Daniel Brooks

Jun 26, 2024 | bluemountaineagle.com | Daniel Brooks

LA GRANDE — At the age of 8, Mike Frasier found his calling when an aunt, Lillian Stone, decided to give him a shot at conducting the local children’s church choir. Frasier, who sang in the choir, jumped at the opportunity. Right from the first notes of that first performance, Frasier knew this was it: This was what he wanted to do with his life. kAmxE H2D E96 DE2CE @7 2 4@?5F4E:?8 42C66C E92E =2DE65 >@C6 E92? 2 92=7\46?EFCJ] %92E 42C66C 6?565 @? yF?6 e[ H96?

Jun 21, 2024 | lagrandeobserver.com | Daniel Brooks

LA GRANDE — At the age of 8, Mike Frasier found his calling when an aunt, Lillian Stone, decided to give him a shot at conducting the local children’s church choir. Frasier, who sang in the choir, jumped at the opportunity. Right from the first notes of that first performance, Frasier knew this was it: This was what he wanted to do with his life. kAmxE H2D E96 DE2CE @7 2 4@?5F4E:?8 42C66C E92E =2DE65 >@C6 E92? 2 92=7\46?EFCJ] %92E 42C66C 6?565 @? yF?6 e[ H96?

Jun 18, 2024 | seasidesignal.com | Daniel Brooks

JOSEPH — Kinzie Robins says she doesn’t feel like an outsider in the rodeo world, being one of the first women to do what she does. Instead, she said, she has found her place in the world. “I want everyone to know there’s a place for you, no matter what the world says,” she said. “If there’s a mold, break it. I am here to show you the way.”kAm#@3:?D[ @7 r@C:??6[ &E29[ :D 2 AC@76DD:@?2= C@56@ 4=@H?[ @?6 @7 E96 76H H@>6? :? AC@ C@56@ 4:C4=6D H:E9 E92E ;@3] #@56@ 4=@H?D 6?E6CE2:?

Jun 12, 2024 | wallowa.com | Daniel Brooks

ENTERPRISE — Eat a Dutch oven lunch, make a hook, and write a letter to a veteran and seal it in wax at Flora School Days, when the annual fundraiser returns on Saturday, June 15. Flora School keeps the past alive by teaching old-time skills, considered folk arts today, and they’ll be in the spotlight on Saturday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Flora School Education Center, 80974 College Lane in Flora.

May 25, 2024 | eastoregonian.com | Daniel Brooks |Neil Nisperos

Wallowa County Commissioner Todd Nash ran away with the Republican primary race for Senate District 29 like a stampede of cattle. Then again, he is a cattle rancher. Senate District 29 encompasses all of Umatilla, Morrow, Union, Wallowa, Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler counties, as well as the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, north Jefferson County, most of Wasco County and a small portion of Clackamas and Marion counties.