GRANDE RONDE HOSPITAL
LA GRANDE — The warming station is in need of more volunteers. Community members who are interested in donating their time to help people be warm and safe during frigid nights — or to donate i…
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ENTERPRISE — We hear about drought in the West all the time and now it’s our turn to talk about it as a community, said Fishtrap Director Mike Midlo. Fishtrap will host an online conference Ja…
Did you make a resolution for the new year? Three weeks into January, how is it going?
Broadcast addresses senior missions
Oregon East Symphony winter concert open to family members only
LA GRANDE — On Wednesday, Jan. 5, the Grande Ronde Hospital Foundation received a donation of $4,490 from Buffalo Peak Golf Course, a press release from the foundation announced.
No, this mule deer buck with an impressive rack was startled Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, in the parking lot of the Wallowa County Chieftain while it was picking away at foliage recently uncovered…
Cove senior lunch served twice a month
In my junior year in high school, my mother fashioned herself as my college admissions coach. She decreed that I needed something besides grades and SAT scores. I needed to become a school lea…
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon Film Festival announced the 2022 event will take place over the weekend of Oct. 20-22.
John Carbage, president of the Hermiston Cultural Awareness Coalition, is looking forward to hosting the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Peace March.
ENTERPRISE — A competitive chili cookoff is being hosted by the Hurricane Creek Grange to coincide with the conclusion of the 2022 Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race, according to a press release.
Zion Lutheran service streamed live to YouTube
JOSEPH — Destiny Wecks is officially in the saddle as Miss Teen Rodeo Oregon, a title the former Chief Joseph Days co-queen will hold throughout 2022.
After the fire of 1959 that destroyed the Huntington Block, there were still two buildings remaining on the south side of the 1300 block of Adams Avenue in downtown La Grande. The one at 1314 …
WALLOWA — Joe Town has spent most of his 90 years in Wallowa, and most of those years serving the city in one fashion or another.
Dine-in meals: Served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; use front entrance and observe social distancing.
GRANDE RONDE HOSPITAL
JOHANNESBURG — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. …
We must run with patience the race that has been set before us.
Cove senior lunch served twice a month
Join Morning Prayer service in person or online
Luke Boyles, a construction worker with an affinity for snow, puts the finishing touches on his snow mermaid along Adams Avenue on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021. “I make it a goal to get one snowman…
Free health and wellness classes begin Jan. 7
ENTERPRISE — Fishtrap has two writers who focus on the West scheduled for workshops in January, Corinna Cook and Matt Daly, according to a press release.
Bring in the new year with game night, breakfast
ELGIN — It was anything but a “Scrooge” Christmas for the Elgin Lions, according to a press release. Members of the club ushered at the Elgin Opera House during December, took a deserving fami…
Community Band Northeast to resume rehearsals in January
Dine-in meals: Served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; use front entrance and observe social distancing.
The holiday season is called the most wonderful time of the year, but between buying gifts, hosting parties, trying not to break your healthy habits (or the bank) and attending family gatherin…
A wrong idea has taken root in the world — that some lives are less valuable than other lives. There’s a lot of concern regarding finding good solutions for those who are houseless in our comm…
Upcoming weekly lessons focus on Old Testament
One year when I was in third or fourth grade, my family’s Christmas plans were interrupted by forces of nature. As the holiday approached, Mom baked in preparation for our trip three hours sou…
BAKER CITY — Local actors have collaborated with an acting troupe in Texas to create a holiday-themed DVD to raise funds for the nonprofit organization Cancer for College.
Dine-in meals: Served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; use front entrance and observe social distancing. Takeout meals: Pick up from noon to 1 p.m. at kitchen’s back door. Cost: Age 60+, $3 sugg…
Are you afraid of the dark, or are you a night owl who prefers it? Or maybe like me, you are somewhere in between. I no longer harbor the childhood fears provoked when the night’s mantle obscu…
Free firewood available Dec. 18 in La Grande
Church is a place to belong
One year when I was in third or fourth grade, my family’s Christmas plans were interrupted by forces of nature. As the holiday approached, Mom baked in preparation for our trip three hours sou…
Clyde and Elizabeth White, of La Grande, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Dec. 16. They were married in 1961 at the La Grande Methodist Church. Clyde served in the U.S. Army an…
