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Issue No. 5
May 18, 2016
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Teacher calls it a career
Tammy Crawford will retire after 26 years at Enterprise Elementary
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain
Enterprise teacher Tammy Crawford shares
a laugh with a student.
Tammy Crawford is a happy
woman. On June 10, Crawford will
walk out the doors of Enterprise
Elementary for the last time as a
teacher, wrapping up a 30-year ca-
reer as an educator.
But as sweet as retirement is
going to be — more time with
her grandsons, visits with friends,
more golf, time for projects she’s
put off, time with the mules —
it’s not the retirement that makes
Crawford such a happy woman.
”
IT’S ALWAYS A PRIVILEGE TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO COM-
MITS THEMSELVES TO SERVING THE DISTRICT SO LONG
AND WITH SUCH DEDICATION AS TAMMY CRAWFORD.
High School Principal Blake Carlsen
It’s the fact that she got to spend
26 years teaching in the same
school; seeing the children of her
fi rst students come back, building
relationships and experiencing
new challenges daily.
Crawford grew up in Joseph,
her maiden name is Brennan and
she’s number six of the eight chil-
dren Mike and Florence Brennan
raised. She attended Oregon State
University and then on to Eastern
Oregon University and earned de-
grees in elementary education and
physical education and some extra
certifi cations along the way.
See TAMMY, Page A7
Courthouse committee
considering new building
to meet ADA rules
Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain
Friends of Family Farmers
Rural Organizer Kelly Crane
gets the discussion going
during the listening session
at Hurricane Creek Grange
on May 10. The sessions are
conducted all across Oregon
every other year.
County’s
ag groups
air issues
Local concerns
match small-
farm concerns
statewide
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
Steve Tool/Chieftain
The Wallowa County Courthouse – still standing after more than a
century.
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
A
n aging Wallowa
County Courthouse
building has local
offi cials considering
the option of building
a new courthouse.
The county has secured a
$1.25 million fi re/life/safety
grant from the Oregon Depart-
ment of Justice to bring the Wal-
lowa County Circuit Court into
compliance with the Americans
with Disabilities Act and address
other safety issues. In this case,
compliance may require a new
building rather than renovations.
The ADA requires that an el-
evator be available for access-
ing the second-fl oor courtroom.
Also, extensive fi re suppression
and electrical upgrades are nec-
essary. Former commissioner
Mike Hayward obtained the
grant for the county after submit-
ting an application to the Associ-
ation of Oregon Counties.
The Oregon Legislature ap-
proved a recommendation from
Oregon’s Chief Justice for a $2.5
million grant to be split between
Wallowa and Malheur counties.
Steve Tool/Chieftain
Rain damage on the third floor of the courthouse.
The grant is funded from criminal
fi nes.
A Courthouse Improvement
Committee was formed by the
commissioners to examine all
of the possibilities to utilize the
grant. The committee is composed
of various Enterprise and Wallowa
County offi cials, including the
judges who sit on the court, the
court staff, the district attorney,
county commissioners and others.
Three representatives of
Friends of Family Farmers
(FoFF) met more than a dozen
interested residents at Hurri-
cane Creek Grange on May 10
during a “listening session” for
Wallowa County.
The purpose of the listening
session was to hear from Wal-
lowa County farmers, ranch-
ers, gardeners, caterers and
others associated with agri-
culture on a family-farm level
about their primary concerns.
The brainstorming session
identifi ed dozens of areas of
concern, which were then
whittled down to the top three
areas for the group present:
• Agricultural labor
• Access to small process-
ing plants for meat, grains and
vegetables
• Expanding the Farm to
School program to industrial
users such as local schools and
the hospital
The lack of communi-
ty-sized processing or access
to processing is a priority issue
that FoFF has already commit-
ted to taking to the legislature,
as is expansion of Oregon’s
Farm to School program.
Other issues that the FoFF
facilitators will be taking back
to their head offi ce for consid-
eration include establishing
GMO-free zones, dealing with
pesticide or herbicide trespass,
water resources management
and additional funding sources
for farmers who want to pre-
serve their farms through land
trusts.
See COURT, Page A6
See FRIENDS, Page A6
Montana couple facing multiple
felonies after arrest near Wallowa
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Amanda
Carper
Baltimore
Carper
Local law enforcement author-
ities arrested a couple from Mon-
tana over two days — Thursday
and Friday — while investigating
a tip that the wanted pair, who own
property near Wallowa, could be
in the area.
Wallowa County Sheriff’s
Offi ce and Oregon State Police
teamed up to arrest Baltimore
Leon Carper, 35, and Amanda Re-
nee Carper, 28, on multiple weap-
ons charges as well as possession
See ARREST, Page A6
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