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page A11 EHS SOPHOMORE WRESTLES WAY TO LEWISTON TOURNEY CROWN www.wallowa.com Enterprise, Oregon January 14, 2015 $1 Cracks in Blue Mountains plan? Dunn and Roberts sense Forest Service is listening to criticism By Rocky Wilson Wallowa County Chieftain Kevin Martin, one of three forest supervisors in attendance at a Jan. 8 meeting held in Pendleton to discuss the Forest Service’s proposed plan to manage the Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla, and Malheur National For- ests in upcoming years, surprised some by his opening remarks. With minimal preamble, the su- pervisor of the Umatilla Nation- al Forest referred to a statement made by Wallowa County Natural Resources Advisory Committee (NRAC) Chairman Bruce Dunn in a front page article of the previous day’s Chieftain. The topic of the meeting was a forest management plan the Forest Service has taken 14 years to draft called the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision, the same plan Dunn had dissed the previous day by say- ing that document “sucks.” And yet, said Dunn, Martin later told him the Forest Service knew go- ing into the meeting that there were DESTINY’S DESTINY: Rodeo queen crown By S.F. Tool Wallowa County Chieftain N ot many 11-year-olds can claim the title of queen, but Desti- ny Barney can do so legitimately. After a grueling competition this summer in Phi- lomath, Barney came away with the Junior Miss Oregon Rodeo FURZQ :DOORZD &RXQW\¶V ¿UVW winner since 1997. A Jan. 17 coronation ceremony at Clover- leaf Hall is planned to celebrate the event. Destiny Barney (“Dez” to friends) is the child of Vix- en Radford and Ryan Barney. Radford’s husband, Jeffrey Wecks, is Destiny Barney’s stepfather. The remarkably poised Bar- ney said she’s harbored a long- time interest in becoming a ro- deo queen. “I’ve always loved horses and rodeos because it has my favorite animals. Once I saw the rodeo queens I said, ‘I want to be one of those.’” 7KLVLVQRWWKH¿UVWWLWOHWKH ambitious Barney went after. She previously won crowns in the Santiam rodeo followed by one in Tillamook. Barney also competes in horsemanship events with 4-H and does open shows as well. Vixen Radford said her daughter is a natural when it comes to pageants. “She is a showboater; she likes to model, and when she models, her per- sonality really comes out. The pageants allow her to speak, she gets to model, and she gets to ride – she really enjoys it,” Radford said. See DESTINY, Page A8 C HIEFTAIN WA L L O WA C O U N T Y Wallowa County’s Newspaper Since 1884 Volume 132 Issue No. 39 © 2015 EO Media Group ONCE I SAW THE RODEO QUEENS I SAID, I WANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE Courtesy photo Destiny Barney with her horse, Music. Barney’s coronation as the new Junior Miss Rodeo Oregon will take place Jan. 17 at Enterprise’s Cloverleaf Hall. concerns about the 1,400-page docu- ment, and referring to the newspaper quote from Dunn opened grounds for discussion. Wallowa County Commissioner Susan Roberts, who along with fel- low Commissioner Paul Castilleja and Dunn attended the meeting, said progress at the session far exceeded her expectations. See PLAN, Page A8 More mills vying for local logs By Rocky Wilson Wallowa County Chieftain Near clo- sure as recently as last August, Tanzey Forest Improvement, of Wallowa, has been granted new life cour- tesy of higher prices Boise Cascade is pay- ing to purchase logs. During a town hall meet- ing held in En- Tanzey terprise late last summer that featured U.S. Rep. Greg Walden when forest fires were the primary source of discussion, local private properties tim- ber manager Butch Tanzey told Walden and an audience of 40 people that his family’s more-than-20-year-old business was halting its operations. The reason, he said then, was that his business had lost money for five consec- utive years because timber prices were consistently low; in his words because Boise Cascade had no competition to purchase timber harvested locally. At the time, Tanzey said, 10 families were sup- ported by his logging operation. But now, says Tanzey, Boise Cascade has raised timber prices $20 to $30 per 1,000 board feet since mid-summer and the local landowners who are his clients again are ringing his phone to secure bids to harvest their forest assets while prices are favorable. But why this upswing in timber prices? Elwayne Henderson, owner of Wal- lowa-based Henderson Logging, says he’s no expert on the marketing end of the tim- ber industry, but he repeatedly points to the standard economic principal of supply and demand. “The price of domestic lum- ber is going up,” says Henderson. See MILLS, Page A9 1HZEDNHU\XVHVZRRG¿UHGEULFNRYHQ ‘W e wanted certain things in our life and Joseph and the Wallowa Valley were a perfect À t· By S.F. Tool Wallowa County Chieftain JOSEPH – Business own- ers Chad and Nicole Wilcox opened their bakery, Local Loaf, shortly before the start of the new year at 19 S. Main St. in Joseph. The couple and their four children relocated to the Wal- lowa Valley from the Portland area where Chad worked in construction as a heavy equip- ment operator and Nicole worked in both the American and European culinary arts and also dealt in antiquities. Nicole Wilcox voiced their reasons for relocating to the Wallowa Valley. “We wanted a simpler life with less people. We also wanted better weather with more quietness and peace- fulness. We wanted certain things in our life and Joseph and the Wallowa Valley were a SHUIHFW¿W´ Wilcox said she started Lo- cal Loaf as a bread bakery be- cause she’s baked bread since childhood. “Why buy it when you can bake it? Bread is ex- Nicole Wilcox S.F. Tool/Chieftain Nicole and Chad Wilcox of Local Loaf in front of their wood- fired baking oven. pensive, and when you buy it off the shelf it has condition- ers and who-knows-what-else in it.” Local Loaf uses organic ÀRXUVROGE\%RE¶V5HG0LOO The Wilcox family started refurbishing their building in early July of 2014, including building and upholstering the chairs, booths and tables. They also undertook extensive re- modeling of the building. Nicole uses family recipes and those of her own creation for the baked goods. She said she frequently experiments in the kitchen for the creation of new recipes. The bakery features a very home-style atmosphere with the smell of baked goods per- meating the air while both Chad and Nicole work the kitchen, which is in plain view from the dining area. “Our restaurant is warm and inviting. We serve wonderful organic food. I have an opportunity to work at an art I love, and I want this to be a place that wraps its arms around you and makes you feel welcome,” Nicole said. Stuffed chairs and padded seating and booths make for a homey dining experience. Most remarkably, everything LVEDNHGLQDZRRG¿UHGEULFN oven the Wilcoxes constructed that also warms the restaurant. In addition to offering a number of baked goods in- cluding bread, pastry and cake, Local Loaf also has soups and plans to eventually add pizza. The bakery does not have a ¿[HGPHQXUHO\LQJLQVWHDGRQ variety to attract and keep cus- tomers. At the present, the bakery operates Thursday through Monday. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except on Sunday, when the business closes at 4 p.m. Customers can expect pizza offerings on both Thursday and Saturday. The bakery employs family members and one apprentice, Kelsey Juve. Customers can contact Lo- cal Loaf by calling 541-903- 1127, emailing to localloaf@ yahoo.com. The bakery’s Facebook page (facebook. com/localoaf) has the current menu. The Wilcoxes say they are especially conscious of the need for local community support. “The tourists come and go, but our foundation is the communi- ty and what’s important to me LVIXO¿OOLQJWKHLUQHHGV´1LFROH Wilcox said.