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MMÉM CHM RUW èUM ftm ua Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesdey, August 14, 1996 - FIVE Sheriff» Report The Morrow County Sheriff's office in Heppner reports dispatching the following business during the past week: Aug. 6: Morrow County deputy responded to the Irri- gon area for a disturbance; Morrow County deputy responded to the Lexington area for an animal problem; Morrow County deputy responded to the Wagon Wheel Addition in Irrigon for a sus picious person; Morrow County deputy responded to the Wagon Wheel Addition in Irrigon for a fami ly disturbance; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Spray Am bulance to Service Creek for an adult female with an unknown injury. No transport was made; Morrow County deputy responded to the Irrigon area for a reported burglary. Fur niture of unknown value was taken; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Spray am bulance to a residence on Kahler Basin for a male with an unknown injury. No transport was made; Morrow County deputy responded to assist the Oregon State Police with a report of an intoxicated pedestrian. The OSP located the pedestrian; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Boardman Fire Dept, for a smoke investi gation in the West Glen area. They were unable to locate the source; Morrow County deputy responded to an Irrigon resi dence for a family disturbance. The problem was resolved; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Boardman Emergency Medical Techni cians and Fire Dept, for a report of a motor vehicle accident on 1-84 milepost 177. The call was canceled en route. Aug. 7: Morrow County deputy responded to Oregon Street, Irrigon, to recover a stolen vehicle; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Heppner Fire Dept, to a fire on Bell Canyon; Morrow County deputy took a report of a theft from Lex ington; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Fossil am bulance to the Fossil Grade School for a person with a broken ankle. The patient was transported to St. Charles Hospital in Bend; Morrow County deputy responded to West Glen, Boardman, for a report of illegal burning. Aug, 8: Morrow County Sheriff's office dispatched the Spray ambulance to a residence in Spray for a 72-year-old female with an unknown ill ness. The patient was airlifted to Bend; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Condon Fire Dept, to a fire at the landfill; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Boardman ambulance to 1-84 eastbound milepost 151 for a person who refused medical attention; Morrow County deputy responded to the Irrigon area for a report of vandalism to some shrubs and drip water system; * Morrow County deputy responded to Irrigon for a sus picious juvenile problem; Morrow County deputy responded to Wilson Road, Boardman, for an alarm. It was a false alarm; Morrow County deputy took a report of a traffic problem in Irrigon. Aug. 9: Morrow County deputy assisted the Boardman Police Dept, with an arrest of a drunk driver; Morrow County deputy res ponded to a report of a domes tic assault in progress in Irri gon. Jose Jaime Lira Carmona, 31, of Irrigon, was arrested for Assault IV Domestic. Carmona was lodged at the Umatilla County Sheriff's office jail; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Arlington ambulance to a residence on Cedar Spring Road for a 20-year-old male with an un known illness. The patient was transported to Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles; Morrow County deputy responded to the Irrigon area for a traffic problem; Morrow County deputy responded to the lone area for a report of a theft of gasoline on Baseline Road; Morrow County deputy assisted a citizen at the High way 730 and Bombing Range road junction; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the lone Fire Dept, to a residence on Goose berry Road. The fire was ex tinguished; Morrow County deputy assisted a citizen by giving him a ride to Irrigon; Morrow County deputy responded to a residence in Ir rigon for a family disturbance. It was resolved. Aug. 10: Morrow County deputy responded to assist the Boardman Police Dept, with a building search at Riverside High School. They were unable to locate anything; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Boardman ambulance and Fire Dept, and a Morrow County deputy responded to a one vehicle roll over on 1-84 milepost 166. No transport was made; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Fossil am bulance to 7th Street, Fossil, for a child with an illness. No transport was made; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Fossil PA to respond to the clinic for a female with an injury. No transport was made; Morrow County deputy responded to the Umatilla Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Patterson Ferry, Irrigon, for a report of vandalism; Morrow County deputy ar rested Richard J. Mills, 42, Her- miston, for Burglary I and Assault on a Public Safety Of ficer. Mills was lodged at the Umatilla County Jail; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Spray and Fossil Fire Depts. and am bulances to assist the Oregon State Forestry Dept, with a forest fire; Morrow County deputy responded to the Irrigon area to assist the Irrigon Fire Dept., if needed, for a structure fire; Morrow County deputy responded to a traffic hazard one mile west of Boardman on 1-84. Aug. 11: Morrow County Sheriff's office dispatched the Fossil ambulance to the Asher Clinic for a patient transport. The patient was transported to the Madras Hospital- Morrow County sheriff's of fice dispatched the Condon ambulance to standby for the Forest Service and respond to the Fossil area if needed; Morrow County deputy ar rested Rocky John Rodriguez, 29, on a warrant out of the Mor row County Sheriff's office for Criminal Trespass II. Rodriguez was released on his own recog nizance with a court date; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice paged to Spray ambulance to Service Creek for a female with an illness. No transport was made; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the lone Fire Dept, to a field fire at the Harvey Smith Ranch on Ridge Road. The Heppner Fire Dept, was also dispatched to provide mutual aid; Morrow County deputy responded to the Fish Hatchery Road, Irrigon, for a report of a suspicious vehicle. The depu ty was unable to locate; Morrow County deputy responded to the on-ramp to 1-84 Boardman for a disabled vehicle; Morrow County deputy responded to a residence on Wilson Road for an animal problem. Aug. 12: Morrow County deputy responded to assist the Boardman Police Dept, with a disturbance at Lamb-Weston; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Arlington Fire Dept, for a vehicle on 1-84 westbound milepost 141. The vehicle was lost; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Heppner r ambulance to Kinzua Mill for an adult male with an injury. The patient was transported to Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner; Morrow County deputy be gan an investigation of a bur glary at an lone residence; Morrow County deputy responded to Western Empire in Irrigon for a theft report of four CB radios and gasoline; Morrow County Sheriff's of fice dispatched the Boardman ambulance to Willowfork Drive for a male with an illness. The patient was transported to Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston; Morrow County deputy responded to the Irrigon area for a neighborhood dispute; Morrow County deputy responded to the In-igon area for a neighborhood problem. DeSpains to celebrate 50th anniversary Bob and Aloha DeSpain, Heppner, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house reception on Saturday, Aug. 24, from 2-5 p.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church in Heppner. Everyone is invited to attend. The DeSpains were married Aug. 21, 1946, in Lewiston, Idaho, after Bob returned from three years in the Navy Arm ed Guard. The couple lived in Pendle ton for two years while Bob worked as a logger, and then they moved to lone, where Bob worked for Gordon White and Paul Pettyjohn on oil plants. In 1956, Bob began working as a custodian at the lone Schools. In 1962, the DeSpains bought the Franz Bread and Blue Bell distributorships and moved to Arlington. In 1970, they bought Heppner Auto Parts and mov ed to Heppner. Bob retired in 1988, but is working now with the Youth Conservation Corps through the U.S. Forest Ser vice. Aloha worked as bookkeeper at the businesses they owned. The DeSpains have three children: Robert Lee and his wife, Jean Marie, of Veneta; Chris and his wife, Louie, and children, of St. Helens; and Merry Brannon and her hus band, Russell, and son, of Heppner. The DeSpains also raised a niece, Kathy Simpson, who "evolved into a daugh ter.” She lives in Pendleton. The couple have six grand children. The DeSpains both enjoy be ing in the countains and play ing bridge. A lot of their spare time now involves their church, All Saints Episcopal. Hunter's Education class slated A hunter education course has been scheduled for the Heppner area. The course will be given on Aug. 20-22, 27-29, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Forest Service office in Hepp ner. As a general rule, all six ses sions should be attended for the student to pass. In addition to learning safe hunting techniques, students taking this class will learn pro per hunter ethics, basic wildlife management and outdoor skills. The course is required for all hunters younger than 18 in Oregon, unless they hunt on their own property. Anyone interested should register by calling Russ Morgan at 676-5230, days, or 676-5882, evenings. There is no fee for the course. Cooks can win big at the fair Morrow County cooks will win cash, clothing, kitchen ware and product premiums from Oregon producers from 1996 Oregon's Best competi tions at the Morrow County Fair, opening Wednesday, Aug. 14 in Heppner, according to a news release from the Agri- Business Council of Oregon (ABCO). The third annual com petition, sponsored by ABCO, "honors kitchen experts for ex cellence using Oregon pro ducts." All-new competition catego ries include appetizers, child ren's sandwich making and a county-wide watermelon seed spitting event. Oregon Bread is sponsoring kid's own sandwiches. For the competitor, 15 or younger, us ing the most Oregon products in a sandwich, the award is a 19% Oregon Bread backpack. Herm iston Watermelon Growers will serve up slices of melon as part of their first an nual Morrow County Fair watermelon seed spitting com petition, open to everyone. Other contests and first place awards include: Breads-Bob's Red Mill Natur al Foods, $25 plus two five pound bags of Red Mill Flour and a cap; Nor'Wester Brewing Co. Beer Bread, four 16 ounce Nor'Wester glasses and a tee shirt; Hurst's Berry Farm for Hurst's Blueberry Muffins, a Hurst's Blueberry tee shirt and hat; Santiam for Pumpkin Dessert Muffins, first place county fair winner apron, re usable cotton grocery bag and ceramic kitchen trivet; Tilla mook Cheese Crackers, five pack of 10 ounce Tillamook Cheese Snack Bars. Cookies-Gold 'n Soft Mar garine for drop cookies, a Gold 'n Soft great chef apron, universal measuring cup and five coupons for free product; Walls Berry Preserves for filled cookies, 12 pack Walls Berry Farm Preserves; Oregon Fruit Products, for pastry turnovers, a set of four Oregon Fruit cof fee mugs. Pickles-Steinfeld's for the Best Pickle in the County, Steinfeld's Gift Pack of six 16 ounce assorted pickles and a Steinfeld's cap; Hermiston Watermelon Growers, for watermelon pickles, a 1996 Hermiston Watermelon red tee shirt. For competition rules and a list of prizes, contact the Mor row County Fair office. BEO helps sponsor workshops Six hundred students leaders from around the state recently attended the Oregon Associa tion of Student Councils Sum mer Leadership Workshops, with the help of the Indepen dent Community Banks of Oregon (ICBO). The two high school work shops, held at Willamette Uni versity in Salem, offered ses sions on com m unication, organization and time manage ment, goal setting and project planning. The middle school camp, held at Aldersgate Conference Center in Turner, offered young leaders an opportunity to learn new leadership skills through activity-based’ ses sions. Bank of Eastern Oregon, a member of ICBO, helped co sponsor the workshops. This is the fifth year ICBO has co sponsored the camps, which have provided students leader ship training for over 20 years. Drug A Alcohol Froc Teenage Dane« sponsored by Oregon Together music by Action Entertainment MITI $1.00 Admission District to hire interim HHS principal By April Hilton-Syk#* Morrow County School Superintendent Chuck Starr and the school board recogniz ed Heppner High School Prin cipal Steve Dickenson for his "seven years of service to the district". Dickenson has ac cepted a position as principal and superintendent in the Col ton school district which is near Molalla. Starr and the board said that they planned to hire a principal at HHS on a one-year interim basis. The board approved employ ment of a music teacher at Heppner and lone schools. Elizabeth Slottee was hired as a probationary music teacher. The board also approved employment of Glenn Zollner for a probationary contract to teach vocational agriculture and an extra duty contract to serve as FFA advisor at HHS; Mark Bird for a probationary contract to teach business education at lone High School; Helen-Marie Marshall, a probationary con tract to teach science at lone; Shawn Kempas, a temporary contract to teach skill science and daily living classes at Heppner High School; Barbara Stefani-Peterson for an extra duty contract to serve as assis tant volleyball coach at Hepp ner Junior High. In other business, the board: -heard updates on the bond issue construction and techno logy projects; -heard that the legislature ap proved an increase in substitute pay to $103.55 a day for short term substitutes and $119.60 a day for long term substitutes. -approved bids for Columbia Middle School (CMS) for asphalt paving from Blue Mountain Paving, Hermiston, for $9,500 for the driveway and $12,315 for the parking lot; for Sam Boardman Elementary (SBE) from Sports Technology Group, Freeland, WA, for $51,884 for the SBE gym floor replacement; for bread for county schools from Adams Distributing, Heppner, for 79 cents a loaf. Snyder Bakery, Spokane, bid $1.52 a loaf for north end schools only and Gene's Foods, Walla Walla, declined to bid; for milk for lone schools from lone Market at 23 cents a half pint for 3.8 percent milk (regular homogen ized), 21 cents for two percent and 23 cents for chocolate/skim milk, for Heppner schools from Central Market for 21 cents, 18.5 cents and 21 cents respec tively, and for north end schools from Daisy Dairy H, Hermiston, for 21, 18.9 and 18.7 cents. Milk cost to students is 25 cents a carton; -heard a food service report from Shirley Landauer. Food service received $445,178 in revenues and expended $457,745, with a $12,567 trans fer required. Landauer report ed that the district encountered $14,198 in unexpected ex- penses, including $6,666 for a dishwasher at CMS, $3,870 in benefits for the district courier and $3,662 for an additional three-hour assistant cook for CMS. She said that the district served an average of 47 more meals per day that in 1994-95. She also said that the district has been granted a two-year waiver from implementing new federal guidelines; -approved employment for Maryanne Anthony, education assistant and laundry person at Riverside High School (RHS); Anastacio Garza, three-Vi hour custodian at SBE; Jill Patten, probationary contract to teach language arts and social studies at CMS and extra duty contract as assistant CMS volleyball coach; Brooke Chamberlain, probationary contract to teach special education at SBE; Israel Ganvoa, extra duty contract to serve as assistant volleyball coach at RHS. -accepted resignations from: Marge Bertelson, from ed assis tant position and extra duty positions at CMS; Laura Com bes, extra duty position at RHS. -approved retirement for Jeanne Creamer, secretary of CMS. A district-wide inservice day will be held Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 8:30 a.m. at RHS. Building inservice will be held Thursday, Aug. 29 and teacher workday will be Friday, Aug. 30. The first day of school will be Tuesday, Sept. 3, following the Sept. 2 Labor Day holiday. The next regular meeting will be held at the district office in Lexington Monday, Sept. 9, at 7:30 p.m. • ^ \ : ^ ’V v i V » . '!:••• ¿ r '- V v - .v -> .-f • v .-o v » .. . V j ,1 vh : v - * w - • . • , * r---' * ■ • * , 4 * * * . i ■.V'.- ■■-V * » * *. I :: V Weather Report ________ By City of Heppner________ For the month of July High Low Precip. 7/1 86 53 .00 7/2 93 58 .00 7/3 96 59 .00 7/4 88 56 .00 7/5 72 42 .00 7/6 77 46 .00 7/7 84 52 .00 7/8 90 56 .00 7/9 59 94 .00 7/10 87 48 .00 7/11 88 54 .00 89 .00 7/12 56 94 68 .00 7/13 7/14 98 72 .00 7/15 100 66 .00 57 .00 7/16 % 7/17 86 50 .00 49 7/18 75 .18 7/19 72 43 .00 .00 7/20 77 51 81 .00 7/21 51 7/22 85 55 .00 .00 7/23 92 58 7/24 99 62 .00 100 62 .00 7/25 7/26 100 60 .00 7/27 102 64 .00 64 .00 7/28 100 7/29 94 67 .01 7/30 66 .T % 54 7/31 95 .25 .... . •-»'. !" - ». • 1 j- - 7 «. - i. *. i - ! o’. v " V •. • ' ,.< - » »Vi.'Tw-J ;>•■! ... ¿v, A, ' A. *V .,\ »• <-■ « , .•,r V'-.. 4 •- » * ► . - a . v . . V ‘ - . . » V .• ■ - À*;’ •*>; A, c" r - . .-. j *** vV'j :.c .: \;t . '■•A " M A STER Gardening questions? C o l the Extension Office at 6 7 6 -9 6 4 2 to be refered to a m aster gardener. Governor Proclamé Aug. 1 l-l 7 Oregon Matter Gardener Week Oregon’s Master Gardeners have arrived in the spotlight. In recognition of 20 years of Master Gardener volunteer service help ing Oregonians learn more about gardening, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has proclaimed the week of Aug. 11-17 "Master Gardener Week.” The proclamation noted that Master Gardener volunteers gave 90,000 hours of their time during 1995 in 26 Oregon counties to "directly assist, counsel and advise Oregon gardeners” this contribution calls for recognition of Master Gardener volunteers by the communities they serve and all Oregon citizens. Master Gardeners are graduates of the OSU Extension Service Master Gardener Program. They volunteer to help Extension agents answer home gardening questions from the public in ex change for classroom instruction on home horticulture presented by OSU faculty. “This proclamation by Oregon’s governor is high praise for all Master Gardeners and indicative of the hard work they’ve been doing in helping Oregon gardeners over the past two decades,” said Ray McNeilan, home horticulturist with the OSU Extension Service and state coordinator of the OSU Extension Master Gardener Program. Oregon's Master Gardener Program has grown dramatically since it began in the state in 1976. "The program started with just a handful of volunteers back then,” said McNeilan. "This year we had 3,000 Master Gardeners representing counties all over the state.” 'M -' - • v - ■ • . : ' . .•■■*. . ■ v • i. -y < ‘ ' - .-■■AÀÏÏK ‘ ■” V '• ‘ f «flfife tàiCÌBau, .' ‘K •* . .. M e . • • •* . • >'»• *vu* 4 tî ¿fil M : * -\V *>■ * » r -sAi-ifi ’I] Mil '."I > 'J .‘AV* , ■ - - .VvJ y.
