John Hamlin, assistant scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 27 totes flags early Monday morning as volunteers set up Redmond's Memorial Day flag display. Members of the scout troop worked with members of the Redmond Veterans of Foreign Wars to place 653 flags along Fifth and Sixth streets and several sides streets to commemorate the holiday. 

100 Years Ago

June 5, 1924 — Strawberry yield will be heavy one

The earliest strawberry crop on record is rapidly ripening in the Tumalo country. With scattered picking already started, patches will be ready for general picking Saturday and the yield will be heavy.

A fine appearance is being made by vines and fruit on the ranch of A.C. Kirtsis, who last year sold approximately 4,000 gallons of berries. This year the crop will be even bigger, he believes.

75 Years Ago

June 2, 1949 — Drive-in to open in new building

Featuring convenient service, more room, attractive, modern design and the utmost in food-handling sanitation, the new, larger Mary’s Drive-In will hold its grand opening Saturday in the building just completed by Gayle Bartel at the corner of Sixth and Elm streets.

Joe and Mary Rice own the drive-in, leasing the building and grounds from Bartel. The Rices and Bartel worked out every detail of the arrangement with Robert M. Bowen, contractor who did the construction, and Weldon Horn, electrician.

As a special feature of the grand opening Saturday, Mary’s Drive-In will give free ice cream to all children and free coffee to all adults, the Rices have announced. Everyone in Redmond and vicinity is invited to visit the new eating house.

The building, painted white, is topped by a large sign ad is surrounded by parking space.

Edward E. Vice taken by death

Edward Everett Vice died Tuesday, May 31, at the age of 88 after an illness of a number of years. Funeral services have been arranged for Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at the Prineville Funeral home.

Rev. D. L. Penhollow will officiate. Interment will be in the Prineville cemetery Edward Everett Rice was born December 16 1860, in Knox county, Missouri. He was married to Annetta Crole in Scotland county, Missouri, February 18, 1886, and they marked their 63rd wedding anniversary last February.

The Vices were pioneer homesteaders in the Oklahoma “No Man’s Land” in 1900 and came to central Oregon in 1933. They had resided in Powell Butte since that time except for two years which they spent in Newberg. Although virtually retired when he came to central Oregon, he had engaged in carpenter work and some ranching. He was a lifelong member of the Christian church.

Besides his wife, who lives in Powell Butte, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. T. A. Beasley of Newberg and Mrs. Ed Mollman Sr. of Terebonne, two sons, C. C. Vice of Powell Butte and V. F. Vice of Denver, Colo., 17 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

50 Years Ago

June 5, 1974 — COCC begins planning for cultural arts center

A $24,000 private gift to be used for the planning of a cultural arts center has been made to Central Oregon Community College.

The award was made by the Bend Foundation, a philanthropic agency of Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., and its stockholders.

In announcing the gift, Michael P. Hollern, president, said, “It is the foundation’s hope that this grant will not only allow the college to do a professional job of planning for the center, but also that the gift itself will help call public attention to the need for such a facility in Central Oregon. We believe COCC is the logical area institution to build, operate and maintain such a center.’

The funds will be used to hire consultants from the fields of art, music and drama. The funds also will be used to provide preliminary architectural drawings and specifications by the college’s architects, WEGROUP, Inc., Portland.

COCC president Frederick Boyle said the college will soon complete a 1974-84 long-range plan. The document is expected to be presented to the COCC Board of Directors at the regular July board meeting.

According to Boyle, some of the preliminary planning data for the cultural arts center will be included in the 1974-84 long range plan.

Boyle said that private funding would play a major role in any future discussions of the cultural arts center. He also said the long-range plan would include recommendations for additional classroom construction on the campus.

Specifically mentioned were science, business-secretarial, and vocational-technical education as departments in need of new or additional quarters.

Public advisory groups will be formed to obtain district-wide participation in the planning of the cultural arts center and other needed facilities. Representatives of all communities in the COCC district will be sought.

25 Years Ago

June 2, 1999 — Redmond joins Deschutes basin management effort

The City of Redmond will work with other Deschutes Basin water users and state agencies to find ways to stretch the region’s limited ground water supply.

The city council last week agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding with other interests to develop a management plan for the basin.

That plan is needed to deal with a decision by the Oregon Water Resources Department in 1998 that it would no longer issue groundwater permits in the basin unless it could be assured they would have no effect on stream flows in the lower river.

A several-year study of the basin confirmed the connection between ground water and stream flows. Because of in-stream water rights for fish and for wild and scenic river protection, the state ruled the basin’s water was already appropriated.

For swiftly growing Redmond, this poses a dilemma. According to a memo by Redmond Public Works Director Mary Meloy, the city has two to three years before it will need to drill and use its sixth municipal well.

Under the memorandum of understanding, representatives from Redmond and other signatories, will develop a mitigation plan by September 2000. The groups include cities, Deschutes County, the Warm Springs tribes, state agencies and private water districts.

What sort of mitigation will take place remains to be seen, said Ron Nelson, manager of Central Oregon Irrigation District and a member of the Oregon Water Resources Commission.

“There’s a variety of interests involved. It’s going to be consensus-based, so that’s going to be quite a challenge,” Nelson said.

Some options that have been discussed include conservation and reducing withdrawals from the middle section of the river between Bend and Lake Billy Chinook.

In her memo, Meloy noted the groups decided developing the mitigation plan would be cheaper and just as fast as litigating to force the state to issue well permits.

Driver escapes crash uninjured

A Redmond man escaped injuries Sunday following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 126 near the Prineville Airport.

Todd Majorowicz, 28, was driving east in a Ford pickup towing a boat when a westbound Subaru, driven by Fred Chaimson of Bend crossed the center line. Majorowicz attempted to avoid the collision, but was struck in the driver’s side. The pickup landed on its top, temporarily trapping Majorowicz.

According to Oregon State Police, Chaimson, 67, apparently fell asleep at the wheel. He and his passenger, Carol Nuckton, 64, also of Bend, were treated for minor injuries at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Prineville.

All three were wearing safety belts, and the Subaru’s airbags deployed.