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COMMUNITY Wallowa.com Wednesday, March 20, 2019 A3 Enterprise sheds local bank and post offi ce customs the Troy area in the Grande Ronde. There were about 25 steelhead caught last week. The Imnaha down river telephone circuit was com- pleted Wednesday, install- ing telephones for the Jerry Witherrites, Norman Lovells and Ollie Craders. OUT OF THE PAST Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins 100 YEARS AGO March 20, 1919 Two of the old time cus- toms of Enterprise have gone into the discard this week. The banks no lon- ger close for the noon hour, but keep open straight thru from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Also the post offi ce windows are not closed while the mail is being handled, between trains, but are kept open continuously. From time to time sug- gestions have been made that Enterprise might get a few elk from Billy Mead- ows pasture and put them in a pasture in the city park. If this is worth doing, now is a good time for it. The gov- ernment pasture is over- stocked with the game, and the spring crop of calves will add probably 40 more little elk to the herd. After a run of nearly six months, the fl our mill of the E. M. & M. company shut down the fi rst of this week, from lack of orders. The mill has ground nearly 80,000 bushels of wheat since Sep- tember. The company will resume grinding as soon as there is a market for the fl our. A trainload of sheep, more than 5,000 head, arrived in Enterprise last Friday from Parma, Idaho, to be pastured this summer 25 YEARS AGO March 17, 1994 Courtesy photo on Joseph creek in the north end of the county. 70 YEARS AGO March 17, 1949 The 1949 Red Cross fund campaign has reached the halfway mark with $1062 collected to date. The quota for Wallowa County is $2861. An announcement of a contract between Corny Martin, manager of the Edelweiss dance hall at Wal- lowa lake, and Marvin Mur- ray’s popular dance orches- tra for the coming season’s dances will be good news to the many Wallowa county people who enjoy dancing at the lake. Peggy Bacon and Janis Warnock have been selected to represent the Enterprise chapter of Future Home- makers of America at the state conference this week. A sell-out crowd saw the two annual Lions club ama- teur shows held at the EHS gym this week. The $25 prize for the best act of the evening went to the EHS band. Selection of the win- ning number was made by the recordings of an applause meter. 50 YEARS AGO March 20, 1969 Burglars broke into Bud’s Hardware in Joseph and stole a considerable quan- tity of merchandise. The loot consisted of fi ve pistols, one rifl e, two bows, several arrows, quite a lot of ammu- nition, fl ashlights and batter- ies, and an expensive hunt- ing knife. A car loaded with eight teenage youths from Wal- lowa went out of control on Highway 82 a mile north- west of Lostine, rolled over several times scattering the occupants hundreds of feet up and down the pave- ment and borrow pit. Three of the youngsters were seri- ously injured and are still hospitalized. Fishing has been great in Boise Cascade’s Joseph sawmill, which has been in operation since 1947, will be permanently closed as of May 27, according to com- pany offi cials who blamed the closure on the unavail- ability of logs. 52 local employees will lose their jobs as a result of the action, which is expected to case a $4-6 million downturn in the local economy. The EHS boys basket- ball team got off to a rocky start at the Oregon Class 2A championships last week, losing to a classy Yoncalla team, 58-52, before bounc- ing back to win the conso- lation bracket championship with wins over Crow and Heppner. Joseph Elementary School 4th grade teacher Lori Kissinger was recog- nized with a regional award from the USFS for educa- tion on fi sheries ecology she incorporates into her classroom. Jake McCleary, Levi Kangas and Kevin Bemrose raced the fastest cars in Sat- urday’s Pinewood Derby and will represent their pack at the district contest. Honoring women at the Josephy Center Jennifer Hobbs Jody Berry Elizabeth Enslin April Fishtrap Fireside Finale It’s the last Fireside of the season! Come fi nd a seat by the fi re and hear some of Wallowa Coun- ty’s fi nest writers read their work. April’s Fireside fea- tures Jennifer Hobbs, Jody Berry, and Oregon Book Award nominated author Elizabeth Enslin. An open mic follows where audi- ence members have a chance to get up to the podium and share their sto- ries too. “Every month Fish- trap becomes a place for the Wallowa County com- munity to gather and share their stories,” says Program Manager Mike Midlo. “A large part of that is thanks to Fireside cura- tor, Amy Zahm who has worked so hard to include a diversity of voices each month, representing dif- ferent generations, genres, and points of view. We are grateful to Amy for putting so much time and effort into Fireside.” Fishtrap Fireside takes place 7 p.m. Friday, April 5 at Fishtrap in Enterprise. Admission is free. April’s Fireside is sponsored by Long Horn Espresso and fi rewood is provided by Jay Zee Lumber. More about the featured readers for April: Jody Berry, a fi fth gen- eration Oregonian, fi rst came to Wallowa County in 1985 as a river guide. If you can’t fi nd her creating plant medicine in Enter- prise, she might be out on FISHTRAP: WRITING AND THE WEST Fishtrap.org For more information contact Program Man- ager, Mike Midlo. Phone: 541-426-3623 Email: mike@fi shtrap. org the prairie with her daugh- ter Ginger gazing at cloud formations and admiring the wildfl owers. Or look for her on her front porch with her dog Daisy writ- ing about the mountains, impossibly blue skies and the abundance of joy in her heart. Elizabeth Enslin is the author of “While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebel- lion in Nepal,” a fi nalist for a 2016 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfi c- tion. She lives in the North End of the county where she grows garlic and wran- gles yaks. Jennifer Hobbs grew up on a small farm near Mt. Rainier, spending most of her childhood vacations here in Wallowa County. She has been able to merge a lifelong love for both sci- ence and writing into work in multimedia, content management, search tech- nology and journalism . She lives with her family and beloved menagerie on the Lostine River. March is Women’s His- tory Month, and each year the Josephy Center does things to honor and feature women. There is an exhibit in the main gallery featuring women artists, and women and women’s issues are fea- tured in Tuesday Brown Bag programs. Over the years, programs have addressed women in business, agricul- ture, and fl ight. Last week County Commission Chair Susan Roberts gave a primer on elected offi ce as she recounted her experiences as Enterprise Mayor, pres- ident of the League of Ore- gon Cities, and as a county commissioner. Students from Oregon State’s Ag and Natural Resource program at Eastern Oregon Univer- sity will talk about the future for women in agriculture on April 9. And on Thursday, April 18, at 7 pm, Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, recently retired as curator of North- west Art at the Portland Art Museum (and long-ago, in the late 1970s, an Artist in the Schools in Wallowa County) will give an over- view of women artists in the region. On Tuesday, March 26, at noon, the Josephy Cen- ter asks the public to help celebrate women who have made a difference in Wal- lowa County. The Center is aided in this—and in events throughout the month— by sponsorship help from Soroptimist International of Wallowa County. And the fi rst women to be cel- ebrated is Wilma Haller, a pre—WW II refugee from Estonia who saw opportu- nity in the clothes that did not sell in the dress shop that she and her husband, Harold Haller, ran. With her cohorts at Soroptimist, the “Thrift Shop” was born. Another pre—WW II ref- ugee, Erna Ratlciff, carried her German accent through- out her life, and, with hus- band Leland Ratcliff, endowed funds for the Com- munity Church and tennis courts, and scholarships for Wallowa County students that continue to this day. Marjorie Martin, long-time County Clerk, worked her 40 hours each week at the Thrift Shop after she left the courthouse. The list goes on. A woman does not have to have been a Soroptimist to be celebrated in this event. The format will be to have individual testimony about each woman, a fi ve-minute blurb remembering who she Spay & Neuter Discounts! 10% Savings PLUS $10 coupon from Wallowa County Health Services Come in March 1st - 31st and enter to win FREE IV fl uids during your pets spay or neuter 706 Depot St. Enterprise, OR 97828 enterprisevet.com 542-426-3331 THE ONE STOP SHOP FOR YOUR HVAC... Center for more informa- tion, 541-432-0505. 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