Recently, Boyd showed the knives he makes at the Holiday Bazaar at the Joseph Community Center.
âI started out with knives. Theyâre my bread and butter,â he said last week. âBut I do a lot of actual blacksmithing work, making blacksmithing tools and decorative hooks, bottle openers, horseshoes, gates and all sorts of metalwork.â
The 19-year-old has been operating his business for about two years out of a shop at the home of his parents, Rick and Robin Boyd, in Lostine. He started learning about blacksmithing about three years ago from Alec Steele on YouTube, a young man about Boydâs age in the United Kingdom.
An excavator operated by a Lorain Public Property Department worker tears into 1627 Pennsylvania Ave. the morning of June 24, 2020. It was the first vacant condemned home to be torn down by a city crew instead of hiring an outside contractor. Lorain Mayor Jack Bradley said he was proud of city workers being able to tear down structures that did not have underlying environmental contaminants, such as asbestos, in 2020.
Two local entrepreneurs have taken the best of their own enterprises and combined them to create a totally new product â Buffagoat Soap, a natural soap made from bison tallow and goat milk.
Wendy McCullough, of Sally B. Farms near the base of Mount Joseph, brought her goat milk to combine with bison tallow from Theresa Stangel, of the Stangel Bison Ranch near Enterprise, to create a soap they say is unique to Wallowa County.
âI have not heard of anyone else combining bison tallow and goat milk to make âBuffagoatâ and Iâve seen nothing online to that effect,â McCullough said. âIt might be a brand-new thing.â