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and we’re not going to do
anything to the streets,’ but if
we (the council) communicate
better, I think we can get
approval,” Sands said.
The bank is not asking
Joseph for collateral, although
the council is planning to
pass an ordinance allowing
for the shut-off of water for
those who will not pay the
transportation utility fee in
addition to their sewer and
water bill.
The latest proposal has
been shelved for the time
being, and the road to repairs
in Joseph remains bumpy at
best.
Center of controversy
“The road to hell is paved
with good intentions, and this
is the road to hell.” — Parent
at a school board meeting
regarding school based health
center at Enterprise School.
In the fall Winding
Waters Clinic of Enterprise
proceeded with plans to create
a school-based health center
at Enterprise School, but the
proposal bit the dust due to
complaints from outraged
parents.
The center was primarily
intended to help treat children
who aren’t receiving health
care elsewhere — although
any child with a signed
permission slip from parents
would have been welcomed.
The clinic held a public
meeting Sept. 3 at Cloverleaf
Hall to help clear the air.
Some school staff and a
number of parents attended.
While most of the school staff
supported the center, a number
of parents claimed the center
was a government-based
effort to usurp their parental
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his graduation. It was during
this time that he met his future
wife, Beverly, who is a Wal-
lowa County native.
Hayward and his fami-
ly moved back to Wallowa
County after he left the state
parks job in the early ‘80s.
He worked several jobs, in-
cluding one with Les Schwab
Tires, before the family
bought Eagle Cap Chalets —
a cabin rental business at Wal-
lowa Lake — from Beverly’s
parents.
After serving with several
community committees, in-
cluding the Joseph City Coun-
cil, Hayward ran for county
commissioner at the sugges-
tion of friends. He was elected
to the board of commissioners
in 1997 and became the board
chair after only a few years of
service.
Hayward said the coun-
ty’s involvement with natural
resources is one of the high
points of his tenure.
“When I go to other coun-
ties, Wallowa County is rec-
ognized as having been in the
lead and on the front of nat-
ural resource issues,” he said.
“I didn’t start that, but we’ve
been able to maintain that.”
As an example, he cited
the formation of the county’s
Natural Resources Advisory
Council, which reviews im-
plementation of agricultural,
forest and natural resource
provisions of Wallowa Coun-
ty’s Comprehensive Land Use
Plan.
He also cited management
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A hiker on the East Moraine gazes southward, toward the head of Wallowa Lake.
rights.
Despite the reassurances
of Enterprise school staff and
the clinic staff that no birth
control would be handed out
to students and that any parent
could opt out of treatment for
their child, parents remained
unconvinced.
The clinic attempted
another public meeting on
Oct. 1, but this met with
similar results. After the
subject was brought up with
equal ire at subsequent school
board meetings, the clinic
withdrew its proposal.
Off the list
“It was a biological
decision, yes or no, regardless
of how you feel about wolves
in Oregon.” — Wallowa
County resident Holly
Akenson, who serves on the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife Commission and
voted to delist the gray wolf.
In February, the Oregon
Department of Fish and
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their 2014 annual wolf survey
which found seven breeding
pairs of wolves in the state
and at least 77 wolves in
residence. The numbers
allowed the state to move
the wolves to Phase 2 of the
Oregon Wolf Management
Plan.
The move to Phase 2
of funds, which allowed the
county to add services such as
an assistant district attorney
and full-time veterans ser-
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like any county does, but
overall we’ve managed those
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ly, and I’m proud of that,” he
said.
The Board of Commis-
sioners will choose Hay-
ward’s replacement from a list
of several possible candidates
recommended by the Repub-
lican Central Committee, as
Hayward is a Republican.
That person will serve as an
interim commissioner until
the November 2016 election
— the position will become
nonpartisan beginning with
2016 May 2016 election.
Remaining commission-
ers Susan Roberts and Paul
Castilleja enjoyed their time
serving with Hayward. Cas-
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depredations and two
probables, according to data
published on the ODFW
website.
prompted the ODFW to
look at removing wolves
from listing under the state’s
Endangered Species Act and
give ranchers more leeway in
dealing with wolf depredation,
includes the use of lethal force
when a wolf is caught in the
act of attacking livestock.
On Oct. 26, the ODFW
recommended to the ODFW
Commission, a separate
entity that creates policy for
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wildlife, to delist the wolves.
During a Nov. 9 public
meeting in Salem, the
commission did just that in a
4-2 vote. The vote came after
an 11-hour public meeting
in Salem with over 100
people on both sides of the
wolf issue testifying before
the commission. That vote
meant that eastside wolves
were removed from the state’s
Endangered Species List,
while federal Endangered
Species Act protections
remain in place for those on
the west side of the state.
While livestock producers
celebrated the delisting, the
move unleashed a storm
of protests and a threat of
lawsuits from wolf advocacy
groups, though no lawsuits
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Graveside service
“Support to date of the
cemetery renovation effort
recalls a younger America, an
America in which people at
the community level did not
sit and wait for the state or
federal government to solve
their problems, but instead
took the initiative and put their
shoulders to the wheel.” —
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member Perry Davis
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District board saw three
resignations (board members
Lee Bollman and George Hill
and cemetery manager Mike
Moore), an expansion of the
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pledge made by the grassroots
organization Friends of
Enterprise Cemetery to help
raise $90,000 for an irrigation
system in the park.
The Friends (Ella Mae
(Marks) Hays, Sondra Lozier,
Gail Swarts, Pat Willis, Jim
and Betty Butner, Perry Davis
and Judy Wortman) had a one-
to three-year plan to raise the
funds for repairs to the historic
cemetery and installation of
an underground irrigation
tilleja said the news came as a
surprise to him.
“He’s been helpful and has
done a lot for the county, and
we’re going to miss him,” he
said.
Roberts said Hayward’s
commitment and hard work
will be missed.
“I have a great deal of re-
spect for Mike,” she said.
“He’s done far above and
beyond the call of duty in his
representation of the county.”
Hayward doesn’t expect
the county to fall apart upon
his departure.
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ple who work for the county,
and I expect they’ll just con-
tinue on and do the job.”
system. By December the
District and Friends combined
had banked $78,000 toward
the project and the District
announced they were ready to
draw up plans prior to going
out for bids for the irrigation
system.
Other repairs and
maintenance were taken care
of by an army of volunteers.
According to Sondra Lozier,
board member for Friends
of Enterprise Cemetery,
attendance at Enterprise
Cemetery District meetings
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and a full third of those in
attendance have volunteered
for cleanup days.
On Dec. 11, the Enterprise
City Council awarded the
District $2,000 to pay for
engineering fees so that plans
for the automatic irrigation
project could be drawn up
prior to going out for bids in
January.
donors — brothers Fred,
Frank and Steve Kimball of
Washington state — inherited
the property from their parents
and didn’t want to see the land
divided up or developed.
Then, within just a few
weeks, Congress renewed the
Land and Water Conservation
Fund, a crucial land trust
funding source, for three more
years. That move has Wallowa
Land Trust poised to receive
$3 million to help purchase
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property from a private
landowner.
“The goal is to preserve
the property and put it into
county ownership so it can
be a community-owned
forest,” said Kathleen Ackley,
executive director of the
Wallowa Land Trust. “The
LWCF will help us ensure
this icon of northeast Oregon
remains undeveloped and
locally owned.”
This land is our land
“This property was our
parents’ dream; they poured
their heart and soul into it, and
we’re proud to honor them
by keeping it the way it is.”
— Frank Kimball, who along
with his brothers donated
nine acres of Wallowa Lake
property to a local land trust.
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founded in 2004, ended
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successful — with a bang.
In early December the
land trust just took another
step in protecting the
moraines of Wallowa Lake
from development with the
donation of 9 acres of prime
lakefront property, including
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working system.” — Wallowa
Public Works Assitstant Travis
Schaeffer
Wallowa residents in May
celebrated a major update to
the city’s water system.
The $3 million-plus water
update project, funded by a
Community Development
Block Grant, included the
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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
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doubled the city’s water
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