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Council, comm.
positions still
vacant
A vacant Heppner City
Council position and a City
Planning Commission seat
still have not been filled,
says Mayor Cliff Green.
Green says citizens , are
needed to fill these spots, and
anyone interested should con
tact him or city hall.
School board
to meet
The Morrow County School
Board will hold a regular
monthly meeting March 19 at
8 p.m. at Columbia Junior
High in Irrigon.
The Board will consider
awarding bids for the sale of
three school buses and one
used 12 passenger van. The
board will also consider set
ting the amount of a tax base
which the district is required
to put before the people at
either the May primary elec
tion or the November general
election.
In other business, the board
will consider renewal of em
ployee contracts in executive
session.
The public is encouraged to
attend all school board mee
tings, said a district spokesperson.
Mar. 17 truly a day
in Morrow County
By JUSTINE
WEATHERFORD
Dear Saint Patrick himself,
who brought Christianity to
Ireland in the A.D. 400s and
whose death there on March
17, 461, which became his feast
day and an Irish national
holiday that has also been
observed in America since
colonial times, is, of course,
first -oT-all responsible for
Iioppner's celebra'ion.
That large group of Morrow
County's earliest settlers who
were sons of Eire, many of
whom went back to the
Emerald Isle to bring brides
here, and many of whom still
Special St. Pat's Day
supplement inside
A special St. Patrick's Day supplement accompanies this
week's issue of The Gazette-Times.
In it you will find a complete schedule of Saturday's
activities, as well as special feature stories about many of the
events.
So look over the schedule carefully, cut it out and take it to
town with you if you like, and enjoy festivities of Morrow
County's Emerald Isle this Saturday. Nary the weest
leprechaun would miss it!
Willow Cr. Lake reaching
higher elevation
Dug Dugger, public affairs
officer for the Army Corps of
Engineers in Walla Walla re
ports that the elevation of
Willow Creek Lake should
reach 2,063 ft. by the end of
this week. As of Tuesday
afternoon, the elevation was
at 2,058.17 ft.
The corps began closing the
outflow gate down on Febru
ary 15 to allow the lake to fill.
Dugger said after the eleva
tion reaches the 2,063 ft. mark
the corps will begin passing
the inflow to maintain that
elevation, causing Willow
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Jim Farley
How many pictures are
there of one of Heppner's
favorite Irishmen, Jim Far
ley, in this week's paper?
If you can correctly identi
fy how many photos of Jim
are in the paper, and what
page they are on, and you
are the FIRST to call the
Gazette-Times office
THURSDAY morning, you
win two free passes to the
Ham Dinner at St. Patrick's
Weather
by the City oHIeppner
have vigorous descendants
living here have the first local
responsibility for the celebra
tion of this day in Heppner.
James J. Farley, a devoted
Heppner Irish booster, had
long contemplated a March
17th celebration here before
he, in cooperation with KUMA
radio station of Pendleton and
with many Heppner mer
chants, really got the celebra
tion rolling in 1982. Years ago
the day was marked by the
flying of the Irish flag on
Main Street. The athletic
teams of Heppner's High
School were long ago called
'The Fighting Irish."
For quite a few years the
Creek to rise slightly. The
inflow coming into the lake is
now aboaut 85 cubic feet per
second (c.f.s) depending on
rainfall, and th eoutflow is
presently between eight and 10
c.f.s., Dugger said. After the
elevation is up, the outflow
will run constant with the
inflow; at about 85 c.f.s.
Dugger said next Wednes
day through Friday the corps
will be measuring the rate of
outflow to determine the gate
calibration. This will be used
to control the outflow in the
future.
special St.
Catholic Church Saturday.
The G-T phone number is
676-9228.
Remember, the pictures
may be anywhere in the
paper and the special St.
Patrick's Day section, and
you must know the page
numbers, and be the first to
call Thursday.
The contest is sponsored
by the Heppner Gazette
Times. Spring
break
nears
Spring is almost upon us and
as far as students are con
cerned, it starts next. week.
When classes let out Friday,
Morrow County students will
begin a week-long spring va
cation. Classes will resume Mon
day, Mar. 26.
for celebration
. Altar Society of St. Patrick's
Catholic Church has been ser
ving a St. Patrick's night
dinner and presenting a musi
cal program featuring talen
ted members of that congre
gation. This year the celebration of
this special day has been
greatly expanded to include a
full schedule of events begin
ning at 8 a.m. on the 17th and
continuing until 2 a.m. on
Sunday the 18th. This year's
celebration is being funded by
voluntary donations which
were collected by Jim Farley
and the Heppner Merchants
Committee. The Chamber of
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Retiring Dr. Harold Huber (right) chats with Dexter Miles
during an open house held at the Heppner Elks Lodge last
Tuesday, evening, Mar. 6.
The drop-in event was held to wish Dr. Huber well and for
the public to meet Drs. Tom Alexander and Ritchie Hibbert
and their families.
City Council withdraws
support of road
The Heppner City Council
withdrew support of a contro
versial Corps of Engineers"
road from Morrow Street to
the Willow Creek Dam at a
meeting last Monday night.
The city had earlier endor
sed the road by the Corps, but
following public outcry
changed its mind.
Property owners near the
proposed road said construc
tion would cause debris to fall
down the hill, and erosion to
occur.
Councilman Bob Ployhar
said he talked to corp repre
sentatives about the road
project, and was told the corps
"would not shove the road
down our throats."
He said instead, the Corps
Open house to be held at
lone Elementary
"Welcome to Our World" is
the theme of a social studies
open house to be held on
Thursday, Mar. 15, at 7 p.m. at
lone Elementary School. The
students and teachers would
like to invite the entire com
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Wed., March 7 65-41
Thurs., March 8 61 44
Fri., March9 64 39 .11
Sat., March 10 55 34 .08
Sun., March 11 55 36 Trace
Mon., March 12 59 37 .18
Commerce has donated $100,
and many of its members will
be helping with the day's
events.
The directors of the cham
ber, who are meeting each
Monday morning, reaffirmed
at their March 12 meeting that
their organization had budge
ted continuing financial sup
port to this celebration, but
that its planning and execut
ion will remain with its mer
chants' committee.
Everyone in Heppner will
continue praying that March
17, just four days before the
official arrival of Spring, will
be a beautiful, sunshiny day.
open house
would build a switch back
road on its own property up to
the dam. The road will be used
to put a final "cap" on one end
of the dam.
In other business, the coun
cil: heard from the Rev.
LeRoy Wornell of the Chris
tian Life Center that the
church has property for sale
next to the fire hall in Hep
pner. Wornell said the build
ing and land may be of use to
the city for expansion of the
firehall some day. He said the
church was asking $20,000. "A
reasonable offer will not be
refused," he said. The council
did not act, but took the
matter under consideration.
munity to attend, said a
spokesperson for the- event.
All kindergarten through
the sixth grade classes will be
participating in the event.
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