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LOCAL TRACK & FIELD RESULTS, page A9 Enterprise, Oregon Wallowa.com Issue No. 4 May 11, 2016 $1 DeBoie on ballot despite halting campaign Wallowa County ballot drop sites Elections office will still be legally required to tally his votes By Steve Tool Wallowa County Chieftain DeBoie Former Wallowa County com- missioner candidate Dan DeBoie has publicly withdrawn from the offi ce of his intention to withdraw until late April, and the cutoff date to have a candidate’s name removed from the ballot was March 11. race, but his name still appears on the May 17 primary ballot for the post, Wallowa County Clerk Dana Roberts said. Roberts said DeBoie did not tell the elections division of the Oregon Secretary of State’s See BALLOT, Page A8 • Wallowa City Hall, 211 E. 2nd St., 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday • Joseph City Hall, 201 N. Main St., 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon- day-Friday • Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St., Enterprise, 24- hour dropbox outside, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday inside VISIT WALLOWA.COM TO SEE OUR DRAGON BOAT PHOTO GALLERY Kathleen Ellyn/The Chieftain Bette Rooney of Enterprise with her dog Jitterbug. Rooney’s love for pets and her business acumen led her to apply for the National Federation of Independent Business/Dave Easton Young Entrepreneur Award. She won a $2,000 scholarship, one of only four awards given to Oregon students. Two Hong Kong-style racing boats arrive in Joseph for maiden voyages on the lake By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain N othing went as originally planned, but the result was a complete success. Michael Lockhart, president of both the Wallowa Lake Tram and the Wallowa Lake Tourist Committee, has been working hard to get Wallowa County dragon boat paddlers on the water this spring and he managed to bring two Hong Kong-style racing boats to the county Thursday. The boats are loaned on a “swap lease” that requires the local club — Dragons in the Wallowas — to do a few repairs while they have the boats. On Friday night a group of 24 club members and interested residents gathered at The Outlaw Restaurant for a presentation by Colleen McLaughlin, 73, head coach for the 200-member Golden Dragons race club in Portland. McLaughlin talked about how she began paddling in a dragon boat when she was 60. The 73-year-old later demonstrated that she could easily out-paddle any of the Wallowa County contingent. EHS student wins $2,000 award See DRAGONS, Page A8 Rooney among 100 nationally to earn scholarship By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain Elane Dickenson/For The Chieftain A pause in the middle of the lake for a lesson on paddle technique from Colleen McLaughlin as Dragons in the Wallowas club members take their boat on the water. FBI arrests Idaho man possessing stolen machine gun in John Day By Sean Hart Blue Mountain Eagle The FBI arrested an Idaho man Friday in John Day for possessing an unregistered machine gun with the serial number removed. Michael Ray Emry, 54, was arrested after agents served a federal search warrant on his trailer, truck and car at the Grant County Fairgrounds and RV Park where he had been staying, according to an FBI press release. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the John Day Police Department and the Oregon State Police provided assistance. The criminal complaint fi led by Special Agent Mi- guel Perez states agents found a fully automatic .50-caliber Browning M2 “Ma Deuce” machine gun with an obliterat- ed serial number. The weapon was not registered to Emry in the National Firearms Regis- tration and Transfer Record, as required for fully automatic fi rearms. After being arrested, Emry said the gun could fi re 550-650 rounds per minute and that he took it from a shop where he worked in Idaho, according to Perez’s com- plaint. Perez also said Emry took the gun without the shop owner’s Emry knowledge and destroyed the serial number before trans- porting it from Idaho to Ore- gon. Emry is charged with un- lawful possession of a machine gun not registered to him and unlawful possession of a fi re- arm with an obliterated serial number. He was transported to Deschutes County Jail and was scheduled to be transferred Monday to Eugene, where he will make his initial appear- ance before a federal judge. According to an article on The Voice of Idaho News web- site, Emry was the proprietor of that organization, as well as The Voice of North Idaho and The Voice of Grant County, Oregon. A Facebook post Friday from the The Voice of Grant County confi rms he was ar- rested: “We don’t know the charges — presumably it was because of the Malheur Occu- pation. Michael was there as media and nothing more.” Enterprise High School senior Bettemariam (Bette) Rooney has won a $2,000 Na- tional Federation of Indepen- dent Business (NFIB)/Dave Easton Young Entrepreneur Award. Only four such awards were given to Oregon students. Students who receive the NFIB Young Entrepreneur Awards are seniors in high school who own and/or operate their own small business. The scholarships are used to help with tuition costs for the win- ners’ post-secondary education. Bette’s winning idea was a business she created with her sister, Eyreus. The two joined the Mentor Match program, were matched with advisor Sta- cy Green and “went for it.” “We realized that the town had a fondness for their pets so we thought a good business would be pet treats and pet sit- ting,” Bette said. “We created a logo and name and everything. (Mentor) Stacy was a lot of fun, she was always encouraging us to just jump in and see how it goes.” The two sisters started their business during Bette’s junior year and, as is typical for a startup, it was up and down for awhile — but this year the busi- ness grew. See AWARD, Page A8