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August 19, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
Creating Memories cabin 2015 Thunder
Run returns
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By Steve Tool
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Creating Memories, the lo-
cal charity dedicated to help-
ing both disabled children
and adults to connect with
nature, recently welcomed the
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bished cabin at the old Boy
Scout camp just south of Wal-
lowa Lake.
The program signed a 50-
year lease of the camp with
the Boy Scouts last year. The
lease also includes an addi-
tional 50-year option.
The cabin is an A-frame
with a knotty pine interior and
set up with all of the amenities
for people with disabilities.
CM founder, Ken Coreson,
and a number of volunteers,
including Boy Scouts, refur-
bished the cabin in their spare
time.
The Benson family were
the lucky guests who stayed at
the cabin. The family includes
parents Eric and Triann Ben-
son and their children, Emily
and Daniel, of Vancouver,
Wash. The family arrived on
the night of Aug. 11.
The family connected with
CM when Eric Benson played
the OK Theatre as bass player
for singer Jessie Leigh, who
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of the backbone and mem-
branes around the spinal cord.
Though she occupies a wheel-
Trespassers, vandals force falls closure
Wallowa County Chieftain
The second annual Thun-
der Run, the ultimate bike
By Steve Tool
(motorcycle) rally, runs
him the same thing.
Between people us-
Wallowa County Chieftain
from Aug. 20-23, most-
Coreson
recounted ing drugs, and the type
ly at the Wallowa County
people using the insides of of graffiti sprayed on the
Increasing
vandal- one of the cabins to barbe- walls and other proper-
Fairgrounds. The event is
ism forced the closure of cue food, which ruined the ty damage, Coreson said
sponsored by The Stubborn
the Wallowa Creek Falls walls.
Mule Steakhouse and Sa-
Creating Memories can’t
trail, which is on Creating
loon in Joseph.
A crew sent to do work allow unrestricted access
Memories property.
Stubborn Mule propri-
on one of the buildings for the time being, al-
“This place has always found people had set up though he wants to allow
etor, Gary Bethscheider,
been posted with no tres- tents inside. “You know, public access as soon as
is pleased with this year’s
passing signs,” Ken Core- 99.9 percent of the people possible.
offerings of events. “This
son, Creating Memories are really nice, but you
year we have four bands
“I guess I’m a hero and
founder, said. He also said get those few who make it a villain. I wear both hats
Thursday, Friday and Satur-
former adjacent proper- tough for everyone else,” pretty comfortably,” he
day nights. Blue Tattoo and
ty owner Don Butler told Coreson said.
Whiskey River are playing
said.
Saturday night. Whiskey
River is a Lynyrd Skynyrd
tribute band, and they’re
chair, her good cheer and ea- of the family echoed similar ZDVDZHVRPH7KH¿VKLQJWULS really good,” Bethscheider
gerness to throw herself into sentiments.
was fun, and I’m looking for- said.
the Creating Memories expe-
Bethscheider expects a
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rience can make you forget on Aug. 13 on Wallowa Lake, ber — a lot,” she said.
quiet Aug. 20 with new ar-
that.
courtesy of a boat provided by
Coreson said he enjoyed rivals and camp and vendor
The Benson family trav- CM participant Gene Sutton. the Benson family adventure setups, with Friday ratch-
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trip on Wallowa Lake, courte- people spent most of the day the program’s success outside which includes the Bronze
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television program “Oregon wasn’t fun for the partici- getting calls from as far away Bike is a built to scale
Travel Guide” segment was pants.
bronze sculpture of a Har-
as Massachusetts.
also included, but canceled at
“It was great. We really en-
“It’s all free and the Shri- ley-Davidson motorcycle
the last minute because of a joyed the time out of town, the ners Hospital wants to open by artist Dick Cross and
family emergency in the OTG hospitality and everything. LWXSWRDOOWKH3DFL¿F1RUWK cast by Parks Foundry of
ranks.
Emily really enjoyed the trip. west,” Coreson said. He add- Enterprise. “Saturday we’ll
Emily Benson also re- ,WZDVKHU¿UVWWLPHRQDERDW ed the program is also devel- have guided rides and bik-
ceived a Nature Conservancy where she could be comfort- oping 2000 acres with four er games starting at 4 p.m.
deer tag through CM, which able in her own (wheel) chair cabins on the John Day River We’ll also have a lot of
she will put to good use this and enjoy herself,” Eric Ben- and also possibly developing vendors in the grassy area,”
October, with the assistance son said.
Bethscheider said. Those
a site in Wenatchee, Wash.
of CM members.
Emily Benson shared her
“Someday, when people age 21 and younger can en-
“We really appreciate get- father’s enthusiasm about the speak of Wallowa County, ter the food and vendor area
ting to stay here and spend trip.
they’ll say, ‘That’s the place free of charge until 4 p.m.
time here. It’s so beautiful,”
A Show ’n’ Shine event
“I’ve stayed in cabins be- that has Creating Memories,”
Triann Benson said. The rest fore, but not like this one, it Coreson said.
of bikes is also planned for
Courtesy Photo
Follow the Bronze Bike –
Thunder run organizer Gary
Bethscheider and his wife,
Sara, sit astride the Bronze
Bike, sculpted by artist Dick
Cross. The piece will lead
the way during the Bronze
Bike Tribute Parade that
starts in Joseph and ends in
Enterprise on Aug. 21.
Saturday. Music will start
at 5 p.m. with Blue Tattoo
opening for Whiskey River,
which starts at 10 p.m. Sev-
eral raffles are scheduled,
including a small bronze
replica of the Bronze Bike
and a Springfield .45-cali-
ber 911 semi-automatic pis-
tol.
Bethsheider said that
despite pouring rain at last
year’s event, about 900
bikers participated. “This
year, the weather forecast
is supposed to be nice. I’m
hoping we can get a couple
thousand this year or more,”
he said.
Online ticket sales for
the event have ended, but
are available for purchase
at the event. Tickets start
at $10 and range up to $110
for a four-day VIP pass with
amenities. For more ticket
and other information and
a schedule, check the Thun-
der Run website: www.
wcthunderrun.com.
T HE B OOKLOFT WAGES: ‘Wealth’
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doesn’t relate to work
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I called my brother.
Yep, he said, read the intro;
you’ll get bogged down in
the book.
The actual, federal gov-
ernment-set minimum wage
has gone from 75 cents per
hour in 1950, my age of
awareness, to over $7 to-
day; in Oregon we are now
at $9.25. States across the
country have now pushed
well past the federal gov-
ernment, and cities — Seat-
tle, San Francisco, Portland
— are now pushing past
their states.
Years ago, I ended up in
Church Directory
St. Katherine's
Catholic Church
Fr. Roger Fernando
301 E. Garfield Enterprise
Mass Schedule
Weekdays 7:15am
Saturdays 5:30pm Sundays 10:30am
(541)426-4008
stkatherineenterprise.org
St. Pius X Wallowa Sundays 8:00am
All are welcome
Joseph United
Methodist Church
ACROSS
1. Munich jazz label
4. A lump of clay
8. Showy ornament
10. __ Girl, brand of beer
11. Aka Kissavos
12. Warmest season of the year
13. 2nd longest Bulgarian river
15. Records the brain's electric cur
rents
16. Cutting part of a drill
17. Colorful Italian city
18. The last part
19. Pouch
20. "Mad Men" creator
24. No (Scottish)
25. Actress Farrow
26. Focus cars (Co. initials)
27. Snakelike fish
28. One point E of due S
29. Grey sea eagle
30. Female "Mad Men" star
37. Actress Lupino
38. Time units (abbr.)
39. Moses' elder brother
40. 4th Caliph of Islam
41. Treaty of Rome creation
42. Theatrical play
43. Told on
45. "To tie" in Spanish
46. Amidst
47. Exchange for money
48. Bar game missile
49. Pluto or ___ Pater
DOWN
1. Selfishness
2. Cinnamon source
3. Revolutionary firearm
4. Br. university town river
5. Lower back region
6. Relating to oil
7. Soil
9. Cause to lose courage
10. Pushed in nose dog
12. Dregs
14. Part of a cheer
15. Point midway between NE and E
18. Female sheep
19. Main
21. In a way, tangled
22. WWII female grunts
23. Nothing
26. Hoover's organization
27. Before
28. Patti Hearst's captors
29. One point S of due E
30. Film splicer & viewer
31. Something curved in shape
32. Possessed
33. Patagonian hares
34. Gave a formal speech
35. Resident of Mogadishu
36. Tangles
37. Annona diversifolia
40. Mures river city
41. Same as 15 across
44. Explosive
3rd & Lake St. • Joseph
Pastor Cherie Johnson
Phone: 541-432-3102
Sunday Worship Services
8:30 & 11:00 am
Child care provided
at 8:30 am service
Summit Church
Summit Church will worship together with
the Church of the Nazarene this Sunday,
August 23rd. Service starts at 11:00 a.m.
Nursery and Sunday School
will be provided up to age 12.
Faith
Lutheran
Church
409 W. Main
Enterprise, Oregon
Worship 2 nd & 4 th Sundays - 2 pm
Bible Study Tuesdays before the
2 nd & 4 th Sundays at 11 am
LCMS
(Lutheran Church Missouri Synod)
Christ Covenant
Church
Pastor Terry Tollefson
Church Office: 541-426-0301
Family Prayer: 9am
Worship Service: 10am
723 College Street • Lostine
Providence Academy
Enterprise
Community
Enterprise Community
Church Church
Congregational
11:00am Group
Worship
&
Discussion
9:30 AM
Worship
Service 11:00
Children’s
S.S. AM
10:00am Choir
9:30am
Adult Education
541.398.0597
Childrens program during service
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Lostine
On the Hwy
web 82,
at lostinepc.org
Stephen Kliewer, Minister
Wallowa
Assembly
of God
606 West Hwy 82
Wallowa, Oregon
541-886-8445
Sunday School • 9:30
Worship Service • 10:45
Pastor Tim Barton
wallowaassemblyofgod.com
301 NE 1St St * 541-426-3044
BigBrownChurch.org
Worship at 11:00
301
N. Study
E. First
Bible
at Street
9:30
Enterprise
the “Big
Brown Church”
Sunday
Worship
11A.M.
with the
Open Door
(541)
426-3044
Pastor Joseph
Donald Newcomer,
L. McBride
Pastor
541-263-0695
541-263-5319
305 Wagner (near the Cemetery)
P.O. Box N, Enterprise, OR 97828
541-426-3751 Church
541-426-8339 School
Sabbath School 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Worship Hour 11:00 a.m. - Noon
Pastor
Jonathan
DeWeber
Pastor
Steve Gilmore
the company of a bunch of
big city businessmen on a
fishing trip. An increase in
minimum wages was in the
works, and they were all
opposed. Finally, in exas-
peration, I said “OK, let the
free market do it. And while
we’re at it, do away with
child labor laws and the 40-
hour week. The market han-
dled them.”
So go for it, Portland:
$12 per hour — four gallons
of gas!
Columnist Rich Wand-
schneider writes from his
home in Joseph.
LETTERS:
Project
grounded
in science
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Fifth, I am not sure what
a “multicultural” approach to
Maxville means. I do know
that African American and
white families worked togeth-
er, socialized together, prayed
together, and their children
played together. The Memo-
ry Project is trying to locate
descendants of the original
white loggers who toiled the
hazards of the woods along-
side their African American
friends. We all have stories to
tell.
Sixth, The Memory Proj-
ect is a modest project that
seeks no federal or state rec-
ognition. It is a local project
of the Wallowa History Cen-
ter and will remain dedicated
to advancing local collabora-
tion and research to serve our
shared history.
Finally, while the project
may appear informal in na-
ture, it is grounded in solid
social science research meth-
odologies. I hold a doctorate
in political science from the
University of California at
Berkeley and am well aware
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search. I also appreciate and
can respond to the need to
make such research accessi-
ble.
Pearl Alice Marsh
Patterson, Calif.