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Wallowa County Chieftain News wallowa.com January 31, 2018 A5 Stockgrowers raise $8,000 for scholarships Huckleberry cake sells for $710 at auction By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain The 2018 Stockgrower’s Scholarship banquet brought in more than $8,000, and fea- tured great fun. The event is a primary fundraiser that will allow the group to give scholarships worth at least $1,000 to students going on to college-level agricultural courses. Last year, the group gave $6,000 to four students. After a prime rib dinner prepared by Randy Garnett’s AppleFlat Catering, the crowd of 119 gathered at Cloverleaf Hall in Enterprise to get busy with the dessert auction. Daarla Klages’ dessert “took the cake” this year. The huckleberry sour cream cre- ation sparked a bidding war between Bruce Dunn and Har- old Hartley, both of Enter- prise, and ended setting a record — $710. The crowd was on its feet, clapping and whistling encouragement as the bidding war progressed. Friendly competition was the name of the game and the “cowboy table” of Tio Sim- mons of Wallowa, Greg Schaf- feld, Rawley Bigsby of Joseph and Dan and Cynthia Warnock of Imnaha packed their table- with a dessert dish for each. Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain Tio Simmons (left) of Wallowa and Dan Warnock of Imnaha get ready for the spirited Heads or Tails fundraising contest at the Stockgorwers Scholarship Banquet on Jan 23. The “cowboy table” also went all in on the bidding, ending with an individual pie, cake or cheese cake for every man at the table before the bidding was done. The 19 desserts sold for an average of $208 each, bringing in $3,690 toward scholarships. The heads or tails coin-toss competition was a nail-bitter, as well. Forty bright red shoul- der-length rectal exam gloves were sold for the competition, and contenders pulled those on, chose their respective rest- ing places for hands (top of head or back pocket) and then watched in astonishment as emcee Randall Eschler threw heads every time. The game was stopped to examine the coin, but it passed muster and the competition resumed. Eschler continued to throw heads until only three contenders remained. The final three were forced into an elimination competi- tion of “rock, paper, scissors” to choose one to voluntarily opt for tails. Brittanie Ely, 11, of Imnaha had her scissors crushed in the final throw and reluctantly placed her gloved hand on her pants pocket in what she thought was the loser’s posi- tion. Then Eschler threw the only tails toss of the night. Ely won a pizza every month for a year from Embers in Joseph. W ALLOWA S CHOOL D ISTRICT H ONOR R OLL S ECOND Q UARTER 2017-18 Seniors Daniel Delancey, 3.929; Teagan Miller, 3.929; Chance Goebel, 3.929; Ethan Burns, 3.708; Brianna Poulson, 3.708; Daniel Araya, 3.542; Patrick Ritthaler, 3.542; and Josie Scott, 3.5. Juniors Riley Ferré, 4.0; Rylee Goller, 4.0; Wyatt Prince, 4.0; Grace Pendarvis, 4.0; Ash- ley Wilson, 4.0; Zane Mallory, 3.929; Lily Cabral, 3.917; Ryan Hafer, 3.917; Aus- tin Brockamp, 3.792; Logan Payne, 3.75; Michael Diggins, 3.714; Zane Hermens, 3.714; Gus Ramsden, 3.5; Kristin Craig, 3.464; and Alex Wightman, 3.375. Sophomores Freshmen Ella Moeller, 4.0; Shanna Rae Tillery, 4.0; Zeb Hermens, 3.929; Jace Fisher, 3.750; Samantha Wightman, 3.679; Tristin Bales, 3.643; Kyla Hook, 3.5; Brody Tippet, 3.464; Zeb Ramsden 3.429; Bailey Hafer, 3.393; Owen Mallory, 3.393; and Frank Westerman, 3.333. Ashlyn Young, 4.0; Quinten Tillery, 3.750; Alani Sang, 3.875; and Logan Wal- dron, 3.607. Eighth Grade Willie Gibbs, 4.0; Abby Tippet, 4.0; – CULINARY AMBITION – Jesse Duncan, 3.929; Ian Foster, 3.929; Haley Brockamp, 3.821; Ryder Goller, 3.643; and Kolby Mandal, 3.607. Seventh Grade Libby Fisher, 4.0; Roan Flynn, 4.0; Mad- die Nordtvedt, 4.0; Lute Ramsden, 4.0; Pay- ton Tippet, 4.0; Justin Bales, 3.857; Gage Goebel, 3.857; Maleah Murray, 3.821; Kevin Plew, 3.714; and Matthew Reynolds, 3.464. That event brought in $400. “This event is getting a little better each year,” said Caleb Howard, chairman of the Stockgrowers Scholarship Committee of the Wallowa County Agricultural Resource Foundation. “We raised a record amount of money for scholarships. We raised more money and had more fun every year. This has grown to be one of the largest scholar- ships in the county.” There was only one note of business during the oth- erwise entertaining event, but it was an important one. Rangeland Professional Kelly Birkmaier gave a brief over- view on recent challenges to the endangered listing of the Spaulding’s catchfly plant. The plant was federally listed in 2007 and grazing per- mits are impacted by the pres- ence of the plant. However, it turns out hun- dreds of new sites and thou- sands of new plants have been discovered, and more are being discovered daily, put- ting the endangered ruling into question. A lawsuit was recently filed by the Greater Hells Can- yon Council asking the For- est Service to go back and study what impact grazing has on the plant given the new information. 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