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The Board of Directors of
the Kinzua Corp. has given the
green light to a $4.5 million
project designed to give the
Heppner mill "one of the most
modern and efficient plants in
the entire Northwest," ac
cording to plant manager
Harry Kennison.
Plans call for an almost
complete redesign of the
Tri-County Health
cuts
The Board of Directors of
the Tri-County Health Ser
vices Commission last week
abolished the full time dir
ector's position of the Com
mission. In making the decision
during a special meeting in
Heppner, board members ex
pressed the need to cut
administrative costs since no
new programs will be initiated
during the Commission's final
year of operation. The Com
mission is now in its third year
of funding under a three-year
Federal Rural Health Initia
tive grant.
Bob Ewell, director of the
Commission for the past two
years, submitted his resigna
Schools in need of
substitute teachers
Substitute teachers are
needed by the Morrow County
School District, especially in
the Heppner and lone areas.
Anyone who has an Oregon
teacher's cerfificate is eligible
to do subsitiute teaching.
Interested persons who
would like to do substitute
teaching are encouraged to
contact the District Office in
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Patty and Gay Harshman of Heppner are the new
owners of the V-G Tavern in Lexington. Gracie
Leathers, who has owned the tavern for 15 years, is
retiring.
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present saw mill and Kennison
said. the new system would
double the productivity per
man-hour. Included will be a
complete new debarking sys
tem, a . new stacking ap
paratus, two double-track dry
kilns to supplement the pre
sent kilns and an automated
drop sorting system with 32
irectorship
tion to the Board effective
September 16. Ewell has been
responsible for establishing
the overall program which
was designed to strenthen and
link the primary health care
services in Wheeler, Gilliam
and Morrow counties.
The Commission will re
main open until June 30 of next
year under the current grant.
During the final year, efforts
will be directed towards
transferring progrms . into
existing permanent agencies
or organizing some of them as
self-sufficient programs.
It is hoped that the Home
Health Agency, which pro
. yides extended nursing care
into the home, will become
financially independent of the
Lexington to sign up for
substituting and register their
teaching certificates.
A substitute teaching cer
tificate can be issued by the
Teacher Standards and Prac
tices Commission to anyone
who has held a valid teaching
cerfificate in Oregcn or an
other state or who is eligible
vfor an Oregon teaching certificate.
separate drop slots.
Kennison said bids on the
project will be accepted begin
ning September 1 and a target
completion date has been set
for mid-April of next year.
When completed, the new
mill will accommodate ap
proximately 16 more workers
than the 26 employes now
involved in saw mill opera
Commission. Other Commis
sion programs such as the
participation in the Quintra
transportation system for the
elderly and handicapped and
the mental health holding
room at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital will be completed by
next June.
The Commission is looking
at options to assist the nurse
practitioners in Condon and
Fossil in seeking satisfactory
proctor arrangements ro re
main in practice and fulfill
state law. As soon as possible
the Home Health Agency
office will be operating out of
the same office as the Tri
County Health Services Com
mission in the Gilliam and
Bisbee building in Heppner.
The daily rate of pay for
substitute teaching is $33.00.
The School District has exper
ienced quite a bit of difficulty
in recent years in hiving an
adequate number of substitute
teachers available to cover
classes for regular teachers
who have to be absent due to
illness or professional meet
ings. Gay and Patty Harshman of
Heppner announced this week
the purchase of the V&G
Tavern in Lexington from
Gracie Leathers, Lexington,
who has owned and operated
the business for the past 15
years. The Harshmans tocjk
over operations Monday.
During the first month of
operation Harshman said no
major changes are planned
except that the tavern will
open daily from 9 a.m. to 1
a.m. with later closing hours
on Friday and Saturday.
Planned for the near future
is the addition of more seating
and the addition of some
games for patrons.
"When we get squared away
a little, we will put in a lunch
counter with a limited menu
sandwiches, pizza and such
prepared on premises,"
said Harshman. Currently the
tavern has facilities for pizza
and ready-made sandwiches,
plus a full line of soft drinks,
beer and wine beverages.
An open house is planned at
a later date by the new
owners.
tions. Kennison said the con
struction and installation will
be carried on without inter
rupting normal mill activity.
"Most of the engineering
and design has been finished
and we're waiting now to open
the bids," Kennison said. The
engineering was handled by
the Warren and Brewster firm
of Albany and includes some '
innovative Kennison touches
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eommissioneF
A Port of Morrow commis
sioner, who never attended a
meeting and was never offic
ially sworn in, resigned from
the commission last Thurs
day. Mike Conley, manager of
the Boardman branch of In
School board OK's
Irrigon site purchase
The Morrow District School
Board Monday approved the
use of contingency funds to
complete a $55,000 purchase of
Irrigon property for use as a
future school site.
The Board had previously
agreed to appropriate $47,500
most of which was carried
over from a supplemental
budget of last year towards
the purchase of the 28-acre
tract. Of the remainder, $1,000
will be taken from bond issue
funds and $6,500 from the
contingency funds.
After negotiating with the
estate of A. H. Robbins, the
Board was able to secure the
purchase at $2,000 per acre
providing there is a cash
settlement by September.
The Board also agreed to
enter a rental contract with
the Greenfield Grange to use
the structure as a kinder
Chief says...
No more bikes
on sidewalks
Heppner Police Chief Dean
Gilman issued a plea and a
warning this week to parents
and their youngsters that use
the Main Street sidewalks for
bicycle riding and skate
boarding.
"The problem has simply
gotten out of hand," said the
Chief this week after a
youngster on a skateboard lost
control, sending the "launch
ed" projectile through the
window of Central Market.
The police department has
also received numerous com
plaints lately from irate
pedestrians that have been
bumped or nearly hit by young
travelers.
The City of Heppner has an
ordinance that prohibits using
the city's Main Street side
walks for bicycling and skateboarding.
derived from his years of
experience in the field.
He said a major reason for
the change was that the
existing mill could not handle
the small pine logs efficiently.
"We do fine with the larger
pine and fir logs but this new
; system will allow us to handle
the smaller logs as we
should," Kennison said.
Ft. seat
land Empire Bank, was ap
pointed to the commission two
months ago. He resigned after
accepting a new job at Bill
ings, Mont.
In response to the resigna
tion, two Boardman residents
attended the monthly commis
garten for the Boardman
area. It will be the first year of
public kindergarten in Board
man and Supt. Matt Doherty
said he anticipates two groups
of approximately 15 to 18
children to enroll this fall.
Terms of the agreement call
for the district to pay $130
each month along with a share
of the. utilities bills.
Doherty told the Board that
the recently announced re
duction in anticipated Forest
Service receipts apparently
wouldn't put the district in too
much of a financial bind
because there appears to be a
sizeable carryover from last
year. Although the final audit
or's report is not completed,
Doherty said it looked like the
district would have close to
$100,000 in carryover funds.
But, he added that the funds
"I realize there is concern
among parents for their child
ren when riding on Main
Street with all the traffic, and
I'm concerned about it too,",
said Gilman, "and I don't
particularly like being the one
that' has to tell the four or
five-year-old youngster to get
his bicycle on the street and
off the sidewalk."
"Maybe the parents can get
the point across at home,"
commented the Chief, "and
keep the little ones from riding
downtown."
Starting immediately city
officers will begin enforcing
the odinance. For the first
offense, a youngster's bike of
skateboard will be taken away
for seven days. Second offense
results in losing the vehicle for
30 days.
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vacated.
sion meeting to vie for the
vacated position. They were
Dudley Young, a Portland
General Electric employee,
and Gene Allen, a business
man. "My wife and I were
transferred here 14 months
could only be used as an offset
against taxes for next year.
The district had budgeted
$92,000 in anticipated Forest
Service receipts but a revised
estimate indicated the amount
would be about $18,000 less
than that amount.
"It's a delicate thing to try
and build a budget on predic
tions and estimates," Doherty
said. "But if we overbudgeted
in some areas we should be
alright."
In other action, the Board:
Approved an expenditure
of $8,223 for replacement of
refrigeration equipment at
Riverside High School.
Awarded a bid of $14.28
per barrel to Valley Oil Co. to
furnish fuel oil at the Heppner,
lone and Irrigon schools.
Offered four additional
contracts to certificated per
sonnel. Awarded a $2,050 contract
to Burt Corbin to extend a
sewer line from the county bus
shop to the existing city line
600 feet away.
Accepted the resignations
of four district teachers.
Offered five contracts for
classified personnel.
The contract actions leaves
the district with only one
remaining teaching contract
to fill a sixth grade position
at the lone school.
Weather
High Low
Wed, August 10 90 57
Thu., August 11 95 58
Fri., August 12 loo 62
Sat., August 13 102 67
Sun., August 14 97 -68
Mon., August 15 94 61
Tue., August 16 99 63
Included in this week's Gazette-Times
is a Special Section, packed with
information and feature stories about
this year's Fair & Rodeo.
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ago and we've decided that
when PGE is through with me
that we'd like to settle down
here," Young explained. Td
like to work with you. There
is no major gain for myself; I'd
just like to serve the commun
ity." Normally, the new commis
sioner would serve until the
next regularly scheduled elec
tion because of an appoint
ment in the midst of a term.
Since Conley never really
took office, the new commis
sioner can start the term
Conley would have served.
The commission felt that all
the commissioners should be
present before a decision was
made. The appointment will
be announced at the next port
meeting.
In other business, Port
Manager Rupert Kennedy re
ported the Department of
Transportation would be mak
ing its ingressegress study in
September. The entrance and
exits into the port's industrial
site require the traffic to go
through Boardman. City offic
ials and the port commission
requested that a new en
Tarnasky heads
Sheridan Tarnasky has been
named director of the Home
Health Agency, replacing
, Bette Seagren who is leaving
for a position as nurse
practitoner in the Willamette
Valley.
Mrs. Tarnasky has been
working with Mrs. Seagran
since early July and will
officially assume the director
position on 'August 29. She
comes to the agency after
serving the past five years as
an RN at Pioneer Memorial
Hosptial.
The Home Health Agency,
established under the Tri
County Health Services Com
mission, is designed to provide
part time nursing services in
the patients' home. The
agency deals mainly, with
public health and rehabilita
tion and works closely with
local physicians in the tri
county area to provide ser
vices ranging from diet plan
ning to collection of specimens
for laboratory tests.
Home Health Agency is
currently seeking certification
under the Medicare program
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trance and exit be built
strictly for port traffic.
The study will look at the
origin, destination and ton
nage of traffic exiting the
I-80N freeway at Boardman.
"It's very difficult to get the
state to take a second look at
these things," Kennedy told
the commission.
But this new view will be an
extensive look during the
processing park's peak traffic
season when an estimated 700
produce trucks a day are
believed to enter the park.
Hopefully, if the study
shows the need, a new en
trance and exit will be located
where the old Hwy. 30
intersects with I-80N. Though
the state highway department
initially opposed the port's
request, it is now agreeing a
study is needed, according to
Kennedy.
The commission appointed
Louis Carlson, Heppner, as
the port representative to the
East Central Oregon Associa
tion of County's quarterly
meeting. Carlson will serve on
an advisory board for ECOAC
projects.
to pay for home visits to
patients 65 years and over.
Last month, the agency was
included in the services of
Blue Cross of Oregon as part
of that organization's cover
age to its policy holders. Once
the certification is completed
the agency plans to become
financially independent of the
Health Services Commission
and expand its coverage to the
entire three county area.
Currently, the staff includes
Joyce Van Bur en, a nutrition
ist and secretary in the
Heppner office and June
Stover, an RN who covers the
Condon-Fossil-Spray area.
Staff personnel are allowed to
make an initial home visit at
the request of a patient or
concerned party. Follow-up
visits are made only on a
physicans orders. In this way,
the agency acts as a screening
device for the doctors and can
provide the part time services
if necessary.
The Home Health Agency
office is located in the Gilliam
and Bisbee building, Heppner.