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Museum-A Storehouse
of Heppner Heritage
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The Morrow County Museum, a
srorehousc of local history, is located
on Main Street in Heppner, near the
city park.
American artifacts to contemporary
worlc of area artists make the Mor-
row County Museum fascinating to
casual visitors and students of local
history.
The museum is open year-round,
I - p. m. daily except Thursdays and
Fridays.
Next to the mu9eWII and library is
an old one-room school house
relocated here on July 4, 1976 as
pan of the Heppner Bi-Cemennial
Six exhibit rooms display over
5000 items, primarily pioneer ar-
tifacts and family memorabilia. Hun-
dreds of photographs document the
social, economic, and technological
development of Morrow County.
Exhibits Ranging from l~ycar-
old medical instruments to native
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Willow Creek Dam first roller compacted dam in U.S.
Willow Creek Dam is a flood con-
aol project designed to proleCl the
city of Heppner. In 1903, Heppner
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uperienccd one of the most
devUling floods in the hiscory of che
United Stales. Two hundred forty-
seven people perished in the flash
flood. The project was designed to
prevent a recurrence of a similar
disaster. Storage for future irrigation
is aho part of the project. A lake for
water comcrvation and irrigation
will be maintained at an elevation of
around 2 ,00J fe.ct. When a flood oc-
curs, the flood waters are caugh~ and
orcd, and Jowly released unt1J the
lalce return to that elevation.
The dam 1s a concrete gravity
structure, 160 feet high from the
lowest point in the foundation, and
I 780 fe.ct long at the crest. A gravi-
dam u
it own weight to with -
tand the force of the impounded
water and docs not have to transfer
these forces to the abutment . Thi
ty
is the most common type of design
for concrete dams.
Willow Creek Dam is the first ma-
jor dam constructed in the United
Stales using the roller compacted
concrete (RCC) technique. Much
drier than the soupy mixture that is
normally seen with concrete pour ,
RCC concrete is made by quarrying
rock in the reservoir area and pro-
cc sing it to materials mailer than
three inche . To this is added ce-
ment , water and sand . The mixture
looks and handle much like damp
gravel fill or road base. It was haul-
ed to the dam ite in truck , pread
in one-foot layers, and compacted
with rolling equipment. Because of
the cement in the mix, the mass
hardens into concrete with trength
actually exceeding that of conven-
tional mass concrete. Another ma-
jor advantage is that its costs are onc-
th ird those of a conventional mass
concrete structure.
in the United States built entirely of
RCC . Prior to selecting this con-
struction method, the Corps con-
ducted exhaustive tests to insure that
the RCC produced, using the same
materials from this site, would have
the same strength and performance
as standard mass concrete. The tests
showed that Willow Creek Dam met
all standard design criteria for con-
crete gravity dams and has safety
factors that actually exceed all of the
standards.
Willow Creek Dam
Although RCC has been used in
portion of many dams throughout
the United States and the world,
Willow Creek will be the first dam
Construction began in September
1980 with the award of the first
relocation contract. The main con-
tract for the dam was awarded to
EUCON Corporation in November
I 981. The dam was completed in
1983. Estimated total costs of the
project , including e~gineering and
design, lands, relocatJons, roads and
other related work were around S37
million.
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Welcome Cycle Oregon Ill Bikers
Heppner has put out a new
welcome mat--three of them as a
matter of fact . Three wooden signs,
over two years in the planning, have
been erected at the entrances to the
city, one near the golf course, one
near the fairgrounds and one near the
Willow Creek turnoff.
The three signs , all saying
welcome to Heppner, were design-
ed and constructed by Ron Forrar.
The wood was donated by Kinzua
Heppner Chamber of Commerce,
St. Patrick's Committee and the ci-
ty planning commission donated
toward the cost of the signs. Space
for placement of the signs was
donated by the Willow Creek Coun-
try Club, Mrs. Clarence Warren and
Fred Hoskins.
One of the signs is painted widt
shamrocks and trees, one with the
Willow Creek Dam and trees, and
the odler with rnowuins and uees.
Planning for the signs spanned two
Chamber of Commerce presidents,
Forrie Burlcenbine and Cliff Green,
said chamber manager Claudia
Hughes.
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We also have:
Hard Ice Cream
Frozen Yogurt
Donuts
Bagels
Pies
Sandwiches
Homemade curly fries
We make orders to go
Serving breakfast daily
FULL breakfast menu
SPECIAL BIKEIIS aOIJIIS
Sun. & Mon.
6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
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makes a lovely gift.
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Come by & see us on Main St. next to Cht!vron
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Len & Annie Schwarz
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New signs
welcome
visitors
Lil Boyce shows off display at Morrow County Museum
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celebration. The school and its lit-
tle outhou e were originally located
at Democrat Gulch , approximately
30 miles south we t of Heppner.
Member of the farming communi-
ty in that area sent their children to
school in the building from
1880-1940.
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