BUSINESS & AG LIFE
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020
BRIEFS
enjoy some limited socialization,
she said.
The following week will be
Enterprise’s turn.
“This will give local eateries a
shot in the arm mid-week even if
it’s just a soda pop to enjoy while
watching cars go by,” she said.
“Buy a little bit of fuel from the
fi lling stations, park on Main Street
— skip a spot to keep our dis-
tancing — and enjoy your dinner
while watching some cool rides.”
Winn wrote there will be a
dedicated page on Facebook with
updates on cruise night.
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continue to operate the Oregon
Coast branch at Bay City and
Wheeler. The Metlens also
founded the Vance Creek Rail-
riders near Shelton, Washington.
The Joseph Branch Railrider
headquarters is at 501 W. Alder
St., Joseph. For more information,
visit jbrailriders.com.
Dinner cruise a chance
to get out, support
businesses
WALLOWA COUNTY —
Inspiration from Wup Winn’s
Facebook post has led to the
Wallowa County Dinner Cruise
Night to help locals get out after
being shut in during the corona-
virus pandemic and to help local
businesses.
Tuesday was Wallowa’s turn for
the dinner cruise. The plan is to
do it next week — Tuesday, May
19 — starting in Joseph, according
to co-organizer Laina Fisher. Par-
ticipants are urged to call ahead to
their favorite restaurant to order
a meal or snacks at a store from
6 to 8 p.m. Pick up your order and
Terminal Gravity gives to
help food bank
MENTORS
share the space, and I paid him $2
out of the $10 I charged,” Johnson
said.
He admitted to not being
above bribes of free sodas and
snacks and also shared the chal-
lenge of being in the shop when
the powder was fresh and his
friends were out on the slopes.
“That was the hardest part for
me,” he said.
Enterprise senior Zion Mark
created “High Quality Cow
Hides,” which he sold in his
mother’s Joseph Main Street bou-
tique, To Zion. Mark said the
experience helped him learn
how to read customers’ cues to
improve sales techniques.
The program’s mission is
to get more teens interested in
business and entrepreneurship
as a career and educational path
so they can create economic
opportunity for themselves and
others, preferably in Wallowa
County.
“My favorite session was when
Natalie Millar (general manager
of Terminal Gravity Brewing,
Enterprise) came and talked
about accounting,” Aubrina Mel-
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attendance, participation and
going the extra mile for the
program was shared between
Katrina Haines and Aubrina Mel-
ville, both juniors at Enterprise
High School.
“These two were always the
fi rst to show up for class and
helped me get set up,” Green
said. “They had near perfect
attendance and both stepped up
in other ways, Aubrina to help
lead the pizza ticket fundraiser
and Katrina by selling the most
tickets.”
Of nine entrepreneurs who
began the program in September,
six completed, developing their
own business idea, launching and
learning along the way.
Wesley Johnson, a senior
at Enterprise, founded “Wal-
lowa County Ski and Snowboard
Wax,” and could be seen at Fer-
guson Ridge Ski Area this winter,
working in the shop waxing skis
and snowboards.
“Charlie (Kissinger) let me
ENTERPRISE — Terminal
Gravity Brewery & Pub is
donating 1% of all packaged beer
sales to the Wallowa County Food
Bank during May, said Grady
Nelson, TG’s marketing manager.
“The reason is our community
here in Wallowa County inspires
us and is really important to who
we are,” Nelson said in a press
release. “We want to do our part
to give back during these dif-
fi cult times, and say thank you
to everyone who has been sup-
porting us.”
Proceeds from six-packs — or
larger — sales at grocery stores,
liquor stores and other establish-
ments where TG’s beer is avail-
able will go to the food bank. Ter-
minal Gravity exports its beer
from the county to stores all
across Oregon, western Idaho and
southeastern Washington, Nelson
said.
Terminal gravity is open for
takeout from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Wednesday through Saturday.
La Grande, Baker City
employees among Banner
Bank’s best
LA GRANDE — Banner Bank
announced eight of its Eastern
Oregon Banner employees
received the Banner’s Best award,
representing the highest level of
recognition in the company.
Wallene Daggett, senior per-
sonal banker at the La Grande
branch, and Mary Jo Talbott,
senior teller at the Baker City
branch, received the award, along
with Bibiana Cisneros and Blanca
Maldonado, tellers at the Umatilla
branch; Randi Garrett, assistant
vice president and branch man-
ager, Umatilla/Boardman/Stan-
fi eld branches; Steve Campbell,
THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD — 3B
vice president and senior relation-
ship manager, Eastern Oregon
Commercial Banking; Cristina
Aguilar and Liz Nunez, tellers at
the Boardman branch.
The bank in a press release
reported the award recognizes
employees for surpassing their
individual professional goals in
2019, demonstrating excellence
within their professions and exem-
plifying outstanding service.
“During challenging times,
and perhaps especially during
such times, it’s important to
honor those who exemplify our
value proposition of being con-
nected, knowledgeable, respon-
sive,” said Mark Grescovich,
Banner Bank president and CEO,
in a press release. “It is my plea-
sure to recognize our Banner’s
Best employees for delivering out-
standing service to our clients,
communities and one another.”
Fewer than 4% of all Banner
employees receive the award.
For 130 years, Banner Bank
has been offering a wide variety
of fi nancial services and prod-
ucts to individuals and small- and
medium-sized businesses. To
learn more, visit Banner Bank at
www.bannerbank.com.
Online roundtable
addresses remote
decision-making
ENTERPRISE — The North-
east Oregon Economic Develop-
ment District is inviting nonprofi t
leaders to the next roundtable dis-
cussion about the value of diver-
sity, equity and inclusion.
The online event runs from
9 a.m. to noon June
3; cost to attend is
$5 per person. Par-
ticipants will need
a computer with
internet, video and
James
audio. Register at
https://bit.ly/2zksKPa.
The online roundtable, led by
Alexis James, is entitled “Estab-
lishing and Maintaining Trust:
How to Connect and Speak up in
Virtual Spaces When Working
with Remote Decision-Making.”
Participants will identify
challenges to inclusive deci-
sion-making, and learn about
tools they can use to encourage
more equitable and innovative
practices. The online training
also will use a digital platform
that offers virtual “breakout”
rooms, allowing for small group
discussions.
Dam operators must make water temp control plan
Associated Press
LONGVIEW, Wash. — The
Washington state Department
of Ecology in an historic move
has required federal operators
of eight dams on in the Colum-
bia-Snake rivers to create a plan
to keep the waters cold enough
for adult salmon survival.
Conservation groups said
the “game-changing decision”
is needed to protect endangered
salmon species, which struggle
when river temperatures exceed
68 degrees. Hydropower propo-
nents said they are concerned
meeting the temperature stan-
dards could be unattainable
without costly rate hikes for
utility customers in hydropow-
er-reliant areas, The Daily News
reported.
“What this decision risks
doing is saying, ‘We are going
to regulate the temperature of
the river because there are dams
there.’ But the reality is even
without the dams, those tempera-
tures could be the exact same,”
said Kurt Miller, executive
director of Northwest River Part-
ners, a group of utility districts,
ports and businesses.
Ecology last week issued
Clean Water Act 401 Certifi ca-
tions for Bonneville, John Day,
McNary and The Dalles dams
on the Lower Columbia River
and for Little Goose, Ice Harbor,
Lower Granite and Lower Mon-
umental on the Lower Snake
River.
The certifi cation enables
Ecology to work with federal
dam operators to review studies
and plans for meeting the state’s
water quality standards, which
include a rule to keep river tem-
peratures below 68 degrees.
The goal is to keep the water
cool enough for adult salmon to
survive their migration through
the river to spawning habitat.
“Society is doing a lot of
work restoring tributaries for
spawning ... which is all really
important. But if the river is too
hot for adult salmon to migrate
up, we have a huge problem,”
said Brett VandenHeuvel, execu-
tive director for Columbia River-
keeper, a Hood River-based con-
servation group. He added that
parts of the Columbia River rou-
tinely reach 72 degrees.
Most dams are certifi ed when
they receive their operating
license. But the dams were built
before the rules were in place, so
the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers, which operates the federal
dams, has been operating them
without the certifi cations.
Riverkeeper opened an oppor-
tunity for certifi cation with a
2013 lawsuit that required the
Corps to seek oil discharge
permits from the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency.
Before the EPA could issue the
permit, it had to make sure it met
state standards.
“This is the fi rst federal action
that has prompted the state’s cer-
tifi cation requirements, so it’s
been our fi rst opportunity to look
at the dams and put these cer-
tifi cations in place,” said Vince
McGowan, Ecology’s water
quality program manager.
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