Proctors purchase Green Feed store
The Heppner
L-R: Mike, Roy and Kay Proctor, Barbara and Lee Ansotegui, (front) Josie and Julie Proctor.
azette
VOL 108 NO. 31
Wednesday, August 1, 1990
Mike and Kay Proctor have pur
chased Green Feed and Seed store
from Barb and Lee Ansotegui, effec
tive August 6.
Mike Proctor, 35, came to Hepp
ner in July of 1986, when he took
over as manager of the Heppner Les
Schwab store. Mike, a Morrow
County native, whose ancestors
homesteaded in the county, had been
with Les Schwab for 12 years, work
ing at the Hermiston and LaGrandc
stores before coming to Heppner.
Kay, 35, has worked as a book
unes
Heppner 25*
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Princess Stacie — a working cowgirl
Photo by Joyce Hughes
Princess Stacie Henry finds time to work at the Nugget Motel
along with her many other activities.
By Merlyn Robinson
Princess Stacie Henry, 17, is the
working cowgirl member of the
Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
Court. With her parents, Sam and
Danielle Henry, and her younger
sister, Samantha, she is accustomed
to long hours in the saddle when
working cattle near their Boardman
ranch.
Stacie is an excellent rider and
state fairs.
As a five-year livestock club
member. Princess Stacie will again
be competing at this year's fair with
takes good care of animals, says
neighbor Gene Miller of the 3M
Ranch. He has first-hand knowledge
of her ability as she has worked with
both the Miller and Henry cattle.
Stacie has helped train and show cat
tle from both herds at the county and
a market steer. But she admits that
conditioning and training a large
steer takes time, muscle and energy.
Princess Stacie will be a junior at
Riverside High School this year. Her
studies are important, she says, as
she is thinking of a vetemarian
career. But she is also looking for
ward to participation in high school
rodeo events.
Stacie enjoys barrel racing, rop
ing events and team penning. She is
an active participant at the Her-
miston Sage Rider riding club
events.
This summer, Princess’s Stacie’s
court mount is “ High Tink, ’' a hors«
she hasr trained. However she ¿ay«r
she is still schooling this five-year-
old gelding.
“ With his palomino color, he’s
not an easy horse to keep clean for
parades. So I do lots of horse
washing,” she added.
“ It’s been a fun summer and I’ve
met lots of new friends. It’s exciting
to be a member of the court and we
have had some great times
together,” Stacie says.
She also credits the court
chaperones, Wayne and Judy Davis,
with being a big help when it comes
to coordinating their appearances
and their outfits. Special additions to
those outfits are the belt buckles
given by local banks to each court
member and the princesses’ tiaras
which were provided by the Ladds
of lone.
With the court members coming
from each community in the coun
ty, it has required a lot of travel time.
“ But I think it’s neat that each one
of us comes from a different area,”
says Stacie. “ We truly do represent
all of Morrow County.”
Fairgrounds master plan gets OK
Enhanced use of the Morrow
County Fairgrounds came a bit
closer to a reality at a recent meeting
of the Morrow County Court. At
issue was the signing of a $15,400
master planning contract with the
Portland-based
firm
of
McKeever/Morris.
Recently the County Court and the
Morrow County Fair Board were at
odds over the procedure for develop
ment of the fairgrounds. Through the
involvement of various user groups
of the public facility, a common-
grounds agreement for continuing
the planning process was agreed to
by both the county court and the fair-
board. As a result of the agreement
the Portland firm was hired.
Paul Morris is a landscape ar
chitect with years of experience
developing effective alternatives in
volving publicly used property. He
was project manager and lead
designer for the Madras redevelop
ment master plan. He was project
manager for the preparation of deci
sion criteria and evaluation of plans
for Clackamas County government
operations. Morris also developed
site selection criteria, performed site
evaluations and prepared design
alternatives for the location of the
Mt. St. Helen's Volcanic Monument
Headquarters for the U.S. Forest
Service. He is a skilled negotiator
and is regularly called upon to
facilitate workshops and to build
group consensus on difficult plann
ing issues, according to Morrow
County Judge Louis Carlson.
Because of the public demand for
increased public use of the proper
ty, the company has been charged
with providing a technical work
design, providing an objective base
for decision-making; maximizing the
timely flow of work; and building a
consensus of support for the final site
plan by all parties.
Judge Carlson says that key
elements of the plan will include in
terviews with user groups so that the
members of the community will have
input into the plan.
* Costs of the various phases of
improvement and input from the ex
ecutive committee user group to
identify two or three-development
plan alternatives so that the cost and
timing of development will meet the
needs of the county; and
* Project Management Com
munication which includes several
meetings with the county and the ex
ecutive committee. Monthly pro
gress reports will be given so that the
project participants will be kept ap
prised of the progress.
The first scoping meeting will be
held Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Colum
bia Basin Conference Room. This
meeting will be the first of several
meetings to receive input from all
potential users of the facility. "The
Morrow County Court and the fair-
board urge those interested parties to
begin preparing their input for this
most important meeting,” said Judge
Carlson._____________________
Weather Report
by City d
Deadline Friday for fair stories
The deadline for submitting ar
ticles for the pre-fair edition of the
Gazette-Times is this Friday, Aug
3.
Anyone having stories about fair
or rodeo events, activities, or con-
cessions must have them into the
newspaper office this Friday at 5
p.m.
The fair tab will be published
Aug. 8.
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Measles-rubella
vaccine available
Morrow County Health Depart
ment has a supply of measles/rubella
vaccine available to administer se
cond dose shots to at-risk individuals
for $20 each.
This second dose of vaccine is
recommended for all health care
workers under the age of 34 years
of age, college students and children
10 years of age and older.
The health department still pro
vides measles-mumps-rubella vac
cine free of charge to infants and
young children according to Oregon
State guidelines.
Immunizations are available at the
following locations:
Health department office in Hepp
ner every Friday, 8:30 a.m-4 p.m.;
Boardman city hall first and third
Tuesdays, 1:30-4 p.m.;
Irrigon county offices, second and
fourth Tuesdays, 1-4 p.m.
keeper at the Heppner store for the
past three years. The Proctors have
three children, Josie, 10, Julie, six,
and Roy, two. “ We wanted to stay
in Morrow County,” said Kay.
Kay said that they plan on keep
ing the leather shop and “ hope to ex
pand the nursery next spring.”
“ We hope to keep up the good
work that the Ansoteguis have
started,” she added.
Barb and Lee Ansotegui bought
the feed store 14 years ago from
Cornett and Florence Green, who
started the business.
Since purchasing the store in June
of 1976, the Ansoteguis, who came
from Pendleton, have made some
changes, adding a chainsaw shop and
a saddle shop Lee plans on staying
on at the store for about a month, so
that Mike is able to learn more about
saddle repairs. After that, Lee says
he plans to start a business building
new saddles. Barb says that for now,
she will just see what comes. The
Ansoteguis have three children,
Doug, 32, Darwin, 28 and Cara, 14.
New manager at Schwab
Chuck Short, 35, of Moscow,
Idaho, has been selected manager of
the Heppner Les Schwab store.
Short, who has been an assistant
manager at the Moscow Les Schwab
store the past year, has been with the
company for 10 years. He started
with Les Schwab at the Coeurd-
Alene store and also worked for five
years as manager at Priest River.
Short and his wife, Debra, have
two children. Lexie, 10 and Angie
2. He says that his family likes small
town logging and farming
communities.
Short replaces Mike Proctor.
Heppner Les Schwab manager for
the past four years. Proctor and his
wife, Kay, recently bought Green
Feed and Seed store in Heppner.
Chuck Short
Heppner’s strengths, weakness analyzed
A SWOT analysis prepared for the
city of Heppner by the Oregon
Economic Development Department
has been recently received by com
munity leaders.
The analysis assesses strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and
threats (SWOT) of the community.
According to the analysis, Hepp
ner has:
♦A strong economic base which is
expected to remain stable through
the next decade;
♦A solid base of government
employment which is permanently
located in the community, mostly to
serve the natural resource industries;
*The virtues of a small town
lifestyle;
*A strong core of dedicated com
munity leaders, including a number
of women and a cross-section of age
groups that have made some signifi
cant accomplishments over the next
years;
♦Nearby recreation opportunities
which attract a major hunting and
fishing population during those
seasons. The recent addition of
Willow Creek Lake reservoir pro
vides a summer swimming, boating
and skiing opportunity just outside
of town;
♦An impressive basic health care
system for a small town, with good
services for an elderly population;
♦Historic charm with a good inven
tory of older homes, some historic
downtown buildings and an excellent
museum; and
♦A convenience oriented retail
sector which provides the basics for
local residents.
Weaknesses include:
♦A relatively isolated location;
♦No industrial sites because of the
topography and flood plain;
♦Recent publicity about the
Willow Creek dam leaking water
and the closure of the last automobile
dealership;
♦Few accom m odations for
travelers; and
Grand jury finds no
card-lock violations
A Morrow County Grand Jury has
not found the operators of three
gasoline card locks to be in violation
of the ban on retail self-service.
The grand jury returned its finding
late Monday afternoon following
almost three days of taking evidence
on the issue, according to Morrow
County District Attorney Jeff
Wallace.
According to Wallace, the grand
jury considered evidence presented
by Lexington service station owner
Victor Klinger and others who argue
that the three gasoline card locks in
Morrow County are in violation of
Oregon law. In returning a “ not true
bill," the grand jury chose not to
charge the card locks with violating
Oregon’s ban on retail self-service.
♦Political divisiveness between
north and south Morrow County.
According to the analysis, oppor
tunities include expanding the retiree
population; increased tourism travel
as the Forest Service completes its
plan to designate Highway 74 as part
of a scenic byway; building on suc
cessful events such as the St.
Patrick’s Day festival; development
by the Port of Morrow in south Mor
row County; and potential as a
bedroom community to the growing
agri-business area along the Colum
bia River.
Authors of the economic develop
ment analysis believe threats to the
community are the continued
dependence on natural resource sec
tors because it puts the economic
base of the community at the mercy
of two highly cyclical industries; and
national and state regulatory con
cerns which could hinder future
development and limit alternative
economic opportunities.
The analysis recommends that:
♦The
Heppner
Econom ic
Development Corporation and the
Chamber of Commerce encourage
local residents to shop at local
businesses;
♦The
Heppner
Economic
Development Corporation develop a
strategic plan to guide their future
activities and seek broad-based sup
port for their agenda;
♦The economic development
organizations and other civic groups
in Heppner be players in helping the
county address important regulatory
issues; and
♦Plans to improve the facilities at
Willow Lake should be expedited.
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