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Council signs pact
Heppner City Council Mon
day signed an agreement with
the Oregon Department of
Transportation, parks divis
ion, which would allow the city
to receive nearly $10,000 to
complete a second phase of
development at Hager Park.
The funding will come to the
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Vandals to appear
Randall Jydstrup, Sheri Rogers and Mike Bushke have
been ordered to appear in Heppner Justice Court on Friday to
i respond to charges that they have failed to live up to the
terms of their sentencing on vandalism convictions.
The three were sentenced last week to work-release jail
terms, to pay fines and to make restitution for their roles in
the Sept. 1 spray paint spree in Heppner.
In addition, the three were ordered to repaint a door to
: the Sears building by Thursday of last week. Law officers
charge that the Sears repainting work was not completed,
and that newly painted obscenities were found on a trashcan
at the repainting site.
Flu clinic is slated
; The Morrow County Health Department has just
received a shipment of flu vaccine and will be administering
it to Senior Citizens and residents suffering from chronic
disease at a cost of $2.00. Clinics are planned as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. 10th, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., Irrigon County
Offices; Wednesday, Oct. 11th, 10:00 a.m.-3: p.m., Heppner
Neighborhood Center; Wendesday, Oct. 11th, 4:00 p.m.-5:00
p.m., lone Church of Christ Basement; Thursday, October.
12th, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 a.m., Boardman City Hall.
This vaccine will also be available at the Health
Departments during regular hours. If you have any questions
call, 989-8256 in Lexington.
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city through a grant filed
through the Oregon Bicen
tennial Commission. Hager
Park began as a bicentennial
project in 1976.
Mike Sweeney, local Bicen
tennial Chairman, said pro
jects listed in this most recent
grant application include
The opening days of the 1978 deer season were successful ones for many Morrow County
hunters, but it just means more work for Central Market's John McCabe. McCabe is
surrounded by more than 40 mule deer carcasses bagged during opening weekend. Other
Heppner butchers reported similar good results. "Buck fever" got the best of several
visiting nimrods. though since three bull elk are hanging along with the deer in Central's
locker. The early elk meat will be distributed by Morrow County welfare officials.
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for Hager Park funding
building a rest room at the
park, improving the park's
water and sprinkler system,
and purchasing playground
equipment. Sweeney indicated
that he felt the city would have
little difficulty in changing
what the money would be
spent for, if the council saw fit
Ambulance
drivers to meet
tonight
The Pioneer Memorial Hos
pital Ambulance Drivers will
hold a special meeting Thurs
day, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. at
Columbia Basin Electric.
The meeting will be organ
izational in nature.
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to do so.
The city has plans for
entering an additional phase
for expanding and improving
the park, which would be
funded in part by a grant from
the federal Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation. The advanced
improvement phase calls for
Oregon college reps to
meet Morrow students
Parents of high school
students are invited to attend
a visitation program by repre
sentatives from the Oregon
state colleges and universities
at lone High School on
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1978 at
9:30 a.m. and at Heppner High
School, at 12:45 p.m. on the
same day.
The program is an opportun
ity for interested students and
parents to receive first-hand
information about course of
ferings, admission require
ments, housing, costs to at
tend, financial aid, scholar
ships, and other information
important in planning for
college.
Information will be present
ed about Eastern Oregon State
College, Oregon College of
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1978
constructing a tennis court
and Little League baseball
field.
Monday marked the first
appearance on city council by
Bob Laughlin, who was re
cently appointed to the panel
to fill a vacancy created by the
resignation of Hubert Wilson.
Laughlin has filed to be
elected to a two-year term on
the council during the Nov. 7
election, as has Heppner High
School art instructor Ron
Forrar.
In other developments dur
ing Monday's council meeting,
it was announced that a
scaled-down version of the
Morgan Street Bridge re
placement project will be put
to bid on Oct. 26.
Police Chief Dean Gilman
advised the council that a
runnmg poker game is being
held in a room at the Wagon
Wheel cafe and tavern. While
cautioning that allowing the
gaming to continue could have
a snowball effect and spread
to other Heppner nightspots,
Gilman noted "there's no way
you're going to stop gambling
in Heppner." The police chief
made no recommendations
about possible action on the
gambling situation, stating
that he merely wanted city
officials to be made aware of
the situation.
Mayor Sweeney said per
sonnel from the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission had
checked into the matter and
determined that the Wagon
Wheel gaming situation falls
into the legal category of
"social gambling."
"If it's all right with them
(state officials), it's all right
with me.. " Gilman said.
Education, Oregon Institute of
Technology, Oregon State Uni
versity, Portland State Uni
versity, Southern Oregon Sta
te College, and the University
of Oregon.
The Oregon State System of
Higher Education visitation
program, now in its 46th year,
involves almost all public and
private high schools in the
state. The program's goal is to
stimulate post-high school
planning by students and
provide them with an intro
duction to the programs and
services of the state colleges
and universities.
Parents are urged to discuss
post-high school plans with
their sons and daughters
before and after the visitation
program.
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BMCC starts new year of
adult farm management
Getting 20 new families
signed up for the adult farm
management program at
BMCC is the goal of instructor
Walt Giacomini.
Adult farm management is
entering its fourth year at
Blue Mountain Community
College. Thirty-six farm fam
ilies .are currently enrolled
with 15 of those scheduled to
complete the program this
fall.
The farm management pro
gram is a unique educational
opportunity. "I will visit the
farmer once a month at his
home with him and other
members of his family who
are interested," Giacomini
explained. The farmer-students
then come to the BMCC
campus one night a month for
class. Farmers themselves,
wives, daughters, sons and
hired help all may be involved
if they wish.
"i go out of my way not to
inconvenience the farmers,"
Giacomini said. "Adults have
a lot of pressure to attend
other meetings. Although I
don't do the work for them, I
do make the mechanics of
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going to school as easy as
possible."
The first meeting of the new
class will be Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.
in Health-Education 106. Clas
ses meet every third Monday
of the month thereafter.
Giacomini is conducting the
signing up process now and
enrollment will continue
throughout the fall. Interested
farmers may call him at the
college (276-1260) or at home
276-8583).
The farm management pro
gram stresses farm record
keeping the first year. The
second year introduces analy
sis of these records. In the
third year management decis
ions are made based on the
analysis.
Instruction is given - on
various phases of a farm
management including record
keeping, budgeting, cash flow
budgeting and analysis, mar
keting, machinery manage
ment, labor management and
tax management.
"We don't replace account
ants. We help farmers make
sure their records are in
better shape for accountants
Heppner Fillies' Jackie Mollohan jumps high to return
serve in volleyball action in Heppner last week. Jackie and
her teammates have brought the Heppner varsity to within
one game of first place in league standings.
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and bankers," The director of
the program pointed out.
The one demand of the
program is that a participant
have actual records of a farm
to work with. The tuition cost
of the program is $100 per year
per farm. Confidentiality in
working with farm records is
itrictly observed, according to
Giacomini. "I've had some
people come to class and say
'he's in the program?' when
they see someone they know.
That someone may be very
successful farmer. The fact
that he is management-oriented
makes him successful,"
Giacomini related.
While measuring the suc
cess of the BMCC program is
in the subjective stages,
Giacomini points to research
in Minnesota that shows adult
farm management programs
"definitely increase the new
worth of participants."
One success story the instru
ctor especially remembers is
when one farmer came up and
said, "This program just
made me $5,000." Through
better record keeping, a
mistake was picked up saving
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