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Easement at Wallowa Lake
Lodge to be dedicated Thursday
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY
Northwest writers flock
to La Grande Lit Week
Wallowa County Chieftain
By SHANNON
GOLDEN
The Observer
WALLOWA LAKE —
A conservation easement
to the Nez Perce Tribe from
Wallowa Lake Lodge will be
dedicated Thursday, July 21,
according to a press release.
The public ceremony
begins at 10 a.m. at the lodge.
Since time immemorial,
Wallowa Lake has served as
the cultural heart of the local
Nez Perce Wal’wama Band,
according to the release. The
easement encompasses the
9.22-acre lodge property,
including its open ground,
towering old-growth trees
and riparian wetlands at
the confluence of the Upper
Wallowa River and Wallowa
Lake.
The Cayuse-Nez Perce
word for this special place
is Waala’amkt, “where the
braided stream disappears
beneath the water.”
The easement, acquired
in late 2020 and today held
in perpetuity by the tribe,
will ensure protection of
fisheries habitat and cultural
resources by precluding or
restricting additional devel-
opment, especially in the
Aquatic Zone A. It allows
use of the property for a vari-
ety of activities, but does not
allow permanent structures
Talia Jean Galvin/Contributed Photo
Wallowa Lake Lodge is providing a conservation easement to the Nez Perce Tribe that en-
compasses the 9.22-acre lodge property. The dedication ceremony for the transaction is
Thursday, July 21, 2022, at the lodge.
significance and the implica-
tions for future management
of the Wallowa Lake Basin.
Eastern Oregon Legacy
Lands (Wallowology) and
Oregon State Parks worked
closely with the tribe and
the lodge to help bring this
unique partnership to frui-
tion.
Funding for the $1M proj-
ect includes grants from
in protected areas (Zones A
and B). Limited construction
is permitted in two modest
building envelopes (Zone C).
The tribe and the lodge
welcome the public to attend
this long-awaited dedication.
Tribal Chairman Sam Penney
will lead the celebration to
officially dedicate the ease-
ment. Others will comment
on its cultural and scientific
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played critical roles.
A private lunch follows
the celebration.
BAKER CITY
Shooting suspect could be charged as adult
By JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
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LA GRANDE — East-
ern Oregon University kicks
off the inaugural La Grande
Lit Week, July 17-23, a
project of the universi-
ty’s Master of Fine Arts
Program in Creative Writ-
ing that will celebrate writ-
ers of the Pacific Northwest.
Nick Neely, assistant
professor of English and
writing at Eastern, hopes
the series of events and
conversations will connect
local residents with aspir-
ing and established writers
alike.
“We’re trying to turn
outward and make sure that
we engage with the public,”
Neely said.
The week-long event
gets underway Sunday,
June 17, featuring read-
ings and conversations
with faculty and visiting
writers in La Grande eater-
ies, coffee shops, bars and
landmarks — all free and
open to the public. Locals
can even attend an evening
poetry reading at Morgan
Lake.
The week’s lineup
includes winners of the
Oregon Book Awards, the
Washington State Book
Awards and the Pacific
Northwest Book Awards
as well as authors touring
newly released books and
EOU’s MFA students.
Faculty and writers will
teach classes throughout
the week that the public can
sign up to participate in.
These hour-long commu-
nity classes cover a range of
topics such as “Storytelling
Science,” “Writing Toward
Joy” and “Demystifying
Historical Fiction.” Regis-
tration for each class is $20.
In order to host the week-
long project, the MFA
program received a grant
from the Union County
Chamber of Commerce.
Neely is hopeful the proj-
ect will become an annual
event.
“I think it’s going to
be a great tradition for La
Grande,” he said.
The creative writ-
ing program is low resi-
dency, meaning students
complete most of their
degree remotely. This
week, many of the two
dozen MFA students gath-
ered at Wallowa Lake — at
the edge of the Eagle Cap
Wilderness Area — for the
Summer Fishtrap Gather-
ing of Writers.
BAKER CITY — Baker
County District Attor-
ney Greg Baxter is seek-
ing to have the 17-year-old
suspect in a fatal shooting in
Baker City on Wednesday,
July 13 tried for second-de-
gree murder and unlawful
use of a weapon as an adult
rather than a juvenile.
Baxter confirmed on
Friday, July 15 that he had
filed for a motion for a waiver
under an Oregon law, ORS
419C.349.
Under that law, a district
attorney can seek a hearing
in a case in which a suspect
who was 15, 16 or 17 years
old is accused of a crime that,
if committed by an adult,
would constitute a Class A
or Class B felony.
The male suspect is
accused of fatally shooting
another juvenile male just
after midnight on July 13 in
the parking lot at the Baker
Technical Institute, on the
Baker High School campus.
Police have not released
the name of the victim or the
suspect, nor have they given
the age of the victim, who
died at the scene.
Police haven’t said what
type of gun was used.
Baxter said he couldn’t
give any additional details.
He said the investigation is
continuing.
The 17-year-old suspect
was taken to a juvenile deten-
tion facility in The Dalles.
The shooting was reported
at 12:25 a.m. on July 13,
according to a press release
from the Baker County Sher-
iff’s Office.
T he ca l le r t old a
dispatcher that the shooting
suspect had fled.
Baker City Police offi-
cers responded and found a
male juvenile with a gunshot
wound. Efforts to save the
victim were not successful.
Police also found a female
juvenile at the scene who was
not hurt.
Police haven’t said
whether the female juve-
nile who was in the parking
lot reported the shooting, or
whether someone else called
police.
According to the state law
dealing with juveniles being
prosecuted as adults, a judge
can consider, among other
criteria, whether:
• “The youth at the time
of the alleged offense was
of sufficient sophistication
and maturity to appreciate
the nature and quality of the
conduct involved.”
• “The amenability of
the youth to treatment and
rehabilitation given the
techniques, facilities and
personnel for rehabilitation
available to the juvenile court
and to the criminal court that
would have jurisdiction after
transfer” (to adult court).
• “The aggressive, violent,
premeditated or willful
manner in which the offense
was alleged to have been
committed.”
• “The previous history
of the youth, including:
prior treatment efforts and
out-of-home placements;
the physical, emotional and
mental health of the youth;
the youth’s prior record of
acts that would be crimes if
committed by an adult; the
gravity of the loss, damage
or injury caused or attempted
during the offense.”
The law also gives the
prosecutor the right to have
at least one psychiatrist or
licensed psychologist, of the
prosecution’s choice, exam-
ine the juvenile defendant.
Baxter said he doesn’t
know how long it typically
takes for a judge to decide on
a motion seeking to prosecute
a juvenile defendant in adult
court.
A defendant convicted
of second-degree murder as
an adult could be sentenced
to life in prison without the
possibility of parole.
IN BRIEF
Walla Walla man killed in
3-car crash near Stateline
Road at Oregon border
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