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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
SPORTS
Grant golfers defeat Harney rivals
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
SILVIES — Grant bested
Harney County while helping
to raise upwards of $10,000 for
both counties’ high school golf
programs in the third annual
Grant/Harney Battle June 18 at
the Retreat and Links at Silvies
Valley Ranch.
For Harney County, the
team included Buddy Cris-
afi, Mick Miller, Bob McDan-
nell and James Howden, while
Grant County’s consisted of
Mitch Saul, Alex Finlayson,
Colt Carpenter and Brad
Armstrong.
Overall, Grant beat Har-
ney County 70 to 68 on the low
gross.
Terry Graham hit closest
to hole No. 2 and Scott Smyth
sank the best put in the putting
contest.
Contributed Photo
Valarie Mallonee, left, receives the Silvies Golf Scholarship from
Silvies Valley Ranch’s Megan Wagner on Saturday, June 18, 2022.
Mark Conn, Silvies Val-
ley Ranch’s director of sales
and marketing, said this was
the third year of the tourney
and the two counties have been
going back and forth. Grant
won the title the first year, and
Harney took it back last year.
He said the winning county
gets 5% more of the total pot
donated to its scholarship
program.
Conn said last year’s recip-
ient of the scholarship funds
was Valarie Mallonee, who
graduated from Burns High
School this year and is off to
the University of Oregon in the
fall.
Conn said the money that
comes in from the tourney is
broken out into different cate-
gories. Some of it, he said, goes
to equipment funds, while some
can be spent at a coach’s discre-
tion and some goes to the Sil-
vies Scholarship Fund.
Conn said Silvies donated
the money from entry fees to
the tournament, proceeds col-
lected from a live auction and
by selling mulligans.
Conn said the tournament
is becoming a tradition at the
Silvies Ranch and continues to
garner more interest every year.
“It’s great to see people sup-
port their local golf teams,”
he said, “especially in today’s
economy.”
Baker City Herald, File
Shameless Tees, a business on Main Street in Baker City, is reviving the city’s annual motorcycle rally, which was canceled in 2020 and
2021 due to the pandemic and was not slated to happen in 2022.
Hells Canyon rally rides again
ticipants can register, at
Shameless Tees, 1921 Main
St., or by calling or texting
541-921-9114.
By IAN CRAWFORD
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — A
downtown Baker City busi-
ness is reviving a major
summer event that seemed
destined to be canceled for
the third straight year.
Shameless
Tees,
a
screen-printing store at
1921 Main St., is coordinat-
ing what it calls the Resur-
rection Rally 2022.
The event, planned for
July 8-10, the weekend
after Independence Day, is
intended to bring hordes of
motorcycle riders back to
Baker City.
The annual Hells Canyon
Motorcycle Rally, a tradi-
tion for almost two decades
that attracted thousands of
visitors to the city, was can-
celed in 2020 and 2021 due
to the pandemic.
In February of this year,
Mark Dukes, a partner in
High Desert Harley-David-
son of Meridian, Idaho, the
dealership that has orga-
nizes the rally for the past
few years, said the business
wouldn’t be putting on the
rally in 2022.
Dukes said in February
that the issue this year isn’t
so much concerns about
how the pandemic would
progress, but a shortage of
employees at the dealership,
and an Oregon Department
of Transportation project to
build more than 300 wheel-
chair-accessible curb cuts
in Baker City this summer,
including on Main Street.
Dukes said his goal was
to bring the rally back in
2023.
But Shameless Tees
wasn’t content to wait
another year.
“Baker loves the rally,”
said Brandy Bruce, who
works at the store. “So we’re
trying to bring it back.”
Although the Resurrec-
tion Rally has been sched-
uled and a website created
— thebcmr.com/ — orga-
nizers are still seeking per-
mission from the city to
close Main Street during
the weekend, as has been
done with past Hells Can-
yon rallies.
Bruce said organiz-
ers have talked with many
downtown business own-
ers, and had “an overwhelm-
ingly positive response” to
the rally plans.
SHOOTING THE BREEZE
Shooting skeet is good
practice and good fun
A
lthough its roots can shoot at and most of the
be traced to 1920,
rest of them that day. I was
the formal sport of
hooked.
shooting skeet as we know
Over the years since I
it today was officially estab- have shot skeet with many
lished in 1926.
more shotguns of 12, 20
The name “skeet” was
and .410 gauge.
adopted as the
During my
result of a maga-
senior year of high
zine contest. The
school I won a
February 1926
grand prize turkey
at a skeet shoot with
issues of National
my Mossberg 500 in
Sportsman and
12 gauge. The other
Hunting and Fish-
Dale Valade
ing magazines each
finalist and I had
offered a collective
shot perfect scores
$100 prize for naming the
against our opponents in
new sport. Gertrude Hurlbutt best-of-10 clay rounds. It was
decided in our sudden death
won with “skeet,” an Amer-
ican derivation of the Nor-
match that for the final round
wegian word “skyte,” which
I would shoot one, then he,
means “shoot.”
until someone missed.
Of all the shooting pas-
I can’t remember if it
times, formal or informal,
was the fourth or fifth clay
when I missed. All he had to
skeet shooting is something
do was hit his and the match
that anyone can learn and
would be over. By some
enjoy.
miracle, he missed, too. So
The first clay pigeon I
sudden death continued until
ever shot at was with a bor-
rowed .410 shotgun. That old he missed when I hit. A gen-
tlemanly handshake sealed
single-shot break-action was
the deal. I was elated.
what you might call “broke
These days I’m pretty
in.” Like a pair of old cow-
boy boots, it was well used
happy with my Reming-
and, when examining it, even ton 870 20 gauge as an all-
around shotgun. With a
my youthful eyes noticed
good set of chokes, it can
immediately that the bead
be set up for just about
was missing.
Nevertheless, I loaded the anything.
Having borrowed an
old piece and made ready.
Uncle Mick had been telling EAA Baikal over-and-under
20 gauge for spring turkey
me only a few days before
that he had done best shoot- this year, I decided to bust a
ing clays when he would
few clays with it when the
shoot just under the disc as
opportunity arose. It was
it reached the apex of its
impressive and very fun, to
arc.
say the least. I may need to
When I uttered “pull,” a
get me one of those.
clay pigeon was launched
Shooting skeet is a fun
with a hand thrower and
sport and excellent practice
sailed quickly downrange.
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I shouldered the .410 and
your favorite fowling piece
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quickly aligned the bead-
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it started descending, I
Dale Valade is a local
squeezed the trigger and
country gent with a love for
watched the clay pigeon
the outdoors, handloading,
disintegrate. I hit the very
hunting and shooting.
first clay I ever tried to
FAMILY FUN DAY 2021
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Grant County Community Health Partnership
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Frontier Early Learning Hub
Registrants in the Baker City motorcycle rally will get commem-
orative gear including a T-shirt, lanyard good for business dis-
counts, a patch, pin and more from Shameless Tees.
“We’re trying to get
through to the rest but I
think we have a majority,”
she said.
The website has informa-
tion about camping options
for riders on a ranch in Keat-
ing Valley, as well as registra-
tion packets.
The Ison House and the
Corner Brick Grill are plan-
ning concerts during the rally,
Bruce said.
More information is avail-
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Tees at 541-523-1187. Par-
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