The residential youth facility will continue to provide services for males 13 and older

By Randy Parks
Burns Times-Herald

Kirkland Institute, which has been in operation in Harney County since 1992 under the direction of Craig and Donna Smith, now has new ownership and a new name.

Dawna Sue Nyman and Craig LaFollette are the new owners of the facility, which is now Eastern Oregon Academy.

The academy is a 24-hour residential youth facility that provides a Behavioral Rehabilitation Services program for males ages 13 and older. The youths who reside at the academy are referred by both the Oregon Department of Human Services and the Oregon Youth Authority.

The academy’s Executive Director, Rich Streeter, said the young men who arrive at the academy do so for a variety of reasons. “It may be for adjudicated crimes, such as vandalism and lower end assaults, or maybe they’ve been through multiple foster care treatments,” Streeter said. “Some of them have no records though. They may be runaways, have a history of substance abuse, were victims of fetal alcohol syndrome or born with drugs in their system — ‘drug babies,’ if you will.”

Both LaFollette and Streeter said there are no sex offenders currently residing at the academy.

The facility is housing 13 youths at this time, and is licensed to house 23 youths. “We’d like to get that up to 15 kids now, and eventually back up to 23 kids,” LaFollette said.

The average length of stay for a student is 14 to 18 months, but the staff at the academy would like to see that drop to 12 months.
During the academic year, the youths are transported to Steens Mountain Academy on East Washington, which was included in the purchase, for school classes. They also undergo counseling, and attend programs aimed at improving relationships, social skills and emotional building.

Joining the owners and Streeter on the the administrative staff are Program Manager Justin Boone and Chief Counselor Sarah Fisher. The academy has a total of 27 employees, making it one of the larger in the community at this time.

“Being one of the larger employers, we want to have a good partnership with the community,” LaFollette said. “We can provide jobs. We buy all our groceries here, visit the local doctors and dentists, and have a working relationship with Harney Behavioral Health. All that has an economical impact on our community.”

LaFollette added they plan to be more visual in the community by supporting  different events, having people volunteer to help at the facility and partnering with different agencies. As an example, LaFollette said the Forest Service is providing wood for the kids to build bat boxes.

Streeter agreed that partnering with different groups could benefit everyone. “As a group, we could identify needs of the community and how these kids could help out,” he said. “The experience would help the kids with social skills, while getting a project done. These are decent kids who have made some mistakes.”

LaFollette stated that he and Nyman are excited about their new endeavor, and are looking forward to continuing their work with the youths. “It gives us a chance to make a daily impact on these kids’ lives. Not every job does that,” he said.

Buck Taylor states he thinks there has been too much secrecy

By Lauren Brown
Burns Times-Herald

With the beginning of a new fiscal year came change to the Harney Hospital District Board at the July 22 meeting.

The board bid farewell to Carolyn Bauer and Anne Clark and welcomed new members Buck Taylor and Len Arntz, who were sworn in along with returning board member Sam Caizza.

Taylor addressed the board and the audience by saying, “I personally didn’t want this job a year ago.” However, after a few letters to the editor, he received so much community feedback that he felt he needed to run for the board. He said he felt there was too much secrecy regarding the board and how much information is allowed to be publicized.

“As a board we are a conduit between the public and the (hospital) administration,” he said. He went on to say that he didn’t feel the board has always been aware of some of the problems within the hospital.

“You can learn from past mistakes,” he said.

The board went on to nominate Tim Smith as Chairman, Sam Caizza as Treasurer and Shana Withee as Secretary.

In other business:

• Chief Executive Officer Jim Bishop said that the hospital has come to an agreement with the Veteran’s Administration (VA) on a lease agreement for the Racine Building.

There is some additional paperwork that needs to be completed, but the remodeling of the Racine Building (paid for by the VA) will likely start sometime in August and could cost in the neighborhood of $400,000. FHCI, a contractor out of Redmond, got the bid for the project;

• Chief Clinical Officer Ron Wulff noted that the hospital has been hit recently with some malicious computer viruses. He said their tech specialist John Stinnett is working hard to fix the problem and strengthen the hospital security measures. They also instituted some new policies to discourage employees from randomly surfing the Web on hospital computers;

• Tammy Carroll who works in the Environmental Services Department of the Hospital gave a presentation on the work her department does in cleaning up the hospital.

Board member Withee said, “I think your department needs to be commended.” She noted that though the new building is a year old, the hospital still looks brand new thanks to the Environmental Services staff.

• Bishop notified the board that Catherine White was promoted to Chief Financial Officer under a revised structure for the Financial and Health Information Management areas of the hospital. The restructuring eliminates one and half positions and will save $125,000 annually;

• Bishop also said that the attorneys are still in talks regarding the result of the Skanska arbitration, so the arbitrator has yet to issue a written opinion on the matter. He said he would notify the board once he obtained the written decision;

• Community Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) coordinator Cody Hodges told the board about the results of the Harney County Health Future forum, a community-wide visioning meeting held on July 9 at the Harney County Senior and Community Services Center. The CHIP committee conducted face to face interviews with all 77 attendees to find out the community’s top health related priorities.

Top vote getters included aggressive provider recruitment issues, health prevention and wellness strategies, cancer and/or dialysis treatment, opening a nursing home, more specialists, spray for mosquitoes and public health issues.

The next step in the process for the CHIP committee is to research the issues and develop alternatives and strategies;

• Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Barb Chambers said that the nursing division has recently undergone some restructuring.

Nursing will be reduced from five nurse managers to one Assistant Chief Nurse Officer (ACNO). The CNO and the ACNO will provide leadership for all nursing departments including Surgical Services. In addition, the Charge Nurses will fulfill their role as per the contract and become a frontline shift coordinator of nursing activities in all departments as well as surgery.

Chambers noted that a Nurse Educator position will be added, but that it would not be a management position. It will ensure consistency of competencies and nursing approach to patient care.

The resulting restructuring will save the hospital $300,000 in salaries, excluding benefits;

• Dr. Kevin Johnston stated that the recently held trauma conference was very well received among the hospital staff.

He also said that they recently met with staff at Harney Behavioral Health (HBH) and talked about how the two staffs can work together on patient care.

The next Harney District Hospital Board meeting will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 26 in the board conference room at the hospital.

By Randy Parks
Burns Times-Herald

The Hi-Desert Swim Team hosted the High Desert Invitational Swim Meet on July 17-19 at the High Desert Swimming Pool.
Both of the Hi-Desert’s  boys and girls teams took first place at the meet.

Named as Swimmers of the Meet from the Hi-Desert teams were Katy Calkins, Beau Blackburn and Carraig Colahan.

Hi-Desert coach Conor Colahan said he was very excited about the outcome of the meet and pleased with the performances of all of his swimmers.

Individual results for the Hi-Desert teams are as follows:

Men 12&U 400 Free — 1, Klus, Taylor, 7:25.59S.

Women 13-Ov 400 Free — 3, Siegner, Chelsea,  6:04.87S. 4, Lee, Taylor,  6:28.00S.

Men 13-Ov 400 Free — 2, Fenton, Tyler, 5:59.89S. 3, Carpentier, Connor,  6:57.01S.

Women 10&U 200 Free — 1, Hoke, Madison,  3:34.89S. 2, Cooley, Morgan, 3:54.68S. 3, Bennett, Layle,  3:59.51S. 4, Johnston, Grace, 4:08.29S. 5, Bradach, Isobel,  4:14.56S. 6, Gahley, Nicol, 4:17.47S. 7, Winn, Emma, 4:29.03S.

Men 10&U 200 Free — 3, Riess, Matthew, 3:44.50S.

Women 11-12 200 Free — 3, Calkins, Katy, 3:09.68S. 8, Cate, Korrina, 3:37.61S. 10, Riess, Ellie, 3:40.40S. 11, Beers, Kaelin, 4:05.69S.

Men 11-12 200 Free —  5, Blackburn, Garrett, 3:43.94S. 6, Stallings, Kalib, 3:44.60S. 7, Hueckman, Ty, 3:52.08S. 8, LaChapelle, Kalib, 3:59.06S. 9, Tiller, Trace, 5:33.13S.

Women 13-14 200 Free — 3, Lee, Megan, 3:09.75S. 4, Obradovich, Maria, 3:14.58S. 5, Siegner, Charli, 3:19.63S. 6, Johnston, Bailey, 3:23.35S. 8, Winn, Madison, 3:38.78S.

Men 13-14 200 Free — 2, Cate, Jaycob, 2:45.44S. 4, Gahley, Matson, 2:51.53S. 6, Thein, Jackson, 3:15.14S.

Women 15-Ov 200 Free — 1, Cate, Jocie, 3:03.23S. 0, Orr, Nika, 3:04.58S. 4, Pettyjohn, Laura, 3:05.61S.

Men 15-Ov 200 Free — 2, Colahan, Carraig, 2:20.24S. 3, Blackburn, Beau, 2:52.27S. 5, Colahan, Kieran, 2:56.80S. 6, Stanwyck, Dylan, 3:04.28S.

Women 6&U 25 Free — 1, Hueckman, Allie, 33.93S. 3, Hoke, Alicyn, 38.18S. 4, Bradach, Josie, 42.65S. 9, Johnston, Georgia, 1:32.06S.

Women 7-8 50 Free — 8, Garner, Jenna, 1:13.42S. 10, Skunkcap, Mileah, 1:26.06S. 11, Presley, Ashlie, 1:33.04S. 12, Johnston, Emma, 1:42.11S. 0, Riess, Trina, 1:44.11S. 0, Gonzalez, Sophia, NS.

Men 7-8 50 Free — 3, Zamora, Isaac, 59.92S. 4, Bailey, Luke, 1:01.55S. 6, Goss-Bodily, Garrett, 1:08.86S. 7, Hoke, Daniel, 1:12.94S. 8, Tiller, Cade, 1:13.82S. 9, Klus, Emmett, 1:16.74S. 10, Beers, Dustin, 1:17.66S. 12, Bradach, Zane, 1:34.06S.

Women 9-10 100 Free — 1, Crafts, Taylor, 1:38.59S. 2, Hoke, Madison, 1:46.40S. 3, Cooley, Morgan, 1:49.10S. 4, Bennett, Layle, 1:51.00S. 5, Feist, Carli, 1:52.36S. 7, Gahley, Nicol, 1:56.87S. 8, Bradach, Isobel, 1:58.52S. 9, Johnston, Grace, 1:58.95S. 12, Winn, Emma, 2:04.85S. 16, Riess, Bekka, 2:30.84S.

Men 9-10 100 Free — 3, Riess, Matthew, 1:46.67S. 6, Bailey, Zane, 1:53.63S. 8, Cook, Gage, 2:32.34S.

Women 11-12 100 Free — 3, Calkins, Katy, 1:29.02S. 10, Cate, Korrina, 1:43.76S. 12, Riess, Ellie, 1:44.84S. 17, Beers, Kaelin, 1:54.34S. 20, Holland, Kenzie, 1:58.94S. 23, Moulton, Mackenzie, 2:42.03S. 24, Carpentier, Christianna, 2:54.82S.

Men 11-12 100 Free — 5, Klus, Taylor, 1:31.48S. 6, Feist, Austin, 1:35.79S. 7, Obradovich, James, 1:37.00S. 10, Blackburn, Garrett, 1:43.94S. 11, Stallings, Kalib, 1:44.20S. 12, Hueckman, Ty, 1:44.39S. 13, LaChapelle, Kalib,  1:44.83S. 15, Tiller, Trace, 2:33.31S.

Women 13-14 100 Free — 5, Lee, Megan, 1:26.70S. 6, Siegner, Charli, 1:29.45S. 7, Obradovich, Maria, 1:29.78S. 9, Johnston, Bailey, 1:34.17S. 10, Winn, Madison, 1:37.35S.

Men 13-14 100 Free — 1, Gahley, Matson, 1:11.90S. 2, Cate, Jaycob, 1:13.59S. 6, Thein, Jackson, 1:28.93S. 10, Cook, Justin, 3:17.64S.

Women 15-18 100 Free — 1, Siegner, Chelsea, 1:13.88S. 2, Lee, Taylor, 1:14.13S. 5, Cate, Jocie, 1:20.99S. 0, Orr, Nika,  1:24.06S. 9, Pettyjohn, Laura, 1:28.24S.

Men 15-18 100 Free — 2, Colahan, Carraig, 1:03.93S. 3, Blackburn, Beau, 1:11.41S. 4, Fenton, Tyler, 1:13.56S. 5, Colahan, Kieran, 1:14.06S. 6, Carpentier, Connor, 1:14.41S. 8, Stanwyck, Dylan, 1:17.04S.

Men 7-8 25 Fly — 4, Zamora, Isaac, 45.50S.

Women 9-10 50 Fly — 1, Feist, Carli, 1:00.34S. 2, Crafts, Taylor, 1:03.25S. 0, Gahley, Nicol, NS.

Men 9-10 50 Fly — 6, Riess, Matthew, 1:12.94S.

Women 11-12 50 Fly —  7, Beers, Kaelin, 53.99S.

Men 11-12 50 Fly — 4, Obradovich, James, 59.39S. 8, LaChapelle, Kalib, 1:11.76S.

Men 13-14 100 Fly — 3, Gahley, Matson, 1:55.36S.

Women 15-18 100 Fly — 2, Lee, Taylor, 1:23.71S. 3, Siegner, Chelsea, 1:29.48S.

Men 15-18 100 Fly —  2, Colahan, Carraig, 1:14.87S.

Women 6&U 25 Back — 1, Hueckman, Allie, 36.45S. 3, Hoke, Alicyn, 41.45S. 6, Bradach, Josie, 59.97S. 7, Johnston, Georgia, 1:08.98S.

Women 7-8 25 Back — 7, Presley, Ashlie, 33.11S. 9, Garner, Jenna, 40.61S. 11, Skunkcap, Mileah, 45.26S. 0, Riess, Trina, 52.50S. 13, Johnston, Emma, 55.18S. 0, Gonzalez, Sophia, DQ.

Men 7-8 25 Back — 3, Hoke, Daniel, 31.03S. 4, Goss-Bodily, Garrett, 33.53S. 5, Tiller, Cade, 33.94S. 6, Bailey, Luke, 37.27S. 7, Bradach, Zane, 38.03S. 8, Zamora, Isaac, 38.35S. 9, Klus, Emmett, 40.38S. 13, Beers, Dustin, 45.73S. 15, Moulton, Anthony, 1:16.40S.

Women 9-10 50 Back — 1, Cooley, Morgan, 51.31S. 2, Feist, Carli, 55.08S. 3, Hoke, Madison, 58.62S. 4, Bennett, Layle, 1:01.66S. 5, Winn, Emma, 1:02.32S. 6, Johnston, Grace, 1:03.09S. 7, Bradach, Isobel, 1:04.79S. 9, Gahley, Nicol, 1:05.68S. 12, Riess, Bekka, 1:13.07S. 0, Crafts, Taylor, 49.98S.

Men 9-10 50 Back — 4, Riess, Matthew,, 1:00.88S. 7, Bailey, Zane, 1:14.38S. 10, Cook, Gage, 1:23.03S.

Women 11-12 50 Back — 1, Calkins, Katy, 48.92S. 4, Cate, Korrina, 51.80S. 10, Riess, Ellie, 59.78S. 14, Holland, Kenzie, 1:04.41S. 18, Moulton, Mackenzie, 1:10.82S. 19, Carpentier, Christianna, 1:18.29S.

Men 11-12 50 Back — 2, Blackburn, Garrett, 50.40S. 5, Feist, Austin, 52.90S. 6, Hueckman, Ty, 53.37S. 9, Obradovich, James, 58.55S. 11, Stallings, Kalib, 1:00.27S. 12, LaChapelle, Kalib, 1:01.97S. 13, Tiller, Trace, 1:09.07S. 0, Klus, Taylor, 59.23S.

Women 13-14 100 Back — 6, Obradovich, Maria, 1:44.96S. 7, Siegner, Charli, 1:45.05S. 8, Johnston, Bailey, 1:49.69S. 10, Lee, Megan, 1:59.61S. 11, Winn, Madison, 2:00.73S.

Men 13-14 100 Back —  2, Gahley, Matson, 1:31.62S. 3, Cate, Jaycob, 1:32.06S. 6, Thein, Jackson, 1:48.82S.

Women 15-18 100 Back — 2, Siegner, Chelsea, 1:26.00S. 4, Cate, Jocie, 1:34.31S. 7, Pettyjohn, Laura, 1:38.90S. 0, Orr, Nika, 1:42.73S.

Men 15-18 100 Back — 3, Colahan, Carraig, 1:22.96S. 4, Fenton, Tyler, 1:25.50S. 5, Blackburn, Beau, 1:30.06S. 6, Carpentier, Connor, 1:31.30S. 7, Colahan, Kieran, 1:32.34S. 9, Stanwyck, Dylan, 1:39.42S.

Men 7-8 100 IM — 3, Zamora, Isaac, 3:04.95S.

Women 9-10 100 IM — 1, Crafts, Taylor, 1:55.80S. 2, Cooley, Morgan, 2:00.16S. 3, Feist, Carli, 2:05.92S. 4, Hoke, Madison, 2:06.40S. 5, Bennett, Layle, 2:10.25S. 7, Winn, Emma, 2:26.97S. 8, Bradach, Isobel, 2:28.56S. 0, Johnston, Grace, DQ.

Men 9-10 100 IM — 5, Riess, Matthew, 2:10.38S.

Women 11-12 100 IM — 4, Calkins, Katy, 1:43.10S. 12, Beers, Kaelin, 1:58.48S. 13, Cate, Korrina, 1:58.53S. 16, Riess, Ellie, 2:06.47S. 0, Nonnenmacher, Abby, 2:16.11S.

Men 11-12 100 IM — 6, Feist, Austin, 1:56.50S. 7, Obradovich, James, 1:57.34S. 9, Klus, Taylor,  2:01.13S. 10, Blackburn, Garrett, 2:07.83S. 0, Stallings, Kalib, DQ.

Women 13-14 200 IM — 6, Lee, Megan, 3:38.35S. 8, Siegner, Charli, 3:46.56S. 9, Obradovich, Maria, 3:48.57S. 10, Johnston, Bailey, 4:00.48S. 0, Winn, Madison, DQ.

Men 13-14 200 IM — 3, Cain, Peter, 3:32.99S. 4, Thein, Jackson, 3:48.04S. 5, Cain, Thomas, 4:09.40S. 0, Nonnenmacher, Seth, DQ. 0, Cate, Jaycob, 3:09.68S.

Women 15-18 200 IM — 2, Siegner, Chelsea, 3:08.57S. 3, Lee, Taylor, 3:09.48S. 4, Pettyjohn, Laura, 3:23.32S. 7, Cate, Jocie,  3:34.98S. 0, Orr, Nika,  3:43.08S.

Men 15-18 200 IM — 2, Colahan, Carraig, 2:49.96S. 3, Fenton, Tyler, 3:05.23S. 5, Colahan, Kieran, 3:15.02S. 6, Carpentier, Connor, 3:17.95S. 7, Blackburn, Beau, 3:20.45S. 8, Stanwyck, Dylan, 3:47.16S.

Women 7-8 25 Breast — 0, Presley, Ashlie, DQ. 0, Riess, Trina, DQ.

Men 7-8 25 Breast — 3, Zamora, Isaac, 41.72S. 4, Bradach, Zane, 48.70S. 0, Bailey, Luke, DQ.

Women 9-10 50 Breast — 1, Cooley, Morgan, 55.54S. 2, Crafts, Taylor, 58.62S. 3, Feist, Carli, 1:01.83S. 4, Riess, Bekka, 1:02.37S. 6, Johnston, Grace, 1:06.17S. 8, Winn, Emma, 1:10.23S. 9, Bennett, Layle, 1:16.06S. 10, Hoke, Madison, 1:20.28S. 12, Bradach, Isobel, 1:25.21S.

Men 9-10 50 Breast — 0, Bailey, Zane, DQ.

Women 11-12 50 Breast — 5, Calkins, Katy, 54.73S. 9, Cate, Korrina, 56.64S. 11, Riess, Ellie, 58.50S. 12, Nonnenmacher, Abby, 58.65S. 15, Beers, Kaelin, 1:04.32S. 19, Carpentier, Christianna, 1:33.32S. 0, Holland, Kenzie, DQ.

Men 11-12 50 Breast — 1, Feist, Austin, 50.08S. 3, Obradovich, James, 54.92S. 7, Blackburn, Garrett, 59.96S. 8, Klus, Taylor, 1:02.29S. 0, Tiller, Trace, 1:34.19S. 0, Stallings, Kalib, DQ.

Women 13-14 100 Breast — 5, Lee, Megan, 1:44.63S. 7, Obradovich, Maria, 1:53.89S. 8, Siegner, Charli, 1:53.96S. 10, Winn, Madison, 1:57.04S. 11, Johnston, Bailey, 2:13.08S.

Men 13-14 100 Breast — 5, Cate, Jaycob, 1:35.29S. 6, Cain, Peter, 1:52.70S. 8, Nonnenmacher, Seth, 1:55.24S. 9, Thein, Jackson, 1:56.64S. 11, Cain, Thomas, 2:07.82S.

Women 15-18 100 Breast — 1, Lee, Taylor, 1:29.24S. 2, Pettyjohn, Laura, 1:35.98S. 6, Cate, Jocie, 1:51.90S. 0, Orr, Nika, 2:00.93S.

Men 15-18 100 Breast — 3, Fenton, Tyler, 1:33.03S. 4, Carpentier, Connor, 1:33.42S. 5, Blackburn, Beau, 1:36.35S. 0, Stanwyck, Dylan, DQ. 0, Colahan, Kieran, DQ.

Women 7-08 25 Free — 7, Garner, Jenna, 35.02S. 9, Gonzalez, Sophia, 40.37S. 10, Skunkcap, Mileah, 42.98S. 11, Johnston, Emma, 46.13S. 0, Riess, Trina, 52.80S.

Men 7-8 25 Free — 2, Zamora, Isaac, 25.75S. 3, Bailey, Luke, 27.07S. 5, Hoke, Daniel, 28.47S. 6, Goss-Bodily, Garrett, 28.73S. 7, Tiller, Cade, 32.39S. 8, Beers, Dustin, 32.83S. 10, Bradach, Zane, 34.37S. 11, Klus, Emmett, 34.53S. 15, Moulton, Anthony, 54.34S.

Women 9-10 50 Free — 1, Crafts, Taylor, 42.15S. 2, Hoke, Madison, 42.61S. 3, Feist, Carli, 47.64S. 5, Cooley, Morgan, 49.74S. 6, Bradach, Isobel, 54.05S. 7, Winn, Emma, 54.67S. 8, Johnston, Grace, 55.59S. 14, Bennett, Layle, 1:08.12S. 15, Riess, Bekka, 1:08.30S.

Men 9-10 50 Free — 5, Riess, Matthew, 47.02S. 7, Bailey, Zane, 52.50S. 9, Cook, Gage, 1:03.27S.

Women 11-12 50 Free — 4, Calkins, Katy, 38.70S. 12, Cate, Korrina, 45.69S. 14, Riess, Ellie, 46.36S. 18, Beers, Kaelin, 51.41S. 21, Holland, Kenzie, 51.75S. 24, Nonnenmacher, Abby, 55.08S. 25, Carpentier, Christianna, 1:13.18S. 26, Moulton, Mackenzie, 1:16.23S.

Men 11-12 50 Free — 5, Feist, Austin, 41.11S. 6, Klus, Taylor, 41.75S. 7, Blackburn, Garrett, 42.12S. 9, Obradovich, James, 43.84S. 13, Tiller, Trace, 58.85S.

Women 13-14 50 Free — 6, Lee, Megan, 37.81S. 7, Obradovich, Maria, 38.16S. 8, Siegner, Charli, 38.66S. 11, Winn, Madison, 41.70S. 12, Johnston, Bailey, 42.09S.

Men 13-14 50 Free — 3, Cate, Jaycob, 32.53S. 5, Cain, Peter, 35.39S. 6, Nonnenmacher, Seth, 35.82S. 8, Thein, Jackson, 38.39S. 10, Cain, Thomas, 40.84S. 12, Cook, Justin, 1:29.45S.

Women 15-18 50 Free — 2, Lee, Taylor, 32.62S. 4, Siegner, Chelsea, 34.06S. 6, Cate, Jocie, 36.24S. 0, Orr, Nika, 36.52S. 8, Pettyjohn, Laura, 37.06S.

Men 15-18 50 Free — 3, Colahan, Carraig, 29.09S. 4, Stanwyck, Dylan, 31.14S. 5, Colahan, Kieran, 31.43S. 6, Blackburn, Beau, 31.65S. 7, Fenton, Tyler, 31.77S. 8, Carpentier, Connor, 31.96S.

Paul Ray Mobley, 82, of Globe, Ariz., died on July 16.

He was born on Jan. 24, 1927, in Pilot Point, Texas, to parents Jesse William Mobley and Agnes Beulah Teague. He was raised in Spur, Texas, by his grandfather Edward Mobley and lived more than 30 years in Burns.

Mobley served in the United States Army, specializing in demolitions. He trained servicemen on various firearms and as snipers.

He was stationed in Germany at the end of World War II during the Nuremberg trials and Berlin airlift guarding prisoners of war in the liberated Dachau concentration camp. He also served in the Korean conflict.

Mobley was a firm believer in education and received training as a carpenter, mechanic, boat builder and boiler maker. He was also a horse trainer with many years of experience under his belt.

He enjoyed hunting, fishing, guns, horses and watching the news.

Mobley is survived by his sisters, Deloris Johnson of Crosbyton, Texas, and Deanie Wellborn of Spur; children, Paulette Haynes of Boise, Idaho, Nicole Mobley of Globe, Wendy Kuhl of Phoenix, Ariz., and Fred Hartley of Donald. He was also blessed with 11 grandchildren and one great grandson.

Mobley was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Patsy Green.

A private funeral service will be held. Lamont Mortuary in Globe is in charge of arrangements.

Belinda Day died on July 18, at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend.

A celebration of life will be held on Aug. 8 at Burns Christian Church at 10 a.m.

Storytime for preschoolers is scheduled at the Harney County Library, 80 West D St., each  Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Contact the Harney County Library for more information 573-6670.

Burns Elks Lodge, 118 North Broadway, meets each Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets each Wednesday at the Foursquare Church at 7 p.m.

The Harney County Weed Board will hold a regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, July 30, at 1 p.m. in the basement meeting room of the Harney County Courthouse. Topics of discussion will include the division of the county into containment areas, project updates, project needs and development of resource focus areas. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend. For more information, call Jesse at 573-8385.

Tai Chi is held every Thursday at the Harney County Senior and Community Services Center, from 9:30-10:30 a.m. All ages are welcome to participate.

Kiwanis Club of Burns-Hines meets for a no-host luncheon each Thursday at Glory Days Pizza, 690 Oregon Avenue, at noon.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly meets each Thursday at Hines City Hall, 101 East Barnes, at noon. Call 573-2896.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets each Thursday at the Foursquare Church, at 7 p.m.

Teen Late Night at the Harney County Library will be held from 6-8 p.m.

Oregon Old Time Fiddlers, District 9, meets the first, third and fourth Friday of each month. Call Julia at 573-2770, for time and place.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Friday at Foursquare Church at 7 p.m.

The 27th annual Chris Miller Memorial Steens Mountain Rim Run 10K will be held on Aug. 1. The walk begins at 9:30 a.m. and the run begins at  10 a.m. For a registration form or more information, call Nick Miller at 573-4412, Tara Martinak at 573-4519 or the Chamber of  Commerce at  573-2636, or go to: www.steensrimrun.com.

The annual Frenchglen Jamboree will be held on Aug. 1.  The day will include kids arena events, cowboy polo, hitchhiker race, cowhide race and  team branding. Sign up is at 8:30 a.m. and events will start at 9:30 a.m.  Food concessions will be available during the day, and a barbecue dinner will be held at the Frenchglen Hotel. For more information, call 493-2652 or  493-2236.

Harney County Farmers Market will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 1 at Hines Park. Pick your produce, craft your craft, set up a table and buy or sell locally produced items. The market will be held every Saturday through Sept. 12. To reserve your space contact Kelly at 541-573-1809 or harneycountyfarmersmarket@live.com.

Diabetes Support Group meets at the Harney County Health Building, 420 North Fairview, the first Saturday of each month at 2 p.m.

Alanon holds an open meeting each Saturday at Foursquare Church at 7 p.m.

The 24th annual Harney County Potluck will be held on Aug. 2, at Silver Falls State Park, in Silverton. The annual reunion will be held in Area “D”, with visiting to begin at 10 a.m., and lunch served at 12:30 p.m. For more information,  call Linda Cooksey at 503-373-8942.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets Sunday at Foursquare Church for 12X12 study, at 7 p.m.