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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 "
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