Wallowa County Chieftain
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wallowa.com
August 29, 2018
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SEVEN WONDERS CUP
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Amy Gulzow and
the Dragons in
the Wallowas
team shoves off
from the dock for
their first race
Saturday morning
in the Seven Won-
ders Cup on Wal-
lowa Lake.
Ellen Bishop/For the
Chieftain
Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain
Ellen Bishop/For the Chieftain
Like the rest of the Dragons in the Wallowas crew, Drum-
mer and caller Amy Gulzow planned on keeping warm
when cooler weather set on Sunday morning.
Members of the grand masters and mixed team (many
do double-duty) for the Dragons in the Wallowas cele-
brate their amazing six-medal win at the Aug. 25-26 7th
Wonder Cup Dragon Boat Races: Tiller Denny Kolb, left,
Sybil Berkey and Bob and Gina Barstad.
Enterprise library adding hours
Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
Enterprise Public Library
has hired a new assistant to
the librarian –– Samantha
Layne.
With her in place, the
library will now be open
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. five days
a week and from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. on Saturdays. The
library will be closed for
lunch noon to 1 p.m. on
Fridays.
The expanded hours are a
test to see if the needs of the
community are met. Adjust-
ments may be made going
forward.
“We will count every
hour to see when the most
usage is,” said librarian
Denine Rautenstrauch said.
Library patrons had
requested open hours on
Fridays and Saturdays.
But, in addition to respond-
ing to customer requests,
the library is also acting to
address a significant increase
in workload since the county
library closed.
“Our circulation is out
of bounds since July 1, with
people sometimes lined up
three and four deep at the
counter,”
Rautenstrauch
said. “I don’t think we’ll
have any difficulty proving
to city council that the added
hours were a needed addi-

Two Wallowa teams collect six
medals overall in competition
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
T
he “Dragons in the Wallowas” dragon boat club
members were wild with joy at the medal awards
ceremony after the Third Annual 7th Wonder Cup
dragon boat races on Wallowa Lake last weekend.
“We just keep getting better and better,” said
Race Organizer Mike Lockhart. “Our Grand Master’s
boat is especially competitive — but our mixed team is
not that far behind them.”
The team took home six medals, including a gold
medal for the Grand Masters Team’s running of the 250-
meter slalom race. The slalom remains a favorite addition
to regular dragon boat racing offerings and the crowd of
boaters gathered in the Edelweiss Inn at the head of the
Lake for awards roared their approval of the decision to
keep the slalom a regular part of upcoming races.
Eleven teams hit the lake Saturday and Sunday includ-
ing two teams fielded by the Dragons in the Wallowas.
Last year the Dragons in the Wallowas fielded a Mixed
Team and a Women’s Team.
As usual, many of those top middle-aged members of
the grand master’s boat also shouldered double-duty by
joining younger team members on the mixed boat.
In addition to their gold medal in the grand master
running of the slalom, the team took silver medals in the
Grand Master’s 500-meter races (combined total of three
times); the Mixed Team’s 500-meter races; the grand
masters total combined scores of 500-Meters and slalom;
the mixed team’s total combined scores of 500-Meters
and slalom; and the mixed team’s run of the slalom.
The overall winner of the 7 Wonders Cup was Team
Dragon Fuel, a Portland group with a combined time
for all events of 10:22.99. The Dragons in the Wallowas
mixed team was just behind them with a time of 10:52:12.
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tion to the library services.”
Financing ever-expand-
ing library services is still a
concern for the city leader-
ship. The estimated cost for
library services is $70 per
person per year, but library
cards are free. The city
council hopes the that will
continue.
Patrons living outside of
city boundaries pay noth-
ing in taxes to support the
library and are now being
asked to consider making a
voluntary donation of any
amount to the library.
“I have been amazed at
the response,” said Rauten-
strauch. “People really value
their library.”
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