TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 13, 1993
FFA to raffle four cords of wood
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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.
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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
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ly 10 years by extension person
by City of Heppner
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including Oregon. The computer
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Weds.
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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
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Judge Wallace said that for the
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first several months, however,
cases in his district will be handl
ed by another judge, perhaps
Judge Rudy Murgo, because
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Wallace cannot try cases that he
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Reception held for Judge Wallace
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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