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Local kids have lunch with Santa Area children visit with Santa while their parents take advantage of some free time for Christmas shopping Sunday, Dec. 17, at the Heppner Elks Club. The annual lunch with Santa is sponsored by the Heppner Chamber of Commerce. Local families have ties to crash victim VOL. 114 NO. 51 10 Pages Wednesday, December 20, 1995, Morrow County Heppner, Oregon M ID CO to begin Morrow Co. service Mid Columbia Bus Co., Inc. (MIDCO) will be providing pu pil transportation for the Mor row County School District, ef fective Tuesday, Jan. 2, accor ding to the school district. MIDCO is a family-owned and operated transportation company that specializes in rural pupil transportation for school districts. MIDCO pre sently operates 25 contracts with school districts, education service districts and Head Start programs in Eastern Oregon and one school district in Idaho. "Their goal in Morrow Coun ty, as in all school district op erations, is to provide safe, reliable, and cost effective transportation, for your student and the other children in the county," said school superin tendent Chuck Starr. Starr said that MIDCO has retained the current transpor tation managers, Burke O'Brien and Everett Moore, to remain locally and perform day-to-day operations as they have the past several years. "They felt it essential to retain these skilled managers in order to provide you with consistency and con tinuity in dealing with someone you know and trust," Stan- added. "Employment was also of fered to all existing school bus drivers employed by the dis- trict," said Stan. "By retaining the drivers, on their same routes, MIDCO again is look ing to maintain consistency and continuity through experienc ed and skilled drivers who will provide safe transportation for your student." According to Starr, the fol lowing drivers have indicated that they have accepted em ployment with MIDCO begin ning Jan. 2: Heppner/Ione-Shawn Wil son, Kay Proctor, Gerald Berg strom, Pat Dougherty, Rudy Bergstrom, Marie Rudisill, Ed Baker, Jan Coe, Rick Pettyjohn, Jim Rudisill, Bob Worden, Gin ger O'Brien, Bill Adams, Glenn Anderson, Shirley Martin and Betty Bergstrom. Boardman/Irrigon: Kellie Adams-Morgan, Evelene Fin ley, Rosa Rodriquez, Carolyn Maret, Robin McCord, Lloyd Peck, Brenda Newport, Arlene Flanagan, A1 Hensley and A1 Gordanier. MIDCO will be installing F.M. communication radios, in any route buses not presently equipped with them. In addi tion, MIDCO will be installing base stations in each of the of fices. This radio system will allow each of the buses to stay in constant communication with its home base, with buses on routes and with other MID- CO centers for emergency Lighting contest winners announced backup and dispatch of main tenance and support vehicles. Thses radios also allow the ac tivity buses to be in constant communication with other MIDCO offices for backup sup port, as they drive through Eastern Oregon/Washington. A safety officer is being assigned to the district's opera tions to assist the local mana gers with emergency evacua tion drills, driver training and education programs, route evaluations and to establish monthly employee safety and committee meetings. A special needs manager will be assigned to the district's operations to evaluate and recommend pupil transporta tion for special needs students. MIDCO has provided an op tion to the district to utilize 47 passenger motorcoaches to transport students on activity or field trips. If you have any questions regarding your bus route or anything else, call Burke O'Brien, 676-5861, or Bruce Flatt, 1-800-574-3424, in the Heppner/Ione area, or Everett Moore, 481-7551, or Doug Flatt, 1-800-574-8676, in the Board man/Irrigon area. "The Morrow County School District looks forward to work ing with MIDCO in providing continued safe transportation for your children," concluded Starr. Fountain is the cousin of Two Heppner families have Chuck Bailey of Heppner. a link to a man whose plane is Bailey and Fountain's mother, believed to have crashed in the Mildred Robinson of Mollala, southeastern Canadian rockies are first cousins. Robinson was on Nov. 28. born in Fossil and Bailey was Wayne Fountain, 45, Molalla, was one of five men aboard a born in Kinzua. Robinson and Jack Maben of twin-engine plane carrying Heppner were classmates in employees of the Hessel Trac Mollala and the children of the tor and Equipment Co. The two families also attended plane had taken off from school together. Calgary Alberta, en route to Radar trackings showed that Hillsboro. The search centered the plane descended quickly in on an area between Castlegar to a mountainous, snow-cover and Cranbrook, British Colum ed area. The search, which has bia, about 100 miles north of since been called off, involved Spokane. as many as 13 aircraft. Besides Fountain, a customer service representative for Hessel, the other employees, who had been returning from a training session in Calgary, were David T. Gorin, 45, Hillsboro, the pilot of the Rockwell 700 aircraft; Arthur Brown, 41, Gresham; Don Moxley, 41, Tangent; and Neil Tofell, 50, Gold Hill. Bailey reported that Robinson commented on the dedication of the Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue team and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. hristm as R iessi Lundquist announces candidacy Representative Lynn Lund quist (R-Powell Butte), the Ore gon House Majority Leader, has formally announced that he will seek a second term in the Oregon House of Representa tives. Lundquist has filed doc uments with the Elections Divi sion that will put his name on the Republican primary elec tion ballot for House District 59. During the 68th Legislative The Randall Petersons took first place in the indoor lighting Session, Lundquist served as category. chair of the Business Subcom 195 N. Gale, won $20 for first mittee of the Commerce Com The Ronny Brisbois house place in the indoor category. mittee. He also served on the hold, 605 Morgan, was the win The Joyce Hughes family, 215 Joint Ways and Means Com ner of the outdoor Christmas S. Court, was second and re mute, the Legislative Rules lighting contest, sponsored by Committee and is currently ser ceived a $10 prize. the Heppner Chamber of Com Receiving honorable mention ving on the Emergency Board. merce. He won $50 for his dis for their lighting displays were He and his wife, Barb, own and play. Gene Hall, Greg Sweek, Larry operate a ranch in Powell Butte. The Richard Paris home, 315 District 59 includes Baker, Mills, Glen Ward and Lowell Water Street, came in second Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Sher Jones. and the Ernie McCake resi man, Wheeler counties and The Shoe Box received dence, 355 Water Street, was portions of Morrow and Wasco special recognition in the Fes third. Second place was $25 counties. The primary election tive Business Lighting Display and third, $15. is May 21, 19%. category and a $15 award. The Randall Peterson home, From the Gazette-Times To all our friends and customers W e wish a M erry Christmas we will be closed Dec. 23,24 & 25 Morrow County Grain Growers Lexington 989-8221 1-800-452-7396
