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Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Prescribed fires planned this week
Blue Mountain Eagle
Forest Service officials are planning
prescribed fires.
Prairie City Ranger District fire crews
are planning to begin operations on the 16
Road project, located south of Forest Road
16 near Crane Prairie. Crews plan to treat
approximately 150 acres. Activity will con-
tinue through the week on additional acre-
age if objectives are being met.
Also this week, crews on the Blue
Mountain Ranger District are scheduled
to initiate prescribed fire operations on
450 acres in the Damon North unit, about
4 miles north of Seneca. The prescribed
fire activity taking place in this area is
not related to the wildfire (Incident 206)
that was suppressed by firefighters earli-
er this month.
Additionally on the Emigrant Creek
Ranger District, officials are looking to
start operations in the George unit, north
and west of Delintment Lake campground.
Additional information regarding pre-
scribed burning on the Malheur National
Forest is available on InciWeb at https://in-
ciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5139 or by view-
ing the Prescribed Fire Activity interactive
map at http://arcg.is/2wUZIil.
O BITUARIES
Curtis Antone Pereira
Curtis Antone Pereira, 42, of John Day passed away at
his residence on Sept. 15. A graveside service will be held
at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the St. Andrews Catholic Cem-
etery with Pastor Michael Harvey of Grace Chapel officiat-
ing the service. Following the service, friends are invited to
join the family for a potluck reception at the John Day Se-
nior Center. Memorial contributions may be made to Blue
Mountain Hospice through Driskill Memorial Chapel, 241
S. Canyon Blvd., John Day, OR 97845. To leave an online
condolence, visit driskillmemorialchapel.com.
Janet Kay Rude
July 28, 1955 - Sept. 13, 2018
Janet Kay Rude, 63, of John Day
passed away at her residence on Sept.
13. A celebration of life will be held at
11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Prai-
rie City Cemetery.
Janet was born in Prairie City to
Gordon and Dorothy Mitchell on July
28, 1955. She was raised in Prairie
City where she attended all 12 years
of school, and graduated from Prairie
City High School. It was there that she
met the love of her life, Robbie Rude, who kissed her on the
first day of the first grade. They wed on Jan. 21, 1972, in On-
tario. They had two boys, Travis and Tim. They lived primarily
in Prairie City and John Day.
Janet worked as a school/Head Start cook, mill worker and
Oregonian distributor. She enjoyed golfing, snowmobiling,
hunting, fishing, camping, crafting, playing cards, razor rides
and was a very competitive golfer. She was the Club Champi-
on multiple times. Christmas and Halloween were her favorite
holidays, and she often dressed up with her kids when they
were young. Her true passion was being a grandma to Jozie,
Kailey and Tyler. She loved spending time with them. Her
grandkids were her world. She was a wonderful wife, mother,
grandmother, sister and aunt. Janet loved to laugh and make
others laugh. Most people who knew her would comment on
how she had a great sense of humor.
She leaves behind her husband, Robbie Rude; her sons
Travis Rude and Tim (Aimee) Rude; her grandchildren Jozie,
Kailey and Tyler Rude; and her sisters Gloria (Bruce) Blume,
Glinda (Bill) Cunningham and Debbie (John) Sanowski.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society
through Driskill Memorial Chapel, 241 S. Canyon Blvd., John
Day, OR 97845.
To leave condolences, visit driskillmemorialchapel.com.
Larry Lemons
May 7, 1945 - Aug. 12, 2018
Larry Lemons passed away peacefully at his home on Aug. 12.
Larry was born on May 7, 1945, in Prairie City. He grew up in Mt.
Vernon, where he graduated high school and, from there, joined
the Army.
The Army took him to Anchorage, Alaska, where he became
an aircraft mechanic, working primarily on turbine Otters. He also
became a crew chief for the Otter and worked as a paratrooper.
While in Anchorage, Larry met and married Elayne Ingram, and
the two of them had three daughters, Dana, Margaret and Laura.
After he was discharged from the Army, Larry had a long ad-
venturous career as a heavy equipment operator in Arizona, Ore-
gon and Alaska, finally settling on Prince of Wales Island in Craig,
Alaska.
Larry was preceded in death by his grandparents Brice and Inez
Lemons and his father, Dennis Lemons.
Larry is survived by mothers Margaret Lemons and Beda Siler;
sisters Sue Lemons and Sandra Johnson; brother Kim Lemons;
daughters Dana Bartman (Larry), Margaret Lemons and Laura
Lemons-Young (Roger); grandchildren Jessica, Layne, Shannon,
Kelli, Kasten, Marki-Lynn, Jaron, Troiane, Dakota and McKenna;
10 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Larry’s sense of humor, love for critters, passion for storytell-
ing, love of life and his infectious laugh will be missed by his fam-
ily and many friends.
A celebration of life will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30,
at the Mt. Vernon Grange.
Christopher Swanson
Christopher Swanson, 64, of John Day passed away at his
residence on Sept.15. Arrangements have been entrusted to
Driskill Memorial Chapel of John Day. To leave an online con-
dolence, visit driskillmemorialchapel.com.
OTEC reschedules Seneca
power outage to next Friday
Blue Mountain Eagle
A planned outage to re-
place an aging transformer
in Seneca was postponed
Friday.
Necessary parts were not
included on the shipment
from the manufacturer that
was received on Sept. 12,
according to Oregon Trail
Electric Cooperative offi-
cials. The work was planned
to begin Sept. 14, but efforts
to expedite the shipment in
time for the scheduled out-
age were not successful,
forcing the cooperative to
reschedule the outage.
Kelly Jobes, an OTEC
system engineer, said the
outage will now take place at
1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21. The
outage is expected to last ap-
proximately four hours.
The new transformer will
replace the existing aged
unit and add extra load ca-
pacity in the area for future
growth.
B IRTHS
S MITH
A girl, Emberlynn Edina Marie
Smith, 6 pounds, was born in John Day
to parents Mallory Thomas and Jededi-
ah Smith of Seneca Aug. 16. She joins
siblings Jase Whatley, 7, and Korey
Holmstrom-Smith, 13. Grandparents
are Calvin and Cami Clark of John Day,
Mike and Sue Smith of Seattle and Cin-
dy Smith of Seneca. Great-grandparents
are Lavern and Linda Statbuck of Seneca
and Glen and Jamie Edens of Condon.
W UNZ
A girl, Thea Grace Wunz, 8
pounds, 5 ounces, was born to Lyd-
ia and Nathan Wunz of Las Vegas,
Nevada, June 12 at Centennial
Hills Hospital in Las Vegas. Grand-
parents are Brenda and Jay Tara-
masso of John Day, PJ Winter of
The Dalles and Mr. and Mrs. Eric
Wunz of Baker City. Great-grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Buzz
Glass of John Day, Evelyn Wunz
of Belleville, Pennsylvania, and Richard Winter of War-
renton, Virginia.
Dennis Clayton Smith
Dennis Clayton Smith, 86, of Canyon City passed away at
his residence Sept. 15. Arrangements have been entrusted to
Driskill Memorial Chapel. To leave an online condolence, visit
driskillmemorialchapel.com.
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60 TH A NNIVERSARY
R ICCO -R UDISHAUSER
Byron and Carol Ricco-Rudishaus-
er are celebrating their 60th wedding
anniversary.
The couple married Sept. 20, 1958,
on the Golden Willow Ranch.
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