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The Kinzua Hills Golf Club is a little slice of heaven. My dad was raised in Kinzua and I learned how to golf on the course. I remember attending reunions in the early to mid-80s and watching Ronnie Bowman, Mark Jellick, Jim Hulett, John Wall and other good Kinzua golfers crush drives off of the elevated first tee. It was a rowdy bunch who would gather at the Kinzua course and it was fun to see people who had grown up in Kinzua getting together. Even though the town was gone,...
Lu Seapy is an educator based in The Dalles and is the STEM Outreach Coordinator for the OSU Extension Office in Wasco County. Last year, Seapy started the Girls Who Code 4-H Club after she learned about the organization at a teacher's conference. Seapy was impressed with the mission and that the organization has served more than 300,000 girls. Most impressive to Seapy is that Girls Who Code is not just about coding. It was designed to help build girls confidence in science...
It was horses that inspired Ashley Tolton to open Painted Hills Pastry, a French pastry shop on Main Street in the tiny Eastern Oregon town of Mitchell. Sitting cross-legged on the floor of her art studio, paint brush in hand, Ashley admits that French pastry isn't her first love, but it comes close. "Horses are everything to me. If I could be training horses the rest of my life, I'd be the happiest person on the planet." she admits. Raised in the San Francisco bay area, Ashle...
A church in La Grande made national news after an outbreak of the Coronavirus swept through the congregation, making it the state's largest single outbreak to date. Of 365 church members tested, 236 returned positive for COVID-19, according to Dr. Tom Jeanne, deputy state epidemiologist. In neighboring Morrow County, 31 people have tested positive for the disease, including 5 people on Friday, June 19. One person has died in Morrow County. In Umatilla County, cases continue...
This was supposed to be the year that the Bank of Eastern Oregon staff in Condon took their victory lap at Condon's Fabulous Fourth of July festivities. Celebrating 75 years of community banking, the Bank of Eastern Oregon had been selected as Grand Marshals for the Fourth of July celebration. Staff were excited to hold court at the Fourth of July Breakfast, to mingle with old friends and to go all out on decorations for their parade float. That was before the world turned...
Gary Purpura first came to Spray when he was 19 years old in the early 1970s. "In the summers I would take a drive and look for work," says Mr. Purpura who now owns the brokerage firm Liberty Capital in Portland. On one drive, Gary saw a "help wanted" sign for farm workers. It paid $20 a day with room and board. Gary went to work for Bud and Cecilia Reed, bucking bales outside of Spray. That year, he learned of the Eastern Oregon Half Marathon and Spray Rodeo and ran the...
Family owned stores in the area have stayed stocked and provide normalcy. In the Portland area, there has been tension in stores from the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak. Scuffles have broken out across the country as people have gone into panic mode and many have horded supplies. We've all seen the cleared out isles on the nightly news. No, this isn't Venezuela, it is panic shopping in cities across the United States. Fortunately for those of us who live in the tri-county are...
