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Former Heppner photographer plans retirement
When Louis Lyons. 70. Her-
mision. retires at the end of this
month he will take many memories
of Heppner and of Hemuston v»nh
him to his ness home in Hawaii
The Hermiston C'hamher of Com
merce is hosting a reception in home
of Lyons' retirement at 5 p m
September 10 at the Hentmton City
Park
Many of Lyons' memories are on
film Most will recognize his work,
hut even those who don't may recall
his diminutive presence behind a
bos camera at many major events in
Morrow County's Home-Owned Newspaper the area He has resisted change to
the '5 mm camera staunchly touting
the superiority of the 3 s 3 bos
typical of the equipment used by
commercial and news photographers
during the ld4(K
The bos camera takes better pic
tures. he said Because it uses big
ger film, it makes better
enlargements Many changes to the
35 mm camera have improved the
quality of its pictures, he admits and
confesses to buying one to take
scents photo* when he and his wife
were on vacation si* yean ago the
camera was stolen during their vaca
tH>n. but he has recently replaced it
be* ause of its convenience for scenic
shooting
Lyons grew up in Portland and
graduated from Benson Tech in
September 2, 1987
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Willow Creek at Gale Street Bridge alter run off from Hinton Creek
started coming in (l*Hd file photo by Louis Lyons).
"When water began rushing down Chase St and overflowed the yard
where his studio is located, louis Lyons seized his camera and dashed out
to catch pictures He kept at it all afternoon and into the evening shadows.”
(From the Gazette Times. Fehmary. I44d )
New York Institute of Photography
and returned to Portland in I I He
held photography jobs in Corvallis.
Salem, and Vancouver, Wash.,
before moving to Heppner
He owned and operated the Hepp
ner Photo Studio from 1‘Ml-wi and
moonlighted taking news photos for
the Gazette limes, then owned by
Otheo Crawford
Wages and insurance key issues
Still no contract between county and road employees
The county and the road depart
ment still are miles from agreeing
what road department employees
should be paid this year The
employees' contract with the coun
ty expired July I
The county's last offer, for a
three-year contract package, tailed
for a 3 * raise (approximately 25‘
per hour) for the first year, their
negotiator Don Scott and Assoc
reported
The road department employees
arc asking for a 75‘ per hour raise
with no cap on insurance coverage,
the union negotiator Mike Persons
said.
The second year of the county's
offer calls for a 3'A* increase in
eluding insurance which means da«
it insurant^ rilfi*« f rr tip:Employees
will be able to choose less insurance
coverage or lower wages. Scott said
The third year, the county is offer
ing a cost-of-living wage increase
' The way the union secs it.” Per
sons said, "is that the county dead
ed to change insurance companies at
a savings to the county, which is
good, but the savings should be for
future raises The county decided to
change insurance companies; they
shiHild not ask the employ ees to take
the risk if rates increase "
"O ur feelings.” Scott said, "is
that the union's demands outstretch
what can be expected by reasonable
criteria ” We have looked at the sur
rounding counties and at others in
Morrow County and arc confident
lhai the .pay rales wp.*fe o/|cringlfce
comparable Nothing tells us that the
extra wage increase would be ap
propriatc. he said
The rest of the county employees
received a 2 45* wage increase for
this year
Employees have never been ask
cd to accept a cap on insurance
coverage before. Persons said We
have compared Morrow County
Road Department wages with seven
other counties and found that Gilliam
County is the only one that pays
lower wages than Morrow County
The increase we re asking would not
even put Morrow County at the top
of the scale, but in the middle, and
we don’t see that as unreasonable,
he said W ages were compared w ith
employees requt
requested a "face to
whole 75‘
per nour
nour increase
increase we
we re re employees
whole
5‘ per
asking would only require 5'2.(33) face” meeting with the county com
missioncr* to try to settle the
he said
August 5 road department deadlock in contract negotiations
Commissioners refused to meet
with the employees at that lint«.* The
time for face to face talks has pass
ed. County Judge Louis Carlson
said During the negotiation process
we were meeting directly with the
employees Now, professional
negotiators are speaking for both
sides
The law calls for a pen»*) of
negotiations. Scott said Then if an
agreement cant be reached, a
neutral mediator is assigned by the
Oregon Employment Relations
Board There is no cost to the court
ty or the union
When the county and (he road
department and their representatives
met with the mediator last month,
they were unable to come to
agreement
Now each side will gel a chance
to present its position at an informal
hearing September '() At the hear
ing. called fact finding. Roy
Erickson of Salem, will decide what
the problems arc and hear testimony
from both sides I he county and the
union share expenses for factfinding
Erickson has '() days following the
close of the hearing to issue recom
zc fSf
mendations for resolving their pro
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blems Each side has five working
days after the report is issued to ac
These Heppner Elementary School pupils were reunited with their favorite playground
ccpt or reject the recommendations
activity when schools opened their doors for the year Tuesday.
It both accept the recommendations,
they have a contract If cither reacts
the recommendations, they return to
mediation and continue negotiations
or the union can give 10 days notice
Service land is closed to all archery
It's been a fairly typical archery
September I dove season opened and schedule a strike no sooner than
hunting
and Krein said (his year hunters will 30 days after the factfinder's report
season so far. Bob Krcin. Heppner
Archery
season
continues
through
Wildlife Biologist for the Depart
find doves Cold weather usually is issued
September
20
chases
(hem off by the beginning of
ment of Fish and Wildlife said The
Grouse season is in full swing and the season, he said
forest has been hot and dry. normal
will continue until October 24
weather for this time of year
Hunters are finding a lot ol Rough
Central Market reports a more
Grouse
in canyons with rushing
Last Wednesday much of the area
than average 15 elk and six deer
was without power for about three
harvested by bow hunters stored in water. Krein said Blue Grouse have
been taken on north slopes where it
hours Neither of the two separate
their locker*
is
cooler rather than where the
outages was planned and neither had
Three nice bulls (two five point
anything to do with the newly con
and one six point) were bagged near hunters usually find them
Bag limit lor grouse is three
strutted main power line from the
Spray last weekend. Krein said
Bonneville substation into Heppner.
Bow hunters need to remember Rough and two blue grouse laical
All four area markets Del s. Ccn
license centers have a copy of the
that all land North of the North ex
tral, C ourt St . and Bristow s report Fred Toombs, manager of Colum
tenor boundarv of the U S Forest season dates ami bag limils
that they will remain open labor bia Basin electric Co-op said
Die first outage occurred when a
Day, September 7
crossarm
broke on the transmission
The Post office, the extension of
line that feeds the Sand Hollow
lice. Heppner City Hall, county of
fixes, schools, and area banks will substation Crews were jblc to
be closed Monday in observance of switch service and return power to
all except Sand Hollow area
the holiday
customers in about an hour. Toombs
said Those south of the Sand
Coast to Coast ha* notified the
Hollow substation were without
O m n i limes ih.it (hev will siav
power for about three hours
open Monday
Crews were still working to
The following businesses have
restore power to the Sand Hollow
area when a bird flew into the
notified the G T that they will close
substation at Heppner creating an arc
for 1-ahor Day Pettyjohn's Builders
that could be heard all over town and
Supply. Case Furniture. Country
destroying vital switch gears Again
Rose. Murray's, Peterson *. Ployhar
crews restored service to all
Insurance. Skaggs Shoe Box.
customers exept those served by the
Gardners
downed substation, he said Crews
Hood River. Sherman. Gilliam,
Wasco. Umatilla, Union, and
Wallowa counties because they have
roughly the same weather and road
conditions as Morrow County
The county has the money. Per
sons alleged This year's budget for
salarv adjustment is 545 .(310 and (be
Sum m er's O ver__
Archery season underway
Many local offices
and business to
close Labor Dav
Back to School
Morrow County Schools opened Tuesday Kids and
teachers returned to their books a week earlier than
the past few years when schools started up after Labor
Day
Teachers returned to work last week to prepare
classrooms and bulletin hoards and get ready to greet
students Teachers new to the district toured the counts
on Wednesday All teachers returned to school Thurs
day and together with other district employees attend
ed a conflict management workshop on Friday
Pictured below are teachers new to the district
Back row left to right Winston Raw, Business Ed
KHS, Kevin Fry Language Arts, RHS. Beth Treason
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Kindergarten. A C Houghton Rav Davis Art. A l
Houghton and Sam Bo.irdtnan. John Adamson M usk ,
Columbia Jr High and A C Houghton; Steve
Molthan Language Arts, RHS. Mark Dowdy
language Arts. HHS, Dean Robinson sixth, seventh
and Eight grade English, lone
Front row left to right Terri Franks-
Speech Language. A C Houghton. Carrna Banon
Kindergarten. Sam Boardman. Cindy Sutherland third
grade. Sam Boardman. Lisa Sharkey language Arts.
RHS. John Colvett language Arts. Columbia Jr High;
and Karen Smith Griffith Special Ed HHS and lone
Louis Lyons
After he moved his stud hi to Her
miston. he continued sh«*oiittg new*
photos, but for the Hemuston
Herald When the Herald switched
to offset printing, others begun lak
mg photos lor the paper us well
Lyons and In* wife I illi.in have 10
children. 16 grandchildren, and two
great grandchildren Some of the
family thought wc were trying to run
away from them when we first told
them we were moving to Hawaii, he
said Now most of them like the idea
and aie planning to come visit us
Lyons has built a repualion for
taking qualify photos whether in his
studio or on location He likes
shooting commercial pictures of
buildings He did an eight-year
series on the construction at the C ar
ly Coal Plant at Bourdmun His tiles
also include many annual md rodeo
pictures
For many years he was the only
commercial photographer in the
area He plans to turn some of hi*
photos ol the Heppner area over to
the museum here
A charter member of the Profcs
sional Photographers of Oregon, he
was honored with a plaque at a re
cent convention in Baker
"Not that I know of yet.” was hi*
cagey answer to the query, will
anyone in the area be able to lake
photos as good as yours alter you
retire ’
He described the retirement he i*
looking forward to as taking photo*
for a studio in Hawaii only part
time of course
Two separate Wednesday
outages left area powerless
replaced the switches at the Hepp
ner substation and returned power to
customers in about three hours
Neither outage occurred on the
new facility. Ioombs emphasized
One reason we were able to get
(tower back on as rapidly as wc did
is because we had the new system
with its switching capabilities, he
said
(i-T office
will close
Labor Day
The Gazette Times office will he
closed for I abor Day. September 7.
The office will open as usual Tues
day morning I he deadline for sub
mining news items and letters to the
editor will be V a m Tuesday for
next week only Classified and
display ad deadlines will remain the
same. I p m and 5 p m Tuesday
respectively
The newspaper will be printed and
mailed on Wednesday as usual
‘Heppner Harvest Festival’ only an error
in Oregon Tourism guide
If .i stranger approaches you on
the street this weekend asking for
directions to Heppner's Harvest
Festival, try not to think he's loo
crazy
A mistake in the printing of an
Oregon tourism guide has apparent
ly listed Heppner as having a big
Harvest Festival this weekend. Sept
* and 6
' We don't have a Harvest
Festival," said Chamber Manager
Claudia Hughes who discovered (he
error when people from outside the
area began calling to inquire about
the non existent event
She said a phone number listed in
the brochure, for information on the
mythKal Harvest Festival, belongs
to Fran Hale of Blake's Ranch, who
knows nothing abtmt the event
Hughes said the brochure was put
out by die Stale of Oregon Fcononuc
Development Tourism division
" I don't know where they got the
information," she said, pointing out
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that Heppner couldn't even have
become mixed up with Boardman,
because Boardm an's Harvest
Festival was cancelled this year.
Hughes says she received a letter
from a man who wanted to come and
set up a booth at the Festival, and
also received a call from another
man interested in coming " I ’m sen
ding them some information on other
things we have. We have a nice
town, we just don't have that par
ticular event," she said
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