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I«U off page one Volunteer ambulance drivers urgently needed EAAT Faith Hoaty, inside ambulonce, and hospital maintenance staH member Gary Nolan I’ loneer Memorial Hospital is lies p e rfid y in need of volunteer ambu lance drivers to be on call between the hours of 6p m and 8 a m at least once a month No chaufieur's license or KMT certificate is requir ed. only a good driving record and a five minute response time to the hospital Currently, the ambulance is driv en by hospital maintenance staff during the day Fourteen volun leers offer from one night a month to us many as two nights a week to provide 24 hour ambulance service Kven if two of the drivers weren't going to tie gone for the summer there is still a load on the volunteers Some have become burned out" in the past months because they have la-en on call so frequently, says Gary Nolan of the hospital maintenance staff Kor the program to work efficiently without placing a burden on any one volunteer, a total of 30 volunteer drivers are needi-d Although many drivers go their entire time on call without any calls, when a call comes, a qualified driver is needed There is no way to predict when the call w ill come, explains Nolan The ambulance has aver aged only six emergency calls per month "We re fortunate to have so few fatalities, severe trauma cases and emergencies " Those who have not driven an ambulance liefore need not hesitate to volunteer because training is available at the hospital Volunteer drivers are encouraged to attend an KMT program once each month Either Gary Nolan or Carl l^uritsen of the hospital's maintenance staff w ill show prospective volunteers through the ambulance and have them drive It before they are accept ed as volunteers They may come back for additional practice as often as they feel necessary after volun leering. Nolan emphasizes Once accepted as a volunteer, drivers are not left on their own An KMT is always present on ambu lance calls and is responsible for decisions The driver need only drive and "run and fetch" as direc •nt b) the l- M i Sometimes a driver may need to use the ambulance radio to contact the Sheriff's Office, which dispatch es the ambulance, or to relay mes sages from the KMT to the Hegister ed Nurse at the hospital, but the KMT tells the driver what to say and decisions about transporting the patient are made by the KN or the attending physician The response area for the ambu lance is roughly from Bull Prairie to Morgan and Sand Hollow, however, the ambulance may be called to transport patients from the hospital to Portland. Walla Walla, the Tn Cities, or Pendleton for specialued medical care Director of Nursing. Sandi Hanna, explains that if the ambulance responds to an accident and it is determined that the patient will need rare not available at Pioneer Memorial Hospital, he is transported from the scene of the accident to other medical facilities It makes little sense to bring a patient here that we re going to transfer immediately unless the pa Sifting through the Times ID Tear* Ago The firs t week of June the Democrat Gulch school house was moved through the streets of Heppner to its current site next to the library and museum building Morrow County School Superin tendent Malt iHiherty announced the cooperative work experience pro gram which the county's three high schools would implement in the fall 25 Years Ago One afternoon the last week in May, hailstones measuring as much as V across covered the Main street in Heppner The new Morrow County Museum .ind Library Building was dedicated In mid June the Heppner Beatty and Development Corporation was voted into existence by the Chamber of Commerce Development Com mittee The corporation's purpose was to provide additional housing in Heppner i« Years Ago l-cxington Grange held its first meeting in their new hall during May A 200-man Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) soil erosion control camp was scheduled to be estab lished in Heppner by July IS pending location of a suitable site Continuation of the wheat pro duction control program was favored 4« to I in a referendum ballot on which 91 1 percent of e lig ib le county voters returned ballots l\vo celebrations in one If you're looking for a good time this fourth of Ju ly. be sure to make it to lone this year, as the town w ill be rolling twocclebrations intoone. and it should be a good time for all In addition to the traditional fire works display. put on each year, the town is turning out to celebrate the centennial of Morrow county To start off the day's activities there w ill he a parade through town beginning at 12 noon Floats are welcome, and anyone interested may loin in And there w ill be no need to pack a lunch for this celebration as all types of food w ill tie available including hamburgers, hot dogs, homemade pies, ice cream, cookies, popcorn, caramel corn, snowcones. fresh lemonaide. and pop. all this topped off with a barbecue chicken dinner starting at 6 30 p m In the entertainm ent d ivision there w ill be a flea market, display of old pictures, historical tour of the town, model T car. pony cart rides, laser movies at the library, free swimming in the afternoon, square dancers, of course the traditional fireworks, and then a big street dance with live music after the fireworks Also in honor of the event a gazebo is being built in the lone park by members of the lone Community Agri business Organization Anyone who would like to donate toward the cost of this project may send their donation through the Rank of Fas tern Oregon lone Branch There will be other activités going on in lone during the big fourth of July C entennial C elebration, so watch next week's paper for more details C ity recorder needed The city of lone is now searching for a new city recorder, reports Mayor Wayne llam s Present recorder Diana Starr will be moving to Heppner soon when her husband. Chuck Starr, takes over as assistant superintendent of the Mor row County School District Chuck Starr had been principal at lone schools Hams says the job includes taking minutes, preparing and sending out water bills and other duties The salary is 8210 per month bent is very close to the hospital and needs to he stabilized before trans port It is not common for hospitals to operate ambulance services, says Interim Administrator Bob Smith I'sually the service is operated by a fire department or an independent ambulance service, especially in larger towns The volunteer drivers keep the cost of the service down The basic rate for transporting a patient within the Heppner city limits to the hospital Is 177 during the day and $88 at night, supplies. KNs, and heart machines, ect are not included in the basic rate The cost is also kept dow n because no one is paid to sit and wait. Smith explains Maintenance staff are on duty with other responsibilities at the hospital during the day. but are still able to leave when needed to answer an emergency call "Pagers' are available for volun leer drivers who may not be at their home telephone during their entire time on call As long as a volunteer driver slays within five minutes of the hospital and within easy contact by telephone, he need not stay at home for his entire 12 hour shift Anyone who wishes to volunteer may contact Gary Nolan at the hospital or any of the following volunteer drivers Matt Greenup. Jean Strange. Lonny Watne. Jim Bier. Ted Toll. Carl l-auritsen Peggy Laurilsen. Kick Curtis. Merle Cowett, Tom M c E llig o tt, Ken Nairns. Dale Holland Mike Smith, and Kick Smith Summer intern begins duties at IUCC The Rev Joy Haertig 26 Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is in lone this week working as a superv i sor at the lone L'mled Church of Christ Vacation Church School She describes her position as providing support to the teachers, helping in the classrooms, leading teacher meetings, and helping the Rev Cathy Barker with the worship services Next week Haertig w ill be at the Condon United Church of Christ where she w ill work with the Rev Tnsh Knorpp for four weeks She will then return to lone July 20 for five weeks while the Rev Barker is vacationing and spending some Sab batical time with a Peace Tour for the United Church Board for World Ministries In its fourth year, the summer internship program with the two churches is so organized says Harr tig that the churches see themselve teaching churches, taking interns under their wings and sharing them selves their rural life with "a city kid " Although born in Oklahoma City, her family moved to Seattle where she attended junior high, high school, and college, so she claims little knowledge of rural life Having met two of the former summer interns, who "raved " about the program at the two churches. Harr tig says that that was part of her attraction to the experience Also, she was impressed with the variety of experiences and that part of the time she would be working on her own. organizing an entire worship service She has preached before, but has not been responsible for the whole service, this, she says, ap pealed to her "independent streak Joy Haertig This is not Haertig s first intern ship Right out of college, she did a co internship at a Church where, although she had her own schedule of hospital calling preaching, and other duties, close supervision was provided by the two pastors " I decided at 18 to go into the ministry while on a trip for world hunger to Washington D C and New Y ork," as a co leader. " I was excited by the enthusiasm of the Church leaders compared with the tired, bored attitudes of the political leaders involved with hunger pro grams While still an undergraduate, she worked with Campus Christian Min Near normal water supply expected Water supplies are forecast to be near normal for most of Oregon this of the June I average Slreamflow during May was below Service The mountain snowpark average on many of the major April was a was good this w inter even though the streams and rivers precipitation has been below ave high slreamflow month since much rage Reservoir storage remains of the low elevation snow melted a few weeks earlier than normal above average Only the high elevation snow i iregon streamflow forecasts are for remains It is melting at a rate of near normal volumes on most l"-2 " per day The current year streams Spring and sum m er w ater began w ith a very high snow pack on January I During the w inter season supplies for Morrow County are forecast to be near average during the snow accumulation was mini mat The April I peak snowpark was the May July period I’ recipitation during May was near to above normal Much of the low elevation snow melted early this below average 63 percent of ave year This resulted in the streams rage at t'kiah and 83 percent of average at Heppner peaking earlier than normal May precipitation was near nor mal east of the Cascades except for Ijib o r Trends Klamath and l.akc Counties where it was much below average West of the Cascades it was also much below average For the peiod October The state of Oregon Employment through May. the pre cip ita tio n ranged from 74 percent to 91 percent Division reports that for Morrow County, the total employment in of normal throughout the state creased by IHOin April but remained continues the S C S news release Reservoir storage remains very below year ago levels The larges wage and salary gains occurred in good Currently. 28 principle irri gallon reservoirs contain 2.961 acre the construction, government and feet of water This is 90 percent of trade sectors Overall the largest total usable capacity and 114 percent gain was recorded by the non covered agricultural sector Even though total employment expanded by 180 the numbers of unemployment only declined by 10 Highlights of this y ear's study tour This serves to point out the high will be visit to ginseng production degree of labor mobility in Morrow- and d a iry areas of central County and its unique relationship Wisconsin grain marketing facili with neighboring Umatilla County, ties of Minnesota broiler production continues the Employ ment Division and m a rketing in southwestern news release Wisconsin, soil and water conser The major economic issue con vation and Christmas tree and cran tinuex to be the water question berry production in southern Recently the Oregon Department of Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture Water Resources appealed a court John Block's farm in Illinois, the ruling which invalidated the depart John Deer Harvestor works in ments moratorium on new well Illinois, and new concepts in feeder permits The water issue here and pig arrangements in Iowa in Harney County is a good example summer says tin- s<iii Conservation ( Chance to comment of the inability of the market to allocate a replacement cost for an unpredictable natural resource The principal problem is that the market is unable to place a value on many natural resources independent from the costs of harvesting or accessing the resource Given the relatively short term nature of most market activity, it is in the best interest of each water user to use the last drop before their neighbor does Deple tion tends to occur before the price is able to rise high enough to prevent it All in all whatever the solution is. it w ill involve several groups shar ing in the hardships and the costs An additional complication for the local economy is the dry spring It appears that this year s wheat yields w ill he lower than the bumper crops of the past several years Unfor tunately, the price has not risen enough to compensate for the lower yields This w ill probably mean a smaller county economy during the first six months following harvest, concluded the news release PRINTING Business Forms on proposed weir The city of Heppner is asking for public comment on a proposed con crete weir, on Willow Creek just above the Court Street bridge The U S Geological Survey will provide the proposed apron across the streambed at no cost to the city of Heppner The weir w ill range from two to three feet high, be 12" wide, and w ill help to divert the water through a gauge already in the creek and operated by the Geological Survey The proposed weir is expected to prov.de more accurate data from the gauging station. data are used tor water rights, flood flows, low water studies, and oper ation of the W illow ("reek Reservoir Questions and comments may be voiced by calling City Hall. 676 9618 anytime, or by visiting Mayor Cara Costa during her 9 a m noon first and third Saturday office hours at Citv Hall The mountain snow pack w as good this year On June I the Madison Butte SNOTEL site and the Arbuckle Mountain site reported no snow Forecasts of stre a m flo w , assuming normal weather condi tions during the rest of the spring and summer, are as follows for the May July period Butter Creek near Fine City 3 4 luoo.s af. 92 percent avg Rhea Creek near Heppner — 2 0 ltaxi's af. 91 percent Avg Willow- Creek at Heppner 2 7 1 000 ‘s af, 93 percent Avg Rock Creek above Cyuse Canyon near Condon 2 2 total s af, 92 percent Avg April employment increased Local Ag Agent picked for tour The N ational Association of County Agricultural Agents has announced that Bob Costa. OSU Fxtension Agent in Morrow County has been chosen by the National Association to participate in the 1985 Dow Study Tour June 17 through June 26 This year's tour w ill feature the north central states of Minnesota. Wisconsin. Illinois, and Iowa The tour, an all-expense paid annual event, is sponsored by the Dow- Chemical Corporation and provides tour participants an opportunity to expand their agricultural expertise Only 30 county agents through the U S are chosen each year for this coveted honor Recipients are sel ected bv meeting criteria that looks at past performance, job enthus ■asm. and future goals istries leading a women's group, and as a camp counselor for fourth graders through adults Moat of her experience, however, is with high school aged students She preached her first sermon combined with mime while with Campus Christian Ministry and characterizes herself as less "brave" and less willing to try different things since she entered the Seminary than before ( it her experiences include prison ministry and answering phones at St Vincent de Paul which gave her an "awareness of what sort of folks fall through cracks of government agencies " "I'm excited to be here. 1 Haertig concludes " I have a sense of not having the slightest idea of what's ahead and of anticipating that what is ahead is good I feel alone yet a whole world of people are here that I'm about to meet By the time I leave, it w ill be sad ito go)" Following her summer internship, Haertig w ill return to the Pacific School of Religion for one more year and then w ill receive her Master of Divinity degree She completed her undergraduate studies at the Uni versify of Washington in the field of social work Her home is at Seattle. Washington where her father is a United Church of Christ minister, who spends his spare time sculpting in bronze Her mother is a home maker brother Paul, works at a "very nice" restaurant to support his art work, and sister Faith is a special education teacher Although her hobbies include play ing the flute, pen and ink drawing, photography, jogging, and racquet ball, she confesses that they "never get done at once Different things get put on hold at different times and during the school year, many things are on hold " • Letterheads Business Cards Posters Envelopes Flyers C a l l Fo r A n E s t i m a t e O n Y our N e x t P r in t in g Job The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES 747 W i l l o w , H e p p n e r Come In and see our GOTT COOLERS We con help you Coast to Coast 676 922 8 i
