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September 21, 2016
Wallowa County Chieftain
ART STUDENT’S PAINTING FINDS A BUYER
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By Steve Tool
The addition of the Youth
Arts Showcase also brought
rave reviews and encouraging
feedback from festival go-
ers. Many of the adult artists
agreed that some of the youth
artwork easily could hold its
own with the adult’s juried
artwork on display in the next
room, according to Costello.
He added that the artist’s ob-
servations were proved out
when several of the youth art
pieces also sold to festival-go-
ers (see sidebar).
The festival displayed
more than $300,000 worth
of art while artists sold in the
neighborhood of $16,500 to
festival attendees. The festival
itself awarded $5,000 in priz-
es to the artists. Costello said
several of the art gallery own-
ers on Main Street told him
their walk-in trafic also was
up due to the many visitors in
town for the event.
Local woodturner Tom
Clevenger donated a one-of-
a-kind vase as a rafle item —
775 rafle tickets were sold at
$5 each as a fundraiser for the
event.
When the drawing for the
vase came, about 200 people
crowded into the Joseph Com-
munity Center to witness the
FIRES
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“We need to do this to
make sure we have ire pro-
tection for everyone,” said
Wallowa County Commis-
sioner Susan Roberts during
Wednesday’s meeting in En-
Wallowa County Chieftain
Joseph Charter School
senior Addie
Kilgore
wasn’t sure what to think
when the school’s art teach-
er told her to paint some-
thing other than horses.
Kilgore ultimately decided
to paint a gemsbok, a large
African antelope, because
it was the animal that most
closely resembled horses in
her eyes. The decision paid
off.
After winning prizes
for her art during May’s
Youth Arts Festival, Kil-
gore received an invitation
to enter several paintings
at the youth section of the
Wallowa Valley Festival
of Arts last week. Kilgo-
re took home the Judge’s
Choice Award for the
gemsbok piece as well as
the People’s Choice Award
for a horse painting.
Adult exhibitor Rindie
Mills and her husband Bri-
an of Snohomish, Wash.,
were immediately taken in
Steve Tool/Chieftain
A smiling Addie Kilgore holds up her gemsbok painting beside buyers Rindie and Brian
thinking, ‘Those are both
(including the horse paint-
ing) real good,’ Brian Mills
said.
They started talking to a
woman who was also in the
room — who just happened
to be JCS Principal Sherri
Kilgore, Addie’s mother.
“This is the first year
the festival has invited the
school to have exceptional
student work shown, and
it’s quite an honor to have
the artwork shown, and
have Addie win both the
awards as well as having
her artwork sold,” said JCS
fine arts teacher Jennifer
Connolly.
Kilgore, 18, herself took
her first art sale in stride.
“I was pretty surprised
they were interested in it
since it didn’t have a price
on it,” she said.
The Joseph senior said
the sale doesn’t change the
way she looks at her art.
“I love doing art, but it’s
more like a hobby to me
than it would be a career
choice.”
by the painting while pe-
rusing the youth section
and offered to buy it.
The couple said they
weren’t looking to pur-
chase any art during the
festival.
“My wife and I were
sitting there looking at it,
event as Clevenger’s wife De-
nise pulled the winning ticket.
The vase went to a woman
from Clarkston, Wash.
Costello attributed the suc-
cess of the show to the new
festival additions as well as
the 100-plus festival volun-
teers and several galleries
around Joseph spreading the
word abroad.
“I feel so fortunate to
work with such a committed,
competent and fun group of
friends and neighbors.”
terprise, which was attended
by about 20 landowners. “It’s
a question of equability. We
need to have equitable pay-
ment across the board for the
whole county.”
The ultimate decision lies
with the County Classiica-
tion Committee, a ive-mem-
ber panel formed according
to state statute. Wallowa Unit
forester Matt Howard was
appointed by the state forest-
er, and the OSU Extension
Service appointed its Wal-
lowa County co-leader, John
Williams. The other three
members — Chris Cunning-
ham, Roy Garten and Bruce
Dunn — were appointed by
the county commissioners.
The last comprehensive
forestland classiication took
place in 2010 and increased
the county’s overall acreage
under ODF ire protection
from 448,000 to 605,000
— 270,000 acres consid-
ered timberland and anoth-
er 335,000 acres of grazing
land. The 2010 classiication
did not assess grasslands
within the Conservation Re-
serve Program, land in en-
vironmentally sensitive ar-
eas where landowners have
agreed not to farm. It also
left some private grazing
land within the donut hole
untaxed.
After much discussion,
the committee recommended
adding the assessment to all
CRP land as well as the cur-
rently untaxed grazing land.
The new classiication would
tax approximately 152,000
additional acres, bringing the
county’s total taxed acreage
to about 757,000.
The increase in taxed land
won’t necessarily lead to a
larger ire-suppression bud-
get for ODF. That number
is determined by a regional
budget committee, which
includes landowners from
throughout Northeast Ore-
gon. Once a budget is set,
half of the money comes
from the state’s general fund
and the other half is paid for
by landowners — the more
land that is assessed, the low-
er the ire-protection rate for
individual landowners. That
rate currently sits at $1.50
per acre each year for tim-
berland and 40 cents per acre
for grazing land. On average,
the rate increases by about 3
percent each year due to in-
lation, according to District
Forester John Buckman, who
attended Wednesday’s meet-
ing.
The ire-protection assess-
ment is added to a landown-
er’s annual tax bill, which is
mailed in October. The pro-
posal, if adopted, wouldn’t
go into effect until October
2017. The Classiication
Committee will hold a formal
meeting Oct. 20 at the county
courthouse to potentially i-
nalize the decision.
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Deinitions
Forestland is deined as
“any woodland, brushland,
timberland, grazing land or
clearing that, during any time
of the year, contains enough
forest growth, slashing or
vegetation to constitute, in
the judgment of the forest-
er, a ire hazard, regardless
of how the land is zoned or
taxed.”
There are three classiica-
tions of forestland:
• Class 1: Timber class,
including land suitable for
timber production, possibly
including structures (Class 1
applies only to Western Ore-
gon).
• Class 2: Timber and
grazing class, including land
suitable for joint use of tim-
ber production and livestock
grazing, possibly including
structures. This is land that is
assessed a ire-protection tax.
• Class 3: Agricultural
class, including land suitable
for grazing and other agricul-
tural use, possibly including
structures. This land also is
assessed the ire-protection
tax.
All land within city lim-
its and land that is actively
farmed (and therefor irrigat-
ed) is exempted from the tax.