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A6 News wallowa.com THREE minutes with ... Linda LINDA EOFF November 15, 2017 Linda Eoff, 66, of Wallowa fi rst came to the county when she was a child being raised by her grandma, Blos- som Hoskin. She moved to the town of Wallowa in 1960 and spent two years in Wallowa schools before moving on to live with other relatives. She eventually joined her mother, Carol Hoskin-Anderson, in Clarkston, Wash., when she was 13. She married at 16, moved to Washington state and had two children by her fi rst husband, Tom Stover. When that marriage ended after eight years, she moved back to the La Grande area and worked in potato fi elds to try to support her- self and her two children. She was 28 when she met “a keeper.” She and Russell Eoff of Wallowa have now been married for 38 years. Russell Eoff worked at Rogge’s Mill, and Linda worked in various senior homes throughout her working life. She continues to work with seniors and sometimes multi- ple generations of a family, minding tiny babies, young chil- dren and seniors with disabilities. “I like to help elderly. I’m a person who likes older peo- ple over younger people. I’ve worked in nursing homes for years so I’ve helped a lot of people take care of their hus- bands with dementia, and I’m caring for a lady with demen- tia now. I babysit a baby that is just 10 months in the same family and help with an eight-year-old I’ve known since she was adopted at three. They’re just like family to me,” she said. Wallowa County Chieftain She’s organizing the Wallowa Senior Center Christmas Bazaar this year as well. Q. What was it about Wallowa County that made you want to stay? A. It’s peaceful, it’s quiet, the mountains, the trees, the green- ness. I like it because it’s small. I was always raised out in the country, and to me, this is “the country.” It’s just always felt like home. I enjoy working with my chickens, selling the eggs, working outside. I grew 87 onions in my little garden and I’ve got a patch of parsnips. Q. What has Wallowa County taught you? A. I’ve learned to respect people and give them their leeway. Big cities are too big and there are too many people, and they don’t know how to get along. Here they’re more like a family that knows how to get along. If you have a problem, you go to the other person and say, “Hey, please don’t do that again.” Big city people don’t seem to know how to do this. I’ve had a lot of friends here. Q. Can you recommend a good book for us to read? Sweetie, I don’t read books, but I can recommend one: The Bible. I like the Song of Songs, Psalms, the Book of John. I like Revelation; it’s really dramatic. I think my favorite prayer to say is the one they call the Serenity Prayer. Nobel Prize in Physics has Wallowa County connection By Paul Wahl Wallowa County Chieftain The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has a Wallowa County connection. The award went to a team of scientists that fi rst observed the universe’s gravitational waves. The waves, which were pre- dicted by Albert Einstein a hun- dred years ago, came from a collision between two black holes. It took 1.3 billion years for the waves to arrive at the Laser Interferometer Gravita- tional-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, detectors in the USA. The gravitational wave made a distortion in space/time that was less than one proton in diameter and less than one second in time -- but LIGO detected it for the fi rst time in human history. Contributed photo Matt Evans has a long history of involvement with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics award winners. Matthew Evans has been working on the LIGO proj- ect since he entered graduate school at Caltech in 1997, and over the last two decades has worked on most parts of the LIGO instrument. He is the son of Anita Van Grunsven of Wallowa. She and her husband moved to the county in 2016, having relo- cated to a ranch on Upper Dia- T HE B OOKLOFT mond Lane from Idaho. “I helped to design the cur- rent version of the LIGO detec- tor, which made the fi rst detec- tion of gravitational waves, and spent a lot of time at the observatories helping to make that design work,” said Evans, who is an assistant professor of physics at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. “Let me be very clear though: this is a big project and many people worked on the design and con- struction of the detectors, so I am certainly not trying to take credit for doing it all myself.” The three pioneers who brought the project to comple- tion –– Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish –– have been cohorts of Evans’ throughout the years. Evans and his brother, Dan, were raised in the Hills- boro, Ore., area. Matt Evans is a 1992 graduate of Newberg High School. Dan is one of the top programmers in IKEA’s IT department, based in Norway. Van Grunsven said both children had a typical upbring- ing on the family’s Chehalem Mountain acreage. Evans had an early inter- est in science, sparked by an orange ’67 Camaro with a big white stripe. “It required a lot of mechan- ical work to keep it going, so at a fairly early age, he learned how to take a car apart, fi x it and put it back together again,” Van Grunsven said. “I like to think of that car as red, despite what the pictures show,” Evans quipped. “Work- ing on cars is just one part of the bigger picture of under- standing how things work. Of course, that is also what phys- ics is all about; understanding how things work.” After high school, Evans received his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College in 1996 and his Ph.D. from California Insti- tute of Technology in 2002. He AND Wallowa United Methodist Church Finding books is our specialty 102 West 1st Street, P.O. Box 53 Wallowa, Or 97885 Skylight Gallery 541.426.3351 • 107 E. Main • Enterprise • www.bookloftoregon.com Kaye Garver - Pastor Church Directory Church of Christ 502 W. 2nd Street • Wallowa 541-398-2509 Worship at 11 a.m. Mid-week Bible Study 7 p.m. St. Katherine’s Catholic Church Fr. Francis Akano 301 E. Garfi eld Enterprise Mass Schedule Tues-Fri 8:00 am Saturdays 5:30pm Sundays 10:30am (541)426-4008 stkatherineenterprise.org St. Pius X Wallowa Sundays 8:00am All are welcome Joseph United Methodist Church CLUES ACROSS 1. “Be back later” 4. Zhou dynasty state 7. Mineral 8. __ and gagged 10. One of Lebron’s former sidekicks 12. Ivory Coast village 13. Caffeinated beverage 14. Without armies 16. Intention 17. Sulfuric and citric are two 19. Supplement with difficulty 20. & & & 21. George and Weezie 25. Liquefied petroleum gas 26. Immortal act 27. Ancient Greek sophist 29. Aids digestion 30. Comedy routine 31. Actress Thurman 32. Adult beverage 39. Amounts of time 41. An awkward stupid person 42. __ Walker, “The Color Purple” 43. Covers babies’ chests 44. Parts per billion (abbr.) 45. Ottoman military title 46. More skilled 48. Natives to New Mexico 49. Indigent 50. Illuminated 51. Very fast airplane 52. Devoid of cordiality CLUES DOWN 1. Comedian Goldthwait 2. Worn by women 3. “Naked Gun” actor Nielsen 4. Processes fatty acids 5. Mortals 6. Not invited 8. Show__: entertainment 9. Darkens 11. Pilgrimage 14. Danish krone 15. Savior 18. Midway between south and east 19. Electroencephalograph 20. Henry’s wife Boleyn 22. Hairstyle 23. Frames per second 24. Sinclair novel 27. Basics 28. A person’s life story 29. Luxury automaker 31. 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Open 10am - 5pm daily Bible Study 2 nd & 4 th Thursdays - 11 am LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) 541.398.0597 Hwy 82, Lostine GUN - ANTIQUE - CRAFT SHOW Worship 2 nd & 4 th Sundays - 2 pm JosephUMC.org Childrens program during service Blog: dancingforth.blogspot.com did his post-doctoral work at Caltech, and In 2006, he began at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research scien- tist for the LIGO project, taking his current post in 2013. The project is more closely aligned with scientifi c research for the sake of knowing rather than providing a major techno- logical development. “Our aim is not really a bet- ter mouse trap or technology development though some of that happens,” Evans said. “We have helped to drive laser and vibration isolation technol- ogies, for example. But our main public impact, and our primary goal, is about the basic human desire to know; our innate curiosity about the world we live in. “People didn’t fl ock to see the eclipse because it would make their lives better, but because it is an awesome thing which helps you know your place in the universe.” Advice for mothers raising future scientists? “If they were crying, I snuggled them and did what I could,” Van Grunsven said. “I had as few rules as possible but those were strictly enforced.” with an open door Pastor Archie Hook Sunday Worship 11am Bible Study 9:30am Ark Angels Children’s Program Ages 4-6th grade, 11am Nursery for children 3 & under 301 NE First St. • Enterprise, OR Find us on Facebook! 541.426.3044 Seventh-Day Adventist Church & School 305 Wagner (near the Cemetery) P.O. Box N. 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