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wallowa.com
February 11, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
B IG R EAD NOVEL ’ S AUTHOR SPEAKS
Courtesy photo
S.F. Tool/Chieftain
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of the 2015 Big Read book “Into the Beautiful North” chatting with admirers at the Big Read
Finale at the Hurricane Creek Grange Hall on Feb. 8. The packed house finale featured a dinner catered by La Laguna
restaurant of Enterprise. Urrea also lectured on the book and the Hispanic experience as well as answering audience
questions and signing books.
Student raising funds for disabled veteran
volved from there.
With some help from some
friends, she set up a table at the
For the second straight year, high school basketball game,
Enterprise High School junior last Friday evening, between
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with Operation Help Our Veter- Nine Line T-shirts, cupcakes,
ans and the Nine Line Founda- and caramel corn. She also sold
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FCCLA project for a particular Brenda Widener. At halftime of
veteran.
the game Andrea appeared be-
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volved in the plan when her the Miracle Minute. In this act of
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T-shits while he was stationed in the crowd for one minute with
Afghanistan. The T-shirts were the audience providing cash do-
part of the Nine Line Founda- nations.
tion’s apparel program. Andrea
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inquired further, researched the Line T-shirts were donated by
whole program and became in- the charity organization.
By Rich Rautenstrauch
Wallowa County Chieftain
A big THANK YOU to everyone that made our Benefit dinner to
start our journey in our forever family through open adoption!
Special thanks to Laina Fisher, Kasha Tippet, Jeny from Subway,
Carmen Ranch, Skip & Cissy Shelton, Lee Daggett, Julie &
Kimberly Botts, Diana Fisher, Phyllis Johnson, Jason & Marty, and
my parents Clifford & Denise Rhodes and the band Last Call.
Also all the people that made donations towards
our auction and that made goodies.
We are very grateful to live in a community that
stands behind you in your dreams.
We were shown that and are very thankful for all the support!
Thank you
Jerod & Bobbie Rogers
The
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Enterprise FCCLA junior Andrea Butterfield sells baked
goods and T-shirts during a basketball game to raise money
to help a veteran who was injured in the Iraq war.
Funds raised this year by
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First Class Mark Holbert, of
Virginia. Holbert stepped on
a pressure-plated IED in 2010
and lost both of his legs. The
money raised will be used
to build a home for Holbert
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Big cabbage
earns $1,000
ENTERPRISE — Third
grade student Josi Coggins,
of Enterprise Elementary
School, grew a 21.6-pound
cabbage last summer and is
being awarded a $1,000 sav-
ings bond courtesy of the
Bonnie Plants Cabbage Pro-
gram.
From among 2,748 third
graders from Oregon who
participated in the Bonnie
Plants program this past year,
the giant cabbage grown by
the daughter of Kim and Kreg
Coggins randomly was select-
ed as winner by the Oregon
Agriculture Department.
A program that loosely
launched in Alabama, where
Bonnie Plants became a busi-
ness in 1918 and has expand-
ed to become a nationwide
plant wholesaler, the Bon-
nie Plants Cabbage Program
launched nationally in 2002
and had more than 1.5 million
third graders from 48 states
participate in 2014.
Participating last year in
the program were 26 third
graders from Enterprise (in-
cluding Coggins), 21 third
graders from Wallowa, and 18
third graders from Joseph.
According to Joan Casa-
nova, spokesperson for Green
Earth Media Group, no one
from Wallowa County previ-
ously has been picked as win-
ner from the state of Oregon
in a program where winners
from each state are awarded
$1,000 savings bonds.
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cabbage over any other plant
for the competition is simple:
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Plants sold in 1918 was the
cabbage.
Joseph FCCLA raising money for swing set
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New Jeans!
heart of
that’s fully handicapped-ac-
cessible.
Andrea will continue with
her project through Feb. 21,
when she will make anoth-
er presentation at this year’s
district wrestling tournament
being held in Enterprise.
Josi Coggins, currently a 4th grader at Enterprise Elementary
School, is photographed last summer with a cabbage she
grew that eventually led to a $1,000 scholarship for her.
Josi, daughter of Kim and Kreg Coggins of Enterprise, was
recently announced as the 2014 Oregon State Winner of the
national Bonnie Plants’ 3rd Grade Cabbage Program. Her
cabbage weighed 21 pounds!
project to raise money to pur-
chase and install a set of com-
mercial grade swings for the
playground at Joseph Charter
School, which doesn’t have a
swing set.
Satori Albee and Isabelle
Tinglestad, FCCLA chapter
president and vice president,
are leading the fundraising
efforts. They have researched
different product options and
discussed safety and logistic
factors with school admin-
istration and have selected
an eight-swing unit that they
hope to install this spring.
The cost of the project will
run approximately $3,500.
The chapter has already con-
tributed over $700 and is or-
ganizing several more fund-
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swings. In March they will
host a “Kids Night Out” at
the school where elementa-
ry students will be invited to
come for an evening of food,
games and activities. Addi-
tionally, they are organizing
a challenge for elementary
classrooms to encourage the
students to help raise money
for their playground through
read-a-thons, bake sales and
other projects.
Albee and Tinglestad are
also asking the community
to donate towards this effort.
Donations can be dropped off
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“ Playground Project”, Joseph
Charter School, P.O. Box 787,
Joseph, OR 97846. All do-
nations are tax-deductible.
Anyone with questions about
the project can contact chap-
ter advisor, Marla Dotson,
at 541-432-7311 or email at
marla.dotson@staff.joseph-
charter.org.
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The pattern used is easi-
ly recognizable to our pilots.
The people in Imnaha really
stepped up and improved our
response plan.”
A humble Shari Warnock
downplays her own role, say-
ing that more people worked
harder and put more time into
the project than she did. She
thinks they deserve recogni-
tion. She also said, “It’s re-
ally nice when we come up
with a plan where we can help
ourselves. We know if the
helicopter comes in here it is
usually a family member or a
really good friend who needs
help.”
In addition to the individ-
uals already mentioned in this
article, helpers in the project
included Ken Stein and Ed
Grover from Imnaha, Stangel
Industries, the Hi-Lo Ranch,
Corey Miller Fencing (pro-
viding help with the weld-
ing), Banes Electrical, Joseph
Hardware, and anonymous
donors who deposited money
into a can at the Imnaha Store
and Tavern.