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The Willow Creek Park
District Board voted Thursday,
Dec. 22, to place two swimm
ing pool issues on the March 28
election.
The board voted to put a
$975,000 pool construction levy
and a three-year operating levy
at $36,000 a year before the
voters. The two issues will be
tied together, so one issue can
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not pass if the other doesn't.
Park board members were con
cerned that if the construction
levy passed and the operating
levy didn't, there would be no
money to operate the pool and
vice versa.
The pool option approved
earlier calls for an uncovered
zero-depth pool, which slopes
much like a beach and is
wheelchair accessible, a water
slide and a facility which
houses the changing rooms, a
meeting room and a therapy
pool which may be used
year-round.
The park district encom
passes South Morrow County
and includes the towns of
Heppner, Lexington and lone.
. ASCS gets new name, Natural Resources Conservation Service
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Soil Conservation
Service has had a name
change. The new agency, the
Natural Resources Conserva
tion Service was authorized as
part of USDA's reorganization
in October by Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy.
"O ur new name more ac
curately reflects what we d o ,"
said Paul W. Johnson, chief of
the Natural Resources Conser
vation Service. "O ur respon
sibilities go further than soil
conservation. They have for
some tim e."
While the agency has focus
ed on soil conservation for the
past 60 years, it has also been
the key federal agency to offer
technical help on private lands
for improvements to water,
wildlife habitat, woodlands,
grasslands and other resources
connected to the land. More
recently, the agency has work
ed with the nation's private
landowners to increase acreage
of grasslands, wetlands and
forest lands through USDA
programs.
"M ore than % of the land in
this country is privately own
ed. Those private landowners
are the key to our environmen
tal well-being," Johnson said.
"W e will continue to build on
our 60 years of experience with
a unique relationship between
the federal government and
those landowners, as well as
our partnership with local con
servation districts," Johnson
added.
The new Natural Resources
Conservation Service will con
tinue to have responsibility for
all the programs of the former
Soil Conservation Service. In
addition, several other pro
grams have been transferred to
MSW/MWCD board to meet
Vietnam veterans to be honored
All area Vietnam veterans are
invited to be guests of honor at
a banquet planned for them
this Friday, Dec. 30, beginning
at 8 p.m. at the Heppner Elks
Club. A social hour will begin
at 7:30 p.m., following the
women's alumni basketball
game.
Banquet organizer Susie
Ward stresses that the banquet
will honor all those Avho serv
ed in Vietnam, not just those
who are Heppner High School
alumni. There will not be a
charge for the banquet for
veterans. The veterans will be
guests of the Heppner Alumni
Association, in cooperation
with Heppner service organiza
tions
and
individuals.
Ward asks Vietnam veterans
and anyone who knows of a
Vietnam veteran to call her at
676-9826, so she can extend
them all a special invitation to
the banquet.
M ayor Bob Jepsen has
declared the week of Dec. 30
through Jan. 5 as "H eppner
Area Vietnam Veterans Week"
and Dec. 30 as "David Clark
Memorial D ay". Mayor Jepsen
dies in tank combat patrols."
The day he was killed he was
taking the place of a married
soldier, said Dick.
The public is also invited to
attend the banquet. Tickets at
$10 each are available from
John and Sonja McCabe,
676-5231, or at the door.
HHS alumni veterans in
clude: 1%3-Harold Gray, G e r?
Wallace; 1964-Bill Weatherford,
Larry Muessig, Richard Clark,
Ken Smith; 1965-Chris Brown,
Greg Pierce, Jay Ball, Sherrill
McDonald and Frank Robin
son, both deceased, Dale
Adlard; 1966-David Clark and
David Gray, both deceased,
Dan McBride, Simon Winters,
Mike Burcham and Doug
Drake; 1967-Gary Ball, Jim
Doherty and Roger Leonnig;
1968-Mike Alsup and Cary
Davis; 1969-Bill Baker, Gary
Ball and Rick W itherrite;
1970-Hal Bergstrom, Phil Ayers
and Jim Hams; 1971-Bruce Mar-
quardt. Heppner area Vietnam
veterans include: Carl Martin,
David Sykes, Reece Schultz,
George Norris, Paul Sumner
Earl R. Woods, Jr., and Bill
Ewing.
David Clark
will be in attendance at the ban
quet and will make a special
presentation to David Clark's
parents. Clark, a 1966 Heppner
High School graduate, was kill
ed August 25, 1967, in combat
in Vietnam. According to
Stuart Dick, alumni tourna
ment organizer, Clark left col
lege to enlist in the army and,
while in combat, "consistently
took the place of married bud
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The 7th annual Heppner
Alumni Basketball/Volleyball
tournament will be held this
Thursday, Dec. 29, through
Sunday, Jan. 1, at Heppner
High School and Heppner
Junior High.
Men's basketball will get
underway Friday at 4 p.m. with
the classes of 1977-81 versus the
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pionship game will be held
Sunday at 3:30 p.m. A Hepp
ner area men's basketball team
will compete in the tournament
for the first time.
W om en's volleyball will
begin Saturday, Dec. 31, at 10
a m. at the junior high and will
conclude at 2 p.m.
Also in conjunction with
Lutheran Aid Assoc donates to family
Roland Bergstrom of the Aid
Association for Lutherans,
presented a check to Betty and
Gale Gray of lone recently.
Aid
A ssociation
for
Lutherans Branch -09601 held
a "H elping H ands" brunch at
Valby Lutheran church Nov. 13
for the benefit of Betty and Gale
Gray of lone. The Grays own
Beecher's Cafe in lone.
Gale Gray is undergoing ex
tensive treatments for cancer
and this benefit was held to
help defray the cost of the
treatments.
A total of $1,902 was donated
from the church and the peo
ple of the surrounding com
munity and Aid Association for
Lutherans gave an additional
$1,600 to bring the total check
to $3,502.
Aid
A ssociation
for
Lutherans is a membership
organization which exists solely
for the benefit of its members
and their beneficiaries and for
social and benevolent pur
poses, said a spokesperson.
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fri 5:15 pm
Pettyjohn office building, con
ference room. Proposed budget
cuts for the '95-96 year will be
discussed. Attendance is im
portant, said a spokesperson.
Geography bee finalists chosen
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Morrow Soil and Water and
Weed Control District boards
will be held T hu rsd ay,
December 29 at 9 a.m. in the
alum ni gam es, basketball
clinics were held Dec. 27 for
Colt basketball players and will
be held Dec. 28 and 29 for
seventh and eighth grade
players. Gene Heliker, San
Diego, formerly of Heppner,
will direct the clinic with
assistance from H eppner
coaches and players.
Students
at
H eppner
Elementary and Middle school
grades four through eight, took
a written test during the week
of Dec. 12-16 to determine the
participants in the School
Geography Bee. The school
champion will take a written
test to determine qualification
for the Oregon Geography Bee
later in the spring. A1 Beck,
junior high social studies
teacher, developed the qualify
ing test and will present the of
ficial questions during the
school bee. It will be held
sometime during the week of
January 9-13.
Top students in each grade
were: Daniel Jepsen, fourth;
Jessica Gutierrez, fifth; Craig
Scott sixth; Eric Rollis, seventh;
and a tie between Kris Paullus
and Tim Dickenson, eighth.
Other finalists selected on the
basis of scores were: Ben
Goodyear, Jeff Currin, Matt
Van Liew, Matt Jepsen, Jake
Roy, Corey Miller and Abby
Kahl, seventh graders and Jody
Maddem, fifth grade.
it: the Wetland Reserve Pro
gam, the Water Bank Program,
the Forestry Incentives Pro
gram, the Colorado River
Salinity Control Program, and
the Farms for the Future
Program. v
The Natural Resources Con
ervation Service will increas
ingly look at all resources on
private lands as its resource
conservationists help private
landowners on a voluntary
basis. "W e will continue to be
the American people's link to
private lands, as helping
caretakers of the land. But we
think of land itself as a core
constituent. I think we speak
for the land with a capital " L "
to go beyond to soil resource,"
Johnson said. "W hat's done on
our vast acreage of private
lands encompasses so much
more-our water, our forest
lands, our wildlife, our air and
our quality of life.
'Quicken'
class offered
One of the most popular
financial management software
systems, Quicken, will be of
fered for agriculture producers
on January 5, 19 and 26. The
class is offered by the
OSU/Umatilla County Exten
sion Service and the Farm
Management Department of
Blue Mountain Community
College, according to Mike
Stoltz and Alan N elson
respectively.
The classes will be held from
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Her-
miston campus of BMCC. Pre
registration is required by call
ing 278-5403 Extension or
276-1260 BMCC. The class size
will be limited to 16 farms, two
people to a computer for a total
of 32. The cost will be $80 per
farm and will include the
Quicken software, about a $45
value. Space will be allocated
on a first come first served
basis, said Stoltz and Nelson.
This class will primarly
benefit those producers who
want to advance from a hand
accounting system while lear
ning the highest selling soft
ware. "This is probably not a
replacement for very complex
agriculture accounting systems
that many of our large pro
ducers u se," said Stoltz. It will
also be an opportunity for those
with new computers or those
considering a computer pur
chase to learn how to use it.
According to Nelson, if peo
ple do not have a computer but
are considering a purchase ar
rangements can be made with
BMCC to use a computer in the
meantime.
"The Quicken program can
produce quality records, free of
arithmatic mistakes, that fit
right into a farm management
program
and
m eet re
quirements of lenders," said
Nelson.
Instructors will be Dr. Bart
Eleveld of the Oregon State
University Agriculture and
Resource Economics Depart
ment, Allen Nelson, farm
m anagem ent instructor at
BMCC, and Mike Stoltz,
OSU/Umatilla County Exten
sion agent.
Now
AVAILABLE AT
Morrow County Grain Growers
Lexington 989-8221
1-800-4S2-7396