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Wallowa.com
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
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Enterprise Fire, Oregon
State Police, and Wallowa
County Sheriff s used Jaws
of Life to rescue sheep
from
an
overturned
livestock
truck
near
Enterprise at the junction
of Crow Creek and Elk
Mountain roads on May
21, 2019. The truck was
transporting sheep from
Pilot Rock back to the
Oliver Wentz Ranch up
Elk Mountain Road. The
driver was hospitalized.
Photos by Ellen Morris Bishop
Sheep truck accident injures driver
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
On Tuesday, May 21,
a truck and double trailer
hauling sheep from their
winter and lambing quar-
ters near Pilot Rock to the
Wentz Ranch overturned
on Elk Mountain Road near
the junction of Crow Creek
Road, about 5 miles south-
east of Enterprise. The truck
and front trailer landed on
their sides; the rear trailer
tilted but remained upright.
The driver, Oliver Wentz,
83, was taken to Wallowa
Memorial Hospital by Wal-
lowa County Emergency
Medical Services ambu-
lance, and life-fl ighted to
Boise with injuries that,
according to his wife, Joanna,
included a broken leg and
broken vertebrae in his neck.
Wentz was released from the
ICU there on Thursday, May
23rd, but will remain hos-
pitalized. “The fi refi ghters
and everyone were wonder-
ful. I’m so very grateful for
them,” Joanna said.
Enterprise Fire, Wal-
lowa County Sherrif offi -
cers and Oregon State Police
responded along with the
ambulance. They used the
Jaws of Life to cut open the
overturned trailer to rescue
the sheep. Members of the
Wentz family worked along-
side fi refi ghters to free the
animals by clearing debris
and fallen partitions from
the trailer’s interior. Fire-
fi ghters had to carry some
of the surviving, and very
shocked sheep to the out-
side of the trailer where they
revived and ran, or some-
times bounded away from
the truck. Sheep were also
released from the more
upright trailer. Neighbors,
friends, and a few of their
border collies helped keep
the fl ock corralled and off
the roadways.
Of the more than a hun-
dred sheep in the two trail-
ers, only 15 ewes and 15
lambs perished in the acci-
dent. “It could have been
a lot worse,” said Trevor
Wentz. “We got a lot of help
from people here. And we
brought two more truckloads
of sheep home on Wednes-
day without any problems,
so we have them all home
now.”
Farm Bureau needs Chief Joseph bronze
calendar photos
gets new lease on life
Oregon Farm Bureau
invites all photography
enthusiasts to enter their
best images of Oregon
agriculture in the annual
OFB Calendar Contest.
Twelve selected pho-
tographers will have their
work featured as month
images in the 2020 Ore-
gon’s Bounty Calendar.
The award-winning cal-
endar celebrates all aspects
of Oregon agriculture: the
products, the people, the
production, the landscape,
the enjoyment, anything
that depicts the beauty,
technology, culture, enjoy-
ment, or tradition of family
farming and ranching.
“Spring is a fantas-
tic time to look for photo
opportunities within Ore-
gon agriculture,” said OFB
Communications Director
Anne Marie Moss. “Farm-
ers markets are in full
swing, fi elds are bloom-
ing, farmers are prepar-
ing for summer harvest,
and young farm animals
abound.”
Horizontal-format,
high-resolution
images
— both close-ups and
panoramic views — are
needed of all types of agri-
culture in all seasons.
Subject ideas include
scenes from farmers mar-
kets, close-ups of ag prod-
ucts or crops in the fi eld,
planting and harvesting
crops, panoramic scenes of
farmland, people enjoying
Oregon-grown ag prod-
ucts, portraits of farmers/
ranchers/families,
farm
animals, state or county
fairs, 4-H and FFA events,
on-farm festivals, to name
just a few.
Photographers
with
images selected for month
pages in Oregon’s Bounty
will receive a photo credit
in the 2020 calendar, which
is mailed to 67,000 Farm
Bureau members, and cop-
ies of the calendar. Every-
one who submits an image
will receive a compli-
mentary copy of the calen-
dar ($20 value), provided
they include their mailing
address.
The deadline for entries
is Sept. 15, 2019.
Photographers do not
need to be Farm Bureau
members to participate
and there is no limit to the
number of photos that can
be submitted.
Photo specifi cations and
contest rules are attached
and are at www.oregonfb.
org/calendar.
The Oregon Farm
Bureau calendar is mailed
to
67,000
members
around the state and thou-
sands more are distributed
throughout the year.
For more information
and to see previous years
of the Oregon’s Bounty
Calendar, visit www.ore-
gonfb.org/calendar.
Project contact is Anne
Marie Moss, OFB Com-
munications Director, at
annemarie@oregonfb.org,
503.399.1701.
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Wallowa County Chieftain
The Chief Joseph bronze
located at the corner of Main
Street and Joseph Avenue in
Joseph, is sporting a new
look thanks to a Wildhorse
Foundation Grant submit-
ted by Joseph Chamber of
Commerce member, Mike
Lockhart.
Valley Bronze of Joseph
was chosen for the refurbish-
ment, which was essentially
removing and applying a
patina to the monument.
The foundry removed
and replaced the bronze
with a forklift and slings.
The foundry only worked
on Chief Joseph for a few
days.
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