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A8 LOCAL Wallowa County Chieftain Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Signs of spring Ziply/Contributed Photo Margaret Bradshaw/Contributed Photo Fox kits venture out from their underground burrow Tuesday, April 27, 2021, as they get to know the world they’ll live in near the north end of Wallowa Lake. Furniture & Shades Ziply Fiber announced last week its plans to bring its high-speed network to Enterprise, and hopes to have businesses and homes in the community connected by the end of the summer. More fiber internet options are coming to the county By RONALD BOND Wallowa County Chieftain Mother’s Day Sale! Mattresses ENTERPRISE — Enter- prise residents will have a high-speed internet option in place by the end of the summer. The company that bought out Frontier Communica- tions last year, Ziply Fiber, announced Friday, April 30, plans to extend “gig-speed fiber Internet” to Enterprise, one of 22 markets it plans to get into this year, according to a press release. Construction is already ongoing in and around Enterprise, and company COO Brian Stading antici- pates Ziply enabling some 1,300 homes and businesses in the town with the fiber optic option this year. “This a brand-new move for Enterprise,” he said. “We are currently construct- ing (the network). We have the process going on to light up businesses and homes in Enterprise. This is all brand new.” Stading said part of get- ting the fiber into Wallowa County includes connecting the isolated area to regions where the network is already in place. “We have to expand our fiber backbone that connects Enterprise to other markets,” he said. “We basically have to expand our fiber network into Enterprise and then add additional equipment that makes the fiber work.” The COO added there are some fiber connections in place in the town, but said efforts are in place to improve what is there, too. “We basically are work- ing on that as well,” he said. A 1-gig speed option will be among those made avail- able once the fiber is laid — one that is 10 times faster than Ziply’s next-high- est option of 100-megabyte service. “Put it this way, it’s a lot of speed,” Stading said. Stading said the hope is for Ziply to be connected to the entire town by the end of the summer. From there, he said, the company can look at its options on potential expansion into the rest of the county. “Once we build out Enterprise, it allows us to look further out once we are there and see what makes sense,” Stading said. Ziply’s expansion is add- ing a component Stading indicated is vital to the area. “Broadband is imperative to people’s lives,” he said. “We think that (it) will hope- fully provide a huge eco- nomic benefit to Enterprise.” Scholarships offered to health care workers Applications taken until June 1 Chieftain staff and Rugs A Special 15 % OFF Seeds Potting & Soil Berries Annuals ‘n Perennials 800 S. River, Enterprise, OR carpetoneenterprise.com 541-426-9228 Your Mother’s Day gift giving specialists! Vines Vegetable Herb Starts MOM! ment of lymphedema, pelvic floor functioning, geriatric physical therapy and more. Recipients have advanced their careers by pursuing board certifications in spe- cialty areas of health care to provide greater expertise. Other areas include execu- tive level leadership train- ing and Medicare billing to address all areas of health care. The Edgar Burbridge and Frances Boyd Bur- bridge Memorial Scholar- ship was founded in 2018, when Gene Boyd, brother of Frances, presented an estate gift of $231,557 for the foundation. Inspired by the Coffin scholarship, Boyd and his wife, Char- lene, asked to create a sim- ilar one. For more informa- tion, call the Foundation at 541-426-1913, or visit w w w. w c h c d . o rg / a b o u t / foundation/scholarships. Get All Your Needs Met! 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Both schol- arships are sponsored by the foundation, a local non- profit that raises money to improve and expand health care in Wallowa County. The Coffin Scholarship was founded in 2012, when the daughter of Gwen and Gladys Coffin, Gail Swart, was serving on the foun- dation board. Gladys Cof- fin donated an irrevocable gift for $500,000 in her late husband’s name in 1996, helping the foundation get on solid financial footing. Swart suggested the schol- arship and the board recog- nized a need to help local health care workers pur- sue additional education and training. Thus, it cre- ated the scholarship to meet this need. Since then, local health care workers have pursued training and educa- tion to help improve treat- planters AVAILABLE One Call Does It All! 6 ft Equipment Sales, Installation & Service Call Wallowa County Grain Growers Today! 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