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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
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The store is kind of a community
hub, according to Boyer, with most area
residents stopping by at some point.
Boyer has also seen multiple genera-
tions of Monument children grow up
during his time as the owner and opera-
tor of Boyer’s Cash Store.
“I’ve gotten to watch the genera-
tions grow up,” he said. “I go to the high
school and watch the kids play sports
and then I can tell them, ‘You know,
your dad used to do this,’ so that’s been
kinda fun.”
Boyer said he would tell a prospec-
tive buyer that his time running Boyer’s
Cash Store has been fun for him.
“It’s been a blast,” he said. “I’ve
been doing it for, like, 42 years. Just
treat people with kindness and respect
and you’ll have fun, you’ll enjoy it and
you’ll make money.”
Boyer said he is willing to work with
whoever takes the store over to help it
thrive.
“We want it to continue as well,” he
said. “It’s got my family’s name on it.
We defi nitely want to see it keep going.”
Of course, there’s no guarantee that
a new owner would want to keep the
Boyer’s Cash Store name.
“I’ll leave that up to them,” Boyer
said. “If they want to, that would be
fi ne. If they don’t want to, that’s fi ne
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has visible consequences, and
ask what that means to you, your
life, your health, your ability to
make a living, the things you like
to do, etc. What do these phys-
ical changes mean for you?”
Shirley said.
The Department of Land
Conservation and Development
is looking to create a regional
system model because “one size
does not fi t all in Oregon,” Shir-
ley said.
Local experts see climate
change eff ects now
Experts in Eastern Ore-
gon have cited two climate
change-related factors that are
impacting daily life for residents:
steady warming and a reduction
As previously reported
in the Eagle, County Judge
Myers had said he expected
to convene the Grant County
Budget Committee to dis-
burse these funds. Trea-
surer Julie Ellison, however,
explained that she’d since
consulted with the Oregon
Department of the Treasury
and found this decision could
be taken at a regular public
meeting because the money
to cover restoring the reduced
employee hours fell well
below the threshold of 10%
of the total year’s budget,
above which budget commit-
tee approval would have been
required. Ellison estimated
the additional hours would
cost in the neighborhood of
$220,000, leaving the lion’s
share of the federal money to
be considered as part of the
next round of planning by the
budget committee.
Hamsher went on to pro-
pose a motion to explore
ways the court could provide
what he called an “economic
impact bonus,” in the form
of a prorated pay increase to
refl ect both the impact of the
hours reduction and the fact
that it happened at a time when
the cost of living outpaced the
employees’ previous cost-
of-living pay increase. The
motion passed, and the result-
ing proposal is to be brought
before the next county court
meeting for adoption. It was
clarifi ed that the proposal
will be specifi cally targeted
for employees whose hours
were reduced by Resolution
22-19, but not to other county
employees whose hours might
have previously been reduced
by other means.
In other business, the
court:
• Approved structural
engineering contracts to
develop current projects at the
fairgrounds, including work
on Keerins Hall and a pic-
nic structure. Projects involv-
ing grandstands and the RV
park are still under review by
attorneys.
• Approved a new public
records policy for the sher-
iff ’s offi ce. That policy is sep-
arate from the county’s public
records policy.
• Approved a resolution
to repay a domestic violence
loan.
• Postponed a discussion
on whether to suspend com-
mittee meetings for the Natu-
ral Resources Advisory Com-
mittee until the next meeting,
when all three court members
could be present.
Justin Davis/Blue Mountain Eagle
Justin Davis/Blue Mountain Eagle
The interior of Boyer’s Cash Store on Friday, Oct. 8, 2022.
too.”
One thing he is looking forward
to is seeing what the new owners will
change.
“You can put a bakery in, you can
put a deli in. One person said if they
get it they want to make pizzas. Great
idea! I don’t have the energy anymore,”
Boyer said.
After so many years on the job,
Boyer says that he will miss running the
store — but he’s ready for retirement.
“I will, I think I will (miss it),” he
said. “But I’ll be OK.”
Boyer’s Cash Store is listed on
LandWatch.com at an asking price of
$649,000. Interested parties can contact
Wendy Hull of Country Preferred Real-
tors at 541-575-2710.
in snowpack volume and dura-
bility, leading to disruptions in
traditional water supply.
Don Wysocki, an Oregon
State University Extension Ser-
vice soil scientist and mem-
ber of the local Eastern Ore-
gon Climate Change Coalition,
said drought, extreme heat and
unpredictable frosts are three of
his main concerns for Eastern
Oregon communities when it
comes to climate change.
“What people are facing is
higher risk, due to shortage of
water from drought, or reduced
snowpack so irrigation water
supply isn’t what it normally
would be.” he said. “To me there
are policies you could do to miti-
gate those expected changes, but
when it gets to the bottom line,
everybody is at a higher risk.
It’s not just agriculture, it’s rural
communities’ water supplies,
health risks, likely smokey envi-
A photo of John Stanley Boyer, who
acquired Boyer’s Cash Store from his
father and later passed it on to his son,
current owner Jerry Boyer.
Justin Davis/Blue Mountain Eagle
A sword at the entrance to the liquor aisle at Boyer’s Cash Store acts as a memorial
to a former customer who has passed on. Jerry Boyer said the customer “liked his
whiskey.”
ronments due to increased forest
fi re risks.”
Cliff Mass, professor of
atmospheric science at the Uni-
versity of Washington and a
climate expert for the Pacifi c
Northwest, said while the long-
term eff ects of climate change
certainly are real, the large-scale
tangible eff ects are in the future.
“The region is going to stay
pretty similar. Eastern Oregon
may get a bit wetter due to cli-
mate change,” he said. “They
would get more moisture from
the southwest monsoon. The
warming causes things to dry out
more during the summer time,
and precipitation not chang-
ing very much. Not much will
change much in the next fi ve
to 10 years. Climate change is
slow.”
Mass said Eastern Orego-
nians could expect to feel more
drastic eff ects towards the end
of the century, but that doesn’t
mean there isn’t wisdom in the
DLCD’s forethought on the
subject.
“We’re talking about a
30-40% loss of snowpack by
the end of the century,” Mass
said. “It’s not trivial, so the ques-
tion is, what will we do about
it? We’ll get the same amount
of water, just less snowpack.
We might have to take steps to
increase reservoir storage.”
Ed Townsend, science and
operations offi cer for National
Weather Service in Pendleton
said a climate attribution study
found climate change probably
played a role of 3 to 4 degrees in
the huge heat wave of 2021 and
“it was virtually impossible that
would have occurred otherwise
without human made anthropo-
genic climate change.”
He said climate change is
shifting the bell curve on higher
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“What that means is not only
hotter temperatures are possi-
ble, but general extremes are
more possible,” Townsend said.
“That’s how we’re seeing cli-
mate change, is a greater likeli-
hood for extreme events occur-
ring and lasting longer.”
Assessing vulnerability
The Department of Land
Conservation and Development
in a press release explained it
is using the workshops to help
build the “Climate Change Vul-
nerability Assessment,” a cumu-
lative report to help understand
how climate change may aff ect
existing and future social vul-
nerabilities across Oregon. “The
assessment is not intended to
propose or develop specifi c
adaptation measures,” according
to the press release, but would be
a tool agencies and policymak-
ers can use to choose adaptation
measures that will support com-
munity needs.
As formal as that sounds,
Shirley said the workshops
are to be interactive and
conversational.
“We want to hear from peo-
ple,” she said. “We’re building
these workshops to talk about
what climate change will look
like in their specifi c region, and
work with people to help them
anticipate changes.”
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CLUES ACROSS
1. Towards the mouth or
oral region
5. A way to season
8. North-central Indian city
12. Emaciation
14. Actress de Armas
15. A way to score in
basketball
16. Odd
18. Scripting languages on
IBM machines
19. A right of local juris-
diction
20. Hard, colorless
compound
21. Diving seabird
22. Wild goat of the
mountains
23. Not shortened
26. Someone who learns
from a teacher
30. Is inclined
31. Still asleep
32. Antidepressants (abbr.)
33. Town in Surrey,
England
34. Indian music patterns
39. Birth control means
42. People tend to be
on one
44. A way to keep meat
moist
46. Home of the Crimson
Tide
47. Pasta type
49. Late 1990s rapper
50. One circuit of a track
51. Surrounded by water
56. Late “Growing Pains”
actor Thicke
57. Married couples say it
58. Drool
59. Sicilian city
60. Airline worker perk
(abbr.)
61. Grayish-black mixture
62. Systems, doctrines,
theories
63. Midway between east
and southeast
64. Athletes who get paid
CLUES DOWN
1. Genus of owls
2. Hindu queen
3. Cain and __
4. Hindu female deity
5. Islamic calendar month
6. Changes posture
7. More stubborn
8. Give work to
9. Round maps of the
Earth
10. Gathered fallen leaves
11. Popular credit card
13. Separation of church
and state
17. Founder of Sikhism
24. They __
25. Where you find the milk
26. Institute legal proceed-
ings against
27. The neural structure
consisting of the brain
and spinal cord
28. Expresses surprise
29. Have a debt to
35. Businessman
36. State on India’s west-
ern coast
37. Practice of managing
financial risks (abbr.)
38. Patty Hearst’s captors
40. Put into service
41. 10-year periods
42. Crony
43. Surgical clamp
44. Leave unable to move
due to lack of wind
45. Where rockers work
47. Valleys
48. Ancient lyric poem
49. Wise men
52. It lights a room
53. Assert
54. Fifth Roman Emperor
55. Ancient Greek city in
Thrace
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