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Halfway, OR - When the tiny eastern Oregon town formerly known as Half.com lost it’s internet-based name and international attention dried up, local business owners began to look for new ways to draw tourists from highway 86 to spend money in Halfway. “Then it hit me. What do we have here that’s unique and there’s a never-ending supply of?” said Rodger Anderson, owner of the Road King diner. Wild animal game is attracting a following in Oregon nouveau cuisine circles and it isn’t unusual to find someone at the Road King who traveled several hundred miles to eat local wild game. “We serve the finest local game year-round. Pheasant, venison, raccoon, squirrel, opossum, duck, squab, grouse, sometimes even bear. It is all local and sustainably harvested not far from here and we’re real picky about freshness,” said Anderson.