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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
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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 ”