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March 25, 2015
Grange gains through drawing
By Rich Rautenstrauch
Wallowa County Chieftain
On Sunday, March 15, the
Hurricane Creek Grange held
its monthly meeting in con-
junction with a potluck and a
special event, the drawing for
an elk landowner preference
tag sponsored by The Na-
ture Conservancy. Wallowa
County Commissioner Mike
Hayward attended the gath-
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winning tag with a surprising
twist.
The Grange is quite active
these days and the fundraiser
was a complete success.
Every year The Nature
Conservancy lets out a cer-
tain number of big game tags
to local service organizations
or to public institutions to
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applied to the Conservancy
to be one of the local organi-
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Clarann Witty took on the as-
signment and got the ball roll-
ing. The Grange received 400
tickets to sell at $25 apiece.
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Hurricane Creek Grange master Heather Tyreman and County Commisioner Mike Hayward
draw the winner of a landowner preference elk tag sponsored by The Nature Conservancy,
Sunday, March 15. Tyson Shirley of Nampa, Idaho, won the tag.
Witty arranged for promotion
of the sales and took phone
calls the past few months
from ticket buyers. She said
she had a lot of fun talking
with callers about hunting.
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Several times during the
March 14 gathering, attend-
ees expressed their hope that
someone local would win the
tag. After an imaginary drum
roll, Commissioner Hayward
reached into the ticket bar-
rel and drew the ticket with
Tyson Shirley’s name on it.
Shirley currently resides in
Nampa, Idaho, but he grew
up in Wallowa County. So,
the wish for a local winner
did in a sense come true.
When Shirley was called
to let him know he had won
the tag, Witty said, “He was
tickled to death.” The sur-
prising twist surrounding this
year’s winning ticket: Shir-
ley also won last year’s local
drawing for the TNC elk tag.
The 2014 tickets were sold by
Wallowa Resources.
The fundraiser was a suc-
cess with all tickets sold. The
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$7,500.
Current master for the
Hurricane Creek Grange,
Heather Tyreman, said the
Grange greatly appreciates
the money. For the last few
years the Grange has under-
taken a number of project to
improve its hall. The build-
ing’s electricity has been up-
graded, a new well has been
put in and connected, there’s
a new handicapped ramp, and
the building is newly painted.
Tyreman said more projects
are scheduled. “This really
helps when we need match-
ing funds for other projects.
We’re here for the future and
we have a long-range view,”
she said.
Author Shannon Ables will
sign at Bookloft March 28
acutely
aware that
life’s beauty
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selves.
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tity admittedly began during self in the blogging world,
Shannon Ables’ childhood and inspired by her blog, she
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lished in December 2014.
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is also a high school English
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Wallowa County Chieftain
Soroptimist
awards three
local women
Three local women are
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awards from Soroptomist In-
ternational of Wallowa Coun-
ty that will help them reach
educational goals.
Two of the women — En-
terprise resident Kristy Ath-
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Wallowa — each received
a Fellowship Award, while
Autumn Rose, of Enterprise,
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at district and regional lev-
els, has already accumulated
$3,000 in award funds and
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ceive her master’s degree in
Food Systems and Society
from Marylhurst University.
Athens writes: “I would
like to effect change in pol-
icy and education so that
women are brought to the
table and feel empowered to
engage with the food system.
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to contribute to the cause of
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er at Wallowa Elementary
School, is pursuing a Mas-
ter of Science in Education
degree at Eastern Oregon
University. Her emphasis is
curriculum and instruction at
the elementary and second-
ary levels. She hopes to work
with and inspire young teach-
ers as a mentor to student
teachers or as an instructor at
the college level. As a teach-
er at Wallowa Elementary,
she is in her third year of
participating in the Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Math (STEM) symposium at
EOU.
Rose, a single mother of
two young girls, balances
motherhood with a full-time
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she’ll be receiving her bache-
lor’s degree in Nursing.
The Wallowa County So-
roptimist group states: “Au-
tumn is an amazing woman
who has overcome many ob-
stacles in achieving her goals
and we are sure will continue
to be a positive role model
for many other women and
girls.”
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