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Enterprise, Oregon
Wallowa.com
134th Year, No. 29
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Winter weather is still up in the air
Predictions are for
generally mild and wet
weather, with possible
arctic outbreaks
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
Ellen Morris Bishop
The period of Nov. 1, 2019 through Jan. 30, 2020 is predicted to
be warmer and wetter by Oregon Department of Agriculture
meteorologists.
Spooks to
be out in
force for
Halloween
Weather forecasters from multiple
Oregon agencies gathered in Portland
last week to divine the looming win-
ter’s likely weather. Their conclusion is
that it will be either cold or warm, with
lots of snow or maybe not so much.
Whichever we get, some of the winter
may be a wild ride with some severe
storms, possible arctic outbreaks, and
lots of milder, but wet, weather.
“Based on the years that have sim-
ilar patterns of Pacifi c ocean tempera-
tures, 1969-70, 1977-78, and 1980-81,”
said Oregon Department of Agriculture
meteorologist Pete Parsons, “it should
be mild and tranquil early in Novem-
ber, with a chance of a cold outbreak,
then turning stormy in December, with
generally mild temperatures. Maybe a
little cold weather in early January, but
then milder, and typically mild in Feb-
ruary, too.”
The problem with forecasting this
winter with certainty is that we are in
an “ENSO-Neutral” weather pattern,
Parsons said.
El Nino, a pattern which usually
brings more severe winters to Wal-
lowa County, is fading. And it’s as
yet unclear whether weather over the
Pacifi c is shifting back to chilly El Nino
patterns, moving into La Nina, which
tends to bring milder, drier winters, or
just staying in neutral, and keeping us
in limbo for awhile.
“We can get quite a variety of
weather in ENSO neutral years,” Par-
sons said.
Overall expectations for northeast
Oregon during the three month period
November 1 –Jan 30 are an average of
2.7 degrees warmer and 116% of aver-
age precipitation, near to above average
“The bulls-eye for really cold
weather would be earlier in the winter,
from late November through early Jan-
uary,” Parsons said. “Later in the win-
ter because of the ocean off the Pacifi c
See Weather, Page A7
Hermiston author tells how she’s holding back
PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Communities have
own festivities
around county
By Bill Bradshaw
Wallowa County Chieftain
They’ll be on the Watch for
the Witches in Joseph, Trunk-or-
Treating in Enterprise and have
a Fall Festival in Wallowa for
Halloween this week.
Wallowa takes the lead today
with its Fall Festival takes place
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Beth
Johnson Room at Wallowa Ele-
mentary School, W. 315 First St.
They do that the day before
Halloween “because every-
body’s going to be out trick-or-
treating” on Halloween, said
organizer Charissa McCull-
och, a third-grade teacher at the
school.
The festival will include
See Spooks, Page A7
FALL BACK
Carol Clupny
Carol Clupny starts at stage 13 of 33 to trek 1,000 miles on the Camino de Santiago from Spain to France. She will tell her story of actively
pushing back her Parkinson’s disease for 11 years at the VFW Hall, Sunday, the 10th at 2 p.m.
Nov. 10 talk at the VFW
Hall in Enterprise is free
Daylight Saving Time
ends on Sunday at 2 a.m.
when clocks are turned
backward one hour to 1 a.m.
Sunrise and sunset will be
earlier, which means more
light in the morning.
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
C
arol Clupny of Hermiston is a Par-
kinson’s disease warrior. She will
recount her successful adven-
tures in attacking the symptoms
of Parkinson’s disease over 11
years, including her 1,000 mile trek over
Camino de Santiago in France and Spain.
She speaks at the Eagle Cap VFW Hall in
Enterprise, Sunday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. The
VFW Hall is at 800 N River St Enterprise
OR 97828 Phone (541) 426-4307.
The event, sponsored by the Wal-
lowa County Parkinson’s Disease Support
Group, will be of interest to health pro-
fessionals and persons who are affected
directly or through others by the affl iction.
With aging, Parkinson’s becomes more
likely.
Clupny is author of “The Ribbon of
Road Ahead: One Woman’s Remarkable
Journey with Parkinson’s Disease,” that
has been widely acclaimed by profession-
als and patients dealing with the condition.
She serves as a support group facilitator for
Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon (PRO).
The Parkinson’s Foundation sought her
leadership to plan a region-wide forum of
women with Parkinson’s, and she served
two terms on the Oregon Board of Examin-
ers of Speech Pathology and Audiology (a
governor’s appointment).
Carol received a Masters of Science in
Speech Pathology from Eastern Wash-
ington University and further certifi ca-
tion in School Leadership and Admin-
stration from Lewis and Clark College.
She provided speech pathology services
and served as program director for 32
years in the wide geographic area of
eastern Oregon. Active in the Oregon
Speech-Language and Hearing Asso-
ciation she received honors of the
association and the presidential award
for her work on recruitment and
retention of speech and hearing pro-
fessionals. Carol presented numer-
ous papers and projects at local, state
and regional professional confer-
ences. She was appointed by Gover-
nor Ted Kulongoski to two terms of
the Oregon Board of Examiners of
Speech Pathology and Audiology.
Suffering for years from unex-
plained symptoms, Carol was
diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in
2008. She retired as a speech-language
pathologist after thirty-one years with the
InterMountain Education Service District
and settled into acceptance. Learning to
live with a progressive neurological dis-
ease challenged her once active lifestyle.
Shocked when getting outside to the mail-
box became a struggle, she began walking;
trekking over a thousand miles on pilgrim-
age trails in France and Spain. Reading that
Clupny’s book recounts her battle against
Parkinson’s disease, including her 1,000 mile
trek across France and Spain.
bicycling helped mitigate the symptoms
of Parkinson’s Disease she started riding;
cycling across Iowa four times with the Ped-
aling for Parkinson’s Team. In 2016, Carol
See Parkinson’s, Page A7