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Dating violence theme
of teen’s presentation
By BILL BRADSHAW
Wallowa County Chieftain
JOSEPH — A Joseph
Charter School eighth-
grader recently headed up
an assembly to share with
her fellow students con-
cerns about dating violence
among teens.
“I’m spreading aware-
ness about teen dating vio-
lence,” said Harley Wanner
before the assembly Tues-
day, Feb. 22. “I’m doing
this assembly; I’m doing an
FCCLA meeting.”
It’s part of her project as
a member of the school’s
Family, Career and Com-
munity Leaders of America
chapter.
FCCLA is a nonprofi t
national career and techni-
cal student organization for
youths in family and con-
sumer sciences education in
public and private schools in
grades six through 12. There
are about 30 students in
JCS’s chapter, Wanner said.
A dozen of them joined her
in putting on the assembly.
“I’ll go to present this
project at state and hope-
fully at nationals if I make
it,” Wanner said. “I can
present my project at state
and help people in the com-
munity in any way I can.”
She said her fellow
FCCLA members do a vari-
ety of projects with the same
goal as hers — of advancing
in the competition to state
and nationals. She said they
do projects such as teacher
appreciation, raise money
for cancer victims and their
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Harley Wanner, right, an eighth-grader at Joseph Charter
School, gives a presentation on teen dating violence and
healthy relationships during an assembly Tuesday, Feb. 22,
2022. The presentation was Harley’s project for Family, Career
and Community Leaders of America.
families and one girl is
making a dress of recycled
materials.
Lisa Collier, the JCS
adviser for the FCCLA
chapter, said Wanner also
brought in representatives
from Safe Harbors, a non-
profi t group that provides
crisis intervention and advo-
cacy services to survivors of
domestic violence, sexual
violence, dating violence,
and stalking, as well as
community education and
outreach, according to the
group’s website. Katherine
Marrone and Marika Straw
from Safe Harbors put on a
slide show and talked to the
youths who attended.
“She wanted to work
with Safe Harbors,” Collier
said of Harley. “February is
dating violence awareness
month.”
Harley, who is just 13,
said that kids today are dat-
ing younger than in even
recent generations.
“Nowadays, kids as
young as 12 will date,” she
said. “But any relationship
can be toxic.”
She also said that the age
gap between dating part-
ners doesn’t make much of
a diff erence.
“It’s all the same,” she
said. “The age gap doesn’t
matter.”
But it comes down to rec-
ognizing and avoiding toxic
or abusive relationships.
“You watch for signs
of abuse and toxic rela-
tionships,” Harley said. “If
they’re mentally manipu-
lating you, that’s a sign of a
toxic relationship. An abu-
sive relationship is when
you’re physically harming
your partner. There are so
many other things.”
Fishtrap Fireside fetes Women’s History
Chieftain staff
ENTERPRISE — Fish-
trap Fireside celebrates
Women’s History Month
with featured readings from
Wallowa County writers
Debbie Carson, Talia Filipek
and Toni Marie Jones begin-
ning Friday, March 4.
Those interested can
take part at Fishtrap.org
and on Fishtrap’s YouTube
Channel.
Carson, a native of Phila-
delphia, also lived as a child
in then-rural Connecticut,
where surrounding dairy
farms gave way to insurance
company campuses. She
acquired an art degree and
held a variety of jobs before
heading west. While living
in Eugene, she joined Hoe-
dads Reforestation Co-op,
making lifelong friends,
while earning very little
planting trees. She fared bet-
ter working as a U.S. Forest
Service temp, but eventually
returned to college. Now
retired from school librarian-
ship and teaching art, she has
two adult children, an itchy
foot and a love for being on
the water.
Filipek lives in Enter-
prise, ogling at the moun-
tains with a cup of cocoa
in one hand and a baby in
the other arm. Growing up,
Talia visited here with her
Eastern Oregon-based fam- an anthropology minor spe-
ily many summers to camp cializing in Oregon Indians.
and explore, and
After a career work-
then returned as a
ing for the Oregon
young adult to work
University System
for the USFS as a
as a secretary, pro-
ranger in the Eagle
gram manager and
Cap
Wilderness
then graphic artist,
and the Hells Can-
and another working
yon National Recre-
as a marketing direc-
Carson
ation Area. Her pro-
tor and consultant for
fessional career has
nonprofi t air ambu-
taken her to Corval-
lance companies, she
lis, Culver, Estacada,
is happily retired and
Bend and tall build-
grateful to have more
ings for work in
time for writing and
design,
editorial,
making. Jones is
photography, out-
the co-editor of the
door ed and social
Frenchtown
His-
Filipek
sciences.
Though
torical Foundation
she loves variety in
newsletter, a publi-
her adventures, she
cation focusing on
always knew that
the Native Ameri-
near the Wallowas
can, French-Cana-
would be her base
dian and Metis fam-
camp one day.
ilies’ history of the
A
Wallowa
area. Her work has
County
native,
appeared in two
Jones
Jones’ Irish immi-
Fishtrap
Outpost
grant
great-great
chapbooks, and she
grandparents homesteaded is a member of the Write
on the Zumwalt Prairie in Women and Sheep Creek
1880. Her direct Indian Word Herders, local writing
lineage includes Cayuse, groups headed up by author
Assiniboine, Northern Cree, and rancher extraordinaire,
and Muskego Cree. Two Janie Tippett.
of her three great-grandfa-
The March episode of
thers were interpreters for Fishtrap Fireside is spon-
the Nez Perce and the Cay- sored by Alder Slope
use during the 1855 Treaty Nursery.
negotiations. She holds a
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Online writers workshops are
planned for spring by Fishtrap
Chieftain staff
ENTERPRISE — Three
online writers workshops
are planned this spring by
Fishtrap, to be taught by
E.M. (Lizzie) Sloan, Nel-
lie Bridge and Catherine
Johnson.
Ephemeral Moments that
Endure is an online micro
essay workshop taught by
Sloan from 6-7:30 p.m.
March 9, 16, 23 and 30.
Registration is $180, or
$160 for Fishtrappers. To
save a spot in the work-
shop, visit https://fi sh-
trap.org/microessay-work-
shop-sloan-march2022/.
The workshop will play
with isolated scenes that
are found buried deep in the
recesses of one’s mind, heart
and soul. The workshop will
focus on the popular topic of
nostalgia and keep the ideas
fl owing and ink dripping.
Sloan is the author of a
historical nonfi ction book,
“When Songbirds Returned
to Paris,” has taught “The
Creative Mind” at the Uni-
versity of Idaho and con-
tinues to research, write,
and make art in her stu-
dio in Moscow, Idaho. The
working title for her collec-
tion of essays-in-progress
is “Heading Toward Home:
Four o’clock in the Morning
Vignettes and Stories that
Might be True.” She also is
associate director with Blue
Sage Writing based in Long-
mont, Colorado.
The next workshop,
scheduled for 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. April 2, 9, 16 and
23, is Recipies from Poems
We Love, an online poetry
workshop taught by Bridge.
Registration costs $240,
or $215 for Fishtrappers. To
save a spot in the workshop,
visit
https://fi shtrap.org/
bridge-workshop-april2022/. taught by Johnson.
It will take place
The workshop
from 6-8 p.m. May
starts with poems
4, 11, 18 and 25
participants already
and costs $240 or
have a fondness for.
$215 for Fishtrap-
Participants are to
pers. To save a spot,
bring an inspiring
visit https://fi shtrap.
poem to share and
org/auvinen-work-
use some part of it
Bridge
shop-oct2021-2/.
to craft a new poem.
The
workshop
The workshop will
will examine Notes
create recipes for
of a Native Son by
poems, discuss a
James
Baldwin,
poem’s parts and
considered one of
write freely with a
the greatest essay-
goal to create fi ve or
ists of the 20th cen-
more new poems.
tury. Participants can
Bridge is a poet
Johnson
share their writing
and high school
at any stage as they
teacher living in
explore how leaning
Sofi a,
Bulgaria.
into Baldwin’s kind
Her poems have
of tension can reveal
appeared in numer-
the emotional core of
ous print and online
their work.
publications. Her
Johnson’s work
manuscripts have
has been published in
been fi nalists for
Sloan
various publications
numerous
book
in the Northwest.
prizes. She earned
her master of fi ne arts degree She has a masters of fi ne arts
in creative nonfi ction from
at New York University.
The fi nal spring work- Portland State University,
shop off ered by Fishtrap will and was a 2021 Fishtrap Fel-
be Two Ideas: Grappling low. She is an assistant lec-
with Paradox and Tension in turer at the University of
Personal Essay and Memoir, Wyoming in Laramie.
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