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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2022
TODAY
In 1712, Pennsylvania’s colonial
assembly voted to ban the further
importation of slaves.
In 1776, Richard Henry Lee of
Virginia off ered a resolution to
the Continental Congress stating,
“That these United Colonies are,
and of right ought to be, free and
independent States.”
In 1848, French painter and
sculptor Paul Gauguin was born
in Paris.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a “Creole
of color,” was arrested for refusing
to leave a whites-only car of the
East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling
on his case, the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld “separate but equal”
racial segregation, a concept it
renounced in 1954.)
In 1929, the sovereign state of
Vatican City came into existence as
copies of the Lateran Treaty were
exchanged in Rome.
In 1942, the Battle of Midway
ended in a decisive victory for
American naval forces over Impe-
rial Japan, marking a turning point
in the Pacifi c War.
In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court,
in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck
down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used
to prosecute a Planned Parent-
hood clinic in New Haven for pro-
viding contraceptives to married
couples.
In 1967, author-critic Dorothy
Parker, famed for her caustic wit,
died in New York at age 73.
In 1981, Israeli military planes
destroyed a nuclear power plant in
Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged
could have been used to make
nuclear weapons.
In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that religious groups could
sometimes meet on school prop-
erty after hours. Ground was
broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in Cleveland.
In 1998, in a crime that
shocked the nation, James Byrd
Jr., a 49-year-old Black man, was
hooked by a chain to a pickup
truck and dragged to his death
in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men
were later sentenced to death; one
of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer,
was executed in 2011, and the
other, John William King, was exe-
cuted in April 2019. A third defen-
dant received life with the possi-
bility of parole.)
In 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq, was
killed by a U.S. airstrike on his safe
house. The U.S. Senate rejected a
constitutional amendment to ban
gay marriage.
In 2016, Democrat Hillary
Clinton and Republican Donald
Trump claimed their parties’ pres-
idential nominations following
contests in New Jersey, California,
Montana, New Mexico, North
Dakota and South Dakota.
Today’s birthdays: Movie
director James Ivory is 94. Actor
Virginia McKenna is 91. Singer
Tom Jones is 82. Former talk show
host Jenny Jones is 76. Actor Liam
Neeson is 70. Actor Colleen Camp
is 69. Author Louise Erdrich is
68. Actor William Forsythe is 67.
Record producer L.A. Reid is 66.
Latin pop singer Juan Luis Guerra
is 65. Former Vice President Mike
Pence is 63. Rock singer-musi-
cian Gordon Gano (The Violent
Femmes) is 59. Rock musician Eric
Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) is 56.
Rock musician Dave Navarro is
55. Actor Helen Baxendale is 52.
TV personality Bear Grylls is 48.
Rock musician Eric Johnson (The
Shins) is 46. Actor Adrienne Frantz
is 44. Actor-comedian Bill Hader
is 44. Former tennis player Anna
Kournikova is 41. Actor Michael
Cera is 34. Actor Shelley Buckner is
33. Rapper Iggy Azalea is 32. Actor-
model Emily Ratajkowski is 31.
CORRECTIONS
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Union High School graduates 18 seniors
By ISABELLA CROWLEY • The Observer
T
Photos by Isabella Crowley/The Observer
ABOVE: Students come together to sing their alma mater at the Union High School graduation at the Union
Athletic Complex on Saturday, June 4, 2022. AT TOP: Students toss their caps at Saturday’s ceremony.
Wallowa Resources
outdoor youth programs
resume in-person activities
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE — Outdoor
in-person educational program-
ming is back. Wallowa Resources
Youth Stewardship Program has
had a busy spring with Friday
WREN (Wallowa Resources
Exploration of Nature) Science
Adventures and a return to outdoor
school for every sixth grader in
Wallowa County.
Despite some snowy days, the
kids have had a blast learning
outside, according to Wallowa
Resources. The last few years have
made running programs as usual
challenging, so the youth educa-
tion staff are thrilled to be back
up and serving the county’s youth
and schools with free in-person
programs that get kids outside
exploring nature.
This spring Wallowa Resources
had seven full-day Friday Science
WREN classes that took local fi fth
through eighth graders out into the
county’s landscape to learn about
diff erent natural science and place-
based topics. Big highlights were
the Birds of Prey lesson where
youth got up close and personal
with some falcons and herpetology
exploration, which included fi nding
frogs, snakes and turtles at local
ponds.
Wallowa Resources facilitated
three weeks of outdoor school
serving all fourth through sixth
graders at Joseph Charter School
and each sixth grade class from
Enterprise and Wallowa.
Outdoor school was held at Wal-
lowa Lake State Park, where stu-
“We can’t stress enough
how excited we are to be
able to be running full,
in-person programs
again, and to have a
full summer of outdoor
programming planned to
teach our youth.”
— Lindsay Miller, Wallowa Resources,
youth education manager
dents learned about salmon migra-
tion, soil science, forest structure
and tree identifi cation, animals and
survival skills. Staff also facili-
tated one day of outdoor program-
ming for a class of fi fth graders
from the neighboring town of
Halfway.
“We can’t stress enough how
excited we are to be able to be
running full, in-person programs
again, and to have a full summer
of outdoor programming planned
to teach our youth,” said Lindsay
Miller, youth education manager
for Wallowa Resources. “Not only
in our own programs, but also
working with our school districts
and other camps to deliver the best
possible experience for our coun-
ty’s kids.”
For more information about
programs or upcoming classes,
visit www.wallowaresources.org
/education or contact Miller
at 541-426-8053 or lindsay@
wallowaresources.org.
NEWS BRIEF
County commissioners to
meet about moving border
LA GRANDE — The Union
County Board of Commissioners
will meet at 6 p.m. on Wednesday,
June 8, for the purpose of complying
with Ballot Measure 31-101.
The measure, which Union
County voters approved in 2020,
requires the board of county com-
missioners to hold public meetings
to discuss a proposal to make the
county part of a new state, which
would be named Greater Idaho.
The meeting, which will be held
in the Joseph Building, 1106 K Ave.,
La Grande, is open to public atten-
dance with online meeting par-
ticipation available at https://bit.
ly/3GNp9I7.
The meeting agenda is available
at https://bit.ly/3MdYi9l.
For more information contact
Allison Moore, senior department
specialist, amoore@unioncounty.org.
— The Observer
he members of the Union High
School Class of 2022 celebrated
their graduation at the Union Ath-
letic Complex on Saturday, June 4, 2022.
The class included 18 seniors, many
of whom received multiple awards and
scholarships.
Audrey Hill was named the class vale-
dictorian and Audrey Wells was the
salutatorian. Callie Glenn, Hill, Kaylin
Nowak and Wells graduated with honors
diplomas and received recognition from
the national honor society. Jenna Sypher
graduated with an honors diploma.
In spite of the rainy weather, the grad-
uating seniors were in high spirits. They
closed out the ceremony with a bang, pop-
ping confetti cannons before tossing their
caps and singing the school’s alma mater.
Wallowa students
help with projects
in their community
By JEFF BUDLONG
Wallowa County Chieftain
WALLOWA — Students in
the Wallowa School District have
spent the school year learning
from a variety of sources, but as
it draws to a close they took a dif-
ferent approach — a hands-on
approach.
Students began working the
morning on Friday, June 3, and
spent a couple of hours doing
various projects to help the com-
munity. One of the projects was
planting a garden at the Wallowa
River House, an 11-bed residen-
tial treatment facility for indi-
viduals with severe physical and
mental health issues.
“We are planting a garden,”
said Brandy Bronson, a fourth
grade teacher. “A former resident
at the River House passed away
and there is an area fi lled with
wildfl owers, so we are going to
repaint the sign there and clean
it up.”
The community garden will
be directly behind the space dedi-
cated to former longtime resident
Doug Yarger, which will allow
for a partnership with the Wal-
lowa River House. In addition
to cleaning up the fl owers, stu-
dents will repaint a sign that says,
“Doug’s Garden.”
Students planted a variety of
fruits and vegetables that will be
monitored and eventually used
throughout the summer and fall.
Seeds and plants were donated
by the Oregon State University
Extension Service and a nursery
for the project.
“I wanted to see the garden
project get up and going, and I
am also doing our summer school
program,” Bronson said. “Ann
Bloom with Extension is going
to come down to help us care for
the garden, talk about the fruits
and vegetables and provide some
nutrition lessons.”
The project also allows older
students to lead and work with
younger ones to make sure tasks
are done while taking ownership
in the work.
Bronson hopes her next class
of fourth graders will harvest the
bounty of the garden in the fall. It
“We are planting
a garden. A former
resident at the River
House passed away and
there is an area fi lled
with wildfl owers, so we
are going to repaint the
sign there and clean
it up.”
— Brandy Bronson, fourth grade
teacher, Wallowa School District
is a learning lesson from plant to
pick, Bronson said. In the future,
she would like high school stu-
dents to build and donate some
raised beds that can be used at the
garden site on an annual basis.
The garden wasn’t the only
project students took part in. Stu-
dents also took on cleaning up
Evans Park in Wallowa.
Bronson said working on proj-
ects is an important way students
can give back to the community,
but it also strengthens the bond
between the community and the
school. It often leads to new part-
nerships and benefi ts for both
sides.
The work being done high-
lights the theme of community
and service that has been the
focus of the last month of classes.
The theme at the beginning and
end of each school year incorpo-
rates all the students in the Wal-
lowa School District. Students
are broken into family groups and
have readings and activities that
highlight the theme.
“Family groups consist of a
couple of adults and then a cross
group of diff erent aged students,”
Bronson said. “Our sixth graders
usually become the leaders, and
we are trying to build a com-
munity within our school so the
kids are familiarizing themselves
with other students from other
grades.”
It instills leadership qualities
in the older students and you see
how some of the younger students
who may not be as confi dent can
lean on them, Bronson said.