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VOL 116
NO. 42
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Gene Schmidt
8 Pages
Wednesday, October 15,1997
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Police confiscate seven bucks
The Oregon State Police and
the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife officials have
confiscated seven deer taken in
the wrong hunt unit.
According to OSP Trooper
Dave Rzewmcki, seven deer, six
of those from one camp, were
taken in the Columbia Basin Unit
with Heppner Unit tags.
Rzewnicla said that the venison
will be given to a chanty or
community group.
Elementary
Carnival Oct. 30
Russ Morgan (left) and Bob Krein, both with the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife, measure rack on confiscated deer.
It’s time for carnival at Hepp
ner Elementary. 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.
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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.
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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
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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. They have two
children, Ian. 17, and Talia, 14
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