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Progress Edition LAKE COUNTY EXAMINER, Lakeview, Oregon Wednesday, April 24, 2019 — Page 1

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Wonders of Lake County People and Places

Wonders of Lake County is made up beautiful landscapes and endless outdoor opportunities. Luckily, Lake County too has an abundance of creative, strong-willed folks that aren’t afraid of hard work and believe in making their town a community.

You don’t have to look too far to see the pride in every one of our communities. Whether it is volunteering, coming together to find a solution or merely forging ahead to make a business successful — Lake County’s Got It! And our four seasons and beautiful landscapes seem to heighten our enjoyment of living in these wide open spaces.

Although this 96-page edition is rather daunting to produce along with the weekly demands of the job, it too is exciting and amazing what our county has to offer.

The Examiner staff through this year’s Progress edition worked to preserve and acknowledge a few of those folks and entities that are among the Wonders of Lake County!!

The staff who worked on this year’s edition are: Sr. Reporter Michael Acosta, Reporter S. Garrett Shaw, Advertising Exec.

Aimee Albertson, Graphic Designer/ Production Paul Raines, Office Manager Charley Tracy and myself, Tillie Flynn. We also had help from a few local photographers and a writer - please see the Editorial Index.

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This Lake County scenic shot was Burkhart near

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Hot Spring a Hidden Gem

Desert Inn a Mainstay

Paisley’s Intercourt Family Center

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4

Lake County Woman re-homes Border Collies

by Toni Bailie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 38

Small School Increases Options

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 42

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 46

Tour De Outback Gears Up

Wheelers Both Extreme and Casual

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12

Local Brings Spirit of Music

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 50

Goose Lake Chugalugs to the Future

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 54

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16

Making Big Strides

Mosquito Festival Still Buzzing

Outback Aviators Flying High

PLAYA Allows for Artist Creativity History That Won’t Be Forgotten

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 66

Rounding-Up 100 Years of History

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30

Shirk Ranch’s Historic Journey

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 78

Warner Canyon the Heartbeat of Lakeview A Bright Future in Lake County

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 86

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 62

by S. Garrett Shaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26

County History

by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 82

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 58

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 20

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 74

Historical Society Preserves Lake

Horseman Celebrate 45 Years

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8

in Christmas Valley

Christmas Valley Golf Course a Hole-In-One

Tall Town Bike Rolls into the Future

by S. Garrett Shaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 90

Longtime Resident Home Again

by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 92

by S. Garrett Shaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 70

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Hot Springs a Hidden Gem

By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner

Traveling northeast from Lakeview, the casual observer may never see Hart Mountain Hot Springs, but the pools located just outside of Plush are one of the “hot spots” in central Oregon and a trip to put on your Lake County bucket list.

The springs are tucked away on a high desert plateau in the Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge founded in 1936 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the conservation of the endangered pronghorn antelope. Today, nearly 1,900 pronghorns are there. The site is about two and a half hours from Lakeview and in order to get to the hot springs, a dirt road will lead you. Once you’ve arrived there are two hot spring soaking areas; an escape from what seems like reality.

Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge is the perfect location for camping in the warmer months, although sometimes the desert heat can be extreme. Altitudes at night cause the area to go lower in temperature than usual, but a camp-

Photo Courtesy of Hot Springs Locator

Hart Mountain’s main pool is the larger of the two nearly six feet deep and wide enough for six people to enjoy. er should make sure to bring enough supplies regardless.

Over the years the hot springs have been renovated and are now decorated in a conglomeration of archaic, textured rocks and a concrete wall surrounding the first and main pool. The pool is fueled from a crack in the rocky floor, bubbling the temperature up to 100 to 105 degrees on average.

At a depth of four to six feet deep and nine by 12 feet across, space isn’t a problem as the pool is able to provide accommodation for up to six people.

There are a short set of steel stairs that lead an individual into the pool and various seating arrangements both surrounding and in the pool itself.

Further down outside of the main area about 100 yards is yet another undeveloped hot pool shaped in a trapeziumstyle that is warmer than the main pool. Although you may not see it at first, the steam coming off the grass will help you locate the pool hidden behind the tall grasses. No walls

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The outside of the hot springs isn’t quite recognizable unless you’re up close and personal. surround this pool and the sandy bottom is only one foot deep with water coming from the pool’s base and six feet wide.

The hot springs are man made and legend has it that a rancher was said to have a struck a stick of dynamite on a near by rock that had bubbling water spouting from it and

thus, the hot springs were born.

At Hart Mountain, there are no strict rules about soaking in the hot pools without clothing and this is the case in

HIDDEN GEM See page 6

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HIDDEN GEM From page 4 some instances. Individuals who are deciding to go nude are encouraged to lock the gate and although it’s a sheltered view, the pools are by no means “private”.

The best part about Hart Mountain, along with most other hot springs in the area is the pools are open year-round. The main issue comes with the travel to get to the pools with snowfall building up and causing some issues on the dirt road. As far as the summer months go, mosquitoes and other animals are your only issues.

Hart Mountain is a frequent area for hunters, fishermen and tourists alike, so be sure to keep an eye out for individuals that are near the pools for your own safety and theirs.

The entire area is a great view of Hart Mountain, completely free of visual distractions.

Camping at the hot springs is also permitted year-round and during the summer months there is an onsite camp host. The site is dog friendly, but must be leashed and shouldn’t enter the hot springs.

Of course, Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge is a solid location for wildlife observation, hiking, backpacking, biking, horseback riding, fishing and photography.

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Down the way about 100 yards is the other smaller hot springs that is usually for solo visitors or couples.

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Lake County Woman Re-homes Border Collies

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner

A Lake County woman is helping rehome Border Collies and giving them loving homes.

Flora Steffan, a Paisley resident started a non-profit called “Herd U Needed a Home Rescue” several years ago and has been rescuing dogs for over 30 years.

“If I’m in this for the money, I’m doing the wrong thing,” Steffan said with a laugh.

“I grew up on a ranch and worked on a couple of ranches.”

Over the years, Steffan noticed that a lot of the dogs weren’t spayed and neutered and would have litters of puppies would then be disposed.

“Once I kind of started networking, I saw there was a need,” Steffan said. “Pretty soon, I became known as the go-to-person to re-home Border Collies or at risk herding dogs.”

While the non-profit is located in Paisley, it originally got its start in Bend.

“Everyone at the shop in Bend is all volunteers,” Steffan said adding that there are a few people that help out in Paisley.

They have over 70 foster homes spread out across the Pacific Northwest.

Being foster based, they don’t have a facility, so the dogs are taken in and placed in foster care so they know how they’re going to react in somebody’s home.

According to their website, their dogs come from everywhere, from “happy and healthy pets that come from homes that couldn’t handle the high energy and exercise demands of a typical herding dog. Oth-

Photo Courtesy of Heard U Needed a Home

“Herd U Needed A Home” holds adoption events at least once a month and re-homes several hundred Border Collies per year. Pictured is Reya Prouty with her new Border Collie Remi.

ers have stories of neglect and abuse. Each dog has their own story.”

“This is something I’ve always wanted to do, but I never could really do it full time until I retired from my job at COSTCO,” she said.

There are over 100 volunteers at the facility in Bend and she has several hundred volunteers across the Pacific Northwest.

“It takes a village,” she said. “When I started out, I wasn’t re-homing that many dogs but now that I’ve built up my base, we’re re-homing about 400 dogs per year. If I put out a post on Facebook saying a dog needs re-homed, I can get about six-10 responses and that makes a big difference.”

Adoption events, fundraisers, their website and social media have been their biggest marketing tools in getting these dogs re-homed. Their mission statement is to “provide displaced and at risk herding dogs in the Pacific Northwest with the opportunity to find loving, appropriate forever homes.”

While adoption events mainly take place in Bend, dogs are being re-homed every day.

“We do events year round and try to have one at least once a month,” she said.

The adoption process is a lengthy one and for good reason, because it follows their core value of their mission statement. Four references are required; three from people who aren’t related to the applicant and a reference is required from the applicant’s veterinarian.

“I’ve had people tell me that filled out less paperwork adopting a child,” Steffan said with a laugh. “We like to think of it as E-Harmony for dogs in a way because our success rate of placing dogs and not getting them returned is around 95 percent.”

The non-profit tries really hard in everything they do. They vaccinate the dogs, microchip them, spay and neuter and deworm the dog. Staff also works on house training them. They also let the potential adopters know if the dog is good with other dogs, cats, livestock, if they’re crate trained, teaches basic commands and more.

“After all of that’s done, we send them off and just make sure it’s a good fit,” Steffan said. “We don’t adopt to people that live in apartments or that don’t have fencing around their house, unless they have an enormous ranch.”

Steffan spends a lot of time traveling, hosting various workshops because many people who adopt were interested in taking classes on how to better interact with their animal and different ways to help dogs behave.

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GOING HOME From page 8 booked through this entire year,” she said. “A lot of people when they met my dogs, complimented on how well behaved they were and they wanted their dogs to be like that. So I started these workshops to show what I’ve learned from my dogs and other dog trainers.”

Her goal is to help people understand Border Collies better and the dogs psychology. She really enjoys working people in any way she can.

The agency does not accept dogs that have a history of biting or serious aggression. They request a $100 donation when a dog is surrendered to help cover the cost of caring for the dog.

“We get several calls a day and we have pulled dogs out of shelters before,” Steffan said. “Mainly we try and help our community first.”

While they do occasionally get grants to help out, the non-profit almost solely relies on donations.

“If people want to donate, they can donate through our website, through Facebook, Pay Pal or mail a check,” Steffan said. “We have just an amazing community. I can put something on Facebook about needing collars or leashes and people really step up to the plate and donate, because they believe in what we’re doing.”

Steffan admitted she didn’t think this non-profit would take off the way it has. She says it’s a rewarding feeling, knowing that these dogs are going to a good home.

“I had no idea what to expect,” she said. “I went from rescuing three or four dogs per month or year 30 years ago to rescuing that same amount per day now. I didn’t realize how many Border Collies were out there.”

For more information, visit herduneededahome.com. Community members can donate money online or mail checks to PO Box

Photo Courtesy of Kimberly Teichrow

Flora Steffan, right and her sister Vila stand with a plethora of border collies last fall as they help re-home the herding dogs as part of a non-profit organization.

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Wheelers Both Extreme and Casual

By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner

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Alaric Crandall stands on his Jeep with an American Flag. Crandall is one of the founding members of the High Country 4 Wheelers.

Alaric Crandall was born in Grants Pass, but has lived all over Oregon.

When he “dug” a spot to plant his roots in Lake County, he and a few buddies started up the club, High Country 4-Wheelers.

The 4-Wheelers held their first meeting in November 2012 and the club got where it is today pretty quick. The core people that were interested joined and have stayed with it. Today, around 12 or so of the original founding people are still with the club.

The High Country 4-Wheelers are involved in a much larger organization, the Pacific Northwest Four Wheel Drive Association (PNW4WDA) and Crandall the members operate through them. The PNW4WDA is made up of a bunch of clubs in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

“As far as how we run our club, they don’t do much with it,” said Crandall.

In terms of the runs and wheeling spots, Oregon is one of the best.

“All over the state there’s

different types of wheeling,” said Crandall. “There’s some pretty epic stuff. In Lake County, there are big rocks and extreme areas if you look for it, but on the coast, you’d be hard pressed to see better views.”

Crandall’s Jeep is purposebuilt buggy on 42s. If he wants he can go to rim buttes and wheel out there and face obstacles others might not.

“I get excited every time we go,” said Crandall.

For now, the club won’t be doing specific events, mostly runs to a lot of local places and trails.

It’s relaxing for a lot of people in the club because it’s not always basic or extreme.

The 4-Wheelers are focused on land use matters and keeping trails and off road areas open.

In the PNW4WDA, the club is in Region 6 with Bend, Brookings, Burns, Sweet Home, Roseburg, Philomath and Klamath Falls.

As far as actual activity goes, the club is extremely involved across the County and state. They participate in the sand dunes clean up in Christ-

mas Valley over Memorial weekend for one day. The weekend is one of the best of the year and a lot of people take motorcycles, dirt bikes, quads, side-by-sides, Jeeps and more. There’s the beach clean up in Houser in September and the club’s involvement with a lawsuit regarding the Ochoco Mountains to keep those trails open is ongoing.

“It’s a big slap in the face to people that have been using them forever,” said Crandall.

These roads have had people on them for hundreds of years. “In my opinion what they’re trying to do is keep people to the state and city parks.”

Although Crandall has no issue with this idea, the club’s focus is to strive to open trails and keeping them open for use.

Crandall will follow it all by the book and make sure he reads every line in it to get full access.

The club also puts on the Poker Run that funds the Poster Contest.

The contest includes all of Lake County schools from A.D. Hay to Fremont and others.

The coloring contest results in

placements and the winners get prizes.

As a main focus, opening trails and exploring areas like Fort Rock Rim Buttes, Groundhog and other areas in Region 6 and the PNW led to the opening of these trails.

“There’s a lot more clubs in the state than you’d realize,” said Crandall. There are a ton more clubs and more are focused in the Washington and Portland area, but include different types of wheeling.

As far as this club, the 4-Wheelers do a little bit of everything from hard core King of the Hammer stuff, to driving around to visit Steens Mountain or even Hart Mountain. Of course there’s also the Christmas Tree snow run and trips to Fort Rock, Dog Lake, Moab, the Rubicon Trail and the Oregon Creek-N-Trail for a Father’s Day Run in the Valley.

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4 WHEELIN’ From page 12

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Crandall’s green purpose-built buggy on 42s makes it way through the terrain during one of their runs.

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Members of the club come barreling through the woods around knocked down trees and other obstacles

this isn’t a hobby, it’s a lifestyle.

“I’ve been wheeling basically all my life, so has my wife and my kids,” said Crandall. “I’ve got pictures of them upside down in car seats.”

Around here in Lakeview and Lake County, people go out in the sticks, play in the mud and go hunting. There haven’t been a lot of trail rides and the 4-Wheelers are looking to change that.

Crandall’s passion, like many, started when he was little. His dad had an old Willys Wagon Jeep so he had some exposure, but he joined back up in high school just to see where he could go in his pickup.

As he got older, Crandall took into account where land use is and what he can and can’t do.

“You work to keep that open so you don’t see it all go away,” he said.

As far as the actual club in itself, it’s not done growing.

“I think the best thing about our club is there is virtually something for everyone.”

The High Country 4-Wheelers are always looking for new members and interested parties should reach out to Crandall via telephone at 541-219-1130.

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Rupert Rez works on constructing one of his Native American flutes, ensuring the dimensions are correct for a good sounding instrument.

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner

Rupert Rez may be retired, but hasn’t stopped him from continuing work on one of his hobbies.

Custom-made Native American flutes is what Rez makes and he learned everything he knows on the computer.

Rez’s mother was French and Iroquois Indian (an Eastern Native American tribe) so he has a little Native American in his background.

“I got started about three years ago after attending a yard sale in Paisley several years before that,” explained Rez. “A gentleman had just passed away and he was a furniture maker.

All of his equipment was for sale and my wife told me I should buy it, even though I knew nothing about the furniture making.”

His wife Josie convinced him to purchase some of the equipment and it sat in his shop at his house for several years, up until he saw some “how to” videos on the computer.

“I was watching videos of these Native Americans on the internet playing the flute and I read somewhere else, that anyone can play them,” Rez said.

“I really like how these sound and if anyone can play them, I thought I could make them and eventually play them.”

Rez then bought one to play and said most of playing is finding songs that are easy to play.

“These flutes aren’t the European chord which is do, re, mi,” explained Rez. “These flutes are the pentatonic chords.

In the pentatonic chord, there aren’t many flats.”

Not being a musician by “any stretch of the imagination” Rez said he can’t read music, but the sheet music he has purchased is easy to read, as it has a picture of the flute before each note and where the finger placement is supposed to go and which flute holes to cover.

“I’d like to learn at least one song,” Rez said adding that

he purchased some sheet music that has some old time favorites such as “It’s a Wonderful World” and The Eagles “Desperado.”

Most of the flutes he’s made are very lightweight, but others are heavy. The weight of the flute is dependent on the material that is used. One flute he’s working on is made out of maple and the other flute is made out of Purple Heart wood.

A friend of his does engravings, engraving various designs on the wood. The flutes that are completed have bear paws engraved on the wood. In return, Rez is making his friends a flute free of charge. They’re engraved with real turquoise, that Rez goes and picks up a few times a month in Klamath Falls from Oregon Trails Outfitters.

Most of the flutes that he makes are in the key of F sharp because “F sharp is the most popular of all of the flutes.” Rez only makes flutes in the key of F, F sharp, G and he wants to

make some E key flutes.

“When I construct my flutes, I like to make them very precise and take my time making them so they don’t sound airy when they are played,” he said.

The mouthpieces are two and a half inches long and the holes are spaced about a quarter or an eighth of an inch apart.

He constructs his flutes in three days, not sending out the finished product, until “they are playing the way they’re supposed to sound.”

“If the holes are too close together than you get a lot of over blow,” Rez said. “The placement of each of the holes is critical to how good it sounds.

There’s a lot of trial and error in making one of these.”

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MAKING MUSIC From page 16 He tunes his flutes by using a guitar tuner and each flute is cut differently depending on which key it will be in. The flutes are in two pieces and are held together by glue. He then sands the flute down to where the glue is no longer visible.

“If I don’t sand them down, than it looks like it’s wet all around it,” Rez said.

He’s had success in selling his flutes. He’s had a booth at Saturday Market, that takes place each summer in Lakeview and in Bend, the Holiday Bazaar in Klamath Falls in the winter time and has had success in selling his products at various festivals and events in Klamath Falls and Bend.

“This year will mark my first full year that I will be making flutes to sell,” Rez said. “I’ve also sold these in Sumter twice

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Rez prices his flutes based off how much he thinks people will pay.

“The most my flutes have gone for have been $200,” Rez said. “It all depends on the people. There are some people who can’t afford to purchase a flute, so I sell for what I think they’ll go for and make sure everything is right, before the customer leaves.”

For more information or to purchase a flute contact Rez at 541-947-2797 or 541-219-9893.

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Representatives from all across Lake County, as well as Travel Oregon and Travel Southern Oregon came together at the Warner Canyon Ski Hill in 2018 to orchestrate the Rural Tourism Studio.

With their one-year anniversary behind them, the Rural Tourism Studio that came through Lake County in 2018 is making great strides.

In what began as a “wish” of sorts, Travel Oregon first told Lake County Chamber of Commerce Dir. Jessica Bogardus and South Central Oregon Economic Development District Rural Development Coordinator (SCOEDD) Ginger Casto, that a rural tourism studio in Lake County was a possibility.

According to Travel Oregon’s website, the Rural Tourism Studios help communities cultivate regional visions; identify strategies to harness tourism and develop unique experiences in culinary and agritourism, outdoor recreation, bicycle tourism, cultural heritage tourism and more.

When Travel Oregon came through in April 2018, the four main points of emphasis were Western Hospitality attached to the rodeo, every kind of trail and the dark skies designation and the Geological Features.

From those subcommittees, groups were formed and immediately the three groups got to work.

In July, 2018 the three committees met at the Chamber to determine who should get the $7500 grant that was going to be awarded by Travel Oregon. The Trails Committee was the recipient of the grant that highlighted recreational opportunities located

in Bullard Canyon and beyond. The project included signage, maps and advertisement of the trails.

“We’re really close to finishing our brochure,” Trails Committee Member Melissa Maxwell said. “We had two work days where we put the reassurance markers in and received help from the Lakeview student council and honors society kids.”

The reassurance markers are blue and made of plastic and let people know that they are still on the right trail.

“We’re putting up signs all over at the entrance to Bullard Canyon, Rogger Meadow and other various trails,” Maxwell said.

“There’s a big Oregon Department of Transportation sign that will go along Hwy 395 that identifies where the Noni trail is. Mark Albertson was a huge component in helping secure that. There will also be ODOT signs put in to point out entrances to the Timber Trail and Rogger Meadow.”

Since Rogger Meadow encompasses both federal and private land, different signs will be put in place.”

The brochure, while nearing completion still has a few more drafts before it’s ready to be printed. It will feature a tri-fold map of the Noni Vandenberg trail, Bullard Canyon, Rogger Meadow and more. Shannon Theall created the map that will feature a color-coded key of the routes of each trail.

The brochure will also have routes for ATV,

hiking, running and cycling.

The Western Heritage Committee has been extremely busy, getting double sided flags put up with one side showcasing the Chamber slogan; “Kick your boots off and stay awhile” and the other side “Lake County Round-Up and Fair, Labor Day Weekend.” The banners were distributed along F Street, 4th Street and down E Street in Downtown Lakeview. There was also one big banner that was hung across Hwy 395, between the Herford building and the Gathering Place.

The Western Heritage Committee worked closely with the Town of Lakeview to get the flags hung and the County Commissioners donated $1,000 towards the project.

Jeff Marshall and Town Maintenance placed the flags; Ace Hardware donated all of the hardware, Town Mgr. Roberta Vanderwall, Lakeview Mayor Ray Turner, Collins McDonald Trust, Bender’s Digital Concepts, Pacific Power and Vividly Consulting all donated to the project.

“This group of people that came out really shows their dedication to getting this aspect of Lake County underway,” Western Heritage Committee Member Pasty Hall said in a previous interview.

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RURAL TOURISM From page 20 efforts and organizations to try and make a difference and I’ve never seen a more dynamic group of people to get this done.”

Two more big banners will go down E street and more of the double sided banners will be placed this summer, with Western Heritage Committee Member Judy Graham collecting donations to spearhead that project.

“Todd Andres, of Pacific Power just joined the Western Heritage and he’s working to get permission to hang banners on the Pacific Power Poles,” explained Bogardus.

The Town of Lakeview gave funds from their bike funds to the Western Heritage Committee for two hitching posts for bike racks that match the Town Branding. The bike racks will be completed by Adam Albertson and installed by the early part of the summer. The racks will fit approximately four bikes, depending on the size and will be a secure way to lock up the bike.

To follow the Chamber’s slogan and logo “Kick Your Boots Off and Stay Awhile” the Committee has funds for a six foot statue of a pair of boots from the Chamber logo that will be made out of horseshoes and will be welded to a concrete slab and sit behind the Washington Federal and U.S. Bank parking lots, facing F street.

The artist is Bud Thomas out of Corvallis, who does all the horseshoe art in Sisters.

“The statue will light up from dusk until dawn and will be installed in late August, just before the Fair,” Bogardus said.

Sponsored by Travel Southern Oregon, the Western Heritage Committee is putting together a front line training, geared towards main players in tourism such as restaurants, hotels and gas stations in order to improve customer service. The training is for business owners and managers in the tourism studio.

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RURAL TOURISM From page 22 With so many attractions such as the Sun Stone Mines in Plush, Crack in the Ground in Christmas Valley, Summer Lake Hot Springs in Summer Lake and more, the map is going to feature each of those and more.

“The goal of this map is bringing more visitors to the area as well as informing the people in Lake County of all Geologic/Archaeological sites of interests throughout the county,” Geological Features Member Bobbie Hickey said in a previous interview.

“This map is going to be a huge help and help detail each geological feature in the county,” Bogardus added.

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Travel Oregon’s Community Based Services Dir of Destination Development shared Bogardus’s vision of success.

“Since the completion of the Outdoor Recreation Studio last April, the Oregon’s Outback action teams have created incredible momentum while building on existing local assets, developing the visitor experience, and engaging community leaders,” Carey said. “The Outback Trails, Geological Features and Western Heritage action teams are making a visible impact and creating new resources for the industry and visitors. In partnership with Lake County Chamber, SCOEDD, and the Oregon’s Outback Steering Committee, we look forward to supporting these grassroots efforts to grow tourism as a strong pillar of a robust, thriving Lake County economy.”

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Outback Aviators Flying High

By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner Lakeview’s Outback Aviators Flying Club has been up and running since last November and the strides they’re making has been nothing short of liftoff.

After a year of mostly talk and doubts, the club debuted its newest toy purchased

by Airport Mgr. Tom Andrews, a 1967 C-172 Skyhawk.

“One student has been flying the wheels off the new plane,” said member Bruce Webbon with a chuckle.

During their meeting back in March, the plane had already had 65 plus hours on it of flying time. Now you wouldn’t believe that Webbon almost threw in the towel on the club, but his determination never wavered.

“The club is going for real now,” said Webbon. “It’s been a year of talk, but it’s real now.”

Every third Saturday during the month, the Outback Aviators host a club meeting at 10 a.m. at the Lake County Airport.

In order to bring in more interest to become a member of the club, members will receive $20/per hour off their rental rate for flying the plane and an instructor fee decrease. The grand total for the rental

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Members of Lakeview’s Outback Aviators Flying Club, Bruce Webbon, Tom Andrews and Josh Andrews are looking forward to the future of the club.

rate will be a wet (all fees included) price of $125/per hour, although the final instructor fee hasn’t been determined.

With that being said, the general public can still rent the plane for use under two conditions.

First, the individual must have valid aircraft renters insurance through the Aircraft Owners Pilot Association (AOPA) and secondly, must be checked by the instructor from Klamath to make sure they’re clear for flight.

The emphasis for the club is serving as an enquiring social club for pilots and people interested in aviation. For the time being, the Outback Aviators own nothing and have no plans to buy.

Discussion has been brewing during their meetings and after some much needed work, an additional open house aside from the one on April 20 taking place later in the summer will be the big event after the rest of the construction is wrapped up. The club is aiming for an August date to be able to show the public what they’ve got done out at the airport.

There’s been a lot of investment in re-

cent years to get it off the ground, and now the Outback Aviators are looking toward the future. The club would like to get more kids/ young adults involved, and perhaps more of a presence in the school by inviting them out to the airport to see what they have going on.

For now they’ll focus on the individuals they do have.

With the way Andrews stepped up, “it’s made all the difference in the world,” said Webbon.

Those individuals that had licenses in the past are now getting back into it. In fact, there’s already a few members fully checked out, able to operate the plane solo.

Down the road, Andrews is looking into potentially getting a second airplane on site, but with only six to seven hardcore members the club needs the commitment of a couple others.

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The new 1967 C-172 Skyhawk patiently waits for its next run into the sky, perhaps with a new member on board.

member, Chuck Kelley. The duo is looking at a $100 fee and some skin in the game to provide the service.

An individual from Klamath Falls will be aiding in the preparation as well.

Although they don’t know how great the demand will be in a few years, interest has already been more than imaginable.

“I think this summer that airplane will stay green, it’ll stay going,” said Andrews.

The interest has ranged from Paisley, Alturas and even Adel.

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With all these changes, Webbon is excited for the next step.

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By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner A century ago in 1920, the Lake County Round-Up was born and this year’s Labor Day weekend celebration will mark 100 shows of celebration in Lakeview.

The 2018 Lake County RoundUp Pres. Scott Graham and V.P. Todd Muller has been working for years on the upcoming celebration; nearly five in fact.

Thursday, Aug. 29 will kick off the weekend starting with the Kid’s Calf Branding. Friday will bring the Ranch Rodeo, the Neil Flynn Memorial Roping will take place Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Of course in between it all Saturday night will be the concert with Jackson Michelson the opening act for the eventual main performance of Chris Janson. Janson

One of the most exciting parts of the weekend festivities is the PRCA Rodeo that covers two days and recently went from amateur to pro. has had several songs reach the top 50 on the Billboard charts, including “Buy Me a Boat” and “Fix a Drink” that topped the chart at No.1. Janson’s album is ranked within the top five.

After announcing this piece to the puzzle at the 73rd annual Gala this January, excitement for the concert has been bubbling over. The Round-Up Committee really stepped up their game for the 100th; wanting to bring in some more mainstream talent.

There have been thousands of changes since 1920. For Muller, he has been involved with the Round-Up for the last 10 years.

The biggest change in that time period was changing the Rodeo from an amateur one to a pro rodeo. After

getting sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), the talent from the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas brings big names to Lakeview to compete.

“It’s a mad dash at the year’s end to get their money to try to make Vegas,” said Muller.

“You see a lot of those big names coming to Lakeview now.”

The Ranch Rodeo has also grown, but all-in-all, the whole weekend has just gotten big, according to Muller.

Due to the expected attendance, extra lodging at Juniper’s Reservoir will be available. “Glamorous camping” or comfy outdoor living is the name of the game and will be active during a five-day special

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“It’s a little more luxurious out there,” said Muller.

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Page 32 — Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Progress Edition LAKE COUNTY EXAMINER, Lakeview, Oregon

100 YEARS From page 30 Out-of-towners can enjoy a little more than just the Round-Up and experience some of Lakeview.

New this year, the Mini Buckers Junior NFR sanctioned event will see kids riding bare back and saddle bronc bucking ponies. The Committee decided this in March and it’s one of 15 events nationwide and a qualifier for the Junior NFR in December. Although they don’t know how big it’s going to be, there’s a possibility that some kids will be coming all the way from the Midwest.

With April among them, time has flown by in terms of planning.

“It’s hard to believe it’s already here,” said Muller. “To see everyone and the past courts, queens and princesses as far back as they’re still alive, it will be neat to see how many show up.”

Some court members as far as Texas, Montana and other areas will be coming back to Lakeview. Honoring those ladies on the Courts when they were young during their reign is one of the best moments according to Muller that the 100th will capitalize on.

The Round-Up Committee is trying to gather up as many horse drawn wagons. As they can.

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Not to be confused with the PRCA, the Ranch Rodeo will have its time in the spotlight on Friday, Aug. 30.

Luckily for them, volunteering has been at an all time high. The work of Jessica Bogardus at the Lake County Chamber of Commerce has been “invaluable”.

The point of the 100th Round-Up isn’t to change a whole lot of course to keep the tradition. The basic outline of intentions will be to try to fill the stands or get as many spectators in the stands for the Rodeo, concert, Destruction Derby and additional performances to have attendees return on both days of the Rodeo. “ We’re really excited to see all the attendance this year to see what the ticket sales are going to be and who all is going to be in the stands,” said Muller.

With only a few months left of final touches, the Lake County Fairgrounds will be rocking once again, sharing the celebration with young and old and 100 years of Lake County memories.

For more information on the 100th Round-Up, contact Muller at 541-947-0132.

TILLIE FLYNN/ Lake County Examiner

Chaps made special for the 100th year celebration, complete with family and ranch brands of almost all of the past Round-Up queens will be worn this year by the 2019 Round-Up court and then retired to the Round-Up Past Presidents museum.

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Shirk Ranch’s Historic Journey Photo Courtesy of BLM

By S Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner

Abandoned now, this building used to be the main ranch house at the Shirk Ranch in Lake County.

Dating back to its homestead in 1881, the David L. Shirk Ranch is a historic ranch that is located in eastern Lake County in the Guano Valley, just south of the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge.

Since the United States Government acquired the property in 1942, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) now administers it and what remains is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The ranch borders a developing marsh and meadowlands watered by the Guano Creek, draining the southeastern slope of Hart Mountain. The area is a hot spot for local birds and wildlife. The BLM manages the cattle grazing leases in the area around the historic ranch, making sure to preserve the wildlife and wetlands.

Like some abandoned and otherwise uninhabited areas, the Shirk Ranch is said to be haunted, but what makes up the history of one of the most historic ranches in Oregon?

The Shirk Ranch’s past is much like other establishments in the Hart Mountain area; a place where Native Americans called home. The Northern Paiutes occupied the area before the introduction of Europeans, but for the first piece of its “lifetime”, trappers and a few military ex-

peditions existed in the Shirk Ranch area.

Then 1881 rolled around and the property was homesteaded by R.A. Turner and eventually sold to William Herron. Next came David Shirk who bought the ranch from Herron in 1883.

When he first purchased the area, three buildings were on the property, a house and two sheds. The first record of the property size was in 1887, where it was listed as a 480-acre ranch.

Shirk was a rancher and a cowboy like most individuals in the area. After moving from Indiana and Texas as a boy, he and his brother William acquired land in the Guano Valley close to the ranch.

Success came fast for the Shirk boys and their cattle business and the ranch became the “social epicenter” for the local ranching community.

Where there is sun there is also darkness. The haunting of Shirk Ranch might have been born in 1878, when the Shirks were involved in a number of Indian attacks in what was known as the Bannock War of 1878. Both brothers defended the ranch, but William and two of the teamsters on the ranch were ambushed. William survived, but the teamsters were killed as the Indians pursued Shirk for miles until they had given

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David L. Shirk one of the owners of the ranch; the other was his brother, William.

up. Another instance of death on the ranch came at the hands of David himself, who got into a tussle with a French employee and shot and killed him.

Years later, the brothers controlled much of the Catlow Valley. This wasn’t the end of their expansion. By 1899, the Shirks owned 1,080 acres.

Once he had grown SHIRK RANCH what seemed See page 36 to be

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SHIRK RANCH From page 34

exponentially, Shirk sold the ranch to the Lake County Land and Livestock Company that owned a neighboring ranch, 7T Ranch.

In the years following, the ranch moved in and out of foreclosure, but was eventually leased to Zetus Spaulding who married David’s daughter, Olive. Years down the road, the U.S. Government acquired it, but an agreement was made where Spaulding lived in the ranch until his death in 1945.

Lake County local, Chuck Messner actually lived on the ranch from around 1981 to 1991. Then, the ranch size depended on how full the Hart Mountain Reservoir was, but Messner’s ranch was on about 65 percent of the land at the time. It could be anywhere from 700 to 800 acres, or when it was dry, as little as 300 acres.

When asked about his experiences with the supernatural at the ranch, Messner could only laugh.

“Yeah there was a reputation for that,” said Messner. “You’d come up the road and not have the lights on the house and there would be a light on upstairs in the window.”

The old house use to creek and groan when the weather got into the freezing temperatures and the reservoir would freeze.

There were even tales of workers that didn’t show up to work being buried on the hill

back by the ranch by David Shirk himself.

Messner actually added a tin roof on the house as a temporary measure that eventually saved the house, but it was considered as “damaging” to its historic nature by the archeologist on site at the time.

The ranch was granted its place on the list of Nationally Registered Historic Places on Nov. 4, 2009. The area was considered an “excellent example of pioneer cattle ranch in southeastern Oregon.”

The historic district includes 14.5 acres of the property and there are 19 structures in the area, 14 of which are contributing elements. The elements include the main house, two bunkhouses, a blacksmith shop, a wood shed, an outhouse, a chicken coop/ animal shed, a water tower, two wells, original fences and the hand-dug irrigation system.

A grave site is one of the elements that wasn’t included as contributing.

Unfortunately, the ranch has never been fully inventoried so the buildings haven’t had the chance to be stabilized or restored. Due to this, some of the buildings are in deteriorating condition.

The Shirk Ranch story is one that has grown over the years. Those daring enough can find out more, but history speaks for itself.

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Paisley’s Inner Court Family Center

By Toni Bailie Special to the Lake County Examiner

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Pierre Hoppe and Marsha Owens prepare lunch for Paisley School students. The school stopped serving lunch in 2002 due to budget cuts. Inner Court Family Center started serving meals four days a week in 2014 to support the school and students.

To access medical care or county offices, residents of the small town of Paisley are looking at a 45-mile drive to Lakeview, or 130 miles to Klamath Falls or Bend. Thanks to a vision that inspired three women, Paisley has the Inner Court Family Center which houses an impressive array of services that can be accessed locally.

At a prayer meeting in 1997, Joan But-

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ler, Rebecca Richardson and Ronne Lindsay came up with the idea for a center to meet needs of people in Paisley and Summer Lake. They formed a 501C3 non-profit and the community got on board to make it happen. The Brattain family donated two lots in town. Silver Lake Ranger Station had a surplus modular office building and the ZX Ranch/Simplot provided funds to move and refurbish it. Local volunteers stepped up. Lance Richardson laid new carpet and linoleum. With the help of Larry Duckworth, Lance built a deck, while Nita Cardoza planted flowers. Early office volunteers included Charles “Pepper” Withers, Mary Lou Sanchez and Gena Cooper.

“It’s truly a project of the heart,” says Ronne Lindsay who served for years as executive director. “We named the center after the inner court of the temple in the Old Testament which was a place of restoration and new beginnings.” The ICFC officially opened July 1, 2001. Since then, the center has received $700,000 in grants to continue operation.

As of January 2019, the new executive director is Cheryl Kemry Owens. Cheryl graduated from Paisley High School and has recently returned to live in her home town with husband Rob and daughter Aspen.

Business Manager Missy Walton has been at the helm for six years, administer-

ing programs and providing notary service, faxing and printing/copying. “We offer help to so many people in town,” Missy says. “I like being able to help those who have a need.” She organizes public transportation to take people out of town for medical appointments or shopping. Volunteers who drive their personal vehicles are reimbursed for mileage.

Since November, 2001, ICFC has sponsored Paisley/Summer Lake Food Share.

Pastor Wayne Boyd drives to Klamath Falls every quarter for supplies. Jan Murphy distributes the monthly food baskets which contain a variety of canned, frozen and dry goods. Donors include ZX Ranch/Simplot, Withers Ranch and United Way. ICFC board chair Kathy King of Summer Lake began helping with Food Share, then filled a vacancy on the board. She and her husband Michael ran a food bank when they lived in Port Orford on the Oregon Coast, so they were eager to get involved in the local effort. Through the Food Alliance, Klamath/Lake Food Bank and Safeway Stores supply surplus bread and produce – anyone can come into the center and help themselves.

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Paisley School students can get lunch four days a week thanks to ICFC support.

School closed the cafeteria. At the time 6570 percent of the students were enrolled in reduced/free lunch program. In January 2004, ICFC began supporting the cafeteria, hiring a cook to serve breakfast and lunch four days a week. “I’m the chief cook and bottle washer,” says Sheila Stephens who plans meals, purchases food and serves up meals that include gluten-free options. Food donations come from the Food Alliance, ZX, J-Spear and Murphy Ranches. Many volunteers assist with food prep and serving.

“When he retired, Pierre Hoppe came and asked if he could help,” Sheila says. “He’s

been showing up every day to wash dishes.”` ICFC houses a variety of medical services. Melanie Loski, a physical therapist from the Lake Health District, comes twice a week to treat local patients, saving them a 90-mile round trip.

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Luke Colahan, l-r, Oscar Yeh, Poon Chotparith, Abby Sanders and Daley Jones represent the inaugural guitar class at Paisley School.

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner

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Freshman Eli Jones works on a project in his woodshop class.

Paisley Charter School may be small with only 34 kids, but just because they’re small doesn’t mean there’s any limit on the elective classes they have available.

Featuring an AG class that was just brought back this year after a 16 year absence, an engineering class, woodshop class, yearbook, guitar class (also new this year), art, photography and a live radio station located upstairs at the school, many students are taking advantage of the classes offered and getting excited for school.

Being a small school with a smaller budget, Supt. and Prin. Paul Hauder said that he secured at least $32,000 over two years to help with those classes through Measure 98 funds and the state legislature proposed fully funding, which would be a 40 percent increase.

“We would get $45,000 if we are awarded the full amount,” he said. “At the very least we’ll get $32,000, which paying our hourly teachers some of what they’re being asked to do, makes that money go far.”

When Hauder first came aboard at Paisley school two years ago, it was an accreditation year so he went out to each of the stakeholders, getting feedback on how the school is doing, how they can improve and ask for advice.

“I decided that I was going to do this each year,” Hauder said. “About the middle of the year, meet with every one of our stake holders and the results are fascinating. It’s a great measure of what students and parents would like to see us doing better and

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what we could possibly do in the future.”

Last year, there were a lot of comments from parents, teachers and community members about AG and why nothing was being done about an AG class, given that Paisley is an AG Community.

“Interviewing the candidates for the class, Emma really stood out to me because of her background in AG and working towards her masters degree in AG,” Hauder said. “Since we’re a Charter School, she could get a registered license based off her academic background to teach AG.” Hauder wants to see the AG class continue to grow and hopefully turn it into a career cluster, so at the end of students high school career, they can complete a “cluster of classes.”

Looking off the surveys that the students complete each year, one of the main things the students wanted was more choices for electives.

“I looked at the talent that we have with our staff and I sat down and evaluated what we could use that money towards,” Hauder said. “For example, Bruce Arrington went to a seminar last year about guitar and I asked him if he would be willing to teach a class.

We asked the staff what they would be willing to teach and presented these options to the students and the students signed up and that’s what we used as our guidance.”

The yearbook class is one of the more popular year long classes, where the students create each of the pages, go out and take photos and put the entire yearbook

together as they capture moments in the classroom, on the athletic field and throughout the academic year.

“My favorite part about being on the yearbook is going around and getting sponsorships for the pages,” junior Mia Milasinovic said.

The engineering class taught by Mike Jones is a senior class that allows the students to learn about the various types of engineering like civil engineering and chemical engineering.

“We also watch videos that allows us to learn what each type of engineer does and what being an engineer is all about,” senior Shakir Kumarovich said. “Right now we’re working on 3D models on the computers and I’m currently designing a 3D model of a house.”

So far this year, Kumarovich has designed the home of his dreams and is currently working on a model of the Paisley School cafeteria to download onto Google Maps. His dream home comes complete with three stories, a yacht, trampoline and pool.

Sophomores Abby Sanders and Daley Jones are both in the guitar class and the AG classes, both of which are new this year.

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CLASS CHOICES From page 42 beginners.

“We’ve done performances at assemblies, sporting events and we performed at the Christmas play,” Sanders said. “I came in having played guitar, but have learned a lot and had a lot of fun in the class.”

“I don’t play any other instrument and while learning the guitar is hard, I think it’s cool to be able to play at least one instrument,” Jones added.

The AG class has been working on raising their steer Ferdinand that was donated to them and are trying to secure a second animal to raise. The class takes turns feeding Ferdinand every day and will donate the meat back to the school when the animal has matured. They have plants in their greenhouse and are really enjoying being in an AG class.

“Being in the AG class is fun and it’s something different that we haven’t had,” Jones said. “We wanted to be able to do FFA, so I’m hoping it eventually leads to an FFA program here in Paisley.”

Junior Brianna Haynes is the only student in the art and photography classes.

Both classes allow her creativity to come out and showcase in her work. In art class she did sculptures, worked on sketching and acrylic painting and watercolors. She really enjoys doing photography and taking pictures of the various scenery around Paisley.

“I really like photography and I’m happy there’s a class I can be in,” she said. “I

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Khampsaith Luanglatin has some fun doing a balloon project for his engineering class

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Aiden Jones works hard during class to ensure everything is ready to be broadcasted on the radio.

don’t do a lot of photos of people, I’m more into wildlife, landscape and nature.”

Being in the radio class, junior Aiden Jones has learned a lot about the business.

The station 103.1 KPI plays anything from 60s music to modern genres. The station does weather, jokes, news around the community and keeps the community informed They also put together advertisements and commercials promoting local business.

“This is my first full year on the radio and it’s a lot of fun,” Jones said. “I like the independence and knowing I’m helping out the local community and keeping them informed.”

Being the only student in the class, the class allows him to take it again next year and use it as a springboard for college if he so chooses. He does pre-recording and records live during class time.

Jones is also in the advanced workshop class, working on maintenance on machines, how to properly use the machines, board work, how to set up machines, learning the ins and outs, techniques and more.

“Before the end of the year, I hope to make a chair and some other things like a baseball bat,” Jones said. “I’m about to complete my cutting board project and I’d like to go on and make other stuff. I’m really proud of the progress I’ve made and we as a class have made.”

For more information, contact Paisley School at 541-943-3111.

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Horseman from all over line up at the Lake County Fairgrounds before one of the Buckle Series events.

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By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner Lake County’s Horseman’s Association (LCHA) is hitting a big milestone this year. The group will be celebrating their 45th anniversary and has some big events planned to celebrate and look towards 50 years.

The Association got it’s start in October 1974 at Jerry’s Restaurant, when a group of eight horseman; Pat Weekly, Eunice O’Brien, Velma Wright, Denny Duke, Gloria Counts, Ann Snyder, Curt Parker and Bert Freeman who was the chairman and manager of Jerry’s Restaurant in Lakeview gathered. The eight individuals spoke about the need for a Horseman’s Association in Lake County and the club took off from there.

“We’ve had our ups and downs over the years, but we’re still going strong here in year 45,” Treasurer Gloria Counts said.

Over time the group has had its hand in a little bit of everything including play days, horseshows, gymkhanas, endurance rides, overnight campouts, trail rides and more. In the past, the LCHA has sponsored two St. Jude Trail rides to benefit the children’s hospital. The rides have been extremely beneficial, each bringing in over $2,000 to the Hospital. The group also sponsors clinics for proper horsemanship, rides in the Labor Day Parade each year and has also ridden in the Paisley Mosquito Festival parade in the past.

“Our son Dusty is a cancer survivor and that’s what made raising this much money so much more successful,” explained Gloria. “Dusty expressed interest to us and the club, about wanting to do another St. Jude’s trail ride when his

Cheyenne Albertson participates in an English rider event during the Buckle Series last year. kids are a little older, so that’ll be something we look forward to putting together within the next couple of years.”

Membership for the Horseman’s Association has remained steady over the years with 30-50 members per year. Membership is $30 for a family of three or more with children under 18, $15 for an individual adult and children under 18 are $10 “We welcome anyone and everyone,” Counts said. “Every member that we have had, has had a fun time.”

Officers for this year are Dan Roberts as President., Jay Counts as Vice President., Nancy Albertson as secretary and Counts as the treasurer.

“Two of the members, our son Dusty and Cindy Anderson were instrumental in getting the first ever FFA Horseshow in Lake County in 2001 and were

also instrumental in forming the Lakeview High School Equestrian Team in 2002,” Counts said.

“Those two just wanted to do more and they both ran with both of those ideas.”

The FFA Horseshow was a one-year wonder, as it was “a tremendous amount of work” but still made a lasting impact.

The Association’s main push is the buckle series that happens each summer featuring three shows. Each show has five different age groups and each group has their own individual awards that they hand out. The Buckle Series will kick off on Saturday, June 29 this year and will have shows on Sunday,

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45 YEARS STRONG From page 46 July 14 and Saturday, Aug. 27. Riders are split up into the five ages groups; leadline and peewees for children ages eight and under, juniors for ages 9-12, Intermediate for children ages 13-17 and seniors are for children 18 and above.

“Not a whole lot has changed in the last 45 years,” Counts said. “We’ve added rides over the years, beginning with trail rides and a few others back in the 1980s.”

To help kick off the 45 year celebration, there will be a LCHA sponsored kid friendly Ranch Playday, held on Saturday, May 18 at the Lake County Fairgrounds. This event will feature morning classes for high point, reined cow horses, modified sorting, individual works, dummy roping and ranch horse trails. The afternoon will consist of practicing herd work at no extra charge. Entry fees will be $20 per class or $25 for each event. There will be high points awarded in Pee Wee, Junior, Intermediate and Senior. Limited spots will be available for registration.

“We’ve never had an event like this before,” explained Jay. “This is kid friendly and each event will be geared towards the kids. We’re excited to put this on and hope we can have an outstanding turnout. We’re going to use this as a test run to see if this is something we can offer every year.”

Both Jay and Gloria never thought about whether or not the club would go on 45 years, they both enjoy doing various activities and being a part of the Horseman’s Association year after year.

For more information or to become a member contact Jay and Gloria Counts at 541-947-3539 or visit the Lake County Horseman Association’s Facebook page.

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Tour De Outback Gears Up

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner Lake County’s Tour de Outback is gearing up for their annual ride, as the Lake County Chamber of Commerce has taken over the big event, that has seen riders come from all over.

As a way to hopefully avoid wildfire season as much as possible and the smoky skies that accompany it, the ride has been moved from the first weekend in August to Saturday, June 22. Last year’s ride was cancelled due to unhealthy air quality in Lake County. The Chamber has teamed up with Lake County Search and Rescue and will donate to them each year, so Search and Rescue will have various stops set up along each of the routes as opposed to having an all volunteer crew.

“If people need to stop, than we’ll have trained Search and Rescue people, which is actually pretty common for these types of rides,” Chamber of Commerce Dir. Jessica Bogardus said.

According Bogardus, the ride started out as a Chamber function and then the di-

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Beginning at the Lake County Fairgrounds, each of the rides that the Tour de Outback offers takes cyclists through the streets of Lake County.

rector prior to her, gave it up and allowed the Tour de Outback Committee and the Outback Pedal Posse to run it.

“Since the ride has grown over the years, there had been discussions about who should take it over,” Bogardus said. “Since the Pedal Posse wasn’t an official licensed group or a non-profit group, they were just made up of volunteers, they had trouble with setting up an account and things of that nature.”

While the Chamber has several “umbrella groups” such as the three committees of the rural tourism studio who have their own account set up, they decided to do the same thing with the Tour de Outback this year.

The ride has expanded from just the kids (5 miles), beginner (10 miles), intermediate (25 miles), metric (65 miles) and century ride (90 miles). Last year was the debut of a running portion on the Noni Trail, a trail that was set up to honor the former Lakeview math teacher. There’s also a

mountain biking portion that will debut this year.

“The mountain biking and the run will both take place on the Noni Trail and encompass 14.8 miles and they will start earlier,” Bogardus said. “What we had been hearing from a lot of our runners in town is that there wasn’t really a big running event of this nature. There are some that are three – six miles, so we really wanted to include the runners and appeal to runners in higher elevations.”

Alluring to runners in higher elevations, allows marketing to runners from all across the state to come to the “Tallest Town in Oregon” and encourage participation. In their debut, there were two mountain bikers and approximately 10 runners that braved the smoke.

“It’s a challenging run and a GEARS UP challenging See page 52 bike ride,”

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GEARS UP From page 50 Bogardus said. “We have a great mountain bike trail and we really want to see this event continue to grow and bring in more people.”

Registration is now open for each of the rides. Cost is $50 and that includes a shirt and dinner. Each of the rides will start at the Lake County Fairgrounds, with the exception of the Metric ride, which will start at Kamas Snow Park, located just east of Lakeview on Hwy 140. The Century ride allows for the most sight seeing, as riders go through and Adel and Plush, before circling back. The Metric ride follows a similar route to the Century ride, while the Intermediate, Beginner and Kids ride follow routes that stay close to the Fairgrounds and take riders through the streets of Lakeview.

While the routes are the same as years past, they will encompass the Outback Scenic Byway, a 171 mile route that

runs from the Oregon/California border, through Lakeview and up through Lake County, stopping just before the turnoff to La Pine.

Registration is now open The dinner this year will be at the Adel Store, as busses will transport cyclists, runners and mountain bikers to Adel for food, music and more as Adel will be hosting their annual MC Days.

“I think with the big efforts surrounding tourism, I really think that this year it will be a big event and we will get a lot of people that will come out,” Bogardus said. “We really hope that we set the date early enough, to get out in front of the smoke.”

For more information or to sign up, visit www.tourdeoutback.org., or contact the Lake County Chamber of Commerce at 541-947-6040.

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Goose Lake chugalugs to the future

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Stretching from Lakeview to Alturas and even all the way to Klamath Falls, Goose Lake Railway is a staple for businesses near and far.

In most cases, Goose Lake Railway is referred to as the Lake County Railroad.

The confusion lies with the fact that Lake County actually owns the rail line, but Goose Lake is the private company that operates it.

Goose Lake started up operations in September 2017, which puts them at roughly a year and a half of work. The Countyowned portion of the line reaches 55 miles and Goose Lake’s lease from Union Pacific is an additional 55 miles.

For Goose Lake, their section stretches from Alturas back up along Hwy 139 towards Klamath Falls to the interchange in a place named Perez near agricultural inspection area in California. That totals 110 miles in a half and half split. The cars are delivered into Union Pacific and go as far as Florida, Canada even some shipments to Tacoma get shipped all the way to Korea.

Goose Lake Railway LLC’s managing member Toby Van Altvorst knows that this is just the beginning of the work on the line.

“It’s a very challenged railroad,” he said.

Before the process started with Goose Lake, the rail line actually went through the abandonment process, which is a legal pro-

cess overseen by federal entity that regulates railroads. Back in the 1980s it was the Interstate Commerce Commission, but it’s now regulated by the Services Transportation Board.

Southern Pacific Railroad, the former owner in 1985 posted the abandonment and the County bought the line in 1986.

Since then, the County has varied from operating the line themselves to having contractors operate on their behalf and there has been a handful of those with the Great Western Railway being the first.

Of course, the rail line has progressed where it is today, but the investment in the infrastructure hasn’t happened in for a very long time. Improving the physical condition of the line over the years has come by way of state and federal monies in the form of a grant that have been awarded to the railroad.

Today, a couple of grant projects are in the works. The State of Oregon through the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Connect Oregon Program grant brought $325,000 for railroad ties. This grant required a match of a minimum amount of 30 percent, however, the County can’t provide it due to the current budget. As a pri-

vate operator, Goose Lake is putting it up through the operating revenues and participation through shippers that pay a branch line maintained surcharge. From those funds Goose Lake is going to match $175,000 making up a total of about $500,000, which will cover 6,000 railroad ties throughout the line reducing the risk of derailment.

The Oregon Economic Development Department’s Regional Solutions Team who awarded around $170,000 contributing a match to that via an in-kind match through the manpower and equipment provided the second grant. The money from that match itself will be used specifically to purchase materials and contribute to bridge condition preparing the line to handle the Red Rock Biofuels traffic that is expected.

Van Altvorst has recently been working on the Lakeview infrastructure to support Red Rock loading spurs and will have a contractor coming in to build that track.

“Infrastructure is constantly deteriorating over time since it’s out in the weather all the time,” CHOO CHOO he sad with a See page 56 laugh.

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CHOO CHOO From page 54 Big picture for Goose Lake and the Lake County Railway is a lot of focus on investment to reach what is known as today’s standards and doing so through actively seeking federal dollars and grants to help with the process. That is the big push throughout 2019, as the pursuit of those federal grant dollars will cover tie and rail replacements, bridgework and other pieces to the development of the line.

Luckily for Goose Lake, the great thing about tie renewal process is the workers can spike them up as the updating progresses, which means you can move the tie replacement equipment while the project is underway.

Goose Lake is a rather low volume railway that only sees about one round trip a week to the interchange in Perez.

This gives the crew lots of track time to work on it and doesn’t negatively impact the movement of freight over time.

As far as grants go, typi-

cally grant dollars go to work very quickly under normal conditions. Since these are usually maintenance projects and not a new construction project the process doesn’t take very long.

However, getting materials like bridge timbers and custom ordered pieces that have gone through the treating process could take as long as four or five months.

Scheduling contractors for larger projects is challenging with the recent economic boom.

For now, the bridge grant money available from last year will be the focus in the next couple of months.

Goose Lake operates as a triage, repairing the next highest risk location where derailment will occur and moving onto the next place with the highest risk. This has worked well over the last year and a half, but if say millions of dollars in federal money came to them, it would be a different.

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“We’re excited because the railroad is running every week and providing reliable service,” said Van Altvorst. Nine full time jobs keeping as much in house as they can keep dollars in the community.

“Our goal is to see the rail-

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Mosquito Festival Still Buzzing It’s full speed ahead for the Paisley Mosquito Festival as it heads into year two under new owners from Three Rivers Mosquito and Vector Control out of Klamath Falls. Three Rivers Mosquito Festival works all up and down the west coast, from Oregon to Washington and California.

This year’s Festival will take place over a three-day period; Friday, July 26 that will kick off with Cowboy Poetry show at the Paisley Community Center.

The big event will continue on Saturday, July 27 and Sunday, July 28.

According to Three Rivers owner and operator Edward Horvath, the City of Paisley was eyeing whether or not to get rid of the festival that generates the funds for mosquito control.

“I first heard of the Mosquito Festival in 2012, when a friend from Florida was telling me about it,” Horvath said. “We went out to the Festival and we

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knew that they had been looking for sponsors. One day I got a call from the City of Paisley telling me that they weren’t going to have it, unless we could do something to help them.”

Horvath and the rest of the Three Rivers Mosquito and Vector Control talked about it and decided to take over the Mosquito spraying and the Festival, with last year being their inaugural year in existence.

Mis -communication played a role in last year’s turnout as many people thought that the Festival was cancelled, since the city of Paisley wasn’t putting it on anymore.

“Overall we thought that the Mosquito Festival had a good attendance, but I think if many people had known sooner that it wasn’t cancelled, we would’ve had more people come out than we did,” Horvath said.

“Weather also played a role as it was really hot and there were smoky conditions.”

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner Optimism is running high for this year, as Horvath has plenty of ideas in mind for the big three-day event.

The popular Jail-N-Bail will be back this year. For a small fee, participants can fill out a form with who they want to see “get arrested” and local law enforcement will find them, “arrest them” and transport them to the historic Paisley jail located behind the Pioneer Saloon restaurant. Notable people to get “arrested last year” were Paisley Mayor Ralph Paull and Lake County Commissioner James Williams.

The parade will also happen and take a similar route.

Last year, the Forest Service, BLM, Library, Lake County Round Up Court and the Volunteer Fire Department and more had floats or rode in vehicles through the streets of downtown Paisley. The kids rodeo will also happen this year and will take place over the span of three

days just north of town. There will be a dinner, breakfast and a fun run that happens throughout the day. A three-on-three basketball tournament will be held on Saturday. Vendors will have the opportunity to line the streets, showcasing their businesses and their talents. Vendors will have to pay a small fee to come out and host their businesses.

The tentative itinerary is the Cowboy Poetry and the rodeo on Friday, fun run, basketball tournament, rodeo, vendors, parade, live bands, jail-n-bail and dinner on Saturday and then the rodeo and breakfast to close out the events on Sunday “We’re excited to bring back the Jail-N-Bail this year,” Horvath said. “That alone brought us in a couple hundred

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MOSQUITO FEST From page 58 dollars and people really enjoyed it and got some good pictures.”

To help raise money for mosquito control, Paisley hosted a crab feed dinner on Saturday, March 30 where several community members attended to enjoy a crab feast and visit with their peers. Horvath has reached out to a wide spectrum from Klamath Falls to Medford, to Lakeview, Paisley, Christmas Valley and to Bend and La Pine in hopes of making this a fun weekend for all.

All of the proceeds for Mosquito Festival go towards the spraying of mosquitoes throughout Paisley. In the past a lot of fogging was taking place, which only took care of what was in the air, so the company worked hard to try and eliminate the problem as much as possible.

“Last year we sprayed for mosquitoes every other week in Paisley,” Horvath said. “A lot of people said that the mosquitoes were better, some said it was worse. But for the most part, we sprayed in a lot of areas that had never been sprayed before. Hopefully through funding, the mosquito problem can continue to decrease every year.”

In the future, Horvath just wants to see the Festival grow. He would like to add a carnival within the next few years and has a few other ideas in mind as the years go on.

To stay up do date with everything Paisley Mosquito Festival, be sure and visit their website at www.paisleymosquitofest.com. On the website, it has the schedule of events, contact information and if anyone wants to sign up for a booth or volunteer.

MICHAEL ACOSTA/ Lake County Examiner

Paisley Mayor Ralph Paull was one of many “arrested” at the Paisley Mosquito Festival last year.

MICHAEL ACOSTA/ Lake County Examiner

Mosquito Festival’s annual parade will take place once again this year and feature many floats and cars.

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PLAYA allows for Artists Creativity

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner Located in the heart of Summer Lake, PLAYA (which in Spanish means beach) allows for aspiring artists an opportunity to let their creative juices flow, while spending time admiring the sights and scenery of the Oregon Outback.

According to their website, PLAYA founders Julie Bryant and Bill Roach purchased PLAYA, formerly known as the Summer Lake Inn in 2005 and revamped it over the course of the next five years before hosting their first residents in 2011 and have been going strong ever since.

Following their mission statement “To provide space and solitude for people to come and work.”

“We’re very competitive,” explained Exec. Dir. Rebecca Lawton. “People apply and come from all over the world.

We get people who are emerging, or are very experienced already in their field.

I’m always very impressed with the work that comes out of here and the way their work shifts while they’re here.”

PLAYA is a 75 acre property that includes six “spacious” cabins, two fully equipped live

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Above left: Julie Bryant and Bill Roach were the founders of PLAYA, purchasing the building in 2005 and followed with a remodel, hosting their first residents in 2011.

Above: On the inside at PLAYA Summer Lake is a kitchen, dining area and a living room open to the artists in order to aid their creative process.

and work studios, a large open shed and studio, breathtaking scenery and so much more.

“I think the response to the landscape is one of, if not, the greatest asset that we have to offer,” Lawton said. “This location is all about shifting deep into their work and really focusing and having a calm atmosphere to work in. The feedback we get from people when they get back to their home base is PLAYA shows up in my work and the way I approach my work.”

PLAYA also offers rest and relaxation for their residents and many times that fuels their work.

The current residents at PLAYA come from all different walks of life and their work is fueled by all sorts of events such as mental health, nature, human interaction with the world and much more. Lawton had visited PLAYA on three different occasions as a resident, before discovering that they needed a new executive director.

“We want to preserve as much of this as possible,” Lawton said.

Residency Mgr. Chelsea Peil was working in Portland and was drawn to PLAYA

after reading their mission statement and wanting to bring art and science together.

“It’s really cool to talk with the different artists, see what they’re working on and what their inspirations are. How they’re communicating is all very fascinating to me,” Peil said adding that while PLAYA may be an arts institution, it goes a lot deeper.

Peil said that PLAYA has several open houses scheduled throughout the year, as their “PLAYA Presents” schedule has been finalized. They have open houses usually once a month on Saturdays, and the next one will be scheduled for Saturday, May 18 from 3 – 5 p.m. Open Houses are also tentatively scheduled for July 13, Aug. 31, Sept. 21, Nov. 16 and Dec. 7.

“Whenever we can, we have different co-horts of residents coming through and when we can we have an open house for the public,” Peil said. “People have the opCREATIVE JUICES portunity to See page 64 see what’s

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CREATIVE JUICES From page 62 going on in the artists studios, convene in the living room and listen to what they’re working on.”

The open houses are always open to the public and offers free shuttle service to and from Lakeview and Paisley in coordination with the local library. Guests are encouraged to call the local library in order to sign up and reserve a seat on the bus.

“We encourage as many people to show up as possible,” explained Peil. “We want them to engage with the artists, ask questions and just enjoy the Arts and the Arts Community.

It changes what people talk about, perform etc., sometimes we don’t even know what they’re performing until the day of.”

Occasionally the artists have several things they’re interested in performing, but it’s more about what gives them inspiration and how they got performing.

“This isn’t meant to sound loose,” Lawton said. “The artists

are really hard at work trying to determine what and how to perform and drive audiences interests as to what goes on in their mind.”

PLAYA also has their hand in the Dark Skies Initiative, having discussions with the Forest Service and the Lake County Chamber of Commerce.

“This big event will be held towards the end of September and it’s a big deal,” Peil said adding that this would be big for tourism as entities work tirelessly to keep Lake County off the map for light pollution.

PLAYA also has agreements with the Alger Theater and has plays and presentations.

“We have a great relationship with the Lakeview Community Partnerships and hope to host events down there quarterly,” Peil said.

PLAYA has many ways to stay in contact, as they have a website www.playasummerlake. org and a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram page. Their website

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Fort Rock: History that Won’t Be Forgotten Photo Courtesy of Oregon State Parks

By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner

After the draining of the lake, caves started to expose themselves out of the side of Fort Rock.

Fort Rock is located in the Brothers Fault Zone of central Oregon’s Great Basin and is known locally as one of the most iconic geographic landmarks in Lake County.

Almost looking like a towering mirage, the rim stretches 4,460 feet in diameter and stands 325 feet high above the surrounding plain. The rock was given its name due to its resemblance of the palisades of a fort.

About 100,000 years ago, the rim was erected when basalt magma rose to the surface and met up with the wet muds of a lake bottom. Otherwise a strange sight to see in the rather flat valley, what are now remnants of the monument was formed from layers of shards and mud forming a large ring around an expansive crater.

Powered by an extreme blast of steam, the basalt was shot into the sky creating the saucershaped ring.

Years ago, Native Americans were the first to the Fort

where it was the centerpiece to Lake Chewaucan. Today, only Lake Abert and Summer Lake remain as the last pieces of this otherwise massive lake that existed centuries ago.

Located a mile north of the town of Fort Rock lies Fort Rock State park covering 370 acres and open to visitors year-round on lands that were donated by Reuben and Norma Long in 1962 and leased from Lake County by the Bureau of Land Management.

The Fort Rock State Park has a solid hiking area, complete with a picnic area, restrooms and general information for tourists. Not only Fort Rock sits in the area, but other Lake County recreational activities are in the surrounding area.

Crack in the Ground, Summer Lake, Abert Rim and the Lost Forest Research Natural Area are locations to visit for any Oregonian or casual traveler.

Fort Rock is an extinct vol-

cano, but ever since the lake dried up and the marshes were replaced by what is now sagebrush, the Fort Rock Cave and other caves like it were exposed.

In 1938, University of Oregon archaeologist Luther Cressmann discovered prehistoric artifacts from the former Natives of the Fort Rock area in the caves. The caves were home to artifacts including spear points, arrowheads, mats and sandals woven from bark nearly 9,000 years old. The cave was marked as a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

There has been talk and stories, but it has never quite been proven, that the rock formation was made the most of by cowboys and wagon trains in order to keep an eye for out for attack from the Native Americans living in the surround area, leading to another appropriate reason for the landmark’s title.

The “fort” was home for some, but protection to others.

Fort Rockers of the past

might have suffered financially, but what they lacked in money they made up for in the stories of the memories they made on and around this land. Artifacts of the past help point scientists and archeologists in the right direction of discovering more information of Lake County.

In order to further explore the area, more research and protection of the area was needed.

On Feb. 15, 1984, the Fort Rock Valley Historical Society was founded. Eight individuals who were sworn to protect and preserve the history of the area have slowly moved structures from their original locations to the museum site set to the west of the town of Fort Rock.

After conceiving the Homestead Village which opened in 1988 with the Webster Cabin and

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FORT ROCK From page 66 Dr. Thom’s Office, the ensuing years led to more and more of the land being acquired from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more buildings were brought in.

Since then, volunteers from the community including the Lake County Road Department

and Mid-state Electric Co-operative have moved the buildings and then leave it up to local society members to work to restore them. Of the buildings moved, the St. Bridget Church, the Ft. Rock Grange building, Stratton House, Webster Cabin, Boedigheimer House, Menkenmaier

Cabin, a composite of three local early 20th century schools and a few other museum buildings are all on site.

There are also self-guided tours of the Fort Rock Homestead Village Museum throughout the year from May to October and a special guided tour

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By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner

Christmas Valley golf course has changed over the years in may ways. Before, the sign was donned in red and green.

It’s been 55 years since Christmas Valley introduced their golf course to Lake County and Christmas Valley. In 1964 and for years and years after that, the course was the longest nine-hole course in the state of Oregon.

Since then their reigning title has faded making way for Bend’s Old Back 9 that measures 7,058 yards, there’s been many changes to Christmas Valley’s just over 3,500 yard course.

The course’s long, narrow fairways and challenging greens and rough/bunker areas socked in the heart of the township of Christmas Valley shows off the area’s desert surroundings and is challenging yet enjoyable course for all skill levels.

You’ll find yourself baking in the desert in the evening or getting the cool breezes of the morning accompanied by a few aspen and pine trees on this local course. Make sure to shade yourself under the pro-

tection of sunscreen, a helpful hat or your cart’s roof.

Either way, players of all ages can enjoy the various sets of tees on the course. The ability to create an exciting and unpredictable round of 18-hole golf is always a possibility. For the low price of $20 for 9 holes or $25 for 18, grab your bag, shoes and your clubs for a fun filled day of hitting the links. Annual single and family memberships last from March 1 to Feb. 28 and are $225 and $300 respectively.

If you forgot your clubs at home, the course has six sets of men’s clubs, one set of women’s and two sets of junior sized clubs. Of course, the course also has several pull carts to lend out.

Individuals are encouraged to bring their power carts, but are asked to keep their tracks on the fairways to preserve the terrain and create some space for those individuals driving for the greens.

The features of the holes

CV Golf Course a Hole-in-One make this course one of the best in the area and below the yardages are listed from Championship/Men’s/Women’s.

The course begins with Hole 1 being a 163/153/119 Par 3 that is described as fairly easy, but the rolling green to the right side may cause some difficulties. Three putting on this hole is a strong possibility so be sure to play it short and let your put speak for itself.

Hole 2 is a 335/324/278 Par 4. The hole is set back where the eyes lose sight for a second.

Aiming for the 150 yard pole colored in black and white is your best bet to get on the elevated green. The slope toward the back of the hole will cause a difficult chip so keep the theme of the evening and play it short.

Hole 3 is a 429/418/256 Par 4, the first of its distance on the nine. A slight dogleg left will shoot you out into the middle of the fairway and signal in a wide open approach to

the green with a soft and high to middle iron swing. The flamingo habitat is the hazard on the hole and is placed to the left.

Hole 4 sits 488/435/351 and split between a Par 4/5 based on your teeing distance. Another dogleg left means you need to be precise to avoid the three-foot mounds in front of the green with your second shot. This hole is one of the best opportunities to put a birdie on the score card.

Hole 5 brings a golfer back to the short side of things measuring 201/191/169 and a Par 3. It’s an easy hole to put your first shot on the green, but the slope on the back side will create headaches for those overshooting the green.

Hole 6 is the longest of the course and rightfully so.

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CV GOLF From page 70 Par 5 has a sharp dogleg right headed toward an elevated green that takes two shots to get around.

The risky player will try to shoot the second shot over the sand and sage, but playing it safe for par might be the right move to save bogey on this hole.

Hole 7 is 386/335/267 Par 4 and is straight away. A cupped green awaits your putter and the large mound in front of the green can cause some headaches, but putting should be simple and flat once you’re secure on the green.

Hole 8 stretches 362/354/302 and is the second of three straight Par 4s to end the course.

Although it’s shorter than the others, the green is the most difficult of the course protected 10 foot mounds and a hard

slope away from the hole.

Finally, the course ends with Hole 9, a 380/353/268 Par 4 and what is known as a “wasteland area”.

Avoid the lake to the left and place your first shot out near the first marker before trying to land it on the green.

Regardless of your experience on the links or your want to enjoy some of the surrounding areas features like hiking trails, riding, fly fishing on the Chewaucan River or other places in northern Lake County, the Christmas Valley Golf Course is a place to spend your free time.

For more information on the course, contact the Christmas Valley Parks and Rec Department at 541-576-2216.

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Desert Inn a Mainstay in Christmas Valley

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner

MICHAEL ACOSTA/ Lake County Examiner

Co-owner Mitzy Maple has owned the Desert Inn for nearly 20 years, buying the business from her parents.

Located in the heart of Christmas Valley, the Desert Inn has been around for over 50 years, passed down from generations and is still going strong.

Current owner Mitzy Maple and her husband have had the business since 2002, getting the business from her parents, who got it from her grandparents, who opened the business in 1964. The business has been in the same location since opening and originally started with just four rooms, before expanding over the years.

“There was a period of about 10 years, where our family didn’t have the business because my parents wanted to sell it,” explained Mitzy. “They sold it and the gentleman who ran it, passed away in a motorcycle accident and his wife didn’t want to stay in the area, so she voluntarily handed it back over to my parents.”

Her grandparents bought the building in the early 1970s and then her parents Dan and Ione took over the business in the ear-

ly 1990s. She moved from Eugene to Lake County and after attending Paisley High School for the first two years of high school, she graduated from North Lake High School as one of the first graduating classes in 1993. Mitzi got married and went to work for a Central Oregon trucking company.

“I did that for a couple years and when my dad got the place back, he and my mom both had full time jobs and couldn’t run the place,” explained Mitzy. “My daughter was at the age where she needed to get out of that truck, so I offered to manage the hotel. I did that for a year and my dad gave me the option to buy the motel.”

While she never envisioned herself owning a business, thanks to her purchasing the establishment, it has been a mainstay in Christmas Valley for tourists near and far.

“I never thought I would call myself an owner, especially because I hated working here when my parents would have me do housekeeping in the rooms when I was

a teenager because I wanted to do teenage stuff,” she said with a laugh. “Now that I’m older, I have a whole new appreciation for what they went through.”

Improvements have been done over the years, such as replacing the roof over the course of the last 10 years and replacing the mattresses. They’ve switched to the memory foam with a lot of positive results.

“There was a few times that I recall, that we came close to closing because the roof wasn’t finished in time,” recalled Mitzy. “But the contractors were able to get it done in time before the snow come.”

With a total of 16 rooms, the Desert Inn hasn’t added on any additional rooms since 1979. There are four single units that feature a bed, m i c r o w a v e, refrigerator, CV MAINSTAY TV and InterSee page 76 net. The eight

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CV MAINSTAY From page 74 standard double rooms feature two full size beds, a kitchenette complete with stove and sink, TV and Internet. There are family friendly rooms that have either two queen size beds or one queen and two twin beds, kitchenette complete with stove and sink, TV and Internet. All of the rooms are non-smoking.

“We get a lot of visitors from the Valley up in Eugene or Portland,” she said. “A lot of them to come down and hunt.

When the weather is decent, we get workers from Bend that come down.”

While winter is a slow time, spring break is when business picks back up as hunters and out of town tourists come through and stay the night. The Desert Inn is a central location; located near the Christmas Valley Sand Dunes, the Christmas Valley Golf Course, Crack in the Ground and the park/library.

“My grandfather always told me to save as much money as possible as if somebody won’t

come through for four months,” Mitzy said. “I always plan on having six months worth of operating costs to get through the slow period. We also have to plan for various repairs each year.”

Moving forward, not much will change. Improvements and various remodels will still take place and they will continue to have outstanding customer service to each person who they serve.

“I really enjoy being my own boss,” she said. “I get to do my own thing and I love it.

I love seeing the volunteers that Christmas Valley have and just watching this area grow over the years.”

The room rates are consistent year round with prices as low as $50. The Desert Inn does have weekly rates available, but cannot do monthly for insurance purposes.

The Desert Inn Motel is located at 87217 Christmas Valley Hwy, in Christmas Valley.

For more information or to make a reservation, contact 541576-2262.

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Sixteen rooms varying from single to double to family size, make up the Desert Inn at Christmas Valley.

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Historical Society Preserves Lake County History Lake County Examiner File Photo

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner

As time in Lake County goes on, one group in particular preserves the history as much as possible.

According to Lake County Historical Society Pres., Ray Simms the club has been around longer than he can remember.

“To my knowledge, our existence is a piece of history that the historical society doesn’t have,” Simms said with a laugh.

“We’re really an off-shoot of the Oregon Historical Society, but we’ve been here for a long time and the organization’s primary purpose is to not only preserve, but provide education on the history of Lake County.”

The Historical Society has helped sponsor several books, including a book by Lake County’s own Jim Ogle that he co-wrote with Clayton Chocktoot, detailing Fort Rock and Paisley Cave Descendants. They’re also working on one of their biggest projects in conjunction with the Round Up Association, “100 years of Lake County Round-Up” with a subtitle of “eight seconds of heaven and hell.”

“The subtitle refers to the legal length of a saddle bronc ride,” explained author and Simms sister Marie Lee. “If you can do all of the things required for the eight

Photographer Larry Turner spoke at the 2018 Lake County Historical Society Dinner about his adventures as an outdoor photographer.

seconds, than you’ve had a good ride.”

The Historical Society’s meetings are held from September – May, on the third Thursday of the month at the Western Villa Recreation Halland each month they have a featured speaker to talk about the history of various organizations. They’ve had professors from the University of Oregon and local speakers such as KORV 93.5 FM “The Goose’s” Marcie Wade talking about the history of radio and Lake County Chamber of Commerce Dir. Jessica Bogardus talking about the rural tourism studio. While last year’s speaker was Photographer Larry Turner, Bogardus will be speaking at the annual end-of-year banquet, that the Historical Society has each year. This year’s banquet will be held at the Lakeview Elks Lodge on Saturday, May 18 beginning at 5:30 p.m., tickets are on sale for $30. RSVP’s are required and the last day to purchase a ticket will be Monday, May 13.

“Jessica will be talking about everything going on this summer leading up to the Centennial Celebration of the Round-Up,” Simms said. “With everything that everyone is doing to prepare, it’ll be

nice to keep our speaker local this year.”

The Historical Society also takes care and does upkeep to the Historic Village, located adjacent to the Lake County Fairgrounds office behind the RV Park. The Historic Village was started back in 2001 and the opening took place in 2002 with a blacksmith shop and a few pieces of equipment.

Ever since the opening, they have been steadily adding more buildings and equipment. They don’t sell anything unless it’s donated for a fundraiser. Everything that they get isn’t sold, once it gets there it stays there. People from all over the world have come and toured the Historic Village. In a previous interview, Historical Society member Ed Henry says that whenever he gets a piece of old equipment donated, he tries to get as much history as he can to help with his tours. The Historic Village is solely donation based, with a chunk of money left when local rancher Lloyd Chandler sold his ranch and the money went to the HISTORICAL Historic Society for the HisSOCIETY toric Village.

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY From page 78 The Historical Society does its part giving back to the County, giving donations each year to the museums in Lake County.

Membership helps keep the Society in existence and dues are inexpensive to join, just $15 for an individual or family per year. The money goes into helping the Historical Society continue to support various functions, such as the Historic Village and is helping with the book that Lee is writing.

Around 40 people make up the membership to the Historical Society and each of the meetings involve a pot luck dinner.

“Sometimes we have a hard time on reaching younger generations,” Simms said. “That’s something we would like to change.”

The Historical Society allows a chance to get together and be involved in something as well as getting educated, on things that someone may not have known about the history of Lake County. Simms has been an active member for 10 years, following in his parents footsteps.

“My family being local people have always taken an interest in Lake County and have been active in the Historical Society,” Simms said. “It’s fun to be involved in something and this is one of them. Some people play baseball and are really into sports, my family is really interested in history.”

Coming back and being a member each year, is something that Simms holds very close to him.

“It’s important that we do this,” he said. “Sometimes we may not realize the importance of something we’re doing on a particular day, but 50 years down the road, it very well could be an important piece of our history. For us to make sure we’re preserving it and giving the opportunity for awareness when things happen all these years ago, that’s what we’re doing and why I’m involved.”

For more information, contact Simms at 541-219- 2278.

Be sure and like the Lake County Historical Society on Facebook for up to date information on meetings and other events.

Lake County Examiner File Photo

Lake County Chamber of Commerce Dir. Jessica Bogardus speaks at a Historical Society Meeting in 2018. She will be the speaker at their annual end of year banquet in May.

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Warner Canyon the Heartbeat of Lakeview

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Atop the mountain, skiers and snowboards pause for a second before rushing down the drop back to the ski lift to

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By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner With each and every flake of snow falling from the sky and resting on the hill of Warner Canyon, this year’s ski and snowboard season has seen one of its best turnouts in years.

In its elevated desert location, Lakeview is hit or miss when it comes to winter and specifically snowfall in the last few years.

This year, the skies have opened for a community of skiers and snowboarders new, old and in between skill levels, all have benefitted from the opening of the hill. At season’s end, 59˝ of base snow and 88˝ at the top of the hill marked the final snowfall of the year.

Statistically, Warner Canyon Ski Hill experienced its best winter in recent memory this year. With a large amount of individuals marking Warner as one of their

“bucket list” destinations for this season, the staff saw a large number of skiers and snowboarders coming from out of town.

Shredders from Klamath Falls, Alturas, Surprise Valley, central Oregon and even as far as Portland made the trip out to Lakeview to enjoy the runs.

“The big difference was the amount of snow we had this year,” said Highland member, Barry Shullanberger. “The last time we saw this much was 2001.”

Around 117 season passes were purchased this year. With each passing month, the number of daily lift passes purchased was unlike year’s prior. December brought 526 passes, January 855, February 912 and March 642. The final total num-

ber for the year hit 2,935 lift passes alone.

All the difference for the numbers in Shullanberger’s mind was the amount of social media and advertisement presence this year in comparison to years past. Being a smaller ski hill, the lines were shorter leading to more skiing and the vibe was a more relaxed one.

As early as 8 a.m., locals arrived to Warner to pack the parking lot on the sides and even down the center of the lot to unload their gear prepared to take on a day of carving the groomers and bravHEARTBEAT ing the powder.

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HEART BEAT OF LAKEVIEW From page 82 snowfall and dozens of individuals made for a fast, yet enjoyable vertical drop for each run of 780 feet from the summit elevation; 6,480 feet in the air.

Riders tried their skills at a couple of blue or green runs and a few went for it all on the black trails around the back side of the mountain. Free-styling through untouched powder and letting your board or skis take you through the terrain can make anyone forget all their worries if only for a moment.

The hill is run entirely by volunteers where the only goal is providing for a community that is fueled by the hill. As for the fuel at the lodge, solar and woody biomass is sustainably harvested from the property. There is no snowmaking at the hill, but mostly relying on the weather and a good ole fashioned snow dance.

Before receiving the chair lift in 2000, Warner Canyon’s lift apparatus was done by way of a t-bar beginning in 1971 and before that, three rope tows pow-

ered by a Chevy truck motor.

As one of the community’s favorite talking points, the ski hill is an enjoyable afternoon for a novice or experienced boarder or skier.

As for the preparation of those newbies on the mountain, ski and snowboard lessons were offered and began this year on Saturday, Jan. 5. Perhaps the most struggling part of the entire experience for those beginners is getting off and on the lift itself. Plenty of wipeouts later and the hill either left you with a few learning bruises, an enjoyable afternoon or a little of both.

Known as one of the best places to learn the craft, Warner Canyon gives individuals the opportunity to not only ski/snowboard at an affordable price, but the luxury of a less populated hill than other locations out west.

For dozens of other helpful pieces of information, check out Warner Canyon’s official website at www.warnercanyonski.com or visit their Facebook page at Warner Canyon Ski Area.

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A Bright Future in Lake County Family owned and operated by Carl Tracy for the last 22 years, Tracy Electric has been a staple in Lakeview and Lake County.

With their trusty mascot, a three-year-old Border Collie Cisco, Tracy, Chris Finetti and Peyton Hamilton man the business covering 8,500 square miles from Lakeview to Plush, Adel, Hart Mountain, Bly and everywhere else.

Tracy got his start 22 years ago working for Start’s Electric when he and his wife Charley moved to Lakeview. He completed his apprenticeship and then his Journeyman’s License and eventually earned his Supervisor’s License.

After he got to that point in his career, it was time to open up his own business and thus

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Peyton Hamilton, l-r, Carl Tracy, Chris Finetti and their mascot Cisco make up the team at Tracy Electric in Lakeview.

By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner

Tracy Electric was born.

Start’s was the competition in town when they started up and since then the number of jobs has been increasing exponentially, even today.

Tracy Electric will be doing some work on the Burger Queen remodel after the building caught fire on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, causing damage to both the interior and exterior of the building. The job will be more of the construction type, but it will be another month before they’re in the building hitting it hard and heavy.

There have been hundreds of jobs in the last 22 years. To name a few, Hall Motors Chevy garage, redid the wiring at the new NAPA store, a complete overhaul at Ace Hardware, an 800 amp service at Lakeview

High School’s new welding shop, the VFW War Memorial lights, pulling huge wires and dealing with an underground transformer at Hart Mountain and even a straw house building.

The straw house was a tricky one as the frame stacked and made of compressed straw bales banded together. The crew had to go through the side of the walls with a chainsaw of sorts and make an opening, stuff in the boxes, run wire and put stucco on top of everything. The straw house was two stories tall creating an even more demanding job.

The job as a whole is truly day-to-day.

Tracy tries to have the jobs lined up for Finetti and Hamilton when they come in for the day at around 7:00 a.m.

“We do everything from service changes to trouble calls,” said Tracy. The average time of each job really depends on what they’re doing. Simple jobs like putting some plugs in for convenience, troubleshooting, or other oddball stuff like that can be simple.

“It’s all kind of construction work,” said Tracy. “An hour here an hour there and four hours there.”

There’s also some funny and sometimes frightening things that happen on the job.

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POWER UP From page 86 Recently, Hamilton was followed by a dog under the house that brought him a screwdriver in his mouth.

“I was down there and just felt a little poke in the side,” he said with a laugh.

Tracy experienced something similar nearly 20 years ago when the owner’s of the home he was working on poodle crawled up to him and rested his nose on his cheek. Now when Tracy first went into the job site, there was four or five rattlesnake skins so you can imagine the reaction when something wet and cold brushes up against you.

The crew has come face-to-face with a rattlesnake, rodents, spiders, bats and other creepy crawlers and marsupials.

“It’s kind of always there,” said Tracy.

Combined Tracy, Finetti and Hamilton have 37 years of experience and more are on the horizon.

Finetti recalls one of his experiences on a job crawling around a concrete pier and “Boom” right in front of him was a six and a half foot bull snake. At the time he didn’t know what kind of snake it was and if it would have bit him in the face it would have hurt all the same regardless.

On the job you can’t be afraid of heights, insects, closed spaces, or anything you might encounter. “Some stuff is your own fault, but you can get yourself worked up,” said Tracy.

When animals and insects aren’t spooking them, the crew has another task at hand; working their way up in the business.

After 14 years in the business, Finetti just got his Supervisor’s License a year ago in early September. Of course, he had to go through the apprenticeship for four years, work for another four years on top of it before he could even take the test for his Supervisor’s.

The test is four hours long and split into two parts; 100 questions and one big calculation.

“It’s math like you wouldn’t believe,” said Finetti. “If you fail one part you fail both, but now that I have it I can sign off on plans and essentially in the State of Or-

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Chris Finetti and Payton Hamilton do some electrical work at Hall Motor Company, installing security cameras.

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Loading up into the truck is part of the daily grind in the business and branding is just as important with the business’ information plastered on the side.

egon I’m an electrical engineer.”

Finetti can design and improve electrical systems in houses and even a hospital. Down the road he’ll work on getting his Contractor’s License, but he’s content with where he’s at now and where he’s been.

“To just have that done is a breath of fresh air,” said Finetti.

As for Hamilton, he’s fresh into the beginning of his journey in the business. He started a year ago on April 26.

Most of the job for him is learning as he goes and watching Finetti. The other part is the classes offered through Klamath Community College (KCC) Lake County. Before

the program was ever offered in Lakeview, both Finetti and Tracy had to drive to Klamath Falls.

The apprenticeship is four years long and includes 8,000 required, on the job hours that are broken up into 12 groups or so creating minimum hours in each area.

Working up in the business is just part of the game.

Combined Tracy, Finetti and Hamilton have 37 years of experience and more are on the horizon.

For more information on Tracy Electric and the services they provide, call 541947-2216.

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Tall Town Bike Rolls into the Future S. GARRETT SHAW/Lake County Examiner

Thom Batty, owner of Tall Town Bike & Camp is taking advantage of his expansion in a big way, bringing in new and exciting items.

By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner With the weather looking like it’s finally breaking for some outdoor activities, Tall Town Bike & Camp’s owner, Thom Batty can show off his new items and his renovated store.

Last November, approaching his one-year anniversary of opening up the shop in Lakeview, Batty had plenty to celebrate. His new space opened up on Black Friday, Nov. 23 after Warner Valley Mercantile (previously known as The 39er) moved next door to the newly renovated Honker Mall.

As Tall Town expanded, the bikes that have been or are being repaired are no longer out on the sales floor. This was causing confusion amongst shoppers wanting to buy those bikes that weren’t for sale, but since the expansion of the space the confusion has disappeared. Batty also has the ability to put out more products overall by mov-

S. GARRETT SHAW/Lake County Examiner

ing next door, such as bikes, shirts (long sleeve and tanks) and accessories such as helmets, lights, safety accessories gloves in both winter/insulated styles for the winter months.

With Affordable Fitness just across the street handling the ski and snowboard rentals and most of the winter season necessities, Batty has found his niche and added some new items to the shelves in the store.

Snowshoeing has been growing in popularity in the region and Batty has capitalized on the trend by listening to the public.

“There’s been some interest,” said Batty. “The more we expand, the more we’ll get.”

Dozens of Tubbs Flex STP Snowshoes line the shelves of Tall Town, but this isn’t the only thing Batty has up his sleeve.

For the spring time and summer weather adventurers, Batty has expanded his skate-

S. GARRETT SHAW/ Lake County Examiner

Longboards are one of the new items in Tall Town Bike & Camp and give riders a different option for breezy, yet warm spring evenings

Rows of bikes line the floor of the store, both old and new and for sale and rent. board collections to now include long boards and a more affordable line of skateboards.

“We had build to suit all along, but the total cost was higher than what people were conformable with,” said Batty.

The new, more affordable boards will bring a relaxing and overall smooth ride to the pavements of Lakeview before the weather brings in the snowy streets in late November and then the streets will clear up after the weather breaks for the spring in May. He’s also brought in some other summer-focused items including an inflatable stand up paddleboard and disc golf starter sets to be used at Soroptimist’s Par Course.

Batty has considered crosscountry skis for rent and purchase, flat-water kayaks, higher end fishing equipment and other pieces bringing them into the fold.

The other half of the store houses camping equipment such as backpacks, tents, stoves and more. Batty is focusing on preferably lightweight and easy to carry equipment that can be used for backpacking in Bullard Canyon or around the various sights and stops in the county.

Folder cups, water purifiers, tent pole repairs and more will hit the backpacks of hikers.

“Come May when the snowpack lessens I know people will be coming in to restock,” said Batty.

Batty’s specialty is in bikes and he’s a true “Jack of all trades” in the space. His services range from basic tuneups, to chain repairs to flat tire repairs and even building a bike from scratch to fit the customers needs.

In addition to the shopsponsored rides on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Tall Town Bike & Camp also sponsors the race team focused on dirt, mountain bike, cyclocross and gravel races.

All skill levels are welcome and this is a co-ed team, with high school kids and older welcome. Children under 18 must have parental permission.

Batty has been extra involved in the community since his new shop opened as well.

When travel blogger and video producer Rick Dancer came to town in mid-January, Dancer Batty chatted it up on the YouTube page ExplOregon: The Back Stories, highlighting a fat tire bike riding adventure, one of the many experiences Dancer took on while in Lakeview.

The history of fat tire biking has traveled with Batty since his time living For more information on the new shop or what it has to offer, contact Batty at 503-3146095 or swing by the store in downtown Lakeview from 9 a.m.

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Outback Assembly of God Pastor Joel Morris 1014 Center St. • Lakeview

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Long Time Resident Home Again SUBMITTED PHOTO

SCOEDD’s Ginger Casto was all smiles after receiving the Lake County Senior First Citizen award at the Chamber of Commerce GALA this year.

By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner Born in Ashland and raised in Lake County, South Central Oregon Economic Developer’s (SCOEDD) Ginger Casto has held Lake County close to her heart her entire life, despite leaving for nearly 40 years, she has returned.

“My family was really involved in the community when I was growing up and it just really stuck with me,” Casto said. “I was very active in school and it just carried on.”

Ever since she left Lake County, after high school she had always wanted to come back because she loved the landscape, the high desert and the weather.

“My dad was a real outdoorsman, a great gardener and I was a tomboy during my childhood,” Casto said with a laugh. “I always wanted to be outdoors.”

She has fond memories of the two theaters that used to exist in

Lakeview, the Marius and the Alger Theater, who were both owned by the Alger family.

After high school, she got the itch to leave Lakeview and explore what else was out there.

“I would come back occasionally while I was in college, but I bounced around a lot,” Casto said adding that she lived in Salem and Ashland throughout her adult life.

She came back briefly in the 1970s, but left again after splitting with her husband.

“I moved back to Ashland in 1978 and got a job with a non-profit called Youth Works and they were a federal work program,” she said. “I supervised residential programs for at-risk youth.”

She also worked for Pacific non-profit network, where she said she was really able to hone her skills.

“I had really done a monumental amount of

grant work before I started at Pacific,” Casto said adding that this job really allowed her to teach other people.

Casto joined the Peace Corps at age 46, with a man she was dating and they went to the island nation of Vanuatu, where she spent several years.

“Being in the Peace Corps was a really remarkable experience,” Casto said. “The country was very unkind to wom-

en and I’m really glad I didn’t have to do it alone.

I don’t think I would have lasted out there alone.”

Coming back to the United States after the Peace Corp, she made up her mind that she wanted to come back to Lake County. A couple years after returning to the United States and doing some work for the Rural Development Initiative (RDI) and the Ford Family Foundation that’s when the job at SCOEDD

opened up.

The job at SCOEDD had been open for awhile and she was unsure if she would last in the position, but she knew that she wanted to come back to Lake County.

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HOME AGAIN From page 92 Casto said. “You have to do the community stuff, in order to do the economic development stuff. If your community doesn’t have a good stable foundation, than there’s not a lot to build on.”

Coming to work as the Rural Economic Development Coordinator for SCOEDD, gave her interest for the main street programs, which is where Lakeview Community Partnership (LCP) came into play.

In 2008, then Lakeview Town Mgr. Ray Simms had Sheri Stewart, the director of the Main Street Programs across the state of Oregon come to Lake County and talk about the program.

“I had been impressed with Sheri’s work and Ray had Sheri come down and introduce the program to the community,” Casto said. “The timing wasn’t right, but Ray and I continued to talk about it in hopes of making it work.”

In March 2015, LCP had their first steering committee put together and by September LCP had their board organized and received their non-profit filing status.

Over the years, Casto built up her connections with several people including Alexa Carey and Brad Niva, who work for

Travel Oregon.

“Part of the connections I made was how we were able to get the Rural Tourism Studio,” Casto said. “It took a while, but Lake County was able to get the Tourism Studio. Sometimes timing is everything.”

Coming back after being gone for nearly 40 years, Casto said it is interesting to see how much it had changed from when she grew up; from the town going to half the size, the middle and the high school for the most part in the same building, the decrease in population, but that hasn’t derailed her efforts in returning Lakeview and Lake County to its former glory. She has been instrumental in assisting the revival of the historic Alger Theater and all of her work led to her being named the Lake County Senior First Citizen at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual Gala this year.

“It was truly an honor to be named the Lake County Senior First Citizen,” Casto said. “I just want to be able to look back and say that I have made a difference and follow in my parents footsteps, as they were both so active in the community.”

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