A2 — THE OBSERVER
LOCAL
TODAY
Volunteers take part in Cove trail maintenance to mark Earth Day
In 1607, English colonists
went ashore at present-day Cape
Henry, Virginia, on an expedition
to establish the first permanent
English settlement in the Western
Hemisphere.
In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the
assassin of President Abraham Lin-
coln, was surrounded by federal
troops near Port Royal, Virginia,
and killed.
In 1913, Mary Phagan, a
13-year-old worker at a Georgia
pencil factory, was strangled; Leo
Frank, the factory superintendent,
was convicted of her murder and
sentenced to death. (Frank’s death
sentence was commuted, but he
was lynched by an anti-Semitic
mob in 1915.)
In 1933, Nazi Germany’s infa-
mous secret police, the Gestapo,
was created.
In 1964, the African nations of
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged
to form Tanzania.
In 1968, the United States
exploded beneath the Nevada
desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear
device called “Boxcar.”
In 1977, the legendary nightclub
Studio 54 had its opening night in
New York.
In 1984, bandleader Count
Basie, 79, died in Hollywood,
Florida.
In 1986, an explosion and fire
at the Chernobyl nuclear power
plant in Ukraine caused radioac-
tive fallout to begin spewing into
the atmosphere. (Dozens of people
were killed in the immediate after-
math of the disaster while the
long-term death toll from radiation
poisoning is believed to number in
the thousands.)
In 1994, voting began in South
Africa’s first all-race elections,
resulting in victory for the African
National Congress and the inau-
guration of Nelson Mandela as
president.
In 2000, Vermont Gov. Howard
Dean signed the nation’s first bill
allowing same-sex couples to form
civil unions.
In 2009, the United States
declared a public health emer-
gency as more possible cases of
swine flu surfaced from Canada to
New Zealand; officials in Mexico
City closed everything from
concerts to sports matches to
churches in an effort to stem the
spread of the virus.
In 2018, comedian Bill Cosby
was convicted of drugging and
molesting Temple University
employee Andrea Constand at
his suburban Philadelphia man-
sion in 2004. (Cosby was later
sentenced to three to 10 years in
prison, but Pennsylvania’s highest
court threw out the conviction and
released him from prison in June
2021, ruling that the prosecutor in
the case was bound by his prede-
cessor’s agreement not to charge
Cosby.)
Today’s Birthdays: Actor-co-
median Carol Burnett is 89. R&B
singer Maurice Williams is 84.
Songwriter-musician Duane Eddy
is 84. Rock musician Gary Wright
is 79. Actor Nancy Lenehan is 69.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito is 64.
Rock musician Roger Taylor (Duran
Duran) is 62. Actor Joan Chen is
61. Rock musician Chris Mars is 61.
Actor-singer Michael Damian is 60.
Actor Jet Li (lee) is 59. Actor-come-
dian Kevin James is 57. Author and
former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha
Trethewey is 56. Actor Mari-
anne Jean-Baptiste is 55. Rapper
T-Boz (TLC) is 52. Former first lady
Melania Trump is 52. Actor Shon-
drella Avery is 51. Actor Simbi
Kali is 51. Country musician Jay
DeMarcus (Rascal Flatts) is 51. Rock
musician Jose Pasillas (Incubus)
is 46. Actor Nyambi Nyambi is 43.
Actor Jordana Brewster is 42. Actor
Channing Tatum is 42. Americana/
roots singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt
is 38. Actor Emily Wickersham is 38.
Actor Aaron Meeks is 36. Electro
pop musician James Sunderland
(Frenship) is 35. New York Yankees
outfielder Aaron Judge is 30.
LOTTERY
Friday, April 22, 2022
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Powerball
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power play: 3
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1 p.m.: 9-9-5-7
4 p.m.: 1-7-5-7
7 p.m.: 5-5-0-5
10 p.m.: 0-6-5-3
TuESday, apRil 26, 2022
Local
stockgrowers
to host Lane
County group
County votes to help
fund agritourism effort
By BILL BRADSHAW
Wallowa County Chieftain
Volunteers Meadow Fossek, above
left, and Heidi VanSchoonhoven
dig up invasive plants during the
Cove Community Association Earth
Day cleanup event on Saturday,
April 23, 2022. A group of about
20 volunteers picked up trash and
removed invasive plants from the
Tish Croom Nature Trail next to
the Cove Ascension School. Native
plants, right, are protected from
wildlife by metal fencing along the
roughly 1-mile loop walking trail.
The large field and surrounding
walking path are part of a larger
effort to restore the area to its
once thriving role as a growing and
gathering spot for tribal first foods
such as greens, berries, seeds,
fruits, nuts and fish. The riparian
area served as a gathering site for
Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and
Nez Perce tribes.
photos by davis Carbaugh/The Observer
WALLOWA COUNTY
Main Street Program plans regional effort May 4-5
Event to include walking tour through
Wallowa County communities
structure for collaborative
efforts to increase livability
ENTERPRISE — A
and maintain vibrancy of
series of walking tours,
small rural towns.
conversations and a county-
The Northeast Oregon
wide public meeting
Economic Development
Wednesday, May 4, and
District and the Wallowa
Thursday, May 5,
County Chamber of
will explore the pos-
Commerce are con-
ducting outreach and
sibility of estab-
lishing a Regional
hosting activities
Main Street Program
to explore the fea-
sibility of a such a
for Wallowa County,
program in Wallowa
according to a press
Stuart
County, bringing all
release.
the county’s com-
The event will
munities that choose to
be led by Sheri Stuart,
participate together to
manager of the Oregon
partner in statewide pro-
Main Street Program, that
grams with a single entity
includes support for his-
toric preservation, new
managing the program for
businesses and downtown
all.
improvements; access to
“We’re starting con-
versations with business
special funding; and a
Wallowa County Chieftain
owners, nonprofits and
community members to
gauge interest and learn
about the types of projects
people want to support in
their communities,” said
Lisa Dawson, executive
director at NEOEDD. “We
hope to hear from everyone
who likes to support their
hometown, including busi-
ness owners, people new to
the community and younger
residents.”
Those interested may
participate in several ways:
• Take an online survey
at www.neoedd.org/wal-
lowa-county-main-street/
to share information about
plans, challenges and ideas
for your business and/or
community.
• Join a walking tour
with Stuart, NEOEDD staff
and community members
May 4 in Enterprise starting
at City Hall at 9 a.m., at
MORE INFORMATION
To learn more about a poten-
tial Regional Main Street Pro-
gram in Wallowa County,
contact Chantal Ivenso at
chantalivenso@neoedd.org or
541-426-3598.
Wallowa Lake starting at
Wallowa Lake Lodge at
1 p.m. or in Joseph at 1 p.m.
at City Hall.
On May 5, walking tours
will be in Lostine at 11 a.m.
at City Hall and in Wallowa
at 1 p.m. at City Hall.
• Attend a countywide
public meeting at 7 p.m.
May 5 at the Southfork
Grange on Rosewell Street
in Lostine.
• Request an interview
with the NEOEDD and
answer a few questions
about your interests and
projects.
NEWS BRIEFS
Umatilla National Forest
to conduct invasive plant
treatments in late April
PENDLETON — The Umatilla
National Forest is set to begin con-
ducting invasive plant treatments in
late April.
The treatment process aims to pre-
vent the expansion of invasive species
throughout the forest and is expected
to last through October, according to
the Forest Service.
A statement from Forest Integrated
Vegetation Staff Officer Richie Gar-
nder said the treatments will include
primarily spot application through
truck sprayers, backpack sprayers and
utility task vehicles.
The targeted treatment sites are
scattered across the Umatilla National
Forest. Herbicide treatments are set to
be marked on the ground during the
time of treatment. A full map of pro-
posed treatment sites is located on the
Umatilla National Forest website.
The herbicides set to be used in the
treatments are aminopyralid, chlor-
sulfuron, clopyralid, imazapic, met-
sulfuron methyl and picloram. Typ-
ical invasive species targeted in the
treatment include common crupina,
yellow starthistle, sulphur cinque-
foil, dalmatian toadflax and hound’s
tongue.
The treatment process has been
ongoing over time, with the work
implemented under the 2010 deci-
sion for invasive species treatment
project and the forest plan amended
by the Pacific Northwest Region 2005
decision for preventing and man-
aging invasive plants. The Forest Ser-
vice is partnering with weed boards
in Oregon and Washington as well as
the Oregon Department of Agricul-
ture and Wallowa resources.
Introduction to native
languages offered
JOSEPH — A virtual lecture as an
introduction to Nez Perce and other
Sahaptin languages will be held Sat-
urday, May 14, from 9:30-11:30 a.m.
presented by the Josephy Center for
Arts and Culture, according to a press
release.
Angel Sobotta will conduct the lec-
ture. She is a Nez Perce mother, dancer,
language instructor and PhD student at
the University of Idaho.
A Nez Perce language program app
is available on your phone. The cost of
the lecture is $30.
This interactive lecture will cover:
• Nez Perce and other Sahaptin lan-
guages: How close are they? What
do they share or what makes them
different?
• Accepted linguistic spellings and
pronunciations so that we can follow
words on maps, words that come up in
tribal papers, etc.
• Common greetings and place
names, especially names of places in
Oregon and Idaho.
• Family names — how are they
passed down and carried on? What
names can a family choose from? Are
native names used more now than in
previous decades?
• Next steps for those who want to
really learn the language.
To register, contact Cheryl Coughlan
at the center at 541-432-0505, by email
at director@josephy.org or stop in at
403 N. Main St. in Joseph.
La Grande man arrested on
multiple rape charges
LA GRANDE — La Grande police
last week arrested a 19-year-old man on
30 counts of sex crimes.
The arrest of Joel Phoenix Rogers
occurred without incident Friday, April
22, at about 8:43 p.m. on the 2000 block
of Jacob Street, La Grande, two days after
a grand jury handed up the indictment
that promoted a warrant for his capture.
Police booked Rogers in the Union
County Jail on the following: three
counts of first-degree rape; five counts
of second-degree rape; two counts of
strangulation; three counts of first-de-
gree sex abuse; five counts of sec-
ond-degree sex abuse; two counts of
first-degree sodomy; four counts of
luring a minor; four counts of using a
child in a display of sexually explicit
conduct; and two counts of attempted
third-degree sodomy.
Bail for Rogers has been set at
$300,000, according to a press release
from the Union County Sheriff’s Office.
The Union County Circuit Court
appointed lawyer Jared Boyd, of La
Grande, to serve as Rogers’ defense
attorney.
The state alleges Rogers committed
the crimes between July 1 and Nov. 18,
2021, according to Union County Cir-
cuit Court documents. The victim was
a juvenile.
— EO Media Group
ENTERPRISE —
The Wallowa County
Stockgrowers Associ-
ation plans to host an
“exchange” with their
counterparts from Lane
County next month, and
the county commis-
sioners voted Wednesday,
April 20, to help fund it.
“Twenty years ago, the
Lane County cattlemen
came up here and had a
tour with the Wallowa
County Stockgrowers
Association and they had
a good time,” said Com-
missioner Todd Nash,
who is a rancher.
He said he met with a
representative of the Lane
County group to discuss
the possibility of doing it
again.
“At first blush, he said
that probably 80 people
would come,” Nash
said. “Now he thinks it’s
somewhere between 20
and 40. Maybe fuel prices
had something to do with
that, I’m not sure, but at
any rate, they want to
come up here again. He’s
been coordinating with
the stockgrowers leader-
ship there and they are
interested in coming up.”
The commissioners
agreed to grant $1,620 to
help pay for bus transpor-
tation to take the group
— both Lane County
stockgrowers and locals
who wish to attend — to
various sites around the
county.
“We’ve encouraged
people from this area to
come along,” Nash said.
He said the plan is for
the Lane County group to
arrive May 20. The next
day, there will be a break-
fast at the Cloverleaf
Hall in Enterprise, sack
lunches for the bus tour
and a steak dinner that
evening at the Cloverleaf.
The tour will visit the
Zumwalt Prairie where
the discussion will focus
on rangeland grazing
there. Then, they’ll head
for Buckhorn Lookout
where they can view the
Imnaha Canyon lands
and hear about ranching
there. The tour will con-
clude with a stop at the
Dorrance barn on Crow
Creek where they’ll hear
from a member of the
Dorrance family who
will talk about his family
and some of their history
in the area.
“It should be a really
wonderful day,” Nash
said. “We’ll have a sack
lunch to go on the bus
and a steak dinner at the
Cloverleaf that night and
all for the low-budget
price of $70.”
Commission Chair
Susan Roberts recom-
mended the funds come
out of the county’s Eco-
nomic Development Fund
since the tour promotes
economic development
in the county, as the Lane
County group will take
advantage of restaurants
and motels here.
Nash said providing
the funds for the bus
transportation falls right
in with encouraging local
agritourism.
“Agritourism is talked
about a lot, but it’s rarely
supported, so this is a
way to support that, and
maybe we can do more in
the future,” he said.
AGRITOURISM
Anyone interested in par-
ticipating in the Wallowa
County agritourism tour is
urged to RSVP by May 15
to OSU Extension/Wallowa
County Stockgrowers at 668
NW First St., Enterprise, by
phone at 541-426-3143 or
by email at Peter.Schreder@
oregonstate.edu.