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> If A « Arts Council plans activities HEPPNER 50 < Cheri Westphal (I) visits with dance students in Heppner The classes are funded by the Morrow Coun ty Recreation District. imes VOL. 115 NO 39 8 Pages Wednesday. September 25, 1996, Morrow County Heppner, Oregon Council approves preliminary subdivision plans The Morrow County Arts Council (MCAC), a newly formed non-profit organization has planned several upcoming community activities. MCAC was organized to promote in terest in the arts and develop appreciate for the arts by ''fin ding, funding and facilitating creative, education and rewar ding cultural activities and events". Board members credit Sarah Carlson with providing the impetus for organizing the group. Currently, most of the coun cil's funding is from the Mor row County Unified Recreation District. The events and ac tivities that MCURD will fund are free to the public. Upcoming activities include: forming a South Morrow Com munity band; holding visual arts classes, concerts in the parks and performances by a jazz guitarist and a jazz pianist. A dance class for children and adults, taught by Cheri West phal is already underway. MCAC board members say they hope to receive grants and sponsors for a fund raising event-a Murder Mystery Din ner Theater (not sponsored by MCURD), in which the actors interact with the audience, to be held at the Heppner Elks Club, with the date to be an nounced. The jazz musician performance is scheduled to be held at Beecher's Restaurant in lone, with the date to be announced. MCAC will hold a member ship drive on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. at the Penland House, 585 N. Gale in Heppner. Music and refresh m ents will be provided. "Everyone is invited to come," said board member Shelly Riet- mann. "We need their sup port." For more information, con tact any member of the recently-elected MCAC board of directors: Joyce Graff, secretary, 422-7191; Shelly Riet- mann, 422-7243; Ann Murray, 676-9158; Don Eppenbaugh, president, 922-3047; Dave Ken drick, Barbara Orwick, and Juanita Hawkins. Anyone interested in joining the council may contact Graff bv phone or bv mail do MCAC, P.O. Box 274, lone, OR 97843. Membership dues are $20 a year per family. Members will receive an arts council newslet ter, first notification of upcom ing arts council events, mem bership in the Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council and their newsletter of regional events. Mike Dugan visits Heppner f- f ; s / - • * • -V - ■m M á ü ■ ■ ■ < City manager Gary Marks at proposed subdivision site The Heppner City Council has given preliminary approval of a tentative plan for a subdivision in Heppner. The p ro p o se d subdivision will include 24 lots located south of Willow Creek Road, between the Corps o f Engineers' access road near Willow Creek Lake and the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. Plans for development of infrastructure-streets, sidewalks, sewer and utilities- must still be approved by the city engineer. The Port o f Morrow owns the land and will pay for improvements, according to Heppner City Manager Gary Marks. "The city is excited to have the port put some o f their resources into the area." said Marks. "They're addressing a need we have and we appreciate it very much." People who wish to purchase the lots will buy them from the port and then the lot owners will fund construction o f homes on the lots. Marks estimates that the cost o f a lot will be in the neighborhood of $ 15-20 thousand. "In any other city in Oregon it would be from $25- 50 thousand or more for fully developed residential lots," he said. Marks added that he believed that manufactured homes would be allowed on the lots. He said that the Port has asked the Heppner Economic Development Corporation, which has been an advocacy group for the project from the beginning, to develop covenants so that the subdivision mirrors the community and looks as "traditionally residential as possible". Marks said that the proposed subdivision will help solve the area's housing shortage and will also demonstrate that contractors can build residential housing in the Heppner area that will sell. "There is no history that such a thing has been successful here," he said, comparing it to the Hermiston area. "We want to put ourselves on the map as a desireable community for development," said Marks. "We have a quality o f life that other places just don't have. It’s good place to raise kids, a good place to retire. Build the houses and they will come." Marks is quick to add that he is talking about moderate, not extreme growth. Show by McManus slated in Boardman Heppner attorneys Bill Kuhn and Ann Spicer have received notice from Circuit Court Judge Rudy Murgo that he has ruled in favor of Willow Creek Park District concerning a suit brought against the district by numerous Morrow County landowners. The landowners had petitioned to remove themselves from the park district and thereby from the tax rolls funding construction and operating expenses for the pool which is to be built in Heppner. Willow Creek Park District encompasses south Morrow County. Gary Marks, pool project manager, says that the Willow Creek Board of Directors has given him the go-ahead to proceed with the project. Marks says that the architect is "very close to having the design work done" . He said that they hope to go out for bids in October and to start construction in late November or December, depending on the severity of the winter. Hunter's breakfast, Sept. 27-28 The hunter's breakfast, spon sored by the Heppner Elks Club, will be held from Friday, Sept. 27 at 4 p.m. to Saturday, Sept. 28 at 10 a m. A one-man stage show by humor writer Patrick F. Mc Manus, starring Tim Behrens, will be presented by Morrow County Arts Council and Friends of the Boardman Library at the Riverside High School auditorium in Board- man on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. Admission to "A Fine and Pleasant Misery: The Humor of Patrick F. McManus" is free. Bus transportation will be provided from south Morrow County. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Call and reserve a seat by Friday, Oct. 4, by call ing 422-7191. "A Fine and Pleasant Misery" is funded by the Mor row County Unified Recreation District. -. \ Congressional candidate Mike Dugan (center) visits with Heppner High School teacher Dale Conklin (left) and attorney Bill Kuhn, Sept. 12. Dugan stopped by the St. Patrick's Senior Center and also spoke to HHS students. City to build new storage shed Heppner city water main breaks replacement o f equipment to pay for the $70,000 building. He added that the heavy equipment is currently stored at the gravel yard which is in the Hood way. "In the event o f a flood," said Marks, "it is critical that we have access to the public works equipment. This will also centralize all city operations and make them more efficient." Marks said that construction o f the shed is the result o f a goal set by the city council to find a way to shelter the new sludge truck. The council then expanded their idea to include all city equipment, he said. Contractor is Mike W alton C o n stru c tio n . Umatilla. The building is financed through the Bank of Eastern Oregon. A water main was damaged in Heppner Tuesday, Sept. 24. around 3 p.m.. according to city manager Gary Marks. At 5 p.m. Tuesday, city workers had not vet been able to shut off the eight-inch main, which was damaged when Columbia Basin Electric workers drilling to place a power pole at Elder and Quaid streets, said Marks. The city o f Heppner has cleared land behind city hall to make room for a new storage shed for the city’s heavy equipment. City manager Gary Marks said that the city started leveling off the property in mid-August to prepare for construction o f the 40x120 pole building. They hope to nave equipment moved in by November when cold weather is expected. Marks said that the city's new sludge truck, in addition to other heavy equipment, will be stored in the shed, which will be heated to 40-45 degrees to prevent weather damage to the equipment. 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