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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Seneca to hold fire hall fundraiser yard sale
Citywide sale set
for Oct. 11-12
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The artwork of the late
Bjerte “BJ” Williams will
be featured at the Friday-Sat-
urday, Oct. 11-12, Seneca
donated yard sale fundraiser
with proceeds benefiting a
new fire hall.
The event is scheduled
for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Seneca
City Hall, during Fire Pre-
vention Week.
Items for sale include fur-
niture, antiques, household
items, a chop saw and art-
work from Williams and
others.
“What we’re excited
about is highlighting some
of our local artists,” said city
councilor Barb Northington.
Williams, who passed
away in May, was an
award-winning
photog-
rapher, and her own pets
were “models” in many
of her greeting card
designs.
Scenes in her work
include a cat with reading
glasses poring over a book in
bed and a hen with a crutch
under one wing, wearing a
nurse’s hat.
Williams’ husband, Bill,
who is a former city council
member, has donated many
of her cards and other pho-
tography to the cause, as well
as props used in the photos.
“She was well known,”
Northington said. “She posed
chickens, frogs and cats, and
sold cards in France and all
over the world. She really
tended to her animals and
loved them.”
Some of Williams’ greet-
ing cards are currently avail-
able for sale at the Grant
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Greeting cards by the late Bjerte ‘BJ’ (Larsen) Williams were
contributed by her husband, Bill Williams, to the Seneca’s
donated yard sale to be held Friday-Saturday, Oct. 11-12, at
Seneca City Hall. The cards are also currently available at
the Grant County Chamber of Commerce in John Day.
County Chamber of Com-
merce at 301 W. Main St.
in John Day before the yard
sale.
Work from other art-
ists featured in the two-day
sale will include: Sue Fin-
ley, Paula Haack, Carmen
McCormick, Linda Pace, Bill
Clark and his son and others.
City Manager Raamin
Burrell said the yard sale is
part of an ongoing effort to
raise matching grant funds.
“The Ford Family Foun-
dation awarded a 3:1 Chal-
lenge Grant for up to
$50,000,” Burrell said, add-
ing that means they need to
raise $16,666.
The Ford Family Founda-
tion was established in 1957
by Kenneth W. and Hallie E.
Ford. Its mission is “success-
ful citizens and vital rural
communities” in Oregon and
Siskiyou County, California.
The foundation is located in
Roseburg with a scholarship
office in Eugene.
The city of Seneca has
already been granted $78,150
from a USDA Rural Devel-
opment—Community Con-
nect program, contingent
upon a $50,000 match, and
the city is also applying for
other grants.
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Northington said fire
trucks at the current Seneca
Volunteer Fire Department’s
fire hall have tight quarters.
“We need a new fire hall,”
she said. “They can’t even
get their gear on, or work on
the engine” inside the current
hall.
Burrell said they already
have architectural drawings
for the new fire hall, which
will be located between the
city shops and old medical
clinic on Highway 395 in
town.
“Would like to start con-
struction next spring,” she
said.
Call Burrell for more
information, including how
to donate, at 541-542-2161.
The city of Seneca website is
senecaoregon.com.
For more information
about Williams’ cards at the
chamber in John Day, call
541-575-0547.
Grant Union
volleyball
to host Dig
Pink Rally
Prospectors host Pilot
Rock, Enterprise Oct. 5
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Prospector vol-
leyball team will hold their annual
Dig Pink Rally at 2 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 5, at Grant Union High School.
The Prospectors will host the
Enterprise Outlaws and Pilot Rock
Rockets for varsity and junior var-
sity matches, all held in the Grant
Union gym.
The event is held to raise breast
cancer awareness, and Grant Union’s
players will hold fundraisers leading
up to the event and the day of the
games, with proceeds benefiting the
Blue Mountain Hospital radiology
department’s mammogram program.
A “Flocked” fundraiser will give
people a chance to place 30 plastic fla-
mingos in a person’s yard. To have
them removed costs $25. To have
them removed and sent to another per-
son’s yard is $50.
On Oct. 4, they will accept drive-
through donations at the pocket park
across from the Catholic Church and
another at Les Schwab Tire Center in
John Day.
Tickets for a basket raffle/drawing
and Dig Pink T-shirts will be available
for purchase.
Raffle tickets will be available at
the drive-through, and shirts and tick-
ets can be purchased at the Friday, Oct.
4, Grant Union vs. Kennedy football
game and at the Dig Pink Rally on Sat-
urday. The basket drawing will be held
Tuesday, Oct. 15, during senior night.
For more information, call Marissa
Williams at 541-620-1404.
Grant Union’s gym was closed for
the start of the season while awaiting
repairs to the floor. The floor work
and refinishing is complete and curing
is expected to be done in time for the
games.
Eagle file photo
Rally for the Cure organizer Kimberly Ward, left, and Janet Hill decorate their team’s cart at last year’s event. Other members of the Miss Piggy
team were Jeanette Hueckman, Jonna Bishop and Gail Burton, who is Ward’s mom.
Rally for the Cure is Oct. 5 at John Day Golf Club
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
This year’s Grant County Rally for the
Cure Golf Scramble & Auction is sched-
uled for Saturday, Oct. 5.
Continental breakfast and registration
starts at 9 a.m., and tee off is at 10 a.m.
KP contest and rose ceremony immedi-
ately follow golf.
A dinner of hamburgers and an auction
is scheduled for 4 p.m.
Cost for the golf scramble and din-
ner is $40 (make checks payable to John
Day Golf Club), and cost for dinner only
is $5.
Ladies competing in the scramble dec-
orate their carts, and some wear cos-
tumes. Last year’s fun themes included
Disney characters such as The Mup-
pets, Minnie Mouse and Alice in
Wonderland.
For more information, call the golf
club at 541-575-0170 or Director Kim-
berly Ward at 503-583-0362.
Proceeds from the event help those in
need of medical assistance through the
Blue Mountain Healthcare Foundation.
Complete Auto Body & Paint
Windshield Repair & Replacement
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Owner
Jeb Bowling
700 S. Canyon Blvd., John Day • 541-575-1786 or 541-575-1785
Special
Youth Hunt
Morrow/Grant County
OHV Park Youth
Spike Elk Hunt
Youth Ages 12 - 17*
YOUTH SPIKE ELK ONLY
Nov. 02 - Nov. 10, 2019
General 2nd Elk
Season Tag Required
Morrow County
Public Works
365 W. HWY 74, P.O. Box 428
Lexington, Oregon 97839
Phone: (541) 989-9500
Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8:00am to 5:00pm
* Youth need to be between ages 12 - 17 at
time of hunt or be participating in the
ODFW Mentored Youth Hunter Program
Morrow or Grant County youth that have
their hunters education or are
participating
in the ODFW
Mentored
Youth Hunter
Program.
Application MUST BE RETURNED to the
Morrow County Public Works office by
Wednesday, October ,09, 2019 5:00pm
It is time to think about your health...
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• Participate in breast self awareness and talk with your doctor if you
notice any changes.
• See your family doctor for a yearly check or even sooner if you have not
been feeling well.
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Blue Mountain Hospital - 170 Ford Rd., John Day
541-575-1311