Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 23, 1994 - THREE
Vote yes on bond levy
The Official Newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
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Letters to the Editor
Vote for school bond issue
To the Editor:
I am writing in support of the
Morrow County School District’s
levy measure coming before the
voters in March.
The levy is definitely needed
with tremendous growth in the
north end of the county and
building needs and routine
maintenance needed in the south
end of the county. The Morrow
County School District has
always been frugal in asking for
bonded debt and just recently paid
off the only bonded debt that the
district had.
Voting in this bond will lower
your overall taxes because of the
decrease in tax rate because of
measure 5.
With interest rates at an all time
low and the cost of construction
never getting any cheaper, this is
an ideal time to make these im
provements to our district so our
kids can be proud of the facilities
that they go to school in. Please
vote yes on the Morrow County
School District on election.
Sincerely,
(s) George Koffler
Chamber supports school levy
To the Editor:
The Heppner Chamber of
Commerce has chosen to go on
record in support of the Morrow
County School District Bond
Levy. The chamber strives to
create a positive environment
where business, people and com
munity thrive. Passage of the
bond will have a direct influence.
Living with the unknown of the
Kinzua situation makes it crucial
that Heppner maintains its in
frastructure and continues to
upgrade its schools and com
munity for the future.
Consideration also needs to be
given to the existing crowded
conditions in the north Morrow
County schools. One of the first
questions asked by businesses and
people wishing to relocate is,
“what are your schools like?” It
is imperative that we provide not
only adequate, but upgraded
educational facilities for these
prospective residents, and our
children and grandchildren.
Vote yes for the school bond
levy. Interest rates are down and
the last bond has been paid off.
A drive around rural communities
in Oregon and Washington
reflects those communities who
forged ahead during a crisis and
those who chose to sit still. Let’s
forge ahead for our communities
and our county.
Sincerely,
(s) Claudia Hughes
Exec. Dir. Heppner
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state.
The state police work hand-in-
hand with federal, state, county
and city agencies to provide the
best possible police services, in
cluding enforcement of the
criminal, game, boating,
livestock, and traffic laws, to one
and all alike.
Thank you for your past
cooperation and your continuing
support of all our police officers
and district attorney.
(s) Carl D. Martin
Senior Trooper,
Oregon State Police, retired
LCDC system flawed
To the Editor:
Problems with the land use
regulatory system imposed by the
Land Conservation and Develop
ment Commission (LCDC) are
becoming more apparent with
time. Their plan of protection of
our best farm land is obviously
flawed as demonstrated by con
tinued construction on highly pro
ductive farm lands in the
Willamette Valley. More and
more people are asking why the
bureaucracy persists with this
costly, wasteful program.
It is obvious that LCDC’s ob
jective is not protection of our
most productive farm lands for
agriculture.
If rational people wanted to
minimize construction pressure
on valuable farm lands, they
would simply place encumbering
controls on those lands. All less
valuable lands would be open for
other uses. People who desire a
rural lifestyle would migrate to
the open lands. This would great
ly reduce population growth
pressure on prime agricultural
lands.
But, LCDC has placed nearly
the same constraint on nearly all
rural lands. Even scab rock in
Eastern Oregon is off limits.
Oregon’s land use system gets an
F on this test of logic.
Another test has to do with the
battle over water rights. In the
arid portions of Oregon, land is
nearly useless without water. So,
if supporters of the land use
regulatory system were actually
interested in preserving the
agricultural of the lands, they
should be equally interested in
seeing that water rights are main
tained so that the land can con
tinue to be farmed.
Stangely, they are silent on the
water rights issue; another F.
From the above, one must con
clude that LCDC’s objective is
not preservation of Oregon’s
agricultural base, but rather con
trol of private land for open space
and parks.
Sincerely,
(s) George Holcomb
Rt. 1 Box 10
Richland
Cub Scouts banquet slated
The annual Blue and Gold ban
quet for Cub Scouts Pack 661 will
be held Sunday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m.
at the Heppner Elks club. A buf
fet banquet will be provided by
the local cub scout dens.
Invitations were handed out to
local businesses to join them for
dinner.
The annual father/son cake
auction will be held at the end of
the evening. This is an event
where the fathers and their sons
bake a cake for the auction. This
auction is the annual fund raiser
for the scouts. “Donations are
welcome and appreciated from
anyone not able to attend, but
would like to support the cub
scouts,” said a spokesperson.
Each Den will present a skit.
The Boy Scouts will also attend
and receive their awards. The
Boy Scouts have received awards
for a Klondike Sled they built
which will be on display.
Babysitting will be provided for
young children upstairs at the
Elks, after dinner.
M.C. Planning Commission supports
idea of Irrigon High School
The Morrow County Planning
Commission at its regular
meeting Dec. 6, passed on a mo
tion by Marvin Padberg and
seconded by John Grace a resolu
tion supporting the establishment
of a high school for Irrigon. The
vote was five to two.
According to Kent Goodyear,
Morrow County Planning Com
mission chairman, the motion
reads: That the Morrow County
Registration continues for the
spring beginning golf classes of
fered by Blue Mountain Com
munity College.
The classes begin Wednesday.
March 2. Six hour and a half class
sessions will be held from 10 to
11:30 a.m. or 5-6:30 p.m. The
classes are limited to 10 people.
Contact Anne Morter. BMCC
coordinator 422-7429 for a
registration form.
James Phegley
Coast to Coast
Heppner
To the Editor:
Referring to “Around the
County” by Morrow County
District Attorney Earl Woods,
Jr., in the Gazette-Times dated
January 26, 1994, Earl states
there is an agreement between the
state police and sheriffs office
regarding traffic enforcement and
investigations.
There is no such agreement.
The Oregon State Police are
peace officers, tasked by the
legislative to provide equal and
impartial law enforcement and
protection to all people in the
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tice good, solid businesses to our
area.
Good schools affect everyone’s
future not just people with
children. Vote yes on the Mor
row County School District bond
levy.
(s) Barbara Hemnes
Boardman
No agreeement between OSP
BMCC golf
classes slated
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To the Editor:
As a parent and volunteer at
Sam Boardman Elementary
School, I see first hand the over
crowding and the need for up
dated technology. Without good
schools our children are being
cheated of their futures but also
our cities are being cheated
because we won’t be able to en
James Phegley, 59. of Hepp
ner. died Monday. February 21
at Oregon Health Sciences
University in Portland. Ar
rangements are pending at
Sweeney Mortuary in Heppner.
A complete obituary will be in
next week’s Gazette-Times.
Planning Commission supports
the separation of Riverside High
School and the formation of a
new high school in Irrigon.
In my exuberance last week I
reported that Boardman’s potential
for producing water would equal
60,000 gallons per minute, it’s real
ly 16,000 gallons per minute.
By Earl Woods, Jr. Sorry.
However, on the same topic it
seems that cities will lose money as
a result of the proposed annexation. As an example Heppner will
lose approximately 4,000 based on assessed values because of the
redistribution of the road tax.
Load limit signs will be installed on the old bridge crossing over
Willow Creek on Rhea Creek Road. Some structural problems have
been detected with the bridge requiring the limits. Watch for the
signs as the limits vary based on size and type of vehicle.
There appears to be some bad news in store for area farmers. It
has become more apparent that the Conservation Reserve Program
(CRP) will be undergoing substantial changes. Only the most fragile
property will be included in the program if Washington bureaucrats
have their way. Based on a report received by Judge Carlson from
the Soil Conservation folks, the changes will begin in 1996 and it’s
predicted that by 2002 the program will be completely phased out.
For your information, there are approximately 1300 miles of road
in Morrow County with 300 miles of those roads being paved. The
paved roads are the equivalent of the stretch of highway between
Boardman and Eugene if you traveled 1-84 to 1-5. The 1300 miles
from Heppner would take you almost to Denver. Twenty-fcur road
department employees maintain these roads and on balance do a good
job. With the anticipated loss of revenue from the Boardman an
nexation and the shrinking county budget we’ll unfortunately be say
ing good-bye to some of that group.
Sheriff Roy Drago is expressing concern about the future of his
department. He has developed what is viewed statewide as a top
notch law enforcement agency. His six road deputies patrol all of
those roads I just spoke of and do a superb job. Roy is concerned
that he might have to ask for a law enforcement levy in the event
that the county budget fails. The Oregon State Police and Franklin
County, Washington, have expressed interest on some of his well
trained deputies. He feels that the constant threat of a layoff would
cause his people to seek a more stable job environment, thus under
mining his program.
Based on the fact that this budget was scrutinized by the most ag
gressive budget committee that I’ve ever seen and the fact that it’s
less than that which was approved last year, I think this levy is a
reasonable request.
Rumor has it that the McFarland property which was recently re
quired for the senior’s bus bam was purchased with county funds.
Not so-a grant from the great state of Oregon funded the project.
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St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
Bulletin Board
Joyce Buchanan won the meal ticket. Gene Case the door prize
and Roland Woolsey and Audrey Franklin received the guest prize
at the Senior Center dinner Wednesday, Feb. 16. Ninety-five peo
ple attended, including two guests. Members of Valby and Hope
Lutheran Churches served. The senior center board met following
the meal.
The menu for March 2 will be stuffed peppers, meat, squash, col
eslaw, rolls and fruit. Members of the Mormon church will serve.
One table of pinochle was in play Friday afternoon. Six ladies wat
ched the Sunday evening movie the fifth series “Five Mile Creek”.
The Emergency planning group will meet Thursday, Feb. 24 from
7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24
and 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 25
at the Senior Center.
Volunteers are still needed for the many activities at the Senior
Center during the St. Patrick’s day celebration. Please sign up and
help support the center.
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