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August 8, 2018
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Hail storm kills pigs, chickens, hits gardens
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins
100 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1918
Walter S. Brockman, the
largest owner of cattle in Wal-
lowa County, was found dead
below a Snake River trail
Monday afternoon.
C.C. Boswell was notified
this week that he has again been
awarded the contract for carry-
ing mail between Enterprise and
Imnaha. Boswell ordered a new
passenger auto stage that will
have pneumatic tires and travel
at a speed of 35 miles per hour.
Rain interspersed with hail
on Monday night in Joseph
killed several pigs and chick-
ens and damaged gardens.
Leaves on vegetables were
battered to pieces, apples were
hit hard enough to be bruised
and raspberries were knocked
off bushes.
70 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1948
Approximately
75,000
rainbow trout and 10,000 east-
ern brook trout were taken in
the Ray Dunsmore plane last
week to the horse ranch on the
Minam River for liberation.
Sixteen trips were made in
with fish, which were taken on
from the ranch by packhorses.
Max Storoe won first in the
whiskeroo contest staged to
advertise the Chief Joseph Days
celebration. He received a $100
prize. Second prize of $50 went
to Ted Grote of Walla Walla,
Wash., who turned the money
over to the Joseph Chamber of
Commerce to promote a bigger
and better show next year.
Herbert P. White, a live-
stock newspaperman for West-
ern Livestock magazine, visited
Wallowa County last week. “In
all my travels, I seldom find so
outstanding a herd,” White said
of J.H. Morton’s cattle.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1968
Four high school students
from Wallowa County will be
among the participants in East-
ern Oregon College’s sec-
ond-annual band jamboree this
summer. They are Debbie Clegg
and Andrew Gilbert of Enter-
prise; and Benjamin Freuden-
berg and Dale Dotson of Joseph.
An electrical storm shortly
before noon last Saturday
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touched off a destructive fire
four miles northwest of Enter-
prise on the Bob Hammond
ranch. In about three hours,
the fire, fanned by changeable
wind gusts, had charred an
estimated 1,250 acres of range
and wheat land.
Wallowa County Fall Fair
begin this week with 4-H and
open class exhibits in home
economics, crafts and hobbies,
and floral and land products.
As usual, the public is treated
free to all exhibits and events.
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1993
An exciting pig scram-
ble has been organized by fair
board member Ed Wallace to
follow the lamb scramble on
the last day of the county fair.
Pigs for the scramble have
been borrowed from the John
Fregulia ranch.
A bulldozer “big enough
to move a mountain” piloted
by Dave Turner of Joseph
was pushing dirt and boulders
around at the construction
site of the new City of Joseph
water filtration site just south-
west of town during a prog-
ress check at the end of last
week. The official completion
deadline for the project, July
31, has already passed, but the
construction is estimated to be
finished by the end of August.
Joseph artists Leo E.
Osborne and Terri Malec
Osborne are participating in
this year’s juried “Sculpture
in the Park” show and sale in
Loveland, Colo., this week-
end at the Benson Park Sculp-
ture Garden. The Osbornes
are among 150 sculptors from
across the country who will be
exhibiting their work in this
unique outdoor garden.
Shoot the Perseids Classical music takes the stage Aug. 18
Night-time photo
class scheduled
A three-day class in night-
time photography will be
offered Aug. 10-12.
“Wild landscapes come
into their own in the quiet
light of evening and night,”
said instructor Ellen Morris
Bishop.
The sessions, “Quiet
Light,” will allow students
to explore and photograph
the wild landscapes and night
skies of the Nature Conser-
vancy’s Zumwalt Prairie,
especially the Milky Way and
Perseid Meteor Shower.
Opening night will begin
at the Josephy Center at 4
p.m. followed by a carpool to
the preserve for evening and
after-dark shooting. In the
event of cloudy weather or
other obscuring conditions,
the field workshop will be
held Sunday and Monday.
The 90-minute opening
class will cover why evening
light provides extraordinary
opportunities for landscape
portrayal, camera, lenses, tech-
niques, timing and technical
concerns for night and moon-
light photography (including
cell phones, but don’t expect
great results, Bishop says) as
well as post-processing for
best results.
The nights of August 11
and 12 promise to be special
occasions for evening, night
and astrophotograpy. The
maximum intensity of this
year’s Perseid Meteor shower
coincides with the new moon,
Aug. 11-12, which means a
dark sky and optimal visibil-
ity of both the meteors and
the Milky Way, which will be
visible from sunset (around 8
p.m.) to 10 p.m. That will be
followed by a darker sky to
focus on the meteor shower,
which will radiate from low
in the northern sky.
Early morning hours, 3
a.m. to dawn, are best for the
Perseids. The Nature Conser-
vancy has provided permis-
sion to camp overnight at the
Summer Camp facility to best
capture the Perseids at their
very early morning best.
The $65 cost covers both
the evening Josephy Cen-
ter workshop and field ses-
sion. Equipment needed for
field session includes a tripod
and a camera capable of long
(15-40 second) exposures.
Wide-angle lens 14-24 mm
full-fame equivalent is best,
with a wide-aperture f2.8 to
f1.4 recommended.
For post-processing stu-
dents will need Lightroom
and Photoshop.
Bring prepared food that
does not require cooking for
dinner and for breakfast on
the overnight field workshop.
Coffee will be provided.
The workshop is limited to
12 participants.
Wallowa Valley Music Alli-
ance will present a classical
music concert, 6:30 p.m. Sat-
urday, Aug. 18, at the Enter-
prise Odd Fellows Hall.
Performers will include
musicians Lisa Robertson,
violin; Edward Dixon, cello;
and James Cook, piano. The
program is music by Franz
Schubert, which includes tran-
scriptions of his songs, an
impromptu for piano and fin-
ishes with his trio in B-flat.
Robertson holds under-
graduate and master’s degrees
in violin performance from the
University of Iowa, a doctor-
ate from Florida State Univer-
sity and did additional studies
in Switzerland at the Zürich
Conservatory and the Insti-
tute of Higher Musical Stud-
ies in Montreux. She was a
founding member of the Wal-
lowa Valley Music Alliance,
and founder and director of
the Wallowa Lake Chamber
Music Festival, which brought
world-class musicians to the
county to perform and teach.
She has recently retired
from teaching to Enterprise,
while still serving as concert-
master of the Oregon East and
Walla Walla symphonies.
Edward Dixon received
a doctorate in cello perfor-
mance from the Cincinnati Col-
lege-Conservatory and under-
graduate and master’s degrees
from the University of South-
ern California. He has recently
retired from the faculty of Whit-
man College and is manager of
the Walla Walla Symphony.
Dr. James Cook has degrees
from the Juilliard School and
the University of Southern
California in piano perfor-
mance. His repertoire is exten-
sive, including the Baroque era
and much contemporary music
including the Crumb Mak-
rokosmos and the Copland and
Prokofiev piano sonatas.
Admission to the concert is
by donation –– $10 suggested.
Youth aged 12 and under are
admitted free.
Robinson
Dixon
Zumwalt Prairie Preserve Grazing Applications
The Nature Conservancy is seeing producers interested in
grazing leases on the Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. Lease opportunities
may be under either full-care or self-care terms. Our standard lease is
a two year term, with potential for renewals based on performance
and program needs. The goal of the Zumwalt Prairie Preserve grazing
lease program is to graze the Preserve in a manner compatible with
the native grassland plant communities, to facilitate grazing research,
and to develop relationships that further conservation on lessee
property and the surrounding privately-owned prairie.
If you are interested in leasing pasture on the Zumwalt Prairie,
application materials are available at:
The Nature Conservancy
906 S. River Street Enterprise, Oregon 97828
Or contact Mike Hale at mike.hale@tnc.org
Telephone: 541-426-3458 x7
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We love living in a county that has
so many wonderful volunteers for
every need in the community and
would like to invite long time
residents and new locals to sit
and visit together.
Contact Barb McCormack
at 541-426-8015 for
more information
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ENTERPRISE
HIGH SCHOOL
th
CLASS OF
1958
Reunion
August 18th @ 9AM
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Old Fashioned Values
Sales & Service
Come join us at the Elks
Breakfast and the Main
Street Show & Shine
Car Show