Kinzua plants 80,000 tree
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VOL 108 NO, 17___________ Wednesday, April 25, 1990____________Heppner 25*
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Construction begins soon on Central Market
Ed Tarnasky (I) and Kinzua General Manager Frank Pearson
discuss the company’s latest tree planting project.
Last week Kinzua Corporation in
Heppner planted its 80,000th tree
and it just happened to coincide with
Earth Week.
Kinzua began replanting in 1971
and plans to double the number of
seedlings planted to around 160
thousand, next year.
“ We're proud of the fact that we
think we're good stewards of the
land,” said Kinzua Corp. General
Manager Frank Pearson. Pearson
says that Kinzua’s reforestation plan
is due to committment by the cor
poration’s owners. " If we were here
only for the short term, we wouldn't
put this much money back into the
land.” Pearson says that Kinzua
spent $330 thousand this year for
land management and expects to
spend around $350 thousand next
year. He says Kinzua has put 2.3
million into capital projects during
the last two years.
Kinzua Corp. Forester Ed Tar-
nasky says that replanting costs
about 11 cents per seedling and
another 25 cents per planting, which
comes to about $157 an acre.
Tarnasky said Kinzua collects its
own cones which are first taken to
Rochester, Wash, for cleaning and
stratification. The seedlings are
grown by Weyerhauser Kinzua then
contracts tree planters, who can plant
80 thousand seedlings around three
days. A tree planting crew of 20
Mexican workers from Madras used
augers to drill holes for the seedlings
planted last week. Two-year seedl
ings are planted around 10 feet apart,
around 435 to an acre. In about 40
years Kinzua will make its “ first en
try” into the seedlings planted last
week and will thin the trees, which
will be around 10 inches around to
around 16 to 18 feet apart. Survival
rate for the seedlings is excellent,
about 90 to 95 percent.
According to Tarnasky, self
regeneration in the area is so good,
that Kinzua replants only areas in
which trees have been damaged by
insect infestations or fire. The area
planted last week, on the ridge bet
ween Caplinger and Wilson Creek
on Kinzua land had been infected by
spruce bud worm. Trees weakend by
the budworm were also vulnerable
to infestation by bark beetles, said
Pearson. Pearson says that after trees
are killed, Kinzua has around two
years to take the trees out as saw
logs. Kinzua turns out around 55
million board feet of lumber a year.
"O ur plans are to be competitive
and aggressive in timber sales,” says
Pearson. "W e’re also looking to do
more with products we produce.”
4 Bloodsworth installed Exhaulted Ruler
Gail and Forrie Burkenbine look over plans for their new grocery store. Excavation has already
begun on the site.
Forest and Gail Burkenbine.
owners of Central Market in Hepp
ner, which burned to the ground in
a Feb. 3 fire, display plans for their
new market.
The Burkenbines say that con
struction on their new 14.860 square
foot grocery store will begin “ as
soon as we get approval from the
state.” They say that construction
with IBC builders out of Spokane
may begin as soon as three or four
weeks and that Cecil Harmon of IBC
will begin leveling the ground as
soon as he can get approval.
The new market, a steel building
116 feet deep by 130 feet wide, will
be set back 36 feet from the sidewalk
on Main Street to allow additional
parking. The present parking lot
north of the former building, near
Benjamin Franklin Savings and
Loan, will also remain. The Burken
bines say that they chose a steel
building both for speed in construc
tion and cost.
The new store will be 1,900 feet
larger than the old building and will
include the lot previously occupied
by the Wagon Wheel Restaurant and
Lounge, which also burned in the
fire. The Burkenbines bought the lot
from Dick Rice, owner of the
Wagon Wheel. The fire which burn
ed the market and the restaurant was
determined to have started in a com
pressor above a walk-in cooler at the
restaurant.
Construction can't be started soon
enough to suit us,” said Gail.
“ We’re anxious to get back to work,
as are all of our employees.” They
say that they expect to hire back the
same number of employees as they
Pine wood derby Friday
The Weblos from Cub Scout Pack 661 display their
Pinewood Derby cars they made themselves during the past
month. The annual Pinewood Derby will be held Friday, April
27 at 6:30 at the Heppner Junior High gym. Each scout builds
their pinewood derby from a block of wood, according to
specifications and then races it down a ramp to see which one
is the fastest. Everyone is invited attend.
employed previously.
“ It’s been a hardship on all of our
customers too,” said Forrie, adding
that they appreciate all of the extra
work done by the owners and
employees of Court St. Market.
Court St. Market and Miller’s Mini
Mart are the only two remaining
stores supplying groceries in the
town. Another grocery store, S & J
Market on Main Street near the Post
Office, burned in 1983.
The Burkenbines’ new store will
be a “ Red Apple” market, also
within the Associated Grocers
group, but included in a membership
of larger stores.
“ We’re going to need a lot of
community support to make this
go,” concluded Gail .
Bike-a-thon May 6
By Anne Morter
The St. Jude’s Bike-a-thon has
been scheduled for Sunday, May 6
in lone. The course and time will be
announced next week.
The bike-a-thon is a benefit for the
St. Jude’s Children’s Research
Hospital.
C oordinator
Loa
McElligott reports that last year's
turnout was very impressive. She
said the hospital was very pleased
and surprised.
Pledge sheets will be available at
businesses in lone, Lexington and
Heppner. For more information,
please contact Loa McElligott at
422-7228.
Founded by Danny Thomas in
1962, St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital is the largest childhood
cancer- resea rch-treatment-educat ion
center in America. St. Jude Hospital
is non-sectarian, interracial and pro
vides medical care for over 3,200 ac
tive patients. Currently, over
$ 183,000 is needed each day to keep
the doors open. These funds come
primarily from public contributions
The bike-a-thon program this year
is dedicated to Ellen Marie Haynes.
Five-year-old Ellen Marie, from
Rossville, Georgia, developed a
malignant tumor in her abdomen in
June. 1986. After treatment at St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital,
which consisted of surgery, radia
tion, ami chemotherapy. Ellen Marie
was taken off all therapy in January.
1987. Although she isn’t cured of
her cancer yet, her prognosis is
good.
Chairman for the local event is
Loa McElligott.
Jim Bloodsworth was installed
1990 Exhaulted Ruler of the Elks
Club at installation ceremonies on
March 31.
Officiating was Installing Grand
Officer Everett Keithly, who had
brought Jim into the Elks and install
ed him in every office he has held.
Everett also made and presented Jim
with a black walnut gavel. All six of
Jim and Barbara Bloodsworth’s
children and 13 out of 14 grand
children were present for the
ceremonies.
Other officers installed were:
Leading Night-Ed Gunderson; Loyal
Knight-Dick Turrell; Lecturing
Knight-Dave Hanna; Esquire-Dean
Robinson; chaplin-Darrell Padberg;
secretary-Glenn Ward; Tyler-John
Breidenbach; treasurer-Gene Hall;
musician-Ken Turner and trustees-
Cecil Rill. Rudy Bergstrom. Don
Ball, Roger Williams and Lyle Peck.
Also honored and receiving their
50-year pins were Terrel Benge. Joe
Engleman, Floyd Jones, Harlan
McCurdy and Lloyd Morgan.
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Photo by Joyce Hughes
Everett Keithley, (R) installs Jim Bloodsworth into the Exhaulted
Ruler position at the Elks annual installation.
Briggs’ suit against city
settled out of court
A suit filed against the City of
Heppner by Bob and Stacie Briggs
over the death of their son. Robbie,
in 1987 at the Heppner swimming
pool has been settled out of court,
according to Heppner City attorney
Bill Kuhn.
Neither Kuhn nor Heppner City
Administrator Marshall Lovgren
would divulge the amount of the
settlement.
According to Kuhn, both parties
agreed not to name the dollar
amount.
Great Start funds applications available
The Morrow County Children and
Youth Services Commission recently
announced the availability of ‘ ‘Great
Start” funds for Morrow County.
The commission is accepting ap
plications for funding until Monday,
May 14 and interested parties are in
vited to apply.
In order to be considered for fun
ding, a commission-approved ap
plication fonn must be filled out and
submitted. To obtain an application
form, the prospective applicant
should contact Juanita Martin.
MCCYSC secretary at P O. Box
576. Lexington. Oregon 97839 or
call Juanita at 989-8117.
The commission will be allocating
a total of $20,000.00 to programs
which serve children up to age six
and their families. The commission
expects to make a decision on alloca
tions at their May 17 meeting to be
held in Boardman.
Chairperson Corrinc Lindsay in
dicated that “ we want creative pro-
posals that emphasize preventive ser
vices, so that our children have
every chance to avoid trouble and
problems in the future. ”
Judge Lx>uis Carlson, who serves
as the County Juvenile Judge ex
pressed the county 's hope, “ that the
commission consider innovative pro
grams that positively stimulate our
children before they get into trou
ble." Carlson went on to explain that
“ we can avoid a tremendous cost to
our community, if we keep these
same kids from entering our juvenile
justice system.”
The commission members have
identified a w ide range of problems
which they wish to address w ith the
“ Great Start” resources and future
funds which they plan to seek. The
top priority areas can be summariz
ed as: programs which provide
parental training: programs which
offer child enrichment; and pro
grams which offer a wide range of
child-care services.
Halvorsen makes
All-Star trip to
Las Vegas
By Anne Morter
Ryan Halvorsen. son of Frank and
Kathy Halvorsen. recently traveled
to Las Vegas with the Oregon Prep
Basketball Traveling All-Star team
to play in a tournament. Formerly
the AAU was the sponsoring
organization. The tournament, held
from April 9-15, featured boys
12-17 years old from Utah. Arizona.
Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay
Area, Las Vegas and Oregon.
Each team played a minimum of
three games and a maximum of five,
depending on their winning record.
Halvorsen’s team played four
games. The games were played at
the University of Nevada-Las
Vegas, home of the national cham
pion. Running Rebels. Halvorsen
reports that unfortunately, none of
the team was anywhere to be seen
Halvorsen practiced for two days
at Linficld College in McMinnville
before flying to Las Vegas. The
week was mostly basketball although
the boys were treated to trips to Cir
cus Circus and the water slides.
Halvorsen reports that the tourna
ment was quite an experience,
especially watching the teams from
Los Angeles play He says that one
of the 15-year-old teams from the
LA area had a line-up of boys rang
ing in height from 6 '5 ” to 6 '9 ” .
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