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Apply for Beth Gibans
Memorial Grant up to $5,000
Local food
producers
urged to submit
applications
in Northeast Oregon for
projects that serve the food
community in Wallowa
County. Project proposals
for up to $5,000 are due
by midnight Dec. 31. View
the online application at
https://tinyurl.com/Beth-
Gibans-grant for complete
details on eligibility, eval-
uation and timeline.
Over the past fi ve
years, Slow Food Wal-
lowas has awarded grants
to fund a low tunnel sys-
tem to extend the grow-
ing season, a new tiller to
improve gardening effi -
ciency, a special hood for
propagating commercial
mushrooms and equip-
ment for a bakery with a
focus on utilizing heritage
grains.
This new grant opportu-
nity builds on Gibans’ leg-
acy — a belief that local
food production is essen-
tial to our health, well-be-
ing and our community.
It is designed to provide
direct support for new
and existing food produc-
ers and entrepreneurs to
increase their capacity to
provide food for the local
community. Slow Food
Wallowas
encourages
fi rst-time applicants, those
with limited access to
resources, people of color
and others advancing sus-
tainable agricultural prac-
tices to apply.
Slow Food Wallowas
welcomes
end-of-year
gifts to the program to
build Gibans’ vision for a
thriving local food com-
munity. Make donations
online or by check payable
to Slow Food Wallowas,
P.O. Box 78, Joseph, Ore-
gon 97846.
A15
Live Nativity to be held this weekend
Birth of Christ
to be reenacted
for second time
By BILL BRADSHAW
Wallowa County Chieftain
Chieftain staff
ENTERPRISE — Slow
Food Wallowas is look-
ing for the next winner of
a grant to provide fi nancial
assistance open to any-
one who grows, raises or
makes local food products.
“Small-scale food pro-
ducers are the movers
and shakers of Wallowa
County,” Lynne Curry, of
Slow Food Wallowas, said
in a press release.
This is the fi fth year of
the grant project, which is
now named to honor Beth
Gibans, the founder of the
Wallowa County Farm-
ers Market and owner of
Backyard Gardens who
died from cancer in June.
The grant award is for
$5,000, a signifi cant jump
from previous years, the
release stated.
“This is a great oppor-
tunity to highlight our
unsung heroes, celebrate
a pillar of the local food
community and address
why local food production
matters to rural areas,”
Curry said.
The grant award win-
ners will be announced at
an online celebration on
Gibans’ birthday, Jan. 22.
The grant is open to
small-scale food growers
and community innovators
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
ENTERPRISE — A
reenactment of the fi rst
Christmas will be por-
trayed for the second
consecutive year by the
Enterprise
Seventh-day
Adventist Church the eve-
nings of Saturday and
Sunday, Dec. 18-19.
“We just want to invite
people for a lovely event
to tell the story of the fi rst
Christmas,” said Janice
Bailey, personal ministries
leader at the church who is
the point person organiz-
ing the event.
It will be held in four
half-hour performances
each night, the fi rst per-
formance to start at 5 p.m.
It will be held next to the
Wallowa Valley Eye Care
Clinic in Enterprise at 515
W. North St.
This year’s cast in the
live Nativity includes
some newcomers to Enter-
prise. Joseph and Mary
will be portrayed by real-
life husband and wife Jor-
dan and Brendy Lindsay.
Jordan is a teacher of the
fi fth through eighth grades
at the Seventh-day Adven-
tist School.
There will be free cook-
ies and hot chocolate for
those in attendance.
Bailey said a donation
jar will be set up to collect
a contribution to be made
to Community Connec-
tion of Wallowa County to
help the needy with their
heating bills. She said last
year’s event brought in
more than $135 that was
donated.
She said she doesn’t
know of any other live
Nativities being reen-
acted in Wallowa County,
but said last week that
the Seventh-day Adven-
Contributed graphic
tist Church in La Grande
planned to put on one this
past weekend.
“We just believe it’s
the most important story
to get out to our commu-
nity,” Bailey said. “It’s a
little play and people can
come out and do some-
thing diff erent in our com-
munity and share the Good
News.”
For
more
infor-
mation, call Bailey at
541-263-1789.
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