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City of Heppner officials held
a ground breaking ceremony at
the site of the scheduled addition
to the city fire hall. Construction
of the metal building is schedul
ed to begin on July 22 and is ex
pected to be completed within 60
days.
The building, which will be
around 40 feet by 66 feet will
house two fire engine bays, a
small training room and office
and restrooms with a shower.
Contractor for the outer shell
of the building is Knerr Construc
tion of Hermsiton, who is also
working on the new emergency
management building in Hepp
ner, formerly the U.S. Forest
Service building.
Fireworks banned
on forest lands
Rietmann family to preside over lone’s 4th
The Rietmann Family - back (l-r) John, Brenna 2V ì , Lisa, Jerry, Emily, 3, Joe and Donna. Front
Kerry, Jeremy 10, Nathan 13, and Betty.
By Anne Morter
Activities get underway this
Saturday at 4 p.m. to kick off
lone’s annual Fourth of July
celebration. This year’s theme is
“ The Trail From Independence
To lone...For the Independence
I Own’’. Saturday’s highlights
will include various sporting
events and the first annual Ken
Snider Memorial auction. On
Sunday, a full slate of events is
scheduled to provide an assort
ment of family entertainment and
plenty of good eating.
An ever-popular feature is the
parade, this year presided over by
Betty Rietmann and her family as
grand marshals. Betty Anson
Rietmann comes from pioneer
stock from the Grande Ronde
V alley o f LaG rande. Her
ancestors built one of the first
cabins in the valley in 1862 and
family members continue to farm
the original century farm. She
was raised and educated in or
near La Grande, receiving her
teaching degree from Eastern
Oregon State College (then
Eastern Oregon College) in 1952.
Betty was a young school
teacher in Pendleton when she
met her future husband. Bob
Rietmann, on the ski slopes of the
Blue Mountains. Bob was also of
pioneer stock. His mother was a
descendent of Katie and Emanuel
Pettys, who settled Pettysville on
Willow Creek east of lone. His
fath e r’s parents, Paul and
Margaret Rietmann, settled north
of lone in 1883. Betty and Bob
married in 1953 and established
their home in lone that year.
Betty stayed at home for 15
years, raising three sons, John,
Joe and Jerry, and helping on the
farm. In mid-August on 1968,
she received a call from a
desperate school principal, who
found himself without a first
grade teacher. He pleaded with
her to take the job “ for just one
year.’’ The rest is history as Betty
just finished her 25th year at lone
Elementary. “ I never regretted
it,” says Betty.
Betty continues to live on the
farm and be involved in the farm
operation after Bob’s death this
spring. All of her sons and their
wives also farm in the lone area.
Besides being active in the lone
United Church of Christ, Betty
has served on many committees
during the years to assist in the
improvement of education in
Morrow County. She currently
serves on the Morrow County
Children and Youth Services
Commission. In 1992, she was
named the Citizen/Educator of
of the Year by the Heppner
Chamber of Commerce. She is a
member of the Pendleton Branch
of the University Women and
lone American Legion Post #95
Auxiliary.
The Rietmanns, with Betty, her
sons, their wives and four grand
children, will tour the parade
route in an authentic covered
wagon keeping with the Oregon
Trail theme. “ It’s a real honor to
do this,” states Betty.
After a day of festivities, the
Rietmanns will watch the Bob
Rietmann Memorial Fireworks
display, dedicated to Bob for his
45 continuous years of striving to
make the display one of the best
in Eastern Oregon. The fireworks
show is scheduled to light up the
sky at dusk.
G-T closed Monday, July 5
The Heppner Gazette-Times
will be closed Monday, July 5, in
observance of the Fourth of Ju
ly. News deadline for the July 7
Gazette-Times will be Friday, Ju
ly 2 at 5 p.m. Advertising will re
main the same, Tuesday at 5 p.m.
The Gazette wishes everyone a
safe and happy holiday.
The nation’s birthday is ap
proaching again and this is the
time of the year many people plan
to visit the forest. Campgrounds
and other recreation sites are ex
pected to be full over the long
holiday
w eekend.
Enjoy
“ America’s Great Outdoors” ,
but please leave the fireworks at
home, says the U.S. Forest
Service.
For fire prevention and safety
reasons, all types of fireworks are
prohibited in national forests,
even sparklers and smokebombs.
They can produce enough heat to
easily start a forest or range fire.
“ What many people d on’t
realize, is that it is unlawful to
transport any type of fireworks
into a National Forest,” said
Umatilla National Forest super
visor Jeff Blackwood.
Forest regulations prohibit
possessing, discharging, or use of
any kind of fireworks on national
forest lands. Visitors should also
be extra careful with campfires,
cigarettes and chainsaws in the
forest. Violators found guilty of
starting a forest fire may be
assessed fire suppression costs or
subject to fine.
“ Come enjoy the National
Forest for your 4th of July holi
day, but remember to leave the
fireworks at home,” says the
USFS.
CCC approves
Grain Growers
warehouses
Grains stored by farmers in the
Morrow County Grain Growers
at any of their facilities are again
eligible for price support loans
since the facility has been
restored to the list of warehouses
approved by the Commodity
Credit Corporation, the Morrow
County Agricultural Conserva
tion and Stabilization Service said
Monday.
MCGG was suspended May 17
for adverse conditions noted in an
earlier inspection, according to an
ASCS news release. The ASCS
commodity office approved a
reinstatement agreement effective
June 18. CCC owned or loan
commodities, or commodities
deliverd to CCC for purchase
under a private support program
can now be stored or handled
through Morrow County Grain
Growers.
Sidewalk bike
M orrow County Election Results
Special election June 29, 1993
Morrow County One year operating levy $3,240,535 outside the
tax base for fiscal year 1993-94
Heppner
Boardman
Irrigon
Hardman Lexington
lone
No
No Yes
No Yes
No Yes
Yes
No Yes
92
83 174
289 231 371 291 628 337 160
NO 1,034
YES 1,622
T o ta ls
Amendment of Oregon's Constitution allowing local voters to
authorize taxes outside Artcile XI limit to repay urban renewal
bonds.
Heppner
Irrigon
Boardman
Hardman Lexington
lone
No Yes
No Yes
No
No Yes
Yes
No Yes
148 108 150
209 277 248 402 422 494 88
No 1,471
Y es 1,075
T o ta ls
lone Rural Fire Protection District Operating levy
lone
Lexington
Totals
Yes 153
Yes 17
Yes 170
No 103
No 8
No 111
riding banned
City of Heppner Police Chief
Doug Rathbun reminds the com
munity that bicycle riding on
sidew alks is prohibited by
Oregon State Law.
Chief Rathbun said that he has
received a lot of complaints
recently about bicycle riding on
downtown sidewalks.
L-R: Jim Taft of Knerr Construction of Hermiston and Kay
Robinson, Mayor Bob Jepsen, Forrie Burkenbine and Gary
Marks shovel the first bit of dirt for the official groundbreaking
of the Heppner fire hall.
Two Boardman men arrested
Two Boardman men, Terrell
Lee Rea, 27 and Michael Gary
Pool, 40, were arrested June 25
as a result of a raid by the Blue
Mountain Enforcement Narcotics
Team and the Boardman Police.
The two were apprehended at a
rural residence several miles
southwest of Boardman.
Rea and Pool were each charg
ed with seven counts of posses
sion of stolen property, one count
of manufacturing and delivering
a controlled substance, possession
of more than one ounce of mari
juana and possession o f
methamphetamines.
Rea was also charged with one
count of menacing. When an of
ficer entered the second of two
trailers on the property, he
discovered Rea in a back
bedroom with a .22 semi
automatic handgun pointed at the
bedroom door. The officer, also
with his gun drawn, convinced
Rea to lower his weapon. Pool,
discovered in an outbuilding on
the west end of the property, sur
rendered without resistance.
In a search of the main trailer,
officers also discovered Pool’s
grandmother, whom they do not
believe is connected with the
incident.
The Blue Mountain Enforce
ment Narcotics Team is compris
ed of officers from the Morrow
County Sheriff s office. Oregon
State Police, the Hermiston
Police Department, the Pendleton
Police Department and the
Umatilla Sheriff s Department.
Celebrate the 4th of July
in lone July 3rd & 4th
"The Trail From Independence to
lone...For the {dependence 1 O w n"
4 p.m. Jr. 3 on 3 basketball tournament, kids
who have completed grades six, seven and eight
5 p.m. Ken Snider Memorial Scholarship Auction
following basketball tournament in gym;
6 p.m. Ken Snider Memorial Tennis Tournament
Call Betty Gray 422-7335.
6:30 p.m. Adult 3 on 3 basketball tournament. Cal
Gregg Rietmann 422-7243.
9:30 p.m. Youth dance, Legion Hall.
Sunday
6:30 a.m. Run/Walk registration begins. Call Jim
&
July 4
Michelle Raible 422-7037.
7:30 a.m. ‘Dawn’s Early Light’ fun run walk
begins. Meet at the flag at the football fields:
8:45 a.m.-Mass, St. Williams Catholic Church;
9 a.m.-Church services at lone United Church of
Christ and Valby Lutheran Church;
9:30 a.m.-Continental breakfast, city park;
run/walk prize drawings; free balloons for kids,
Main Street;
11 a.m. Parade. Call Del LaRue 422-7468. Meet
at MCGG elevator;
Noon. ICABO hamburger lunch, little league hot
dogs, Grange Bake sale, Fish pond, Flea market,
all at city park; pie and coffee, chalk drawing at
St. Williams Catholic Church, beer garden;
1 p.m. Straw money pile, face painting, frog jum
ping (frogs provided), horse shoes, wagon
display, all at city park; antique car display near
Bristow’s Market; Air Life display at school.
2 p.m. baseball throw, hoop shoot at city park;
volleyball tournament, lone school, call Barb
Peterson 422-7047; Bingo 2-5 p.m. at lone Legion
Hall; Historical Tour, meet in park.
3 p.m. Cow chip pitching contest, lone school;
free swimming.
4 p.m.Children’s races, baby crawl race, ages
0-2, lone School; Town tour, meet in park.
5:30 p.m. bed race, school football field, National
Guard Fly-by (?);
6 p.m. Kessler’s chicken dinner, lone school
cafeteria.
6:30 p.m.-Oregon Trail presentation, lone school
7 p.m. Well Springs tour, meet at school.
7:30-9 p.m Bingo, Legion Hall.
8:30 p.m.-Kiddy playpark at the school.
Dusk Bob Rietmann Memorial fireworks display,
football field. Concessions will be available at the
fireworks.
Following fireworks until 1:30 a.m. dance at the lone Legion
Hall. Music by I4NI.
Saturday
July 3
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