THE NEWBERRY EAGLE • FEBRUARY 2011
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Exhibiting Artist: La Pine Public Library
Jan 7 through April 22, 2011 Clayton L. Musgrove Photographer’s Biography
My love of photography actually began when I was very young. Looking through old photo albums of my Grandparent’s fascinated me. Just seeing the people and places in those old yellowed photos was wondrous. It gave me a special connection with my family and their past. One photo in particular that I still have is much cherished. It is a photo taken of my Grandmother when she was a young teenager. In it she and two friends are riding in the back of a covered wagon somewhere on the Great Plains. It must have been taken sometime around 1910, and just the thought that it had only been about thirty five years since the battle of Little Big Horn is amazing. I started carrying a camera with me nearly everywhere I went in my late teen, early adult years and taking photos on hunting, fishing, and camping trips. At first it was just a way of preserving memories of the people and places I saw, but as things progressed I found the need to improve on the images. I began studying books and later the internet, and am largely self taught. In the last thirty years I have photographed with everything from compact 110mm and 35mm to medium format and now use only digital SLR’s. Nature and wildlife photography has become my real passion and it is very challenging for me. I was injured in a car accident when I was eighteen and have been in a wheelchair for thirty six years. Being disabled has given me the patience you really need to photograph in nature. I found I could spend hours just sitting and waiting, camera in hand, for that special moment. The moment when the perfect bee lands on the perfect flower. Or the moment you capture that special butterfly you have never seen land before. You just see things in a photo that you sometimes miss as things go whirling by. Things like the beauty and detail in a feather, or the sparkling star on a drop of dew. That’s what I love about photography, and what I hope people enjoy when viewing my work. - Clayton Musgrove Y
Clayton is a nature photographer and lifelong resident of Oregon. Cultus Lake
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New Mayor Takes Up Baton By Joseph Garcia, Newberry Eagle Reporter
you can bring home, cut, preserve, cook and eat later or donate to the Community Kitchen” [16480 FINLEY BUTTE RD, Call Phone Number: 541-536-1312 for info]. When asked what information he brought back with him from the Central Oregon Economic Forecast, Mayor Mulenex was given the impression based on the presentation provided by the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, a community service of California Lutheran University, “that the immediate future didn’t appear to be improving yet because the market needs investors to take risks that they may not be willing to take under existing market circumstances,” so the Mayor extended an invitation to businesses interested in bringing their companies to La Pine, Oregon. Perhaps this is the open-door welcoming that Bend pilots were hoping to hear so they don’t have to compete with unmanned, aerial-drones clogging their airspace while military, remote-controlled (preferably piloted by La Pine citizens) flight-testing occurs. Of all the support Mayor Mulenex said he would provide the citizens of La Pine, he suggested that the citizens who care about the future of La Pine get involved. He said any change that is to occur “needs to come from the citizens.” The community can express itself in a civilized manner to elected officials in open community forums at meetings at city hall. The good news is that as organized members of our community, we can be concise in communicating our needs to elected officials and they will make genuine efforts to address and minimize grievances. Despite the hard reality that the future of Biogreen’s Biomass plant is in the hands of the Land Use Board of Appeals, we have plenty of vacant industrial space waiting to be occupied. Tough times call for tough measures and bringing commerce to business has never been and may never again be this affordable or available. In conclusion, our Mayor feels secure enough to retire here and some of us live in La Pine because this is our vision of Heaven on Earth. When the material world overwhelms us with negativity, we walk away, along the Little Deschutes River at La Pine State Park, walk the trails, visit the dog areas with our furriest best friends, stare at the green trees, drink fresh, cold, well-pumped water, smell clean air, see chipmunks, squirrels, fish and deer, we listen to the sound of blowing winds, melting icicles, singing birds, trickling streams and forget for the time-being what we were overwhelmed about. This is La Pine; the best, most desirable place we could ask to live. Y
Dental Care for Low-Income Children in Crisis
Bend, Oregon - Kemple Memorial Children’s Dental Clinic, a local nonprofit providing free emergency dental care to low-income, uninsured children, recently received a generous grant of $7,500 from the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation. According to Paul Taylor, Kemple Clinic Board President: “Each year, the Kemple Clinic provides more than 600 low-income children in Deschutes County with an average of 2,000 dental treatments. A majority of these children have a dental emergency while the remainder have severe dental problems that put them at risk if left untreated. Community partners such as the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation are instrumental in helping us reach children in our region before they reach the crisis stage. We are incredibly grateful for their support.” For the past 12 years, the Kemple Clinic has successfully provided free emergency dental care to school-aged children. Approximately 75 volunteer dental professionals donate their time, equipment, supplies, and staff to treat children referred through the Bend La Pine School District’s Family Access Network and other programs and agencies serving lowincome residents of Deschutes County such as Volunteers in Medicine, Mosaic Medical, the Northwest Medical Team International’s Dental Van, NeighborImpact/Head Start, Healthy Beginnings, Deschutes County Juvenile Justice, and Cascade Youth and Family Services. The organization’s proven track record of success has earned the trust of dental professionals, local schools and social service providers, and countless low-income children and families who have received life-changing help. The mission of the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation is to offer assistance in youth education and programs, strengthening the home and family, and in general add to the quality of life for people residing in Douglas, Jackson, Klamath, Coos, Josephine, Lane and Deschutes counties. The Kemple Memorial Children’s Dental Clinic received this year’s grant of $7,500 at an award ceremony hosted by the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation on January 13, 2011, at the Seven Feathers Hotel and Resort in Canyonville. Submitted by Paul Taylor, Board President Y
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