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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Georgian quick to love county Facilities Committee gets set to make
recommendations to Enterprise School Board
Wallowa County
VOICES
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
By Bill Bradshaw
People come from all
over the country to settle
in Wallowa County, and
Amber Love moved here
from Ringgold, Ga., last
summer.
Asked what brought her Love
to Enterprise, she says in
her true southern drawl, “A gentleman.” She and Wup
Winn will soon be married, though no date has been set.
Together, they own and operate three businesses —
Video Buffs Pizza & More, Birddog Signs and Back
Country Connection, an airplane broker that provides
bush airplanes popular with outfi tters and guides at the
Joseph Airport. She also just retired from FedEx after
working for them for 20 years.
She called living here “a big change coming here”
from Georgia. She said people often notice her drawl and
say, “You’re not from here; where you from?” When she
tells them, they often say, “That’s a little different,” in a
friendly curious sort of way.
Love may be a newcomer, but Wallowa County has
already made an impression on her.
What’s the best thing or place in Wallowa County?
Probably have to say the lake. It’s just peaceful, beau-
tiful and it brings a lot of attention here for a lot of peo-
ple. Having tried it last summer, it’s a little colder than
Georgia water.
What is the greatest challenge facing Wallowa
County?
Being new here, I really haven’t seen anything. Every-
thing’s been so pleasant here, I really haven’t seen any
challenges. I’m just getting used to the cold weather.
What can people do to make Wallowa County a
better place for all of us?
Keep wavin’, keep smilin’, keep openin’ doors for
people. Just be kind.
What have you learned from living in Wallowa
County?
Your vehicle always stays dirty. Living outside of
town, it defi nitely stays dirty all the time.
What’s your advice for people who are thinking
about moving here?
Make sure you have a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Make
sure you have a bumper on the front for the deer because
they run across the road like rabbits. And just enjoy the
beautiful scenery because you get to wake up to the
mountains every morning.
In a long, contemplative
meeting Monday evening,
the Enterprise School Dis-
trict’s Facilities Commit-
tee decided on its fi nal rec-
ommendations to the school
board for needed repairs
and improvements to school
buildings and grounds.
“I thought we made some
good, but diffi cult deci-
sions,” committee member
Tim Melville said. “They
are all things that need to
happen.”
Those decisions included
providing the school with
a much–needed new roof,
doing a thorough removal
of asbestos throughout the
buildings, replacing the sin-
gle-pane windows with gas-
fi lled double-panes through-
out the high school and
junior high school buildings
and providing a covered
play area on the elemen-
tary school grounds. Secu-
rity measures would include
adding entry vestibules in
the junior and senior high
schools and the addition of a
buzz-in door at the elemen-
tary school.
The
budget-conscious
committee rejected the ideas
of adding cooling capacity
to an upgraded and repaired
HVAC system, reaching a
consensus that if the school
buildings had a new insu-
lated roof and new double
pane windows, they would
remain in a comfortable
temperature range without
the additional cost of install-
ing AC.
“I’ve put three kids
through the school system
here,” Kannon Miller said,”
Ellen Morris Bishop
Dean Himes (right), Joel Fish, Mike Wiedeman, Patrick Patterson and Katheryn Stangel check
some numbers as Wenaha consultant Scott Rogers (far left) discusses the budget options for
needed repairs to the Enterprise schools.
and I don’t remember room
temperature being a conver-
sation or a complaint out of
any of them.”
The committee also
balked at the Wenaha consul-
tant’s estimate of $250,000
for an upgraded irrigation
system for the football fi eld.
“On my farm, I could
install a state-of-the art irri-
gation system that would
cover 200 acres, not just 2
acres,” Tim Melville said.
He noted that the failing
irrigation pump could be
replaced with a much more
economical model at a cost
of around $30,000.
Handicapped accessibil-
ity to all fl oors of the junior
and senior high school
remained among the top pri-
orities. They include an ele-
vator in the high school,
improved ramp access in
the junior high school and
ADA-compliant restrooms
and entries to all buildings.
“If you don’t fi x every-
thing now, you are setting
yourself up for a lawsuit,”
Wenaha consultant Scott
Rogers said.
The committee will pres-
ent its recommendations,
along with what will be an
updated estimate of repairs
and renovations to the
school board at the April 6
board meeting.
The tally of the com-
mittee’s choices, most of
which were middle-of-
the-road-level repairs was
about $9.74 million, includ-
ing $1.3 million for the roof
and $1 million for new win-
dows in the high school and
junior high. But the total
estimate will likely be some-
what lower when the fi nal
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Evening Worship at 6 p.m.
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CLUES ACROSS
1. End of many family business names
4. Phony
9. Farmer’s caw-se of concern
13. “Taking care of that”
15. Big name in steaks
16. One committing perjury
17. Banjoist Fleck
18. Declare invalid
19. Not pro
20. The perfect guy possibly will?
23. Hauled (off)
26. Address for some generals
27. “Get ___ of this!”
28. DOJ VIPs
31. Martial arts centers
35. What to wear at the mountaintop?
38. Trellis piece
39. Thurman of film
40. Back-to-back dance moves
42. Cow call
43. “Noelle” actress Kendrick
45. Sound from a laid-back cat?
47. Item collections
49. You may turn one into a tank top
50. Bridal path
51. Rescuer of endangered species?
53. Harder to see, perhaps
54. Gambler?
60. Berry in a healthy bowl
61. Upper crust
62. Chantilly fabric
66. Hat part
67. Like a moon landing
68. Reverberate
69. Christmas season
70. Some are standardized
71. Perfect number?
CLUES DOWN
1. Audibly grieve
2. With 44-Down, “Wait your turn”
3. Zero, to Alex Morgan
4. Get on, like a plane
5. Hilton competitor
6. Group of buddies
7. “Nope”
8. Makes less bland
9. Nice ‘n Easy maker
10. Key holder
11. Swear word
12. Court order
14. Orchestral gong
21. Updated, as a kitchen
22. Starter for “week” or “wife”
23. Informal
24. Many college donors
25. Octavia and Claudius
28. Liability’s opposite
29. Cunning
30. Advance furtively
32. Authorizer of the 1611 English Bible
33. Peter who voiced Anton Ego
in “Ratatouille”
34. Shampoo site
36. Jerry’s frenemy
37. In addition
41. Old-fashioned lover?
44. See 2-Down
46. Circulate among the guests
48. ___ Lanka
52. Showed deference to a queen
53. Levels
54. Treat with kid gloves
55. Earth tone
56. Place for a scorpion’s stinger
57. Stuff in sticky sticks
58. Storage containers
59. Louisiana, e.g., in Lyon
63. Do something
64. Michael on “SNL”
65. Indefinitely long time
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fi gures are presented to the
board. The costs of repairs
and upgrades should also be
offset by a $4 million dol-
lar Oregon School Capital
Improvement Matching Pro-
gram (OSCIM) grant.
The decision on which
repairs and improvements
to make, and what the fi nal
cost estimate will be is up to
the school board. The Facil-
ities Committee and Wen-
aha will present their rec-
ommendations to the board
at the April 6 meeting. The
board will be looking for
community input in May
and June. It will likely be
July before the board makes
a fi nal decision on the spe-
cifi c extent and costs of the
work. Then the board will
make a resolution for a bond
measure that would appear
on the November ballot.
Ichthyosaur fossils
found in Wallowa
Mountains
Ben Moon
University of Bristol
Ichthyosaurs are among
the few fossils that Wallowa
Mountains has from the Age
of Dinosaurs. They were
fi sh-like reptiles that fi rst
appeared about 250 million
years ago and quickly diver-
sifi ed into highly capable
swimmers, fi lling a broad
range of sizes and ecologies
early in the age of dinosaurs.
“Ichthyosaurs evolved a
fi sh-like body and tail fi n,
giving birth to live young
rather than laying eggs, and
lots of different feeding
styles,” said Dr. Ben Moon
of the University of Bristol
in Britain.
There are over 100 known
species of ichthyosaur from
between 250-90 million
years ago in the Mesozoic
Era, when the infamous dino-
saurs ruled the land Marine
reptiles were top predators
that fi lled comparable roles
to dolphins, orcas, and sharks
in modern seas.
“Ichthyosaurs really dom-
inated early in the Triassic
(252-201 million years ago),
(Our ichthyosaur is a mid-
dle Triassic, about 230 mil-
lion years old.) However, the
seas quickly became more
crowded and competitive,
and ichthyosaurs lost their
top position in the Jurassic
(201-145 million years ago)
to other marine reptiles like
plesiosaurs and pliosaurs.
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