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Small business gets a new champion
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
Marc Stauffer has a new ti-
tle but he’s going to be doing
the same work of developing
businesses in Wallowa Coun-
ty.
Stauffer was named the
Small Business Development
Center (SBDC) business ad-
visor for Wallowa County and
began his duties May 7.
Many Wallowa County
residents are already familiar
with the previous business
facilitation program managed
by Wallowa County Business
Facilitation (WCBF) and
modeled on the Sirolli model
of business facilitation.
Stauffer was a member of
the WCBF board in addition
to serving on numerous oth-
er boards and work commit-
tees including working on the
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Rural Poli-
cy, as chair
of the Enter-
prise Budget
Committee,
as commis-
sioner and
chair of the
Stauffer
Enterprise
City Plan-
ning Commission and twice
as candidate for Wallowa
County Commissioner.
The business facilitation
group recently determined
that Wallowa County was
“ready for a change from the
Sirolli model,” Stauffer said.
To that end the group has re-
named itself Wallowa Coun-
ty Business Development
(WCBD) and sought partner-
ship in the Blue Mountain
Community College SBDC.
The change provides for
both a slightly more support-
ive program for individuals
with business ideas and a
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By Kathleen Ellyn
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County voter
turnout light
Voters in Joseph reject-
ed the latest proposal there
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lots cast in the Enterprise
Cemetery District arguably
changed the character of that
district’s board, but little else
in Wallowa County’s May 19
election was a contest or ob-
ject of debate.
Voter turnout coun-
ty-wide was just 35.7 per-
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which counted 1,650 ballots.
In terms of potential
spending, the most conse-
quential matter before vot-
ers last week was the latest
proposal for Joseph streets.
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added an $11-per-month
charge to city utility bills
to pay for a bond of about
$1.3 million, and a com-
panion item on the ballot,
Measure 32-39, would have
granted the city authority to
temporarily raise in-town
landowners’ property tax if
collections through the util-
ity charge came up short of
projections.
See VOTERS, Page A7
See STAUFFER, Page A7
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wallowa County Chieftain
See WATER, Page A7
with community colleges and
universities nationwide.
This interconnectedness
will allow Stauffer to reach a
much wider group of profes-
sionals who can aid business-
es at various points in their
development. “Part of my job
is to be a clearing house when
people come to me,” Stauffer
explained. “I need to know
where to send them.”
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Hall Meeting May 19.
The $3 million-plus water update project, funded by a
Community Development Block Grant, included the re-
placement of 425 water meters, 10,000 feet of mainline,
4,000 feet of service line, a new well and pump station
on Douglas Street and reservoir on Green Hill. The sys-
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whom were of low to moderate income. The project
effectively doubled the city’s water supply.
Construction is now complete.
“It seems to be a good working system,” said Travis
Schaeffer, public works assistant.
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own water lines. There were approximately 90 leaks dis-
covered in April.
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works supervisor.
Another learning curve facing city residents is paying attention to water
usage.
“We’ve had free rein with our water so far,” said
Goebel, “but I don’t think people are going to want to
run their sprinklers all day anymore; sprinklers are our
highest usage.”
The city has provided a handout informing folks of
how much water is used in various activities and pub-
lic works performed a test of their own, discovering
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per minute.
Residents will not be charged the new rates until
August to give them time to work out any bugs in their
own water piping and learn how to use their water
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750 gallons thereafter.
much broader and deeper net-
work of assistance through
the Blue Mountain Commu-
nity College system, Stauffer
said.
“The Blue Mountain
SBDC provides a much rich-
er set of resources, business
models and training,” he said.
The program supports 20
centers in Oregon alone, is ad-
ministered in 1,000 counties
around the country, and works
under a federal partnership
Up-and-coming country
music singer Cale Moon may
spend a lot of time playing
Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in
Nashville these days, but he’s
not too busy to stop by En-
terprise’s OK Theatre to do a
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for the Enterprise Cemetery.
It’s scheduled for 4 p.m.
Moon, 21, was born in
Elko, Nev., moved to the
Tri-Cities area of Washington
at the age of 10, but his Wal-
lowa Valley roots run deep.
“I spent all my summers on
my grandfather’s cattle ranch
in Enterprise. My mom’s side
of the family has been there
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side since 1900, so I’ve got a
lot of family there. It’s been
more of a second home than
anywhere else,” Moon ex-
plained.
The young singer doesn’t
recall when he started get-
ting the itch to become a mu-
sician. “Music’s always been
a part of my life. When I was
12, my voice changed from
high soprano to a baritone
overnight,” Moon said.
Though he played with
the idea of becoming a mu-
sician at the time, Moon had
more interest in acting. In
2009, he competed for Team
USA in the World Champi-
onship of Performing Arts
in Hollywood, where he
walked away with 14 med-
als in various categories, in-
cluding acting and modeling
as well as performing. “It
was kind of like the Olym-
pics for performing arts,”
Moon said.
That was also the year he
learned to play guitar, and he
eventually decided a career
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Country music artist Cale
Moon of Benton City, Wash.,
is giving a May 31 benefit
performance at the OK
Theatre for the Enterprise
Cemetery.
in music was more to his
liking, and Moon dedicat-
ed himself toward that end.
“It connects you to so many
things, and you can express
so many things in music. At
15, I decided that’s what I
wanted to do for the rest of
my life,” he said.
Moon already has two al-
bums under his belt: the 2011
release, “The Beginning,” and
2013’s “True Love Waits.”
Among Moon’s biggest
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singers Josh Turner, George
Strait, Vince Gill and more re-
cently, Josh Thompson. Moon
also sings a lot of country gos-
pel. “I like to give a bit of a
tithe back to where the gifts
came from. I don’t want to
forget that God’s the one that
got me started in this and He’s
the one who deserves all the
credit,” Moon said.
See MOON, Page A7
‘SCOTT AND I WOULD LIKE TO WORK THROUGH THIS’
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River Woods, with conditions
multi-agency response to the
remote Imnaha River Woods
area, is charged with unlaw-
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to rescue Shirley Scott, 63,
Fauste told Wallowa
from a reportedly armed and County Circuit Court Judge
dangerous Scott Lee Fauste, Russ West he wanted his day
53, just nine days earlier, in court and agreed to the
but when Fauste appeared in restrictions placed upon him
court the morning of May 20, by the judge as he awaits a
he appeared as a man with trial date. A court-appoint-
friends who wanted to speak ed attorney will represent
in his behalf.
Fauste.
Fauste, who was re-
The judge noted that both
sponsible for the May 11 marijuana and “a significant
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
amount of alcohol” appeared
to have been involved in the
initial incident and empha-
sized that continuing restric-
tions included an order of no
contact with Shirley Scott
and an ankle bracelet to mon-
itor his location, no drugs
or alcohol and no visits to a
bar, submission to random
urinary analysis tests as re-
quired, and no access to guns
or weapons of any kind. He
will also observe a curfew of
9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
See FAUSTE, Page A7