Senior Center, helping
raise tens of thousands of
dollars for the facility, which
is a town hub, through grants
and fundraising events, such
as the Buckaroo Festival. She
and her husband also volun-
teer for the local food bank,
and she’s involved in the local
Quilts of Valor project, which
is a nonprofit group sewing
quilts for local veterans.
Harris said she’s look-
ing forward to seeing the
craft vendors, people of all
ages playing old-fashioned
games in the park and see-
ing the fireworks over the
Grand Marshal Mary
MacArthur will ride horse-
back in the Dayville parade
at 10 a.m.
She said
the holiday
brings fami-
lies together
for reunions,
and
former
residents re-
turn to the
Mary
hometown to
MacArthur
take part. Vis-
itors also en-
joy the festivities.
A native of Grant Coun-
ty, MacArthur said she’s had
a “lifelong love of horses,”
and was involved in the
Fourth of July Five-Mile
Horse Race that was once a
highlight of the day’s cele-
bration.
Sometimes she was di-
rector of the race, and other
times she rode in it.
She was born in Sene-
ca and also lived in John
Day,
graduating
from
Grant Union High School
in 1954. MacArthur’s par-
ents were Jack and Edith
Pocock.
In 1959, she moved to
Dayville and has been a resi-
dent since that time.
Her first 13 years in Day-
ville were on the Mascall
Ranch, and her children are
Suzan Mascall and John
Mascall.
MacArthur is well-known
as a former Dayville School
secretary, starting in the
fall of 1973 and retiring in
the spring of 2000. Prior to
that she worked at the Blue
Mountain Eagle for a few
years when John Moreau
was the editor.
She has been Dayville’s
city recorder and she served
on the Dayville school board.
She’s still on the Cummings
Ditch Board, which supplies
the city and ranchers with ir-
rigation water.
MacArthur said she en-
joys living in Dayville.
“It’s a good place to live,
where everybody minds their
own business, yet they’re
proud of their community
and take care of it,” she said.
“It’s just good people and a
good life.”
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Blue Mountain Eagle
New John Day Farmers
Market manager Anna Star-
gel said she’s excited about
the potential of the market,
which is now in its ninth
year.
The farmers market is
open
from
8:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m.
Saturdays at
Southwest
Brent Street
and
Main
Street, west
Anna
of the stop-
Stargel
light in John
Day.
The
market sea-
son culminates with a Har-
vest Festival on Oct. 20.
Sixteen vendors kicked
off the ninth annual season
June 16, offering greens,
strawberries, eggs and beef
jerky, as well as scratch-
made
raspberry
pies,
breads and jams. Soaps, lo-
tions, woodcrafts, jewelry,
hand-sewn items and more
were also available.
“I think we had a great
turnout,” Stargel said of
the opening day. “We had
some really good feed-
back.”
She and the market’s
board of directors are seek-
ing additional vendors,
and they are especially in-
terested in bolstering the
produce section with more
vegetables, fruit, meat and
honey.
“I would love to see
Brent Street packed from
Main Street,” she said.
Stargel was hired in ear-
ly June by Sally Bartlett of
the Grant County Econom-
ic Development Depart-
ment through a Ford Family
Foundation grant.
The Blue Mountain Old
Time Fiddlers, the John-
son family and vocalist/
guitarist Gary Battles have
provided music at the Grant
County Jammers booth, or-
ganized by Ron Phillips.
Phillips said he wel-
comes other musicians.
“We rotate in the circle
so everybody gets to per-
form,” he said. “It (music)
does the heart good.”
Peggy Murphy, curator
of Grant County Historical
Museum in Canyon City,
has been on hand with a
children’s activity.
“It’s really nice to see
family vendors come to the
market and sell directly to
families,” Stargel said. “It’s
a great connection, and it
shows off Grant County
and Eastern Oregon’s per-
sonality and what we have
to offer.”
Sherrie Rininger, own-
er of Etc. near the Farmers
Market, has been the mar-
ket manager in the past and
is currently an adviser on
the board of directors.
She said having Stargel
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Gary Battles performs at Saturday’s John Day Farmers
Market at the Grant County Jammers booth.
From left, Mercedes Locke, Jesse Douglass and Katie
Shockley man the salsa garden and craft booth at the
farmers market. See more photos at myeaglenews.com.
is helpful, as it can be dif-
ficult to maintain a booth
while also dealing with the
management duties, which
were provided on a volun-
teer basis.
“She can stay focused on
the manager’s responsibili-
ty,” Rininger said. “She’s a
delight and brings a lot of
energy to the market. She’s
got some great ideas.”
Stargel said, as produce
comes into harvest, the mo-
mentum of the market will
increase.
The taste of a summer-
time vine-ripened tomato
can’t be beat, compared to
those available in Decem-
ber, she said.
As the farmers market
represents the community,
Stargel said she hopes for
ideas and suggestions from
area residents.
She said, if a person
thinks they may be inter-
ested in joining the farmers
market, “don’t be hesitant”
to give her a call to talk
about it.
Cost for a booth is $5 per
Saturday or $65 for the en-
tire season.
For more information,
call Stargel at 229-869-
2136 or visit johndayfarm-
ersmarket.com, which has
the vendor application and
rules and guidelines.
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Prairie City native Dean
Hicks will be driving his 1991
Corvette as this year’s Fourth
of July Parade
grand marshal
at noon.
Hicks said
Prairie City was
an ideal place to
grow up.
“It was a
Dean
good place to
Hicks
be as a child,
being involved
in the community,” he said, add-
ing he also enjoyed hunting and
fishing, as well as waterskiing at
nearby Unity Lake and Phillips
Reservoir.
Hicks spent most of his years
in the timber and sawmill indus-
try, and was also fire chief of the
Prairie City Volunteer Fire De-
partment for 12 years, serving
the department for a total of 27
years.
“In 1975, I started work-
ing for Hudspeth Lumber Co.,
the day after I graduated high
school,” he said. “Later, I bought
my own skidder and skidded
logs for Prairie Wood Products.
I worked for Charlie O’Rorke
for 12 years, then Grant Western
Lumber Company, then ended
up at Prairie Wood.”
After Prairie Wood closed,
he was a corrections deputy for
the Grant County Sheriff’s De-
partment for two years.
He and his wife, Barbara,
were high school sweethearts
and have been married for 42
years.
They have two sons, John
Hicks and Eddy Hicks, and four
grandchildren. Both sons also
spent some time as Prairie City
volunteer firefighters.
Dean said his parents settled
in the area close to 70 years ago.
His mother is Ileta Hicks, and
his father, the late Noble Hicks,
passed away in 2015.
He said, although the town
has been changing, “the people
have been a pretty close com-
munity.”
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