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Saturday, October 7, 2017
East Oregonian
Crow’s Shadow gets governor’s
award during its 25th anniversary
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
It’s a joke among the staff
and board members of the
Crow’s Shadow Institute of
the Arts that it’s a cutting-
edge art studio in the middle
of a wheat field.
Regardless of its location,
the Umatilla Indian Reser-
vation-based
printmaking
and indigenous studio has
received high praise from the
state.
Crow’s Shadow received
the Governor’s Arts Award
in Portland Friday, capping a
year where the art studio also
celebrated its 25th anniver-
sary.
In a press release, the
governor’s office recognized
Crow’s Shadow for its ability
to “provide a creative conduit
for educational, social and
economic opportunities for
Native Americans through
artistic development.”
Already knowing that
they had been nominated,
Crow’s Shadow Executive
Director Karl Davis said it
wasn’t a complete surprise
when staff got the call that
the studio had received the
prize. But it was still an
honor for the institute on its
silver anniversary, especially
since it was the first time the
award has been bestowed on
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Nixyaawii student Tyanna Broncheau rolls out ink in preparation to make a print in
May 2017 at the Crow Shadow Institute for the Arts outside of Mission.
anyone in 10 years.
Pat Walters, a founding
board member, said the award
did mean something specific
to Crow’s Shadow: respect.
“I think it says a lot about
our little organization in the
middle of nowhere,” she
said.
By
Walters’
own
admission,
the
board,
which includes renowned
printmaker James Lavadour,
didn’t always know what
it was doing when Crow’s
Shadow started in 1992.
Walters said it took
Crow’s Shadow until 2000
to establish printmaking
as a core part of its identity
while still maintaining the
American Indian art tradition
it was founded on.
Their refocused identity
seems to have paid off. Today,
Crow’s Shadow employs
an executive director, a
marketing director, a master
printer and provides an artist
in residency program, youth
outreach, indigenous art
workshops and more.
Although Crow’s Shadow
may have come a long way
since its early days, there are
still new things set for the art
institute.
Walters said the board
has discussed a new facility
for the art studio for the past
year, although an exact loca-
tion is yet to be determined.
FFA, Les Schwab work to ‘Drive Away Hunger’
East Oregonian
Oregon FFA and Les
Schwab Tire Centers are
once again partnering on
an initiative to combat
hunger statewide, collecting
food donations from local
communities as part of the
“Drive Away Hunger” event
during the month of October.
This year, more than 6,000
FFA members from 105
chapters have partnered with
107 Les Schwab stores in
Oregon, as well as 13 Wilco
Farm Stores, to help supply
the Oregon Food Bank with
much-needed
donations.
Last year’s event raised
more than 500,000 pounds
of food, which is enough to
feed 4,960 families for nearly
a week.
Since 2008, the Oregon
Food Bank has seen demand
for emergency food boxes
increase by 40 percent. Kevin
White, executive director of
the Oregon FFA Foundation,
said the initiative is a chance
for FFA members to give
back to those in need.
Collection bags have
already been distributed
to subscribers of the East
Oregonian,
Hermiston
Herald, Capital Press,
Wallowa County Chieftain
and Blue Mountain Eagle.
Donations can be dropped
off at any Les Schwab, Wilco
Farm Store or local FFA
chapter. Additional bags are
also available at collection
sites.
The FFA is also seeking
donations from local farms
and
ranches.
Anyone
interested can contact their
nearest FFA chapter, or email
White at kwhite@oregonffa.
com.
All donations received
will be given first to local
food pantries, and any extra
will be distributed by the
Oregon Food Bank to other
pantries throughout the state.
The initiative will run the
entire month of October.
For more information about
FFA, visit www.oregonffa.com
or www.ffa.org.
No skiing at Spout Springs again this season
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Spout Springs Ski Area
will remain closed for the
second winter in a row.
John Murray, 69, of
Portland, owns the modest
resort on Highway 204 near
Tollgate, between Weston
and Elgin.
He said he needs to step
away from the business due
to a serious health condition,
which the resort’s altitude
could affect. He also did not
want to risk being too far
from emergency help.
Murray and his wife
Nancy bought Spout Springs
19 years ago, he said, and
are trying to sell it for $1.2
million. The resort has an
assessed or taxable value
of $221,916, according to
Union County property
records, and a real market
value of $392,880.
Murray said he has
received some inquires
about the property.
“We’re trying actively to
find someone to purchase
it,” he said, “and we would
entertain a lease as well, if
someone would operate it
until it does sell.”
Murray did not open
Spout Springs last year
either — blaming its closure
on a parking dispute with
snowmobilers and the U.S.
Forest Service.
The heavy snow and
inaction caused damage to
the resort’s Happy Chair lift.
Murray said those repairs
will not take place until the
spring, another reason he
will not be able to open this
season.
“I don’t feel pretty good
about not operating it,” he said.
During a typical season
running from early December
until about April 1, Murray
said the resort has attracted
as many as 12,000-20,000
visitors.
Murray described Spout
Springs as a special and even
romantic place.
“Lots of people met
there over the years,” he
said. “And made an effort to
tell me they met their wife
there.”
Spout Springs had been in
continuous operation since
the 1920s. The area was also
a Nordic training center for
the United States Olympic
team and the Norwegian
jump team in the 1950s and
1960s.
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Lethal control expires
for Meacham wolves
East Oregonian
The target has been taken
off one northeast Oregon
wolf pack, but it’s back on
another.
According
to
the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife, the permit
for Cunningham Sheep
Company to kill a second
wolf from the Meacham
pack expired Sept. 30. That
permit was not renewed
because no further depre-
dations have occurred and
livestock is mostly removed
from the area, according to
ODFW. While the permit
allowed for two wolves
to be killed, only one — a
female that bred this year —
was shot on Sept. 7.
The Harl Butte pack in
Wallowa County is moving
in the opposite direction.
ODFW authorized lethal
take for another four wolves
from the pack, after two
more attacks on livestock
in the past week. The Harl
Butte wolves may be killed
either by ODFW staff or
by livestock producers
affiliated with the effected
local grazing association.
The permit is valid until
Oct. 31, and the wolves
may be killed in pastures on
public or private land that is
currently occupied by their
livestock.
The Harl Butte pack is
currently estimated at nine
wolves — six adults and
three pups born this past
spring. Any wolf in the pack
may be taken under the
lethal control authorization.
ODFW has already
removed four adult wolves
from the Harl Butte pack
since Aug. 3, when it first
authorized lethal control. It
then called off the hunt Aug.
25 to see if the pack would
stop attacking livestock.
“We were hoping to
see depredations stop after
removing four wolves,”
said Roblyn Brown, ODFW
acting wolf coordinator.
“And six weeks had passed
with no depredations since
mid-August. Unfortunately,
it didn’t last.”
ODFW is also working
toward an updated wolf
management plan, which
is expected to go before
the state Fish and Wildlife
Commission in December.
The Umatilla County wolf
compensation committee
will also meet around the
same time to consider
funding for 2017 claims.
The Umatilla County
Board of Commissioners
has approved four more
requests from local ranchers
for compensation due to
wolf-livestock conflicts in
2016.
Eric Harlow will receive
a total of $2,862 for lost
and missing livestock;
Terrill Thomas will receive
$8,024 for missing live-
stock; Cunningham Sheep
Company will receive
$700 for lost livestock; and
Rocky Robbins will receive
$524 for missing livestock.
Commissioners voted
2-0 to approve the claims,
with George Murdock
abstaining. The requests
were previously vetted by
the Umatilla County Wolf
Depredation
Advisory
Committee on Jan. 25.
Payments are awarded to
counties from the Oregon
Wolf Depredation Compen-
sation and Financial Assis-
tance County Block Grant
Program, established by the
Legislature in 2011.
Umatilla
County
received nearly $50,000
in state money earlier this
year for claims submitted
by ranchers, including
payments for non-lethal
predator control.
Commissioner
Larry
Givens, who serves as
liaison to the depredation
advisory committee, said the
county recently received an
additional $19,000 from the
state to finish paying 2016
claims.
However, Givens reiter-
ated that the current level of
funding for wolf-livestock
predation is not enough for
ranchers to be made whole.
“Our producers have
taken a real hit,” he said.
“It’s not fair to them.”
MILTON-FREEWATER
Pool use down in wake of new facility
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
While the reopening
of Walla Walla’s Veterans
Memorial Pool drew crowds
this summer, the valley’s other
go-to pool in Milton-Free-
water may have suffered for it.
The Joe Humbert Family
Aquatic
Center
drew
slimmer crowds than usual
this summer, City Manager
Linda Hall said. A 32.5
percent decrease in daily pass
sales led to about $15,000 in
lost revenue this season.
Hall said while she can’t
definitively tie the decrease
in attendance to the opening
of Walla Walla’s new pool,
“I did notice in previous
years that there were a lot
of Washington plates in our
pool parking lot.”
This year, not so much,
though
extracurricular
programs and swim lessons,
Hall said, were “up signifi-
cantly.”
The
revenue
drop,
however, won’t change the
city’s commitment to keeping
the pool open, she add.
“Pools do not completely
support themselves. They’re
all going to have some general
fund support,” Hall said.
For sales of passes to
completely support the pool,
Hall noted, they would likely
have to cost upward of $15.
That’s not going to happen
any time soon, she said.
“Our Council’s philosophy
is that pools are a recreational
amenity that you’re going to
want to have available, as much
as possible, to your citizenry,”
she said. “And not to make it so
expensive that kids can’t afford
to go there.”
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Tuesday, October 10, 5:00 pm
Treat yourself to a dramatic and engaging evening with the 26th
President of the United States! Joe Weigand, the nation’s fore-
most interpreter of Teddy Roosevelt, offers a vivid and rousing
one-man theater experience, sharing stories about Ted-
dy that are full of adventure, laughter and inspiration.
Tickets: $50 UCHS Members; $55 General Admission.
Available at Heritage Station Museum.
A catered dinner is included
and no-host bar offered.