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Auction:
Tyler Schaff eld, DMD.
• Autumn Diggins’ 4-H
grand champion market goat
that sold for $750 to Barreto
Manufacturing.
• Jaeden Cudmore’s high-
est-selling 4-H goat went for
$1,350 to the Idaho Forest
Group.
• Gabriel Neveau’s grand
champion 4-H market tur-
key that sold for $700 by to
Joe and Shari Warnock.
• Carter Schnetzky’s pen
of three 4-H champion mar-
ket chickens that sold for
$550 to Wallowa County
Employees.
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save (the money) for col-
lege and they can use the
experience.”
Katie Hoff man, of the
Joseph Charter School FFA,
had the grand champion FFA
market steer, and sold it for
$3,100 to Chris Cunning-
ham of Rock ‘n’ J Ranch.
But although this is by
far from her fi rst year, she,
too, was choked up at the
sale of her yellow Angus
cross steer. Katie declined to
comment.
Plenty of thanks
to go around
Auction — sheep
Kane Johnson’s grand
champion FFA market lamb
sold for $1,300 to Marvin
Gibbs, a buyer for Chris-
man Development. He was
pleased with the price he
got for his eff orts with the
lamb.
“I think it’s really gener-
ous,” Kane said.
Now in his third year of
FFA, Kane did 4-H before
it. He’ll be a sophomore at
Joseph Charter School in
the fall, where he also plays
football, basketball and
runs track.
The son of Eric and
Sarah Johnson, he said that
after he pays off the debts
that he owes raising the
lamb, he’s going to put the
rest in the bank as he saves
up for a pickup. He hopes
to go to college for agricul-
tural engineering.
Tripp Stewart, of Hep-
pner, sold his 4-H grand
champion market lamb
for $1,250 to Knapp Law
Offi ce. While he goes to
school in Heppner, he
spends summers — and the
bulk of his 4-H time — on
the Wallowa County ranch
of his grandparents, Skye
and Penny Krebs. His par-
ents are Jason Stewart and
Sybil Krebs.
Tripp, who will be in the
seventh grade, has been in
4-H for four years. He was
pleased with the price he
got.
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actions,” Nash said.
He touted Wallowa
County as being successful
in protecting its most sus-
ceptible population during
the pandemic, and noted it
has one of the highest vac-
cination rates among the
“frontier counties.”
“In our community we
did a good job of mak-
ing sure our most vulner-
able were protected. Our
businesses went out of the
way” to help, he said, not-
ing, for example, that a
number went to measures
such as curbside pickup to
protect them.
On Monday, Aug. 16,
the OHA reported 11 new
cases in Wallowa County
among the 4,396 in the
state over the weekend. The
county total now stands at
297, and has added nearly
100 cases in the last month.
The 200th case of COVID-
19 was reported on July 19.
OHA and OHSU offi -
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Gabriel Neveau holds his grand champion 4-H market turkey
Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021, that he’s just sold to a representative
of Rock ‘n’ J Ranch, left, at the Wallowa County Fair.
“I really like it. It was a
pretty good price,” he said.
“I’ll put most of it in col-
lege, but I’ll keep a couple
hundred in my pocket for
my dirt bike. … I’ve got to
have some fun out of it.”
He hopes to one day
work on his grandparents’
ranch.
The highest-selling mar-
ket lamb was Aubrina Mel-
ville’s FFA project that sold
for $1,350 to Les Schwab.
Auction — swine
Wade Williams, the son
of Jared and Mishelle Wil-
liams, of Joseph, sold his
grand champion 4-H mar-
ket hog to Viridian Man-
agement for $3,300.
Wade, just in his second
year of 4-H, was another
youngster who had devel-
oped an emotional tie to his
market animal, saying he’d
become friends with “Spot”
and would miss her. He said
he doesn’t think it’ll be so
emotionally tough the next
time. He also hasn’t yet
cials have pointed to sev-
eral counties where no
action was taking place
despite having infection
rates double the state aver-
age of 9.5%. The state per-
centage is already twice
the OHA target of no more
than 5% that epidemiol-
ogists say is the highest
rates at which growth of
the virus can be kept under
control.
Statistics show the high-
est rates concentrated in
two areas: Umatilla, Baker,
Union, Malheur and Wal-
lowa counties in eastern
Oregon, and Jackson, Jose-
phine, Douglas and Curry
counties in southwestern
Oregon. Crook County in
central Oregon also has
twice the state rate.
State employees
must be vaccinated
Brown on Tuesday
ordered all state executive
branch employees will be
required to get the COVID-
19 vaccine by Oct. 18.
“Delta is a diff erent
virus — it has changed
everything,” Brown said.
decided he’ll do with the
proceeds of the sale other
than paying debts incurred
from cost of raising Spot.
Landon Greenshields,
son of Randy and Jeni
Greenshields, sold his
grand champion market
swine for $2,900 to Valley
Meat Service. But he said
the price could’ve been
better.
“I liked the price; it’s not
quite what I was expecting,
but it’ll do,” he said. “I was
thinking to get at least three
grand.”
He said he’ll save the
bulk of it for college after
he pays his debts for pig
feed.
The top-selling market
swine was James Royes’
4-H hog that sold for
$3,800 to Pam Royes.
Auction — others
Other top sellers at the
auction included:
• Elijah Parker’s FFA
Grand champion market
goat that sold for $650 by to
But the order does not
have a target end date as
the delta variant’s impact
is still being gauged by
state offi cials.
Wallowa County on
Monday, Aug. 16, was
reported by OHA as having
reached a 50% vaccination
rate among all its residents,
and 59.9% among those 18
and older.
“I think each individ-
ual makes that decision
(whether or not to get vac-
cinated) on their own with
their physician,” Nash
said. “It’s worthy of hav-
ing that conversation. I
would encourage people
to go and talk to their phy-
sician on what is the best
option for them.”
He added that conversa-
tions need to be had about
negative eff ects from the
vaccine, even if they are
statistically low.
“It is worth talking
about,” he said. “People
can assess the risk on both
sides.”
Ronald Bond of the Wal-
lowa County Chieftain con-
tributed to this report.
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In opening the auction,
Nash had a long list of peo-
ple and businesses to thank
for making the fair pos-
sible. Among those were
Community Bank; which
fl oated a zero-interest loan
to facilitate paying the live-
stock sellers quickly; Craig
and Candi Willis from Farm
Supply, who donate ship-
ping the livestock to Pasco,
Washington, and their truck
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
driver Tony Yost; Inter-
mountain Livestock and
Dennis Arnzen fl oor the
livestock; Anderson Land
and Livestock who gives
$50 for each steer; Oregon
State University Extension,
which oversees the 4-H
program; the FFA advisers
in each Wallowa County
school; Wallowa Memorial
Hospital, which donated
up to $200,000 to help get
a new furnace and genera-
tor at the Cloverleaf Hall,
which the hospital used for
an overfl ow space during
the coronavirus pandemic;
the city of Enterprise,
which donated $5,000 from
its transient lodging tax;
an anonymous donor who
gave $14,000 for a new
sound system; and others.
There also were the indi-
viduals Nash mentioned,
such as Fair Board Secre-
tary Tera Elliott, who will
leave the post after fi ve
years for another job with
the county, and the Fair
Board, headed by Chair-
woman Stanley.
“You guys go above and
A15
beyond,” Nash said. “The
community has no idea
how much eff ort you put
into this and it’s very much
appreciated.”
The commissioner also
noted the fair is on the
receiving end of $270,000
in video lottery funds from
the state and $500,000
in federal American Res-
cue Plan funds state Rep.
Bobby Levy channeled to
the fair.
“That will be a big shot
in the arm,” Nash said.
All in all, he said, the
fair is a great demonstra-
tion of how the Wallowa
County community comes
together.
“I thought it was fantas-
tic. I love our fair. I love
the fact that it’s commu-
nity based and that it sup-
ports our young people,” he
said. “I love the fact that it
shows the resiliency of our
ag community, that urban
kids can house livestock
other places and still par-
ticipate. It’s the very best of
our community and what it
can be.”