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Note'able Event to
be held this Friday
The first annual Morrow
County “Note’able Event”, an
evening of entertainment pro­
vided by violin, fiddle and gui­
tar students of Peg Willis, will
beheld Friday, Apnl 17,at 7 p.m.
upstairs at the Heppner Elks
building.
Students from Heppner, lone,
Lexington, Condon and Pendle­
ton, ranging in age from four to
adult, will perform. Suzuki vio­
lin students will perform as a
group. Fiddling will be jam ses­
sion style with some solo perfor­
mances, some small group per­
formances and some with all the
musicians together. The Pick ‘n’
Bow Company of Pendleton will
play.
The performance will benefit
the new swimming pool in
Heppner.
Old Time-Fiddlers
plan fiddle show
imes
The 11th annual Blue Moun­
tain Old-Time Fiddle Show will
be held in Irrigon on Saturday,
April 25 at Stokes Landing Senior
Center.
The show will feature a vari­
ety of old-time music at 6:30 p.m.
Refreshments will be avail­
able. Everyone is welcome to at­
tend.
For more information, call
922-4399.
All systems go for MS Walk and Roll
Merilee McDowell, local M$ Walk &
Roll chairperson
The 1998 MS Walk & Roll,
Rain or Shine is fast
approaching. Everyone is invited
to bnng fnends and come out
for some fun and exercise, while
you support an important cause.
The walk will take place this
Saturday, April 18, in Heppner.
beginning at 9 a.m. at All Saints
Episcopal Church.
"Having several members of
our family, including our son,
who have multiple sclerosis, we
realize the importance of the
research funded by money from
the MS Walk," said Aloha
DeSpain, co-chair for the
Heppner MS Walk & Roll.
"Hopefully, it won't be long
before more helpful treatment is
available."
Human remains found
near Heppner
Human remains, believed to be
very old and possibly Native
American, were discovered at the
O D O T to begin repaneling sand shed lone Elementary dance team performs edge
of a stream bank near
Heppner on Wednesday, April 8.
The Morrow County Sheriffs
Office received a call from a
citizen reporting that they had
found what appeared to be
human remains in an isolated
location approximately 15 miles
east of Heppner.
Mike Rowell, while walking
his dogs, passed by an eroded
creek bed and saw a skull on the
edge of a stream bank. Ross
Westberg was also at the site,
and they called the Morrow
County Sheriffs Office.
A
deputy who was dispatched to
the scene found a human skull
and bones in a creek bed. The
bones had apparently been
unearthed by spring run off
VOL. 117
NO. 15
10 Pages
Wednesday, April 15,1998
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
be monitored while the project is
underway by placing small tubs
containing water inside the fence
line and on each side of the shed.
If lead particles are discovered
present in the water, then ODOT
will put tarps over fences and try
to prevent the particles from
getting in the nearby pool and
outside the area. Workers on the
project will be required to wear
the Tyvek protective wear and
masks, but will not have to wear
respirators because of the
relatively low levels of lead.
Workers are also required to
have blood tests before and after
completion of the project.
Wes Caine, assistant bridge
foreman, said the crew, which is
from Pendleton, planned to get
started Tuesday, but snow and
rain caused a delay. He said that
they are prohibited from working
on such a project in the event of
snow, rain or wind because of the
possibility of lead in the runoff
or blown in the wind. This
project will also be interrupted
midway for a prior commitment.
"We don't look forward to these
jobs," said Caine, "but we do
them right." He added that his
crew enjoys working in the
Heppner area. "It's a nice place.
We've always gotten along well
with the people here."
Fleming said that anyone with
questions may call him at 541-
963-1334.
A candidate's forum will be
held on Wednesday, April 15, at
7 p.m. at the Morrow County
School District Office in
Lexington.
The forum is sponsored by the
city of lone, the lone Community
A gricultural
Business
Organization (ICABO), the town
of Lexington and the Heppner
Charrfber of Commerce.
Everyone is invited to attend
and ask questions of the
candidates.
waters.
A preliminary investigation
suggests that the remains are
very old and possibly Native
American. The scene was
secured for the night and
arrangements were made for
representatives of the Umatilla
Indian tribe to come and check
out the scene last Thursday, Apnl
9.
With the assistance of the
Oregon State Police, Julie
Longenecker of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation, a cultural
resources technician and faunal
remains specialist and Jeff Van
Pelt from the tribe's Cultural
Resource Protection Program
responded to the scene to
examine the remains.
The investigation as to the
source of the remains continues
as of press time Tuesday.
Blame it on El Nino
lone dance team members.
No, it's not the Easter Bunny.
Daniel Martinez, Pendleton,
(pictured above) a member of the
Oregon
Department
of
Transportation bridge crew,
shows the "bunny" suit that
ODOT workers will be wearing
when they begin to re-panel the
ODOT sand shed near the
Willow Creek Waterpark in
Heppner this week.
ODOT had originally let a bid
to have the shed sandblasted and
painted. But, when the company
discovered that they would have
to remove lead paint from the
shed, they withdrew from the
job. John Fleming, ODOT
regional safety manager, said that
the company would have had to
do ground testing and set up
containment screens if they were
going to sandblast and paint,
which would be prohibitively
expensive.
Instead, Fleming said, ODOT
decided to replace the metal
panels on the shed. By replacing
the panels, ODOT will reduce the
risk to the community and the
project will be considerably less
expensive, he said.
Fleming said that tests indicate
that the lead present in the air
around the shed and in soil
samples at the drip line and along
the fence line are all below
acceptable EPA standards. The
same tests will be conducted
again when the project is
completed. Lead levels will also
The MS Walk & Roll, Rain or
Shine, sponsored by the Oregon
Chapter of the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society, will be held in
18 sites throughout the state of
Oregon and Clark County,
Washington. Funds raised in this
event will be used to provide
local services for the more than
5,200 people in Oregon and
Clark County who have multiple
sclerosis, a disease of the central
nervous system. In addition, a
portion of the funds raised will
support research aimed at finding
the cause and cure for multiple
sclerosis.
Walkers will start the 5K and
10K walks at All Saints
Episcopal Church and finish in
the same location The 5K walk
is wheel chair accessible. Rest
stops with refreshments will be
provided for walkers every few
miles. Lunch at the end of the
walk will be provided by
community churches.
For information on how you
can register or volunteer for the
MS Walk & Roll, Rain or Shine
contact Merilee McDowell at
676-5238 or the Oregon Chapter
office at 1-800-FIGHT MS.
Brochures with registration
material may be picked up at
grocery stores and other
businesses
in Heppner,
Lexington and lone.
lone dance team performs to large crowd.
The lone Elementary School
Dance Team performed recently
for an enthusiastic crowd. The 21 -
member troupe, under the direc­
tion of Adrienne Swanson and
Erin Crowell and assisted by
Katie Garrett, danced to the mu­
sic of “Men in Black" and wore,
appropriately, black outfits and
sunglasses.
The highlight of the season
was performing at halftime at the
district basketball championships
in Hermiston earlier this year.
Swanson and Crowell, both
students at lone High School, be­
gan the group because they had
been members of a similar group
when they attended grade school.
“It was a lot of fun and we wanted
the girls to have the same oppor­
tunity that we had,” Swanson
said.
The girls, who range in age
from 5-11, are students at lone
Elementary School in grades K-
5. Members of the group ait: back
row-Adnenne Swanson, Alyssa
Rietmann, Barbara Holland,
Kimberly Moms, Erin Crowell;
third row-Miranda Hunt, Mary
Samson, Stephanie Holland,
Rachael Larson-Key, Ashly
Grams; second row-Whitney
Meulink, Amber Patton, Kayla
Teague-LaRue, Emily Rietmann,
Jenny Griffith, Abby Key,
Amanda Roland; first row-
Teonna Vandever, Brianna
Peterson, Stefanie Archer, Tiana
Camarillo, Kaylee Palmateer; and
front-Jordan Graff.
McCoin listed in rodeo standings
fatie McCoin of Condon is in Professional Rodeo Association
:h place in the Women’s world standings as of Apnl 7.
McCoin has eamed $9,963.
Still room available
for Canada bus trip
By D«lpha Jones
have been completed for
Candidate's Forum slated April 15 the Plans
Morrow County Historical
Society trip to Butchart Gardens
in Canada. Anyone who has not
signed up yet but wishes to go
may still do so.
Call either 989-8189 or 422-
7194 for room reservations. Or­
ganizers need to know how many
rooms to reserve.
Whether or not we can blame it on El Nino, 1998 has 1997 beat. Heppner
area residents awoke to snowfall Tuesday, April 14, making it hard on
budding flowers. Last year, snow fell on April 4.
Tree planting planned for April 25
The Heppner community
volunteer tree planting event has
been scheduled for Saturday,
Apnl 25, starting at 9 a m. There
will be 55 trees and 110 shrubs to
plant in downtown Heppner.
"This should just revolutionize
the downtown area," said Gary
Marks, Heppner city manager.
Volunteers are asked to meet in
front of the Heppner Post Office,
and bnng shovels. Planting will
last until it's done.
For more information or to help,
call Marks at 676-9618.
Bowl-a-thon funds keep increasing
The Strike Out for Kids"
bowl-a-thon has now received
more than $800 for their cause.
The event, sponsored by the
Heppner and Condon Elks
Lodges and at Heppner's Willow
Lanes, was to raise money for
kids with visual, hearing and
speech impairments.
The
proceeds go to the Elks
Children's Eye Clinic at the
Casey Eye Institute in Portland
and the Meadowood Springs
Speech and Hearing Camp near
Pendleton.
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