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A modified version of Canyon City’s ’62 Days planned Saturday
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
A smaller, modified version
of the 99th annual ’62 Days
Celebration that organizers
say will fit within Gov. Kate
Brown’s guidelines is sched-
uled June 13 from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Colby Farrell of the Whis-
key Gulch Gang, which orga-
nizes the ’62 Days Celebra-
tion, said there would be
kids’ events in the park, dis-
plays and “stationary floats”
throughout Canyon City.
Farrell said areas where
people congregate will need
to be limited to under 25 peo-
ple. He said they would issue
color-coded wrist bands and
rotate people in and out of
those areas every half hour.
Farrell said Emergency
Operations Center staffer
Nathan Gordanier told him he
spent 40 to 50 hours research-
ing the regulations and had the
plan approved by the EOC’s
core medical group, Canyon
City officials and the state.
“(Gordanier) did all of the
legwork on submitting the
plan, but then he ran it by
everybody, and they said it
sounded good,” Farrell said.
Farrell said the state wanted
a little more detail regarding
social distancing between the
stationary floats.
“Other than that, the plan
was good to go,” Farrell said.
Farrell said people in
the community seem to be
excited, and the group’s Face-
book page received positive
comments.
“I think people around
here are just ready to kind of
get back to some sort of nor-
malcy,” Farrell said.
He said it is important to
the Whiskey Gulch Gang,
active and past members, to
keep the tradition alive this
year.
“I mean, 100 years is a long
time to walk away from some-
thing and not be able to keep it
going for just one year,” Far-
rell said.
The fate of the demoli-
tion derby, Farrell said, “is not
good.”
Under the governor’s cur-
rent guidelines, the grand-
stands at the fairgrounds can
only hold 68 people, and the
fairgrounds and organizers
would lose money.
He said next week the
group would reassess the
scheduled date of July 18
and possibly look at dates in
August and see what phase the
county is in at that point.
“It’s not like we’re going
to walk away from it any-
time soon,” he said. “We’re
just going to keep holding out
hope that at some point we can
do it.”
Farrell said those inter-
ested in putting together a
“stationary float” for the ’62
Days Celebration could call
541-620-0874.
EO Media file photo
The Whiskey Gulch Gang fires off shots during the ‘62 Days Cele-
bration in 2018. The century-old event is slated to go on in modi-
fied form June 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A team of seniors delivered a swing
set for a 7-year-old boy with cancer
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
A team of up to 15 seniors deliv-
ered and assembled a swing set to a
7-year-old Mt. Vernon boy who has
won his battle with cancer so far.
The Wyatt Strong Senior Project
team is the brainchild of professional
photographer Tanni Wenger.
When taking Humbolt Ele-
mentary School pictures last fall,
Wenger noticed Wyatt Simmons had
to have his photos taken separately
while going through chemotherapy
because he was at such a high risk.
Wenger said she made the senior
team open to anyone who came to
her studio to take their senior por-
traits. She said one of the prerequi-
sites to joining the group was to take
part in a community project.
“I just wanted these kids to give
back to the community,” Wenger
said. “This little community does so
much for them.”
Wenger said she wanted to do
something new for the seniors this
year, and she saw a need when she
heard about Simmons.
After throwing some other ideas
out for the seniors, she said she let
them decide on the project, and ulti-
mately they decided on Simmons.
“All the kids just kind of fell in
love with him,” she said.
Rylee Browning said she loved
that, despite everything he has been
through, he is always happy and
upbeat.
“I just loved his little smile,”
Browning said.
Tiler Voigt, a senior on the team,
said she previously knew Wyatt
from working with his father, Mike
Westland.
“He’s always super sweet and
Contributed photo/Tanni Wenger Photography
Wyatt Simmons celebrates after receiving his swing set May 16 in his back-
yard in Mt. Vernon. Simmons said the slide is his favorite part of the set.
happy,” Voigt said.
For her senior project, Averie
Wenger oversaw the project and was
instrumental in organizing the auc-
tion last year.
“He is a super sweet and happy
little boy,” Averie said. “And he has
the cutest little voice.”
Wenger said they decided a swing
set would be something that both
Wyatt and his two brothers Noah,
9, and Blanton, 2, could each bene-
fit from.
The team raised the money
through a can collection and coin
buckets at Grant County businesses
such as Sinclair gas stations. It
opened an account through Bank of
Eastern Oregon — the name of the
account was Wyatt Strong Senior
Project. They also sold T-shirts and
hoodies with sizes for children and
adults.
Wenger said the students were
responsible for the change buckets
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As social-distancing rules put
the kibosh on many Grant County
pastimes, recreational morel mush-
room hunting is not one of them.
With social get-togethers on
hold to control the spread of the
new coronavirus, hunting for the
elusive fungi has been a welcome
activity.
A Mt. Vernon couple has spent
their early days of spring doing
what they do every year: hunt-
ing for the best, biggest, tastiest
mushrooms.
Keith Nichols said that mush-
room hunting is an old tradition for
him and his wife.
Nichols said, in addition to eat-
ing the morels, he and his wife,
both retired, enjoy being out in the
woods.
Nichols said he enjoys eating
the fungi the best, though.
“They’re better than a ribeye
steak,” Nichols said. “Once you
start eating them, you can’t stop.”
Nichols, who has been picking
morels in the area for upwards of
30 years, said he had found several
giant mushrooms.
He said, a couple of years ago,
he came across one that was nearly
13 inches in length.
Typically, Nichols said, morels
are 4 to 8 inches tall.
Nichols said morels are typ-
ically found from March to late
May, at best.
Nichols said his wife breads the
morels with egg, flour and garlic
and tosses them on the skillet.
“Oh, man, when they come
off of that skillet, they look like
chicken fried steak,” he said.
Nichols said, if there is some-
thing out in the forest that is edi-
ble, he’ll eat it.
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“The nurses at the hospice cen-
ter are like his own personal nurse,”
Anderson said.
She said it had been a very long
journey, and they are still on it.
Wyatt said his favorite hobby is
fishing.
“His whole passion in life is to
fish,” Anderson said.
She said Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife plans to put on an
event for him at Prairie Pond but
had to postpone due to the social
distancing regulations.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation
planned to send the family on a fish-
ing trip to Alaska in July but had put
the trip on hold due to COVID-19
as well.
Anderson said, while Wyatt is
not terminal, the Make-A-Wish
foundation always does something
for kids with cancer to bring them
hope.
Wenger said the project recog-
nized seniors affiliated through a
scholarship program. Both Maddy
Way and Voigt each won a $250
scholarship that all of the seniors
were eligible for participating in the
project.
Wenger said the committee that
awards the scholarships is made up
of people who are not from the area
and do not know any of the kids.
She said they fill out an appli-
cation and send it to the committee
members in Arkansas.
Meanwhile, Anderson said she
is grateful to everyone involved
in the project, and the commu-
nity has helped her and her family
endure.
“I wouldn’t have been able to get
through this without a lot of people,”
she said. “And Tanni has helped
immensely.”
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Wyatt’s mother, Areah Ander-
son, said the outpouring of sup-
port from the community had kept
her and her family going since the
7-year-old was airlifted from Burns
to Portland after she took him in to
see the family doctor for what she
thought was appendicitis, but later
turned out to be a Wilms tumor.
This rare kidney cancer is said to be
highly treatable.
“We just barely moved here,
and it has meant a lot to all of us,”
Anderson said. “The boys love
their swing set, and everything that
they’ve done is amazing.”
Anderson said the family moved
to Grant County from Burns nearly
two years ago.
Anderson said the community
support transcends finances. She
said the hospital and the hospice
center have been very supportive.
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