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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
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Grants to Wallowa, Enterprise libraries fund books for youth
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
Recently both the Enter-
prise and Wallowa Public
Libraries received grants
from the federal Institute of
Museum and Library Ser-
vices (IMLS). Both grants
focused on updating chil-
dren’s and young adult book
collections.
“It’s very important to
keep adding new material to
children’s and young adult
books to keep them current
and hold patron interest,”
said Ross Fuqua, a consul-
tant at the State Library of
Oregon who administered
the grants.
Enterprise’s
$2,600
grant supported purchase
of young adult fiction and
also non-fiction for younger
readers. “We see a lot of use
of these kinds of books,”
said
Enterprise
librar-
ian Denine Rautenstrauch.
Books added to the Enter-
prise shelves include “The
Book of Chocolate,” “Wild
Horse Science” and “Fault
Lines of the Constitution.”
The Wallowa Public
Library garnered a $3,000
grant, more than its usual
annual budget for all books,
to update their collection of
children’s and young adult
books. The new books are
now on the shelves, and
librarian Debbie Lind is
inviting everyone to come
see, and use, the new
acquisitions.
“They are all current
books that have literary
merit,” said Lind. “They’re
ready for readers to use.”
The
books
include
choices from the 2018 Amer-
ican Library Association
Youth Media Awards and
Honor books, recommenda-
Ellen Morris Bishop
Halcyon Mains, 7, settles in to read some of the Wallowa Public Library’s new children’s books, purchased with a $3,000 grant
from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant allowed the library to update its collection of fiction and
non-fiction for both children’s and young adult books.
tions of the 2018 American
Indian Library Association
Youth Literature Awards and
Honors books, and the Bank
Street Best Books of the
Year, 2018.
In children’s books,
Lind’s favorite is “Blue
Ethel,” a story about a cat
who turns blue when she
rolls on a sidewalk that chil-
dren decorated using colored
chalk, and then is teased by
other cats. “By the end of
the book, everyone is roll-
ing in blue chalk, Lind said.
It’s a wonderful story with a
happy ending.” “Mars One,”
a science fiction book, and
“Backfield Boys,” a foot-
ball mystery, top her list of
Young Adult reads.
“Mary Swanson at the
Bookloft helped me choose
the best books from the
book award lists,” Lind said.
“Then she ordered them for
us, and gave us a discount.
So we really got about
$3,700 dollars worth of
books for our $3,000 grant,
thanks to The Bookloft.”
Swanson said she was
happy to help both libraries
because “…these days there
are a lot of other places to
buy books. So I was glad to
research, find, and order the
books.”
The Wallowa Public
Library offers several pro-
grams for young readers.
They include Story Time,
led by retired Wallowa kin-
dergarten teacher Carol
Mock on Thursdays from
2:30-3:30 p.m. “We have
youngsters from toddlers to
8 or 9 year-olds attending,”
Lind said. This summer the
library will offer a “Uni-
Economic relief may be its the way for Wallowa County
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Wallowa County may
soon have more flexibility to
pursue more creative ideas
to revamp its local economy.
But only if it wants it.
A proposal to allow
industrial development out-
side cities in 10 Eastern Ore-
gon counties has passed a
key legislative committee
without encountering oppo-
sition from farm and conser-
vation advocates.
Senate Bill 2 would allow
each of the counties —
Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Har-
ney, Lake, Malheur, Sher-
man, Union, Wallowa and
Wheeler — to designate up
to 10 sites totaling 50 acres
outside urban growth bound-
aries for “industrial uses or
other employment uses.”
Each designation would
be based on an economic
opportunity analysis and the
development could not occur
on high-value farmland or
sage grouse habitat.
The Senate Committee
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on Environment and Natural
Resources recommended the
bill for approval 3-1 during a
Feb. 12 work session.
“It’s totally local con-
trol. If the local people don’t
want it, they don’t have to do
it,” said Sen. Bill Hansell,
R-Athena, during an earlier
public hearing on the bill.
While SB 2 doesn’t solve
all the land use problems fac-
ing Eastern Oregon, the pro-
posal “recognizes the incred-
ible difference between
Eastern Oregon and the
Willamette Valley,” where
growth is more robust, said
Sen. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario.
The legislation aims to
provide flexibility for “very
rural” parts of Oregon with-
out harming the state’s over-
all land use system, said Sen-
ate President Peter Courtney,
D-Salem.
“I’ve heard about this and
heard about this and heard
about this. One size does not
fit all,” Courtney said.
Sen. Arnie
Roblan,
D-Coos Bay, said it’s
“remarkable” that groups
with disparate interests
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Stakeholders reached an
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of a pilot project” that “no
one loves but perhaps we can
all live with,” she said.
Members of the Oregon
Farm Bureau disagreed with
the reasons for a lack of eco-
nomic opportunity in East-
ern Oregon but appreciated
that SB 2 was kept “limited
in scope” and the organi-
zation is neutral on the bill,
said Jonathan Sandau, a gov-
ernment affairs specialist
with the group.
Once a county designates
50 acres for industrial devel-
opment under the bill, it can-
not enlarge the footprint
without another legislative
change or an “exception”
to Oregon’s land use goals
under existing law.
Chieftain editor Chris-
tian Ambroson contributed
to this report
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could reach a consensus
on the proposal, even if it
doesn’t resolve every land
use disagreement in Eastern
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“We’ve been looking for
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