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Enterprise students shine at conference
Chieftain staff
Fifteen
Enterprise
High School FCCLA stu-
dents attended the FCCLA
National Leadership Confer-
ence in San Diego from June
28-July 5.
More than 7,100 students,
advisers and guests attended
this year’s Family, Career
and Community Leaders of
America conference.
It was a week of lead-
ership sessions, exhibitors
and presenters, competi-
tions, networking and special
events. While in San Diego,
the students were also able to
visit Coronado Beach, Bel-
mont Park, SeaWorld, San
Diego Zoo, the USS Mid-
way, a Padres and Mariners
baseball game, Seaport Vil-
lage and viewed the Indepen-
dence Day fi reworks over
San Diego Bay.
All 15 students qualifi ed to
judge or compete in a STAR
(Students Taking Action with
Recognition) event after ini-
tially competing and qual-
ifying at the FCCLA State
Leadership Conference in
March. The students were
accompanied by Tamarah
Duncan, Enterprise FCCLA
adviser, and Jessie Cunning-
ham, Enterprise FCCLA par-
ent. All competitors earned a
gold or silver medal, and fi ve
students earned the honor of
walking across the stage as
national top-10 qualifi ers.
After much hard work
throughout the school year,
the National Conference was
a great way to fi nalize the
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Contributed Photo
Fifteen Enterprise High School FCCLA students attended the FCCLA National Leadership Conference in San Diego from June
28-July 5.
2021-22 year. Results for the
STAR events were:
• Codi Cunningham com-
peted in Level 2 “Profes-
sional Presentation” with
a PowerPoint presentation
regarding the importance
of farming/ranching. She
earned a gold medal and
the honor of standing on
the podium and receiving a
plaque for a third-place fi n-
ish overall.
• Chase Duncan and
Roan Flynn competed in
Level 3 “Focus on Chil-
dren” by organizing and
facilitating a fi fth and
sixth grade basketball
camp at Enterprise High
School. They earned a
gold medal and a top-10
placement overall.
• Alona and Lydia Yost
competed in Level 3
“Chapter Service Project
Portfolio” by coordinat-
ing the sixth grade talent
show at Enterprise Ele-
mentary. They earned a
gold medal and a top-10
placement overall.
• Tessa Duncan competed
in Level 2 “National Pro-
grams in Action” with a
student body project that
focused on teaching the
Enterprise third grade
class about healthy habits.
She earned a gold medal.
• Rosie
Movich-Fields
and Jada Gray competed
in Level 3 “National Pro-
grams in Action” with a
community service proj-
ect to raise funds and
awareness for those in
need of prosthetics. They
earned a silver medal.
• Ashlynn Greer com-
peted in Level 3 “National
Programs in Action” with
a Community Service
project to raise funds and
awareness for the Ronald
McDonald House. She
earned a silver medal.
• Maddie Nordtvedt com-
peted in Level 3 “Repur-
pose & Redesign” with
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a ball gown that she
designed and created
using grocery bags and
second-hand items. Nor-
dtvedt went through a
selection process, and she
was ultimately chosen to
be one of 20 students who
modeled their creations
during the FCCLA Style
Show. She modeled her
creation beautifully, and
she earned a silver medal
during competition.
Joseph Fish competed
in Level 3 “Professional
Presentation” with a
PowerPoint presentation
regarding mental health
fi rst aid. He earned a sil-
ver medal.
Maddy Cudmore and
Jessi Journigan com-
peted in Level 2 “Chap-
ter Service Project Dis-
play” by coordinating a
project to raise money
for the Enterprise Junior
High basketball pro-
grams. They earned a sil-
ver medal.
Andrew Nordtvedt com-
peted in Level 2 “Chap-
ter Service Project Portfo-
lio” with his eff orts to fi nd
donors and create ban-
ners to honor the Enter-
prise Cross Country and
Track accomplishments,
which will now hang on
the walls of Quinn Court.
He earned a silver medal.
Shayna Wilkie was a stu-
dent judge at the National
Conference. She spent
one full day judging
Level 3 and 4 “Repurpose
& Redesign” projects.
Job losses in Oregon near full rebound
By JACK PARRY
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE — After
almost 2½ years since the
start of the COVID-19 pan-
demic, the Oregon Employ-
ment Department projects
that 100% of the jobs lost will
be recovered before 2023.
State employment econ-
omist Gail Krumenauer,
during a media briefi ng
for the OED on July 20,
announced that 94% of pan-
demic job losses have been
regained. She also noted that
job growth doesn’t seem to
be slowing down.
“Oregon’s Offi ce of Eco-
nomic Analysis projects
future job growth in the
coming quarters,” she said.
“What they have projected is
that we’ll return to the pre-re-
cession level of jobs that we
had in February 2020 by the
end of this year.”
Between February and
April of 2020, the state lost
282,000 jobs, which was one
of every seven jobs in the
state. In Wallowa County,
270 jobs were lost during this
pandemic recession.
Even though the whole
state may have to wait to fully
recover, Wallowa County has
gone beyond recovery. From
April of 2020 to May of 2022
the county added 380 jobs
exceeding the prepandemic
jobs level.
According to Krume-
nauer, this recovery has actu-
ally made it even harder for
employers to fi nd workers,
partially because the hiring
struggles also existed before
the pandemic.
“Particularly if you’re in
a county that tends to have
older demographics, and
maybe many people who are
retiring, and maybe not as
many younger people mov-
ing in,” Krumenauer said.
Other counties in the state
could be lagging behind in
the recovery process if they
have a lot of job option posi-
tions within the public sector.
“The private sector has
gone much further in the way
of recovery than (the) gov-
ernment has,” she said, “and
so places that have univer-
sities, community colleges
and higher concentrations of
employment in K-12 pub-
lic schools have been kind of
lagging.”
Because Wallowa County
is home to six public schools,
and one online university,
it has recovered more than
Union County, which is
home to Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity in La Grande.
Oregon’s unemployment
rate in June was 3.6%, which
is a massive decrease com-
pared to a high of 13.3% in
April 2020.
The June job numbers
released by the OED have
shown a strong job market
throughout the state. Various
sectors of the economy saw
increases in jobs last month
including construction, pri-
vate health care and social
assistance, hotels, bars,
restaurants and entertainment
places.
“No broad sector of Ore-
gon’s economy had large
job losses in June,” Krume-
nauer said.
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Trapshooters compete at nationals
Chieftain staff
Recently, six Wallowa
High School trapshooters
took part in the USA High
School Clay Target League
National Championship, July
6-10 in Mason, Michigan.
“You have to shoot a 22
average to get invited to
nationals,” coach Ken Kni-
fong said. “They competed
against 3,000 other shoot-
ers at the event. There were
40 trap houses and virtually
a mile long from one end to
the other.”
Lane Tanzey, Kellan Kni-
fong and Cash Tanzey fi n-
ished in the top 400 after the
fi rst day of competition to
advance to the championship
round. Each shooter shot 50
clay targets before a break
followed by 50 more. Both
Lane and Cash fi nished in the
top 200 in the nation.
The other three Wal-
lowa competitors — Greg-
ory Vaughn, Sawyer Wentz
and Liam Wolfe — did not
advance out of the fi rst day.
The team will return all its
shooters except Lane Tanzey,
who graduated, next year.
Wallowa had a strong
showing at the 1A state meet
in June with Lane Tanzey
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tying for fi fth place. He had a
perfect score of 50 in the fi rst
session, and followed with
46 in the second session. In
fact, Tanzey was perfect in
his fi rst three runs with 25 out
of 25 targets in each before
hitting 21 in the fi nal run.
Wolfe also broke 90, post-
ing a score of 91 in the var-
sity boys division to tie for
26th. Knifong added an 89 to
tie for 34th and Lucas Hulse
and Cash Tanzey both had 87
to tie for 44th.
The group conducted a
fundraiser to pay for the trip
to nationals and was able to
raise $24,000.
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