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The H eppner J a a a a r v 14-28 Gazette-Times Marrou: C o u n t y ’» H o m e -O w n e d W eekly N ew sp a p er H eppner, Oregon 10 25' W ednesday . j a m ' by 12. pag es T k h «rd Thar» F ri Sal. Weather by the ( lily of M- H ig h ! « • 38 31 B a la Saaw •• T ra e* Tra e* $1 U •* 12 33 •• T ra e* $8 r •> W ia d y 83 81 48 U .11 48 r ■ * « Heppner Daly: ‘There's a pretty mad Fair Board' Story causes tensions in Fair Board- School District negotiations The fair board leases the county rodeo arena to the school district for use as a football and baseball fie ld , and g ra d e school P E classes L'nder a proposed new one year continuing lease, the d is tric t would pay $4 (XX) per year for use of the facilities This amount is up $2,000 over last year however the district will no longer be responsible for maintenance, ele ctricity or other duties, and is getting a good deal. Daly told the board Monday's "Fast O regonian" Tensions between the Morrow County Fair Board and the county school district were high Monday night, over discussions on a new lease agreement for use of the high school fo o tb a ll fie ld in Heppner Fair Board Chairman Charlie Daly was at the school board meeting to discuss the lease agreement with the district, and expressed his anger with super enntendent Doyle McCaslin over a news story about the lease ap pearing in the 'Fast O regonian" newspaper Monday afternoon story did not explain that the district would be relieved of these duties. Daly angrily told the school board There's a pretty mad Fair Board about the news release from Doyle McCaslin.' he said Daly said McCaslin failed to explain that the district will pay I 2 . 0 U 0 more, but that the Fair Board is taking over maintenance duties likely to cost the board $3 txxi "It 1 the story' makes it sound like we re ripping off the d istrict," and we re not said Dalv f air Board member Merlyn Robinson, who was not at the meeting, said Tuesday that the lease agreement will work out well for the district All they will be responsible for now is setting up for the gam es." she said She pointed out that when the district had been taking care of main lena nee and clean up. lots of time the job wasn't getting dune "T here would be paper blowing all over town the morning after a I football ■ game, and a lot of times the lawn wasn't being watered and was turning brown Lexington man named outstanding logger and Ed Tarnasky from Kin/ua John Britt I-ogging Company of lyexington has been presented an award for his outstanding logging The Eastern Oregon Operator of the Year was given to Britt for his l°WtinK site near WTnlock in Wheeler County Forestry officials chose this operation from among the 1,100 permits on private land in Eastern Oregon Britt logged I 8 million board feet on 680 acres in a sensitive area The unit had two steelhead spawning streams and several creeks that affect the quality of these spawning waters. "John used only two cross ings when five had been approved.” said A1 Newman. Slate Forest Brae lu es Forester "This cost him more money due to lunger skidding dis lances " Careful logging around trees left to grow was another area State officials offered praise for Britt Very few of the residual tress were scarred or dam aged by the logg in g," noted Newman The Britt la g g in g Company is a fam ily effort Britt's two sons. Kick and Rusty, run the operating sides His wife Nella is the company's bookkeeper, managing the finances on their home computer The Britt la g gin g Company has 18 people on the payroll and provides employment for an additional 12 contractors As owner of the com pany. John works hard at having a minimum number of shutdowns in order to keep all of his employees and con tra cto rs w o rk in g yea r round John logged an estimated 21 mil lion board feet in 1985 on two USES sales, and four operations that were conducted on Kinrua Corporation lands The logging company has also been awarded the Oregon Environ mental l.ogger of the Y ear The annual award is given by Oregon Forest Industries Council The Board of Forestry annually presents up to four Operator of the Year awards to individual operators and companies that consistently exceed the minimum requirements of Oregon's Forest Practices Act Ttie award is based on the degree of difficulty of the forest operation, innovation and extra effort expend ed operation results, and the amount of financial risk assumed by an operator in applying the extra effort Receiving the awards in addition to Britt were A C Brown and Son of Toledo, and I. A I. Skyline V rigging kki J A Co ¡old Beach AC Brown and Son taggin g harvested 40 acres owned by Geor gia Pacific Corporation south of Toledo in Lincoln County P ro tec tion of a m ajor stream and conduc ting harvesting operations in a high risk area for debris avalanch es. without damage, were recognu til by the award I. A L Skyline conducted a harvest mg operation on Champion Interna tional land near the North Umpqua River in Douglas County The operation had to allow for an ade quale buffer to provide shading for water temperature of a creek, make careful stream crossings at appro pnate times of the yar. and conduct careful harvesting practices to pre serve the character of the old growth buffer strip Shirley laiird of I. A I. Skyline was the 1983 Operator of the Year and was the 1983 Environmental lo g g e r of the Year as recognized by the Oregon Forest Industries Council and Associated Oregon Loggers The award consists of a w«widen plaque reco gn izin g^ ie outstanding efforts of the forest operators In addition to the Operator of the Year Awards, eight merit awards and 12 letters of commendation were presented locally to forest opera! ors The Board of Forestry has conduc ted the awards program since 1981 It uses subcommittees of its three regional forest practice committees to review nominations made by the Department of Forestry’s forest practices foresters The forest operations are inspected by a judg ing team and award winners recom mended to the Board of Forestry Water supply forecast below average Spring and summer water sup plies are forecast to be slightly below average Precipitation was below normal in December Precipitation for Decem ber was Ukiah 1 20 56 percent of avg Heppner 1 20 73 percent of avg The snowpack at Arbuckle Moun lain was 21" snow depth and 5 6" P r iz e s o ffe r e d fo r w in n in g fa ir th e m e i Be ware of rotten ice 4 99 Anyone may enter an idea for a th em e for this y e a r 's M orrow County F air and Rodeo says Fair com mittee member Ellen Kennedy Them e entries should be m ailed to the Morrow County F air and Rodeo. P O Box 464. Heppner. or taken to the fair office by February 14 The person who submits the theme chosen by the fair com mittee will receive a free pass to this year's fair and rodeo and a medium pizza and pitcher of Pepsi from Kate's Pizza and Pastry in Heppner C o u n t y H e a lt h D e p t , n o w in H e p p n e r Glen Ward of the Oregon Depart ment of Fish and Wildlife warns that people should no longer try to walk on the icy surface of Willow Creek Lake Since temperatures have risen to above freezing, warm air above and warm water flowing into the lake below the ice are melting it from both sides, or causing it to sluch up and "rot " Although ice may still be six to eight inches thick in places, It is no longer strong enough to he considered safe The Morrow County Health Dep artmenl has moved to a new office at 430 Heppner l»exington Hwy New mailing address is Morrow County Health Department. P O Box 799. Heppner OR 97836 T elep h on e number is 676-5421 The Health Dept will hold regualr clinics every Friday at the new Heppner office from i 1 0 a m - 4 00 p m 'closed at noon i A complete listing of our clinics follows Blood Pressure and immunizations Boardman (Tty Hall, first and third water content This is 193 percent of average The Madison Butte SNt) T E L reported 4 6' of water in the snowpack Forecasts of streamflow. assum ing normal weather conditions for the rest of the season are as follows Butter Creek near Pine City-10 7 1000 acre feet. 92 percent of average. March July II 6 loou's a v erage per acre feet Rhea Creek near Heppner 7 9 iooo acre feet 84 percent of average. February July 9 3 1000's average per acre fe e t. Willow Creek at Heppner 9 3 1000 acre feet, 98 pertent of average. February-July 9 4 looo's average per acre fe e t, Rock Creek above Cayuse Canyon near Condon 20 3 1 (KM) acre feet, 102 percent of average. February July 19 8 1000's average per acre feel We have Ed (Struthers, the fairgrounds maintenance m an' working there He cares about the way things look and likes to have things taken care of, so it's just going to work out better for every body.'' she said The Fair Board is also unhappy with the delay in getting the lease signed with the School District, and Monday night Daly wondered why the lease had been at the district's attorney's office two weeks prior to the meeting, and the board received no work that there w as a problem The School Board said it would look over the lease, probably make a few changes, and contact the Fair Board later In other action, the board learned that County Clerk Bar bara Bloodsworth plans to hold one or more election by mail in the county this year Superinten dent Doyle McCaslin expressed displeasure with the vote by mail, saying that on school budget elections there are more "n o " votes, and that there is a tendency for voter fraud in mall elections " i t ’s easier to flasify, by getting names off of tombstones and other types of fraud " he told the board The cost for mail voting is less McCaslin said, with regular balloting costing It 65 per ballot, as opposed to 95 cents by mail voting Co-op Board approves budget Manager Fred Toombs reported to the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op Board at a January 16 meeting that if plans go as scheduled at present. by the fall of this year, the co-op may open bids for reconstruction of a transmission line into the Bonneville Bower Administration system " The main transmission line, he says, has born responsible for many prob lems during the past year Co-op Board appruved a 1986 operating budget based on an esti mated $4 .1 million in revenues Toombs reports that there is much concern among the Board members that many irrigation pumps have lieen disconnected tire a use they have become so costly to operate This, he says, will have a dramatic effect on the c o o p 's revenues Budgeted items include $211 .out) for capital expenditures. $675.(XX) for planned additions and replacement of lines and equipment, and a $2 I million bill from Bonneville Bower Administration The board also heard that 1985 was a bad year for ice storms The entire system, north to south and east to The Morrow County office of the Oregon State Extension Service now has Farm er's Tax Guides available, free of charge The tax guides. Publication No 225 contain informa west was effected by them, said Toombs Emblems with ice were not isolated in any one a r e a . most, if not all, c ou p customers suffered power outages at some tim e during the year because of the ice laibor. materials, equipment, replacement of lines contributed to the total repair cost of $4<xi txxi for four weeks of ice during January, und two weeks during Decem ber of 1985 Concerning legal matters, the Board heard that a number of Bankruptcy's are taking place in relation to the Washington Public Bower supply System and that many hours of work are still aheud before matters are resolved ‘Doc' plans a vacation F a c t fin d in g re p o rt issu ed Jack Liles, representative for the Morrow County School Board, and Bill Jacobson. Oregon Education Association representative for Mor row County teachers, report that they have received copies of fa d fin der (»ary Axon's report concerning disputed contract issues between county teachers and the school board Each side has five working days to consider Axon's report and notify the Employment Relations Board Jacobson will meet with teachers Thursday, Jan 23and lales will mi-et with the hoard Monday. Jan 27 Should both sides accept the fact tinder's report, they will have reach ed agreement on the issues and a contract will result If either side rejects the report, however, the Employment Relations Board will publish the entire report within five days At that point, a 30-day "Cooling (iff period begins during which a mediator generally tries to bring both sides hack to the bargaining table If an agreement is not reached, teachers must g ive 10 days notice of their intent to strike The last 10 days of the cooling off period may tie used as that time of notice Issues which Axon was asked to resolve included salaries, retire men!, fair share, vacancies and transfer, and "just cause” for retire ment coun^^officis!’ »econd Tnd'foluTh F a r m e r s tax g u id e s n o w a v a ila b le Tuesdays, l oop m 4 p m Blood Pressures Only (.exington School Admin Bldg . first Wednesdays. I p m - 2 p m lone Bank of Eastern Oregon Kd chen, third Wednesday. 3 p m 4 p m learned (hat the county health nurse will be moving out of the iKxington district offices and into the new Pettyjohn office building in Heppner heard from the district class died enployees (cooks. Janitors, etc i that they hope to ratify the new contract with the district soon The union discussed the contract earlier, but the leader ship decided not to ask for a vole, fearing it would he voted down, forcing a return to the bargaining table voted to appoint H eppner banker (¿erald Pierson to the district's risk management com mittee voted to give Superintendent McCaslin a new two year contract with a $2.000 per year raise McCaslin s salary will go from $46.olo per year to $48.MX) voted to take approximately $26 ixxi out of contingency funds to pay for an unexpected insurance premium increase approved an unpaid leave for Karen Clough. Heppner Elemen tary first grade teacher for mat- ternily. and Mark Jones an lone elementary sixth grude teacher until the end of the school year for national guard training -approved a field trip for the high school choir for a skiing trip to Spout Springs There will tie no cost to the district for the trip tion helpful to farmers in preparing their lax returns Chapters include farm income and business expense, self employment tax. depreciation, depletion, amortization, and fuel tax credits Schaff it/ E K Schaffitz, local optometrist and wit who has occupied the same office in the Heppner Hotel building on Main Street for 32 years, announ ced Tuesday that he will be taking a vacation beginning February 15 "D o c " vehemently denied allegation that he was retiring and declined any description of the planned vaca tion other than to say that it would be permanent " With current local efforts by the city of Heppner to purchase the hotel building and rem odel It as a retire men! center, he says "N o w is a good lim e to 'get out.' so that those efforts are encouraged ”
