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Wallowa.com
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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New school playground ready for use
Jay Dobbin, who has his sheep
pastured at the Mike McFetridge
place on upper Prairie creek, had
the misfortune to lose about 75
head when dogs got to running
them the other night and the sheep
piled up and were smothered to
death.
OUT OF THE PAST
Compiled by Cheryl Jenkins
100 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1921
The new addition to the school
playground has been prepared for
use. The additional space is nearly a
block in area and will let all grades
have recess at the same time.
The Red Cross shop had gross
sales of $172 in September. More
donations of articles are needed at
once, as well as magazines, fi re-
wood and a good stove.
In attempting to jump from
a moving automobile, in front
of J. H. Schell’s store, Charles
Simon fell and struck his head on
the pavement, unconscious. For
awhile his recovery was doubtful,
but all is right with the exception
of severe bruises.
75 YEARS AGO
Oct. 24, 1946
Dr. E. R. Flack, veterinarian
their annual caravan to Port-
land, delivering 11,681 pounds
of food valued at $2,008.82.
They were joined by other cara-
vans and numbered over 80 vehi-
cles by the time they reached their
destination.
25 YEARS AGO
Wallowa County Chieftain, File
Three Wallowa High School cheerleaders are shown in 1972.
of Wallowa county for 36 years,
passed away this week at the Enter-
prise hospital.
Two of the boys on the Joseph
football team received injuries in
the game with Cove. Bob Grandy
was the victim of a badly dislo-
cated right shoulder, and Horace
Daggett received a cracked knee
cap which required a cast.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 17, 1996
Oct. 21, 1971
Refurbishing work at Wallowa
Lake dam is continuing. Nine
thousand pounds of pressure grout-
ing will be applied to steel plates
inside tunnels 3, 4 and 5 this week.
Members of the Flora High
School class of 1941 gathered for
their 55 year class reunion. Attend-
ing were Loren Fleet, Wanda
Bork Esposito, Margaret Gowey
Botts, teacher Jean Cable Curry,
Harry Danly and Georgia Tucker
Lampkins.
Helen Bobbitt is retiring after
16 years as proprietor of the Wapiti
Gift and Yarn Shop, one of the fi rst
tenants of the Wallowa Valley Mall
when it opened in 1980.
A devastating fi re broke out
at the Roy Stonebrink home on
South River street next to the
Phillips 66 station, destroying
much of the upper portion of the
recently remodeled home. Doz-
ens of neighbors and friends were
able to remove nearly every-
thing before being driven back by
smoke.
Wallowa’s new town marshal,
33-year-old Michael McCoy, was
sworn in for his new position last
week.
Eleven rigs from Wallowa
County, laden with food for the
Shrine Hospital in Portland, made
Winding Waters Medical Clinic purchases Ram Auto & Hardware
By RONALD BOND
Wallowa County Chieftain
WALLOWA — What
for decades was a hardware
store will soon become a site
where Wallowa residents can
nail down their health care
needs.
Winding Waters Med-
ical Clinic is buying Ram
Auto & Hardware in Wal-
lowa from owners Randal
and Mary Johnson, who are
going into retirement and are
in the middle of a liquidation
sale.
The
Johnsons
have
owned the store for 16 years,
Mary Johnson said.
“We had it for sale for
seven years. We are of retire-
ment age and looking for-
ward to that, for sure,” she
said.
The purchase, Winding
Waters CEO Nic Powers
said, will give the clinic the
opportunity to have a facility
closer to many of its patients
who currently have to travel
to Enterprise.
“We’ve served hundreds
IN BRIEF
Women can apply
now for ‘Live Your
Dream’ grants
ENTERPRISE — Appli-
cations are now available
for the Soroptimist’s annual
Live Your Dream: Educa-
tion and Training Awards for
Women program.
This program is open to
women who are their fam-
ily’s primary wage earner
and who are seeking fi nan-
cial assistance to continue
their education or receive
training.
Applications are available
online at soroprimist.org. A
writable PDF is available,
and the application must be
submitted online by Nov. 15.
Application questions can
be submitted to Gail Johnson
at gjohnson@eoni.com or
Ronald Bond/Wallowa County Chieftain
Ram Auto & Hardware in Wallowa will be the location of a new
Winding Waters Medical Clinic with the health care group
buying the business from Randal and Mary Johnson.
of people a year from Wal-
lowa, and see a need to bring
integrated health care close
to those folks,” Powers said.
“When we survey people
we frequently hear transpor-
tation as a barrier to people
getting the care they need.”
Currently, patients are
seen one day a week at the
old Home Independent Tele-
phone Co., the same building
as the new Wallowa Moun-
tain Midwifery.
A portion of the funding
will come through a second
American Rescue Plan Act
grant the clinic is receiving,
this one in the amount of
$549,709. There are diff er-
ences, though, in the ways
the dollars can be utilized.
“My understanding is in
April, the funding was about
supporting
organizations
through providing COVID
care and maintaining reg-
ular operations,” he said.
“This grant is very specifi c
to health center construction
and capital improvements.”
So specifi c was the grant,
541-602-2051, or to Leigh
Dawson at ldawson23@
gmail.com or 541-398-1549.
The award recipient will
receive a $2,000 cash grant
from the Wallowa County
Soroptimist club. The
recipient will then advance
to the region level for an
opportunity at $5,000.
Three $10,000 awards will
be given at the fi nal stage.
More than $1.6 million in
cash grants is given out
annually through the Live
Your Dream Award.
offi ce in Wallowa.
“We’re going out of fi re
season Friday morning,” he
said Tuesday, Oct. 19.
What that means is land-
owners may burn without a
permit.
“They’re still liable (for
property damage) if a burn
spreads,” Howard said.
He said people still need
a permit if they’re burning
logging slash or other waste
from forest thinning.
Permits for agricultural
burns are obtained from
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
The largest fi re of the
summer was the roughly
23,000-acre Elbow Creek
Fire. Several other smaller
fi res burned, as well.
According to the Ore-
gon Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality, the fol-
lowing materials cannot be
burned even with the lifting
of the ban: rubber and plas-
tic products, tires, wet gar-
Fire season ends
Friday; burn ban
lifted
WALLOWA COUNTY
— After a long, hot and dry
summer, fi re season offi -
cially ends at 12:01 a.m. Fri-
day, Oct. 22, according to
Matt Howard of the Ore-
gon Department of Forestry
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Dr. Jason Follett,
Wallowa Valley Dental Care
Log House RV Park
Mountain Crest Apartment
Ponderosa Motel
Viridian Management
Community Bank
Heavenly’s
Umpqua Bank
Valley Bronze of Oregon
WC Grain Growers
Winding Waters
800-731-3214
Bronze Antler B & B
Minam River Lodge
in fact, that there were tight
limits on what an entity
could use money for.
“When you wrote the
grant, you could only write it
for a very small set of things,
construction of a new facil-
ity,
expansion/renovation
of a facility, or equipment,”
Powers said.
Winding Waters won’t be
trying to renovate the build-
ing, but instead will be tear-
ing it down and building a
facility that will serve medi-
cal, dental and mental health
care needs, Powers said.
“We had a consultant look
at it and determined that the
structure that was there was
not going to be feasible for a
modern clinic,” Powers said.
It will be operational fi ve
days a week, and will include
fi ve exam rooms, four dental
operatories and two counsel-
ing rooms.
He said COVID-19 has
made estimating costs dif-
fi cult, but anticipates the
new facility will come in at
around $2.1 million. More
grants will be sought to cover
bage, petroleum and petro-
leum-treated
materials,
asphalt or industrial waste,
material that creates dense
smoke or noxious odors.
— Chieftain staff
Births
A daughter, Magnus
“Maggie” Josephine Scott,
was born Sept. 28, 2021
in Enterprise to Cameron
Scott and Haley
Thompson of Joseph.
Grandparents are Jan
Eagers, Michael
Thompson, Mary Scott
and William Scott.
301 W. Main, Enterprise • 541.426.3177
the roughly three-fourths of
the remaining costs.
“The grant has helped us
to be confi dent we can get
going on the next steps. We
are trying to determine that,”
Powers said, again alluding
to the pandemic throwing
a wrench in timelines. “We
are seeking out and hoping
to engage an architect and
hoping to get going with the
design.”
Mary Johnson said the
couple is hoping to have
its liquidation sale com-
plete by the end of the year,
and called the transition
“bittersweet.”
“The community has
been vey supportive of us,
and we are very thankful
for that,” she said. “It’s kind
of a bittersweet ending for
us. We’re looking forward
to retirement, but we won’t
have a hardware store.”
Powers is hopeful the
clinic will be operational by
the spring of 2023.
$ 5
frozen
pizzas
11 AM TO 7 PM
WED, THUR, SUN
11 AM TO 8 PM: FRI & SAT
541 569 2285
while supplies
last