Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 31, 1994 - THREE
Mustangs veteran but inexperienced
Wallowa County stock growers meet
P h o to b y J o y c e H u g h e s
Chris Sykes (center) practices blocking during football practice while other Mustangs wait their
turn. Heppner plays Imbler at home Friday, Sept. 2.
The Wallowa County Stock
Growers, at its annual meeting
at Enterprise Aug. 20, voted to
file affidavits in a suit brought
against the U.S. Forest Service
by the Pacific Rivers Council
and other environmental
groups to ban grazing in the
Wallow-Whitman and Umatilla
National Forests.
"Our organization is going to
take an active role in this
lawsuit," said Bob Morse,
president of the Wallowa
County Stock Growers. "And
we want the U.S. Forest Ser
vice to appeal the decision of
the 9th Circuit Court which
granted the injunction."
The stockgrowers and the
U.S. Forest Service have been
working together since the
salmon was listed as en
dangered to improve salmon
habitat areas and to make sure
that livestock have no negative
effect on them.
"T h e notion that it is
necessary to stop grazing in the
forests to protect salmon
habitat, as the Pacific Rivers
Council contends, is just dead
wrong," said Mack Birkmaier,
president of the Oregon Cat
tleman's Association, who also
attended the meeting.
"Taking cattle off the public
rangeland will not protect the
sa lm o n ,"
said
Morse.
"Research shows that grazing
can be an ecological tool that
can
promote
desired
characteristics in plant com
munities."
"Livestock grazing is a risk
management tool because the
livestock reduce fuel loads on
the range, which is so impor
tant in a drought year like this,
what with so many fires burn
ing in the W est," added
Wallowa County Judge Arleigh
Isley. "Anyone can see that
where the lands are not graz
ed and where the timber is un
managed is where the fires are
uncontrollable."
The organization, represen
ting cattle and sheep growers
in the county, also voted to
send formal requests to
O regon's
congressional
representatives asking that they
support a rewrite of the En
dangered Species Act. The
stockgrowers want the act to
take into consideration the
economic consequences of
listing species. "Until people
and communities are figured
into this endangered species
equation, it will continue to be
a failure," said Birkmaier.
At a later meeting of permit
holders who graze on in the na
tional forest, participants
agreed to support the timber in
dustry and work closely with
its representatives in restoring
logging, which has also been
banned, in the two national
forests.
"W e're going to fight to save
the livelihoods of generations
of farmers, ranchers, loggers,
and timber families in our
county, in Oregon, and in the
W est," promised Birkmaier.
C A PEC O director announces resignation
Gearing up for the new season Mustang men practice punting for the extra point
The 1994 edition of the Hepp
ner Mustangs will be a veteran
team but without much game
experience when they take the
field Friday, September 2 in an
early season non-league game
against the Imbler Panthers at
the Morrow County Fair
grounds. Game time is 7:30
p.m.
Coach Greg Grant welcomed
back 44 players to daily doubles
last week. Grant, in his fifth
season as the head coach, has
a career record at Heppner of
33 wins 10 losses. His teams
have won two league cham
pionships, qualified for the
playoffs every year and in 1992
won the State championship
with a 24-12 victory over Vale.
Gone this year are a number
of three year, two-way starters
who took up most of the play
ing time. In their places are a
senior dominated line-up that
needs to grow up early in the
Mustangs' three pre-season
tilts to make a run at a playoff
spot.
Leading the Mustangs this
year will be seniors Chris
Dickenson, Jon Hanna and
Jeremy Cimmiyotti, all letter-
man from a year ago.
Offensively, senior John
Qualls should anchor the line
at center with Hanna and
senior Ethan Burnside at guard.
Cimmiyotti and junior Chris
Sykes will be offensive tackles
and seniors Brent Wright and
Bill Schlaich will be the
receivers.
In the back field senior Chad
Skroch will be handing the ball
to Dickenson, junior Shaun
Hisler and a trio of sophomores
Brent Gunderson, Eric Schon-
bachler and Jim Schlaich.
On the defensive side of the
ball, Hanna, Cimmiyotti and
Sykes, along with Burnside
and Schlaich will anchor the
line. Gunderson and Hisler will
line up at linebacker and
Skroch, Wright, Dickenson and
Schonbachler will be in the
secondary. The Mustangs will
run both a 5-2 and 4-3 line-up
this year.
, .
Coach Grant will be helped
this year again by longtime
assistant Les Payne, Russell
britt and new assistant Chris
Rauch. Rauch will help with
both the varsity and JV
programs.
The Mustangs open with a
tough Wapiti opponent the Im
bler Panthers. The Panthers
have gone through several
CAPECO executive director
Stan Foster announced recently
that he will be leaving his posi-
tion with the regional social ser-
vice agency on December 31.
Foster, CAPECO's first ex-
ecutive director, has filled the
ladership role for the organiza-
tion since January 1988. Under
the direction of Foster the
organization grew from a one-
room operation in the
Pendleton hospital to the five-
million dollar multi-faceted
social service agency that it is
tocjay
CAPECO originally provided
programs which assisted low-
income families in gaining
emergency food, weatheriza-
tion, emergy assistance,
homeless assistance, and sum-
mer youth programs.
The agency later developed
initiatives in housing and home
improvements and is com-
pleting work on four new hous-
inp nrniprts in thp arpa
tinue to build on the strong
record of accomplishments
which have been achieved in
^rst seven years,
Carlson said that the board of
directors will move quickly to
select a new director by
September 30.
Foster said that he had made
the decision to leave CAPECO
so he could pursue some
private business opportunities,
but that he expected to remain
*n the area- I feel good about
the future of CAPECO. The
organization has strong
managers and an excellent
staff, plus a tradition of
community service which will
most certainly continue under
new leadership, said Foster,
CAPECO is the largest social
service agency east of the
Cascades, offering a broad
range of services to the people
and communities of Umatilla,
Morrow, Gilliam, and Y\ heeler
counties.
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If you regularly run out of hot
water, Brook recommends that
you observe how long it takes
for the water heater to recover
a full tank of hot water. For
electric water heaters, a long
recovery time likely means a
bumt-out element. You can test
elements with an electrical con
tinuity meter. Elements cost
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replace, but you'll have to drain
the tank first.
If you have an older gas
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homes with high insulation
levels, water heating may cost
more than space heating.
You can keep your water
heating bills down by helping
your water heater make hot
water efficiently and by using
hot water wisely. Brook sug
gests the following easy steps:
Set your water heater to 120
degrees F. That's hot enough
for home use, even for
automatic dishwashers. Chang
ing your water heater setting
should take no more than five
minutes. Electric water heaters
have two thermostats, for top
and bottom elements. Gas
water heaters have a dial near
the bottom of the tank. Use a
meat thermometer to check the
temperature of hot water from
a faucet six hours later. Read
just the water heater setting if
necessary.
Insulate your water heater.
An insulating blanket costs
about $10 and pays for itself in
less than a year. Even water
heaters located indoors should
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