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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1987)
Chamber tours Heppner Hotel; city to send hotel amendment to voters Morrow County's Home-Owned Newspaper The Heppner VOL 105 NO 8 Wednesday. February 25, 1987 Heppner. Oregon 25« 10 Pages Contestants getting ready for big St. Patrick’s Dav bed race Chamber members head up stairs of old Heppner Hotel The Heppner Chamber ol Com tnerce loured Ihe Heppner Hotel Tuesday, and heard more about a planning renovation ot the sixty year-old structure into a senior citizen housing complex In a related nutter Ihe Heppner City Council voted Mondas to send a charter amendment to the voters March ' I . asking that the city be allosccd to borrow up to $4<X).l«X> to help finance the construction The city already has a $S(X).tXX) grant to cover part ol the renovation, however, approximately $4ixi.(xxi more tv needed Rents collected from seniors Its mg in the project w ill repay the ci tv's loan with some left over, says city attorney B ill Kuhn, who has been working on tin- project tuesdas chamber members were able lo see tirs i hand the deteriorating condition ol the hotel Hie bottom lloor ol the hotel is housing a carpel and lahnc store, and a barber shop Che second flix>t has sotiK- residents lie mg there and the third flo o r is vacant and unite able Mondai esentile members liom nuns local groups met at Columbia Hasin I lectris Co .>p to discuss the hotel protect and the up coming vote on the cits loan Chamber ol Commerce president (ieorge Kottler chaired the n»■cime and he said il ss as iui|>on.tnl that pco pie receive tactual m lom uiion about the hotel project An inlorrnalion campaign is plarmcd m thè coinmg weeks io m cure soter awarcness ori thè details o l thè projcct h cannargli ss ili uh link' tours ol thè hotel, taci shevts lor distribuitoli, a litu i m thè st l ’.artcks parade and letters to thè editi»r and itesi s arile lev in thè nessspaper •Mtorncs Ann Spicci attentled thè Monday meeting and potnted out tfi.it rcnls esili be riseci to retire thè S litti im i tlcbt and thè onls scas tas pasci moncs scould bc uscd rs il thè housing center ssas less than three qua rie rs tuli A li ciati s ihcrc base heen ent>ugh people vigneti up io tei« all rooms in ihe compie«, and therc is a ssailmg lisi, salti Spiccr I I - Governor visits Heppner —... ----- H ---— lone students practice the "Shamrock Dash" There is still time to get your entry in for the big St Patrick's Day bed race, says race chairman K l. Banka Hntries nuts bc relumed along with a MO entry fee up to March 7 Hntry forms may he picked up at Cal's Cafe. Charlie's Pizza and the Heppner Gazette T unes, and returned along with entry fee to R l. Banka. Box 123, Heppner. OR The trio testing out their bed above are Dan Peter son. Tom Wilson and Richard Basford Irom lone The lone shop class is building this bed for the lone band entry Ih e metal frame w ill be painted and flags attached before race day. says Mars Peterson. shop teacher Peterson says wheels lor the bed came from a shop ping cart "There seems to he better control i f the tur nmg wheels are on the h a ck." he said Lucky numbers are on back of buttons A|b »r St Plain c k $ l) ê \ ( t'lr b r jt m n Heppner. O K ">*n d IS'" Check the hack o f your St Patrick's Day button and you w ill find your own personal lucky number which mav he good tor free prizes at certain Merchants in Hcj»p ner on St Patrick s Day weekend Fateh burton has a number between one and NX), and on Saturday. March 14 certain local businesses will be [lusting numbers on mere hart disc in their stores If your number nutches the [»«steel number, you win that prize Buttons are on sale at local stores tor only $2 In addition you may wear your button to show your supjtort tor the annual St Patrick's Day event, as the proceeds from the sale of the but tons w ill he used to help fund this years testis ities so buy your button, support St Patrick's Day. and look tor your lucky number, it rtuy mean a tree gift on March 14 Participating businesses in lucky numbers w ill be announced before St P a tric k ’ s Day in (he Gazette Times Heppner to receive $5,000 grant Heppner ts scheduled to receive a $V(*X) technical assistance gtant lor development o f a water facility plan. Governor Neil Goldschmidt'» office announced lact week The grant awards were selected trom 41 applications subnutted to the Intergovernmental Relations D m sion last December The grant awards were recommended to the Governor by the Oregon Community Development Advisory Committee billowing their February 17 mcclmg in Salem Heppner is one o f 47 cities and counties to receive over $7 $ million in Oregon Community Development funds Revenue sharing funds disbursed in Co. At a meeting with the Revenue Sharing committee F-cbruary 5. the County Court tentatively approved the disbursement o f MV.tXXI in federal revenue sharing lunds in Morrow County Vera Cooley requested $10.(XX) to be used tor operation ol the county's two senior mealsites at Irrigon and Heppner The senior services agen cy was adv ised to develop a plan for future years since federal revenue sharing w ill no longer bc a source o f funds for county services Ncola Mackey, president o f the M orrow County Neighborhood Council hoard o f directors, re quested $I2.<XX) for operational crisis at ihe center. $10.(XX) was ap proved Commissioner Jerry Peck advised the council board to try to get more help from federal and stale agencies Judge laxris Carlson adv is cd that more structure is needed w ithin the council organization and that they eventually w ill have to hire a co-ordinator A request by Marlene Currtn for matching funds for a fair board ap plication for lottery funds was ap proved for $2.000 Dtc lair board is apple mg tor lottery lunds to build a steel building on the east boundary of the fairgrounds, it is expected to cost $72.888. not including electrical or plumbing costs The committee was told that this may he the last year lottery lunds are available for fair projects because the governor is wanting to use lottery lunds in other ways District FFA convention set Sat. Over 100 Future Farmers o f America members from Pendleton, Hcmnston. Riverside, M claughlin. Condon. Weston MeFwen. and Heppner w ill meet in Heppner on Saturday. February 28. for Ihe Blue Mountain District FFA Convention Award winners w ill he selected and District officers w ill be elected Activities w ill begin at 10 a m and w ill continue until 3 p m tentative approval of $28,IXX) for county land acquisition was given Marianne Kahl and John Hetnpel o f htc Heppner Day Care Center hoard o f directors requested $K.(XX) for general operating expenses H istorically, the Boardman Day Care Center received S40.1XX) in I9H5 and $I.(XX) last year The Heppner request was tentatively appmved Weather Report try C#y __________________ M «ppn«» F rh ru a ry 1 8 - 2 4 High laiw P m Snow IP Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun Mon 44 48 SI S6 47 44 30 .31 .31 33 34 30 03 Tucs 40 20 0 0 (il 0 01 44 3" snow 2 " old Heppner Mayor Cara Costa with Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt the City tit Heppner received a very special gift on the occasion ot its HXIth anniversary ot incorpora lion February V. 1887 the presence o f O regon's G overnor N eil Goldschmidt fhe Governor first stopped at Heppner F.lcmcntary School where he spoke with students, shook hands and led them in singing Happv Bir thday to Heppner At Heppner C ity H all Goldschmidt was greeted bc local politic tans and citizens and a crowd o f news media newspapers from Hcrnuston and Pendleton a radio station trom Hemiiston. and teles i sion cameras from Tri Cities in Washington and trom Portland fhe Governor read a pne l.inution commemorating the historic occa sion and presented it to Heppner Mayor Cara Costa Following the tom ul presentation, the governor answerrd questions and joked with the crowd that spilled out city hall’s front door and onto the sidewalk Goldschmidt emphasized the tm portative o l re cru itin g new businesses into Oregon Most businesses looking for a place to locate, he viid. arc impressed with tf»e work ethic o f Oregon employees What tfvy 'rc not sure about, he viid. is how venous Oregon is about industry tie Icels businesses want to know what w e're doing to help the businesses that are already here Changes in workmen's compensa lion laws are necessary, he said, to help Oregon he more competitive with other vtates h> reducing the cost o f doing business here The media came to town He repeated tor Washington l \ camera what he said on a campaign swing through Heppner before the Nov election that he docs not sup p in Hartford as a site lor a nuclear waste dump It simply doesn't make sense to truck waste two thirds ol which is created on the I asi , o a t over these roads in (he winter he added (roldvlim tdt vtid he believes storing nuc leat waste so c lose to the Columbia riser system is potential ly dangerous Concerning the sale o f the Heppner Condon branches ot the railroad, ihe governor said that cur rcntly there is little grant money available to help public bodies pur chase a branch line Regardless «>1 the impact to the road it the railroad is abandoned, we have no was to take road lunds and send that on the railroad No program exists » h u h allows us to do that We need a (mid to make loans to businesses and communitK' in this situation Ihe lx-si we an do now is encourage rail purchase bs short line operators who w ill nuke it work like a business " ( In his arrival, the governor was met hv state police and Heppner Mayor Cara ( ««'la at the I extngton airport At the conclusion ot the Governor's visit Matt Doherty, chairman ot the Superconducting Supercollider task force rixJc with him to the airjxin where the gover nor lett tor a noon regional disc us sion at Baker Best dressed Irish contest Bring a wee hit more Ireland to M orrow county. March 14 and IS Dress tor the occasion with the wearing o the green It you p it on your thinkihg cap. you may |ust win the prize tor the best dressed Irishman, woman, or child Dress the town green’ Costumes w ill be judged after K l M A coffee hour
