BUSINESS
Saturday, August 1, 2015
ECHO
From fast food to ¿ne dining
New owner takes over at H&P;
old tractor show comes to town
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
The H&P Cafe, a staple of downtown
Echo, is celebrating new ownership on
Saturday.
Michael Barzee and his family took over
the cafe in May and said they have made
some improvement.
Barzee said the family has kept the old
menu but also added new items.
“So far folks seem to be very pleased
with the Tuality of food, the Àavor of the
food and the seasoning I’ve been using,”
Barzee said.
He said his favorite part of running
the H&P cafe so far has been talking with
customers and implementing their sugges-
tions, including new homemade french fries.
Barzee worked in fast food for 24 years, the
last 11 at Jack in the Box, so he said he has
been enjoying getting to set the menu for a
change.
“It’s absolutely fantastic to work for your-
self and be in charge of everything,” he said.
Barzee keeps the cafe open seven days a
week with his wife Torie and their three chil-
dren, with some help from his brother-in-law
and his daughter’s friend. It is open from 7
a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
On Saturday the cafe, located at 231 E.
Main St., will be doing rafÀes and door prizes
from noon to 5 p.m. and will be serving items
normally offered only certain days of the
week, including pulled pork sandwiches and
homemade chili.
The event will coincide with the antique
tractor show the winery is putting on from
noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday downtown and at
Fort Henrietta Park.
The show will be collecting donations for
the nonpro¿t cancer survivor support organi-
zation Kick’n Cancer.
Sno Road Winery owner Lloyd Piercy
said the show, which he hopes to make an
annual event, will feature a variety of pieces
of antique farm equipment, including many
from the “amazing” collection at Amstad
Farms.
“We will feature the evolution of the
plow,” Piercy said. “We will also have
modern tractors sitting next to antique ones
so people can compare.”
A 1913 horsedrawn corn picker will also
be featured next to a modern one.
Piercy said downtown businesses,
including the H&P Cafe, will be open during
the event to show off the city’s “vibrant little
downtown” to visitors coming to town for the
show.
“We encourage people who want to drive
their vintage car to bring it,” he said. “It will
be a great day to drive it. It might not be part
of the show but the crowd that is there will
appreciate it.”
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Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@
eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4536.
LOCAL BUSINESS BRIEFLY
Bank of Eastern
Oregon announces
2Q earnings
HEPPNER — Bank
of Eastern Oregon netted
earnings of $724,000, or
58 cents per share, during
the second quarter of 2015,
compared to $717,000 and
62 cents per share for the
quarter last year.
Year-to-date earnings
are down slightly — $1.194
million to $1.275 million —
which CEO Jeff Bailey said
is due to the recent cost of
acquiring Bank Reale based
in Pasco.
“The accounting
conversion process is
complete and I commend
our employees for their hard
work and dedication making
the process relatively
simple and seamless for our
customers,” Bailey said.
Total assets, net loans and
deposits are all up by more
than 10 percent over a year
ago, while shareholders’
equity increased by $2.6
million, or 10.4 percent,
from June 2014.
Chief Operations Of¿cer
Gary Propheter said deposit
runoff is not unusual with an
acquisition, but so far former
Bank Reale customers seem
to have welcomed Bank of
Eastern Oregon. Meanwhile,
deposit trends remain strong
in the bank’s traditional
communities.
Despite the effect drought
is having on this year’s
wheat harvest, the bank
expects its agricultural
portfolio will perform
relatively well, bolstered
by continued strong cattle
prices.
However, Bailey said it is
important to fund the bank’s
loan loss provision to allow
BRIEFLY
Extended slump in
oil taking toll on
industry, economy
NEW YORK (AP) — As
drivers, shippers and airlines
continue to enjoy lower fuel
prices, the oil industry is
responding to much lower
pro¿ts with sharp cuts in
spending and employment that
are hurting economic growth.
Low oil and gas prices are
good for the overall economy
because they reduce costs
for consumers and business.
U.S. economic growth was
higher in the second quarter,
and economists say that was
partly fueled by consumers
spending some of their savings
on gasoline at stores and
restaurants.
But with oil prices down
around 50 percent from last
year, major oil companies are
cutting back, offsetting some of
this good news. For instance,
Exxon Mobil said Friday it cut
spending by $1.54 billion in the
second quarter, while Chevron
announced it is laying off 1,500
workers. Until about six months
ago, booming U.S. oil and gas
production was helping the
country’s economy grow during
a time of sluggishness.
for loan growth and cyclical
volatility in the agricultural
economy.
For more information
about Bank of Eastern
Oregon, visit www.beobank.
com.
passport book and get it
marked at four or more
businesses, then turn it in to
enter a drawing.
For more information,
contact the Hermiston
Chamber of Commerce at
541-567-6151 or info@
hermistonchamber.com.
It’s time to
discover downtown Gateway Cafe
HERMISTON —
opens on weekends
Refreshments, discounts
and a Passport Bonus are all
featured in the Hermiston
Downtown District First
Thursday.
The event is Thursday
from 4:30-7 p.m. on Main
Street, Hermiston. The
public is invited to stop in
and enjoy the hospitality of
downtown businesses.
Be sure to pick up a
HEPPNER — A full
menu will be offered at the
Gateway Cafe in Heppner.
Alvin and Linda Liu have
opened the new restaurant
in the space previously
occupied by John’s Place.
Gateway Cafe is currently
open Fridays and Saturdays
from 4-8 p.m. at 164 N.
Main St., Heppner.
East Oregonian
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ABORTION: 105,441 in Oregon in last decade
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response to questions about the videos.
Brown’s of¿ce did not comment on
whether the governor had seen any of the
videos, or whether the allegations and
the organization’s use of state funding
warranted investigation.
Since 2008, Brown has received $20,000
in campaign contributions from EMILY’s
list, a pro-choice group, and about $10,000
from EMILY’s List Federal Fund. Planned
Parenthood PAC of Oregon has given
$3,500 to Brown.
Brown spoke at a Planned Parenthood
“Day of Action” rally in April of this year
and accepted the Pro-Choice Champion
award from them in 2012. Her ¿rst job, as a
lobbyist for the Women’s Rights Coalition,
was funded in part by Planned Parenthood.
Brown chose Jeanne Atkins as her
replacement as secretary of state when she
succeeded former Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Atkins led the Women’s Rights Coalition
when it hired Brown in 1991 and also
worked as a lobbyist for Planned Parent-
hood.
Speaking through a spokesperson,
Atkins said she had no “of¿cial reaction” as
an of¿ce holder.
“My personal belief … is that ethical
questions about medical care and medical
research are best resolved among medical
professionals … I hope Oregonians will
listen thoroughly not just to the allegations
but to the responses given,” Atkins said.
“We know these to be politically-moti-
vated attacks coming from a group with a
questionable background,” spokesperson
Molly Woon said. “We know Planned
Parenthood to be a trusted health care
provider.”
Abortion opponents were less retrained.
Oregon Representative Bill Post
(R-Keizer) ran on a pro-life platform in
2014. Post said if he could, he would defund
Planned Parenthood tomorrow.
“In political terms, when the founding
fathers said, ‘Life, liberty and pursuit of
happiness,’ it’s pretty hard to have the last
two without the ¿rst,” he said. “When a
woman goes in for an abortion, I doubt she
was thinking that the baby was going to be
torn to pieces and sold off.”
Post plans to introduce a bill to stop
all taxpayer-funded abortions in Oregon,
which are performed by a number of service
providers, during the legislature’s 2016
short session.
Data from the Oregon Health Authority
list 105,441 abortions performed in Oregon
over the last 10 years.
In ¿scal year 2013-14, around 43 percent
of all abortions performed in state were
taxpayer funded, Post said.
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