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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Grant Union baseball team falls to Heppner/Ione
Pros face Weston-McEwen Saturday
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
It has been a tough cou-
ple of weeks for the Grant
Union/Prairie City Prospec-
tors baseball team.
The Prospectors’ six-
game skid continued Mon-
day as Heppner/Ione col-
lected a pair of wins in John
Day.
“This is one of the crazi-
est years I have ever experi-
enced,” Doug Sharp, Grant
Union’s head coach, said.
The Mustangs took the
first game 15-13, scor-
ing seven runs in the first
with one hit. Sharp said the
Heppner had three hits the
entire game.
“When something goes
wrong, everything goes
wrong,” Sharp said.
Despite jumping out in
front with a 2-0 lead early
The Eagle/Rudy Diaz in the second game, the
Senior Logan McCluskey steps up to the plate May 5 in the Pros struggled in the final
first game of a doubleheader against Lakeview.
innings, and the Mustangs
edged out a 6-4 win.
Sharp said he was
proud of the effort the team
showed until the end.
“These kids always
compete,” he said. “These
kids keep their head up and
they keep competing.”
Dufur/South
Wasco
County swept the Prospec-
tors in a doubleheader Fri-
day, besting Grant Union
11-3 in the first game and
13-11 in the second.
Lakeview topped the
Pros 12-11 in the first game
of a May 5 doubleheader
and 8-2 in game two.
Grant Union is 1-2 in
league play and 2-9 overall
in a shortened season with
starts, stops and pauses due
to COVID-19. However,
many players are grateful to
be on the field after missing
an entire season last year.
On Saturday, the Pros
face Weston-McEwen, 5-4
overall and 3-0 in league
play.
Dayville friends
participate in the
Senior Ranch Bronc
Blue Mountain Eagle
Ethan Thompson and Cash
Moore participated in the Senior
Ranch Bronc at the Harney
County Fairgrounds on May 2.
Thompson came home with
second place and Moore with a
Contributed photo
third place win.
The duo are travel partners, Ethan Thompson, left, and Cash Moore par-
best friends and Dayville school ticipated in the Senior Ranch Bronc at the
Harney County Fairgrounds May 2.
mates.
SHOOTING THE BREEZE
Woes of the gun columnist
B
elieve it or not, we have
way you do it. For example, I
been doing this column for don’t care for bow hunting, and
over two years now, and
yet I have no problem with those
while some of you may
that do. While I can sel-
dom afford to hunt out
already have the effigy
of state, I welcome those
constructed for my hereti-
cal proxy purification in
that can. And, finally,
your back yard, the feed-
even though I would
back in general has been
rather have to eat my hat
good. Many from across
than hear another word
about the 6.5 Creedmoor,
the state and some from
chassis stocks, suppres-
out of state have written
Dale Valade
sors or muzzle brakes
emails giving praise for
ever again, I recognize that shoot-
articles they have liked and offer-
ing ideas for future topics. Many
ers need to support shooters, no
have asked questions regarding
matter how ridiculous we feel
caliber choice, custom rifle builds, their preferences may be.
shooting mechanics and tips,
This bickering, emboldened
favorite classics or underrated car- by the anonymity and detachment
tridges, and many other subjects of offered by social media, has only
vast array.
worsened with time. If you don’t
feel like high fence hunting, using
We have attempted to be as
bait stations, hunting with hounds
apolitical as possible, given that
or hunting exotic game species
hunters and shooters come from
in foreign countries are ethical
a wide variety of backgrounds,
or sporting practices, then don’t
beliefs and social inclinations.
engage in them. Give each other
But this is a pro-gun, pro-shoot-
ing and pro-outdoors column. I
the mutual respect of the bene-
am no apologist where it comes to fit of the doubt. And when your
anti-hunting friends or relatives
doing the things I love. The goal
sound off, do your best to help
from the beginning has always
them see that, even though there
been to encourage, inform and
are some yahoos in any case, the
entertain.
vast majority of hunters are good,
I have been writing for other
responsible folks.
platforms here and there along
So just because I haven’t writ-
these very same lines. I am excited
to see what awaits us just down the ten about it here doesn’t mean I
won’t eventually or that I am nec-
road. One thing to be sure is that
essarily prejudiced against the
we must band together as hunters,
idea. There are all kinds of good
shooters and conservationists if
there is to be any future for the tra- articles coming your way soon.
ditions we enjoy and hope to pass
And if you’d like in particular to
down to the next generations.
grease your squeaky wheel, or
Anything that opens the door
just to tell me to put a sock in it,
to more and greater opportuni-
please email us at shootingthe-
ties for folks to enjoy nature is a
breezebme@gmail.com!
good thing. Hunters as a group
Dale Valade is a local coun-
try gent with a love for the out-
need to be more encouraging to
doors, handloading, hunting and
each other especially towards
shooting.
those who don’t do it the same
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Hello Grant County,
It’s been a pretty difficult few weeks for all of us.
We’d like to give another shout out to Blue
Mountain Hospital. They recently purchased
another almost $14,000 in Grant County
Greenbacks to share with their staff. Keeping
these dollars here really helps our local businesses!
We hope that being moved down from
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We have been seeing an increase in visitors
passing through and look for this to continue
through our tourist season.
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on May 4th. They will be offering virtual guided
tours outside the visitor center. Tours begin at the
top of the hour starting at 9:00 am with the last
tour at 4:00 pm and they are closed for noon lunch
Tuesday through Saturday. The historic Kam Wah
Chung building will remain closed and COVID-19
distancing, sterilizing protocols and wearing face
masks will be followed at the visitor center.
The Sheep Rock Unit of the John Day Fossil
Beds National Monument Paleontology and
Visitor Center is now open Friday through
Monday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm with a metered
entry basis. Visitors may sign up in-person
with a ranger at the visitor center for a same-day
reservation for a 30-minute slot inside.
It’s looking like some of our celebrations are
going to move forward this year. Plans are moving
forward for ‘62 Days, the Demolition Derby and
the Grant County Fair.
The Bull Bash is being planned for the end of this
month, and the Thadd’s Place Golf and Gala will be
next month.
Unfortunately, the Seneca Oyster Feed has been
canceled, but they are looking at scheduling it at a
later time.
The May business meeting of the Grant County
Chamber of Commerce will be Thursday, May
20th at 10:30 am at the Chamber office.
President Sherrie Rininger and her Nominating
Committee will be meeting later this month to
discuss potential nominations for Directors for
the 2021-22 year. If you are a member in good
standing, and are interested in being appointed to
the Chamber’s Board of Directors, please submit
a letter of interest to the Chamber office no later
than May 18th. Ballots will be sent out to the
membership at the end of May.
Memorial Day weekend is coming up fast. This
usually brings a lot of visitors to our county.
Stay well and let’s keep supporting each other!
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