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
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Governor visits Heppner
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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
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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
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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