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wallowa.com
August 16, 2017
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Smoke, rain didn’t dampen blues festival
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Smoke, clouds and rain
couldn’t dampen the spirits of
Bronze Blues and Brews fes-
tival attendees on Aug. 11-12
at Joseph City Park. An esti-
mated crowd of 1,500-1,600
heard seven artists performing
a variety of blues from Muddy
Waters to the most contempo-
rary offerings in the field.
Friday night saw Rae Gor-
don, Anni Piper and their
bands and the Portland All-
Stars play to one of the larg-
est crowds ever to attend a Fri-
day performance. Audience
excitement was high, but noth-
ing compared to Saturday’s
fevered pitch.
Saturday’s event opened
to dense smoke and clouds,
which didn’t bother festival
opener Brady Buster and his
one-man show. The ultra-co-
ordinated musician played
harmonica, guitar, while also
playing a bass and snare drum
with foot pedals while he sang.
Buster didn’t just play orig-
inals, he played a number of
blues-infused covers, such
as David Bowie’s “Rebel,
Rebel,” which got the day off
to a roaring start.
Sultry blues woman and
bassist extraordinaire Anni
Piper of Florida filled the next
slot, wowing the crowd with
her stellar bass playing as well
as a number of classic blues
covers and originals. Her gui-
tarist Joe Barton, who hadn’t
played with Piper in several
years, still managed to catch
her groove and sang as well as
providing some muscular lead
guitar.
Albert Castiglia of incen-
diary Gibson Les Paul fame,
spent his 48th birthday daz-
zling the festival crowd with
his fretboard pyrotechnics,
backed by the Portland All-
Stars band. Castiglia’s set
included a cover of “Some-
body Loan me a Dime” that
rivaled Boz Scaggs’ version
for both vocal sensitivity and
instrumental dynamics. Anni
Piper later sang “Happy Birth-
day” to the guitarist backstage
with the sultriness of Mari-
lyn Monroe. Side note: Casti-
glia’s performance at the festi-
val four years before provided
local guitar wizard Casey
Kiser with the impetus to start
playing the blues.
While many don’t think
of piano as a lead instrument,
Victor Wainwright and the
Wildroots brand of New Orle-
ans rhythm combined with
barrelhouse blues had much
of the crowd pressing up
against the stage and dancing
for his entire set. Not surpris-
ingly, the cloudy skies parted
and a rainbow settled over the
stage during his set, probably
the most stunning set of the
Steve Tool/Chieftain
A rainbow appeared following a refreshing rain that fell during the Bronze Blues and Brew festival at Joseph City Park on
Aug. 12.
evening.
Headliner Sugar Ray Nor-
cia, formerly of Room Full
of Blues, played his harmon-
ica-heavy blues to round out
the evening, bringing the festi-
val to a close with his solid and
Growing kids need healthy
food to help them learn
Children going back to school? Check.
Backpacks? Check.
School supplies? Check.
Sports equipment? Check.
Healthy lunches and after-school-snacks?
What ?
If you have children going back to school
and are stumped as to what makes a healthy
brown bag lunch or after-school snack, you are
not alone. Mornings are hectic enough without
having to worry about what to pack for a lunch.
You want a lunch that is nutritious, easy,
affordable and one that tastes good so your child
is more inclined to eat it than trade it away for
something else.
According to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines
for America, a healthy lunch should have four
out of the five food groups. For example, a tur-
key sandwich on whole wheat bread, with a
piece of fruit and low-fat or nonfat milk would
fit the bill.It has turkey from the protein group,
bread from the grain group, milk from the dairy
group and fruit from the fruit group. If the
sandwich contained lettuce and tomato, from
the vegetable group, this lunch would contain
something from all five food groups. But why
stop at a sandwich?
Salads using canned beans, whole grains,
vegetables, shredded cheese and a little dress-
ing make for a good lunch. The salads can be
packed the night before in a jar and kept in the
refrigerator until morning. All that is needed are
a few whole wheat crackers, fruit and a fork.
Peanut butter, sliced apples and a whole
wheat breakfast cookie is a quick lunch, too.
Small containers of yogurt or hummus and cut
up vegetables. Don’t stop with carrots and cel-
ery. Use jicama, radishes, cucumbers and pep-
per strips, generally vegetables children favor
especially if they are served with low-fat ranch
dressing.
Chips and cookies are not off limits, but aim
for the healthier options of baked chips and
EAT
RIGHT
Ann Bloom
cookies made with whole wheat ingredients,
dried fruit or nuts. When it is cold out, a thermos
of soup or chili is always a welcome lunch item.
To avoid packing anything that’s handy
(which may or may not be the best choice),
make it a habit to pack lunches the night before.
Skip the sugar-added drinks (sports drinks, fla-
vored teas and sodas) in favor of water, low- or
no-fat milk or 100 percent fruit juice. Even left-
overs from dinner the night before are OK for
school lunches. Pizza and baked chicken can be
eaten cold and out of hand.
After-school snacks can also present a chal-
lenge. It is easy to reach for a package of cook-
ies, a soda and a bag of chips, but there are
healthier options. An after-school snack is an
important part of your child’s nutrition needs.
It is a long time to wait between lunch and
dinner; a snack helps bridge the hunger gap. A
snack is even more important if your child par-
ticipates in sports.
Smoothies are an excellent snack choice.
They are also something older children can
make on their own. Smaller children would
need assistance from an adult or older sibling to
make a smoothie. Raw fruits and vegetables are
always appropriate after school snacks. Pudding
made with low-fat milk or any type of nuts are
also good choices for snacks.
Now, you can check off that healthy lunches
and snacks item from your to-do list for back
to school.
Ann Bloom is a nutrition program assis-
tant for the OSU Extension Service in Wallowa
County.
soulful playing while backed
by his band, the Bluenotes.
Some of the musicians
hadn’t played Oregon before,
while others hadn’t yet played
the BBB festival, but each per-
former said the festival was
RACE
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In California, no one
told me that Mexicans were
underrepresented as teach-
ers, policemen and business
owners. It wasn’t until Fred
Astorga, who played next to
me on the football line, came
back to Oceanside to teach
and could not rent an apart-
ment across from the school
that I realized there was dis-
crimination in my town.
The Washington, D.C.,
riots of 1968 provided my
biggest lesson on white privi-
one of their favorites because
of the scenery and the conge-
niality of the audience. All said
they wanted to return.
Interim festival director
Mike Straw said that although
the weather and wildfire
lege. We had been on a 5 p.m.
curfew for days when some
friends and I snuck out to visit
another friend’s house.
Walking home about 10
p.m., a police car with two
black officers lit up in front of
us. We spent the night in Lor-
ton Penitentiary.
There have been big
changes in Wallowa County
in my 46 years.
Indians are now wel-
comed back for Tamkaliks
in Wallowa; Black and white
musicians play music grown
from black roots at Bronze
and Blues; racially mixed
children dot sports rosters;
smoke didn’t cooperate for the
better part of the event, people
still enjoyed themselves.
“I saw a lot of happy people
there, and our attendance was
up from last year. I think it was
a pretty good year,” he said.
we have Mexican, Chinese
and Thai restaurants.
But whites are still in an
overwhelming majority. And
only when we can truly imag-
ine ourselves in the shoes of
our restaurateurs and pow-
wow dancers, when we can
welcome white sons and
daughters who have married
men and women of color,
when we can talk openly
about white privilege, only
then will we be preparing our
children for the real world
that is out there, bolstering
them to stand against — and
not join — the ranks of those
who fear and hate.
THIS WEEKEND
Main Street Show & Shine
BULL AND BUCK TAGS Main Street In Enterprise, Oregon
To be donated to
local charities
by the
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is currently seeking
applications from Wallowa County
charitable organizations interested in receiving a
Landowner Preference Tag (LOP) for
Bull Elk or Buck Deer on the Zumwalt Prairie
Preserve property for the 2018 season.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee of
community members and ranked based
on the following considerations: the benefit to
the community; the marketing plan for
raising funds with the LOP tags; the budget for
the project and the ability to use the tags
to leverage additional funds or support.
Interested organizations may request an
application from Justin Jones by e-mail
(jjones@tnc.org) or phone (850-982- 9224).
The application deadline is
August 31st, 2017.
Each year The Nature
Conservancy donates LOP
tags to qualified local
organizations. The LOP
tags for the 2017 season
were donated to Building
Healthy Families, Community
Connections, Enterprise
Joseph Lions Club, Friends
of the Wallowa School
District, Rocky Mountain
Elk Foundation - Wallowa
Mountain Chapter, Teddy
Roosevelt
Conservation
Partnership. Since 2002,
this program has raised
over $425,000 to support
charitable organizations in
Wallowa County.
Saturday August 19th
Vehicles Displayed 9am-3pm
Elks Breakfast 7am-10am
Indoor Community Yard Sale 9am-2pm