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wallowa.com
March 28, 2018
Wallowa County Chieftain
Grant will give boost to Joseph industrial park
Regional
Solutions could
award $400,000
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
The City of Joseph is
poised to connect city services
to a 60-65 acre industrial area
along Russell Lane west of
Camp Street.
“This expansion has been
a goal for years,” said Mayor
Dennis Sands. “But we knew
there was a price tag attached to
that, and there wasn’t any way
for the city to pay for it. Now
we’re hot on the trail of a grant.”
The program is the bien-
nial Regional Solutions grant
for Northeast Oregon estab-
lished by the governor in 2014.
The 2015-17 grant went to
the 60-acre Baum Industrial
Park on Hwy. 82 east of Island
City. La Grande, which won
$1,118,000 of a $1.2 million
budget. Joseph Branch Rails
with Trails Feasibility Assess-
ment and Wallowa Resources
Forestry Contractors Data Col-
lection program have also won
grants from Regional Solutions.
“This year when the appli-
cation window came around, I
This expansion has been a goal for years.”
— Mayor Dennis Sands
said it’s time to get Joseph in
the act,” Sands said.
The city had commissioned
an estimated budget for the ser-
vice extension from Anderson
and Perry engineering nearly
five years earlier at approxi-
mately $550,000, Sands said.
An updated price tag was
approximately $650,000.
Unfortunately,
money
devoted to Regional Solutions
for the 2017-19 biennium is a
fraction of what was in 2015-
17 –– $400,000, Sands said.
Nevertheless, infrastruc-
ture of industrial lands is prior-
ity one for Regional Solutions,
and Joseph’s application was
ranked number one in the pre-
liminary round of grant appli-
cation review.
Enterprise Animal Hospital adds new vet
His wife is a
‘human’ doctor at
Winding Waters
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
When “Bubba,” a three-
year-old basset hound arrives
for his well-dog checkup and
vaccines, veterinarian Severin
Knudsen gets down to his level.
“I’m a floor guy,” Knud-
sen said as he introduced him-
self to Bubba, owned by Benny
and Vicki Gockley of Joseph.
“Dogs feel more secure with
their feet on the ground.”
Knudsen, 31, is the new-
est veterinarian to join the staff
at Enterprise Animal Hospi-
tal. He replaces Dr. Michelle
Janik who recently took a job
in Walla Walla. He is, as can
be expected in a rural commu-
nity, proficient in both large and
small animal veterinarian care.
Knudsen comes to Wal-
lowa County with his wife
Emily, also a new doctor — of
humans — who will be work-
ing at Winding Waters Clinic.
The medical duo are shop-
ping for a home in Enterprise for
themselves and their Brittany
Spaniel, Ranger, and three res-
cue cats: Joline, River and Cleo.
They intend to put down
roots.
“This is the first time in our
lives we’re moving without
any intent to leave,” Severin
said. “We’re hoping to stay
and raise our future kids.”
Knudsen is an Oregon
native with an undergrad
Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain
Basset Hound “Bubba”, 3, owned by Benny and Vicki Gockley
of Joseph demonstrates why he’s a favorite at Enterprise Ani-
mal Hospital as he gets a “well-puppy” check and vaccines by
new vet Severin Knudsen, assisted by vet tech Erica McNall.
degree from Yale University
and a DVM from Virginia
Tech. He graduated in 2015.
“My wife and I love this area
and we wanted to live rural,”
he said. “We enjoy the amaz-
ing outdoor opportunities here
and think there isn’t anywhere
prettier. We’d been here several
times for long weekends.”
They
were
actu-
ally “hooked” into Wal-
lowa County by Bill Finney,
co-owner of The Bronze Ant-
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CATTLE
for chilled calves. He said
that more than 10 percent
of the first 100 calves born
on his ranch got the box. He
also went through a signif-
icant amount of powdered
colostrum, birth milk con-
taining significant antibod-
ies to help the calf survive
its initial days of life.
“We’d give that to them
as a jump start,” he said.
At $20 to $30 a dose,
that expense rises quickly,
but lost calves add up more
quickly.
“It actually seems like
it was more work this year
than last year,” he said.
Carl Patton lost a pickup
truck and calves because of
the weather.
“We lost a few from
being chilled down,” he
said. “It’s just one of those
things you deal with. The
last two years have been
kind of tough with the
calves we lost. We were just
getting started calving and
this cold weather hit, and it
was a mess.”
He hasn’t tallied his
losses this year.
“We had calves freeze,”
he said. “We’d pick them
up, warm them up. We had
cows lay on calves.”
Calves weren’t the only
casualties.
“When the mud came,
we blew up the engine of a
truck trying to get up a hill
so we could see.”
Klages did have some
good luck in the shape of
five sets of twins born in a
week.
“It helped us recoup a
few of those cows that lost
their calves,” he said.
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“It’s part of what we do,”
Nash said. “We do what we
can to avoid it.”
Nash said that the Marr
Flat Ranch, which he man-
ages, had to hire an extra
hand to monitor calf health
and had men out all night
picking up newborn calves
and bringing them in to
warm them before return-
ing them to their mothers,
which causes its own set of
problems.
Rancher Alan Klages
said the cold temps brought
challenges for him as well.
“We lost a few from
being chilled down,” he
said. “Within 20 minutes of
being born, they were fro-
zen, and we could not keep
them alive.”
He also had cows with
backward calves and other
abnormal presentations at
birth but didn’t know if that
was weather-related.
Another phenomenon the
rancher observed were many
cows “grannying” calves
(picking up calves not their
own), some even picking up
calves four to five days old.
“We normally see one or
two trying to steal a calf, but
this year we’ve had eight or
nine of those going on.”
Preparations didn’t help
Klages either. Because of
last year’s bitter weather, he
backed up his calving from
Feb. 1 toward the middle of
the month, just in time for
the winter onslaught this
year.
Klages has a “hot box”
Dr.
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erty is primarily county prop-
erty, although he also would
be able to connect to expanded
city services.
The money will not be
available until 2019-20.
“Regional
Solutions
will make a recommenda-
tion in April or May, it will
be included in the governor’s
budget, but it has to make it
through the legislature,” Sands
said. “We’re looking at get-
ting a bridge loan from Busi-
ness Oregon based on the fact
we were getting the Regional
Solutions grant if we want to
start earlier.”
Introducing our
new Physician
Lexie Gassett
Showroom
Shine
ler Bed & Breakfast in Joseph.
When the young couple was
visiting the area, they stayed
at The Bronze Antler and in
talking over breakfast Emily
mentioned she was headed for
medical school. Finney told
Emily that when she was done
with her training, she ought to
come back to Wallowa County.
“We were just joking
around. But sure enough nine
years later — here we are,”
Knudsen said.
Once Emily was hired as a
family medicine physician at
Winding Waters, a job she will
start in September, Knudsen
reached out to the local vets and
let them know he was available.
“I’ve been lucky enough
to follow my wife and find
work,” Knudsen said. “I like it
here. The staff is very friendly
and helping me get used to the
flow of the place.”
They are very pleased with
Wallowa County culture.
“It has a bit more flavor
than a lot of small towns,”
Knudsen said. “For a town and
a county of its size, they have a
lot of people doing interesting
things. It’s good for the town
that you can have so many dif-
ferent things to offer: you can
have great music, the western
culture, cute restaurants, cute
shops, arts ...”
The duo are looking for-
ward to backpacking, hiking,
fishing and hunting “right out-
side of town.”
“My dog’s going to love it,”
Severin Knudsen said. “Just
driving around the other morn-
ing, we saw 10 pheasant roost-
ers on the road on Alder Slope.”
The task now is find-
ing the additional $250,000,
Sands said, and he continues
to work with Courtney Warner
Crowell, Greater Eastern Ore-
gon Region Coordinator for
Regional Solutions.
“We’re looking at all ave-
nues to see what else is avail-
able,” Sands said.
He also went back to the
engineers to see what $400,000
would buy and learned that
services could be extended to
Samples Road, which would
serve the four businesses
already interested in establish-
ing a presence in the park. The
four do not include business-
This week’s athlete of the week is hard-working Enterprise High School
junior Lexie Gassett. Last week, pitching duties fell on Gassett’s shoulders
as injury sidelined the other Cubs pitcher.Thriving on the challenge,
Gassett, won three of four contests, losing only the final after pitching
three games in two days. She didn’t forget to bring her bat to the
festivities and appeared among the top hitters in each game as she
added a slew of hits and RBIs to the Cubs’ cause.
Gassett also plays volleyball, basketball and participates in FFA.
She is also an honor roll student.
Dr. Allen is a doctor of
osteopathic medicine, and
completed her residency
in family medicine.
She is now accepting
new patients!
Call Dr. Allen to
schedule your appointment today!
541-426-7900
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(next to Wallowa
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Enterprise, Oregon 97828
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