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137th Year, No. 30
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
wallowa.com
Tami
Klages
Enterprise
She found
ways to fi t
right in
ENTERPRISE — She’s only lived in
Enterprise six years, but Tami Klages has
found ways to fi t right in.
First, she married Kurt Klages, a
bridge builder, and moved here from
Lewiston, Idaho. Then, she became
head cook at Joseph Charter School and
started her own business, Old, New and
You, in Joseph. Her jobs indeed keep her
busy.
“I love it,” she said. “I love both (jobs).”
Her kids are all grown and have fam-
ilies of their own and have given her two
grandkids in Portland and two in Van-
couver, Washington.
She recently shared her thoughts
about living in Wallowa County.
What’s your favorite thing about
Wallowa County?
Nature, the beauty. I take my dogs
hiking three miles every day on Alder
Slope.
As we move into fall, what’s
your favorite season? Why?
Fall. I love all the colors.
What will you be thankful for on
Thanksgiving?
I’m thankful for the people in Wal-
lowa County. They have really supported
my business, and the people at the
school are like another family.
Are you concerned about the
coronavirus pandemic?
I am not. I believe God has a purpose
for everything.
What do you think of
government mandates on face
masks and vaccinations?
I believe that everybody should be
respectful of each other, but it’s their
decision.
With summer now over, what
was your favorite experience?
The tourist season. I loved meeting
all the new people who came into the
store.
What’s your advice for people
who are thinking about moving
here?
They need to come here and try to
fi nd a house fi rst. Rentals and places to
buy are hard to fi nd. And then just enjoy
life here.
Olan Fulfer/Contributed Photo
Above, Olan Fulfer helps pass out school uniforms to students who he said were wearing the same clothing each day. Fulfer worked with a tailor
to design clothing for 40 students in a town about three hours away from Arusha, Tanzania. Below, he stands with children who are part of the
Maasai tribe outside of Arusha.
A lasting impact
Joseph educator recounts summer service trip to Tanzania
By RONALD BOND
Wallowa County Chieftain
JOSEPH — Olan Fulfer is
driven by a desire to make sure
those around him are taken care
of.
Fulfi lling that desire is part of
what got Fulfer, who is a teacher
and coach at Joseph Charter
School, into education, saying
he’ll do what is needed to make
sure the basic needs of those
under his tutelage or watchful
eye have their needs met.
“That’s actually my main
goal as a teacher here, why I got
into teaching, was to provide
the basic foundations and make
sure that every one of my stu-
dents here, they’re going to have
shoes, they’re going to have
clothes, they’re not going to
have to go through what I went
through,” he said. “I want to be
that adult I needed as a kid. That
is why I am getting more pas-
sionate about doing that type of
stuff .”
He not only wants to help
anyone around him who is in
need, but instill that willingness
in others. That is part of what has
driven class projects around the
community he had led, includ-
ing by having students engage in
random acts of kindness.
“The biggest thing I try to
instill in the kids is being kind
and helping others,” he said. “If
we can make that a habit, then
the world will be a better place.”
Recently, Fulfer had an
opportunity to take this desire
half way around the world as he
spent three weeks this summer
in the east Africa city of Arusha,
Tanzania, just west of towering
Mount Kilimanjaro.
The trip started as one where
he would teach Tanzanian
students.
But within just a few days
there, he saw he would have
an additional purpose above
education.
An opportunity
Fulfer typically spends his
summers as a wildfi re fi refi ghter
See Fulfer, Page A7
Haunt Camp mixes fun, futures
Artist shows
youths how to
create lifelike
prosthetics
Haunt Camp
What: Haunt Camp:
Creature Creation
Workshop.
Who: JR Rymut.
Online: www.haunt-
camp.org.
By BILL BRADSHAW
Wallowa County Chieftain
JOSEPH — Finishing
just in time for Halloween,
JR Rymut’s Haunt Camp
students completed their
sometimes-ghoulish pros-
thetic masks that look more
like something you’d fi nd
in a Hollywood makeup
department.
Eleven students in
Joseph and four in Wal-
lowa spent six weeks learn-
ing the tricks of the trade
Rymut taught them at the
Haunt Camp: Creature
Creation Workshop, spon-
sored by the Josephy Cen-
ter for Arts and Culture.
The students learned to
safely create plaster copies
of their faces, sculpt a char-
acter mask and transform it
into realistic silicone pieces
using the same techniques
used in Hollywood today.
“For years I’ve been
Instagram: @haunt-
camp.
Phone: 414-839-8568.
Email: hauntcamp@
gmail.com.
in art classes, and we’re
creating high-quality pros-
thetic makeup the same
way special eff ects shops
in the fi lm industry do.
And that’s the point of the
class: not only are we mak-
ing really unusual, exciting
projects, as a professional
JR Rymut/Contributed Photo creative fabricator I want
Tristin Witherup, of Wallowa, shows his character mask, to introduce teens to career
which is an homage to the classic horror movie “Friday the paths in the arts they may
13th,” at Haunt Camp’s Creature Creation Workshop on Oct. not know exist.”
19, 2021, in Wallowa.
working on bringing this
class to high school stu-
dents in Wallowa County,”
Rymut said of the class as
it got underway in Septem-
ber. “I’m so grateful it’s
fi nally happening. Molding
and casting is rarely taught
Going pro?
A few of the teens actu-
ally hope to be able to use
the skills they’ve learned
professionally.
Possibly
the
most
excited about a profes-
sional career is Tristin
Witherup, of Wallowa. He
already has his sights set on
a top-notch special eff ects
school in Pennsylvania.
“He’s a major movie
buff and this is his char-
acter sculpt,” Rymut said
Wednesday, Oct. 27, show-
ing a photo of Witherup’s
work. “It’s Jason from ‘Fri-
day the 13th,’ a classic hor-
ror movie.”
And he didn’t just do the
usual one-piece mask.
“He did a multi-piece
prosthetic. … The top part
and the chin were molded
separately,” Rymut said.
“The more prosthetic
pieces that you divide your
sculpt into, the more real-
istic the eff ect. He’s going
to have a really dynamic
mouth eff ect because we’re
going to be applying this in
two diff erent stages.”
Piper Larison, of Enter-
prise, who attends Joseph
Charter School, hopes to
put her new skills to work,
but it’s still a maybe for her.
See Masks, Page A7