A16 LOCAL Wallowa County Chieftain IN BRIEF Creating Memories Camp marks Founders Day WALLOWA LAKE — A Founders Day barbecue is planned for Saturday, May 29, at the Creating Memo- ries Camp at Wallowa Lake, according to a press release. The camp is there for disabled children and oper- ated by the Creating Mem- ories for Disabled Children Foundation, a nonprofi t organization that provides the disabled with an out- door experience of hunting and fi shing, according to its Facebook page. The results give the disabled a feeling of self-worth, the page stated. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and includes a tour of the camp property, a hike to a water- fall, a free lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., door prizes, games, face painting, live music and karaoke. Those interested are asked to park at the Wallowa Lake State Park Marina, from where shuttle service to the camp property will be provided. The camp is located at 59895 Pollock Road. For more information, contact Jack Burgoyne, a foundation board member, at 541-398-0169 or fcloud@ pacifi er.com. Farmers Market opens Saturday in Joseph JOSEPH — The Wal- lowa County Farmers Mar- ket begins its 2021 season Saturday, May 29. Accord- ing to a press release, it will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday until Oct. 9 at its Joseph location on Main Street, next to Stein’s Distillery. “Many vendors are returning, and we’ll have some new vendors this year, too, so the market will be very full,” Anne Robinson, Wallowa County Farmers Market board member and vendor, said in the press release. Crafts, produce and homemade goods, and some live music, will be on tap for visitors. There will also be fundraisers through- out the summer, and the market will be at the Wal- lowa County Fair on Aug. 12. SNAP, WIC, Veggie Rx and senior farm direct vouchers are accepted, and anyone with extra produce, plant starts or fl owers can sell them at the co-op booth, the release states. For more information, visit www.wallowacoun- tyfamersmarket.com, call 541- 426-0795 or search for “Wallowa County Farmers’ Market” on Facebook. Business classes being off ered ENTERPRISE — Tech- nical support for business owners in Wallowa and Union counties is being off ered on a fi rst-come, fi rst- served basis through the Northeast Oregon Economic Development District, according to a press release from NEOEDD Executive Director Lisa Dawson. The services will be available through June. The funding comes from Business Oregon, the Ignite Center for Entrepreneurship, the city of La Grande Eco- nomic Development Depart- ment and the NEOEDD. They have contracted with subject matter experts to pro- vide assistance with brand- ing and logos, social media marketing, website sup- port, bookkeeping, account- ing consult, business plan- ning, video advertisement, classes in Excel or Quick- books and other services to small businesses. Any small business look- ing to improve its business image, social media market- ing, website, bookkeeping or business plan is urged to apply. Apply at https://tinyurl. com/NEOEDDbusiness- classes. Applications will be reviewed and appli- cants connected to a service provider. Josephy Center returns to summer hours JOSEPH — The Josephy Center for Arts & Culture is returning to its summer hours, beginning Monday, May 31. Dubbed “A gathering place for the arts,” the cen- ter will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sat- urday and closed Sundays. In addition to its exhib- its, the center off ers youth and adult art classes, the Josephy Library, the Print- ing Press Guild, an art shop and supports the Wallowa Festival of Arts, the Mis- soula Children’s Theatre and the Youth Arts Festival. The center is located at 403 N. Main St. in Joseph. For more information, call 541-432-0505, email coordinator@josephy.org or go online to https://jose- phy.org/donate. — Chieftain staff Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Suspect in steer theft not guilty OUT OF THE PAST 100 YEARS AGO May 26, 1921 “Not guilty” was the ver- dict brought in Tuesday night by the jury trying C. M. McFetridge, indicted on the charge of stealing a steer belonging to F. E. Gilder- sleeve. The case attracted a large crowd thruout the trial, the court room being fi lled at all sessions days and evenings. There was no ques- tion that a steer of Mr. Gildersleeve’s was sto- len and butchered. Deloss Akins, who worked for Mr. McFetridge accused the lat- ter of stealing it, and Mr. McFetridge said Akins brought the animal to his ranch and received the pro- ceeds of the sale of the meat. With this confl ict in the direct testimony there were other factors which appar- ently infl uenced the jury in clearing Mr. McFetridge. As a matter of fact it is charged that two steers were stolen and butchered, one belonging to Mr. Gild- ersleeve and the other to Fred Beaudoin. Two indict- ments were voted against McFetridge, one for each of the two animals. The charge based on the stealing of the Beaudoin steer has not come to trial, but the incidents are believed to be the same in both cases. Fred W. Falconer brought in a trainload of sheep for summer pasture in the north woods of Wallowa county last week, and remained over to clean up some business in Enterprise. At a meeting of the directors of the Enter- prise State bank, held Satur- day afternoon, he presented his resignation as president and director, and insisted on its acceptance. 75 YEARS AGO May 23, 1946 A fi re broke out last Fri- day afternoon in the wood- shed adjoining the Lyle Foster house on the Flora highway and did consider- able damage, spreading to one bedroom in the house and destroying bedding and clothing. No one was at home when the fi re was dis- covered. The fi re department worked fast and effi ciently to check the fl ames which were fanned by a strong wind. Miss LaVera Eads, fresh- man at Oregon State col- lege, played in the college symphony and the co-ed ROTC band concert during the Mother’s day week end. LaVera, who plays alto sax- ophone, had a solo part with violin accompaniment in the orchestra. The symphony accompanied the “1946 Salute to Rhythm” modern dance group. Mrs. G. A. McCubbin drove to La Grande Mon- day, taking her son, Jimmie Hombel, Wade Miller, Mar- vin Maxwell and Merton Wallowa County Chieftain, File Gabe Wishart won Best in Show and a Special Merit Award at the 1996 Youth Arts Festival in Joseph for his oil painting of Jesus Christ. Wishart, a senior at Enterprise High School at the time, is shown with the painting in this May 1996 Chieftain fi le photo. Willett that far on their way to Fort Lewis for their phys- ical examination to enlist in the army. Jim plans to join the para- troopers and will be sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, for training. The other boys will be in the regular army. Wade and Marvin graduated from EHS last week. 50 YEARS AGO May 27, 1971 The Joseph Chamber of Commerce expressed con- cern at their regular meeting Monday for the quality of the water in Wallowa lake. It was reported that an engi- neer has been retained by the City of Joseph to study Wal- lowa lake and make recom- mendations for retaining it a state which would enable it to be used as the Joseph water supply. It was reported that the lake is being pol- luted at a very rapid rate by the summer homes and the state park and by some pol- lution in the water which fl ows down from the high mountains. The engineers estimate that it would take about 150 years to clean the lake up if it is allowed to become polluted. A circuit court jury was not able to agree upon a ver- dict in a trial last week in which Sam Armon of Wal- lowa sought damages in the amount of $6,352.50 from Union Pacifi c Railroad. Armon’s counsel contended that damage in the above amount was sustained when the Wallowa river fl ooded over the Armon property about two years ago. An attempt was made to show that UPRR was negligent in not keeping debris cleaned from under a railroad just below the Armon property, causing water to back up and fl ood over the Armon place. In the mule deer country of eastern Oregon no per- mits are authorized for units in Wallowa County, only 250 in all of central Oregon, and 750 for southeastern Ore- gon, the result of poor fawn survival in these areas. Mule deer herds are good through most of northeastern Oregon and only minor adjustments were made in permit quotas. 25 YEARS AGO May 23, 1996 D. R. Johnson and Wal- lowa Forest Products breathed some economic life back in to the town of Wal- lowa this week when they fi red up the sawmill which has been idle for the past 18 months. Thirty employ- ees showed up for work on Monday when the sawmill started putting out 1,500 board foot units of 2x4 studs stamped with the new Wal- lowa Forest Products logo. Public opinion appeared to be split at a public forum held last week to air the pro- posal of initiating a four-day school week in the Joseph School District. Wallowa County was placed on the Oregon sports map in a big way last week- end as Enterprise and Wal- lowa High schools cap- tured the boys team titles at the OSAA/U.S. Bank Class 2A-1A championships in Monmouth. Enterprise, built for speed this year, rang up 66 points in the over- all standings to beat a big, prestigious fi eld of Class 2A teams. Wallowa, the defending Oregon Class 1A team champion the last four seasons, captured its fi fth straight crown with an iden- tical, 66-point tally.