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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 classifieds.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 1
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
THURSDAY, SEPT. 13
W HAT’S
House District 60 coffee hour
• 9 a.m., Dayville Cafe, 212 Franklin St., Dayville
• 2 p.m., Timbers Bistro, 742 W. Main St., John Day
State Rep. Lynn Findley will discuss issues of importance
among residents in House District 60. For more information,
visit oregonlegislature.gov/findley.
HAPPENING
Farmers market
• 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Southwest Brent Street, John Day
The market features a variety of locally grown produce,
homemade food and handmade crafts, plants, food and recipe
samples, information booths and entertainment. For more infor-
mation, call 541-575-0547 or 229-869-2136, or email johnday-
farmersmarket@gmail.com.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SEPT. 14-15
Poetry reading and workshop
• 7-8:30 p.m. Friday
• 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday
• Harney County Library, 80 West D St., Burns
Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Kim Stafford, will host a poetry
reading and discussion on Friday, Sept. 14, and conduct a poet-
ry workshop on Saturday, Sept. 15. The reading is free and open
to the public. The poetry workshop has limited seating, and
pre-registration is required. There is no charge for the work-
shop. For more information, call Kate Marsh at 541-573-7204
or 360-301-2236.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5
Nonprofit ‘Nuts and Bolts’ planning workshop
• 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Grant County Regional Airport
The event, facilitated by the Nonprofit Association of Ore-
gon, is designed to provide rural nonprofit organizations with
the tools and knowledge to develop a strategic plan, write grants
and host an event. Registration is required, and space is limited
to 25. For more information and to register, visit nonprofitore-
gon.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=3122.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 15-16
Youth pheasant hunt
THURSDAY, SEPT. 6
Nonprofit resource roundup
• 8:45 a.m. to noon, Grant County Regional Airport
Nonprofit Association of Oregon is offering a no-cost oppor-
tunity for nonprofit staff, board and volunteers to connect, meet
funders and learn about available resources. Registration is
required. To register, visit nonprofitoregon.org/civicrm/event/
info?id=3055&reset=1.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 7
First Friday
• 6-9 p.m., downtown John Day
Businesses will be spotlighting Grant County artists, and lo-
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Visitors and vendors mingle at a previous John Day
Farmers Market. The event is scheduled again for
Saturday.
cal artists’ work will be on display and available for purchase.
Those who participate in the “art walk” by visiting all the busi-
nesses will be entered in a drawing for a gift bag.
• 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Prairie Wood Products, Prairie City
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and partners stock
pheasants for special hunts that give youth a head start on reg-
ular pheasant seasons. Quail and dove also can be hunted. The
event is open to youth who have passed hunter education. There
is no cost, but each participant must have a license ($10 for
youth 12 and older, free for age 11 and under) to hunt. Youth
hunters age 12-17 also need an upland game bird validation
($4). Each youth must be accompanied by an adult at least 21
years of age to supervise. To register or for more information,
call the John Day office at 541-575-1167 or visit myodfw.com/
workshops-and-events.
Rural Skill Builder
class planned
A Rural Skill Build-
er training will be held
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45
p.m. Sept. 21 at the Old
Lincoln
Junior
High
School, 550 N. Court St.,
in Burns. Building new
and advanced skills gives
those who work on be-
half of rural places the
tools needed to be effec-
tive leaders. This one-day
event is for rural leaders
and community builders
from across Grant, Har-
ney, Lake and Malheur
counties and beyond, and
will give attendees an
opportunity to revitalize
their community-building
efforts, share their work
and learn the skills to be
a savvy leader in complex
situations. Session topics
include emerging rural
economies; bringing out
the best in people at their
worst; working across dif-
ferences; and a funders
panel with a rural commu-
nity perspective. The cost
is $40; students are free.
Lunch will be provided.
Online registration clos-
es Sept. 14: http://conta.
cc/2o03bKY. The Eastern
Oregon Rural Skill Build-
er training is sponsored
by the Ford Institute for
Community Building.
Fundraiser organized
for Curt Pereira
Blue Mountain Eagle
Kerry Quimby-Zenich
has organized a fundrais-
er for Curt Pereira of John
Day, who is receiving hos-
pice care for terminal brain
cancer.
Quimby-Zenich
said she has established ac-
counts at Chester’s Thrift-
way, Subway, the Squeeze-
In Restaurant and the
Outpost. For more infor-
mation, contact her at 4or-
egonz@gmail.com. Send
words of comfort to the
Pereira family at P.O. Box
324, John Day, OR 97845.
SMART reading program
looking for volunteers
Blue Mountain Eagle
SMART — Start Mak-
ing A Reader Today — is
kicking off its 27th year
of providing shared read-
ing time and books to kids
in Oregon with a cam-
paign to find local vol-
unteers who want to give
just one hour a week to
read with prekindergar-
ten through third-grade
students at schools across
Grant County.
Over 95 percent of
students who participate
in SMART show im-
provement in measures
of literacy development,
vocabulary and reading
enjoyment. With the help
of 20 volunteers, SMART
plans to serve more than
40 children in Grant
County this year
Volunteers are sought
in Long Creek, Dayville
and Prairie City.
To learn more, call
541-797-7726 or visit
getSMARToregon.org.
What a Nice Fair!
Let’s give all the people who helped with the
fair a big thank you. The management, fair
board, rodeo committee, 4-H and FFA, the
Heritage Building, and the sponsors –
without them our fair would not be as
mice. If you see Judy Krutzinger or Mary
Weaver, thank them for hours of writing
letters to get funds to remodel the kitchen
at the Trowbridge Pavilion and the new
sound system at the fairgrounds. Also,
a special thank you to Hamsher
Fighting Bulls for donating proceeds
from the bull fight to go toward the
remodeling of Keerins Hall. Thanks again
to all volunteers. Without you, we would
not have a fair. I hope I have not forgotten
anyone. Thanks again!
Sincerely, Austene Trowbridge Hendrix
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The YAP show choir performs at last year’s Christmas concert in John Day, including, from left, Emily Finley, Janine
Goodwin, Joelene Floyd, Katrine Bogardus, Katie Fitch, Rachel Carpenter and Kathy Sherwood with Rebecca
Bogardus conducting.
Youth Arts Program
fall classes begin soon
Blue Mountain Eagle
Fall music classes for
young and old will be offered
in Canyon City through the
Youth Arts Program.
Janine Goodwin, direc-
tor of YAP, will lead choirs
and an orchestra, and Rose
Coombs will direct a new
choir chimes group.
Goodwin said choir
chimes are like hand bells
but easier to use and are a
fun way to learn to read mu-
sic.
The fall program, which
has been running for four
years now, will culminate
with a concert Dec. 7.
Orchestra practice for
string and woodwind instru-
ment players of all ages will
be 6:30-8 p.m. on Mondays,
starting Sept. 10. Partici-
pants must have a least one
year of experience and know
how to read music.
Choir and choir chimes
practices will be on Tuesday
afternoons and evenings,
starting Sept. 11, includ-
ing junior choir (ages 4-8),
intermediate choir (ages
9-12), showcase choir (ages
13-adult), guitar classes for
kids and choir chimes for all
ages.
All rehearsals take place
at the Humbolt Elementary
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School’s music room.
Registration is required,
and tuition fees apply to
children’s choirs and guitar.
Other ensembles have a mu-
sic fee. For more informa-
tion or to register, call 541-
377-0527 or visit https://
grantcountyyap.wixsite.
com/grantcountyyap.
Early-bird tuition is $60
per child or $100 per fami-
ly for junior choir (ages 4-8
and ages 9-12) and Guitar
1. After Sept. 5, the cost is
$75 per child and $120 per
family.
Participants in orchestra,
showcase choir and choir
chimes will have a smaller
music fee.
“Scholarships are avail-
able,” Goodwin said. “We
don’t want anyone to be
turned away for inability to
pay.”