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June 10, 2015
Historic lodge goes up for sale
Crawford
no longer a
full-timer
”
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
The late Steve Larson, last man-
ager and co-owner of Wallowa Lake
Lodge, was a preservationist, taking
pride in restoring and maintaining the
historical ambiance of the 1923 lodge.
By Steve Tool
The new owner ... we shall see.
Wallowa County Chieftain
Historic Wallowa Lake Lodge is
for sale and the deadline for getting
Three local families with your sealed bid in on the 8.46-acre,
members residing at Wallowa lake front property is July 29. The
Valley Senior Living report- minimum bid is $2,750,000 and Bank
edly received letters from the of Eastern Oregon has agreed to han-
facility stating that the resi- GOHWKH¿QDQFLQJIRUTXDOL¿HGEX\HUV
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dents’ needs now exceeded
Larson and his business partner
the care level offered there. Marc Zwerling have owned the prop- Wallowa Lake Lodge in summer.
The letter also indicated the erty since 1990.
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Larson, an avid hiker, had been Laura Cosgrove.
way performance.”
other options.
talking about retiring and spending
“It’s a lot of responsibility, a daunt-
When Larson died last July, Zwer-
A spokesperson for the his time on the trails for the last three ing responsibility, to run this place,” ling took action on those delayed retire-
affected families said that all years, said current lodge manager she said. “It’s like putting on a Broad- ment plans.
plan to appeal the notices.
The three affected indi-
viduals were residents of the
nursing home the local health
care district operated before
Th is Breadwinner ‘29er’ will be hidden somewhere in the Wallowas
Wallowa Valley Senior Living
(WVSL), an assisted living
facility, was built.
See NOTICES, Page A9
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IT’S A LOT OF RESPONSI-
BILITY, A DAUNTING
RESPONSIBILITY, TO RUN THIS
PLACE. IT’S LIKE PUTTING ON A
BROADWAY PERFORMANCE.
Laura Cosgrove, lodge
manager
NW Realty Marketing of Portland
is handling the sale. NW Realty Mar-
keting is the same well-known auction
company that handled the sale of the
Minam River Lodge and, more recent-
ly, the former Sterling Bank building in
Enterprise.
NW Realty Marketing puts out sales
catalogs on hundreds of rural and com-
mercial properties and sells via auction.
See LODGE, Page A9
the week of July 13
This map shows
the location of the 7
Wonders.
The custom Wallowa
County bike built by
Breadwinner Cycles
of Portland.
Travel Oregon map
Courtesy photo
Aaron Marineau
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Retiring Enterprise High
School teacher Mike Craw-
ford can look back at a distin-
guished teaching and coaching
career after
27 years of
instructing
students
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er points of
mathematics
and athletics.
Raised
Crawford
in Halfway,
Crawford’s father moved to Jo-
seph just as Crawford was start-
ing his college career at Oregon
State University. Crawford re-
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summer off, and eventually met
and married his wife, Tammy,
who is from Joseph.
Crawford graduated from
OSU in 1981 after a detour
into education from computer
science. Crawford said a phone
call during his junior year of
college from the father of his
best man, who was an adminis-
trator at Arlington High School,
changed his course of action.
See CRAWFORD, Page A8
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SCAVENGER HUNT
‘7 BIKES 7 WONDERS’
TO HIDE BIKE IN WALLOWAS
By Kathleen Ellyn
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Wallowa County Chieftain
et ready to get your hands
on a one-of-a-kind cus-
tom-made Wallowas moun-
tain bike.
Travel Oregon has
announced a new tourism
booster event designed to ex-
cite the bicycle riders of the
state. They’re calling it the “7 Bikes 7 Wonders”
scavenger hunt to complement the record-setting
“Seven Wonders of Oregon” campaign.
Travel Oregon began the popular Seven Won-
ders campaign in 2014 and named Mt. Hood, the
Columbia River Gorge, Smith Rock, the Coast,
Crater Lake, the Painted Hills and the Wallowas as
the 7 Wonders of Oregon. That campaign was so
successful that Travel Oregon’s fan base grew by
more than 120,000 in just one year.
Now, Travel Oregon has announced that seven
Oregon bike-makers have made seven custom
bikes for each of the Wonder areas and those bikes
will be hidden near each of the Wonders — ready
to be claimed by some lucky bicyclist.
A scavenger hunt, which begins June 15 with
the Mt. Hood bike, will reveal clues to each bike’s
exact whereabouts, focusing on a different bike
hidden at a different Wonder each week. The
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available only if you travel to the area. Clues will
be posted at TravelOregon.com/7Bikes7Wonders
and on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter using the
hashtag #7bikes7wonders.
The Wallowas will hide a “29er” bike designed
for wide-open spaces built by Ira Ryan and Tony
Pereira of Breadwinner Cycles, Portland. The bike
will be featured the week of July 13.
“We designed this bike to be a long-distance,
go-anywhere sort of explorer machine, because
the Wallowas region offers a huge landscape,”
Ryan said. “The only limitation to a bike like this is
where you can pedal. So this is like the old horse of
the bike world — it gets you up the steep pitches,
down the trail. It’s a rugged, faithful companion.”
The Wallowas bike has the frame, clearance
and structure to go anywhere, Ryan said. “It re-
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big stretches of valleys and then rugged terrain
surrounding.”
See HUNT, Page A8
Enterprise saves $850K on water project
Money will be used for hydrants, other ‘alternative additives’
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
The City of Enterprise
just saved $858,000 on the
construction bill for its wa-
ter system improvement
project.
Enterprise City Council
voted Monday night to ac-
cept a low bid of $3.4 million
for completion of the project
from Warrington Construc-
tion Corporation of Oregon,
a large firm out of Ontario.
The city had budgeted $4.1
million for the project. This
amount included a contin-
gency fund.
In all, the city received
four bids ranging from $3.24
to $4.97 million, with War-
rington Construction being
the lowest bid.
The $858,000 savings
meant that the city could im-
mediately include the five
“alternative additives”: 57
new fire hydrants, rehabil-
itation of the concrete res-
ervoir, an epoxy coating for
the concrete reservoir and
other projects identified as
“needed work.”
These projects had been
placed on the additives list
in case the bids received did
not allow for their immedi-
ate completion.
The additions brought
Warrington’s
contract
amount up to $3.9 million,
leaving the city a healthy
$557,000 in the contingency
fund.
See WATER, Page A9