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The annual car nival will be held at the Morrow county Fairgrounds Thursday, Oct. 30, from 6-8:30 p.m. This year will be double the fun with the addition of the book fair. The carnival will feature some old favontes, like the gold fish toss and ghoul grab. Bingo and pie will also return this year along with the haunted house. This will be Merry Brannon’s fourth year to try to “scare the stuffing” out of carni val goers. Brannon says there are some big changes in the works for the haunted house this year and she says she hopes to make it scarier than ever. Brannon says that they are working toward ex tending the hours of the haunted house and hope to put it on two nights instead of one. This year’s carnival will also include the addition of a book fair. Brannon says the book fair will feature a buy one and get one free sale. Shoppers can buy anything and get another of the same value for free. The book fair held last spring was a huge success. The book fair will run the same hours as the carnival on October 30. On Monday and Tuesday, No vember 3 and 4 it will be back at the Elementary School from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 4-H dog project Seven deer killed in wrong unit confiscated. Master Gardeners plan harvest Sunday, October 26, at 2 p.m., the local chapter of OSU Blue Mountain Master Gardeners will harvest their pumpkin patch. The pumpkins are available to the public for Halloween use. The Community Garden, sponsored by the Master Gardeners, is located at the intersection of Riverside and Morgan streets in Heppner. Garden plots are available to people interested in gardening. A contribution for a pumpkin will be used to sustain the garden. plans first meeting The first meeting of a 4-H dog project will be held Saturday, October 18, at 2 p.m. at the Morrow County Fairgrounds. Basic obedience and care of the dog will be for information and planning the year. Guests from the Wallowa County Dog Club will demonstrate skills that have taken them to state fair. For more information call Dick or Karen Temple, 989-8181. Corps plans water release The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to begin its yearly release of water down Willow Creek on Thursday. According to a Corps of Engineer spokesperson, the amount of water released from the dam into Willow Creek will increase from 5 cubic feet per second, to 25 cfs. The extra water release is down every year by the corp to get Willow Creek Lake ready for the winter runoff. Photo by Nova Rietmann Lavar Bowles (right), Weaver Construction project manager, and Kit George, Lott's Electric, show television donated by Weaver Construction to the Heppner High School Booster Club's anni al auction. The Heppner High School Booster Club and the community are gearing up for the Booster Club's annual steak feed and auction planned for this Saturday, October 18, at the Heppner Elk’s Club. The steak feed will get underway at 6 p.m., with the auction beginning at 8 p.m. and expected to conclude around 9:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner, which includes steak, potato, salads, dessert and beverage, will be $7.50 each. In addition to the auction, the evening will feature a silent auction and a Ducks Unlimited- style raffle table with over 30 items. Raffle tickets may be purchased at $1 each, six for $5, 15 for $10 and 30 for $20. BEO announces home buyer loans In response to a need expressed by the communities in Morrow. Union, Gillam and Wheeler counties, the Bank of Eastern Oregon has applied and has been approved by the area HUD. VA and USDA offices to begin offering loan programs designed to assist home buyers. "They will be especially helpful to first time home buyers and armed services veterans, but these programs could help anyone interested in purchasing or refinancing a home," said Melissa Lindsay with the Bank of Eastern Oregon. "The Bank of Eastern Oregon offers many programs designed to increase home ownership in the area." These programs are available to individuals qualifying under the guidelines of each specific program. Lindsay and Sylvia Sandford just returned from a extensive two-day training seminar to increase their knowledge of underwriting these loan programs. "These programs are very exciting as they allow more flexible underwriting, lower interest rates, and low to no down payment options to home buyers," said Lindsay. There is no charge to pre qualify for these and the many other loan programs that are available. Bank of Eastern Oregon has full time loan staff to assist buyers in obtaining their home ownership goals. "If you are unable to qualify for a purchase or refinance now the Bank of Eastern Oregon can offer free financial counseling to help you meet your goals in the future," added Lindsay. For more information call Lindsay at 676-9884. Sign up now for basket Low and fixed-income individuals may sign up for the annual Thanksgiving basket at the Heppner Neighborhood Center. The deadline for sign up is Nov. 7. Those wishing to sign up should bring the required proof of income and their physical address. .'1 •* •> . • • .■ * W I . Gene Schmidt, new human resources director at Pioneer Memorial Hospital, has the best of both worlds. Schmidt, 52, has the extensive experience that a large area can offer, but he loves a small town. Schmidt recently moved from Central Oregon where he has lived for the past 12 years. He said that after many years in the timber industry he decided he wanted to break into the health services field. "I hit the deck running," says Schmidt of his new position. "I'm a country boy and I feel right at home." Schmidt grew up in Doty, WA, a mill town of about 200 people in the Centralia-Chehalis, WA, area. He went to school at Boistford High School in Curtis Valley. The school had 83 students and there were 14 in his graduating class. After high school Schmidt received a degree in business from Oregon State University. He was employed by Weyerhauser for 16 years and D.A.W. (a forest products business) for eight years and then for Crown Pacific after D.A.W. sold out * to them. While employed with Weyerhauser, he worked out of the corporate headquarters in Federal Way, WA, and traveled from Sequim to as far away as Klamath Falls. He was Weyerhauser's western manager for forest nurseries, managing their genetics program. At D.A.W. and Crown Pacific, Schmidt he was director of human resources and safety management .At one point he "rode herd" on 750 people. Schmidt says he enjoys working and doesn't ever plan on retiring. "I get so much out of my work," he said. In addition to his new position at PMH, Schmidt has forest acreage in the Centralia-Chehalis area and also a pizza franchise in the Redmond-Prineville- Terrebonne area, which his daughter, Kristi Gerig, manages. He and his wife also have a son, Michael, who has a master's degree and teaches at Snoqualmie Falls and a 15- month old grandson, Nicholas. His wife, Bonnie, is employed at the Redmond School District as a confidential secretary. Schmidt says that he is still looking for housing in the Heppner area. Schmidt replaces Pam Sagely, who moved out of the area. ••• v -• > / . * ‘J ' . s • - • : ' v i • » '• ■ . HEPPNER * * •"» l f 4* * A w - .* «r* 1 ' ., ► , » . î » u zr»v. ; ‘.v. o ■•■•» _ . ~r . . . • •• . . . . -’v . . . Anyone purchasing a dinner ticket will be eligible to win the television set, which will be given away as a door prize. Auction items include tickets to sporting events, airplane rides, hunting, fishing and golfing packages, jewelry, a hunting dog, two tons of alfalfa, taxidermy and a horse, among others. Raffle items range from cat food to golf balls, basketballs, clothing, oil service and fuel to a shotgun. Silent auction items include food, photographs, toys, decorations, tickets, a load of gravel and even a dessert a month to the lucky winner Sweek throws in hat for judge position -X '. -» . ..y • - ' N V .•>**.»■> . • vV Ä V . * ù - V "- - -. - - V v > 7 is a t V S y • ' ' ' '-Y'y-y ,''»♦* '■ >» y ' ' v 'y \ \ - . V -o ' Ó . >' 1 - - »•« v - '.v V.' »• , ' , ^ ' V ’ x • ' y*i Ay ^ s» y V - • - • * * ' > 1 ty ..O V:' V f Greg Sweek Greg Sweek. Heppner. tiled as a candidate for Morrow County Judge on Fridav. October 10. Sweek. a Democrat, has been Morrow County Assessor for 18 years. Sweek was bom at Pioneer Memorial Hospital, graduated from Heppner High School, and holds a bachelor of science degree in agriculture from Oregon State University. He returned to Heppner to raise a family and work as an appraiser in the Morrow County Assessor's Office in 1977. In 1979 Sweek was appointed to replace Everett Harshman as county assessor. Sweek was president of the Oregon State Association of County Assessors for two consecutive terms beginning in 1990. He worked with the legislature and the Department of Revenue on the implementation guidelines for both Measure 5 in 1990 and Measure 50 for 1997. Sweek is on the board of directors of the Heppner Economic Development Corporation and is president of the Heppner TV Co-op Sweek's wife, Marsha, is director of the Morrow County Museum and is on the board of the Oregon Council on the Humanities. 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