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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
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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.’”
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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.
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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
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‘W
e wanted certain things
in our life and Joseph
and the Wallowa Valley were a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wilcox said.