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WEDNESDAY
September 19, 2018
Cross Country teams place high at
‘ SCAMPER ’
Kyla Hook stretches one last time before the start of the Cather-
ine Creek Scamper Friday. She finished second in the event.
Cross Country runners Karli Bedard, left, and Sydney Rouse slog
their way through the mud of the Catherine Creek Scamper Friday.
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
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Photos by Paul Wahl/Chieftain
Ashley Wilson finished in the top 10 for the Enterprise Varsity Girls team at the Catherine Creek
Scamper Friday.
oth the boys and girls combined cross-county team, coached
by Dan Moody of Enterprise, showed they had what it takes
at the 42 Annual Catherine Creek Scamper meet in Union
County.
The lady Outlaws placed first with 52 points, well ahead of sec-
ond-place Union. Ellyse Tingelstad showed up in first place with a time
of 21:51 while Kyla Hook was hot on her heels in second place at 22:20.
Ashley Wilson also finished in the top 10, placing ninth with 23:14.
The freshman boys proved that team’s backbone as they finished
third in a 12-team field. Freshman Henry Coughlan led the team with
a 18:11 sixth place finish. Bayden Menton and Zac Knapp, also fresh-
men, finished in 12th and 13th places, with times of 19:06 and 19:08,
respectively.
The Outlaws next compete at the Bob Firman Invitational at Eagle
Island State Park in Idaho Sept 21-22.
Golfers pause to be part of Cycle Oregon 2018 visit
V
ery early on Tuesday morning
of last week, Alpine Meadow
golfers left their clubs at home,
and instead played host to Cycle Ore-
gon’s approximately 1,600 cyclists at
the Enterprise City Park as riders took
their first rest break on their trek to
Elgin and onward.
Fortunate to be chosen as one of
Cycle Oregon’s 2018 Wallowa County
host participants, 15 to 25 sleepy-eyed
but eager Alpine Meadows volun-
teers, including Terry Lamb and Gary
Marr, who had served as monitors at
the Cycle Oregon beer garden Monday
Rochelle Danielson
night, huddled at the park at the crack
of a cold dawn, waiting for the rest stop
crew to show.
They didn’t wait long.
Several large yellow rental trucks
quietly pulled up to the curb loaded
with the equipment needed to set up
a water stop. First, two trailers carry-
ing portable toilets ─ referred to as
the “Blue Rooms” ─ arrived. Another
truck or two came loaded with all the
nuts and bolts it takes to set up a water
rest stop.
Known only as “Tom and Cheryl”
to the volunteers, the two experienced
leaders put everyone to work within
minutes.
Several guys and gals formed a pro-
duction line, moving large bags of ice
from the truck to aluminum tubs that
held bottled water and pop. Tables, can-
opies and recycle tents were unloaded
next. Multiple boxes of bread, peaches,
plums and condiments were distributed
to a make-shift kitchen.
Donna McCadden, Cheri Lamb,
Kathy Reynolds, Laidee Ann Wolfe
and Nancy Huff put on their aprons
and made peanut butter and jelly sand-
wich bites.
Ernestine Kilgore, Carol Marr, Beth
Hough, Judy Ables, Dana Roberts,
Karen Coppin, Jim Kilgore, and Bill
Ables helped serve the prepared food
at the tables under the canopies.
Choices consisted of ready to eat
boiled eggs, old-fashion donut halves,
chocolate covered raisins and almonds
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in mini-cups, fresh fruit and breakfast
bars.
The cyclists, dressed in colorful
spandex, were friendly, personable,
continuous in their thanks to volun-
teers, and comments of beauty of Wal-
lowa Mountains. And, by 11 a.m. when
the last bike disappeared down the
road, these healthy-looking, athletic
cyclists had eaten the place clean. Not
a donut remained.
As the loaded trucks pulled away
from curb, the park looked as though
no one had been there. Thank you
Cycle Oregon for visiting.
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