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January 13, 2016
McDaniel set to take Police chief search attracts
over blues festival deep pool of applicants
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Wallowa County Chieftain
Challenges on the horizon
include getting an infusion of
The Bronze Blues and
youth.
Brews Festival has a new face
“We have a good solid
in the director’s chair as secre-
board that is really committed,
tary/treasurer Wendy McDaniel
but as life goes on and changes,
moved up to co-direct the festi-
we move on to different things.
val with current director Chuck
I think it’s important we get
Garrett, who is retiring after the
younger people involved so we
2016 event.
can continue.”
McDaniel is a native of
Besides working on the
Wallowa County who attend-
festival’s
20th anniversary,
ed the University of Oregon to
McDaniel
McDaniel is encouraging local
obtain an accounting degree be-
fore returning to this area. She one way or the other, no matter sponsors and citizens to get in-
volved.
didn’t grow up as a huge blues who’s sweating what.”
“Become a part of it.
Garrett’s laid-back style of
fan; she credits her son Jesse
for sparking her interest in the Garrett is something McDaniel Whether you want to become
a volunteer or a board member,
intends to continue.
genre.
“Chuck is an amazing peo- we’re always looking for help.
The new director started out
just attending the festival for ple person,” she said. “He’s People need to get behind us if
the good times before joining very grounded and pretty mel- they want to see it continue.”
McDaniel isn’t planning
low. He handles people diplo-
its board.
any major changes in the near
“I’ve attended the festival matically.
“Chuck is a magician at future.
for years. In fact, my husband
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and I had our wedding party handling pressure situations,
and he thinks quickly off the I think it’s an amazing festival,
here,” she said.
McDaniel decided to step top of his head. I’ve always ad- and we’re just going to contin-
ue to bring good music acts into
up her involvement in 2010, mired that about him.”
McDaniel’s
current the community. I take things
when organizers were unable to
strengths are her ability to han- I’m involved with pretty per-
put on the festival.
“If you want something to dle money and write grants — sonally and I just want it to go
happen, you need to step in and she recently helped secure a well.”
Longtime festival board
help with it,” she said. “Since grant that allowed the festival
I do accounting for a living, WR ¿QLVK D IHQFH WKDW HQFLUFOHV member Pearl Sturm thinks
McDaniel is just right for the
the park.
guess where I started.”
“When my kids were little, position.
Once Garrett decided to
“I’ve worked with Wendy
ease his way out of the direc- I was always fearful of taking
torship, McDaniel was eager to them to the park because of the for nearly 10 years, and she’s
river,” she said. “Kids are al- a real workhorse,” Sturm said.
step in.
“She’s done it before, and she’ll
“Chuck’s given a lot of ways drawn to water.”
McDaniel is writing another be a great leader.”
work to the county between the
Garrett also is pleased with
car show and the blues fest. It’s grant to help with band fees for
time for someone else to step in the upcoming 20th anniversary his eventual replacement.
and take these roles so they can of the festival.
“We’re trying to get some of
continue.”
McDaniel already served a our favorite bands from the past
stint as 2014 festival director, back. It’ll bump up our budget
an event that prepared her well a little bit,” she said.
Getting some of the local
for possible calamities.
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and got kicked out of the Thun- involved is also a McDaniel
der Room at the rodeo grounds. priority.
“This is an amazing event.
We had to move to the commu-
nity center at the last minute People are fascinated with the
event and where we have it. We
and almost didn’t get that.
“It was one thing after an- have a natural amphitheater in
other, but we always pull it off the park, and where else can
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By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
It’s Round 2 in the search
for a police chief for Enter-
prise, and according to reports
made at the Monday’s City
Council meeting, the process
is proceeding in a satisfactory
manner.
The council recently passed
along a thick stack of applica-
tions to three Eastern Oregon
police chiefs for review —
Stuart Roberts of Pendleton,
Brian Harvey of La Grande
and Wyn Lohner of Baker
City. Those chiefs made up the
Oregon Association Chiefs of
Police Agency Review Team
whose services were requested
by the city following the res-
ignation of former Chief Wes
Kilgore on March 23, 2015.
The city initiated an outside
review to assess the strengths
and weaknesses of its police
force. The three chiefs who
conducted that review have
remained closely involved in
the entire search and hiring
process.
Chief Harvey further as-
sisted the city by being part
of the interview process in
the last round, which resulted
in a conditional offer being
made to Lt. James Episco-
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Episcopo eventually declined
the position and the hiring
process began again in No-
vember.
This time around the city
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applications, according to
City Administrator Michelle
Young, but some did not meet
basic criteria and were quick-
ly eliminated. Nevertheless,
the number of individuals
potentially in the running was
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Jenni Word, reporting for the
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satisfaction in the process.
“Now that we’ve done
this before we understand the
process and hopefully it will
move smoothly,” Word said.
“There were quite a few (ap-
plicants) from the Northwest.
More than last time, and that’s
encouraging.”
Councilor Stacey Kar-
voski, reporting for the Policy
Committee, also advised that
the city have a performance
evaluation system in place for
department heads and staff.
This is a procedural improve-
ment the city has been work-
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some time. An assessment for
the new system will continue
in coming months.
The city also voted unan-
imously to offer a three-year
contract to Wyatt Baum of
Baum Smith, LLC Law Of-
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torney. Baum is president
of the Union County Bar
Association and is active in
the Oregon City Attorney’s
Association, League of Ore-
gon Cities and Association of
Counties. He also works very
closely with Citycounty In-
surance Service and currently
represents the cities of Joseph,
Elgin and others.
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said Baum. “We’re very hon-
ored and privileged that city
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needs of the residents of En-
terprise.”
Attorney Sadie Kennedy,
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assists Baum. Kennedy has
worked with current city at-
torney Roland Johnson and is
familiar with city issues.
City Attorney Roland
Johnson has served the city
since 1977 and will continue
to represent the city on an on-
going case. He also represents
the city of Wallowa.
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