TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, H eppner. Oregon W ednesday, September 16.IW7
Heppner takes on various responsibilities
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By Avon Melby
City of Heppner will be rcsponsi-
ble for the Corps' Little Ixague
field, Heppner Day Care building,
and a new minibus program, if
grants arc approved and contracts
finalized, the council decided at its
September meeting
Bob Ployhar of Heppner Little
Ixague. asked the council to be the
public agent to accept the field which
has been prepared by the Corps of
Kngincers along with the building of
the dam The city had earlier agreed
When completed two years ago
the centcrficld was so high the pit
cher could not sec the outfield The
Corps has finally resurfaced the
field, and Little Ixague is preparing
it for nest year's play Little Ixague
will plant the grass, dig the dugouls,
and do all the preparation It will be
responsible for watering and main
taming the field The council said it
Grass Seed
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properly labeled, may be sent to the
department for testing to verify that
what is inside is what the label says
it should be
An Idaho seed wholesaler who
was present at the meeting said that
would accept the field as a city park
Heppner Day Care. Inc wants to
purchase the privately owned
building where it meets Cmdee
Henderson told the council there arc
grants available and the group wants
entity to sign for the grant The
group has some Revenue Sharing
to apply fur one but needs a public
entity to sing for the grant The
group has some Revenue Sharing
funds but needs more money The
Day Care board needs to know so it
can apply for grant funds The coun
cil decided to approve, but only if
there is no cost to the city City At
torney Bill Kuhn said if the city ap
plies tor the grant the building will
be owned by the city
Morrow County recently con
ducted a survey on the need of a bus
service in South Morrow county
Heppner Senior Citizens bus needs
to be replaced and the court was an-
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bec ause farmers complained the tags
fell into the hopper and clogged their
drills, some of his seed had been sold
stamped with a lot number rather
ill.in with a tag attached
Dave Turner (second from left) and Bob Brown chatted with
farm ers following seed law meeting at Heppner fairgrounds
ticipating having one minibus serve
both purposes, allowing the general
public to have scheduled use of the
minibus There is a fairly new bus
serving Seniors in the north end of
the county from Irrigon, and
residents of Boardman and Imgon
are on a bus line
Mayor Cara Costa said the coun
ty court has now decided it should
not be in the bus business and wants
the city to take over There are two
grants available
No action was taken by the coun
cil City of LaCirande has such a pm
gram and Morrow County Judge
Louis Carlson. Planning Director
Deane Seegcr. and one of the coun
ty commissioners are going to
LaCirande this week to sec how the
program is working The council
decided to send a member along to
report back at its nest meeting
without labels may still be tested at
a laboratory, but the department of
agriculture can take no action against
a wholesaler Turner empahsi/cd
that Oregon law only jpplies to seed
sold in Oregon If a farmer buys seed
out of state that is delivered here.
Oregon law applies, but it he buys
seed out-of state and carries it home,
stale law offers no protection The
farmer himself may be inviolation of
state seed law, however, if he car
ries noxious weeds into the state
Other seed problems have surfac
cd as well Some have planted their
fields and hand no grass grow from
the seed In addition, most who have
planted C'RP grass have found vime
cereal rye in the field, a particularly
annoying problem to local farmers
who have tried espcciallv hard for
mans vears to eliminate rve in wheal
fields
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Joan R ecord s (left), Pat Edm undson. L aR ae Kindle. Cherry Webber, end Kay Proctor
Apples for the Teachers
Heppner Elementary Parents Club
officers presented apples to the
teachers at the elementars school last
week At the club’» first meetme of
the year. September 8. they elected
officers and planned activities for the
Heppner to post monthly bills
By Avon Melby
Where the money goes from city
hall will be explained to the public
in a list posted in Heppner city hall
window each month, the council
decided last week It will show how
much was paid to whom But if you
want to know what the money
fought you will hasc to go inside and
ask to sec the hills
Ken Key had asked the council last
month to publish the monthly hills
as the county does its tinaric tal state
men! It would include what was
paid, to whom, and for what City
Manager Marshall laivgrcn said he
had found it would run from 523 to
S2h |vr month for tfic advertisement
funds to cover that expense had not
been included in the current budget
Saying she fell it was worth the
OUT GOES SUMMER..
cost in public relations. Councilman
Terri Denton said the cost should lie
covered by transferring money Imm
other funds The majority of 'he
council felt a window display of the
same sheet they receive would be
sufficient Denton was the only
council member voting against the
window method
Council members do not approve
expenditures without knowing what
the money goes for The bills are
passed ariwnd on a clipped sheet for
them to read before the motion to
pay
The subject of advertising the
financial statement will be presented
the budget committee when it meets
early next winter. Mayor Cara Costa
said
Costa also said a newsletter from
the city, explaining what is going on
at city hall and what different depart
ments are doing would soon be sent
out with all water bills to residents
The newsletter is to be made up by
Council member Angie Pedro and
Chamber Manager Claudia Hughes
school year vJfficers arc laRae Kin
dle. president. Joan Records, pro
gram chairperson, and Kay Proctor,
secretary-treasurer
Activities for the coming year will
include providing refreshments for
the school's open house September
22; sponsoring an evening Hallo
ween party with games, activities,
and refreshm ents; providing
refreshments for three sports awards
hunqursts. purchasing pencils for
Santa to give students at Christmas,
planning and working at the annual
school carnival; providing icecream
treats for all students and teachers on
the last day of school
The Parents Club is purchasing a
book for the school library in
memory of sixth grade student Rob
bie Briggs
DMV office to
close during strike
Due to the pending strike by the
Oregon Public Employees union, the
Heppner Motor Vehicle office will
be closed umtl an agreement has
been reached
The Hermiston and Pendleton of
fices will remain open for essential
business onlv
Heppner planning commission
approves remodeling request
By Avon Melby
Request to remodel and enlarge a
building at 235 Chase street wjs
made to Heppner Planning Commis
sion Monday night Mark Hopkins
said he was doing the work in
August when the state building in
spector told him he had to have a
permit
Die location is within the 100-ycar
flood plain but this w ill rM affect the
permit unless the remodeling will
take more than 50 percent of the vost
of the building Hie extension would
not exceed the setback rules of
H eppncr's zoning ordinance
Hopkins was granted the permit
Permission to construct a carport
at 255 North Court street was re
quested by Tom Huddleston He said
neighbors had agreed It would he
freestanding on four jxists and not at
lachcd to a building, but placed over
his driveway h will he of metal and
he said il would be non glaring He
was told to apply for a variance The
request will be advertised and laken
up at the planning meeting next
month It there arc no objections he
will receive the variance
Planning Commission chairman
Nancy I anktord said the 76 sign the
conimisison had allowed to be
erected at Cal's Service Center was
a turning sign with a light in it The
commission had not been told it
would be turning, and there is a pro
hibition on "moving lights"in the
zoning ordinance on signs Because
of the location and lack of residents
in the area of Cal's Service Center
it was decided to w rite Mr Sherman
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The H F F L (or Heppner Fan
tasy Football Ixague) is open for
business and will hold its first player
draft on September 24 at Kate's Piz
za in Heppner
The football league is the brain
child of Itval sports enthusiast
George Kofflcr and will be compris
ed of 12 teams. Bach franchise will
select 10 real NFL players for its
team, and the team with the highest
point total at the end of the regular
season wins the championship
Ihe league season will be com
prised of the last 14 games (if there
is no strike) of the regular NFL
season, and the top three teams in the
league will divide up the prize
money
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conditional use at the next Planning
Commission meeting
Attractive Nxiklets containing Ci
ty of Heppner Comprehensive Plan
Policy Statements and the city's
Zoning Ordinance were passed out
to commissioners by l «inkford They
have just been received from Ten-
mson Engineering and will replace
many looscleaf pages for the com
missioners They are a result of last
fa ll's update of the comprehensive
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