100 Years Ago

Aug. 23, 1923 — From ‘Local Happenings’

Tom DeYoung has added another white enamel barber chair to his shop, giving his place quite a metropolitan appearance.

Mesdames H.O. Wilson, J.O. Hansen and Jim Audrain were in Bend Tuesday night and took in a picture show while the husbands were attending W.O.W. (Woodmen of the World) lodge.

75 Years Ago

Aug. 26, 1948 — Miss Oregon as Queen

It’s taken 29 years for the Deschutes county fair board to hook together the kind of week end that is just getting started here in Redmond today.

Manager Carl Galloway and Chairman Mike Lynch have already lost count of how many unusual things are to be going on during the four-day show that have never been tried before. But they do know that at the very top of the blue ribbon list is the queen herself, Joyce Davis.

For the first time in a long, long while there was no official contest this year for queen and court of the Deschutes county fair. That just wasn’t necessary, the fair officials reasoned, with newly crowned Miss Oregon on hand as the official queen and hostess for the entire state, including this county and her home town of Redmond.

50 Years Ago

Aug. 29, 1973 — Redmond restaurant explores horsemeat

Horse meat on the restaurant menu — it’s legal in Oregon, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has announced.

The statement by the department was made in response to an inquiry from Dr. Patricia Miller, veterinarian with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s meat inspection program in Central Oregon. It had been channeled to Dr. Miller from a Redmond area restaurant through the Redmond Meat Co., a horse slaughtering plant inspected by Dr. Miller. Identity of the restaurant was not disclosed.

This plant reopened about a year ago as Tri-County Meats for the slaughter of red meat and switched to a horse slaughtering operations a short time ago as the Redmond Meat Co. It is the state’s second horse slaughtering plant. The other is at Hubbard.

There are two requirements that must be met, however, before this meat can be sold to patrons, says Joe Gray, assistant administrator for food with the department’s dairy and consumer services division.

The restaurant must have a sign in a conspicuous place with letters not less than three inches high stating “horse meat served here” and the health department of the county where the establishment is localist be advised of the fact.

Oregon does not permit slaughter of horses in a slaughter plant where other domestic animals are prepared for human consumption and, unless sold in a market where horse meat is sold exclusively, it must be packaged and marked before entering the market. Oregon has two markets dealing in horse meat exclusively. One is in Portland and the other is in Eugene. At all markets selling horse meat there must be a sign of the same type required at restaurants except the sign must read “horse meat sold here.”

25 Years Ago

Aug. 26, 1998 — Council OKs advisory vote on canyon

Opponents of a proposed golf course in the south end of Dry Canyon convinced the Redmond City Council Tuesday to place a non-binding measure on the November ballot to gauge public sentiment toward allowing the course.

A crowd filled the meeting room at the Redmond Senior Center and stood up en-mass when one of the measure’s backers asked for a show of support.

Rich Lance of Friends of the Canyon, told the council the measure offered it “an opportunity that if passed up might give the impression you don’t care about what the people of Redmond think.”

The city’s attorney will meet this week with Lance and developer Tom Field’s attorney to reword the measure. The council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to approve the wording.

The council is expected to hear a proposal this fall from developer Tom Fields for a comprehensive land-use plan change that would allow him to build the golf course.

Fields owns 34 acres between Highland and Quartz avenues. Earlier this summer he proposed allowing the city to build a public path through his land in exchange for permission to build the course and for a long-term lease on six acres of city land near Quartz Avenue.

However, much of the canyon was designated to be protected as open public space or parks as far back as 1978.

In July, the city parks commission voted to allow the comprehensive plan change. The city planning commission is scheduled to hear the matter Sept. 19.

Mayor Jerry Thackery and Council Bob Green resisted endorsing the ballot measure. Both believe the land-use planning process should be allowed to work. They were also concerned how such a vote would affect an appeal if the council decided against Field’s proposal following the election.

However, councilors Karena Houser and Jan Anderson sided with the citizens’ group.

“Given the importance of the decision … I just don’t see how you could not put this on the ballot,” Houser said.