Fire breaks out at lone UCC
HEPPNER
Firefighters pull down ceiling in IUCC
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VOL. 117
NO. 17
12 Pages
Wednesday, April 29,1998
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Heppner community tree planting held
lone United Church of Christ damaged in fire
George Koffler (right) and Darrel Raver plant a tree on main street in Heppner Saturday. This tree was
one of many trees and shrubs planted by volunteers as the final step in the Heppner downtown renovation
project. Some of the trees, especially the larger maples, were showing signs of shock Sunday and Monday
and it was speculated that there may be some that do not survive. It was reported that the trees may have
been transplated too late in the spring, however, they will be replace if they die.
Opposition to Heppner youth camp surfaces
A public meeting to ask for
withdrawal of Heppner’s
application for the siting of the
proposed Youth Accountability
Camp in Heppner has been
scheduled for Thursday, May 7,
at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Patrick
Parish Hall.
Organizers of the meeting say
they hope the turnout at the
meeting will "show our officials
how we feel about this project".
A siting committee proposed
Heppner as the place for
construction of a 50-bed youth
boot camp. The head of the
Oregon Youth Authority has
until May 15 to accept the
recommendation or call for
additional proposals.
The siting committee called for
public comments to be received
by April 15 and made their
recommendation on April 17.
Willow Creek Road construction status report
(Editor's note: The following
construction report on the
Willow Creek Road Coalmine
Hill area was submitted by
Robert G. Toops, project
engineer with the U.S.
Department of Transportation.)
Tidewater Contractors, Inc.,
from Brookings will be the prime
contractor for the Willow Creek
Ro&d Coalmine Hill project. The
revised start date for the project
is the week of April 27.
Planned construction activities
for the week are as follows:
A portion of the clearing limits
have been established for the first
portion of the project. On
Monday, April 27, Tidewater's
crew set some construction signs
at the beginning of the project,
near Cutsforth Park. They plan
to set additional construction
signs on Wednesday, April 29,
and start clearing the trees and
underbrush off of the slopes and
decking the timber. They plan to
start at the beginning of the
project, which is near the south
limits of Cutsforth Park and
continue to the top of the
summit. They plan to waste the
slash and debris at the location of
the present private logging
operation located immediately
north of the project.
At this time the roadway will
remain open to the public
because of the existing timber
operation in the vicinity and the
detour through Shaw Mountain
Road is not open because of
snow depth.
Various pieces of survey and
construction equipment will be
working along the right-of-way,
starting on Monday, April 27,
and will continue through the
week. Please be aware of the
work in the area.
Federal Highways asks the
public for their patience,
consideration and cooperation
during this construction season
and hopes that the work will be
completed with a minimum of
delays.
Contact Robert G. Toops,
project engineer, at 541-676-
5904 in Heppner for additional
information. If you need to
contact Federal Highway by
mail, use the following address:
Federal Highway Administration,
General Delivery, Heppner,
Oregon 97836, Att: Robert G.
Toops.
IHS prom set for
this Saturday
The lone High School Prom
will be held this Saturday, May
2, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the
lone Legion Hall.
The prom theme is "Welcome to
the Jungle".
Tickets are $10 per person
or $15 per couple.
The lone United Church of
Christ sustained smoke and heat >
damage in a fire which broke out
around 4 p.m. on Thursday,
April 23.
lone Rural Fire District Chief
Jim Boor said that the cause of
the fire, which was investigated
by the Oregon State Police and
the Alcohol Tobacco and
Firearms Division, is still
undetermined.
Eighteen men from the lone
Rural Fire District and 11 from
the Heppner Fire District, along
with three pumper trucks and
many pickups and brush rigs,
turned out to fight the blaze.
"The guys did an excellent job,"
said Boor. "We had enough
people to get inside to attack the
fire."
Boor said that the fire
departments were first paged out
at 4:18 p.m. He said that.when
they arrived on the scene, fire
was coming out of the upper
portion of the building. Boor said
the fire crews had the blaze out
in around 20 minutes, but added
that it took another couple of
hours to mop up. Most of the fire
fighters were out by 8 p.m., he
said, but two stayed and put out
flare-ups which occurred around
8:30 p.m.
Fire fighters had to pull the
ceiling of the church down and
used "Scott Airpaks" to get
inside the building.
An insurance adjuster has been Fireman checks out belfry at IUCC
to the site to estimate the
damage, but no report has been
lone Council adopts new city charter
made.
The fire drew members of the
lone community, many of whom
In Nov. 1997, the lone City laws and charters from other cit
helped with saving items in the Council created a four-member ies, met and developed a new
church.
city charter committee to review charter for voter consideration on
the 1973 city charter. Upon re the May 19. 1998 election ballot.
most important changes were
Car wash set view, they determined that be The
to
adopt
state election laws and
cause of changes in state law ,
give
the
mayor
a vote on council
some provisions of the existing
in lone
charter were obsolete. Because of matters, said a council news re
The lone Elementary School the number of changes that were lease.
A copy of the revised charter
fifth-grade class will have a car needed, the committee decided
washftiake ¿ale this Friday, May that developing a new charter may be reviewed at lone City
Hall, lone Library and the Bank
1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at would be preferable.
Dave's Gas Station in lone.
The committee studied state of Eastern Oregon.
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