NEWS
Wallowa.com
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
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WOMEN IN BUSINESS
Deve Wolfe in her Joseph Main Street shop,
“Tempting Teal Boutique.” Wolfe has been a
Joseph business owner for 21 years.
Wallowa County surveyor, Kristina Powell, is one
of the few women in the state who owns their own
surveying business, Wallowa Associates. She bought
the business in 2016 and is still going strong.
Tempting Teal Boutique
Wallowa Associates, LLC
Liza Jane McAlister harnesses
her Belgian team to pull her
hay wagon for winter feeding.
6 Ranch
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
Liza Jane McAlister
owns and runs the 6 Ranch
just west of Enterprise. Her
ranch mission: ”To pro-
duce healthy food, restore
ecosystems, and preserve
western traditions” drives
and sustains her business.
The sixth generation
on this ranch, McAlis-
ter raises Corriente cattle,
and also markets their beef
to food stores and restau-
rants in northeastern Ore-
gon and Portland. Prod-
ucts include a boxed ¼
beef, individual cuts, and
“whole grind” ground
beef that includes meat
from steak, roasts and
other cuts. 6 Ranch beef is
highly valued as low in fat,
high in nutrients, and, sim-
ply, delicious.
McAlister, a hands-on
rancher who does most of
the work herself, began
raising beef about 30 years
ago with 20 conventional
cattle. “I started think-
ing we needed a breed
that could go anywhere,
be light on the land, graze
on steep ground, and was
really hardy.” she said.
She decided to try Corri-
entes—a breed that origi-
nated from Spanish cattle
brought to the Southwest
as early as 1493.
McAlister operates a
farm stand on her ranch
that carries products from
15 producers in Wallowa
County. She’s considering
opening another in Joseph.
“We raise such good food
here,” she said. “ I want
our local foods to be more
accessible to people who
live here.”
By Christian Ambroson
Wallowa County Chieftain
Deve Wolfe owns and
operates Joseph’s popu-
lar Main Street shopfront
Tempting Teal Boutique.
There she specializes in
women’s fashion. Inside
you can fi nd anything
“from cowboy boots, fash-
ion jeans, rodeo wear,
casual wear, stylish jew-
elry, leather goods, home-
made fl eece, and hidden
gems.”
Wolfe, a sixth-genera-
tion local, is celebrating 21
years of owning a business
in Joseph. Originally called
Wolfe Fleece & Cloth-
ing, she fi rst started selling
clothing items in Wallowa
County after graduating
college and a stint abroad
traveling Europe. With few
job prospects and not much
cash, Wolfe was inspired
to make her Christmas
gifts that year sewing
fl eece. She then began sell-
ing her items on consign-
ment and due to popular
demand, her business grew
from there.
Eventually,
Wolfe’s
specialty and store name
would evolve. Growing
up on a farm, Wolfe is
no stranger to hard work,
something she credits to
her current success as a
business owner. “Working
every day was a necessity,”
Wolfe remarked. In fact,
“the thing that’s stayed
true the whole time is I’m
open every day.” That’s
right, for 21 years in busi-
ness, Wolfe would only
plan to close for four days
out of the year.
WHERE TO FIND 6 RANCH BEEF
Enterprise, Oregon
TEMPTING TEAL BOUTIQUE
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Kristina Powell of Los-
tine is Wallowa County’s
lone woman working as
a fully certifi ed surveyor
who also owns her own
business: Wallowa Asso-
ciates, LLC. She’s been in
the business in one form or
another since 2005. Only
three percent of surveyor
license holders in the Ore-
gon State Board of Exam-
iners for Engineering
and Land Surveying are
women.
As she describes it, the
universe chose her profes-
sion for her. She graduated
from EOU with a Bach-
elor of Science in math
and spent her summers as
a survey technician work-
ing at Anderson and Perry,
a La Grande engineer-
ing fi rm. Upon gradua-
tion, Ron Walter, owner of
Wallowa Associates, LLC
– Land Survey Company
hired her.
Walter passed away in
January of 2015.
“Gail Walter, Ron Wal-
ter’s wife, offered to sell
the business to me so what
they had built together
would have a chance to
continue,” Powell said.
She bought the business in
January of 2016.
What did she fi nd most
diffi cult about jumping
from employee to business
owner?
“Being the boss is
stressful!”
she
said.
“Obtaining my land sur-
veyor licenses in Oregon
and Washington seemed
daunting – while run-
ning/managing a business
full-time.”
As for the future, Pow-
ell plans to take it slow.
“One day at a time,” she
said. “With the help of my
mentors: Rod Lewis and
Richard Shaver.”
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