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wallowa.com
January 24, 2018
Wallowa County Chieftain
For Hawkins Sisters Ranch, it’s chicken feed
Two new businesses will
serve county’s tourism
industry from Joseph
BIZ BUZZ
Kathleen Ellyn
Chickens are a big deal in Wallowa County
and across the U.S. Try to find a good “egg lady”
who can supply you with farm fresh eggs year-
round. It’s not that easy.
Here at the Chieftain, we have two sources
for homegrown eggs we contact regularly just in
case one is out of eggs. I swing by a third egg
provider when I go to Wallowa to cover a story
in that direction.
Chickens are seasonal layers, just as all farm
animals are seasonal. Chickens can be made to
produce eggs 24/7 by putting them under lights,
but that’s one of the reasons we buy farm fresh
eggs. Farm chickens are not exposed to lights to
force them to continue producing eggs until they
burn out and die.
But egg-laying seasons can be extended in
a variety of ways that are not cruel to chickens.
Yes, lighting the chicken house so that the days
are longer can be done humanely.
Also, certain breeds of chicken lay better
in winter months than others. And, of course,
proper feed, pasture, free-range time and consci-
entious care can make for more fertile birds.
So, when we (chicken and egg lovers) heard
that Grain Growers Custom Mill at 802 Depot
Street in Enterprise was taking on the production
of the Hawkins Sisters Ranch layer and grower
feeds, we were excited.
The mill exists specifically to do this sort of
thing: support both local grain growers and local
livestock managers youth to adult.
“It’s kind of a big deal for grain farmers,”
said Jessi Voss, office manager. “Grain farmers
have a guaranteed sale of their crops because we
contract with them to do it. We pick up the grain
from the field and bring it straight to the mill.
There is no middleman. So, we are working with
the farmers in the county to sustain agriculture.”
It’s kind of a big deal to small farmers, too.
Hawkins Sisters Ranch has been milling its
own feed in small two-ton batches since 2013
using wheat from the Woody Wolfe’s farm in
Wallowa. They would ship in the other ingre-
dients from trusted sources: peas from Union
County and minerals, calcium and probiotics
made by Fertrell Organic Crops Co. No genet-
ically modified ingredients are added to the feed.
Last year Mary Hawkins got to talking with
former county commissioner and now general
manager at Grain Growers, Mike Hayward, and
realized there was a better way.
By using the Grain Growers facility to mix
their blends, Hawkins could be free of the bother,
source more ingredients locally and help the
local mill serve more chicken growers.
“We had people who wanted that feed and we
were scrounging old bags and meeting people in
parking lots and it was just not efficient,” said
Hawkins. “I spent a lot of time sourcing ingredi-
ents and milling it and this will allow me to focus
on raising chickens and processing chickens.”
There’s a demand all right.
“We’ve only been doing it for three weeks
and we have a lot of people pretty excited about
it,” said Voss. “We have local people coming in
for 50 pounds of layer feed at a time ($20) and
people from Pendleton coming down and grab-
bing tons ($550 per ton tote) at a time.”
Grower feed is more expensive ($775 a ton).
The feed still contains Wallowa and Union
County grains and peas and a custom blend of
probiotics (Lac Zyme) and minerals supplied by
Fertrell Organic Crops. No corn. Most corn vari-
eties are genetically modified.
Courtesy photo
Hawkins Sisters Ranch chicks chow down on the homegrown chicken food blend invented at
the ranch. That blend is now available to every chicken fancier in Wallowa County.
Fertrell helped develop the feed recipes based
on what was locally available (so they could see
what minerals were available and needed), said
Hawkins.
Call the Wallowa County Grain Growers
Bulk Feed Dept. at 541-426-3116, ext. 5 or visit
hawkinssistersranch.com.
IT MAY still be January on the calendar, but
it’s not too early to dream about warm summer
days strolling downtown Joseph or relaxing at
the lake.
Two new businesses will be part of the action
this summer. Pioneer Portraits is owned by Ash-
ley Burton and JO Trolley service is owned
and operated by her brother, Robert Nichols, of
Joseph.
Burton, who has 14 years of photography
experience, will open an old-fashioned portrait
studio complete with costumes and scenes out
of the Old West. The business will be at 203 N.
Main Suite 203 in Joseph, adjacent to the former
quilt shop.
“We are custom-making all of the outfits,”
Burton said.
Burton hopes to open May 1 in time for high
tourist season. She recently moved to Wallowa
County from Georgia and is also a wedding and
portrait photographer.
Nichols has been working to restore an
old-fashioned trolley and hopes to have it up and
running to ferry guests in the coming weeks.
The businesses have a further family con-
nection. Brenda Shelton, mother of Ashley and
Robert, has also moved to Wallowa County to
help out wherever needed.
Feb. 7 roundtable to focus on community impact of LGBTQ issues
Rural Oregon’s nonprofit
organizations are exploring
how diversity, equity, and inclu-
sion can build understanding,
strengthen mission impact and
ensure public benefit.
Northeast Oregon Economic
Development District is orga-
nizing a series of roundtable dis-
cussions for regional nonprofit
board members and staff to
learn, share and discuss methods
T HE B OOKLOFT
and strategies. The next roundta-
ble will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb.
7 at the Island City Hall, 10605
Island Ave., including lunch.
The title is “LGBTQ 101,” and
will be led by Meg Bowen,
quality director at Winding
Waters Clinic in Enterprise, and
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. Measurement (abbr.)
4. Returned material authorization (abbr.)
7. Sorting
12. Attribute
15. Poked holes in
16. Angers
18. Doc
19. MLB journeyman pitcher Dillon
20. Not don’t
21. Snubs someone
24. Where kids bathe
27. One might be in distress
30. Chair
31. Music industry honors (abbr.)
33. Dash
34. Owed
35. Caucasian language
37. One thousand (Span.)
39. Musical style drum and bass
41. Evergreen trees native to warm
climates
42. Begin __: start fresh
44. Marshy outlets
47. A chicken lays one
48. Yemen’s largest city
49. Conversion rate
50. Single Lens Reflex
52. Atlanta rapper
53. Reduce the importance of
56. Faces of buildings
61. Something achieved
63. Distribute again
64. Tooth caregiver
65. 007’s creator
CLUES DOWN
1. Skater Lipinksi
Stef Duncan and Kyrie Weaver
of Safe Harbors in Enterprise.
Bowen has worked in health
care and primary care for more
than 30 years and is a Pacific
Northwest native. Duncan
has worked as a domestic vio-
lence and sexual assault vic-
2. Data
3. Single step
4. Destroyed financially
5. Fail to interpret correctly
6. Fava d’__: tree found in Brazil
7. Vehicle
8. Limited
9. Old English
10. Aussie golfer Norman
11. Job
12. Loose-fitting undergarments
13. Protected by balancing
14. Give up
17. Fifth note of a major scale
22. Extravagantly bright
23. Takes dictation
24. 19th letter of Greek alphabet
25. Rounded knob (biology)
26. French philosopher Pierre
28. Mothers
29. Dardic ethnic group
32. Supports the rudder
36. An ugly evil-looking old woman
38. Of a fasting time
40. Filled with passengers
43. Below the ribs and above the hips
44. Binary-coded decimal
45. 51 is a famous one
46. Goes into a funk
51. Chief O’Hara actor
54. Videocassette recorder
55. Scored perfectly
56. Type of tree
57. __ Spumante (Italian wine)
58. Popular commercial “pet”
59. Supreme god of Ancient Egyptians
60. Room in a home
62. __ and behold
3rd & Lake St. • Joseph
Pastor Cherie Dearth
Phone: 541-432-3102
Sunday Worship Service
10:00 am
Leave Message at 541-432-9029
Worship at 9:00am
Bible Study Mondays at 1:00pm at
Senior Center, Wallowa, OR
St. Patrick’s
Episcopal Church
100 NE 3rd St, Enterprise
NE 3rd & Main St
541-426-3439
Worship Service
Sunday 9:30am
Summit Church
Gospel Centered Community
Service time: 10:30 am
Cloverleaf Hall in Enterprise
541-426-2150
www.summitchurchoregon.org
Faith
Lutheran
Church
409 W. Main
Enterprise, Oregon
85035 Joseph Hwy • (541) 426-3449
Pastor Terry Tollefson
Church Offi ce: 541-263-0505
Worship at 9 a.m.
Sunday School at 10:30 a.m.
Evening Worship at 6 p.m.
(nursery at A.M. services)
Family Prayer: 9:30 am
Sunday School: 10:00 am
Worship Service: 11:00 am
“Loving God & One Another”
David Bruce, Sr. - Minister
723 College Street
Lostine
Lostine
Presbyterian Church
Enterprise Community
Congregational Church
Discussion Group 9:30 AM
Worship Service 11:00 AM
The Big Brown Church
606 West Hwy 82
Wallowa, Oregon
541-886-8445
Sunday School • 9:30
Worship Service • 10:45
Pastor Tim Barton
wallowaassemblyofgod.com
Lacy Bralettes
Cozy Slipper
Sale
Liquid Metal Bracelets
Open Daily 10 am – 5 pm
Bible Study
2 nd & 4 th Thursdays - 11 am
Christ Covenant
Church
Wallowa
Assembly
of God
Love
is in the
Air!
Worship 2 nd & 4 th Sundays - 2 pm
Enterprise
Christian Church
Stephen Kliewer, Minister
Spyware Removal • 541-426-0108
103 SW 1st St., Enterprise
Valentine Graphic T-shirts
LCMS
(Lutheran Church Missouri Synod)
541.398.0597
Hwy 82, Lostine
Time for a Computer Tuneup?
$16
JosephUMC.org
Childrens program during service
Blog: dancingforth.blogspot.com
tims’ advocate for the past eight
years, the last three of which as
an LGBTQ-specific advocate in
Wallowa County.
Info
and
registration:
541-426-3598.
The February roundtable
focuses on how denying human
rights to the lesbian, gay, bisex-
ual, transsexual or queer mem-
bers of the community not
only threatens those individu-
als in obvious ways, but is also
detrimental to everyone in the
community.
“A community that is not
safe for all of its members isn’t
safe for any of its members,”
notes Bowen. “This roundtable
will offer history and also pres-
ent-day implications of fear and
bigotry.”
Uptown Clothing & Accessories
in Downtown Joseph
12 S. Main St. • 541-432-9653
A Non-Profit Community Health Center
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. Enterprise, OR 97828
541-426-3751 Church
541-426-8339 School
Worship Services
Sabbath School 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Worship Hour 11:00 a.m. - Noon
Pastor Jonathan DeWeber
OHSU Resident
Mustafa Mahmood,
January 2 – January 25
January 30 – Febuary 8
Hours:
Monday-Friday
7:00am to 7:00pm
Saturday
9:00am to 1:00pm
603 Medical Parkway
Enterprise, OR 97828