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Wallowa County Chieftain Local/Business wallowa.com What’s Happening Wednesday, March 1 A PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE. This poster exhi- bition from the Smithsonian Institution in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights key artifacts that tell the rich and diverse story of the African American experience. Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, 103 N. Main St. in Joseph. Daily hours will be 10am-4pm. On March 2, Maxville Director Gwen Trice will do a short presentation during an open house, with light refreshments, 6-9pm. Exhibit closes March 8. Thursday, March 2 PRESCHOOL SCIENCE THURSDAY, 9:30 a.m. Pre- schoolers and their parents can arrive an hour before storytime to participate in special science sto- ries and activities. Snacks re pro- vided. Enterprise Public Library, 101 NE First St., Enterprise. ENTERPRISE CITY LI- BRARY STORYTIME, 10:30 a.m. Enterprise Public Library, 101 NE Government Meetings Wednesday, March 1 LOSTINE CITY COUNCIL, 7:30 p.m., Lostine City Hall, Lostine. Lostine City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. on the fi rst Wednesday of the month at City Hall. Thursday, March 2 JOSEPH CITY COUNCIL, 7 p.m., various Joseph locations. Joseph City Council meets at 7 p.m. on the fi rst Thursday of the month. Meetings rotate between the City Library, City Hall or the Joseph Community Center. Monday, March 6 WALLOWA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, 9 a.m., Wallowa County Courthouse, 101 S. River St., Enterprise. Commissioners meet the fi rst and third Monday of the month at 9 a.m. in the Thornton Room at the courthouse. ENTERPRISE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 7 p.m., Enterprise High School, 201 SE Fourth St., Enterprise. the board meets at 7 p.m. on the fi rst Monday of each month, except holidays. Tuesday, March 7 WALLOWA COUNTY CHAMBER BOARD, 12 p.m., Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce, 309 S. River St., Suite B, Enterprise. ENTERPRISE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, 7 p.m., Enterprise City Hall, 108 NE First St., Enterprise. the planning commission meets at 7 p.m. the fi rst Tuesday of each month at Enterprise City Hall. Monday, March 13 JOSEPH SCHOOL BOARD, 5:30 p.m., Joseph Charter School, 400 E. Williams Ave., Joseph. The Joseph School Board meets at 5:30 p.m. on the second Monday of the month in the school library. ENTERPRISE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, 7:30 p.m., Enterprise City Hall, 108 NE First St., Enterprise. The city council meets on the second Monday of the month in Council Chambers. Tuesday, March 14 TELECONFERENCE WITH STATE REPRESENTATIVES, 7 a.m., OSU Extension Offi ce Wallowa County, 668 NW First St., Enterprise. Teleconference with our state Sen. Bill Hansell and Rep. Greg Barreto. Here is an opportunity to get updates and ask questions of your leg- islators. Please bring a copy of your question(s) or input to the meeting to help structure the timing. We ask everyone to lim- it questions to 2 minutes. Calls are by Polycom so everyone will be live on camera with our legislators. We do ask for an RSVP to make sure everyone has an opportunity to speak. (541-426-4622) First St., Enterprise (541-426- 3906). TERMINAL GRAVITY PRES- ENTS BRAD PARSONS BAND AND THE SWEET LILLIES, 7 p.m. Terminal Gravity, 803 SE School St, Enterprise (Jacey Bell 541-426-0158). Friday, March 3 JOSEPH AND THE AMAZ- ING TECHNICOLOR DREAM- COAT, 7:30 p.m. Retelling the Biblical story of Joseph, his 11 brothers and the coat of many colors, this musical is full of unforgettable songs by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice. Saturday Matinee per- formance play at 2:30 p.m. Elgin Opera House, 104 N. Eighth Ave., Elgin. RUSTY SPURS INDOOR, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wallowa County Fairgrounds, 668 NW 1st St, Enterprise. DRAWING AND PAINTING FOR TEENS AND ADULTS, 3 p.m. For ages 13-adult. Taught by Jennifer Klimsza. Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, 403 North Main Street, Joseph (541- March 1, 2017 A3 EASTERNOREGONEVENTS.COM EXPANDED ONLINE CALENDAR 432-0505). Saturday, March 4 Dinner, prepared by the grange ladies, is available for $8 at 5:00 PM. Dancers welcome. Hurri- cane Creek Grange Hall, 63081 Hurricane Creek Rd, Joseph (Sandi Richerson 541-263-1637). WALLOWA COUNTY FEAST - A COMMUNITY CONVERSA- TION, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wallowa County residents are invited to join a free community conver- sation about Wallowa County’s local food system. FEAST stands for Food Education Agriculture Solutions Together, and is a program developed by the Oregon Food Bank. The event features a free healthy com- munity meal, and will include a panel discussion with: Connie Guentert, Community Connection of NE Oregon Leslie Lamb, Ruby Peak Naturals Troy Berglund, Mt. Joseph Family Foods Ann Bloom, OSU Extension Service Janet Graham, Winding Waters Clinic. The Place, 303 S. Lake St., Joseph. BLUE MOUNTAIN FIDDLE SHOW, 6-10 p.m. Blue Mountain Old Time Fiddler’s Show! Show starts at 6:00 PM. Admission $4 for BMOTF members, $5 for non-members, or FREE if you play or sing a song for us! WOMEN’S ART SHOW OPENING RECEPTION, 7 p.m. Dress as your favorite female character, icon or heroine at the Josephy Center’s opening recep- tion for its fourth annual Women’s Art Show. Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, 403 North Main Street, Joseph (Cheryl Coughlan 541-432-0505). JOSEPH AND THE AMAZ- ING TECHNICOLOR DREAM- COAT, 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 6 ADULT CERAMICS CLASS- ES, 5 p.m. Learn the fundamen- tals of hand building with pinch pots, slab construction and coil construction then move to intro- duction of wheel throwing. No previous experience is required. Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, 403 North Main Street, Joseph. Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain Gwen Trice, founder and executive director of Maxville Heritage, stands before the poster exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution’s “National Museum of African American History and Culture” which she brought to Eastern Oregon. Thursday, March 9 teria. Enterprise. Open House Celebrating 10 Year Anniversary of the Wallowa Memorial Hospital. Cake and coffee and displays showcasing the hospital’s progress. CEO Larry Davy will answer questions. Hospital cafe- Friday, March 10 Dinner, auction and dance. Joseph FFA Alumni. Social starts at 5pm. Dinner at 6. Joseph Community Center. Dinner $12. Buy tickets at Sports Corral or at the door. Oregon investors support county business BIZ BUZZ Kathleen Ellyn Judy Goodman is the Wal- lowa County Pioneer show- ing other entrepreneurs how to take advantage of the new Intrastate Offering investment plans to raise money for their expanding business. The intrastate offering was brought into legislation in Or- egon in 2015, but many entre- preneurs have had diffi culty understanding how the pro- gram could benefi t them early in their development. Goodman, who makes BGood Artisan Chocolate En- ergy Bars locally and markets them across the state, was two years into her business when she learned how to use the program to grow her business. She had gone through the steps that many local entre- preneurs are currently work- ing through: she had talked with the Wallowa County small business facilitator about her idea, she had taken the North East Oregon Eco- nomic Development District (NEOEDD) business course that qualifi es you for a fed- erally supported Independent Development Account (IDA) that matches your savings three to one, and she had been marketing her bars through- out the state. She had rented a kitchen right next to the Joseph Post Offi ce, with easy access to UPS shipping as well, and had purchased, built, borrowed or been given most of the equip- ment she needed. There were tables from grandma, counters built by her husband, a fridge pur- chased from in-laws, her daughter’s old homeschool desk, and new equipment pur- chased with her IDA account savings. In 2016 Goodman realized she was ready to really move forward with marketing. Most businesses need three people with different skill sets to make a business successful: the creator, a marketer, and a bookkeeper. As it turned out, Good- man’s background as a fi sh Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain Judy Goodman of Joseph has taken another step forward in professionalism by taking her BGood Bars public. biologist had equipped her to keep exceptionally accurate records, write documents, and organize material. Further- more, her time spent working in local banks along with an accounting class recently tak- en with business facilitator Rick Bombaci through the Wallowa County Business Facilitation offi ce prepared her to be a good bookkeeper. She’d certainly done some great marketing with the as- sistance of local web design- ers and others, but she felt a little unprepared for that next big marketing step. So, Goodman took the In- trastate Offering course pro- vided by the business incuba- tor non-profi t Hatch Oregon designed to teach her how to create a prospectus and make a public offering, hoping to get at least $10,000 from in- vestors to help her hire a mar- keter. But it turned out she just couldn’t wait for enough in- vestors to reach the minimum required amount required by law before she could begin using her money. “I was out beating down doors and going to Portland and trying to get new ac- counts. I couldn’t wait six months to go out and hire a marketer. In six months I had an account with New Seasons Markets and my online busi- ness went up,” she said. And so, she became her own marketer as well. But she still needed the money to con- duct the marketing. She had to manage adver- tising, getting her bar code on the packaging, new packaging and shipping containers, and she still needed a few newer pieces of equipment. So far, Goodman said, she has raised $16,000 through the community public offer- ing, which is limited to Or- Thank You! Thank you Wallowa County and all our friends, near and far, for all the concerns, friendships and help we received during my accident and recovery this winter. There are too many to name every one! Thank you all! I wish to apologize to Jeff Eddison. For trespassing on to his property. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused him. Jim Sandlin John & Terrie Wynans egon investors, with a cap of $2,500 per investor. The public offering that Goodman chose to do was the promisso- ry note rather than the more popular equity account. “You have a year to raise funds from the time that you launch, my year ends April 26. After that I can turn it into a convertible note or extend a year if my investors agree.” Goodman is not planning on extending her offering. “That’s really gotten me to the next level,” Goodman said, “and I’d really like to make it without incurring more debt,” she said. She’s taking small steps in comparison to some business- es, but those small steps seem plenty big to Goodman, and continuing to use local sourc- es is important to her. Her business really start- ed when she was learning to be a chocolatier at Arrow- head Chocolates in Joseph, she said. Customers had ex- pressed a desire for trail bars and she recalled her favorite trail mixes from when she was a fi sh biologist and Ar- rowhead Chocolates experi- mented with creating bars. Later, she left Arrowhead to go to work in the bank and one day co-owner Erica Houck came in and talked to her. “I can’t remember if she said no one could make the bars or if she said no one wanted to make the bars, but she said ‘If you make them we’ll buy them,’” Goodman said. That weekend she rent- ed Calderas kitchen, took a friend, and experimented with making four bars, calculating the costs of ingredients, and keeping track of their time. “I literally turned in my two weeks notice at the bank the following Monday,” Goodman said. Now Arrowhead Choco- lates allows Goodman to “tag on” to their large chocolate orders so that her chocolate is purchased in bulk at a sub- stantial savings. She continues to work with local web designers as her online presence is expand- ed (bgoodbars.com). She recently added another feather to her entrepreneur’s cap when she won entry into the Food Merchant Guild. That organization started in 2012 and Arrowhead Choco- lates have won awards at their annual shows. “It was a process to be certifi ed by them,” Goodman said. “All of your ingredients have to be declared and there can be no preservatives, ad- ditives or artifi cial colors or fl avors. They have to be clean ingredients. I am so proud about this certifi cation.” No matter which step you are ready to take with your business, NEOEDD can give you some great advice and as- sistance. Visit NEOEDD to fi nd out about the many workshops available to help you build your business by visiting http://neoedd.org. NEOEDD can also advise you about tak- ing the Hatch course. You can still invest in BGood bars. Visit Judy Good- man’s page at bgoodbars.com and click at the top of the page. Jeff Harman, MA., LPC Professional Counseling In A Private Setting I can help! Are you struggling with winter depression? Do you feel hopeless or has the joy gone out of your life? Are you struggling to keep your family together? To schedule an appointment call Jeff Harman (541) 426-3067 Preferred Provider for Regence Blue Cross, ODS, Cascade Centers and many other private insurance and employee assistance programs. www.jharmancounseling.com Time for a Computer Tuneup? Spyware Removal • 541-426-0108 103 SW 1st St., Enterprise Still Running out to fetgh the papeR? 6 months $26.00 1year * $40.00 1year, online $40.00 Subscribe to home delivery, and we’ll deliver it to you for less than half the cost! 541-426-4567 • wallowa.com * $40.00 is the in county price, $57.00 for out of county subscribers. The Wallowa County Chieftain ek We Student of the Jordan Collins ENTERPRISE HIGH SCHOOL Jordan Collins has earned a 3.68 GPA here at EHS. He is a hardworking student who is well rounded academically. He has excelled in Language Arts through AP courses and is currently enrolled in college English. He is a two year foreign language student. He had taken Chemistry and is currently enrolled in Physics. He is a four year mathematics student. He has been involved in the Ag sciences program and has excelled in the performing arts through his music. Thank you Jordan for your contributions in making EHS a better place. Proudly sponsored by Joseph 432-9050 Enterprise 426-4511 Wallowa 886-9151 The Student of the Week is chosen for academic achievement and community involvement. Students are selected by the administrators of their respective schools. This week’s athlete of the week is Enterprise High School wrestling coach Troy Farwell. The coach, who works at Wellens Farwell Construction in Enterprise, recently shepherded four Outlaws grapplers over to the OSAA state wrestling championships in Portland over the last weekend. Although all the wrestlers did well, sophomore wrestler Shane Lund brought back a bronze medal while Farwell’s son Cole Farwell brought home the coveted gold medal. The team fi nished seventh in a fi eld of 32. The coach said he expects his team to fi nish in the top four next year. Troy Farwell Proudly Sponsored By: Eastern Oregon’s Full Service Propane Supplier 201 E. Hwy 82, Enterprise 541-426-0320 www.edstaub.com
