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Wallowa County Chieftain News wallowa.com July 29, 2015 A3 Photo exhibit celebrates area’s wild landscapes JOSEPH — A juried, prized exhibit of wild landscape pho- tography from Wallowa, Baker and Union counties opens at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture with a reception start- ing at 7 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 1. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. 7KHH[KLELWLVWKH¿UVWRILWV kind in Wallowa County and will have three judges present for the awards selections on Saturday. The three judges — Kendrick Moholt, David Paul Bayles and Dan Thornton — will also serve as speakers the previous night at the Josephy Center’s “Live and Up Front” artist lecture series. That event starts at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 31. Both events are free, but do- nations are welcome. From 170 images submitted by 40 photographers, the judg- es selected 29 images repre- senting a dozen photographers for the upcoming exhibition. This image of Horseshoe Lake in the Eagle Cap Wilderness is by La Grande photographer Eric Valentine. Prizes to be awarded are $750 $250 for third, and honorable IRU¿UVWSODFHIRUVHFRQG mentions at $100. L ONG , E CKSTEIN TO WED IN S UMMERVILLE Courtesy photo of art photography — Friday, Aug. 7, from noon to 5 p.m. Cost is $95. • A three-day workshop, ³5HIUHVKDQG5H¿QH<RXU3KR- tography,” with Karyl Kolb, Aug. 14-17. Cost is $125. The Josephy Center will also host two noon hour “Brown Bag” discussions regarding the wild landscape, Aug. 11 and 25. Judge Kendrick Moholt, of /RVWLQHLVDSKRWRJUDSKHU¿HOG zoologist and botanist who has worked more than 30 years at locations around the globe. Judge Daniel Thornton, of Seattle, Wash., is an Em- P\QRPLQDWHG ¿OPPDNHU DQG photographer. Judge David Paul Bayles is a photographer who currently lives and works in the Coast Range of Western Oregon. For more information, contact Cheryl North Cough- lan at 541-432-0505; direc- tor@josephy.org. Kids and county focus on food By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain Elizabeth K. Eckstein and T. Geoffrey Long will exchange wedding vows on Sept. 19, 2015, at The Barn at Tamarack Springs, Summerville. She is the daughter of Neil Eckstein of Elgin and Letha Canfield of La Grande. Geoffrey’s parents are Douglas Long of Lostine, and Bobbi and Dan Thompson of Benton City, Wash. In keeping with the spirit of the state’s “Seven Wonders of Oregon” advertising campaign, each photograph will demon- strate the wild landscape of the region, from its river canyons to its bench grass prairies to Ea- gle Cap Wilderness. Gallery hours at the Jose- phy are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays, and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. The wild land- scapes exhibit is made possible by Ann Werner and the Oregon Community Foundation’s Wer- ner-Ellithorp Fund. As a part of the wild land- scape theme, the Josephy Center will be hosting three photography classes for which registration is available online at www.josephy.org: • A two-day workshop on Adobe Lightroom with Dan Thornton – Aug. 3 and 4 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Cost is $95. • Photography with Ken- drick Moholt — a one-day workshop that covers your DSLR camera and the basics Wallowa County has made leaps forward in offering both better food education and bet- ter food choices in the last few years. 7KDW ZDV RQH RI WKH ¿QG- ings presented by Community Food Systems Coordinator Lau- ren Johnson, Resource Assis- tance for Rural Environments (RARE) Americorps member working with Northeast Oregon Economic Development Dis- trict (NEOEDD). -RKQVRQ JDYH KHU ¿QDO UH- port as a presentation during the Slow Food Wallowas and Wal- lowa County Food Council pot- luck gathering at Fishtrap House in Enterprise, July 16. Johnson’s job while she served in Wallowa County was to analyze the food systems of the county and create strategies to assist in their growth. As part of that work, John- son looked at 21 opportunities for growth and set about doing the background work to facili- tate growth in those areas. An example of a growth op- portunity was the streamlining of the organizational processes for the Lower Valley Farm- ers Market and creation of trainings for produc- ers to build their business Johnson plans and marketing skills. With the new opportunity of supplying fresh produce to area restaurants, Deb Reth, a small- scale vegetable producer in Wal- lowa, took on the responsibility of organizing local producers to meet the need. It was a better option than Farmers Market, Reth said, be- cause the needs were well de- ¿QHG “When you harvest for a restaurant, you know exactly what they want and that they’ll order every week,” Reth said. With Johnson’s help, she created a formalized network of producers and established stan- dards for the produce and set prices. The process made buying easier for restaurants and pro- vided a 10 percent commission to the Lower Valley Farmers Market to help pay for the costs of the central drop-off point, Stein’s ‘Rodeo’ whiskey rolls out restaurant and saloon. He add- took over two months. We got ed that he will probably make a the label approval last Thursday four-grain “Rodeo” blend next (July 17), got the labels on Fri- /RFDO ZKLVNH\ D¿FLRQDGRV year. day and started bottling on Sat- can rejoice as Joseph’s Stein Word about the new whis- urday,” Stein said. Distillery celebrated the 70th an- key had already gotten around The unveiling of the whis- nual Chief Joseph Days Rodeo the community, and several key at the CJD sponsors event with the unveiling of a brand customers bought bottles from proved an enormous success new blended whiskey called Stein during the interview. with bottles number 1 and 70 of “Rodeo.” The unveiling of the The distillery started on the initial 70-bottle run drawing whiskey took place at the CJD the new whiskey idea about a whopping $350 and $450 re- sponsors dinner held July 22. three months ago. “The board spectively. Dan Stein, vice-president of directors from the rodeo ap- Stein said that after a tempo- and master distiller of Stein, is proached us about doing a whis- rary slump, whiskeys are mak- pleased with the new offering. key for them. We got the label ing a comeback, and new whis- “It’s a two-year blended whis- design and sent it in to Washing- keys in particular are proving key, a blend of rye, corn and bar- ton, D.C., for approval, and that very popular. Stein emphasized ley. It’s been distilled and aged as a single-grain.” He added that blended whiskey has to have at least three separate barrels to be considered as a blend. This makes “Rodeo” a whis- key similar in composition, WKRXJKQRWQHFHVVDULO\LQÀDYRU to such blended Canadian sta- ples as Crown Royal or Pend- leton. Stein said those whiskeys probably put four grains in their blends, which he intends to do eventually. Stein himself raises all the grains used in his whis- keys except for corn, which is grown in Hermiston. His aged wheat is currently slated for the August 1, 2010 manufacture of Hamley’s Wheat My wife and I got married on dock number 3 of Wallowa Lake. Friends and family from Whiskey, something Stein dis- five countries descended on this beautiful part of the world for a wonderful day. tills for the famous Pendleton By Stephen Tool Wallowa County Chieftain Jack and Tera Johnston DONATE DOLLARS at the Aug 14 & 15 Support the ELKS Christmas Toy Drive with your cash donation. Help us keep this Wallowa County tradition alive! that this whiskey is not a one- time bottling and will be avail- able in the future. The whiskey was headed for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission warehouse on July 27, and from there it will be available throughout the state. Locally, it is available at the dis- tillery as well as both the Joseph and Enterprise liquor stores. coolers, freezers and dry-stor- age. The next step, said John- son, was to see if the cooperative could afford to pay the primary broker (Reth) for a few of the many hours spent managing the process. Food education programs also saw a continued surge in growth. During her tenure, John- VRQVDZ.¿HOGWULSVWR0DJLF Garden in Imnaha funded in the Joseph Charter School budget, Wallowa Community Garden donate 890 pounds of food to the Wallowa Senior Center and Food Bank, and an ECO Trust mini-grant of $1,500 from the Farm to Preschool project go toward busing kids from six preschools to the Magic Garden. Johnson assisted by helping plan how gardening and preschool programs would work. These results are just a frac- tion of the many positive ad- vancements made in the county, Johnson said. “There are so many great ini- tiatives in the county!” she said, citing cooking demonstrations and classes, the SNAP Match program, the CHIPS program at Wallowa Memorial Hospital, donations of library books that teach food science to children, and many other initiatives. Through her work Johnson GLVFRYHUHGWKDWVKHOLNHGWKH¿G- dly and boring work of pushing the papers and creating the busi- ness processes. “I like doing technical sup- port,” she said. “I like the boring background work that makes an organization work.” Johnson plans to study poli- cy and change the way food is regarded across the nation. “My biggest dream is to change our screwed-up farm bill,” she said. Join us for B LUE M OON Mothing Night Friday, July 31 Karen Antell, PhD Professor of Biology, EOU QNt1SFTFOUBUJPO Who are these mysterious creatures of the night and what are they doing while we're asleep? All welcome. 9pm - Midnight Mothing Expedition! If you like bugs and staying up late, this event is for you. This activity should be fun for all ages, and children and adults are welcome to come ready for bed in their jammies. Fairy wings and antennae are optional. Limited to 20 people. Call 541-263-1663 or come in to sign up. 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