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He predicted last week The reservoir storage is cur- that this year’s irrigation sea- rently at 36,947 acre-feet, com- son may come to a close about pared to its full capacity level of 715,000 acre-feet, which will ser- –– See Reservoir, page 5 Areas normally covered in water this time of year at the Owyhee Reservoir are exposed because of low water levels. Photo by Dave Downum Bruneau-Grand View reopens schools; levy election set next month schools. Trustees to look To make the operation of three at confi guration schools viable, the board of trustees has put a supplemental Crew places Austrian Settlement marker at Bette Uda City Park Thursday levy back on the ballot. Joe Demshar, left, helps position the stone commemorating the Austrian Settlement families over The question of a one-year, the hole at Bette Uda City Park in Homedale. John Gibson, center, and his son Trevor, right, help After a legal misstep, trustees $600,000 levy will appear on guide it into place. For more on the monument’s placement, see Page 3. Photo by Karen Bresnahan have reopened the Bruneau-Grand View School District’s elementary –– See Levy, page 5 Subscribe today Death notices 6Sports 15-16 Get the news source of the Owyhees delivered Calendar 7Looking Back 19 IInsidenside directly to you each Wednesday Then and Now 7Commentary 20-21 Only $31.80 in Owyhee County Rimrock Call 337-4681 Focus of Fair 10 Legals 22 teacher retires Weather 14 Classifi eds 23 Page 12 Page 2 Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Homedale businesses spruce up Air Force destroys grenades found in Bruneau home Two 70-year-old grenades were and apparently had belonged to found in the home of a deceased the deceased woman’s husband, woman last week. Grant said. Owyhee County Sheriff Perry OCSO reservist Rocky Widner, Grant said the World War II-era an Air Force veteran, transported grenades were found by a person the grenades to a location outside cleaning out their sister’s home of Bruneau where an explosive Thursday in Bruneau. ordnance disposal team from The grenades were found in Mountain Home Air Force Base a footlocker in a back bedroom destroyed the weapons. of the house on Benham Avenue — JPB Fair, rodeo parade grand marshal nominees sought Nominations are being accepted welcome as many as we can get,” through Aug. 1 for the Owyhee Green said. County Fair and Rodeo Parade A committee comprised of grand marshal. Green, fair secretary Ginger Parade coordinator Jolyn Green Loucks and some fair board said anyone can nominate a grand members will make the final marshal candidate. selection on a grand marshal Nomination forms can be found for the Saturday, Aug. 9 parade in the fair book, which is available through downtown Homedale. for free at The Owyhee Avalanche The theme of this year’s parade offi ce in Homedale. Green said a is “Sew It, Grow It, Show It.” letter extolling the virtues of the Green said there are no particular nominee is another step in the color themes required. nomination process. For information on the parade, “We have two so far and call Green at (208) 318-3982. Neighbors slap on fresh paint Sunday is Fair and Above: Margie Isaguirre, right, looks on approvingly as painters touch up the Homedale Rodeo Queen deadline Realty sign in front of the offi ce Applications for the Owyhee Prizes awarded include queen, on East Idaho Avenue. County Fair and Rodeo Queen fi rst runner-up, second runner- Left: Eric Roesberry, contest must be received by up, Miss Congeniality and owner of the Frosty Palace in Sunday. Horsemanship. Homedale, shows off the new Mail applications to queen The queen will be crowned red and white paint he and coordinator Debbie Shearn at during the Friday night some friends put on the East 16308 Farmway Road, Caldwell, performance of the 2014 Owyhee Idaho Avenue building. ID 83607. County Rodeo, which takes place Photos by Karen Call Shearn at (208) 455-7917 on Aug. 8. Bresnahan for more information. Her fi rst offi cial appearance The contest is open to unmarried after coronation is the parade women ages 16-23 who have lived through downtown Homedale on in Idaho during the past year. Saturday, Aug. 9. Marsing Location Only The competition will take Nampa resident Miranda place during the Aug. 4-9 fair Wilkins is the reigning Owyhee :0DLQ in Homedale. Entrants will County Fair and Rodeo Queen, Hours: 0RQ6DWDPSP be judged on horsemanship, and she will help crown her 6XQGD\DPSP personality and appearance. successor next month. %UHDNIDVW6HUYHG$OO'D\ MOBILE TRUCK & EQUIPMENT REPAIR HELP US CELEBRATE OUR NEW MARSING LOCATION! &NE@=U*QHU[=ILI Buy one Six Inch or Foot Long Sandwich, Get one* Free! ,UNPUL6]LYOH\SZ-SLL[4HPU[LUHUJL RIHTXDORUOHVVHUYDOXH([FOXGHV3UHPLXP6DQGZLFKHV0DUVLQJ/RFDWLRQ2QO\ FREE ADVICE Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Page 3 Austrian monument installed at Homedale park The appearance of Bette place. Homedale High School grad- Uda City Park in Homedale is “The timing was just right, and uate Trevor Gibson, who helped changed forever. A large stone it came together very quickly,” dig the holes for the stone place- monument commemorating the he said. “Everything worked out ments, is the grandson of Fred eight families who are known as perfect. We didn’t get hurt, and Demshar, John’s father. Trevor’s the Austrian Settlement was just we didn’t break anything, or dad, John Gibson, owns the erected in the southeast corner of scratch anything.” construction company. The two the park. Demshar said after the fi nal men worked on excavating the The eight families were a stone was set into place, he said holes for the placement of all group of immigrants who came a prayer of thanks. the stones, and prepared the site to Homedale in l914 and created Bret Smith and workers from for concrete pouring, which was farms and vineyards out of what the Homedale city maintenance done last. was dry, sagebrush covered land. department helped prepare the The stones and engraving costs Hundreds of descendants of the 15-foot-by- 15-foot site, by mea- of approximately $5,000 were early settlers live here now. suring it out and removing the donated last year by Bob Ceg- The monument consists of one sod. nar, who is a Homedale native large stone with engraving in the The large stones in the monu- and a descendant of the Austrian center and two shorter stones on ment area were wrapped with families. He now lives in Moses each side of it. The large stone several large tie-down straps and Lake, Wash., and operates a sand stands about 9 feet tall, and the using a Greade-All machine, also and gravel business. side stones are about 7 feet tall. known as a tele-handler (heavy The Austrian and German Four smaller two-foot-wide sit- duty fork lift), the stones were descendants in Homedale cel- ting stones are arranged in a semi- maneuvered into their positions ebrated their 100-year heritage circle across from the main stone. and placed in the ground. on Feb. 14-15 at the Homedale The engraving on the largest Work on installing the monu- Amory. More than 500 people stone reads: “Dedicated to those ment was handled by a small attended the two-day event. Slovenick families and German group of people, including Aus- About a year ago, the Austri- family who in l914 pioneered trian descendants and father an Settlement Committee made the Austrian Settlement in the and son John and Joe Demshar, plans for the monument, as part of Owyhee Desert, and whose de- Homedale resident Larry Landa, the centennial celebration of the scendants live today. They made John and Trevor Gibson of Gib- settlement. Originally, the monu- the desert bloom.” son Construction of Greenleaf, ment was expected to be put in the Below that it says: “The Aus- and Ray Maxwell of Owyhee park in early February or March, trian Settlement,” followed by Sand and Gravel. Joe Demshar but the project was delayed by the names of the eight original is the former Owyhee County several months because of soil families: Bahem, Cegnar, Dem- Historical Museum Director and The monument as it stands in the park. conditions and other factors. shar, Dolence, Jesenko, Kushlan, headed the Austrian Settlement time and supplied the equipment City of Homedale for the time “We had to wait until all the Marchek and Miklovich. centennial committee. used to move the stones. Owyhee they spent helping us with this, people involved had enough “I’m happy,” Austrian Settle- Gibson Construction was Sand and Gravel helped pour the and Larry Landa for the use of time to get it done,” John Dem- ment descendant John Demshar hired by the Demshar family, concrete at the site.