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A6 Mother’s Day wallowa.com SPECIAL MESSAGE Last week on Facebook we asked readers to submit their photos of Mom with any message they wanted to convey for Mother’s Day. Below is the only submission we received. My mom Donna. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. We love you. Courtesy of Brandy Lakey Come and Enjoy the 7th Annual Bring Mom! Lots of chocolate goodies! An event you don’t want to miss! Saturday, May 7, 2016 Beginning at 11:00 am till 3:00 pm in Enterprise, Oregon May 4, 2016 For the Love of Mother dinner on for third year By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain Community Connec- tion is hosting its popular “For the Love of a Mother” Mother’s Day dinner Satur- day, with a seating at 4 p.m. and another at 6:30 p.m. if enough tickets are sold. This is the third consec- utive year for the event. Last year they served 120 mothers and their loved ones (60 at each seat- ing), and this year they are plan- ning a dinner of prime rib or gourmet stuffed chick- en with a side of scampi. The dinner costs $22 and comes with double-baked pota- toes, seasoned roasted veg- etables, homemade bread and dessert. Grandchildren or other youth can have BBQ chicken, mac and cheese with side items for $7. The popular event is a chance to take Mom out for a fi ne-dining experience, with music provided by Janice Garret, candles and centerpieces on every table, and a no-host bar managed by Steve Lear of Lear’s Main Street Pub. Don’t worry if the kids live too far away to make the event, just come on your own. Plenty of ladies do and have a wonderful time. “Many of us are caretak- ers,” said Linda Barr of En- terprise. “I’m coming alone so I’ll get out of the house — it’s my turn.” “It’s an absolutely superb dinner,” said Arlene Herbst Tickets - $10 each (limited quantity available) Purchase at Bee Charmed Marketplace & The Bookloft You’re Invited! Pamper Fest 2016 By Kathleen Ellyn Give Mom a gift OPEN SUNDAY 11-4 Trees •Shrubs •Berries • Annuals • Perennials Vegetables • Pottery •Organic Seeds & Supplies Hardy Roses, Hanging Baskets & Planters, Custom Planting Available, Gift Certificates 541-426-3317 • www.alderslopenursery.com Celebrating 40 years! Open 7 days a week Call for appointment 541.398.1280 Open Daily 10 am - 5 that will bloom all season! Saturday, May 7, 3pm - 6pm Facials - Waxing - Make-up Uptown Clothing & Accessories in Downtown Joseph pm 12 S. Main St. • 541-432-9653 N Want to catch a fl ick on Mother’s Day? You can pick a theme: Good Mom (“I Re- member Mama,” “Stella Dal- las,” “Grapes of Wrath”), Bad Mom (“Throw Mamma From the Train,” “Mommy Dearest,” “Precious”), or Crazy Mom (or crazy son in “Psycho”). Here’s my two cents’ worth on Mother’s Day movies: Moms used to be fetching young things and fellas came a’callin.’ “National Velvet”: The book was published in 1935 and the movie, star- ring Elizabeth Taylor as a child and Mickey Rooney as a young adult was released in 1944. So, it’s ages old. Neverthe- less, the story is timeless. What makes this a Moth- er’s Day fi lm is that it has two strong female leads who not only have personal strength, but lead with a mother’s heart: Velvet, defends that horse like a mother who won’t let her child be sold short; and Edwi- na Brown (Angela Lansbury) S T R E E T M A I S Mother’s Day ’ R Special Menu LEA G r i l l ounty C a w o ll a W ers Grain Grow GRAND NG RE-OPEN T I EVEN ll the fun! Get in on a Enterprise. Herbst and a fellow vol- unteer do all of the dec- orating and then Herbst plans to sit down and enjoy the fruits of their labors. “It was wonderful last year,” said Roswitha Parks of Joseph, who will be serv- ing as well as dining. “Ev- erybody had a good time and the music was great.” Beth Connolly of Enter- prise was looking forward to the event as a solo as well. “I’m going this year,” she said. “I do a lot of things on my lonesome.” No one will need to be lonesome at this year’s event with many solo ladies happy to share their table and talk. Proceeds benefi t Senior Wallowa County Chieftain Champagne & Chocolate Massage • Hair Make-up by Elsa Steen Esthetics! Located inside Teal! Elsa R. Steen Esthetics of Meals and Meals on Wheels programs. Contact Commu- nity Connection at 541-426- 3840 for tickets. Take a sweet swing through downtown Enterprise Those looking to get a jump on Mother’s Day might consider signing up for the annual Chocolate Lover’s Walk from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in downtown En- terprise and the surrounding area. A $10 ticket gets you a special bag for collecting chocolate delights that will be available from various downtown merchants. A limited number of tickets is available at The Bookloft, 107 E. Main St. and Bee Charmed Marketplace, 108 S. River St. Movies that go well with Mother’s Day For more info, contact Wendy at Bee Charmed Marketplace: 541-426-3693 In store promotions & gift with purchase Shop Latest Summer Styles! Wallowa County Chieftain P u b & Thursday, May 5 through Sunday, May 8 EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR Fresh Halibut Crepes Florentine Flat Iron Steaks • Certified Black Angus Gourmet Salads & Dessert MOTHER’S DAY! FLOWERS for all Mothers! M-F 8AM-6PM • SAT 8AM-5PM • SUN 9AM-3PM Open 7am to 2pm, 5pm to Closing | 111 Main Street, Enterprise 541-426-3300 | www.learspubandgrill.com as the mother who understands the desire to challenge oneself in a Big Way. If you’ve for- gotten Mrs. Brown’s secret, I won’t spoil it by revealing it here. “Annie”: Adapted from the Broadway musical inspired by the 1924 Harold Gray comic strip “Little Orphan Annie,” the movie version (1982) stars Aileen Quinn as Annie and Carol Burnett as Miss Agatha Hannigan the lazy, scheming orphan manager. Ab- sentee mothers (and fathers) are central to this story and what constitutes mothering or fathering is examined throughout. If your throat doesn’t tighten a few times in this fun fi lm, you’ve got a rock for a heart. “Grey Gardens”: You can pick from two great versions of this true story of an excep- tionally eccentric, reclusive socialite mother/daughter duo Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale of East Hampton, New York. I recom- mend you see the 1975 doc- umentary fi lm by Albert and David Maysles fi rst and then watch the 2009 HBO fi lm star- ring Drew Barrymore and Jes- sica Lange as Little Edie and Big Edie. And yes, these ladies are re- lated to “that” Bouvier family; Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale is Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’ aunt. Both fi lms won arms-full of awards and the Edies approved the fi lm wholeheartedly. They are decidedly odd, the setting shocking and the moth- er/daughter dynamics have gone right ’round the bend. You may fi nd yourself simul- taneously horrifi ed and grudg- ingly admiring of the way 56-year-old Little Edie persists in casting herself as the bright young designer/performer. And you might or might not be surprised to know that Little Edie’s odd fashions inspired a nine-page layout in Harper’s Bazaar in 1988. It’s a tragic story of a pre- cipitous fall. What’s heroic about it is that the mangled victims of that fall got back up as best they could and pretended it all away.