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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Grant County Fair celebrates first day
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Friends Kaila Shaffer, 7, of John Day and Alana Spence, 8, of Prairie City enjoy a cool treat Wednesday at the fair.
Emma Field, 10, of Prairie City combs her Peidmontese
hereford cross on Wednesday in preparation for the
Grant County Fair in John Day.
Drew Lusco of Mt. Vernon grooms
his market goat with help from Laura
Brown of John Day Wednesday on day
one of the Grant County Fair.
REPORTER
The Blue Mountain Eagle, a family-owned weekly newspaper in a stunningly
beautiful Oregon community, seeks an energetic, dedicated reporter.
The Eagle is located in John Day, where seeing deer in front yards is normal
and traffic is unheard of, just three hours from Bend and Pendleton.
Surrounded by scenic forests and dissected by mountain streams, the
location offers year-round recreational opportunities, including fishing,
hunting, backpacking, camping, snowmobiling and horseback riding.
Despite the picturesque environment, the community is at the center of an
evolving natural resource restoration economy, which gains statewide and
even national attention.
Skylar Watson, 16, and his cousin Keilon
Watson, 11, are having fun Wednesday at the
Grant County Fairgrounds pavilion.
Sydnie Brandon, front, and Abbie
Justice of John Day had turkeys
at the fair. Brandon won Grand
Champion in Showmanship Turkey
and Reserve Champion in Market.
Justice won Champion in Market and
Reserve Champion in Intermediate
Showmanship. Both 13-year-olds
are members of the 4-H Strawberry
Riders, Etc. club.
Lauryn Pettijohn, 15, of Seneca and
Katelyn Hughes, 16, of Mt. Vernon
walk across the grassy field where the
Party Works inflatables are being set
up for the fair. Hughes had a steer in
the fair.
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