Wednesday, February WOMEN IN BUSINESS Tracey Hickman 6, 2019 B9 Join with us here at the Wallowa County Chief tain to celebrate the women business owners, mana gers and employees who work and serve our community in ! WOMEN IN BUSINESS | PAGES A7, B9 MacKenzie Rodgers Purchasing Manger Owner Deve Wolf 800 S River St, Enterprise, OR 97828 541-426-9228 309 S River Street Suite Enterprise, OR 97828 A, 541-426-3564 Belinda Boden Vanessa Bregma 12 S Main St, Joseph, OR 97846 541-432-9653 n McKee Ashlie McAfee Diane Daggett Hailie Hillock Broker Owner 83365 Joseph Hwy, Joseph, OR 97846 541-398-1297 Deena McFetridge Bookkeeping & Sales Associate Celene Gay Kim Stoffel Carol Ward Ame Leggett 121 W Main St, Enterprise, OR 97828 541-426-3177 www.wheatlandins.co m 616 W. North Street Enterprise, Oregon 541-426-4208 Shelby Graning Owner & Stylist Sydnee Pearson Stylist & Nails 401 N Main Street Joseph, OR 97846 541-432-4363 11 South Main Street Joseph, Oregon 97846 208-790-7318 Richelle Chitwood Owner Sondra Lozier Shop Owner Jennifer Coone y General Manager Ellen Bishop Reporter Amber Mock Administrative Assistant Cheryl Jenkin Advertising Assistant s 209 NW First St, Enterprise, OR 97828 541-426-4567 www.wallwoa.com Velda Bales Offi ce Manger 110 S River St, Enterprise, OR 97828 541-426-2679 300 W. Main St. Enterprise, OR 97828 (541) 426-3229 Enterprise, Oregon 311 W Main St, Enterprise, OR 97828 541-426-2100 134th Year, No. 42 Wallowa.com Wednesday, February 6, 2019 BGood. BLocal 2019 Good Food awards winner: “We received our award while attending the Good Food Awards Ceremony Jan. 11, 2019 in San Francisco at the Herbst Theatre.” Judy Goodman and BGood Bars win prestigious Good Foods Foundation national award By Ellen Morris Bishop Wallowa County Chieftain It’s a perfect example that hard work, vision, and a little good luck pay off. On January 11, Judy Good- man and her Cranberry Hemp BGood Bar won the Good Foods Founda- tion national award for best snack bar in America. Stars of the Slow Foods movement, including Alice Waters and Slow Foods founder Carlo Petrini hosted the awards ceremony in San Francisco. The awards recognize foods made of ingredients produced by socially and environmentally respon- sible practices, resulting in foods of craftsmanship and fl avor. They also emphasize the principals of the Slow Foods movement: defending regional traditions, promoting good food, and encouraging a slower pace of life. Judy Goodman’s BGood Bars check all the boxes. “I use locally sourced foods,” Goodman said, “including local Ore- gon honey as the only sweetener in the bars, cherries and organic heir- loom blueberries from Washington, and Oregon hazelnuts. The coffee for the Espresso bars is roasted right here in Joseph by Red Horse.” Goodman’s bars competed with more than 2,000 entries in 16 catego- ries for the Good Foods Awards. She almost didn’t enter her prize-winning Cranberry Hemp bars in the compe- tition. “It cost $75 to enter one item, and I’d entered two other bars,” she said. “But when I renewed my mem- bership in Good Foods, it came with a free entry into the competition. I don’t know why I entered the Cran- berry Hemp. It seems to sell fewer than the other varieties. But I’m glad I did. It was my wild card.” BGood Bars is a truly local busi- ness. Goodman learned the craft of a chocolatier when working for Arrow- head Chocolates from 2011 to 2012. There, she also made Arrowhead’s now extinct “Summit Bars” which came in Espresso, Blueberry, Peanut Ginger and Pistachio Cherry varieties. See BGood Bars, Page A12 $1 Wallowa Lake moraine property saved for grazing By KATY NESBITT For the Capital Press JOSEPH — The unspoiled view of Wallowa Lake’s east moraine and its traditional uses will be retained when it becomes community-owned in the coming year. When the sale of the Ronald C. Yanke Fam- ily Trust’s 1,800 acres – half the landmass of the moraine — is fi nalized in January 2020, Wal- lowa County will manage the picturesque land- scape, as it was under private ownership, for cattle grazing and timber harvest while provid- ing public access for recreation. Responding to the public’s desire to keep the view shed from being developed into home sites and a conference center, as the land is zoned, the county commissioners helped form the Wal- lowa Lake Moraines Partnership in 2011. “We listened to the community and responded to the desire that this ground be kept as a work- ing landscape, undeveloped and open for the recreation,” Susan Roberts, Wallowa County Board of Commissioners chairman, said. The moraines got a lot of attention in 2008 when a forum showcasing their fragility and scenic value was held in Joseph. At the time, the threat of a housing development had recently been quashed when Oregon State Parks and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla purchased a 63-acre ranch at the foot of the lake, turning it into Iwetemlaken State Park. Protecting the view and the land around Wallowa Lake became hot topic. “The best part about this work is being able to do it in collaboration with the diversity of partners in our community,” Kathleen Ackley, executive director of the Land Trust, said. “The Wallowa Lake Moraines Partnership is a per- fect example of how four different entities can come together to achieve a common goal that otherwise would be exceedingly diffi cult to do alone.“ Over the past eight years, with an eye on pur- chasing the land and placing it in county own- ership, the Partnership contracted wildlife and plant surveys, drafted forest, range and recre- ation plans and secured $3.9 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, fi nanced with royalties from energy companies drilling for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf. The fund pays for conservation of natural areas, especially adjacent to national parks and forests. In the coming 12 months the Partnership will focus on raising the remaining money necessary to close the deal with the Yanke Family Trust by January 2020. “We need approximately $6.6 million dollars and we have already raised 60 percent of that,” Ackley said. “With the help of foundations and gifts from individuals who care about the fate of the Wallowa Lake Moraines, together we can conserve a true natural wonder.” All three of eastern Oregon’s congressional representatives said in separate statements they support the Partnership’s work. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore, a long-time sup- porter of the project said, “The natural beauty of the world-renowned and locally treasured Wallowa Lake moraines will gain signifi cant See Moraine, Page A12 County comes up big in support of integrated health care By Christian Ambroson Wallowa County Chieftain Mike Wilson of Westby Associates, Inc., holding a matching check of $100,000, setting an ambitious tone for the evening fundraiser. An aggressive goal, an elegant evening, and a generous community — the Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness hosted a success- ful fundraiser Saturday Feb. 2, at the Wal- lowa Lake Lodge. The sold out event, themed Hearts for Health: a vision for transforming health- care in Wallowa County, wined and dined 84 potential donors, offering free beer and wine donated by local establishments. The evening’s co-emcees were Chan- tay Jett, the Center for Wellness’s executive director, and Mike Wilson of Westby Asso- ciates, Inc., a nonprofi t fundraising com- pany. Early in the evening, Wilson outlined the ambitious goal to raise over $200,000. Let it be known: they surpassed this goal, raising over $219,000 in local money for their cause. While it was a Center for Wellness fund- raiser, it really was a collaborative event with Winding Waters health care clinic. Board members from each nonprofi t greeted guests warmly at the door. Its purpose? A fundraising effort to meet a $6.8 million goal to build an integrated health care facility for Wallowa County. The building would help de-stigmatize mental health, and allow providers to communicate and collaborate with physical health provid- ers to better treat the entire person. In her early remarks, Jett said about the importance of an integrated mental and physical health building, “my dream is that you can come in and no one will know why you’re here.” Whether a patient comes in for a common cold or to address mild depres- sion, he or she should come in with the same experience without the fear of judgement. See Health, Page A8