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Blue Mountain Eagle
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Contributed photo
Peruvian native Silvia Calisaya teaches ancient,
natural healing traditions at the Canyon Mountain
Center in John Day.
Peruvian visitor
shares ancient
healing traditions
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photos
Cinch Anderson, left, and Carson McKay traveled to the World Wide College of Auctioneering on June 16-24 in Mason
City, Iowa.
Two FFA members SOLD! on auctioneering
Teens’ talents
soar to new level
at training
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union junior Cinch
Anderson and Prairie City
junior Carson McKay flew
to Mason City, Iowa, in
June where they experienced
eight days of training at the
World Wide College of Auc-
tioneering.
The 16-year-olds, both
FFA members, have been
involved for years, showing
livestock at the Grant Coun-
ty Fair in John Day.
Anderson is vice pres-
ident of the Grant Union
chapter and is the Strawberry
Mountain District sentinel,
and McKay is president of
the Prairie City FFA chapter
and is the Strawberry Moun-
tain District vice president.
Anderson, who lives with
his family on a ranch in Izee,
has shown Herefords since
he was 7 years old at various
shows and auctions through-
out the northwest.
“I’ve been going to dif-
ferent auctions and hearing
auctioneers my whole life
and thought it would be
something I would enjoy,”
Anderson said. “Ever since
seventh grade, I wanted to
Carson McKay and Cinch Anderson receive their
diplomas after attending the World Wide College of
Auctioneering in Mason City, Iowa.
go to auctioneering school.”
He spoke with auction-
eer Butch Booker, who rec-
ommended the World Wide
College of Auctioneering.
As Anderson prepared to
sign up, he thought of his
friend, McKay, who is also
interested in the field, and
asked if he’d like to attend.
Both young men have
had opportunities to auction-
eer at local events, including
FFA functions.
McKay said he’s auction-
eered for FFA for two years
now, and he’s volunteered
for other benefits such as
Christmas on the Prairie
in Prairie City last fall, an
eighth-grade Philly Trip
fundraiser, and he auctioned
off desserts in Monument
during the Fourth of July.
He said he’s been work-
ing to develop his public
speaking skills for a few
years.
“It’s not necessarily natu-
ral to me, but I have so much
fun with it when I’m doing
it,” he said.
Each received $1,000
from the Oregon Fair Board
Association for the trip with
Grant County Fairgrounds
manager Mindy Winegar
signing an endorsement for
them, and they each received
$100 from the Grant County
Auction Committee. Ander-
son also received $500 from
the Grant Union FFA.
The pair traveled by plane
on their own for the July 16-
24 training, where 71 stu-
dents took classes, including
20 under the age of 18.
Anderson
said
they
worked on their chant and
learned how to communicate
with people for business and
auctioneering.
“They taught us every-
thing from real estate, estate
sales, livestock, car sales
and benefit auctioneering,”
he said, noting there were 26
professionals teaching.
“It was really fun to go
there as friends,” Anderson
said. “It was a really good
time.”
McKay said the training
was well rounded. He said
he’d like to eventually break
into livestock auctioning.
“It would be cool to open
up a sale barn somewhere,
someday,” he said, add-
ing, “There is enough cattle
around here — Madras and
Vale are the closest.”
This month, Anderson
jumped in with both feet.
On Saturday, July 14, he
sold a filly through the fifth
annual High Desert Quarter
Horses production sale at the
Deschutes County Fair and
Expo Center in Redmond.
Then July 16, at the Central
Oregon Livestock Auction in
Madras, he had an opportu-
nity to auction off about 20
drafts of butcher cows and
small livestock.
“I want to get out and be
around it as much as possi-
ble and get to know people
in the business and work my
way up the chain,” Anderson
said.
Silvia Calisaya journeyed
from the southern Lake Titi-
caca region of Peru to John
Day July 4-6 to share her
culture, including the an-
cient healing traditions of
the Peruvian Aymara.
She visited with a group
of 15 at the Canyon Moun-
tain Center, a non-denom-
inational well-being and
meditation center owned by
Jim and Sandy Bay.
“She explained that each
person has the power with-
in to heal from traumas that
have left us disconnected
from our soul,” said Sandy
Bay. “The more we release
those hurts, the more peace-
ful we become.”
In her two-hour talk,
Calisaya shared the ancient
pre-Incan culture and tradi-
tions she grew up learning
from her mother and grand-
mother.
Attendee Tom Winters
said it was interesting that
the Aymaras believe in the
Mayan calendar.
“They understand that the
energy on the planet shifted
from a male-dominated cy-
cle on Dec. 31, 2012, when
the Mayan calendar ended
its last 13,000-year cycle,
to a female-dominated cycle
that is happening now,” he
said. “It gives me hope for
a more peaceful and loving
world.”
Attendee Eva Harris said
it was reassuring there are
communities where people
are civil and treat each other
with respect, “recognizing
we are all of one earth and
share the same needs.”
The Eagle asked Calisaya
about her trip, her culture
and her advice.
Monetary gift graces Monument Senior Center
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The outpouring of support
for the Monument Senior
Center continues.
The center’s board of di-
rectors were notified of a
$39,541 gift from the Joyce
Miller Owens Charitable
Foundation.
The funds will be used for
remodeling both the men and
women’s bathrooms, includ-
ing flooring and toilets, and
urinals for the men’s bath-
room.
“We have a really good
team, and that’s what it takes
to make these things happen,”
said senior center fundraiser
chairman Judy Harris.
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
The Monument Senior Center is the community hub with
many events scheduled throughout the year.
In addition to the upgrades
to the bathrooms, floor un-
derlayment and/or carpeting
will be installed in the library
meeting room, office, lobby
and hallway at the center.
Harris said she and the
tion trustees.
“They had talked about our
Buckaroo Festival, and (Cole)
told him we needed to do
some updating,” Harris said.
Hansen, who visits the
Monument area during hunt-
ing season, has been heavily
involved in the senior center,
donating salmon and corn on
the cob to the Buckaroo Festi-
val and items for their annual
rummage sale. Both events
are fundraisers for upgrades
to the center.
“He’s been a blessing to
our community all around,”
Harris said of Hansen.
Harris has called the senior
center the hub of Monument
and says the entire communi-
ty benefits from the building.
She said 18 volunteers
lent a hand at their spring
rummage sale, which raised
$2,900.
“I just ask for help, and
they show up,” Harris said.
“We’ve been blessed 10-fold
over.”
Q: What have you en-
joyed about your visit to
John Day?
A: I found that the moun-
tains and desert are very
similar to Peru. I really en-
joyed the Kam Wah Chung
Museum. It is a very special
place to learn about ancient
Chinese medicine traditions.
Q: What did you share
with the people here about
your philosophy, teachings
and traditions?
A: I shared about my cul-
ture and how my ancients
(the Aymaras) see their con-
nection with the cosmos (the
Sun and Moon) and the earth
(the Pachamama). My peo-
ple believe in natural heal-
ing and old traditions. Many
people have forgotten about
the ancient wisdom of our
ancestors. My teachings re-
mind people of their connec-
tion to the cosmos, the earth
and each other.
Q: How were you able to
help people here?
A: Sharing my culture,
beliefs and traditions help
people to remember their
connection to their own
self-healing power, and the
natural healing power of the
earth.
Q: What are some sim-
ple words of advice that
you have for people to
guide them to living a good,
healthy life?
A: I spoke about three
ancient laws of the Aymaras:
“Don’t lie, don’t steal and
don’t be lazy.” Those laws
apply to how we act in the
world and also how we treat
ourselves. Love, work and
service are very, very im-
portant. Loving yourself,
healing your relationships
with your family, friends
and the earth are the keys to
living a healthy life.
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