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Leann Rea announces bid for
county commissioner
Heppner merchants arc
sponsoring a Halloween creative
writing contest for youth
kindergarten through high school
age and a "Guess the Ghoul"
contest for adults on Halloween,
Friday, Oct. 31.
In the writing contest, youth
will
enter
participating
businesses and locate the
"scavenger" item located in the
store. They wilt write down the
items and then include all of
them in a story in 250 words or
less. The stories should be
Halloween stories and will be
judged 50 percent on creativity
and interest and 50 percent on
correct grammar (depending on
age).
The
age
groups
are
kindergarten-second grade; third-
fourth; fifth-sixth, seventh-eighth
and high school.
Each age group will have a
winner receiving a $25 gift
certificate redeemable at any
participating business. The grand
prize winner will have his or her
story published in the Gazette
Times. All stories will be
displayed by the businesses.
Deadline for stones is Friday,
Nov. 7, by 6 p.m. at the
following merchants: Gazette-
Times, Shoe Box, Gardner's,
Coast to Coast, Northwest Motel
and Murray Drugs. Winners'
names will be posted in the
newspaper the following week.
In the "Guess the Ghoul"
contest, 'ghouls' pictures will
appear in the Oct. 29 issue of the
_ G-T. Participants in the contest
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
_ will match up the ghoulish faces
with the businesses where the
ghouls work.
Deadline for entries in the
"Guess the Ghoul" contest must
also be turned in by Nov. 7 at 6
categories:
administrative p.m. at the same drop-off
offices-courthouse ground floor; locations.
judicial
services-courthouse
All correct answers will be
second floor; emergency services pooled and a winner drawn. The
(CSEPP and Sheriffs Office) are winner will receive a $25 gift
at the Emergency Operations certificate.
Center; human services are at the
For more information, contact
Ann Murray at Murray Drugs or
Family Service Center; support
David Sykes of the Gazette-
services (accounting, information
Times.
systems/GIS and county counsel)
will be at the Pioneer Annex
where Behavioral Health, Justice
Court
and
the
Juvenile
Department
were
formerly
located.
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Wednesday, October 22,1997
New county offices plan open house
Morrow County announces that
an open house will be held on
Friday, October 24, from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. to celebrate the move of
some departments into the new
Family Service Center in the
Gilliam and Bisbee Building in
downtown Heppner.
The opening comes after over a
year of planning and several
months of renovations to the
histone building, according to a
courthouse news release. The
project, which was made possible
through a Welfare Reinvestment
Grant from the Adult and Family
Services Division of the State of
Oregon, enabled Morrow County
to consolidate several "human
service" departments into one
convenient location.
The Public Health Department,
Juvenile Department, Behavioral
Health Department (formerly
Mental Health) and the Children
and Families Department are
now all located in the upstairs of
the Gilliam and Bisbee Building
as well as the Oregon State
University Extension Service.
In the downstairs offices, which
are on the main Street level
behind the Coast to Coast store,
are the Veterans Service Office,
the Umatilla-Morrow Head Start
and CAPECO's Area Agency on
Aging.
These agencies also
correlate with the other human
service departments. The county
court
maintains
that
consolidating like services into
one location is not only cost
effective (eliminating separately
rented
spaces)
but
also
significantly
increases
the
accessibility of services to the
public.
Morrow County now boasts
consolidation of all services in
the Heppner area into a few basic
Special election ballots mailed
By Nova Rietmann
The ballots for this year's
Oregon Special Election were
sent out Thursday, October 16.
The ballots are due at the
Morrow County Clerk's office on
Tuesday, November 4 by 8 p.m.
The ballots may be mailed,
dropped off at the courthouse in
Heppner or put in drop boxes
located at the Morrow County
Road Department in Lexington,
the lone Bank of Eastern Oregon,
the Morrow County
Annex
building in Irrigon and the
Almost to hit the bricks
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Morrow
County
Health
Department office in Boardman.
Election day hours for the
courthouse will be from 7 a.m.
until 8 p.m.
If the ballots are mailed in they
must be received by the clerk's
office by November 4 before 8
p.m.
The two state measures are on
the ballot—51 and 52. Measure
51 repeals the law allowing
terminally ill adults to obtain a
lethal prescription. This measure
repeals Measure 16, which was
adopted in 1994 and allowed
adults in Oregon to obtain a
physician's prescription for lethal
drugs when physicians predict a
patient's death within
six
months. Measure 52 allows the
Legislative Assembly to establish
a state education lottery bond
program. It would provide up to
$150 million for state education
projects.
Morrow County Clerk Barbara
Bloodsworth
says
that
information she received from
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the Election Administration
Reports, Washington, D.C.,
indicates that "vote by mail
works well in Oregon because of
capable and experienced election
administrators and a political
climate that is basically honest,"
according to elections scholar
Michael Traugott. Traugott is a
senior research scientist at the
University of Michigan's Center
for Political Studies who recently
participated in a day-long
conference in Washington, D.C.
on vote-by-mail.
According to Traugott, voting
by mail "stimulates turnout in
lower turnout elections like
primaries and referenda and it
seems to have its greatest impact
among groups who are ordinarily
least likely to vote".
Area pedestrians will soon be ‘ hitting the bricks” on downtown streets.
Installment of the bricks, as part of the Main Street Project, began
Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Around 277 dinners were
served at the annual Heppner
High School Booster Club annual
steak feed and auction, according
to Booster Club Chairman Sonja
McCabe.
McCabe said that an extimated
300 people attended the auction
which brought in a record
$14,000. McCabe estimates that
the evening will raise around
$12,500, after expenses, to
benefit youth programs at
Heppner Junior and Senior High
Schools. "It was a big success,"
said McCabe.
She said that there were about
43 items in the auction, 34 in the
silent auction and 37 in the raffle.
The group also received cash
donations in addition to auction
items donated.
The event was chaired by
Greg and Erika Grant, Cyde
Estes, Chuck and Sherry
Matteson and John and Sonja
McCabe.
Mike Reyes was the winner of
the television given away as a
door prize.
Taco feed set for
HHS game, Friday
A taco feed, sponsored by the
Heppner High School (HHS) se­
nior class, will be held at the
Morrow County Fairgrounds an­
nex building in Heppner on Fri­
day, Oct. 24, from 5:30-7 p.m.
before the HHS-Pilot Rock foot­
ball game. The game will get un­
derway at 7:30 p.m. at the fair­
grounds.
The cost for one taco with all
the fixings, dessert and dnnk will
be $2.50. Two tacos, dessert and
drink will be $3.50.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Rea has been married 38 years
to Jerald Rea, the son of Clell
and Norma Rea of lone. The
Reas have four children, Darla
Wishart, Heppner, Rick, Baker
City, Terrell, Boardman, and
Robb,
LaGrande,
four
grandchildren and two step-
grandchildren.
She is currently employed by
Shroeder Law Offices in
Hermiston. Rea says that the
office will move to Boardman
within the next month or two.
Rea has been employed by the
West
Extension
Irrigation
District, Imgon, as bookkeeper
and manager; by the U.S. Census
Bureau as a crew leader and
enumerator; by H&R Block as a
tax preparer; and by Highland
Machinery in Condon. She and
her husband also operated Jerald
Leann Rea
Morrow County native Leann and Leann Rea Farms.
She has been on the Morrow
Rea, 56, has announced her
County
Extension Advisory
candidacy for Morrow County
Council
since
1994; has co­
Commissioner.
Rea, a Democrat, resides chaired the Rural Residential
outside Boardman. The daughter Sub-Committee for the Lower
of Dan ell and Alvina Padberg of Umatilla Basin Groundwater
lone, she was raised on a farm Management Area since June
homesteaded by her great­ 1995. She has been a member of
grandfather, Henry Padberg, the Morrow County Planning
Commission since June 1995.
about seven miles outside lone.
"I know all the ends of the
Rea attended lone Elementary
and High School, except for the county," said Rea. "I have lived
eighth grade when she attended all over. I'm aware of a lot of the
Heppner
Elementary.
She problems in the county and I
attended
Blue
Mountain have a good background to deal
Community College as a full­ with those problems." Rea added
time student in 1986 and '87, that she feels that water issues
after which she took numerous are going to be of vital important
classes on a part-time basis.
in the future.
School board hears testing report
Morrow County School
District assistant superintendent
Mike Keown reviewed, at the
regular monthly school board
meeting Oct. 13, statewide
assessment tests and Stanford
Achievement Tests administered
to Morrow County students.
Chris Ellis, a representative
from the Oster Group, presented
the 1996-97 district audit report.
Ellis indicated that the audit was
"clean" and the district was in
compliance in all areas.
Bob Baker gave an update on
the district's bond projects. He
said that as of Oct. 13, the
projects are underway with
footings poured at Heppner High
School and
preparation for
pouring the footings underway at
Heppner Elementary School.
Classrooms will be constructed
at the schools.
Morrow County School
Superintendent Chuck Stan-
reported that the state-set
substitute pay was increased to
$113.51 per day and $122.58 per
day for any sub working more
that 10 consecutive days in the
same position.
The following three year
budget committee appointments,
ending in June 2000, were made:
Dave Hirai, Shelly Riekkola, and
Bruce Young.
In other business, the
district accepted resignations
from: Frances Fremault, from her
art teaching position at A.C.
Houghton and Sam Boardman
Elementary schools; Jodi May,
from
educational
assistant
position at SBE; Hans Magden.
from extra duty contract as head
Riverside High School wrestling
coach; Susan Lankford from her
one-day per week position as
inventory clerk at the district
office;
-approved a request for leave of
absence from: Maria Aguilar
from her position as English as a
second language education
assistant at ACH for maternity
leave;;
-approved transfer for: Loma
Botefuhr from her three-hour
special education assistant to a
full-time one-on-one special ed
assistant at Heppner Elementary
School.;
-approved employment for:
Annie Patton, temporary contract
to teach art at ACH and SBE;
Jamie Baker, three-hour special
ed assistant at HES; Kan Keown,
and Sarah Bntt, both 1/2 time
cheerleader advisors at Heppner
High School; Dennis Stefani,
head boys' basketball coach at
lone
High
School;
Juan
Elguezabal, assistant softball
coach at HHS;
-heard the first reading of a
policy which will eliminate
exceptions
to
entry
age
requirements. Starr said that the
distnet's expenence was that
children enrolled in school early
and younger than their peers
tended to eventually encounter
social or psychological problem
in junior high or high school,
regardless of their scholastic
ability. Kindergarteners must be
at least five years old by Sept. 1;
first graders must be at least six
years old by Sept. 1;
-approved a resolution
accepting and appropriating
$10,898
in
unanticipated
revenues. Over seven thousand
o f those funds is earmarked for
Title I instruction.
Man dies of self-inflicted gunshot
An Imgon man, William D.
Martin. 82, was discovered dead
Friday, Oct. 17, of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound to the head at 209
S.E. 4th St. in Imgon, according
to the Morrow County Sheriffs
Department.
The Morrow County Sheriffs
Office was dispatched to the
scene on a report of a residential
fire with a person still inside the
house. When Imgon Rural Fire
Department amved on the scene
they discovered Martin deceased
inside the residence.
An investigation by the
sheriffs office and the fire
department determined that
Martin died of the self-inflicted
gunshot wound and that the fire
was apparently set by the victim.
The case is still under
investigation
by
both
departments.
MC Arts and Crafts club to meet
Mon-ow County Creative Arts
and Crafts Club will meet on
Thursday, Oct. 23, at Yaw’s Res­
taurant in Heppner at 1 p.m.
Members will discuss the show
and sale on Saturday, Nov. 1. All
members are asked to bring cook­
ies to the show.
Sign for basket
Fencing Sale Ends Saturday
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.
Last Chance to Stock Up on Fencing Materials
MORROW COUNTY GRAIN GROWERS
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