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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1994)
U E. 3 S I E U OF O F. E H E 'A1 3 « A P E H El'GEf E 'Rip' Shepherd to speak at M CGG annual dinner Z E L John ‘Rip’ Shepherd The 64th annual meeting of Morrow County Grain Growers will be held Monday, November 7, starting with din ner at 6:30 p.m . at the fairgrounds in Heppner. Dinner will be served by the Willows Grange. The business portion of the meeting will include reports from company officers, a finan cial report from the company's auditor and the election of directors and associate direc tors. The candidates for the four director positions are: Tom Currin, Doug Drake, George Miller, Barry Munkers and Larry Plamer. The associate director nominees are: Travis Harrison, Gerald Hoeft, John Luciani and Brian Thompson. The program for the meeting will include Steve Burnet from Moro who is currently chair man of the Board of Harvest States Cooperatives. Harvest States is a regional cooperative based in St. Paul, of which Chamber seeks board members Heppner Chamber of Com merce nominating committee is looking for prospective board members to serve on the board of directors for a three year term. Three new directors will be elected to fill the positions beginning January 11, 1995. New directors will replace retir ing board members Cliff Green, Coast-to-Coast; Bill Kuhn of Kuhn, Spicer & Mills and Steve Dickenson, Heppner High School principal. Directors serve a three year term and must commit to at tend board meetings which are held the first Tuesday of each month at 11 a m. Call the chamber office 676-5536 or Rollie Marshall, committee chair, 676-9125 if you are interested in serving or have a nominee suggestion. Date changed for workshop Voters to go polls Tuesday, Nov. 8 In addition to many state wide measures, local voters will decide on a Morrow County Commissioner, Morrow Coun ty Health District director, two Lexington City Council per sons, three lone City Council persons, and a $485,000 county-wide Morrow County Health District tax base measure (25-10) to fund coun ty health operations. Two other health district tax base levies, one for $160,000 for the Boardman community (25-11) and one for $600,000 for the remainder of the county (25-12) will also be on the ballot. But, even if passed, these two districts will be declared invalid because a county-wide district has already been created by the county court. County-wide, voters will decide whether to form a 4-H and Extension Service District with a $117,118 tax base. This measure will take Extension operations out of the county budget. Voters will also decide whether to increase the coun ty tax base from its current base of $831,085 to $4,061,711 which county officials say is a more realistic tax base. Health District 25-10 tax base of $485,000 at 63 cents per thou sand assessed valuation. A tax payer with a $50,000 home would pay $31.50 a year; one with a $500,000 business would pay $315 a year; one with a $1 million farm would pay $630 a year. Extension tax base of $117,118 at 15 cents per thou sand assessed valuation. A tax payer with a $50,000 home would pay $7.50 a year; one with a $500,000 business would pay $75 a year; and one with a $1 million business would pay $150 a year. Morrow county's tax base of $4,061,711 at $5.77 per thou sand assessed valuation. A tax payer with a $50,000 home would pay $288.50 a year; one with a $500,000 business would pay $2,885 a year; one with a $1 million farm would pay $5,770 a year. Bob McKinley, Boardman, and Roger Trueax, Irrigon, will face each other Nov. 8 for one four-year term in zone 3 on the Morrow County Health District Board of Directors 25-10. Zone 3 consists of all of the rural areas of precincts 1, 2, 5 and 6, Boardman and Irrigon. Tom McElligott is also the sole candidate for the void medical district 25-12 which ex cludes Boardman. Boardman residents Gene Allen, Roger Cash, Rodney Flug, Raymond Michael and Joe Tatone are can didates for five directors' posi tions on the void Boardman health district 25-11, which ex cludes the remainder of the county. In the city of Irrigon, six can- didates, Myron Bellamy, William Cooley, Annette Ep- penbach, Scott Johnson, Varian Mattison and Kelly Wright will face off for three council posi tions. In Boardman, four can didates, James Hankins, Dean Kegler, Thomas Meyers and Everett Moore, will vie for three council positions. Following are local un contested positions: Lexington mayor-Bill Sheirbon; Morrow County Health District director zone 1-no candidate filed, zone 2-Roger Cash, Boardman, zone 4-Margaret "M eg” Murray, lone; lone mayor-Betty Gray; Heppner mayor-Bob Jepsen; Heppner council position 1-Marcia DeBo, position 4-Tim VanCleave, position 5-Michael McGuire, position 6-Ronald "S k ip ” Matthews; Morrow Soil and Water Conservation District director zone 1-Richard M. Johnson, zone 3-William Jepsen, zone 4-Christian K. Rauch, zone 5-no candidate The date of the dried floral design workshop has been re scheduled for November 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the dining room at the St. Patrick's senior center. Guest arranger Darcy Robin son plans to demonstrate sprays and baskets and exhibit some other designs. A variety of dried materials, baskets and filed. Polls will be open for the general election on Tuesday, November 8, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Polling places are as follows: precinct 1 N. Boardman-Green- field Grange; 2 S. Boardman- Lutheran Church; 3 Hardman- Morrow County Courthouse; 4 Harley Sager, a longtime lone-lone City Hall; 5 N. agricultural lender in Morrow, Irrigon-North Morrow Annex ‘ iilliam, Wheeler and Umatilla 6 S. Irrigon-Irrigon City Hall; 7 counties, has begun work at the Lexington-Mormon Church; 8 Bank of Eastern Oregon effec N.E. Heppner-St. Patrick's tive November 1, announced Senior Center; 9 N.W. President E. George Koffler. Heppner-Pettyjohn Building; Sager recently retired from 10 S.E . Heppner-Morrow First Interstate Bank after a 29 County Courthouse; 11 S.W. year career spent mainly in Heppner-new Forestry Build Heppner and Hermiston. ing. All polling places are han dicap accessible. Those who are hearing or speech impaired should call 676-9061. The Heppner High School Morrow County Clerk Bar senior class will be holding a bara Bloodsworth says that baked potatoe and pie dessert because of the amount of Friday, Nov. 4 at the Morrow absentee ballots, the clerk's of County Fairgrounds annex fice will not start counting the building before the Weston- absentee ballots until Wednes McEwen football game. day, Nov. 9. Bloodsworth says Baked potatoes complete that they will "hopefully” be with butter onion, sour cream, done counting those by Thurs and cheese will be served at 6 day, Nov. 10. merchandise will be supplied free to those attending. Some other special materials may be purchased. This workshop is open to anyone interested. Because of conflicts on November 7, the Heppner Garden Club will hold its regular monthly meeting on November 14 at 7 p.m. before the workshop. MCGG has an ownership in terest. Harvest States is involv ed in grain marketing, flour milling, feed manufacturing and food processing. John "Rip” Shepherd will speak about winning attitude and team building. He is an ad vanced arbitrator for the Na tional Panel of Consumer Ar bitrators, a past board member of the Tri-Cities Better Business Bureau, and past membership chair for the American Society of Training and Development. "We think you will all enjoy his presen tation ,” said a spokesperson for Morrow County Grain Growers. Nominees sought for chamber awards The Heppner Chamber of Commerce is requesting input for selection of man, woman, citizen educator and business of the year. Individuals or organizations are encouraged to submit nominees for these awards by December 15. Nomination forms are available at the Chamber office or the offices of Kuhn, Spicer & Mills or call the chamber office. "Please take a few minutes to nominate that special person who is always stepping for ward to lend a hand, taking on a leadership role no one else will volunteer to do, or always going the extra mile for his/her community,” says committee chair Bill Kuhn. Award recipients will be recognized during the annual Town & Country' Banquet to be held Wednesday, Jan. 11. Harley Sager joins Bank of EO staff "W e're very pleased to have Harley working with us. He's a hard working banker who always has the customer's best interests in mind," said Koffler. "H e will help continue our commitment of quality service to the agricultural com munity.” Sager can be reached by call ing the Heppner Branch at 676-9125. HHS seniors to hold baked potato feed Annual canned food drive Nov. 7 p.m. and continue through halftime. Potatoes are $2.50 for the basics or $3.50 with broccoli and cheese or chili. Slices of pie will be served for $1.25. Pop and coffee will also be available. Proceeds go to the drug and alcohol free graduation trip to Seattle. Reserve tables for Artifactory C raftpersons, Artisans, folkartists, and aficionados of the handcrafted items should plan to attend the 10th annual Artifactory Craft Fair on Satur day December 3 at the fairgrounds in Heppner. Ar tifactory is sponsored by the Soroptiomist International Club of Heppner and will be held at the Morrow County Fairgrounds from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Santa will be available to discuss wish lists and lunch will be served by the Soroptimist. Reservations for vendor tables are on a first paid, first served basis. The deadline to reserve a table is November 12. Only hand crafted or home baked items will be accepted. For more information on table reservations, contact Shirley Landauer, Artifactory chairperson, P.O. Box 584, Heppner, 989-8202 days or 676-9746 eves. Harley Sager Pavarotti tickets to be raffled The fund raising committee of the Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council announces a raf fle of two opportunities to see Pavarotti live at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland on New Year's Eve. Tickets are $5 each, and will be offered by local arts agency volunteers throughout the region. The drawing will be held in La Grande on December 3, and the winners will be notified immediately. Tw’o prizes will be given, each consisting of two tickets to the concert, and Saturday night's lodging, Dec. 31 at the Red Lion Inn Coliseum. Two non smoking rooms with two queen size beds each have been reserved for the winners. "Take a chance on the con cert opportunity of a lifetime and support the Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council at the same time, "said a spokesperson. Tickets are on sale at Peter son's Jewelers in Heppner. Cub Scouts and athletes are ready to pick up your food The annual canned food drive for Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets will be held the evening of Monday, Nov. 7, in Heppner and lone. Heppner Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and lone Youth Group members will deliver flyers at homes on Sunday, Nov. 6. Heppner and lone High School athletes will pick up the cann ed goods at homes on Nov. 7. People who would like to contribute to the food drive, but who don’t plan on being home Nov. 7 may leave the canned goods in a sack on their porch and the kids will pick it up, said organizer Helen Riehl. UUud&i Time Safe Give Charlie a call al Morrow County Grain Growers Lexington 989-8221 1-800-824-7185
