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Wallowa County Chieftain News wallowa.com July 20, 2016 Eat, drink, shop and visit Lostine BIZ BUZZ Kathleen Ellyn I t’s been a great couple of months for summer business- es and restaurants. Down in Lostine, Dave Cherry has opened his “muse- um cum antiques store” for the summer again and is welcom- ing tourists and locals alike. His white clapboard store is right on the main street (Highway 82) across from M. Crow Mer- cantile. Cherry’s several stores, in- cluding a newer 42-foot by 48- foot shop out back, are stocked to the rafters with well-orga- nized and displayed collect- ibles, including tools, lunch boxes, cookie jars, still-in-the- box collectible toys, vinyl re- cords, televisions from the 40s and more. Treat yourself to a museum experience and come home with a wonderful item for your own personal collection. He’s open 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday from June through September. “I used to go longer, but I got older,” Cherry quipped. Don’t forget to take a gan- der in the open lot between his main two stores and his storage building. There are some rusty agricultural machines in there and they are for sale as well. • Just one block down (to- ward Wallowa) the former Los- tine Community Store has mor- phed into another half-museum, half-collectibles store seasoned with vegetables and berries. Now called “Funk & Junk,” the store boasts selections from Jeff and Melissa Nehls’ collec- tion of more than 80,000 pieces of war memorabilia, along with collectibles including glass- ware, movie posters and quality costume jewelry. “Look around, we have ev- erything, A to Z,” Jeff said. The Nehls accept consign- ments, so bring your quality collectibles in to see if they it in the store. They opened Memorial Day weekend and had a great open- ing and good weekends since. So, now the Nehls have another job to add to their full- time jobs. Melissa, you may recall, owns the “Maid in Or- egon” housekeeping service and is booked up. Jeff is log- ging 70 acres up Allen Canyon right now, used to work for Nez Perce Fisheries before that, and owned an antique store in Jo- seph before that. The garden is still growing fresh vegetables and berries, too, and Jeff plans to make a New York-style vegetable handcart to display garden pro- duce by fall. Funk & Junk is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. • Meanwhile, down in Wal- lowa, another restaurant has popped up. Main Street Grill moved three doors down from their former location, but remain right on the main street, and the new restaurant “Horseshoe Bar & Grill” took over their original spot. Sisters Jessica Clary of Lostine and Melissa Keene of Enterprise thought they saw a need in Wallowa for another place to eat and hang out, so they teamed up with their ex- tensive customer service and cooking skills and opened July 14. So far, they’ve got pool and darts for your hang-out plea- sure and karaoke and cards are coming soon. You may recall the restau- rant space is divided into two rooms with family dining on one side and the bar and pool table on the other. The kitchen is pumping out a full menu: breakfast, lunch and dinner, with prices topping out at $10.95 for a chicken fried steak breakfast and just $8.25 for a one-third pound jalapeño burg- er. Dinner includes chicken, steaks and more, and there is a kid’s menu. There’s also a full bar and draft and bottled beer. The sisters have long-term restaurant business experience, having worked in past restau- rants such as the Backwoods and Tomas and more current eateries such as the Glacier Grill. This Saturday will be their grand opening and they expect to have a drink and food spe- cial, but were still discussing just what that would be when I visited them. They’ve been busy since they opened, packing the place on their irst day of business after only having posted the opening on Facebook — so it looks like they were right about Wallowa needing another spot. Their hours are 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and the full bar opens at 11 a.m. • Back in Enterprise the cat is out of the bag with regard to Lear’s Pub and Grill on Main Street. Yes, it is true that Kathy This month marks the 25th anniversary of both the Area Health Education Cen- ter (AHEC) program and of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Family Medicine’s rural rotation in Enterprise. The programs together have touched Wallowa Coun- ty in countless ways. The AHEC has brought programs like MedQuest and Girls in Science that have trained and mentored Wallowa County Youth to pursue health-fo- cused careers. The AHEC Rural Community Health Clerkship and Oregon Rural Scholars rotations in Enter- prise, and the OHSU rural residency program in Klam- ath Falls have brought to Wallowa County four primary care doctors — Dr. Caine, Dr. DeYoung, Dr. Powers and Dr. Sheahan. To celebrate the anniver- sary these two successful pro- grams, local health leaders are hosting a town hall meeting from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, July 23 at Cloverleaf Hall in En- terprise. Members of the Of- ice of Rural Health board and staff, local and state lawmak- ers, and the Wallowa County community in general are in- vited to discuss ways to pro- mote programs that support doctors coming to and living in rural Oregon communities, and the building of the health care teams that support these doctors. In 1990 Wallowa County was in trouble. Dr. Siebe and Dr. Euhus were among the few doctors in town. Dr. Sie- be conducted a formal survey of doctors across the state and found a similar story in all of rural Oregon — doc- tors leaving or retiring, and communities in need. Dr. Eu- hus took these indings to the state legislature with a strong call to action. The legislature listened, and from that ses- sion came the creation of the AHEC program and a man- date to OHSU to train and retain primary care doctors across the state. Yet today we ind our- selves in much the same place as we were 25 years ago. Wal- lowa County and other rural communities across the state are struggling to provide the solid primary care base that is needed to help keep commu- nities healthy and thriving. Immediately following the town hall, there will be a com- munity barbecue and square dance from 5-10 p.m. at the Blue Barn Farm, 63327 Ten- derfoot Valley Road in Joseph. The event is spearheaded by Winding Waters Medical Clinic, with support from a va- riety of organizations includ- ing: Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), North- YEARS Continued from Page A4 Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain Antiques and Second Hand store owner Dave Cherry of Lostine stands in front of part of his collection of braces. “I’ve got about 80 on the wall and 80 more in those boxes.” and Steve Lear want to spend more time with their grandkids in Lewiston and they’ve leased the restaurant to Rachel Esqui- bel of Enterprise. Esquibel’s request for a liquor license was approved at Enterprise City Council earlier this month. Esquibel has no plans to im- mediately change things at the pub. “The Lears have been there 13 years,” she said. “I don’t want to ix something that isn’t broke.” Lear’s clientele is very loyal and has expectations, so Steve taught her some of his signa- ture recipes. She said she plans to keep those and branch out slowly. Steve and Kathy Lear have not leased out their apartment upstairs, but that’s not out of the question, Steve said. For now, the Lears intend to drive back and forth to Lewiston for that all-important grandchild time while they explore their options. • Dandelion Wines, straight across the street from Lear’s Pub and Grill, also is adding some services: occasional guest speakers for their third Thurs- day tastings and the opportuni- ty to lease the space for private parties. Check with Michael or Jody Berry at 541-263-5539. Chuck, Max, Jack and Malcolm are gone. Don Green and Eve Slinker have moved away. The current crop of artists and musicians owes them. Friends Jack McClaran — my favorite Christmas book shopper and local philosopher — and Wayne McFetridge set high bars in agriculture and fought for good schools. Today’s farmers, teachers and stu- dents owe them. I’m back on Main Street, in Joseph at the Josephy Center. One more story: I think — or maybe just imagine it so — that Ben Weathers was here when Chief Jo- seph made his last trip to the county in search of a few acres of land to come home to. I always said that with Ben, “I shook the hand that shook the hand” of Joseph. The locals turned Joseph down, and he went back to Colville, Wash., and “died of a broken heart.” The back of the Bookloft had been Ben’s ofice — I left the sign up for years. And now I shake the hand of Nez Perce descen- dants at dances and feasts in Wallowa and Joseph every July. Columnist Rich Wand- schneider lives in Joseph. Better Body Massage with Heidi Jones Swedish • Deep Tissue • Hot Stone • Spa Elements LMT #22520 Health leaders to host town hall, barn dance Wallowa County Chieftain A5 Now Taking Appointments – Call or Text 541-398-0815 east Oregon Area Health Ed- ucation Center (NEOAHEC), Wallowa Memorial Hospi- tal, and the Wallowa Valley Health Care Foundation. 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