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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 13, 1993 FFA to raffle four cords of wood R City to provide incentive pay The Heppner City Council, at their regular meeting Monday, Jan. 11 approved a personnel evaluation system for city employees. The evaluation system includes salary incentives for top range employees. According to city ad ministrator Gary Marks an employee will be eligible to qualify for an incentive adjust ment only when he has reached the top of his salary range. The employee must achieve a rating of "above standard” or "outstan ding” . He will receive the merit pay for only one evaluation period and must qualify each evaluation period to maintain the incentive pay. The incentive pay will range between three and six percent. Non-supervisory employees will be ranked unsatisfactory, needs improvement, satisfactory, above standard or outstanding and receive zero to six points, respectively. Supervisory employees will receive zero, five 10, 15 or 20 points for their rank ing. Employees will be evaluated at least once a year. If an employee’s ranking is unsatisfac tory or needs improvement a six month review is mandated. Merit raises are permanent for the evaluation period upon ap proval by the city administrators and are effective the month following completion of a review. The next merit pay is in addi tion to cost of living increases. St. Patrick’s Senior Center Lutheran churches’ Bulletin Board schedule changed The Heppner FFA Chapter will hold a wood raffle this weekend Jan. 15 and 16. Four cords of wood will be raffled during the Heppner High School boys var sity basketball games, two cords on Friday and two on Saturday. school at 676-9138. Tickets are $1 each, six for $5. Money raised by the chapter is or 13 for $10. The group’s goal used for activities such as the na is $1,000. Tickets may be pur tional and state conventions, the chased from any FFA member, annual banquet, travel to contests at the games or by calling the high and awards. Reserve officers sworn in Reserve police officers l-r: Shanna Paullus, Randy Rayburn, Mike Sweek, Reese Shultz. Heppner Reserve Police of ficers were sworn in at a ceremony at Heppner City Hall on Monday. Jan. 11. Heppner assistant chief of police Merle Cowett conducted the ceremony and noted that the officers' training included 32 hours of classroom time. 16 hours of riding with a police of ficer which is required each month, a written exam, a han dgun qualifying course and self defense training. Two of the reserve officers. Mike Sweek and Reese Schultz have had prior police experience. Since the Heppner Police force has been decreased from three of ficers to two, because of Measure 5 cutbacks, Cowett said that the reserve officers w ill work as back ups with the regular officers and 'Savings may eventually be able to work on their own. The reserve officers w ill serve on strictly a volunteer basis. Cowett praised the reserve of ficers, commenting that they passed their firing range test the first time, all achieving at least the required 80 percent, and they passed their field training manual with scores ranging from 90 to 100 percent. BE READY TOGO! Get a Performance Plus Checkup and save on service work, too! Due to the annual meeting of the Valby Lutheran Church of lone, worship service schedules for Sunday, January 17 have been changed. Celebration of Holy Commu nion and Sunday ehool classes at Hope Lutheran Church, located near the Willow Creek Dam in Heppner, will be held at 9:00 a.m. Pastor Stan Hoobing will preach on the theme of "A Man I Did Not Know” , based on the scripture reading of St. John 1:29-41. The Valby Lutheran Church, located on the Ione-Gooseberry Road, will hold service of Holy Communion at 11:00 a.m. Following the worship service there will be a church potluck dinner. The annual meeting of the congregation will follow the dinner. There will not be any worship service held in Condon. The next worship service in Condon will be on Sunday, January 24 at 2:00 p.m. at the Condon United Church of Christ. While waiting for dinner to be served Wed. Jan. 6 Harriett Batty read two poems about aging. " If we can t laugh at ourselves once in a while, then someone else has to. We might as well beat them to it,” said a senior center spokesperson. There were 94 present for the dinner in spite of the bad weather, and four dinners were taken out. Members of the Methodist Church served. Ida Coleman won the meal ticket, W. McDaniel the door prize and the quest gift was given to Lea Mathieu of lone. The meal site committee met following the dinner. The menu for Jan. 20 is lasagna. meat, tossed salad with carrots, broccoli. French bread, pears and cookies. Members ot the Lutheran Church will serve. The Bank of Eastern Oregon will give a presentation on long term care Jan. 20. Please be in the dining room by 11:45 a.m. if you wish to attend. Dinner will follow. The seniors were saddened by the death ot Alta Cutsforth, a te nant of the St. Patrick Senior Center apartments. A reception was held in the dining room following the funeral. Dessert and coffee were served to family members and friends. Don’t forget: Monday, Bible study 10:30-11:30 a.m.. Quilting 1-4 p.m.; St. Patrick celebration quilt tickets on sale at Senior Center. Quilt is on display in sitting room. Tues. and Thursday 10-10:30 a.m. Farm financial workshop slated A farm financial management workshop will be held for wheat growers from Morrow. Wheeler and Gilliam counties at the county fairgrounds in Condon on January 21. from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. There is no charge for the workshop. Topics to be covered include ‘Filling Out a Cash Flow State ment’, and ‘Finpac for Farmers’. Finpac is an award winning farm financial management pro gram that has been used for near W e a th e r R e p o rt ly 10 years by extension person by City of Heppner nel in many parts of the country, Jan. 5 - » , 1992 including Oregon. The computer High Low Prec Snow software lets the grower or ran Tues. 25 13 .01 V* "new cher see the affect that any change Weds. 19 4 .05 1 % ’’new in operation will have on farm in Thurs. 15 4 .08 % "new come, profitability, cash flow. Fri. 18 2 .03 Vi’'new Sat. 21 1 .04 */* new Sun. 15 2 Tr Tr new Mon. 21 4 0 A reception was held for Judge Jeff Wallace at the Morrow County Courthouse in Heppner on Friday, Jan. 8. in honor of his investiture as district court judge. Judge Wallace says that he in tends to spend about a day and a half a week in Heppner to catch Boardman Pharmacy up on the backlog cases in the & Hardware area, and will spend about three 202 1st N.W. P O . Box 170 and a half days in Hermiston. Boardman. Oregon 97818 Judge Wallace said that for the 481-9474 481-7351 first several months, however, cases in his district will be handl ed by another judge, perhaps Judge Rudy Murgo, because Arthritis Caused by Wallace cannot try cases that he Acid Crystals was involved in as Morrow When someone says he or she County district attorney. Reception held for Judge Wallace Pharmacy & Your Health has arthritis, most of us think of either osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. With both types o f ar thritis there is a wearing away of cartilage, the soft, cushioning m a terial at the end of bones. With the destruction of cartilage, there is joint swelling, stiffness, and pain. There are several different types of arthritis. A type of arthritis caused by the build up of uric acid crystals in the joints and the bloodstream is known as gouty arthritis or simply “gout.” Get your tractor in top shape for the A n lo h A r / busy season and save at off-season ' 1 prices. We ll send a service technician ^ -------------------------- / directly to your farm for a Performance Plus Checkup of your Case. IH, or Case International tractor. Then, if you want repairs, we ll do them in our Service Center at a special discount. Don't wait until the busy season hits. Get your tractor ready to roll now at special Pre-Season Service Savings. Any questions please contact Service Center. \ Uric acid (sodium urate) is one of the body’s waste materials. It normally passes through the urine and is eliminated. When the body produces more than it can get rid of, this chemical accumulates. Tiny crystals of the chemical form in the blood as uric acid. The exact reason w hy some people get uric acid crys tals in the blood and others do not is unclear Heredity may play a role. Excess weight may be a factor, as is dnnking too much alcohol. Eating certain fixxls. such as liver and sar dines. can contribute to the prob lem. M orrow County G ra in G ro w ers 350 Main Street Lexington, Oregon 4 . 97839 The first step in gout treatment is to provide relief from severe pain Medicines routinely prescribed for this purpose include colchicine, indomethicin, and the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory medicines. The second step of treatment is to lower body unc acid levels. This is achieved with medicines such as allopurinol. probenecid, and sulfinpyrazone. New Judge Jeff Wallace - tJ Graduate to quality. Give them Vandstrom's Good through Feb. 28 and so on. It will tell a wheat grow er, for instance, the breakeven price of wheat that will allow him to pay off a new com bine as well as meet other obligations. The new “ Finpac for Farmers" computer program will cost an estimated $200 to $300. according to Oregon State U niversity farm financial management specialist Bart Eleveld. It will allow growers to input their own information. Eleveld will be joined on the program by area farm mange- ment agent Clark Seavert from Hood River. For more information contact the Gilliam County Extension of fice 384-2271. ti«rv !•» ORIGINAL BLACK HILLS GOLD CREATIONS I Memhpf Jewrlrrs of America. Inc Peterson’s C -^4 Heppner ' Tl --- 676 9200
