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A12 &ODVVL¿HGV wallowa.com March 4, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain Wallowa County Chieftain CLASSIFIEDS Find classifieds at www. wallowa .com MENUS Add JOSEPH SCHOOLS C O L O R Cereal, fresh fruit, yogurt, vegetables & milk served daily Monday, March 9: (Breakfast: Bagel pizza) Lunch: Breakfast for lunch Tuesday, March 10: (Breakfast: Waffles & string cheese) Lunch: Pretzels & cheese Weds., March 11: (Breakfast: Pizza sticks) Lunch: Catfish or PBJ or Chef salad (5-12) Thursday, March 12: (Breakfast: Mini pancakes) Lunch: Sweet & sour chicken with rice ENTERPRISE SCHOOLS Cereal, fresh fruit, yogurt, vegetables & milk served daily Monday, March 9: (Breakfast: Bagels) Lunch: Chicken sandwich & tater tots Tuesday, March 10: (Breakfast: Bacon & eggs) Lunch: Pulled pork, calico beans & cole slaw Weds., March 11: (Breakfast: Pancakes & ham) Lunch: Turkey sandwich & chips Thursday, March 12: (Breakfast: French toast) Lunch: Hot dogs & fries to your ad for ONLY $5 WALLOWA SCHOOLS Cereal, fresh fruit, yogurt, vegetables & milk served daily Monday, March 9: (Breakfast: Bagels & cream cheese) Lunch: Texas straw hats or Burrito Tuesday, March 10: (Breakfast: Cinnamon toast & hash browns) Lunch: Hot turkey sandwich or Hamburger Weds., March 11: (Breakfast: Pancakes & yogurt) Lunch: Mac & cheese with ham or Crispitos Thursday, March 12: (Breakfast: Ham & cheese croissant) Lunch: PBJ & soup or Tuna cheese melt & soup SOLUTION Deadline is 4PM Monday Call WALLOWA COUNTY SENIOR MEALS 541 426 4567 Meal site information: Wallowa 886-8971, Enterprise 426-3840, Home delivered meals 426-3840. To sponsor a senior meal, call 426-3840 or stop by the Community Connection office. Monday, March 9: Taco salad with chips, salsa & sour cream, fruit & cupcakes (sponsored by Trish Hindman) Weds., March 11: Parmesan chicken, rice, winter mix vegetables & blueberry crisp (sponsored by Bill & Lyn Kessler) Friday, March 13: Corned beef and cabbage, carrots & red potatoes, green salad & pistachio pudding (sponsored by Shandon Towers) LEGAL NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE The Enterprise Cemetery District will meet on Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. in the Enterprise Community Connections meeting room at 702 NW First Street. _______________________________________________________ PUBLIC NOTICE WALLOWA CITY COUNCIL The Guillory Family are requesting a Minor Partition of their property at 306 S. Spruce and borders S. Whipple Street, this land is zoned Residential. They would like to separate the property into three parcels. The Lot size total is 111,488.66.sq feet. The Guillory’s would like to Partition it into 43039.18.sq ft., 25409.99 sq ft. and a 43039.49 sq ft. parcel. PUBLIC NOTICE The Troy School Board will meet for their regular meeting on Tues- day, March 10th at 4:00 p.m. at the Troy School House. A copy of the agenda may be seen at the Wallowa Education Service District administrative office at 107 SW First Street #105 in Enterprise. The Partition discussion will take place at the City Council meeting on March 17, 2015 7:00 p.m. City hall is accessible to the disabled. Please contact City Hall (541) 886-2422, if you need any special ac- commodations to attend or participate in the meeting. If you are un- able to attend and have a comment, please submit in writing to the City of Wallowa, P.O. Box 487, Wallowa, OR 97885, or drop off at City Hall on or before March 11th 2015. ______________________________________________________ PUBLIC NOTICE Tri-County Cooperative Weed Management Area Board of Directors will be holding a quarterly meeting at The Wallowa Resources Offices located at 401 NE First St. Suite A, Enterprise, Oregon on Wednes- day, March 11, 2015 @ 9:00am. The Guillory’s Partition application and the City Ordinance may be re- viewed Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Friday 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wallowa City Council Vikki Knifong, Mayor _______________________________________________________ CITY OF JOSEPH NOTICE OF BALLOT TITLE FOR THE May 19, 2015 ELECTION Local steelhead numbers best since 2010 Notice is hereby given that on February 23, 2015, the City Recorder, received from the City Attorney the following ballot title for a measure to be referred to the legal voters of the City: By Rocky Wilson Wallowa County Chieftain _______________________________________________________ CITY OF JOSEPH NOTICE OF BALLOT TITLE FOR THE May 19, 2015 ELECTION Notice is hereby given that on February 23, 2015, the City Recorder, received from the City Attorney the following ballot title for a measure to be referred to the legal voters of the City: CAPTION: STREET IMPROVEMENT BOND PAYABLE FROM TRANSPORTATION UTILITY FEE AND TAXES. QUESTION: Shall the City issue general obligation bonds not ex- ceeding $1,300,000 payable first from transportation utility fee for street improvements? If the bonds are approved, they will be payable from taxes on property or property ownership that are not subject to the limits of sections 11 and 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution. SUMMARY: Approval of this measure would authorize the City of Joseph to issue general obligation bonds payable first from a trans- portation utility fee to provide funds to finance street improvements in the City. If collections of the transportation utility fee are insufficient, the bonds would be payable from a tax on property in the City. Bonds would mature in 21 years or less from date of issuance and may be issued in one or more series. Annual costs are estimated to be $99,500, which initially equates to a monthly fee of $11 per house- hold; property taxes would only be levied for any estimated shortfall in fees. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that any elector of the City who be- lieves the proposed measure contains more than one subject or who believes the ballot title is insufficient, not concise, or unfair may file a petition for judicial review with the Circuit Court for Wallowa County no later than 5:00 PM on March 13, 2015 which is at least seven business days after this notice. Any elector who files a petition to review the ballot title must notify the City Recorder in writing that the petition has been filed no later 5:00 PM on the next business day following the day the petition is filed. Donna Warnock City Recorder Rich Rautenstrauch/Chieftain Many steelhead moved upstream into the Imnaha River February 8 through February 13 when water flows were high, yet remain a chal- lenge to catch because waters have cleared and flows now are lower than normal. CAPTION: PROPOSED TRANSPORTATION UTILITY FEE FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT. QUESTION: Shall the City of Joseph impose a Transportation Utility Fee initially of $11.00 per month on property or property ownership. SUMMARY: The passing of a Transportation Utility Fee would pro- vide funds to finance street repairs in the city. Streets that are rated by an independent transportation consultant as “Very Good” and “Good” condition will receive regular maintenance. All streets in “Fair” condition, both primary and secondary, will receive a single layer chip seal. All streets in “Poor” condition will be reconstructed with a triple layer chip seal. The Transportation Utility Fee would expire not later than 21 years from its initial collection date. Current estimates indicate the cost of the street repairs and financing costs will be approximately $1.3 mil- lion. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that any elector of the City who be- lieves the proposed measure contains more than one subject or who believes the ballot title is insufficient, not concise, or unfair may file a petition for judicial review with the Circuit Court for Wallowa County no later than 5:00 PM on March 13, 2015 which is a least seven busi- ness days after this notice. Any elector who files a petition to review the ballot title must notify the City Recorder in writing that the petition has been filed no later 5:00 PM on the next business day following the day the petition is filed. Donna Warnock City Recorder Find something that you would like to return to its owner? Call today to place the found item in the Chieftain classifieds for FREE! 541-426-4567 The DEADLINE for LEGAL NOTICES is10:00 AM Monday Steelhead fishing in the Imnaha, Wallowa, and Grande Ronde rivers is at its best since 2010, but no one should be taking the fa- vorable conditions for granted. As ODFW District Fish Biologist Jeff Yanke, of Enterprise, points out, water flow rates and water temperatures are the two most determining factors in regard to fisher catch rates, and those variables, as a whole, can change day-by-day. In 2010 when the steelhead run here was so strong that daily catch limits were raised, 23,000 pit-tagged steelhead scaled the lowest dam on the Columbia River, Bonneville Dam, headed to the rivers here compared to nearly 19,000 this year, says Yanke. He says it’s too late to elevate the catch rate this year. The most newsworthy component of the 2014-2015 steelhead run, says Yanke, is the fact that warm weather early in 2015 pushed more than 1,000 hatchery-spawned steelhead upstream and into the Wallowa Hatchery, located just outside of Enterprise, much earlier than the seasonal norm. Fish already are running in numbers in the Imnaha River, said Yanke in a March 2 press release. “The number of hatchery steel- head that migrated into the Imnaha nearly doubled last month (in February),” that press release added. “We now estimate around 658 fish have migrated above the first array at Cow Creek.” Most of those steelhead, of which about half are of the older, larger “two-salt” variety, entered the Imnaha River from Feb. 8 through Feb. 13 when high flows reached 1,380 cfs. Although official ODFW creel count numbers were unavailable earlier this week, one local fisher spoke with an ODFW creel counter who reported that, among 17 fishermen contacted while they were fishing along the Imnaha River Feb. 27, eight had landed steelhead. Yanke says water flows in the Imnaha River as of March 3 were below normal. Brad Snook, co-owner of The Sports Corral, in Joseph, that sells large amounts of fishing gear annually, says waters in the Imnaha River are both low and clear now, causing many fishers to employ the use of less visible fluorocarbon fishing line. Yanke says that steelhead counts on the Wallowa River are signifi- cantly less accurate than on the Imnaha River. Computer problems made creel count figures on the Wallowa River unavailable this week, says Yanke, and information gleaned from the array placed just above Minam State Park is misleading because the breadth of the Wallowa River at that point allows many pit-tagged steelhead to continue swimming upstream without crossing the array. It’s estimated that the nearly 12,000 steelhead in 2014-2015 that have crossed the last dam before the Grande Ronde and Imnaha rivers exit the Snake River, the Lower Granite Dam, represent more than 90 percent of this year’s entire annual run. Most commonly, says Yanke, those steelhead rest in the Snake River above Lower Granite Dam before – either during their fall or spring push – they continue swimming upstream en route to their places of birth, whether in hatcheries or in riverbeds in the case of wild steelhead that, by law, must be released whenever caught. On the normal side of the calendar, says Yanke, small numbers of early steelhead are beginning to arrive at the Big Canyon facility, just off the Wallowa River, and at the Big Sheep facility, just off the Imnaha River.