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Thursday, May 21, 2020
GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon
GO OUT, GO ONLINE
Art & fresh food support local
producers, business owners
Farmers markets revive
health, local economy
LA GRANDE — The La Grande
Farmers Market is now open for
the season, with social distancing
requirements and safety measures
in place. The market is open 9 a.m.-
noon on Saturday and 3-6 p.m. on
Tuesday at Max Square, corner of
Fourth Street and Adams Avenue.
One way the La Grande Farmers
Market helps families access more
fresh fruits and vegetables from lo-
cal farmers is with Double Up Food
Bucks. This program offers extra
market money to SNAP (Supple-
mental Nutrition Assistance
Program) participants when they
buy fresh fruits, vegetables and
edible plants from any vendor at
the market. The program can help
community members stretch their
food budget by up to $80 a month.
If you qualify for SNAP and
shop at the market, each day you
redeem funds from your SNAP
account on these items, LGFM
will match dollar for dollar up to a
max of $10 in free Double Up Food
Bucks. Your SNAP funds can also
be used at the market to purchase
a wider variety of foods, including
meat, eggs, baked goods, cheese,
honey, canned goods, salsa, oils and
vinegars, and coffee beans.
Using SNAP tokens and Double
Up Food Bucks at the market gives
you the power to purchase healthy
and fresh groceries in a way that
supports our local farmers, and
keeps these funds in the local
economy.
This year’s market vendors are:
Nella Mae’s Farm, Kneads Bakery,
Mia’s Garden, Umapine Cream-
ery, Dianne’s Kitchen, Homestead
Springs Farm & Forge, 2 Dog Flow-
er Farm, 3rd Generation Farm,
Giannes Fine Foods, Gardenia’s Ta-
males, Brandt’s Bakery, Evergreen
Vendors and customers are
strongly encouraged to wear
masks or other facial coverings
and must maintain a distance of
6 feet between themselves and
others. Customers will not be
allowed to bag or handle produce.
A new handwashing station will
be located at the market to help
maintain and encourage hand sani-
tization practices. A staff member
or volunteer from the market will
be on site to remind customers of
these requirements.
The market, which operates Sat-
urdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. next
to Stein’s Distillery on Main Street
in Joseph, is following all state and
local guidelines for the COVID-19
pandemic in accordance with best
practices from the Oregon Farm-
ers Markets Association and the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. At this time, no music
or special events are planned.
For more information, or to learn
how to become a vendor, visit www.
wallowacountyfarmersmarket.com,
call 541-838-0795 or email
wallowacountyfarmersmarket@
gmail.com.
Family Farms, Regrowth Nursery,
Ava Denton’s Pastured Meat, Mar-
tinez Gardens, Key Family Farms
and Aichele’s Berries.
WALLOWA COUNTY
FARMERS MARKET
JOSEPH — Similar to the La
Grande Farmers Market, the Wal-
lowa County Farmers Market, held
in Joseph on Saturdays, will look a
little different this year. When the
market opens this Saturday, May
23, there will still be plenty of fresh
produce, jewelry, soap and fl owers,
but vendors and customers will be
required to follow social distancing
and other COVID-19 protocols.
Auction, art benefit WC businesses
JOSEPH — To help support the
Wallowa County Business Fund,
the Josephy Center is having a
silent auction of prints that will be
featured in this summer’s virtual
exhibit, “Three Journeys: Mike
Koloski, Leslie LeViner and Mary
Edwards.”
Each artist has selected a spe-
cifi c piece for the online auction.
Bidding, which began May 18 and
ends June 19, may be done at www.
josephy.org. Bids start at $25 and
can be raised in $5 increments.
Also, Koloski is offering archival
reproductions of his painting
“Lostine River – The View from
Pole Bridge” to donors who contrib-
ute their stimulus checks of $1,200
to the business fund. The painting
(on the cover of this edition of GO)
was featured in the Lostine River
Exhibition last summer, where it
generated considerable interest
and inquiries for purchase.
Contact larz@wallowaresources.
org or rick@wallowaresources.org
at Wallowa Resources with instruc-
tions on how to donate.
Mike Koloski —”Rock Art”
Leslie LeViner —”Spring Beneath Mt. Joseph”
Mary Edwards —”The Hurricane”
Fire Boots Sale
Danner, Whites, Kenetrek,
Zamberlan (able to order)
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for firefighters
2020 Auburn Avenue
Baker City, OR 97814
541.523.5369
info@crossroads-arts.org
www.crossroads-arts.org
WEEKEND OUTLOOK
BID ON THESE PRINTS
2700 Bearco Loop
La Grande
541-963-8898
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