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tains more than 7,000 feet.
It still provides low inten-
sity quakes of Magnitude 2
(M2) to M4 every few years,
mostly centered in the Upper
Wallowa Valley. Based on
the fault’s nearly 40-mile
length, geologists have cal-
culated that it could unleash a
M6 to M7 quake. Mapping of
the fault near Wallowa Lake,
which shows detailed ground
topography even under
heavy forest cover, shows no
evidence of major faulting or
signifi cant fault scarps in the
past 17,000 years. But that’s
only a short time in geologic
cycles.
The current gym was
built in 1949, Jones said, to
replace an earlier one that had
burned. She said she expects
the seismic work done by
fall. The rest of the gym proj-
ect will take another year.
“The big part of that is the
heating and all that,” she said.
As of March 17, taken out
were the bleachers, ceiling,
lockers and much more.
“There will be a new,
4,200-square-foot entry that
will have a community space
and where kids can hang
out during lunch, new bath-
rooms, an elevator that will
serve all three fl oors and as a
connector,” Jones said. “The
elevator will provide access
to all the fl oors of the high
school.”
Community will have
access to an exercise facility
Wallowas defi nitely look
like the Canadian border
area.”
While “New Life”
is not your typical fi lm
about the “undead” —
they emphasized that “We
don’t use the ‘Z’ word,”
Erin said, it tries to get
into the genre with a more
realistic approach, Cum-
ming said.
Occasionally, there is
some of the “undead”-like
appearance to characters.
“There was some
freaky makeup in that
one,” Cumming said of the
scenes shot near Joseph.
The only local Cum-
ming mentioned using
during production was
Michael Ferrell, owner
of the Michael’s on Main
Street salon.
“One of the extras
wasn’t here and they were
fi lming a scene where they
were walking in front of
the Humane Society that
they put in because of the
kitties,” Ferrell said. “So I
got to be in the movie as
a walker with a girl at my
side.”
Kevin Brown, another
associate producer, said
he’s still unsure when the
fi lm will be released.
“It’s an independent
fi lm, and we don’t have a
distributor yet,” he said.
“We make it as best as we
can and then try to sell it
to a company that’s going
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West said proposals like
these have an unintended
side eff ect of uniting groups
that are opposed to similar
initiatives.
“If anything, my bet is this
is something that would solid-
ify and unite the ranchers,
farmers and hunters,” he said.
“It’s probably going to unite
the other side just to stamp it
out once and for all.”
Offi cials from the Con-
federated Tribes of Uma-
tilla Indian Reservation said
they’re not worried about
the initiative, citing treaties
that would supersede the law.
They are, however, watching
closely in the event the tribes
need to take a reactionary
approach to the proposal.
“We’re continuing to
watch and see how far it goes,
and see what happens in July
to see if they get their initia-
tive fulfi lled with the required
signatures,” said Jiselle
Halfmoon, interim commu-
nications director for CTUIR.
“Then, of course, we’ll read-
dress it, but at this time we’re
pretty secure in our situation.”
Law experts say
the proposal is
misunderstood
Russ Mead, a professor of
law at Lewis & Clark Law
School in Portland, said what
the proposal says it will do
and what the two opposing
factions for the proposition
say it will do diff er greatly.
“Oregon’s animal cruelty
laws have a long list of excep-
tions,” he said. “For example,
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Robert Horton loads scrap wood removed from the Wallowa High School Cougar Dome on
Thursday, March 17, 2022. It was part of the demolition work in the seismic retrofi t of the
structure.
when students aren’t using
it, such as during evenings or
weekends.
The
overall
project
involves building new walls,
a roof, locker rooms, bleach-
ers, adding an exercise room
and entryway, a larger gym
fl oor, a laundry room and
electrical work.
The seismic retrofi t grant
was awarded the same year
the district approved a $7
million bond levy and $4
million grant through the
OSCIM Oregon School
Capital
Improvement
Matching Program.
hunting and killing livestock
is exempt from Oregon’s
animal cruelty laws. IP13
removes these exemptions.
The result is not that hunt-
ing and killing livestock will
be illegal if IP13 passes, it is
just that when you hunt, you
need to be humane. When
you kill livestock, you need to
be humane.”
The website for IP13
states its goal is to enact leg-
islation that would make it
so that “animals on farms,
research labs, exhibitions and
in the wild would no longer
be allowed to be intention-
ally injured or killed.” How-
ever, Mead disagrees with the
drafters of IP13 and their pro-
posed mission statement on
the IP13 webpage. The law as
it is proposed, he said, would
need to be considered in
courtrooms to fi nd the exact
limitations and framework.
“Anyone who says any
activity will become ille-
gal with the passage of IP13
is just fl at wrong,” he said.
“With the animal cruelty
exemptions removed, the
Oregon courts will need to
decide what animal cruelty
is.”
How animal cruelty is
defi ned in the law, Mead said,
is open-ended.
“Animal cruelty statutes
seldom defi ne what is cruel
and what is humane,” Mead
said. “For example, statutes
do not specify that beating
a dog to death with a base-
ball bat is cruel. Or that kill-
ing a dog by lethal injection is
humane.”
Mead stated if the pro-
posal did muster up the sig-
natures, and passed in the
November ballot, the pro-
posal wouldn’t turn hunters
into criminals overnight.
“The Oregon courts will
need to decide what, if any,
hunting and fi shing practices
violate Oregon animal cruelty
laws,” he said. “I could well
see the courts fi nding leg-hold
traps are cruel. But, I would
be shocked if the courts found
a father and daughter fi sh-
ing with a cane pole animal
cruelty.”
Michelson said one of the
secondary goals of the pro-
posal is to help draw attention
to exemptions in Oregon stat-
utes regarding animal abuse,
and how the animal abuse
laws give protections to pets
but not to livestock.
“We’re one of the few
states that acknowledges that
animals are sentient in our
state statutes,” Michelson
said. “Yet our animal cruelty
laws largely only protect our
companion animals. All the
other animals, whether they’re
in farms or in research labs or
in the wild, or in rodeos and
exhibitions, they’re exempt
from those same protections.”
Michelson noted the ulti-
mate goal of the campaign
would be to ensure all ani-
mals in Oregon have the same
rights and protections that
companion animals enjoy.
“Largely, what our cam-
paign is focused on is the right
for animals not to be killed or
injured, to not be neglected,
and to not be forcibly impreg-
nated or forcibly mastur-
bated,” he said. “Our focus is
very intentionally on that, and
so we will continue the cam-
paign until those rights are
achieved.”
As of Tuesday, March 15,
the IP13 Facebook page had
‘Cool history’
Jones said that in the
course of the demolition,
interesting historical tidbits
of the school’s past have
been uncovered.
“There’s a lot of cool his-
tory in here,” she said.
Former
professional
football
player
Amos
Marsh, who graduated from
WHS in 1957, left his name
and year scratched in wood
that had been covered up in
years past. Marsh, who died
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in 1992, went on to play for
the Dallas Cowboys and
Detroit Lions after college
at Oregon State University.
A more local celebrity
whose name was found not
far from Marsh’s is Greg
Oveson, a longtime WHS
athlete and coach and the
current girls basketball
coach.
“I have a big tub in my
offi ce of all kinds of pro-
grams, candy wrappers and
stuff that had fallen down
through the bleachers over
the years,” she said.
344 followers, and its post-
ings attract more negative
comments than supportive
ones. If the proposal passes
— either now or in 2024 —
it likely would face lengthy
legal scrutiny, according to
Jacob Mannis, the deputy dis-
trict attorney for Oregon who
handles animal cruelty cases.
“It would require a lot
of things to happen before
it would become the law,”
he said. “I assume that there
would be a round of lawsuits
before anything gets enforced,
and then there would have to
be a law enforcement agency
that would investigate, a pros-
ecutor that would prosecute
and ultimately a jury that
would convict, because any-
body in Oregon who’s been
accused of a crime has a right
to a trial by jury.”
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The makeup isn’t ghoulish
as in some fi lms about the
undead, as is apparent
with “New Life” star Hayley
Erin during fi lming of
the independent feature
Thursday, March 17, 2022,
in downtown Enterprise.
to distribute it, whether
that’s a streamer online
or a traditional theatrical
(release.)”
Cumming said produc-
tion should wrap up by
April 2 and it should take
six months to a year after
that before the release
date.
“It would be great if we
could get it in theaters,”
she said.
The
Portland-based
cast and crew of about 25
spent the entire week in
Enterprise and Joseph.
“The New Life cast and
crew is really grateful to
have the cooperation of
Enterprise and Joseph and
we’re really happy to be
here,” Cumming said.
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