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Fair and Rodeo court raffle afghan 35C azette imes VOL. 111 NO. 18 14 Pages Wednesday, May 13, 1992 Morrow County Heppner, Oregon Ranger District open house well attended The Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Court will again be raffling a beautiful knit afghan this year. The afghan was made and donated to the court by Queen Jenni Ashbeck’s grandmother, Dolores Ayres of The Dalles. Tickets will be on sale from each of the court members and at Gardner's Men’s Wear in Hepp ner, for $1 each or six for $5. The afghan will be on display at Gard ner’s. A lucky winner will be an nounced at the Morrow County Rodeo on Friday, August 21, 1992. Jeanneine Pettyjohn of Heppner was last year’s winner. PT kxo by Joyc* HughM L-R: Princess Angie Partlow, Shelly Ashbeck, Staci O’Brien and Queen Jenni Ashbeck display afghan to be raffled. Library district-park bond on ballot May 19 Voters will decide the fate of several ballot measures when they go to the polls Tuesday, May 19. Boardman and Heppner voters will vote on formation of a library district with a $140,684 tax base and on library board members, all of whom are unopposed. Proponents of the district say that local libraries will close unless a district is formed and that some district tax payers will pay less for libraries than they had previously. Boardman voters will decide a 10-year $100,000 Boardman Park and Recreation District bond issue for improvements including electrical and irrigation improvements. A state measure, if passed, will amend the Oregon Constitution so that future fuel taxes and vehi cle registration surcharges may to go police for the policing of roads. Kindergarten registration scheduled Children in the Heppner school area who will be in kindergarten next fall are encouraged to attend a visitation/registration day Thursday, May 21 at Heppner Elementary School. Parents should call the school office at 676-9128 to set up a time for the visit. Kindergarten teacher, Cherry Webber, will spend about 20 minutes with I mail groups o f children throughout the day. There will be a story, a simple craft to make and plenty of conversation so that children might feel more comfor table about coming to school in the fall. Parents will need to spend that time taking care of registration. Parents need to bring a birth cer tificate as proof of birth date and an immunization record. Children must be five years old by September 1, 1992 to register for kindergarten in Oregon. Thee will be no regular kindergarten class on that day. Oregon Trail grant deadline extended Photo by Joyce Hughes L-R: Former Ranger Roger Williams, chamber president LoRayne Bowman, present Ranger Delanne Ferguson, mayor Kay Robinson, city adiminstrator Gary Marks and building owner Ruby Shears all help with the cutting of the ribbon. Over 200 people visited the new Heppner Ranger District of fices on their open house held May 6 in Heppner. On hand for the dedication ceremony was former Heppner Ranger Roger Williams, who had a part in planning the move from the previous district offices. Williams now works at the Fre mont National Forest super visor's office at Silver Lake. Bet ween 50 and 75 people attended the dedication. Other speakers included cur rent Heppner District Ranger Delanne Ferguson. Chamber of Commerce president LoRayne Bowman, who also read a letter from Morrow County Judge Louis Carlson, Heppner City ad ministrator Gary Marks and Ruby Shears, building owner. The district provided punch and cookies and tours of the new facility and also held a tree give-away. In addition to the 200 in dividuals passing through the new offices, first, second and third grade classes, Camp Fire Girls and Boy Scouts toured the new building. The building allows all 45 per manent district employees to be under one roof and will ac comodate the anticipated influx of temporary help in the summer. Office space has been increased from around six thousand square feet in several offices scattered around Heppner to nine thousand square feet. The new facility also has a large conference room. The Forest Service previously had to rent a building for large meetings or conferences. Offices had been located on Willowview Drive up towards the high school, the Coast to Coast Building and the Pettyjohn Building. John Prag named realtor of the year John Prag attended last week’s Columbia Basin board of Realtor of the Year luncheon. As it turned out, Prag was honored as the year’s top Realtor for his many contributions to the industry including a role organiz ing the group that honored him. Prag, who had owned Mt. Valley Land Co. in Boardman until recently, helped recently, helped organize the local board, according to Linda Seavert, who presented the annual award to Prag. Prag was involved in real estate soon after graduating from the University of Oregon when he started working for a title com- pany. He developed buildings in Gearhart and the Portland area before moving to Joseph where he was involved in farming and real estate sales. Prag was growing potato seed in the Joseph area and selling the seed in the Hermiston and Board- man area. When collecting for some sales became difficult, Prag traded seed for land rent and moved to Boardman to farm in that area. He became involved in real estate sales, helped create a title company and has been instrumen tal in many development projects in the Boardman area, Seavert told the luncheon audience. H ep p n er TV to air com ic relief Heppner TV Inc. is opening Channel 14 to bring all their subscribers an event that is one of the cable industry’s most im portant charitable causes of rais ing funds for A m erica’s homeless. HBO signal of the fifth Comic Relief original program will be carried on Channel 14, Saturday, May 16. at 9 p.m. for four hours of comedy with Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg as hosts, live from Los Angeles. In addition to local involvement in the real estate profession, Prag has been involved at regional and state levels of the profession and active in several community organizations. “ John believes that we should all be involved in our communi ty affairs,’’ said Seavert, “ and his civic mindedness has led him to be involved with ECOAC, GEODC, the Morrow County School Budget Committee, Boardman planning Commission and other local concers.” Prag went ahead with the speech he had prepared discuss ing his campaign for Morrow County Commissioner after ex pressing his complete surprise and appreciation for the honor. In his remarks, Prag listed three major issues he is taking to the race in Morrow County. Pay ing for needed government ser vices under the restrictions im posed by Measure 5, maintaining the viability of local communities in the mid to late 1990's and beyond, and the erosion of private property rights by state and federal restrictions. The Morrow County Oregon Trail Task Force has extended the deadline for project proposals re questing funds from the Oregon Trail Coordinating Committee’s grant program for the 1993 ses- quicentennial celebration. The original local deadline was May 1, but significant response and the desire to encourage county-wide participation has prompted the Task Force to ex tend the deadline to May 15. Anyone with questions concern ing the procedure or criteria for applying for funding assistance for Oregon Trail Projects is en couraged to contact Marsha Sweek at the Morrow County Museum. lone High baccalaureate service set The lone High School senior class Baccalaureate service will be held on Thursday, May 21 at 7 p.m. at Valby Lutheran Church located on the Ione-Gooseberry Road. Members of the senior class will participate in the service, singing special music, leading responsive readings and reading scripture. Pastor Stan Hoobing of the Valby congregation will preach on the theme: “ What is Truth?” based on the scripture reading of St. John 8:31-38. A coffee hour will be held in the fellowship hall following the service. Deputy treasure qualifies M orrow County Deputy Treasurer Marilyn A. Childers has qualified for a certificate of professional qualification from Marylhurst College under a pro gram established jointly by the college and the Oregon Associa tion of County Treasurers and Finance Officers (OACTFO). To qualify for the certificate, county officials must update their knowledge of current trends in technical, managerial and com munication skills and become familiar with changes in Oregon’s finance statutes, said Dr. Mike Burton, assistant to the president at Marylhurst and director of the certification program. The cer tificate is valid for two years and is renewable under OACTFO guidelines. The Marylhurst pro gram is the only one of its kind in Oregon. W eed crops tour planned May 19 A county-wide weed and crops crops such as “ canola’’ grass chers and agricultural industry tour will take place on May 19 seed, triticale, and peas. The tour representatives. starting in Heppner. This tour will concentrate on the south side “ The tour is being held on will be sponsored by the Morrow of Morrow County for 1992. primary election day and will be County Soil and Water Conser Participants are asked to over in time for everyone to vation District, Morrow County assemble at the Morrow County vote,” said tour sponsors. Weed Department, Morrow fairgrounds in Heppner at 9 a.m. Farmers who have pesticide County Soil Conservation Service on Tuesday, May 19. Orientation licenses can get credit for three and the Morrow County Exten and coffee will last until 9:30 hours of instruction by attending sion Service. Jerry Anderson, a.m. The group will board the tour. Dave Pranger, Loren Unruh and vehicles for the tour. Guests will For more information contact Don Rydrych will be in charge. include dealers, farmers, resear- the Morrow County Extension Tour stops will highlight office, 676-9642. agricultural interests in Morrow County. Topics will include com mercial cheatgrass control in winter cereals, herbicide trials for broadleaf and grass weed control in wheat, biological control of Voters will go to the polls City Hall; 05 North Irrigon-North perennial weeds using natural Tuesday, May 19, to decide the M orrow Annex; 06 South predators, straw and residue fate of national, state, county and Irrigon-Irrigon City Hall; 07 management in cultivated and ir local issues and candidates. Lexington-Mormon Church; 08 rigated wheat fields, and NE Heppner-Old City Hall; 09 Polls will be open from 7 a.m. hydroseeding for the establish to 8 p.m. at the following NW Heppner-Pettyjohn Office ment of permanent grass cover in locations: Building; 10 SE Heppner and 11 disturbed soil environments. In 01 North Boardman-Greenfield SW Heppner-Morrow County addition, the tour will include a Grange; 02 South Boardman- Courthouse. For information on candidates weed identification contest for Good Shepherd Lutheran farmers and visitors. The tour Church; 03 Hardman-Morrow and issues look in this week's will drive by many established County Courthouse; 04 lone-lone Gazette-Times. Voting places announced by clerk Bank o f EastemOregon HOME LOAN PROGRAM Rates as low as 7.875% Member FDIC
