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Enterprise, Oregon
Issue No. 27
October 18, 2017
Wallowa.com
Barns are
hot topic
in county
RUNNING
SMOOTHIE
Owners considering
repurposing options
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
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How do you get
children to eat their
fruits and veggies?
Wallowa School District has
discovered one solution
By Paul Wahl
A gallon and a
half of mixture
(capacity) makes
40 four-ounce
servings. High
schoolers get
7-ounce servings. The smoothie
machine runs every other day.
Wallowa County Chieftain
S
chools across the country are looking for ways to
encourage children to eat more fruits and vegetables.
Wallowa School District has hit upon an idea
that appears to be working.
Turn those otherwise objectionable ingredients into a
cold and creamy smoothie and students will slurp them
down and ask for more.
“Most students look forward
to them,” said Kathy DeVore,
head cook, into whose domain the
recently purchased slurpie machine
has fallen. “There’s very little waste
with smoothies.”
The tabletop unit was purchased
with grant funds and works much
like an ice cream freezer.
“We had heard about the success
Imbler was having with smoothies
and decided we would like to give it
a try,” said Supt. Bret Uptmore.
The $1,000 award was announced June 19.
Uptmore credits Ann Bloom, Nutrition Education Pro-
gram Asstant with OSU Extension Service in Wallowa
County, for steering the effort.
“I’m always looking for small grants to write for them
It’s diffi cult to level a camera in any
direction in Wallowa County without snap-
ping an award-worthy picture. And com-
mon targets of many shutterbugs are the
county’s historic barns.
Restore Oregon and the Heritage Barn
Task Force have cataloged 11,400 barns
built prior to 1960 in the state, and barns
of that age are considered worth preserving.
But Wallowa County has something even
more exciting –– a surplus of barns more
than 100 years old and a population of barn
owners who want to preserve them.
No surprise, then, that the Heritage Barn
Workshop held in Union on Oct. 7 featured
a capacity crowd (approximately 60) that
included a large number of barn owners
from Wallowa County.
Among them were Steve and Joella
Arment of Lostine, Holly Akinson of Enter-
prise, Carolyn Pfeaster of Wallowa, Mar-
gie Hudson of Wallowa, and Dick and Jan
Boucher. Ann Hayes, curator of the Wal-
lowa County Museum, and Vicki Searles,
director of Wallowa County Chamber of
Commerce were also in attendance.
The group that gathered attracted the
most barn-owners of any workshop yet
conducted by Restore Oregon. Some of the
barns were among the oldest yet considered
for restoration with some built in the late
1800s or early 1900s.
Attendees learned how far gone is too far
gone (you’d be surprised what can be resur-
rected), how to identify your barn’s archi-
See BARNS, Page A8
Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain
Wallowology is a fixture on Main Street in
Joseph.
See SMOOTHIES, Page A8
Wallowology
membership
drive a success
$1,
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
A FuelUp2Play60 grant was used for the counter-top style smoothie maker at Wallowa School District.
HALLOWEEN
EVENTS 2017
Halloween will be celebrated in style
in Wallowa County. Here is a sample
of the options.
• Oct. 27 Range Rider Halloween
Party, featuring “Bag of Hammers,”
8-11 p.m.
• Oct. 29 Wallowology Family
Halloween Party at Wallowa Lake
Lodge, an event for the whole family
with a kiddie hay maze, face-paint-
ing, dipping caramel apples,
bobbing for apples, lawn bowling,
fortune telling, an Ouija board and
the Great Pumpkin Hunt where kids
get to search for small pumpkins
$1
around the lodge.
• Oct 31 Wallowa County Preven-
tion will be showing two movies at
the OK Theatre “Monsters Inc.” will
show at 4:30 p.m. and “The Corpse
Bride” will be 7:45 p.m. $1 sug-
gested admission. Enterprise High
School Cheerleaders will be serving
popcorn
• Oct. 31 Enterprise Christian
Church All Saints Eve Celebration,
6 p.m. at Cloverleaf Hall. Annual
event features booths for games
and prizes, baked goods, cupcake
walk, crafts and fun activities and
lots of candy.
• Oct. 31 Trunk or Treat on Main
Street in Enterprise, 4-7 p.m.
Come dressed for Halloween
and enjoy the public event on the
street with businesses, the local
constabulary and more offering
treats from car trunks. A great
photo opportunity.
• Oct. 31 Trick or Treating at Wallowa
Valley Senior Living, 604 Medical
Parkway,Enterprise 4-7 p.m.
• Oct. 31 Trick or Treating at Alpine
House Assisted Living, 204 Park St.,
Joseph, 6-8 p.m.
Wallowology, a Joseph-based nonprofi t
dedicated to increasing public interest of the
ecosystems of eastern Oregon has fi nished its
fi rst-ever membership drive. Organizers are
pleased.
James Monteith, the organization’s exec-
utive director, called the drive an unqualifi ed
success. For a donation of as little as $20, indi-
viduals could become “founding member.”
Wallowology is at 508 N. Main. St. in
Joseph.
“We went over our goal. I think we’re at
$27,000,” Monteith said.
One aspect of the funding drive included
different Wallowa mountains peak heights to
match monetary donations. The idea was the
brain child of Wallowology’s director of art
and exhibits Joan Gilbert.
“I think every peak in the mountains got
covered,” Monteith said. “We’re still not done
yet. People are still responding.”
Gilbert said one of her visions for the
future is expanding the size of Wallowology.
The lot behind the building belongs to the
organization. Additional space could be used
for subjects that require intense focus.
“We don’t have a lot of room for really
getting into the nitty-gritty of information,”
she said. She added that the pollination gar-
den could expand to the back lot as well.
Although the founding member group
pool is closed, those who missed out on the
opportunity can join as regular members.
Gilbert mentioned other ways for the pub-
lic to help.
See DRIVE, Page A9