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“We’ve talked about
doing it at noon and at six,”
Mark Green said.
The church likely will
keep it limited to those
two times. There have been
times in the past when mid-
dle-of-the-night bells dis-
turbed church neighbors.
“We already did that and
it didn’t work out so well,”
Stacy Green said.
“We had some young
families with babies that
were awakened,” Holt said.
“That’s why we thought
midnight and 3 a.m.” were
not suitable.
“That’s what got us the
most heat was when the
programming was dying
and it was going off in the
middle of the night,” Mark
Green said.
But that was an anom-
aly, his wife said.
“We didn’t have any
trouble that I heard of when
it was functioning nor-
mally,” she said.
Unlike what some peo-
ple have thought, the caril-
lon isn’t played from a key-
board or an organ, Stacy
Green said.
Pepers said some mod-
els of carillons the com-
pany makes can be played
by keyboards, but not this
one. However, Stacy Green
said, the church can alter
its sound to coincide with
special holidays, such as
Christmas, Easter, Thanks-
giving and the Fourth of
July.
She said the Enterprise
community has missed the
carillon since the old sys-
tem quit working and will
be glad to have it working
again — properly.
“We’ve gotten very pos-
itive comments from the
community,” she said. “We
did check with the city of
Enterprise before getting
a new one, and with the
neighbors. The only prob-
lem we’ve ever had with
the carillon is when our last
one got misfi red and was
going at midnight, 3 a.m.
and 6 a.m. That did not
make us any friends in the
neighborhood.”
Many people in the com-
munity donated toward the
new carillon, many in the
memory of someone they
cared about and others to
honor Swart, Stacy Green
said.
“We hope every time
people hear the bells, it’ll
bring joy to the neighbor-
hood,” she said.
punished with up to fi ve
years in prison, Wallowa
County District Attorney
Rebecca Frolander said in
September 2020. However,
she said then, defendants
rarely get the maximum
sentence for a variety of
reasons. Christian Stringer,
an elder abuse resource
prosecutor who assisted as
prosecuting attorney, said
Feb. 14 that sentences on
felony convictions are sub-
ject to the Oregon Sentenc-
ing Guideline Grid, which
can make them even more
complicated.
Kristina
Edmunson,
of the state Department
of Justice, agreed on the
use of the grid, saying it’s
unlikely Lathrop will get
the maximum.
It “will likely be a pro-
bationary sentence with
some local jail time possi-
ble,” Edmunson said in a
Feb. 14 email.
She said the court also
may order restitution.
Schaeff er said Lathrop
may appeal any court-or-
dered
restitution,
but
that wouldn’t be decided
until the sentence is
handed down.
“The issue of restitution
will likely be a contested
issue,” he said.
The lead prosecutor was
Colin Benson, a senior
assistant state attorney
general.
Frolander said Sept.
21, 2020, that her offi ce
referred the case to Victo-
ria Roe, a senior assistant
attorney general and elder
abuse resource prosecutor
with the Oregon Depart-
ment of Justice. Fro-
lander said the referral was
because that is often the
case in complex legal mat-
ters that require extensive
investigations that local
law enforcement has nei-
ther the time or expertise
to handle.
Mark Green, Stacy’s
husband, said the success of
the fundraising showed the
church’s and the communi-
ty’s aff ection for Swart.
“People just got together
and made it happen,” he
said. “Personally, I was
skeptical we were going to
be able to, but it’s a testi-
mony to who Gail was.”
Stacy Green agreed.
“It’s about honoring
Gail as a member of the
church,” she said. “She
played piano here most of
her life. It’s being done in
her honor.”
The carillon
The carillon has no
real bells, Pepers said. He
replaced the electronics:
the control system and the
amplifi er, which sends a
digitally recorded sound
of bells through four large
speakers mounted on the
church’s roof.
“They’re actually all
digital,”
Pepers
said.
“They’re not real bells.
Even the old system was
all digital; they’re not real
swinging bells. What’s up
on the tower are four big
horns that are in an array
facing out. … It’s a com-
plete digital system with
recorded bells on it.”
As for the times the bells
will ring, that will be up to
the church leadership.
Convicted:
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father’s money to pay for
expenses at her home and
of withdrawing cash or
writing checks on the elder
Lathrop’s bank account for
her own use.
Class C felonies can be
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
An array of loudspeakers broadcasts the bell sounds of the carillon recently reinstalled at the Enterprise Community
Congregational Church on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. The system has been out of service for a couple of years.
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