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News Wallowa County Chieftain wallowa.com NOTICES: Residents asked to leave home LODGE: Piece of history for sale Continued from Page A1 June 10, 2015 staff are hoping that, what- ever their broad plans for the property may be, the new owners will continue to pre- serve the lodge. Zwerling has assured them that most of the potential buyers are thinking of doing just that, Cosgrove said. “I want to assure people that the current acting owner, Marc, is doing his very best to get the lodge sold to someone who wants the lodge to con- tinue intact,” Cosgrove said. “A wonderful thing about the lodge is that it’s so unique and special and — despite being smaller than some Na- tional Parks lodges — grand in scope; it’s a piece of histo- ry and we’re doing our best to preserve it.” But preservation doesn’t preclude a full house and plenty of activity. Staff just ¿QLVKHG D ELJ ODQGVFDSLQJ project, re-grading and sur- A9 facing of the parking lot, and repainting the surface of the lodge to prepare for the sea- son. As much as they love vis- itors, this isn’t work done just so that newcomers can admire the lodge, Cosgrove said. The lodge is a Wallowa County treasure and locals are encouraged to continue to enjoy it as their own. “We’re open seven days a week for breakfast and dinner throughout the season,” Cos- grove said, “and that’s open to the public, so we would love to see more locals come up and eat with us. We have the best restaurant staff — RXUIRRGLV¿YHVWDU2XUKHDG chef, Norman Senn, is mag- QL¿FHQW´ The Wallowa Lake Lodge Auction catalog on the site rmnw-auctions.com, can be reached directly at tinyurl. com/qghqgh8. They advertise widely and, for instance, currently have advertisements for Wal- lowa Lake Lodge in both the Continued from Page A1 New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. $OWKRXJK OHJDOO\ GH¿QHG “We have a good track differences exist between nurs- record of selling properties,” ing home care and assisted said NW Realty Marketing living, family members of the CEO John Rosenthal. “We’ve affected residents say that Mar- got the environmental report, athon, the company that origi- zoning plans, a pretty good Courtesy photo nally managed WVSL, assured package (of information) on them that even if their loved the property. The way we add The Wallowa Lake Lodge lobby. ones’ needs exceeded the care value is by telling the story parameters offered by WVSL, of the property and exposing ty (it was featured in the PBS place — and booking a record the residents could live out their it to a broad base of potential Special “The Great Lodges number of visitors this year. days at the facility, as though buyers.” of the National Parks”), the Cosgrove said 2015 is “grandfathered in.” Rosenthal tells the story resort commercial zoning “shaping up to be the best In a May 25 letter addressed of Wallowa Lake Lodge in a (condos, conference halls, year we’ve had since 2008.” to Wallowa County Health Care lush, full-color, 20-page, on- more commercial business “The reservation book is District board members and the line magazine. sites are all possible), the very full and June business Wallowa Memorial Hospital “I think it’s one of the best fact that it sits right on the is way up,” Cosgrove said. administrator (Larry Davy), (advertising packages) I’ve edge of one of the premier “July, August, and September members of two of the affect- done in 28 years,” said Rosen- fishing lakes in the United take care of themselves, but ed families named a Marathon thal. “There was a good story States, that it is adjacent to we’re booking in October al- employee whom they said to tell on this. This is proba- the most popular state park ready.” made the families that promise. bly one of the more interest- in Eastern Oregon, the fact The Seven Wonders cam- In March 2014 the health ing properties I’ve sold. It’s that the Wallowas are one paign has been a big plus for care district contracted with amazing.” of the Seven Wonders of Or- the lodge and Wallowa Coun- Artegan, a Vancouver, Wash- That amazing story went egon – and beyond all that, ty in general, Cosgrove said. LQJWRQEDVHG ¿UP WR VXFFHHG out in 20 bid packages in early he thinks it’s priced low and “Seven out of 10 of your res- Marathon as WVSL’s manager. June and about 75 individuals ready to boom. ervations are people who have While Artegan co-owner asked for catalogs before the “I think if you were to never been here before or ha- Warren Page and Jennifer Ol- ads in the NY Times and Wall have to replace that property ven’t been here for 10 to 20 son, WVSL executive director, Street Journal came out. today you would be at nearly years,” she said. “Of course, have yet to discuss the situa- Rosenthal expects to sell twice (the starting bid price) we have many, many guests tion concerning former nurs- Wallowa Lake Lodge just as — not counting the price of who are clockwork regulars ing home residents with the he has the large timber tracts the land,” Rosenthal said. “I — that’s always wonderful.” Marathon employee who was he made his bones on when think Steve Larson had a leg- Potential buyers will begin named, both say that no writ- he first started. “I often have acy there of what he wanted; arriving the weekend of June ten record of any such prom- far more buyers than proper- he did very little marketing. 20-21 for scheduled inspec- ise exists. Olson also said the ties to sell them,” he said. I think a new owner would ex- tions of the property, but they person named was actually Oregon property is easy pand marketing.” DUH H[SHFWHG WR ¿W LQWR WKH only an independent interme- to sell, he said, and as for Whichever way the new ambiance and will not be dis- diary working for Marathon Wallowa Lake Lodge, he’s owner goes, the lodge is an rupting the experience of reg- through the transition phase pleased with the historic and easy entry property. A man- ular guests, said Cosgrove. from the old nursing home, cultural value of the proper- agement team is already in Cosgrove and the core and not a permanent Mara- thon employee. “We’ve tried to make it a point to keep our residents at WVSL as long as we can, but Continued from Page A1 ership/access to needed equip- the project. at some point, we can’t do it ment and personnel, and rep- The Davis Bacon Moni- 7KH QHZ ¿UH K\GUDQWV utation for responsibility were toring Award in the amount of DQ\PRUHWKHQZHZDQWWR¿QG the best suitable care,” Page will improve the city’s Insur- all up to snuff. Baker found the $15,000 went to North East Or- OHSU Resident said. He also said it was a coin- DQFH6HUYLFHV2I¿FH,62¿UH company to have “excellent ref- egon Economic Development Jade Koide, MD cidence that the three residents rating, eventually resulting in erences and an excellent track District (NEOEDD). NEOEDD happened to arrive at their re- lower insurance rates on homes record.” will monitor wages for workers 5/26/15 - 6/29/15 spective higher care needs at in the district, according to City As a result the city signed the on the project. Hours: Administrator Michele Young. the same time. required “responsibility deter- The organization recently Monday - Friday “The city ought to be really, mination form” on June 8 and monitored the Wallowa City Both Page and Olson said 7:00am to 7:00pm WKLVLVWKH¿UVWWLPHWKDW:96/ really happy,” said City Engi- Baker departed immediately Water Project. “We’ve been do- Saturday residents have reached a care neer Troy Baker, “You got a to submit the form to the Ore- ing a lot of Community Devel- 9:00am to 1:00pm level beyond the level the fa- good bid and a good contractor.” gon Construction Contractors opment Block Grant Adminis- 603 Medical Parkway Oregon revised statues re- Board. cility can provide. Olson said tration work, lately,” said Sara Enterprise, OR 97828 WKDW WKH GD\ QRWL¿FDWLRQ quire that Baker investigate Other bidders now have sev- Miller, economic develop- letters did not come out of the Warrington Construction to en days to protest the award, af- ment specialist for NEOEDD. blue. “We’ve been having these make sure that proper licensing, ter which time Warrington Con- conversations with the families record of performance, own- struction can begin preparing for Wallowa County for about six months. We have policies and procedures be- cause we know it’s incredibly GLI¿FXOWWR¿QGUHVRXUFHVKHUH We don’t walk up to people and just hand them a letter and say ‘sorry,’” Olson said. The families who wrote the May 25 letter asked that the issue be placed on the agenda at the June 22 Wallowa Coun- ty Health Care District board meeting. Olson thinks some com- munity involvement might be 519 W. 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