Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 17, 1991 - THREE
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Letters to the Editor
Medical board clarifies financial info
To the Editor:
As members of the Morrow Coun
ty Medical Board, we want to take
this opportunity to comment and
clarify the financial information
presented June 26, 1991, in the Col
umbia Valley Chronicle and
reprinted in the Heppner-Gazette
Times. We felt some individuals
might find the financial information
confusing.
For the budget year, July 1990,
through June 1991, the Medical
Board’s total budget was $4.0
million of which only $400,000 was
from tax revenues. The remaining
$3.6 million came from outside the
tax revenues. This was generated
Marriage Licenses
The Clerks’ office at the cour
thouse in Heppner reports issuing the
following marriage licenses during
the past week:
July 11: Timothy Wesley Shas-
teen, 25, Boardman; and
Deana N. G illiland,
19,
Boardman.
July 15: George Daniel Phillips,
20, Boardman; and
Marilee Huffman, 18, Boardman.
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from patient fees, predominately
from Pioneer Memorial Hospital,
Nursing Home, Clinic and Am
bulance service together with
revenue from Home Health which
serves three counties.
The board has tried, as needs have
been identified, to allocate the tax
revenue evenly between the Board-
man/Irrigon area and the rest of the
county.This has not been possible
every year. Last year, the Board-
man/Irrigon area received $210,000
vs. $190,000 for services to the rest
of the county. For the second year
in a row, more than 50 percent of the
tax revenue has been allocated to the
Boardman/Irrigon area.
The Medical Board has struggled
for some time to provide the services
people desire and would use county
wide with the tax revenues available.
Your help and ideas on ac
complishing community goals for
medical services is needed through
your involvement in the Communi
ty Encourager Program.
Medical services in Morrow
County are a public program. It is
only with help through public input
that the board will be able to center
on the health care goals important to
the county as a whole while meeting
individual communities’ health care
needs.
Morrow County Medical Board
(s) Jackie Bergstrom, chairman
Paul Sumner, vice chairman
Bill Sheirbon, secretary
Roger Cash
John Hascall
Kelli Strebin
Lori Pruitt
Merle Cowett
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The Sheriffs office at the cour
thouse in Heppner reports dispat
ching the following business during
the past week:
July 9: Morrow County deputy
responded to take a theft complaint;
advised a civil matter;
Morrow County Sheriffs office
dispatched the Boardman ambulance
to the Boardman Chevron for a 25
year old male with an unknown il
lness. There was no transport.
July 10: Morrow County deputy
responded to the Irrigon area to in
vestigate a juvenile problem;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to Irrigon to investigate an animal
problem;
Morrow County Sheriffs office
arrested Robert Gene Morley, 23, on
a Umatilla County Warrant for
Failure To Appear/Driving While
Suspended felony. Subject was lodg
ed at the Umatilla County jail.
July 11: Morrow County deputy
assisted Boardman Police depart
ment with removing some unwanted
subject at a local business;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to take a report of a missing per
son in the Boardman area;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to the Irrigon area to deliver an
emergency message;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to the Boardman area to try to
locate a speeding vehicle;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to the Lexington area to deliver
an emergency message.
July 12: Morrow County Sheriffs
office dispatched the Boardman am
bulance to a motor vehicle accident
on Hwy 730, mile post 169. One
male subject was transported to
Good Shepherd Hospital;
Morrow County Sheriffs office
dispatched the Arlington ambulance
to a residence for a non-emergency
transport to The Dalles;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to a business in Irrigon to in
vestigate a theft of services;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to a report of mailbox vandalism
in Irrigon;
Morrow County deputy and Mor
row County ambulance responded to
a motor vehicle accident on highway
207. Three subjects were transported
to Pioneer Memorial Hospital;
Morrow County deputy cited
Crescencio Chavez for Driving
Under the Influence of Intoxicants.
Chavez was cited and released;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to an Irrigon residence to check
the welfare of a resident. Everything
checked out to be okay.
July 13: Morrow County Sheriffs
office dispatched the Arlington am
bulance to a report of a woman with
an unknown illness on 1-84 mile post
147. There was no transport;
Morrow County Sheriffs office
lispatched the Boardman ambulance
to the Marina Park. One male was
'ransported to Good Shepherd
Hospital.
July 14: Morrow County Sheriff s
jffice dispatched the Fossil am
bulance for a transport of a male
vith an unknown illness;
Morrow County deputy respond-
A to the Boardman Marina to
deliver an emergency message.
Message was delivered;
Morrow County deputy assisted a
Heppner citizen with a neighborhood
matter;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to the Irrigon Park Marina for a
report of vandalism. A juvenile was
cited and released for criminal
Mischief;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to the Wilson Trailer Court in Ir
rigon, for a report of an animal pro
blem. Problem was solved;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to a residence on 9th St. Irrigon.
for a report of a possible burglary in
Progress. Call was unfounded;
Morrow County deputy assisted a
disabled motorists on Highway 730
in the Irrigon area;
Morrow County deputy received
a report of a witness to an attemp
ted vandalism to some phone booths
in Irrigon. Suspects fled the scene;
Morrow County deputy assisted
Boardman Police department with a
Driving Under the Influence of In
toxicants arrest.
July 15: Morrow County deputy
arrested Timothy Dale Whitaker.
30, Irrigon for Driving Under the In
fluence of Intoxicants. Whitaker was
cited and released;
Morrow County deputy received
information from an Irrigon resident
of a speeding driver in the Irrigon
area;
Morrow County deputy respond
ed to the Philippi residence on Kunzc
Road in Boardman for a report of il
legal littering. Investigation is
continuing.
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Last week the Gazette-Times ran
a picture of the Willow Creek Little
League All Stars The picture was
taken by Lisa Willman Proper photo
credit was not given.
Chamber Chatter
Harvest Time
By Claudia Hugh— , Chamber Manager
After spending a week in Boulder,
Colorado, at the Chamber Institute
for Organization Management, I
realize there are mountains and
there are mountains.’ The Rocky
Mountains, known as the Flatirons
in Boulder, are something to see.
Three hundred fifty cham ber
managers and staff attended this in
stitute. Classes were held from 7:45
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. all week with ad
vance study and testing as well as
mandatory attendance required. The
classes and instructors were ex
cellent. In addition, the networking
with people from all over the United
States was beneficial. I found Kan
sas and Nebraska chambers to share
much common ground with the
Heppner chamber. The Mid-West is
also dealing with numerous environ
mental issues; 21 in Forth Collins
alone. The important goal for all
chambers, large or small, is to focus
on quality and to create an environ
ment where people and businesses
wish to be. I’ll be sharing more
about the Boulder experience next
week during the chamber business
meeting.
Chamber members have indicated
an interest in a Forest Service field
trip. This is scheduled for Tuesday
afternoon, August 6. Our noon pro
gram will relate to the tour, which
will take up most of the afternoon
and part of the evening. More infor
mation will be available next week
at chamber. Please sign up if you
wish to attend.
Mark your calendars for Heppner
clean-up, Saturday, August 3.
Thought for the week: “ It isn’t
our position but our disposition
which makes us happy.’’
Wheat harvest got underway just
after the 4th in a big way. Potato digg
ing is just now starting and of course
haying goes on and on all summer
long. It’s a busy time in most of Eastern
Oregon’s farming county.
Even the garden is producing. I’m
writing this piece with one hand and
munching a cold cucumber with the
other.
And there’s nothing like it anywhere
across the country.
You have to admire those folks who
work in some factory somewhere mak
ing a little part of something bigger,
making tens or hundreds or thousands
of the same little part day after day.
Come quitting time they can look at a
pile of widgets and say “ I made that little wheel on every one of these.’’
The next morning when they come to work, the widgets are all gone and
there’s more little wheels to make.
It takes a special kind of person to go to the same office every day and
make out forms or type letters all day and come quitting time they can
say “ look at the pile of papers, I put all those words on them.’’ Then come
back the next day and do it all over again.
People who don’t see, can’t participate in, the whole cycle of things miss
a great deal, it seems to me. You see, for a farmer, and many of the folks
who work for and around him, there’s a plant, grow and harvest cycle
that is particularly rewarding. To me, the greatest satisfaction must come
from seeing with your own eyes the transformation of seed to product that
goes with growing an annual crop.
That annual transformation involves a variety of skills and different kinds
of work. Even today, a farmer must be a welder and a soil chemist, a
tractor driver and a computer bookkeeper, a diesel mechanic and a com
modities trader. And during the cycle there are a multitude of tests of his
skill at each of these tasks. Success shows up in the bottom line, failure
means a dose of humble pie in the banker’s office. Too many failures at
too many tasks and he’s looking for one of those factory jobs with a
bankruptcy on his record.
But few farmers I know do it for the money. Most earn a good living
all right, but that is not the real reason farmers farm. It’s the sheer joy
of seeing the seed you plant sprout, grow green and lush, mature into food
or fibre and be delivered for distribution across the world. There’s a special
calling in that that makes the effort worth while.
Farming is not a job or even a business like other people have. It’s more
like an obsession.
I’ve known third generation saw millers who have a strong sense of iden
tity with the mill that Granddad saw through the depression, that Dad rebuilt
from the ground up and that son had raised a family while serving. Those
folks talk and act like saw milling is hereditary, part of the family, more
akin with every generation. But it isn’t the same as farming.
I know a fourth generation grocer. Great Granddad sold produce when
he was fresh off the boat. Granddad had a store in the East. Dad still has
his store in Seattle and son now has two stores of his own. Selling groceries
is in the blood so deep, grandson can see no other future. But it isn’t the
same as farming.
Farming is not necessarily a father-to-son thing. It is not even the future
fathers see for their sons, and frequently not the work farmers sons take
up. It is not lucrative enough to attract hundreds of new college graduates
every year.
Farming is more a calling. There’s some mystical quality beyond defini
tion that keeps farmers going on year after year. Only part of it is the ela
tion of harvest.
Part of it must be that farming is on a higher plane than other kinds
of work. It is essential to life. It is more like the rising sun than another
styrofoam cooler. It is an ancient kind of work, older than carpentry, or
automaking. And inspite of how it may seem from time to time, farming
will go on farther into the future than we can imagine.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22
Harvest is the best time of the cycle. Great satisfaction overcomes the
hard work, worry about the weather, uncertainty about the future. This
is the time of year I most envy my farmer friends. And the time when
I most applaud their gift.
Harvest is here, what a great time of year.------------------------------_
Births____
Alfred Aidan Burt-a son Alfred
Aidan, was bom to Karla and A1
Burt, Heppner, on June 28, 1991, at
St. Anthony’s hospital in Pendleton.
The baby weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz.
Grandparents are Jo and A1 Burt,
Heppner, Marlene and Tom Pointer,
Lexington; and Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Davidson, The Dalles.
Great-grandmother is Ruby Um-
barger, T roy, Idaho. G reat
grandfather is Howard Eubanks,
Condon.
Justice Court
Report____
The Justice Court office at the
courthouse annex building in Hepp
ner reports handling the following
business during the past week:
C lifford Loren Lucas, 22,
Pendleton-Driving While Suspend
ed, $341 fine;
Mark D. Schm eltzer, 33,
Heppner-Tandem Axel Overload,
36,000 with a weight limit of
34,000, $28 bail forfeited;
James Arlen Hoduffer, 46,
Dundee-Exceeding the Maximum
Speed Limit, 72 mph in a 55 mph
zone, $65 bail forfeited;
Randy
Sm ith,
Heppner-
Fumishing Alcohol to Minors, $701
fine, 30 days in jail, $300 and 30
days in jail suspended with one year
probation no further violation of law
excluding minor traffic;
Charles Peck, 20, Heppner-Minor
in Possesion, $85 fine.
Weather Report
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St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
Bulletin Board
A large crowd was present at the Senior Center mealsite Wednesday Ju
ly 10, when Dr. Jeanne Berretta introduced Ken Niles of the Oregon Depart
ment of Energy. He gave a slide presentation outlining the health hazards
associated with Hanford. It was a very interesting informative program.
One hundred seventeen people were present for dinner and three dinners
were taken out. Members of the Seventh Day Adventist and Nazarene chur
ches served. Helen Crawford won the free meal ticket. Door prizes were
given to Frances Murty, Bernice Thomson and Dr. Jeanne Berretta.
The menu for July 24 will be sweet and sour pork with rice, brussels
sprouts, applesauce, biscuit and cookies. Members of the Methodist church
will serve.
The senior center activity committee will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday Ju
ly 24 following lunch. This is an important meeting and all members should
attend if possible. Plans will be made concerning the fair.
The quitters meet on Mondays, 1-4 p.m. All the blocks have been com
pleted for the new quilt and are being set together. This is a beautiful St.
Patrick's quilt to be raffled next March. Tuesday and Thursday 10-10:30
a m. is exercise time and Tuesdays 1-4 p.m. is hobby time.
A senior center office staff meeting will be Tuesday, July 23 at 10:30 a.m.
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