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LOCAL
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Brown Bag
presentation to
focus on suicide
Chieftain Staff
WALLOWA COUNTY
— Due in part to the pan-
demic, suicide rates across
the country have surged
over the past three years.
Wallowa County is not
immune to this national
problem, and the Wallowa
Valley Center for Wellness
is the focal point for dealing
with suicide locally.
Center Director Chan-
tay Jett and clinical Direc-
tor Mollie Cudmore will
address the issue at a Jose-
phy Center Brown Bag at
noon on Tuesday, June 14.
The event will be live and
livestreamed.
Jett grew up in Wallowa
County, earned degrees in
business and psychology,
and worked with children
in an in-patient psychiatric
unit at Children’s Hospi-
tal in Seattle. She returned
to the county and picked
up her mental health career,
becoming director of the
Center for Wellness in
2015. Jett and husband Lem
have two teenaged children.
Cudmore is a licensed
clinical social worker, and
the new clinical director at
the Wallowa Valley Center
for Wellness. Mollie earned
a bachelor’s degree in psy-
chology from the Univer-
sity of Oregon and a mas-
ter’s degree in social work
from the University of
Montana. She has worked
in the mental health fi eld
since 2001, and came to
Wallowa County from
Bethel, Alaska, seven years
ago. She focuses on chal-
lenges in loss, including
divorce, death, stress, anxi-
ety, depression, trauma and
transitional changes.
The Brown Bag presen-
tation will address the ris-
ing tide of suicides, and talk
about seeing early signs of
potential suicide and fi nd-
ing help.
Brown Bags are free
and open to the public with
donations
appreciated.
Directions for distance
attendance will be pub-
lished on the Josephy Cen-
ter webpage at josephy.org.
For further information,
contact Rich Wandschnei-
der at 541-432-0505.
Parks commission to
meet in Enterprise
Tour of sites at
lake also planned
Chieftain staff
ENTERPRISE
—
The Oregon State Parks
and Recreation Commis-
sion announced Wednes-
day, June 1, it will tour
local sites and convene
June 14-15 at the Clover-
leaf Hall in Enterprise.
On June 14, commis-
sioners will tour Wallowa
Lake State Park and Iwe-
temlaykin State Heritage
Site starting at 8 a.m., fol-
lowed by a work session
and training at Clover-
leaf Hall at the Wallowa
County Fairgrounds in
Enterprise.
On June 15, com-
missioners will convene
an executive session at
8:30 a.m. at the same loca-
tion to discuss real estate
and legal issues. Executive
sessions are closed to the
public. A business meeting
will begin at 9:30 a.m. and
will be open to the public.
Anyone may attend or
listen to the business meet-
ing; instructions on how
to listen will be posted on
the commission web page
prior to the meeting. The
business meeting includes
time for informal public
comment related to any
items not on the agenda.
Registration is required to
speak at the meeting, and
is available online at bit.ly/
registerjunecommission.
Time per speaker is lim-
ited to three minutes. Writ-
ten public comments must
be submitted by 5 p.m.
June 13 to chris.havel@
oprd.oregon.gov.
The full agenda and
supporting documents are
posted on the commission
web page at https://www.
oregon.gov/oprd/CAC/
Pages/CAC-oprc.aspx.
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Jude Graham/Contributed Photo
Fifth-graders from Enterprise and kindergarteners from Joseph dress in old-time clothing during a fi eld trip to the Wallowa
County Museum in Joseph on Thursday, June 2, 2022. They were there for a scavenger hunt and to donate a dress from around
the turn of the 20th century and some decades-old Wallowa County Chieftains.
Grade schoolers donate vintage dress, newspapers
Enterprise, Joseph
students embark
on joint eff ort
By BILL BRADSHAW
Wallowa County Chieftain
JOSEPH — A dress from
more than a century ago and a
stack of old Wallowa County
Chieftains were donated
to the Wallowa County
Museum in Joseph by kinder-
garteners from Joseph Char-
ter School and fi fth-graders
from Enterprise Elementary
School during a fi eld trip
Thursday, June 2.
The Enterprise fi fth grad-
ers donated the vintage
Chieftains dating as far back
as 1928 to museum cura-
tor Jude Graham. The cen-
tury-plus old dress, worn
by Hallie Duncan, also was
gifted to the museum.
Enterprise teacher Lorri
Fischer joined with her
daughter, Joseph kindergar-
ten teacher Aliyse Shetler, in
a fi eld trip they have planned
for about 12 years. The pair
meet at the museum each
year and pair the older stu-
dents with younger counter-
parts to complete a museum
scavenger hunt uniting the
two schools in a common
purpose, Fischer said in a
press release.
The kids then usually
travel to the R&R Restaurant
in Joseph for an ice cream
treat, she said.
This particular donation
was prompted when a pile of
discarded Chieftains found in
the back of a classroom fi le
cabinet prompted the Enter-
prise fi fth-grade class to learn
more about local history. The
papers started in 1928 and
progressed through the 1930s
and 1940s.
“They added much to class
study of Wallowa County
history,” Fischer said.
During the fi lming of the
2016 movie, “The History
of the Enterprise School,”
which was a tribute to the
100th birthday of the main
building built in 1917, Linda
Bright, owner of B. Bright
Vintage, a vintage and thrift
store in Joseph, donated a
vintage dress. It was said to
be 100 years old and was
worn by a student in the class
movie as she was portray-
ing an early teacher, Suzie
Zurcher.
Fischer said that after
researching the dress, she
was unable to determine
exactly where it came from.
Fischer is retiring from
Enterprise School this year
after 38 years.
Noxious weed of month is meadow hawkweed
Wallowa Resources
ENTERPRISE — As
part of the Wallowa County
Vegetation Department and
Weed Board’s ongoing edu-
cation eff orts, in conjunction
with Wallowa Resources, the
Chieftain features a noxious
weed each month that is on
the county’s list of noxious
and invasive weeds.
This month’s noxious
weed is meadow hawkweed.
What: Meadow hawk-
weed is a perennial that grows
up to 3 feet tall, with rosettes
that contain narrow, spatu-
la-shaped leaves that are up to
6 inches long. Leaves exude
milky sap when broken. The
fl owers grow in yellow clus-
ters near the top of the plant
Joe Sims/Wallowa Resources
Meadow hawkweed is this month’s weed of the month. It is a
perennial that can grow up to 3 feet tall.
and bloom from May to July.
Where: Meadow hawk-
weed prefers moist, grassy
areas. In Wallowa County,
it’s typically found in for-
ested and riparian areas but
can even be found in fl ower-
beds and lawns.
Dangers: Meadow hawk-
weed is an invasive intruder
that produces highly mobile
seeds. It prevents desirable
plans from establishing or
surviving.
How you can help: If
you fi nd meadow hawk-
weed either on your prop-
erty or while out and about,
take note of the location.
Contact Wallowa Canyon-
lands Partnership Program
Manager Joe Sims at 541-
426-8053, ext. 61.
Wallowa Resources youth programs resume in person
Chieftain staff
ENTERPRISE — Out-
door in-person educational
programming is back. Wal-
lowa Resources Youth
Stewardship Program has
had a busy spring full with
Friday WREN (Wallowa
Resources Exploration of
Nature) Science Adventures
and a return to in-person
outdoor school for every
sixth-grader in Wallowa
County.
The weather this spring
hasn’t been able to decide
if it’s winter or summer,
but despite some snowy
days, students have had a
blast learning outside. The
last few years have made
running programs as usual
challenging, so the youth
education staff at Wal-
lowa Resources have been
thrilled to be back up and
serving the county’s youth
and schools with free in-per-
son programs that get kids
outside exploring nature.
This spring Wallowa
Resources had seven full-
day Friday Science WREN
classes that took local fi fth-
through eighth-graders out
into the county’s landscape
to learn about diff erent nat-
ural science and place-
based topics. Big highlights
were the birds of prey lesson
where students got up close
and personal with some fal-
cons and herpetology explo-
ration, which includes fi nd-
ing frogs, snakes and turtles
out at local ponds.
Wallowa Resources facil-
itated three weeks of outdoor
school serving all fourth-
through sixth-graders at
Joseph Charter School and
each sixth-grade class from
Enterprise and Wallowa.
Outdoor school was held
at Wallowa Lake State Park,
where kids learned about
salmon migration, soil sci-
ence, forest structure and
tree ID, animals and sur-
vival skills. Staff also facil-
itated one day of outdoor
programming for a class of
fi fth-graders from the neigh-
boring town of Halfway.
“We can’t stress enough
how excited we are to be
able to be running full,
in-person programs again,
and to have a full summer
of outdoor programming
planned to teach our youth,”
said Lindsay Miller, youth
education manager for
Wallowa Resources. “Not
only in our own programs,
but also working with our
school districts and other
camps to deliver the best
possible experience for our
county’s kids.”
For more information
about programs or upcom-
ing classes, visit www.wal-
lowaresources.org/edu-
cation.
For
additional
information, contact Miller
at 541-426-8053 or lind-
say@wallowaresources.org.
Adult
Dances
Friday &
Saturday
Parade
June 6 - 12, 2022
Friday @ 2 pm
always the first full week of june
Ed Miller Xtreme Bull Riding
Thursday, June 9, 2022 @ 6:30 pm
PRCA Rodeo & Horse Racing
Friday, June 10, 2022 @ 4 pm
Saturday, June 11, 2022 @ 2 pm
EMMA EMILY
JENNA
RICKER ARNOLDUS DENTON Sunday, June 12, 2022 @ 1:30 pm
4-H Horse Show - Mon & Tue, June 6th & 7th
4-H & FFA Livestock Show - Thu & Fri, June 9th & 10th
Market Animal Auction - Saturday, June 11th @ 8am
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Tickets are available from Queen Candidates
or online until June 6th
Horsemanship - Sunday, June 5th @ 2pm
Queen’s Coronation - Tuesday, June 7th @ 7pm