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/ + * -.4 * • « A j • ■ — .J i i JLám !.— ■ 1 .1 « New council members take office Morrow County s Home-Owned Newspaper The Hrppner imes azette VOL 105 N O 22 W ednesday, June 3. 1987 Heppner 25* 12 Pages added costs In addition to the recruiting fee. the board must consider that Dr would not sign anything which said he was partitioning his land “ I have no intent ion o f partitioning.” he said The mayor said he was supftw ed to sign whatever the county re quired because the land was in the growth boundary tor the city and a joint agreement was m cited bet ween the city and the counts City Attorney Hill Kuhn said the county would merely uphold city requirements ('(Hints Planner Deane Secger was present and told the council Kcv had cleared all county requirements with D FQ . and having a vnirce ol elec t r ia ls . and the onlv thine needed was Corps permission to use the Corps' roadwav as access Key thought he had that agreement last spring, but the Corps has not writ ten anything verifying it yet The council decided to have the water turned on. and instructed Ci ty Foreman Dave Winters to do so Key w ill hav e 30 day s to get permis sion to use the Corps street for ac cess, and must ref»rt back when that has been settled An ordinance to allow the county to legally use the former Hazen den tal clinic for offices for Justice Court and county juvenile services was adopted on an emergency basis The use is allowed by changing the R I /.one requirements in that building for a conditional use The council stipulated this would have no effect on other buildings in that area, or other K I zoned areas Continuation Ko/nck owns the equipment at the clinic, but has offered to lease or sell it. Anderson said I he hospital evpects to have an en ding fund balance $I(K).IKK) over what was budgeted lor this year The money from excess revenues is not budgeted for this year, soc jiiim 4 be used for expenses without doing a supplemental budget. A lsdurf pointed out ol the conditional use will be con tingent on the county completing the promised upgrading of that area providing more parking spaces and other conditions required by neighbors Bids to pros ide gasoline to the ci iy were opened with Devin Oil Co providing the lowest bid; regular at 79 8' and unleaded at 80' Only other bidder was Cal's Mobile Set By A*on Melby Two new members were ap pointed to Heppner city council Mivndav b> Mayor Cara Costa W ith approval of the cvwiw il. Angie Pcxlro and Chuck Holt were sworn in by the mas or Thc> will replace John Hempel. and Boh Ployhar who have resign ed Hempel moved from the area. Ploshar said he did not w.mt to con tinue on the council Hempel's temi was for two sears. Ploshar s was lor four sears No dec ision was nude on which one of the new council members will verse the two and the lour year terms the niayor said In further re organization Wilbur Jackson was elected chairman of the council His nuin duty is to verse as chairman in the absence o f the mayor Costa said < she had only missed one council iheeling in the two and a half years she has been mayor Ken Key appeared to tell the coun ctl he had not been able to get the water turned on to serve his proper t> on cemetery hill He said he thought last month he had cleared all obstacles, but when he paid for the tumon two weeks ago. he was told he had to sign an agreement and he Board arranges for doctor coverage at Pioneer Dr W allace W olff has generous ly offered to increase his hospital coverage for as long as possible, rather than reduce his practice as he had planned, hospital hoard member Frank Pearson said Pridav W ithout his generous offer for physician coverage at the hospital. Board Chairman Marcia Anderson said, the hospital would not be able to stay open Heppner's other two doctors. Dr Clare Ko/nek and Dr Curtis Thiessen have announced plans to close their practice here Ko/nek has already left Heppner and Ihiessen has announced that he will end his practice June 22. One Pendleton area doctor and one from John Day have said they will provide weekend physician coverage at the hospital, at least through June, the board said The hospital pays V 4 I0 per day for tern porary doctor coverage The board signed a contract with Physicians International, a doctor- search firm, and authorized a pay ment o f $8.000 from the hospital budget lo retain their services The firm will require two pavments of $6.000 in addition to the retainer A similar firm located Dr Thiessen rhe contract with Physicians Inter national requires that thev find a d<v limit on the contract and the wait may be a year or more The board said that they had also considered the possibility o f a doc tor coming to Heppner to see pa tients on a temporary basis one or two days a week Chamber ot Commerce President (ieorge bottler and Hill Kuhn ask ed the board to remember the com munity's needs and not to look at money limitations they ottered the Chamber's support to the hoard's ef forts to find another doctor, and help with fundraising events to help meet tor who will siav in Heppner for at least one year We re caught in the middle. Hill Alsdurf. v ice president of St An thony Hospital and a non voting member of the Pioneer hospital board said “ If there's no doctor, there's no hospital, and if there's no hospital, it s more difficult to get a doctor.” The physician search firm was even reluctant to send a con tract, he said, because they knew the search would be dillicult and (hey do have a legal commitment to get a doctor tor Heppner fhere is no time Home health service to become part of Pioneer Memorial hospital The hospital board last week pav ed the way for Tn County Home Health lo become a department ol the hospital The naive to a hospital based agency would mean a larger peicen tage reimbursement from Medicare and could make the difference bet ween meeting and not meeting our budget. Sandi Rill, administrator for Tri-County Home Health said The agenc y prov ides nursing care for home bound patients, usually after a hospital stay Nurses are paid a lee on a per visit basis, she said Hill Alsdurf. vice president ot St Anthony Hospital and adv isor to the Pioneer Hospital Hoard, said that In other business the hospital making the agency a department of board the hospital would be a good public reviewed a health facility survey relations move and might mean ad indicating a concern about a leaky dilional patient referrals following ceiling in the back pantrv area ot the hospital stays at Pioneer Memorial kitchen Hospital He recommended the ex reviewed the policy for nursing isiting T n County Home Health home billings Hoard he kept to advise the County authorized the administrator to Medical Hoard which will take over negotiate a rental agreement after Ju responsibility of the hospital board« K I for a house owned by the July I hospital Since the agency moved Us offices discussed measures needed lo to the hospital several months ago. meet the recommendations of a state the number ol home visits has m and federal fire review The fire in creased from bt) to I IN) per month. spectMvn said that double doots stall Rill said ding open at the hospital could be a Class of 1987 graduated from area schools Graduation ceremonies were held at Heppner and lone high schools last week Forty seniors were graduated from Heppner and six from lone Heppner graduates received the following scholarships and awards at commencement exercises Blue Mountain Community Col lege Tuition Waiver Dorothy Hays and Clark Wallis Blue Mountain Community Col lege David and Marisa Nelson Award Malt Wilson Charles Kyd Award Theresa l.indsay Heppner American l egion Post Theresa Lindsay American Ixgion (state award) Theresa Lindsay Kinzua C orporation Award Theresa I indsav Oregon Scholar Theresa I indsay Jim Barran Award Missy F.uhanks and Wayne Wilgcts Stookey Memorial David Pedro Columbia B j s ii i Conference Misvy Tubanks and W av nc W tigers Lions V ocational Scott IXmgherty Dt and Christy Carpenter Stacey Kennedy Soroplunist Academic Ashley Conklin O regon School Lm ployeex Assoc Kellie Brannon Morrow County 4 H Leaders Iheresa L iih J s . iv Heppner Dav Care Center-Jacklyn Robinson and Staci Toll ? if, Pradit Thonqdy receives diploma from school Board member Bob Mahoney at Heppner Com mencement Services CJD Bauman Criminal Justice Wayne W tigers Michele Portnian Improvement Award David Pedro I rend College I ina Dav idson I .in fie ld Art Faculty Soli Struthers L nivcrvity ot Portland Academic Iheresa L indsav Heppner Booster (Tub Misss Tubanks treni Harrison. Theresa I indsay . and Jason Palmer lone graduates received the toll«tvs mg scholarships and awards at commencement exercises the lone American Legion post and auxiliary scholarships were presented to Patty McF.lligott ( andi Rudisill also received a scholarship from the Morrow Coun ty F.ducation Association The Cardinal Club scholarship was presented to Deena Hams Patty McF.lligott received an Oregon Scholar Award from the State Dept of Fducation for having a grade point average among the top five percent of the slate’s graduates School awards tor best senior athlete were presented to Chris Rea and Deena Hams Abandoned house rv 1 K 8 $ , / ; u j • FI i* À 7 N v* ii j A . •4 ' Robert Adams (at lectern) welcomes guests to the lone Commencement service An abandoned house in I cxington caught tire and burned to the ground Friday, night May 29 Lexington Fire Chief Bill Shcirbon said the house, located on the comer o f ' ' F and West streets is owned hy the Rourkr family Cause ot the fire, he said, is unknown, but was not elec (rtcally caused because no power was connected lo the house The house was fully engulfed in flames when the fire department ar rived just after 10 30 p m and some damage wav done to a power line, but no outages resulted, the lire chicl said Five fire department members and many townspeople helped with the firefighting and cleanup which took most of the night Sheirhon said *-.• • •**•* > .• .1 • % • * • • J c i « . > »•.*' » * • V % i • w **1«- : . • s ’, • ,* ’Y jY Y / *:v - ‘V • ' » ' * * Three TV channels temporarily out l-ast week's power outage caused a surge ot electricity that ruined $8(881 worth ot equipment Judic I aughlm ot Hcpnct TV announced this week The equipment has been sent off for repairs, but customers may expect a three lour week wait before reception is up to pat again, she said Three channels. 9, 11. and IV will be down until all equipment has been repaired and replaced By Avon Melby A proposed contract with an ar chitect for the remodeling o f the Heppner Hotel into a Senior Citizen housing project and Senior Center was approved by Heppner City Council Monday City Attorney Bill Kuhn said the contract information would be sent lo architects who exptessed interest in bidding on the job, with bids to go out probably by June 10. “ I expect a lot of bids," he said Word has gotten around that the ci ty is doing the |ob w ith $5<K).(8)0 of federal money and close to $300.000 borrowed funds Several have already indicated interest and will he sent the information sheets ‘ •T, More than one event was respon sihlc tor area power outages last week Tuesday's outage began when the top of a pole one mile west of Lex ington burned. Columbia Basin Electric Co-op Manager Fred Toombs said The lop of the burn mg pole dropped and broke the next pole on the line Columbia Basin crews had the line repaired and restored electricity to the area lor three minutes at 4 p in Restoring the power caused a breaker in the Boardman substation to catch fire and disintegrate. Toombs said It took a considerable length of tune to pul the fire out before Bonneville Power Ad ministration crews vould begin to repair damage, he said Die balance of Tuesday night until 9 a ill Wednesday. BPA crews repaired and checked the substation so nothing else would be destroyed by restoring power Thursday evening, the outage was the result ol a fault on the line of undetermined origin, the manager continued Ihc breaker, which had been used as a bypass breaker while the one destroyed earlier in the week was being repaired, opened and would not close on demand Colum hia Basin crews repaired the and restored electricity in less than two hours Saturday aflcrTHH*n, the system was shut down for three and a half minutes to change voltage levels on a tran sfo rm er. Toombs said "Hopefully these problems will be eliminated with completion of the new transmission line We will have to ask customers to bear with us dur mg lengthy planned outages while the line is under construction.” he said problem Bids should be called in 4$ days. Interested bidders will be called to 12 applicants, who will be interview ed and cut further to five for the council to interv iew before awarding ihc bid Kuhn said he had signed for en vironincntal exemption He has to obtain approval of the plans from the H istorical commission as the building has been designated an Historical Building He said cost estimates had been uimmed to $760.(88). with $10.(88) already paid to seller Armc Hcdman The council appointed Angie Pedro and Richard Curtis, lo repre sent the council on the interviewing board They will work with Senior Citizen representatives John Wood and Arnold M elb y. and Fred Toombs. Heppner Economic Development Corporation. Chamber ol Commerce and possibly others Kuhn said he felt the project could still come in completed without los mg any of the federal funds " * It will he wcil underway by early 1988.' he said , / / Y ' A * W e a th e r R e p o rt by Crty u* M*ppn** M lav 19 - 25 High 1 lo w Free. T lies Thurs Fri Sat Sun Mon 61 64 68 73 76 69 72 U 35 40 45 $2 51 47 0 0 0 0 14 07 04 Mav 26 - ,June 1 High lo w Prec. T ucs Wed Thurs Fn Sal Sun Mon 65 64 68 78 65 62 64 44 41 41 51 52 37 38 06 05 0 Tr 18 07 0 M a rk e t R e p o rt Of If* Mnrrnea CowMy (Vw* Oow»M Iuesdav. June 2 Soft While June '4 half M ft I Please call for new crop quotes Bariev June July Aug and Sept Hard Red W inter ( Irdmancc PIK Generic Certifie ates KM » V * » » ♦ -Y • r; Council approves proposed hotel contract information Electrical outage explained burns to ground 4M problem The hospital has the op tion. Administrator Marvin IV arr said, of installing automatic closures for the doors or smoke detectors every M) feel or so down the hallways The review also rccom mended the hospital fire alarm be tied into the county sheriff's department vice at 8? both leadocf jixPunlciid ed. which he said was I V per gallon off full service pump price Hid was awarded low bidder Devin Service •s to go into effec t July I A resolution transferring funds within the 1986 87 year budget was approved City Administrator Mai shall Lovgren said some budgets were under funded and some had funds left over at year end There was no change in the totals allowed in the budget which goes out the end o f the month City Planning Com mission Chairman Nancs l ankford said the planning commission wanted to explain its responsihililH-s lo the new council members to see if closer cooperation in serving citizens could be worked out She noted that on instances where the planners had spent a lot ot lime stu dying all the angles, and finally made recommendations to the coun Ctl, the CiHincil had not followed the recommendation She said minutes of planning meetings will be sent each council member, delegates ol the planners will attend council meetings, and it was hoped at least one member of the council will at tend each planning meeting “ We want to cut the number of times pco pie have to go from one to the other to get their problems solved." she said Chloe Pearson, another member of the commission, said “ Our purpose is to make your job easier " She said the number of visits of those wanting permits should be cut City Foreman Winter expressed a desire that at least one council member accompany him in review mg streets to determine priorities for making repairs He said "No mat ter which ones I choose fo do I gel complaints from citizens «to 91 91 »3 02 cast Y V
