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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
OBITUARIES
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Call the Eagle, 541-575-0710, or email editor@bmeagle.
com. For meetings this week, see our list in the classifieds.
WHAT’S
Thursday, Jan. 2
HAPPENING
Judge William D. Cramer Jr. retirement party
• 3 p.m., Grant County Courthouse
A retirement party will be held for Grant County Circuit
Court Judge William D. Cramer Jr. after 23 years of judicial
service to Grant and Harney counties.
Saturday, Jan. 4
Republican Party nominating convention for Senate
District 30
• 12:15-4 p.m., Grant County Regional Airport, John Day
The Oregon Republican Party will hold the Nominating
Convention for Senate District 30. The event is open to the
public.
Sunday, Jan. 5
Sen. Jeff Merkley town hall
• 12:30 p.m., Mt. Vernon Community Hall
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, will hold a town hall
meeting.
Attendees at the Oregon State Snowmobile Association con-
ference, held in John Day in 2018, ride at Huddleston Sno-Park.
Monday, Jan. 6
Thursday, Jan. 16
Grant County Snowballers meeting
• 6 p.m., John Day Fire Hall
The snowmobile club meets the first Monday of the
month.
Intermediate drawing class
• 5:30-7:30 p.m., Painted Sky Center of the Arts, Canyon
City
Intermediate students will pursue new subject matters
such as composition, design elements, perspective and fig-
ure proportions in this 12-week course.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
Basic drawing class
• 5:30-7:30 p.m., Painted Sky Center for the Arts, Can-
yon City
The popular basic drawing class by Robert Rex is back,
teaching attendees to draw basic shapes, apply shading and
much more in this 12-week course.
Contributed photo
Pearl Shearer
Pearl Shearer, a long time resident of Long Creek,
passed away peacefully on Dec. 20, 2019. She was 91
years old.
Pearl was born July 29, 1928, in Sheridan, Wyoming,
to Verna Perry and Chris Neff. She was the oldest of three
children.
Pearl led a very active life and was full of life. She
enjoyed working in her yard and always wanted it to look
nice. She loved music and loved to dance. Before her eye-
sight started to fail, she enjoyed reading and watching TV.
She liked football and the Seattle Seahawks.
Pearl loved to watch her two great-grandsons play high
school basketball; she was quite a cheerleader for them
and rarely ever missed a game. She worked at various
businesses is Long Creek but mostly at the Mountain Inn.
Pearl is survived by her grandson Glenn Moodenbaugh
and wife, Danna; her daughter Carolyn Nelson; a grand-
daughter Jerry Nodine; a daughter-in-law Gracie Crump;
and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years,
Clarence (Buster) Shearer; her son Eugene Crump; one
daughter Chrissy Crump; one brother Butch; and one
grandson Eugene Crump Jr.
No services will be held upon request of the deceased.
Lyla Blumebrooks
Monday, Jan. 27
John Day Valley Bass Club meeting
• 7 p.m., The Outpost restaurant, John Day
The club meeting is held that last Monday of each month
at 7 p.m. at The Outpost.
Springer hired as new county planning director
Lyla Blumebrooks passed away Dec. 23, surrounded
by her family and loved ones. Services will be planned at
a later date.
Richard Gene Ray
Richard Gene Ray, 94, of Canyon City passed away
Nov. 29. Services have been planned for a later date.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Driskill Memorial
Chapel.
Norma Lemberger
Norma Lemberger, 74, of John Day passed away Dec.
25 at her residence with her family by her side. Arrange-
ments have been entrusted to Driskill Memorial Chapel.
To leave condolences, visit driskillmemorialchapel.com.
Fern Newcomb
By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
A new planning director for Grant
County was announced on Dec. 27
after the job had been advertised to
county employees.
Shannon Springer received the offer
from the county court. Springer imme-
diately accepted the job to become the
new county planning director. She has
worked in the department since Sep-
tember 2001 with a couple of breaks in
between.
“I love being able to help people
through the process of developing their
property because most people don’t
do it more than once and need help
understanding what the steps are,” said
Springer. “We have always tried really
hard to get people to where they want
to be.”
The planning director carries out
multiple tasks, but the primary job is to
review land use applications if some-
body would want to build or divide
their property or establish a specific
use for some of the property. A person
would need to submit an application,
which would be reviewed by the plan-
ning director against a criteria in the
land development code.
The planning director also reviews
Fern Newcomb, 88, of John Day died Dec. 23 at home
with her family at her side. Arrangements are under the
direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home and Cre-
mation Services. Online Condolences can be shared at
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
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BEO president elected as
statewide banking board officer
The Eagle/Rudy Diaz
Shannon Springer accepted the job of Grant County planning director at the Grant
County Court meeting Dec. 27.
planning requests and flood develop-
ment permits, assigns addresses out-
side of the city limits and oversees
building permitting for the entire
county.
Springer is currently the assis-
tant director to Hilary McNary, but
will start her new 40-hour a week
position on Jan. 4.
“She is highly qualified for the posi-
tion, and she has been a planning assis-
tant for many years,” said Grant County
Court Judge Scott Myers. “She is well
appreciated by our public. We get com-
ments on our planning office and com-
pliments quite often.”
Spray School to celebrate building’s centennial
Blue Mountain Eagle
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant County
Library will be closed
from 1-5 p.m. Wednes-
day, Jan. 15, for system
updates.
The Stone Building,
which has housed the Spray
School, will be turning 100
years old.
Superintendent/Princi-
pal Larry Johnson invites
people to share pictures,
stories or anything that
would be of interest to
others about the Spray
School. Also, a celebration
is planned with a reunion
event April 26 at 2 p.m. in
the school’s gymnasium.
Johnson extends an invi-
tation to anyone connected
to the school — either as
past students, past employ-
The Family of Ron Holliday
would like to thank everyone
for the cards, flowers and the
donations to FFA.
A special thanks to our
neighbors, Jack & Teresa South-
worth & Mat and Jennifer Car-
ter.
ees or those who had par-
ents or relatives who
attended or worked at the
school.
For more information
or to send items, contact
Johnson at 541-468-2226,
ljohnson@spray.k12.or.us
or Spray School, 303 Park
Ave., Spray, OR 97874.
Jeff Bailey, president
and CEO of Bank of East-
ern Oregon, was recently
elected as secretary/trea-
surer of the Community
Banks of Oregon Board of
Directors.
A native Oregonian, Bai-
ley has spent more than two
decades with the Bank of
Eastern Oregon. He’s also
active in the Heppner Cham-
ber of Commerce and Wil-
low Creek Economic Devel-
opment Group.
Other board officers
elected to the CBO, which
represents banks headquar-
tered in Oregon, were Ron
Green, chair (Oregon Pacific
Bank, Florence), and Ken-
neth D. Trautman Jr., imme-
diate past president (Peo-
ple’s Bank of Commerce,
Monday - Thursday
7am-
6pm
Monday
- Thursday
7am-
6pm
Friday
8am
- 5pm
Friday
8am
-
Mendy Sharpe 5pm
FNP
Apppointments
available
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Library to
close afternoon
of Jan. 15
Medford). Also, new four-
year directors elected during
the Dec. 6 election included
Randy Compton, Kate Saly-
ers and Jim Schlotfeldt.
Those re-elected to new
four-year terms were Trey
Maust and Joseph J. Pos-
tlewait. Others currently
serving on the board are
Jarrett Stuchlik and Craig
Wanichek.
“Oregon’s community
banks are fortunate to have
this accomplished group of
bankers leading the Com-
munity Banks of Oregon.
Their commitment and pas-
sion for community bank-
ing will be invaluable to our
organization and the com-
munities we serve,” said
Linda Navarro, president
and chief executive offi-
cer of CBO and the Oregon
Bankers Association.
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