Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 3,1997 - THREE
Wheatland Pomona holds meeting
Wheatland Pomona met for
their quarterly meeting October
25 at the Lexington Grange Hall
with members from Spray,
Boardman, lone and Lexington
in attendance.
Officers for 1998 and 1999
elected were as follows: master,
Bob Hammack; overseer, Aloha
Medlock; lecturer, Jean Nelson;
steward, Clarence Buchanan;
chaplain, Eulenna Vaughn;
treasurer, Cecil Jones; secretary,
Delpha Jones; lady assistant
steward,
Barbara
Gilbert;
assistant steward, Eldon Gilbert;
gatekeeper, Willard French;
Ceres,
Margaret
Stangel;
Pomona, Nyna Knighten; Flora,
Bobby
Jo
Medlock;
and
executive members, Kenneth
Smouse, Wilma Martin and Dot
Halvorsen.
A special memorial service was
held for departed members.
These included Ruth Bergstrom,
Howard Crowell, Barbara Emert,
Charles
Carlson, Margaret
Donovan, Mike Medlock, Celia
Reed, Ernest Gillenberg, Annie
Hight, Melvin Parkhurst and
Walt Fisher.
Special program for the day
was a talk by Larry Lindsay.
Lindsay, who has been a member
of the board for the Port of
Morrow for over 30 years,
emphasized the impact of the
Port of Morrow on the county.
P A 's Report
The Morrow County District
Attorney’s office in Heppner re
ports handling the following busi
ness:
Marcelo Mejia, 36, of Irrigon
was convicted of Sexual Abuse 1
- B/Felony on Sept. 17 and was
sentenced by Judge Jeffrey
Wallace to five years probation,
90 days in jail, 90 days electronic
surveillance, 80 hours community
service work on the condition that
he submit to blood sample for
DNA testing, register as a sex of
fender, have no contact with mi
nor, complete a sex offender treat
ment program, make an apology,
and pay $1,463 in fines, fees and
assessments with $1,000 sus
pended and all costs incurred by
victim for treatment. Mejia was
also convicted of another count
of Sexual Abuse 1 - B/Felony on
Sept. 17 and was sentenced by
Judge Wallace to five years pro
bation, 90 days electronic surveil
lance on the condition that he sub
mit to blood sample for DNA test
ing, register as a sex offender,
have no contact with minor,
complete a sex offender treatment
program, make an apology, and
pay $ 153 in fines and assessments
and all costs incurred by the
victim’s treatment of damages.
Michael Robert Nelson, 39, of
Boardman, was convicted of Pos
session of a Controlled Substance
2 - C/Felony on Oct. 31 and was
sentenced by Judge Jeffrey
Wallace to 18 months probation
and 10 days in jail on the condi
tion that he use no drugs and pay
$658 in fines and assessments
with $500 suspended; upon suc
cessful completion of probation,
this matter shall be entered as a
Misdemeanor conviction.
David John Line, 34, of Her-
miston, was convicted of Reck
less Driving - A/Misdemeanor on
Nov. 6 and was sentenced by
Judge Jeffrey Wallace to two
years probation, one year in jail,
suspended, on the condition that
he make an apology, have driver’s
license suspended for 90 days,
submit to alcohol and drug coun
seling, complete 40 hours com
munity service work, violate no
laws, have no contact with the
victim and pay $ 1,113 in fines and
assessments with $1,000 sus
pended. Line was also convicted
of Menacing - A/Misdemeanor on
Nov. 11 and was sentenced by
Judge Wallace to two years pro
bation and one year in jail sus
pended; and also convicted of
Contempt of Court/Remedial - U/
Misdemeanor on Nov. 6 and was
sentenced by Judge Wallace to
two years probation, and six
months in jail suspended.
School
CLASS PICTURES
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for the M orrow County
Museum.
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Prior to the time the port was
established in 1959, the county
economy was based primarily on
agriculture and forestry, he said.
After that many new businesses
were brought in the area. Now
Morrow County taxes are
supplied 80 percent from
industry and five percent from
farms. This makes our taxes
about half that of the adjoining
counties, he noted. Oscar
Peterson, who was county judge,
Gar Swanson, Dewey West and
Buster Rand were the ones who
spearheaded the push for the
development of the port. The
biggest problem in the future
seems to be the possible draw
down of the Columbia River, he
said, which will curtail most of
the pumping for irrigation from
the river, cut out most of the
barge transportation of wheat and
other products and severely
cripple our economy.
For
instance, he said, it would take
700,000 trucks to haul the wheat
and other products that is now
barged down the river. Lindsay
suggested that each one of us
need to contact our governor,
who is one of the four northwest
governors who are putting
together a group that could
control the use of the Columbia
and Snake River system.
Representatives of the Indian
tribes
and
the
Clinton
administration are the other two
agencies that are planning this.
The big problem is that none of
the groups such as agriculture,
industry and forestry
are
included, he concluded.
Local girl competes in teen pageant Spout Springs
Jaylene Papineau
Jaylene Papineau, daughter of
Jay and Lorene Papineau,
Lexington, was selected as a
contestant in the Miss Oregon
Teen All American Pageant. The
pageant was presented in the
executive ballroom of the
Doubletree
Hotel
on the
Columbia River the weekend of
November 28-30.
The state pageant will select a
representative for the National
Miss Teen All American Pageant
to be held next August in Miami.
Papineau competed with young
women from all over the state for
the title of Miss Oregon Teen All
American.
There are two
different presentations which she
participated in: the preliminary
competition on Saturday evening
and the final competition on
Sunday afternoon.
Papineau is a Senior at Heppner
High School where she is a
cheerleader.
She plans to
become a massage therapist.
The Miss Teen All American
Pageant has been an activity for
young women for the last 20
years. Each year the state winner
receives a prize package worth
approximately $6,000.
MCLG annual meeting Dec. 12
The Morrow County Livestock
Grower’s Annual Meeting will be
held Fnday, December 12, at the
Heppner Elks Club.
The
program will start at 1 p.m.
Speakers will include Tim
Delcurto, Eastern Oregon Ag
Research Center, Union, who
will speak on "Beef Cow
Nutrition"; Dick Temple, local
veterinarian, "Cow Herd Health";
Bob Lazinka, local commercial
cattleman, "Cow Management";
Kyle Robinson, local purebred
4-H Ranch Horse
breeder, "Registered Cow Herd";
and Bill Zollinger, OSU beef
specialist.
"Cow
Herd
Maintenance".
A Morrow County Livestock
Grower's business meeting will
get underway around 4:30 p.m.,
and a social hour is planned from
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. A prime rib
dinner will be served by the Elks
at 6:30 p.m.
Those planning to attend are
asked to RSVP at the Morrow
County Extension Office at 676-
9642 or 1-800-342-3664.
Club plans meeting Banquet features "Slob Sisters"
A 4-H Ranch Horse Club will
The annual Town and Country
hold an organizational meeting
Banquet,
scheduled
for
Saturday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. at the
Thursday,
January 15, will
Morrow County Fairgrounds.
feature the return of the "Slob
Sisters", according to a Chamber
Those interested should contact
of Commerce spokesperson.
leaders/coordinators Dick and
Tickets for the dinner,
Karen Temple at 989-8181.
coronation,
awards and featured
The meetings will be held on
entertainers
will go on sale after
Saturdays. Parents will be encour
Christmas.
aged to ride with the members
It's time to nominate deserving
whenever arena space allows and
citizens and a business for the
contribute information and skills
annual man, woman, educator
at the meetings. Members are en
couraged to join another 4-H
horse club as well because the
activities of this club will contrib
ute only indirectly to training for
The 1998 CSEPP Emergency
Public Information Calendar will
the fair.
The
A 4-H Ranch Horse Club dif be mailed this week.
fers from other 4-H horse clubs calendar, a project of the
in that it primarily teaches prac Chemical Stockpile Emergency
tical ranching skills which utilize Preparedness Program, will be
horses. The basic goal of the club mailed to all postal customers in
is for the member to demonstrate the areas around the Umatilla
Chemical Depot.
proficiency in various skills form
In addition to the normal
walking, trotting and stopping, to calendar pages, the calendar
knot tying, roping, packing and contains information that may be
cattle sorting.
useful in the unlikely event of an
The primary emphasis will be accidental release of chemical
on safety, control and versatility. agent from the depot.
The
The Temples have developed chance of an accident at the
some innovative ways of teach depot is very remote, said a
ing riders how to recognize when CSEPP news release, but
they are overworking their horses. consequences could be serious if
Speed activities will have built- the area is not prepared. The
in controls and group drills will calendar is printed in both
be adjusted to the skills levels of English and Spanish.
Two cards are inside the cover
the riders.
4-H provides worthwhile acci
dent insurance and requires that
ASTM and SEI-approved hel
A “Sharing T ree” will be
mets be wom by all members in
all mounted activities, said the placed at Kate’s Pizza in Hepp
Temples. Basic equipment and ner again this year by the Willow
where to get the best buy on a Creek Baptist Church.
Everyone is invited to take an
helmet will be discussed at the
ornam
ent and buy a c h ild ’s
organizational meeting.
present for Christmas. The child’s
age, gender and wish are on the
4-H News
back of the ornament, along with
and
business
awards.
Nomination forms are available
at the office of Kuhn, Spicer and
Mills or may be mailed by
calling the Chamber office, 676-
5536. The committee would like
to have these in hand by
December 19.
"These deserving people are
quietly working behind the
scenes on a daily basis," said
Chamber
manager Claudia
Hughes. "The committee needs
to hear about them."
»«ok drive set
The Family Literacy Initiative
is seeking 1.000 new books for a
book drive aimed at increasing
Under a special code of federal family literacy in Umatilla and
regulations order signed by the Morrow counties. Low income
forest supervisor of the Umatilla families applying for Christmas
National Forest, the alpine skiing Food Baskets will be the
area of the Spout Springs Resort recipients of these books.
is closed to public access.
Coordinators of the drive stress
Forest officials determined this that the books can be as
action necessary for safety and inexpensive as "Little Golden
security. No public access will Books", but the focus is on books
be permitted to the sites of the for children birth through eight
buildings, the tower or the ski years. The books may be in
runs.
either English or Spanish.
The recreation staff of the
The project brings together
Walla Walla Ranger District says Umatilla County businesses,
they regret that there is no agencies and Blue Mountain
operator for the Spout Springs Community College in a
Resort this season.
cooperative spirit aimed at
The Spout Springs Nordic ski reaching the most donors
trails can be used this winter, but possible. On November 24 drop
no grooming will be done, they boxes, wrapped in red, were
said.
placed at the following locations:
A new area of groomed Nordic Head Start office in Umatilla; in
ski trails is open on the south end Hermiston at the Hermiston
of the district, approximately two Bookstore, BMCC West Campus
miles off 1-84 on the Summit/Mt. Basic Skills Department and
Emily Exit.
The Meacham McDonalds; in Pendleton at the
Divide Ski Area offers nine miles Head Start office, Frazer
of trails plus the new Emily Sno- Bookstore, Pendleton Book
park.
Company, Armchair Books,
BMCC Basic Skills Department
(Emigrant Hall), and Subway;
and in Milton-Freewater at the
BMCC Basic Skills Department
McDonald's in Hermiston.
Pendleton and Milton-Freewater
will offer a coupon for free
The Heppner High School class
"super sizing" at each drop box
of '98 has planned a Christmas
location. Pendleton Subway is
trees sale on Sunday, December offering a coupon for $1 off a
7, and Sunday, December 14,
foot-long sub sandwich for books
from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Sneddon dropped at that location.
Tree Farm behind Willow Creek Collections will end on Friday.
Golf Course, one mile north of December 5.
Heppner.
For more information regarding
The trees are naturally grown the book drive contact Dinah
Austrian Pine trees. There is a Hemphill, BMCC Basic Skills, at
$10-20 cash donation, and 278-5795. If you are a group that
delivery of the trees is available provides literacy support in your
for $5.
community and would like to
Hot chocolate will be available. join
the Family Literacy
For more information call 676- Initiative, contact Vecie Grant at
9046.
541/278-5953.
Resort closed
HHS plans
tree sale
Happy 80th
Birthday
Jam es J. Farley! so
Stop by and wish him
happy birthday on
December 4th
1998 CSEPP calendar mailed
low «,
of the calendar. One asks for
some information on how
residents of the area get
information and if they would
like to have a speaker on CSEPP
come to meet with them. The
other seeks to identify persons
with disabilities who may need
assistance in the event of an
emergency. The card are post
paid.
Persons who haven't received a
calendar in the mail by
December 20 may pick them up
at libraries, city halls in
Hermiston, Stanfield, Umatilla,
Echo, Boardman and Irrigon, the
CSEPP offices in Hermiston at
305 B SE Fourth and Irrigon in
the Morrow County Annex
building. Morrow and Umatilla
county courthouses and various
other public locations.
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Kate's Pizza to have "Sharing Tree"
By Dan Jepsen
The Bamyarders 4-H Club held
its second meeting of the year on
November 24. At the meeting
members watched a swine
judging video. They learned
about how to judge hogs and how
to give oral reasoning to a judge.
After that they judged two
classes of hogs on the video.
The winners were Meagan Healy
and Kelsy McKinney.
IHScake raffle
a number from the South Morrow
County Neighborhood Center.
Those wanting to participate
should wrap up the gift, remem
bering to put the ornament on the
gift, and then take it back to
Kate’s Pizza or the Neighborhood
Center.
This “Sharing Tree’’ is spon
sored by Willow Creek Baptist
Church, Kate’s Pizza and the
Neighborhood Center.
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By Nova Rietmann
The lone High School junior
class will hold a cake raffle
during the IHS basketball game
versus Pilot Rock this Friday,
November 5. The game starts at
3 p.m. and the raffle will be held
during the half time of the boys’
varsity game.
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and NURSING HOME
HEPPNER, O REG O N
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NEW DIRECT PHONE NUMBERS
December 4th-Thursday
LADIES’ NIGHT with Joyce Ward and crew. Menu:
pork roast, mashed potatoes, dressing, salad, and
apple dumpling for dessert. Dinner starts at 6 p.m
Come in after the light parade for a home-cooked
meall
Memorial service upstairs before lodge.
Bingo every Wednesday, starting at 7 p.m.
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