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BASKETBALL PREVIEW COUGARS, OUTLAWS PREP FOR NEW SEASON ON THE COURTS | A9 Enterprise, Oregon Wallowa.com 134th Year, No. 34 Wednesday, December 4, 2019 Fairgrounds and Fair Board dream of a new arena WHERE’S THE BEEF ? ‘PEOPLE ARE FREE TO BUY AND EAT WHAT THEY WANT. BUT THE LABELS NEED TO CLEARLY TELL THEM WHAT THEY ARE GETTING.’ Wallowa County rancher and County Commissioner Todd Nash Existing arena and facilities get improvements and repairs By Bill Bradshaw Wallowa County Chieftain Winter weather may be upon us, but that isn’t stopping work at the Wallowa County Fairgrounds in Enterprise. One of the biggest and most excit- ing projects is a new indoor arena that’s expected to have a seven-digit price tag, though the total cost is a long way from being known, accord- ing to Fair Board Offi ce Manager Tera Elliott. “We’re just in our dream phase,” she said, adding that there’s no set timetable for its completion. A plan of that “dream” is posted on the wall of the Fair Board Offi ce at 668 NW 1st St. Included on that plan is a 120-foot- by-200-foot indoor arena expected to replace the existing outdoor arena. Elliott was unsure how it would differ from the Harley Tucker/Chief Joseph Days Arena in Joseph, other than the Joseph arena is outdoors. The plan shows the performance grounds surrounded by grandstands on two sides, an announcer’s booth, bucking chutes underneath the booth, other chutes available for a variety of purposes on each side of the booth, a ticket booth, concessions, restrooms and more. See Fairgrounds, Page A10 Enterprise School District moves ahead with essential work Bill Bradshaw By Ellen Morris Bishop Wallowa County Chieftain Two beef cows stop their grazing to pose for a photo Monday, Nov. 25 in a pasture along Century Lane south of Enterprise. They and others in Todd Nash’s brother, Ken Nash, herd were grazing what will likely be the last of the grass that they’ll get until spring. It’s feeding time, now! WALLOWA COUNTY RANCHERS HAVE A BEEF WITH PLANT- BASED BURGERS By Bill Bradshaw and Ellen Morris Bishop Wallowa County Chieftain R eal beef? Impossible Burgers? Beyond Meat? Old-fashioned veggie burgers? They’re all being considered these days as con- sumers add concerns for health, the environment and climate change to their interest in fl avor. But northeast Oregon beef pro- ducers are wary of the newest-gen- eration of plant-based burger offer- ings, including Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger. They are beef look-alikes that seemingly mas- querade as meat. Ranchers want consumers to know what they’re getting: It’s not beef, it’s not local See Beef, Page A10 Courtesy of Beyond Burger The plant-based Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger is sold in grocery stores, but stores vary on whether they display it on the meat counter or in the frozen food aisles. Each plant-based Beyond Burger contains 30% of the daily recommended amount of saturated fat. ENTERPRISE — Come next Mon- day, there will be a lot of work going on around the Enterprise Elementary School. Last year the Enterprise School District began evaluations of its facili- ties, funded by a Technical Assistance Program (TAP) Grant. The team of evaluators, led by the Wenaha Group of Pendleton, found a few issues that couldn’t wait for the more comprehen- sive facilities improvement plan now in the works to be completed. Those fi xes included making tem- porary repairs to the junior high school roof, repairing a cracked beam in the small gym, and improving drainage behind the elementary school and on the elementary school’s large grassy playground. The Enterprise School Board gave the go-ahead for these fi rst repairs, and next Monday work will begin on the last phase of them: improving See School District, Page A8 Holiday lights shine for Jingle through Joseph and Winterfest By Ellen Morris Bishop Wallowa County Chieftain Joseph merchants invested a lot of time, effort, thought and resources in decorat- ing their windows for Jingle through Joseph and for the holiday season. Many of the merchants in Enterprise have too, in anticipation of Win- terfest this weekend. Warde Park is aglow with light in the darkest hours of the night. Whether you are attending a festival, an event, or just want an excuse to wander through very quiet streets on very calm, cold nights, the win- dows and parks that await are worth it this holiday season. It’s hard to outshine Mad Mary’s. Photos by Ellen Morris Bishop Tempting Teal in Joseph has diff erent themes in diff erent windows.
