RECORDS AND MORE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2020
COMMUNITY
Meetings
• LA GRANDE — The La
Grande Planning Commis-
sion meets Tuesday, Sept.
8, at 6 p.m. The agenda lists
public hearings on conditional
use permits. The meeting will
be held by electronic com-
munication. To listen to the
meeting or give public com-
ment on agenda items, call
253-215-8782 (meeting ID 895
5777 4409, password 424419.
Public comment may also be
submitted by emailing mbo-
quist@cityofl agrande.org
prior to the meeting.
• LA GRANDE — The La
Grande Rural Fire Protection
District meets Tuesday, Sept.
8, at 6 p.m. at the fi re hall in
Island City.
• UNION — The Union Soil
and Water Conservation Dis-
trict board meets Wednesday,
Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. via phone.
Go to unionswcd.org to view
the call-in details. Agenda
includes monthly fi nancial
statements, staff reports and
partner agency reports.
Briefs
Celebrate La Grande
goes on — on wheels
LA GRANDE — The 25th
annual Celebrate La Grande
Community End-of-Summer
Block Party will go on this
year — with a twist. The free
celebration will be a socially
distanced drive-thru party
held at the Union County
Fairgrounds Thursday, Sept.
10, from 5-7 p.m.
Come in your vehicle,
wear a mask and take advan-
tage of free hot dogs, bottled
water, ice cream, chips and
crafts for kids. All items will
be individually wrapped and
handed to you by volunteers.
Cove senior lunch
program begins again
COVE — The Cove senior
meal program is starting up
again this month. Meals will
now be in takeout containers
to be picked up in front of
the Founders Hall instead of
being served inside due to
the coronavirus pandemic.
The lunch will be ready
beginning at noon and can
be picked up until 1 p.m.
Enter the driveway in front
of Founders Hall on Church
Street from the north and
after picking up your meal
exit to the south. Patience
is requested as any kinks
are worked out for the new
procedure.
The menu for the fi rst
meal will be meatloaf, pota-
toes and gravy, green beans
and salad with applesauce
cake for dessert.
Those on the list will be
called beginning Monday,
Sept. 7. If you are not contact-
ed, sign up by calling Imie
Bristow at 541-568-4545.
Menus
Union County Senior
Center takeout lunches
Pickup 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. at 1504 N. Albany
St., La Grande. For delivery,
call 541-963-7532 before
10 a.m. Age 60+, $3 suggest-
ed donation; all others, $5.
SEPT. 7-11
Monday: closed, Labor Day
Tuesday: mac and cheese
with ham, garden salad,
sliced melon, bread, sherbet.
Wednesday: fried chicken,
mashed potatoes and gravy,
spinach salad, rolls, dessert.
Thursday: beef taco salad,
chips and salsa, fl an.
Friday: Mandarin orange
chicken with almonds, rice
pilaf, rolls, light dessert.
La Grande School
District free takeout
lunches
Pickup 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at Central, Greenwood or Is-
land City elementary schools,
La Grande. Free for age 18
and younger. School ID not
required. Includes 1% milk.
SEPT. 7-11
Monday: Labor Day, lunch
not served.
Tuesday: chicken and
cheese quesadilla, refried
beans, salad greens.
Wednesday: popcorn
chicken, dinner roll, mashed
potatoes and gravy, corn.
Thursday: turkey sub
sandwich, steamed carrots,
cucumber slices.
Friday: chicken Caesar
wrap, broccoli, red peppers.
THE OBSERVER — 3A
Program teaches teens how to run a business
By Katy Nesbitt
For the EO Media Group
ENTERPRISE — If
small business is the back-
bone of rural communi-
ties, the future lies in entre-
preneurship. For a decade,
Wallowa County teens have
had the opportunity to learn
how to run their own busi-
ness through the Mentor
Match program.
Marketing whiz Stacy
Green of Enterprise said
shortly after she moved
to Wallowa County in the
early 2000s she saw a mass
exodus of young families.
Meanwhile, her children’s
babysitters all wanted to
study early childhood edu-
cation, but Wallowa County
school enrollment was
plummeting and teachers
were being laid off.
“The message to teen-
agers was the place was
dying and it wasn’t going to
change,” she said.
When it came to careers,
Green said many youths
on a college path consid-
ered education, while others
looked into fi elds such as
health care, auto and truck
repair or beauty school.
Occasionally a kid would
look at becoming an engi-
neer, but no one was con-
sidering computer science,
business or marketing.
Yet local businesses
were looking for people
to fi ll human resources,
accounting, manage-
ment and sales positions.
It became evident, Green
said, that more teens needed
to get interested in busi-
ness and entrepreneurship
because that’s where most
of the career opportunities
in Wallowa County were.
“We need to change
what we say to kids, show
them what opportunities
are here and help them plug
into them,” she said.
The teens who have
completed Mentor Match
ranged from valedictorians
Photo contributed by Ashley Burton
Stacy Green of Enterprise developed a Mentor Match program for Wallowa County teen-
agers to learn how to run their own business.
PROGRAM DETAILS
• Mentor Match Youth kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 9,
at 6:30 p.m. with an introductory meeting at Building
Healthy Families, 207 Park St., Enterprise. The 10-month
program is restricted to 12 participants and all guidelines
for COVID-19 will be strictly followed. For more informa-
tion, call or text Green at 541-398-2314.
to those struggling academ-
ically. What Green said she
instills in them is there is a
whole world out there and
great opportunities if they
have a competitive spirit
and the ability to adapt.
Mentor Match does not
use grades, so it removes
that fear, and no theory
or business principles are
taught. Green said the
teens learn skills a busi-
ness or organization wants
to “buy.”
“We are trying to put
them in an experience of
owning and running their
PUBLIC SAFETY REPORT
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2
8:46 a.m. — A caller reported
vandalism to a vehicle on the
1400 block of Jackson Avenue,
La Grande. An offi cer respond-
ed and took a report.
10 a.m. — La Grande
police received a report of
possible child abuse. An offi cer
followed-up and passed the
information to Oregon Child
Protective Services.
3:15 p.m. — Multiple agen-
cies responded to a wildfi re off
the eastbound side of Interstate
84 near exit 259.
The Oregon Department
of Forestry reported crews
from the La Grande Rural Fire
Protection District, La Grande
Fire Department as well as
a team from the Wallowa
Whitman National Forest
assisted in extinguishing the
1/4-acre size blaze that burned
in grass and timber outside of
La Grande. The state forestry
department also reported
the cause of the fi re is under
investigation.
3:21 p.m. — The Union Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Offi ce received a
report of a residential burglary
on the 74500 block of Highway
82, Imbler.
4:13 p.m. — The Union Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Offi ce arrested Todd
Wayne Young, 61, for reckless
burning and felony failure to
report as a sex offender. State
court records show he has
convictions in the early 90s
for sexual abuse. The reckless
burning charge stems from
an allegation he used fi re to
damage Oregon Department of
Transportation Property the day
of the arrest.
8:17 p.m. — The Union Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Offi ce responded to
the 900 block of Brooks Road,
Imbler, on a report of a possible
assault and menacing. Deputies
arrived and determined the
problems were about a tres-
passing situation.
10:53 p.m. — La Grande
police responded to the 2200
block of Jacobs Avenue on a
report of vandalism. An offi cer
found people were playing
a game and said they would
clean up the mess when they
fi nished.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 3
7:32 a.m. — A caller reported
cattle were loose near milepost
8 on Highway 203, La Grande.
8:16 a.m. — A dog chasing
chickens on the 64900 block
of Sammyville Lane, Elgin,
prompted a complaint. The
caller said this was an ongoing
issue.
10:49 a.m. — A caller on the
500 block of Gale Street, Union,
reported speeding vehicles
were creating a hazard to
pedestrians.
2:59 p.m. — The Union
County Sheriff’s Offi ce received
a report about a burglary of
a garage on the 100 block of
South Third Street, Union.
5:05 p.m. — An ambulance
and law enforcement respond-
ed to the 500 block of Adams
Avenue, La Grande. Offi cers
and sheriff’s deputies assist-
ed medics. Police also took a
report for domestic violence.
5:50 p.m. — La Grande police
arrested Latarbria Alexandria
Ferguson, 29, of La Grande, for
unlawful use of a weapon and
second-degree assault.
7:16 p.m. — A La Grande
resident reported receiving an-
noying or obscene phone calls.
Police warned three people for
telephonic harassment.
10:21 p.m. — La Grande
police responded to the 1300
block of Eighth Street on a
report of a disturbance. An am-
bulance transported one person
at the scene to Grande Ronde
Hospital, La Grande.
own business so it will click
for them,” she said.
Green said in today’s
business climate, dom-
inated by restrictions in
place to slow the COVID-19
pandemic, adaptability is
essential.
“Adapting to changing
circumstances is a critical
skill needed to survive over
the long term and we teach
that by having the kids start
their own businesses,” she
said. “They learn they have
to deal with a situation or
obstacle by removing it or
adapting it.”
For instance, Green said,
when Mentor Match stu-
dents develop their busi-
ness ideas they have to keep
in mind barriers, such as
whether or not they can
drive or will have access to
a vehicle. Having to adapt is
a requirement for an entre-
preneur, Green said.
“I ask them, ‘How do
you pivot when things aren’t
working or you are hit with
a crazy situation?’”
When adaptive measures
don’t work, sometimes a
business completely fails.
Green said the teens learn
how to fail fast, fail forward
and fail successfully.
Failing fast, Green said,
is acknowledging some-
thing isn’t going to work.
Failing forward means
applying the experience to
the next effort. Failing suc-
cessfully means to keep
trying until a business
Man, child, dog
rescued after 48 hours
in Mount Hood ravine
Associated Press
MOUNT HOOD —
A man and his young
daughter, along with
their dog, were rescued
Thursday, Sept. 3, from a
ravine where the man had
been injured and stuck
for more than 48 hours
without supplies, offi cials
said.
Peter Munro, a
37-year-old Canby resi-
dent, had gone to Kinzel
Lake in the Mt. Hood
National Forest to set up
camp on Tuesday. Mun-
ro’s wife, Camille Munro,
arrived that evening, but
found the camp empty.
She fi gured the rest of
the family had gone for
a hike, but when no one
returned by Wednesday
morning, she began
searching and found
their truck at a nearby
trailhead.
Camille Munro called
911 and reported them
missing.
The Clackamas
County Sheriff’s Offi ce
dispatched a search-and-
rescue team and with
help from other rescue
teams including the Air
National Guard, people
scoured the remote ter-
rain overnight for any
sign of the child and her
father.
FAMILY
OWNED
Around 6 a.m.
Thursday, teams found
the lost hikers, along
with their dog Buck, in a
ravine. Peter Munro was
hurt and unable to walk.
They were found about
1,200 feet below where
they had begun hiking
roughly two days before.
Leila Munro and Buck
were uninjured.
Peter Munro was
strapped into a basket
and carried to a waiting
medical crew and trans-
ferred to a hospital, offi -
cials said.
Leila Munro and
Buck were reunited with
Camille Munro.
model works.
“Most people give up
and say, ‘I wasn’t cut out
to be an entrepreneur,’ “
Green said. “We help them
retrace their steps and teach
that failing is part of the
process.”
Showing the success of
the program, Green said
more than 30% of past par-
ticipants are back in Wal-
lowa County, most working
in the business community.
Shelby Graning Eggart
is a former Mentor Match
participant who owns her
own business, Roots Salon
in Joseph. She said the pro-
gram allowed her to be
creative.
“I learned that no matter
how big or small your busi-
ness is, it is stressful, it
takes a lot of planning and
hard work and determina-
tion to make your dream
a reality,” she said. “But
every second and action put
into it is worth it when you
get to see your name on the
business you created from
the ground up.”
As for starting her own
salon, she said Mentor
Match laid the foundation.
“I don’t think there is
anything more powerful
than knowing the ups and
downs in life have brought
you to becoming a busi-
ness owner due to lessons
learned and hard work, put-
ting in the time was defi -
nitely worth it,” she said.
The Wallowa County
Mentor Match program
will be in-person this year,
but the isolation due to the
pandemic and dependence
on the internet prompted
Green to develop an online
version for other counties
to use.
“The internet is how
information is being deliv-
ered,” she said. “The virus
forced me to adapt and
quickly. I think it will per-
manently alter the way we
do business.”
Upcoming
local
services
Please follow
guidelines regarding
face coverings and
social distancing at all
services.
Sept. 5 — CAMILLE
HAWKINS: 11 a.m. grave-
side service, Hillcrest Cem-
etery, La Grande; watch
the livestream at www.
lovelandfuneralchapel.
com (click on “Funeral
Videos” near bottom of
home page).
Sept. 5 — JOY SMITH:
5 p.m. graveside service,
Summerville Cemetery.
— Calendar courtesy
of Loveland Funeral
Chapel, La Grande
Reg Coalwell
1939-2017
I miss the beautiful life
we had together
As life without you,
is no life at all.
Til we meet again,
My Love.
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