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Wallowa County Chieftain wallowa.com News August 10, 2016 Maxville Gathering adds lumberjack competition Don Flemons gets things started Friday night at OK Theatre By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain Lace up those calks, you brush monkeys and bullbucks and get ready to set those dogs in and beavertail a good but- tlog. The rest of us will watch and learn as the 8th Annu- al Maxville Gathering takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20 at the Nez Perce Homeland Site east of Wallowa. It’s an alcohol- and drug- free family event that cele- brates the logging history of Wallowa County. There are stories, tours, demonstra- tions and competitions based on the history of Maxville. Also on tap: rides on a mule wagon around the grounds, food booths, vendors, Ma and Pa races, a BBQ pig din- ner cooked by Pigtail Pork of Cove with lots of sides for just $7 per person, and more. This year, lumberjacks of all levels are invited to take part in competitions from chocker setting and double bucking right on down to homeowner chainsaw compe- titions. Professional loggers from Sinclair Brothers Tree Ser- vices, Trouble Tree Service and Executive Tree Care also will perform. Sign up to com- pete at 9 a.m. before the event Courtesy photo From left: Eric Sinclair, Darrell Brann and Brandon Casper help prepare for the upcoming Maxville Gathering. starts. Local merchants have do- nated prizes, and Boise Cas- cade, Grain Growers, Ace Hardware of Enterprise and La Grande, Joseph Hardware and D&B Supply in Island City are event sponsors. It’s not all spectator sports for the kids, either. Jarred Bedard of Enterprise will be creating kid-friendly logger games. Silent auction and raf- le items include a one-hour light over the Wallowa Mountains and Hells Can- yon with pilot Joe Spence or a half-hour light over Wal- lowa Mountains and Eagle Cap Wilderness with pilot Tim Locke. There’s also a sesquicentennial Pendleton blanket and a bronze fennec fox sculpture from Tim Parks Bronze. The Brann Family of En- terprise will perform live music and there will be a per- formance by modern ballet dancers from the Hope Dance NYC Workshop being held in Enterprise before the event. “Our event is just like a logging camp is — all inclu- sive,” said Maxville Heritage director Gwen Trice. As an accompaniment to the Maxville Gathering, award-winning perform- er Dom Flemons & Friends again will perform at the OK Theatre on Friday evening in advance of the Saturday event. Flemons has played live for over one million peo- ple just within the past three years. As part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, which he co-founded with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robin- son, he has played at a vari- ety of festivals spanning from the Newport Folk Festival to Bonnaroo, in addition to re- nowned venues such as the Grand Ole Opry. “He’s got great stories of old time musicians,” Brann said. “He’s really tapped into the cultural history.” Last year Flemons did three encores for an enthusi- astic and appreciative crowd. Doors open at 8 p.m. Friday at the OK Theatre. Tickets cost $25 and are available at www.eventbrite.com. Two sentenced for burglaries at Joseph Charter School By Steve Tool Wallowa County Chieftain Joseph Charter School re- cently was the scene of a dif- ferent kind of lesson for four would-be burglars — crime leads to jail time. A judge recently sentenced two adults for their roles in a string of break-ins at the school in February. On Feb. 28, Cameron Og- den, 24, Jacob Dylan Hart, 18, and two juveniles passed the time in a backyard trailer Og- den occupied at the home of one of the juveniles’ parents. Hart and Ogden were both unemployed. Hart and at least one of the juveniles already had criminal records. Sometime during the ear- ly evening, Hart and the two juveniles concocted a plan to rob the Joseph Charter School concession stand at the same time the school was holding an open gym night. One of the ju- veniles sneaked into the school and let Hart and the other ju- venile in. They ransacked the concession stand and made off with precious loot of candy and root beer, which they later shared with Ogden back at the trailer. Ogden later suggested a second break-in of the school the same night, this time tar- geting tools inside the school shop. At least one of the juve- Visit us at Wallowa.com niles had experience picking locks. Later that night, a third break-in took place at the main school building. That raid brought forth a bounty of mu- sical instruments left outside the band room as well as cam- eras and speakers. “This is a group of young men with some skills,” said Wallowa County District At- torney Mona Williams during Hart’s May 11 sentencing hearing. After JCS oficials in- formed law enforcement of the break-in, the school pointed to one of the two juveniles in- volved in the crime as a pos- sible suspect. During an inter- view with the named suspect, the juvenile led law enforce- ment to Ogden’s trailer, where New Arrivals from Rieker! The most comfortable and stylish Boots. Select Summer Clearance starts now! most of the stolen goods were stashed. A motorcycle stolen from the city of Joseph also was recovered from the site. Ogden eventually led law enforcement to other stolen items and pleaded guilty to stealing the motorcycle. Other than the candy and root beer, all the stolen items from the school eventually were recov- ered. Both Ogden and Hart were charged with multiple counts of burglary in the second de- gree and conspiracy to com- mit a crime. Judge B. Russell Oficials announce public-use restrictions for Wallowa-Whitman Wallowa County Chieftain Due to increased ire danger and dry weather conditions, forest oficials on Aug. 3 an- nounced new temporary rules for campires, smoking, off- road travel and chainsaw use in the Wallowa-Whitman Na- tional Forest Conditions prompted of- icials to implement Phase A of the Public Use Restrictions (PURS). “Phase A is the second level of restrictions, general- ly implemented when the ire danger is moderate to high,” said Bret Ruby, Fire Staff Of- icer on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Phase A restrictions in- clude: • Chainsaws may be oper- ated only between the hours of 8 p.m. and 1 p.m. local time. A one-hour ire watch is required after saw operations cease. Saw operators are required to have an ax (minimum 2 lb. head, 26” length), shovel (8” wide, 26” length), and ire ex- tinguisher (minimum ABC 8 oz.) in their possession. • Smoking is allowed only in enclosed vehicles and build- ings, developed recreation sites or cleared areas. • No off-road/off-trail ve- hicle travel or travel on roads not cleared of standing grass or other lammable material; no vehicle travel on those FS roads where access has been imped- ed or blocked by earthen berm, logs, boulders, barrier, barri- cade or gate, or as otherwise identiied in the Fire Order. Seasonal campire restric- tions and requirements de- scribed for June 1- Oct. 31 apply: • Campires allowed only in ire pits surrounded by dirt, rock or commercial rings and in areas not conducive to rapid ire spread. All lammable material shall be cleared within a 3-foot radius from the edge of the pit and free of overhanging mate- rial. Use existing pits wherever possible. • Campires must be attend- ed at all times and completely extinguished prior to leaving. • Persons with campires are required to have a tool that can serve as a shovel and one gal- lon of water in their possession. The intent of this requirement is to ensure individuals with a campire to have the tools nec- essary to completely extinguish their campire. • Portable cooking stoves using liqueied or bottled gas and wood-burning stoves equipped with a chimney that is at least 5 feet in length with a spark-arresting screen consist- ing of 1⁄4 inch mesh hardware cloth are allowed. • Use of charcoal briquettes is permitted under the same restrictions as campires de- scribed above. “Recreationists, irewood cutters, hunters, and other for- est users can all help in ensur- ing a safe ire season,” Ruby said. The public is responsible for knowing if restrictions are in place. For more information about the Wallowa-Whitman Nation- al Forest Public Use Restric- tions, visit www.fs.usda.gov/ goto/PURS or call our Public Affairs Oficer Katy Gray at 541-519-4623, Public Af- fairs Specialist Matt Burks at 541-523-1208, or one of the following Forest Information Hotlines: • Joseph 541-426-5552 • Baker City 541-523-1234 • La Grande 541-962-8679 201 East Hwy 82 Enterprise, OR 97828 541.426.0320 West, who recently heard both cases, handed down similar sentences for the two, includ- ing 10 days for each of their respective theft charges and 15 days for the conspiracy charge. Hart received an additional 30- day jail sentence for violating house arrest orders, as did Og- den for the stolen motorcycle. West also sentenced the two to supervised probation and $960 shared restitution to the school, along with a two-page apology letter. Information re- garding any punishment for the two juveniles was not available. 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