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Union County quilting group reaches out to Ukrainian refugees
By DICK MASON
The Observer
LA GRANDE — A group
of talented and generous Union
County women are reaching out to
Ukrainian refugees in England —
one stitch at a time.
The women are members of the
Girls Night Out and Friends Sewing
Group. The group’s members have
been hard at work over the past two
months preparing 27 quilts for ship-
ment to England where they will
be donated to Ukrainian refugees,
many of whom fl ed their country
with little more than the clothes
they were wearing. The quilts are
meant to provide physical comfort
for the Ukrainians and serve as a
heartfelt gesture.
“We want to let them know
that a lot of people are thinking of
them,” said Bridgett Naylor, a Girls
Night Out member.
Naylor and the other approxi-
mately one dozen members of the
sewing and quilting club have taken
donated quilts that were partially
completed and given them the
fi nishing work they needed. For
example, some of the quilts had
only one layer of fabric so a second
back layer was sewn on.
Each quilt has been customized
for Ukrainian families with a patch
that has the yellow and blue colors
of their nation’s fl ag in the shape
of a heart.
“These are handmade gifts,”
said Ellen Carr, a Girls Night Out
member.
The local sewing club will be
sending 27 quilts to the Corner
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Bridgett Naylor of the Girls Night Out and Friends Sewing Group on June 3, 2022, examines some of the quilts
heading to England for Ukrainian refugees. Most of the quilts were completed by the Girls Night Out group.
Patch, an arts and crafts shop in
the town of Eccleshall in England.
The Corner Patch, owned by Janet
Markwell, is donating quilts to
Ukrainian refugees in England. To
date, it has received 100 quilts for
refugees.
England has at least 58,000
Ukrainian refugees, according to
a story in the May 24 edition of the
New York Times. They are among
the more than 6.4 million Ukrai-
nians who have left their country
since Russia attacked Ukraine in
February.
Naylor said she and other
members of Girls Night Out
have felt frustrated because they
wanted to reach out to the refugees
but really could not in a concrete
manner because they are separated
by such a great distance.
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“This was something tangible
we could actually do,” she said.
Naylor and Carr are among
about 12 Girls Night Out women
involved in the Ukrainian proj-
ect. They are joined by Mary
Brock, Lessa Adams, Joy Cleaver,
Susan Le Page, Geri Hall, Cindy
Jo DeLong, Teresa Smith-Dixon,
Nancy Gromen, Patti Anderson
and Jan McDowell.
The quilts the club is sending
have an array of colors, includ-
ing orange, green, red and blue.
Many have varying dimensions but
they have an important quality in
common.
“Many are diff erent, but they all
are beautiful,’’ said Gromen, who is
Naylor’s mother.
Much of the work on the quilts
was done alone in the homes of
the Girls Night Out members. The
group, though, meets once a week in
the evening to discuss their project
and other topics. The meetings have
given rise to their name.
The Girls Night Out quilts will
later be taken across the Atlantic
Ocean by Naylor and her family to
the Corner Patch. Naylor is famil-
iar with England because that is
where her husband, Les, is from and
she met the Corner Patch’s owner
during a previous visit. Naylor’s
family will bring the quilts in four
suitcases. This will save money
because Naylor’s family would have
gone to England anyway. Naylor
said it is much less expensive to pay
for check-in luggage on a fl ight than
it would be to ship the quilts from
La Grande.
Naylor and the other members
of the group know they will likely
never meet the refugees who receive
the quilts, but that does not dimin-
ish the satisfaction they are feel-
ing knowing that they are helping
brighten the lives of people who
have just witnessed the horrors of
war.
“Quilts bring comfort,” Naylor
said. “We are hoping that these will
ease their struggle.”
ODFW to help eliminate wolf
By BILL BRADSHAW
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The breeding male of the new Chesnimnus Pack walks into
camera view in December 2018 during the winter survey on
U.S. Forest Service land in northern Wallowa County. Oregon
offi cials Thursday, June 9, 2022, agreed to help with the le-
thal removal of one member of the pack.
of the Chesnimnus pack and
found dead Jan. 8 southeast
of Wallowa originally was
determined to have been
killed by a gunshot wound,
Oregon State Police said at
the time. But the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service Foren-
sics Laboratory in Ashland
conducted an analysis that
showed the wolf actually died
of blunt-force trauma to the
chest and pelvis. State police
said and those injuries were
consistent with being hit by
a car.
Nonlethal eff orts tried
Birk maier has been
known for his eff orts to use
nonlethal deterrents to keep
wolves at bay.
“He’s doing every nonle-
thal (action) everybody can
dream up,” Williams said.
“What was more effective
was he had a lot of people out
there helping with nonlethal
presence of humans.”
“I’m st ill cont i nu-
ing the relentless nonle-
thal measures, including
two AM-FM radios, two
fox lights that come on at
night and motion-triggered
noise-making devices that
have a siren and flashing
lights,” Birkmaier said. “I’ve
been putting those in saddles
on ridges or any natural
crossing area where wolves
may enter pasture.”
Dennehy confi rmed “the
producer” has been attempt-
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ing to use nonlethal methods
of deterring wolf attacks with
limited success.
More livestock deaths
ODFW in its ongoing
Wolf Depredation Report
on June 8 reported one more
confirmed and one proba-
ble wolf kills of livestock in
Wallowa County.
The two were attributed
to the Chesnimnus pack, one
a 225-pound, 4-month-old
calf in the Chesnimnus Creek
area June 4 and the other a
245-pound, 2½-month-old
calf in the Crow Creek area
the same day.
Another three kills were
confi rmed June 6 in the Daly
Creek area of Baker County.
They were attributed to the
Lookout Mountain pack,
ODFW reported.
The Chesnimnus pack
has been reported to have
killed numerous livestock in
Wallowa County this year.
The report lists five
confi rmed or probable wolf
kills of livestock in Wallowa
County and two others desig-
nated “possible/other” since
early May. In that time,
another 18 confi rmed/prob-
able and 10 possible/other
kills are listed in the report
for neighboring counties.
The livestock deaths, while
mostly cattle, also include
sheep, goats, working dogs
and at least one horse,
according to the ODFW.
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CROW CREEK — State
offi cials have agreed to help
with the lethal removal of
one Chesnimnus pack wolf
after repeated attacks on live-
stock in Wallowa County, a
spokesperson for the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life said Thursday, June 9.
Michelle Dennehy, of
ODFW, said only one wolf
has so far been taken under
a kill permit issued April 29
and extended to June 14. That
permit was for two wolves
and an agent of Crow Creek
rancher Tom Birkmaier shot
one wolf in May.
The permit allowed Birk-
maier or his agent to kill two
wolves in Dorrance Pasture
or Trap Canyon Pasture,
where recent depredations
on cattle occurred, he said
when the permit was issued.
Dennehy said since one wolf
has been taken, the permit
is good for one more. The
ODFW website stated it
would be updated if another
wolf is killed or the permit is
reissued.
At the time, Birkmaier
asked ODFW to “remove”
— or completely kill — the
Chesnimnus pack given its
propensity toward predatory
behavior, but the agency just
issued the kill permits.
John Williams, co-chair-
man of the wolf committee
Oregon Cattlemen’s Associ-
ation, said ranchers are busy
enough and shouldn’t have
to do what he considered the
ODFW’s job of managing the
wolves.
“When there’s a time to
kill wolves, they’re the ones
who should be doing it,”
Williams said last month of
ODFW.
The minimum known
count of wolves in Oregon
at the end of 2021 was 175
wolves, an increase of two
wolves over the 2020 number,
according to the Oregon Wolf
Conservation and Manage-
ment 2021 Annual Report
released April 19.
According to a May 24
report in The Oregonian,
one wolf that had been part
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