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Prairie City cheerleaders and cheer camp participants perform a routine at the Independence Day parade on Monday, July 4, 2022, in Prairie City.
Fourth of July on the Prairie
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
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rowds of cheerful Americans
were on hand on Independence
Day to celebrate “America the
Beautiful” in Prairie City.
The annual tradition fea-
tured an early 5K run and pancake break-
fast, parade, pulled pork sandwiches and yard
games at the city park.
A patriotic drama performance by local
Prairie City youth and music by Red Headed
Step Child were also planned for the day.
Events started with the fi ring of a cannon
in the middle of Highway 26 as parade partic-
ipants lined up in the street. Members of Prai-
rie City American Legion Post 106 conducted
a fl ag folding ceremony in which the meaning
of each of the 13 folds was described.
Justin Davis/Blue Mountain Eagle
The Prairie City football team throws
candy to kids and waves to onlookers at
the Fourth of July Parade Monday, July 4,
2022, in Prairie City.
Justin Davis/Blue Mountain Eagle
2022 Grant County Fair and Rodeo Princess-
es Macy Carter and Raney Anderson wave to
crowds during the Fourth of July Parade in
Prairie City on Monday, July 4, 2022.
Also taking part in the parade were
members of Kim’s Tae Kwon Do in John
Day. Students and their instructor, Laurel
Coombs, demonstrated diff ering levels of
tae kwon do forms that varied in complex-
ity and diffi culty based on the belt level of
the demonstrator.
Also on hand was the newly re-formed
Prairie City cheer squad, who performed a
cheer routine with members of a youth cheer
camp the squad put on in the three days prior
to the parade. The squad also ran the commu-
nity kids fun zone at the park.
Prairie City head cheerleading coach
Sabrina Howard is in her fi rst year coaching
the team following a six-year stint as the head
swim coach at Gleason Pool.
Howard said the idea to do the camp, run
the community kids zone and perform a rou-
tine at the Fourth of July parade began with
Sharron Fritsch, who runs the community
center in Prairie City.
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JOHN DAY — The Ore-
gon Department of Fish and
Wildlife will hold a pub-
lic meeting to discuss road
closures during next year’s
archery season to promote elk
security on Tuesday, July 12,
from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Ore-
gon Department of Forestry
Offi ce, 415 Patterson Bridge
Road in John Day.
The U.S. Forest Service
and ODFW are proposing to
close some roads under the
Camp Creek Travel Manage-
ment Area Cooperative Agree-
ment to motorized vehicles
during archery season for deer
and elk in 2023.
The idea is to protect elk
that are susceptible to human
disturbance — especially
during hunting season, when
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elk often retreat to private
land, ODFW wildlife biologist
Ryan Torland said. The For-
est Service and ODFW, Tor-
land noted, want to minimize
the disturbances to keep the
animals in the forest and on
public land, given the grow-
ing body of research they have
been reviewing.
Torland said the Forest
Service and ODFW have been
discussing the cooperative
agreement for many years.
Better enforcement from the
Oregon State Police coupled
with increased staffi ng has
allowed ODFW to enforce
the plan and keep up with it
administratively. Torland said
the two agencies want to get
the proposal out to the public
and get feedback.
Torland said he would
share deer and elk popula-
tion numbers from the March
2022 census. Generally, he
noted, elk populations are
somewhat steady. However,
he said, the calf-to-bull ratio
— 11 calves for every 100
bulls — was abnormally low
due to the severe drought
conditions last year. He said
deer fared better last year, but
overall the numbers are going
down.
The 2022 archery hunt-
ing season is changing from a
general hunt — meaning there
would be an unlimited number
of number of tags sold — to a
controlled hunt, with a limited
number of tags. Now, archery
hunters must apply for a tag
through the state’s computer
lottery system.
Other than that, Tor-
land said, there are no other
changes, and wildlife man-
agers are waiting to see the
eff ects on population counts
for deer and elk as the state
moves to a controlled archery
hunting season.
Archery season for both
deer and elk goes for one
month, starting in late August.
Torland said with this being
the fi rst season of controlled
hunts, ODFW would not be
proposing many changes.
However, he said, ODFW
would be increasing the East
Northside Hunting Unit’s tag
numbers to 25 due to a slight
increase in bull elk.
Benefi t set for local man with cancer
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — The family and friends
of a local man battling a rare and aggressive
form of cancer will hold a benefi t dinner and
live auction on Friday, July 8, at 6 p.m. in the
Trowbridge Pavilion at the Grant County Fair-
grounds, 411 NW Bridge St. in John Day.
In March, Adrian Wheeler, 30, was diag-
nosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer, accord-
ing to Laci Wheeler, Adrian’s wife. Doctors
told Adrian the aggressive type of cancer —
called signet ring-cell colon cancer — could
not be cured with chemotherapy.
However, Laci said, a specialist in Ohio
studying colorectal cancer has developed a
new treatment that might help. She also said
they have reached out to a cancer doctor in San
Diego to see if Adrian could be a candidate
for a specialized heated chemotherapy treat-
ment that also involves signifi cant surgery to
remove tumors.
Unfortunately, both specialists are out-of-
network providers not covered by the young
family’s insurance.
Meanwhile, Adrian has received two che-
motherapy treatment cycles at St. Charles Can-
cer Care Center in Bend to keep the cancer at
bay. Additionally, she said, Adrian is receiving
medications.
Born and raised in Grant County, Laci said
she is grateful to have support from so many
people in the community. She and Adrian, a
Prairie City High School graduate, moved back
to Grant County a couple of years ago because
they wanted to have a community around them
as they raised their son, Owen, now 2.
“We needed the community,” she said. “We
just didn’t know how bad we needed it.”
Those interested in sending a donation
to the family can go to gofundme.com/f/
support-for-adrian-wheeler.
Additionally, an account has been set up at
Tanni Wenger Photography Studio/Contributed Photo
Old West Credit Union in John Day under the
name “Wheeler family.”
Adrian and Laci Wheeler with their 2-year-old son, Owen.