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March 18, 2015
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Cemetery board Sculptor Mozdzenski picks
appoints Davis
Valley Bronze for project
By Steve Tool
After years-long
disconnection,
memorial ground
again has water
Wallowa County Chieftain
By Rob Ruth
Wallowa County Chieftain
Enterprise resident Perry
Davis was appointed Friday
to the Enterprise Cemetery
District’s board of directors,
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Lee Bollman in February.
Board chair Susan Roberts
said she and fellow director
George Hill concurred Friday
on Davis’ appointment.
March 19 is the deadline
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district’s May 19 election.
Davis’ appointment is
through June 30, the remain-
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in the May 19 election, how-
ever. If elected, he’ll serve
the remaining two years of
Bollman’s unexpired term,
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The ballot also includes
a second position on the
three-member board, that held
by Hill, whose term expires this
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tion to the four-year post.
Thursday evening, March
12, the board resumed a pub-
lic meeting it began Feb. 5 to
discuss options for restoring
irrigation to the cemetery.
Like the gathering in Febru-
ary, Thursday’s was well-at-
tended, drawing around 60
people.
Ronnie Neil, public works
director for the City of Enter-
prise, informed the March 12
Perry Davis
gathering that city crews had
recently completed installa-
tion of a new water meter and
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etery. As well, he said, stand
pipes with risers and hand
pipes “are back in. ... So you
have water up there as it is
now,” Neil said.
In February the cemetery
board voted to go ahead with
purchase and installation of
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sociated items that would
restore water service. Previ-
ously, service at the cemetery
was unmetered, an issue that
came to a head in 2011 when
city crews replaced the city’s
old wooden pipe that fed the
property. To tie back into the
system, the cemetery would
be required to install at least
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with the meter. Although the
cemetery district possessed
enough funds to pay for the
upgraded tie-in, board mem-
bers didn’t want to proceed
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trict could continue to foot the
entire bill for irrigation and
the more frequent lawn main-
tenance that goes with it.
See BOARD, Page A7
Steve Tool/Chieftain
Major-General Isaac Brock, a Canadian military hero, is depicted in this approximately 13-
foot bronze sculpted by Danek Mozdzenski, who is visible on the ladder in the background.
Renowned Canadian sculp-
tor Danek Mozdzenski, working
with Valley Bronze in Joseph,
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touches on his statue of Canadi-
an military hero, Major-General
Isaac Brock. An eight-person
jury selected Mozdzenski from
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tionwide competition for the $1
million commission piece.
General Brock, a hero of
the War of 1812, successfully
captured an American fort with
Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and
helped repulse a U.S. invasion
of Upper Canada before being
felled by a sniper’s bullet on
Oct. 3, 1812. The statue’s even-
tual destination is the grounds of
Brock University at St. Cather-
ines of Ontario, Canada, not far
from Niagara Falls, and only
about 14 miles from where
Brock died in battle.
Mozdzenski, 63, a self-
taught artist from Edmonton,
Alberta, knew his life’s am-
bition from the age of 3 and
started earning a living at his
craft at 14, completing a bust
of author Joseph Conrad.
The Brock statue, two
years in the making, is ap-
proximately 13 feet tall and
features Brock standing with a
left leg propped on one end of
a campaign chest. A sheathed
sword and a couple of books
lean on the other end of the
chest. Brock’s bicorne hat,
complete with very elaborate
cockade sits on the chest lid.
See SCULPTOR, Page A7
City says police chief resigning Enterprise
OKs later
music for
bike rally
ENTERPRISE — Police
Chief Wes Kilgore submit-
ted a letter of resignation to
the city Monday afternoon,
Michele Young, city admin-
istrator, said on Tuesday.
Monday night, Young sent
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emergency meeting of the En-
terprise City Council sched-
uled for 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
According to the notice, the
purpose of the meeting was to
accept Kilgore’s resignation
and to discuss the hiring of an
interim police chief.
Tuesday night’s meeting
time fell after Wednesday’s
issue of the Chieftain was
scheduled to go to press.
During the day on Tues-
day, city officials weren’t at
liberty to provide much ad-
ditional information about
the police personnel mat-
ter. Young said Kilgore was
hired as chief in March 2002.
Mayor Steve Lear was
out of town Tuesday. City
council president Jenni
Word was expected to chair
the emergency meeting in
his absence.
By Rob Ruth
Wallowa County Chieftain
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As spring is heralding the
coming of baseball, Max-
ville has its own legacy to
contribute to the National
Pastime. “We came across
an image in the archives
someone had shared with us
of a guy standing in a Max-
ville uniform next to an old
car belonging to the Bow-
man-Hicks Lumber Compa-
ny,” Trice said.
After some intensive re-
search, Trice discovered
Maxville had its own baseball
club, and like many commu-
nity baseball clubs of the era,
Maxville played segregated
baseball, where white and
black citizens played on sep-
arate teams. Trice researched
the era’s uniforms and even-
tually had a custom uniform
designed of traditional mate-
rials of the time, in this case,
light wool.
ENTERPRISE — Perfor-
mance of live music will go later
into the night in year two of the
By Steve Tool
MHIC, which started as VSDFHVLQWKHFRXQW\EHIRUH¿ Wallowa County Thunder Run,
Wallowa County Chieftain
a labor of love for Trice, nally coming to rest in Joseph. scheduled Aug. 20-23 at the
represents the multicultural After the completion of the Wallowa County Fairgrounds.
Maxville Heritage Interpre- heritage of Wallowa County. 2008 Oregon Public Broad-
The Enterprise City Council
tive Center Executive Director Maxville once existed with- FDVWLQJ ¿OP ³7KH /RJJHU¶V has granted event organizer Gary
Gwendolyn Trice is resting in the county as a segregated Daughter,” of which Trice is the Bethscheider’s request to extend
a little easier these days. The town occupied by the coun- subject, she realized the need the cutoff time for live music
center recently signed a lease ty’s African-American popu- for a center to tell the story of GXULQJWKHHYHQW¶V¿QDOWZRQLJKWV
to inhabit the space previously lation, as well as whites and Maxville and like communities Friday and Saturday, to 1:30 a.m.
Midnight was the cutoff for Fri-
occupied by Kelly’s Gallery on immigrants that worked in the around rural Oregon.
day and Saturday nights last year.
Main, located at 103 N. Main woods above Wallowa.
See CENTER, Page A7
“I think he would probably
Street in Joseph.
The center occupied several
have a lot of attendance that late
with that crowd,” said councilor
Jenni Word, referring to the new,
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later time.
Music will end at midnight
on Thursday, Aug. 20.
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week to grant the Thunder Run
$500 from the city’s Opportuni-
ty Fund.
At its March 9 regular meet-
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ed pitches for motel tax grants
from around a dozen organiza-
tions. The maximum amount the
city awards any one applicant is
$2,000. Mayor Steve Lear noted
the city’s motel grants fund is still
well below the level it was at two
years ago, before the former Best
Western closed for about a year.
“Basically what we have to
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cants,” the mayor said.
Groups that made pitches
Courtesy photo
last week included Mountain
2015 Chief Joseph Days Rodeo Court (from left, Addie Kilgore, Jesse-Ellen Woodhead,
High Broncs & Bulls, asking
and Marli Tracy-Mallory) begin selling tickets to the 70th annual CJD Rodeo (always
for $2,000; GEMS Downtown
the last full weekend in July) on March 20, continuing through April 18. The court looks
Flower Project, $2,000; GEMS
forward to meeting people throughout the ticket sales process and working hard to earn a
Bowlby Bash, $2,000; Maxville
See BASEBALL, Page A7
See MUSIC, Page A7
Rob Ruth/Chieftain
Officers of the Enterprise Cemetery District (seated at
table) prepare to begin a March 12 district board meeting to
continue a public discussion of options for resuming and
sustaining irrigation at the cemetery.
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commission on the amount of tickets sold to help substitute for a summer job. Ticket sales
also constitute 25 percent of the score towards crowning the 70th annual CJD Queen.