Wednesday, February
WOMEN IN
BUSINESS
Tracey
Hickman
6, 2019
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Join with us here at the
Wallowa County Chief
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to celebrate the women
business owners, mana
gers
and employees who work
and serve our community in
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WOMEN IN BUSINESS
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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
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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