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Cheri Westphal (I) visits with dance students in Heppner The classes are funded by the Morrow Coun
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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
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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.
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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. Marks said that
within 10-15 years the city
may
save
enough
in
maintenance,
repair
and
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A food sale will be held
Thursday and Friday, Sept.
26-27 at Miller's Mini Mart and
Chevron in Heppner beginning
at 9 a.m.
Proceeds from the sale will go
towards an HEPA clean air
system for Willow’ Lanes
(Heppner Bowl).
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