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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
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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
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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
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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 $300.000
borrowed funds
Several have
already indicated interest and will he
sent the information sheets
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More than one event was respon
sihlc tor area power outages last
week
Tuesday's outage began when the
top of a pole one mile west of Lex
ington burned. Columbia Basin
Electric Co-op Manager Fred
Toombs said The lop of the burn
mg pole dropped and broke the next
pole on the line Columbia Basin
crews had the line repaired and
restored electricity to the area lor
three minutes at 4 p in
Restoring the power caused a
breaker in the Boardman substation
to catch fire and disintegrate.
Toombs said It took a considerable
length of tune to pul the fire out
before Bonneville Power Ad
ministration crews vould begin to
repair damage, he said Die balance
of Tuesday night until 9 a ill
Wednesday. BPA crews repaired
and checked the substation so
nothing else would be destroyed by
restoring power
Thursday evening, the outage was
the result ol a fault on the line of
undetermined origin, the manager
continued Ihc breaker, which had
been used as a bypass breaker while
the one destroyed earlier in the week
was being repaired, opened and
would not close on demand Colum
hia Basin crews repaired the
and restored electricity in less than
two hours
Saturday aflcrTHH*n, the system
was shut down for three and a half
minutes to change voltage levels on
a tran sfo rm er. Toombs said
"Hopefully these problems will be
eliminated with completion of the
new transmission line We will have
to ask customers to bear with us dur
mg lengthy planned outages while
the line is under construction.” he
said
problem
Bids should be called in 4$ 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
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Council approves proposed
hotel contract information
Electrical outage
explained
burns to ground
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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
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