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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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Randleas to fi ll Haberly seat Missing motorist turns up safe
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Katrina
Randleas has ben tapped to fi ll
the void on the John Day City
Council following the resigna-
tion of Gregg Haberly in late
April.
Randleas was appointed to
the council following a vote
at the May 24 meeting and
assumed her responsibilities
immediately.
Christopher Stauty also
was under consideration for
the appointment, with Rand-
leas winning out due to
her three years of experi-
ence on the John day Budget
Committee.
“I applied for City Coun-
cil three years ago when there
was an open position and
when I wasn’t appointed they
asked if I would go on the
Budget Committee, so I went
on to the Budget Committee.”
Those three years, she said,
gave her a greater understand-
ing of all the things the council
is working on and this felt like
the “right time” for her to step
onto the council.
The biggest issue Rand-
leas sees in the community
right now is division, and it
is something she hopes she
and the wider community can
correct.
“I want to leave a com-
munity that is a little more
united than it is,” she said.
OLIVE LAKE — A
Prineville man reported
missing near Olive Lake on
Thursday, May 26, turned up
safe after passers-by helped
him dig his truck out of a
heavy snowpack.
Grant County Sher-
iff Todd McKinley told the
Eagle that the 70-year-old
man had a satellite-based
personal locator that he acti-
vated when he got stuck.
However, McKinley said,
the traveler did not con-
tact authorities to let them
know that he was safe until
he returned to Prineville later
that day.
Katrina Randleas is the newest member of the John Day City
Council.
“When I think about the
ways we interact with each
other, there are a lot of
pre-assumptions about peo-
ple. I think it’s important
for us to come together and
understand where each other
are coming from. We need to
look for what unites us and
how can we make that hap-
pen for everybody’s benefi t.”
Randleas also stated that
another one of her goals is to
make sure the large amount of
people on a fi xed income are
understood when the council
is considering fi nancial issues
such as bond measures.
“I want to make sure they
are heard and understood and
felt when these types of con-
tentious issues come up,” she
said.
Stressing that she is regis-
tered as an unaffi liated voter,
Randleas says she refuses to
pick a side and wants to eval-
uate issues based on their pros
and cons.
“I want to be thinking crit-
ically about each thing and
chasing what is best and what
upholds my value system,”
she said. “I want so see what’s
going to be best to leave a leg-
acy that we can be proud of.”
The appointment of Rand-
leas to the City Council now
leaves an empty seat on the
Budget Committee.
State confirms another wolf
attack on calves near Richland
Baker City Herald
RICHLAND — State wildlife biologists have
confi rmed another wolf attack on cattle north of
Richland.
The most recent in a series of investigations
in that area, about 40 miles east of Baker City,
happened on May 19, according to the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife.
According to an ODFW report, a rancher
found two injured calves while checking a herd
on the afternoon of May 17 in a 600-acre private
land parcel in the Immigrant Gulch area north of
Eagle Valley.
ODFW biologists investigated on Thursday,
May 19, examining those two calves as well as
four other calves that had wounds.
Biologists concluded that wolves from the
Cornucopia Pack had attacked the two calves
whose injuries prompted the rancher to report the
incident. The attack happened about two to three
weeks earlier, according to an ODFW report.
Both calves had bite scrapes up to 1/8th inch
wide on the outside of their hindquarters above
the hocks, with corresponding tissue trauma,
according to the report.
One calf had an open wound measuring about
3.5 by 2.5 inches, as well as multiple tooth punc-
tures about 1/8th of an inch in diameter.
The other calf had a 1-inch by 1-inch open
wound on the outside of its left hind leg above the
hock, and a pair of tooth puncture marks 1/8th of
an inch in diameter.
According to the report, “The bite marks and
location, size, and depth of the injuries on the fi rst
two calves are consistent with wolf attacks on live
calves.”
Biologists surmised that the calves were
attacked around the same time.
Of the four other calves that biologists exam-
ined, one had a 1-inch long by 1/8th-inch-long
bite scrape with a healed puncture wound on its
right rear leg near the hip. Six healed scrapes were
on the same area of the leg.
Biologists determined this was a “probable”
wolf attack based on the size and location of the
injuries, which probably happened about the same
time as the confi rmed attacks on the two other
calves.
The three other calves also had scrape wounds,
but “lacked suffi cient evidence to be able to deter-
mine the cause,” according to an ODFW report.
Those three cases were deemed “possible/
unknown.”
Earlier this spring, ODFW biologists con-
cluded that wolves from the Cornucopia Pack had
killed one calf and injured at least three others in
the same area north of Richland.
Wolves from the Keating Pack also injured a
calf in the Keating Valley in early May.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1
Grant County Senior
Citizens Advisory Council
meeting
• 11 a.m., Prairie City
Senior Center, 204 N. McHa-
ley St.
Eric Bush, Grant County
emergency management coor-
dinator, will speak. The public
is invited.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2
Emergency communica-
tions meeting
• 6 p.m., John Day Fire Hall,
316 S. Canyon Blvd., John Day
The Grant County Emer-
gency Communication Agency
Intergovernmental
Council
will meet to discus the fi scal
2021 independent accounting
review, the dispatch staffi ng
shortage and other matters. The
meeting is open to the public.
To join the meeting via tele-
conference, call 605-313-5406
and use access code 889135.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3
‘62 Days planning meeting
• 7 p.m., Sel’s Brewery, 113
Washington St., Canyon City
Regular weekly meeting of
the Whiskey Gulch Gang to
plan this year’s ‘62 Days fes-
tivities. Anyone who wants to
help is welcome.
For
more
informa-
tion, call Colby Farrell at
541-620-0874.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4
Free fi shing in Long
Creek
• 9 a.m.-noon, Social Secu-
rity Pond, Long Creek
Free fi shing, no license
W HAT’S
HAPPENING
required, as well as free food,
activities and prizes. The
pond will be stocked by
the Oregon Fish and Wild-
life Department before the
event. Sponsored by the
North Fork Joh Day Water-
shed Council, South Fork
John Day Watershed Coun-
cil, Monument Soil and
Water Conservation Dis-
trict, Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs, Malheur
National Forest and John
Day Basin Partnership.
family of Adrian Wheeler,
who has a rare form of
colon cancer. The event
will also feature live music
and an open bar. Auction
donations will be accepted
through June 25. Contact
Winnie Browning at 541-
620-0748 about donating
items for the live or silent
auction, and contact Teri
Bowden at 541-575-2112
about making a donation for
the dessert auction.
Do you have a commu-
nity event you’d like to
publicize? Email informa-
tion to editor@bmeagle.
com. The deadline is noon
Friday for publication the
following Wednesday.
According to McKin-
ley, because the traveler
did not have his phone, he
shut the satellite tracker off
while returning to Prineville,
thinking that search and res-
cue crews would not try and
locate him.
“It does not work that
way,” McKinley said. “Once
you set that thing (satellite
locator) off , we’re going to
track you down until we fi nd
you.”
McKinley said that air
and ground search crews
tried to locate the stuck vehi-
cle and found another car
stuck east of Olive Lake on
the 10 Road.
According to McKinley,
heavy snowpack in the area
County logs 22nd COVID death
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — COVID-
19 has claimed another Grant
County life.
A 69-year-old male with
underlying health conditions
died at St. Charles Medi-
cal Center in Bend on April
8, the Grant County Health
Department announced on
Tuesday, May 31.
The Health Department
said in a news release it
had just been notifi ed of the
death.
The department said it
encourages everyone to be
respectful as a family in the
community grieves.
The press release said it
is the 22nd COVID-related
death for Grant County since
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — The
John Day Community Gar-
den, located on North-
east Third Street Extended
in John Day, will hold its
annual pumpkin patch and
food bank planting on Sat-
urday, June 4, from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Jesse Schaefer, the com-
munity garden’s board
chair, told the newspaper
that the planting day would
also serve as an open house
for those interested in
Romayne “Mike” Raymond Emmel, 86,
died on May 24 at his home with his family
by his side. A graveside service will be held
on June 11 at 11 a.m. at the Prairie City Cem-
etery with Pastor Dave Hoeff ner offi ciating. A
reception will follow at the Prairie City Teen
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FRIDAY, JULY 8
Wheeler family benefit
• 5 p.m., Trowbridge
Pavilion, Grant County
Fairgrounds,
411
NW
Bridge St., John Day
A pulled pork dinner, live
and silent auction, and des-
sert auction to benefit the
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Center. Mike’s family would like memorial
contributions made to the Prairie City Teen
Center or to Merek Kmiek through the Prairie
Baptist Churtch. To light a candle in honor of
Mike or to off er online condolences to his fam-
ily, visit www.driskillmemorialchapel.com.
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becoming members.
Schaefer
said
the
cost for an annual mem-
bership is between $25
and $35, depending on
the size of the garden
plot.
The community garden
is in its 12th year.
DEATH NOTICE
Romayne ‘Mike’ Raymond Emmel
1809 1st Street • Baker City
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the beginning of the pan-
demic in early 2020.
As of May 27, according
to the Oregon Health Author-
ity, there have 7,611 Orego-
nians who have died from the
virus. According to the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention, there have been
over 1.1 million COVID-re-
lated deaths nationwide as of
May 31.
Community garden to hold planting day
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
“Uncovering the His-
tory of Chinese Mining in
Eastern Oregon”
• 7 p.m., Canyon City
Community Hall, 129 S.
Washington St.
Free presentation by
Donn Hann, William F.
Willingham and Katee
Withee on the history of
Chinese mining companies
in Eastern Oregon. Spon-
sored by the Oregon Histor-
ical Society.
has made the lake inaccessi-
ble to vehicles and the lake
is nearly completely frozen
over, which is unheard-of for
this time of year.
In addition to an unsea-
sonably heavy snowpack,
McKinley said many roads
had fallen timber from heavy
winds during the winter, so
those heading up into the
area should bring a chainsaw.
McKinley also said peo-
ple heading into the forest
should bring their cellphones
or other communication
devices.
“Even if there isn’t (good)
cell service,” McKinley said,
“usually you can fi nd a spot
where there is some sort of
service.”
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