EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 28,1999
Report says city can deliver water to arena
A report on the fair building
indicated that the city of
Heppner feels it can deliver
required water to the Wilkinson
Arena with its four-inch line but
will set a flow meter to check.
The flow requirements for the
sprinkler system will be
checked, as will the possibility
of connecting to the six-inch line
from the old ag building site.
The Fair Board chairman
estimates that another $5,500
will be needed for the water
situation.
A question of
foregoing the vapor barrier -
which a local builder secs as
unnecessary and possibly an
attraction for nesting birds - was
discussed as a funding source,
and the court stated an
unwillingness to increase the
loan to provide additional
money.
Road Report: The court agreed
to a contract with 4-C Ranches
for the Carlson quarry, needed
for the Valby Road project, with
the royalty to be taken in rock
from the closer Hardman pit,
rather than in payment. The
public works director said that
the Hellberg pit is necessary.
The court approved the Road
Department’s contracting with
the US Fish and Wildlife Service
to survey and spray some weeds
for $1000.
Crews are presently working
on the Valby Road, blading at
Blake Ranch and asphalt
patching on a bridge. The
director reminded the court that
they will need to find a way to
deal with cattle guards that pre
date the 1994 cattle guard
policy. A representative of the
West
Extension
Irrigation
District discussed the Canal
Road, which was erroneously
declared in 1958 a county road,
which, "led the landowners to
wrongly believe that they had
legal access." She reported that
the 'County Line Bridge" was
burned, described the poor
condition of the canal road, and
requested that the county gravel,
one time, from Peters Road to
the McGuire property, over a
mile, and then hold no future
obligation for maintenance. The
court agreed to a cooperative
one-time maintenance project
with the Irrigation District,
identifying the road as the
district’s road.
The county assessor presented
the court the 1999 Assessment
and Taxation Grant Resolution,
noting expenses and the
differences between them and
the figures in the budget. He
further showed how the amount
of the grant would be different if
the resolution passes.
The court approved the 1999
A&T
Grant
Document
Resolution. The assessor also
reported that according to a
notice from the Oregon
Economic
Development
Department, Morrow County is
a chronically
unemployed
county.
This
status
automatically terminates the
county's agreement with the
Greater Umatilla Enterprise
Zone. The court will meet with
the Port of Morrow to discuss an
enterprise zone.
A public hearing was opened
for the amendment to the
comprehensive plan to add the
Hellberg/West Irrigon pit to the
Goal 5 aggregate inventory. The
planning director described the
changes she made to the
proposed
ordinance
and
discussed with the court
guidelines for the Goal 5 process
for aggregate resources. The
hearing
continued
with
discussion of the complex
situation, and the court agreed
that more information is
required before they make a
decision. They continued the
public hearing until May 19 at
10 a.m.
The court discussed with
representatives of the computer
department some purchasing
pre-authorization requests and
approved those requests. They
also agreed to allow Ed Struthers
to exceed the comp time 80-hour
limit for no more than one
month, so that he can handle
some upcoming additional work,
and they encouraged the
department to use some of the
balance of this year's budget to
hire a temp to do some work that
Struthers will not be able to do.
The court, with the county
sheriff, discussed a proposed
911 position in the sheriffs
office. The sheriff explained the
need for additional help and his
plan to redistribute some
responsibilities. He said that an
existing part-time dispatcher
position can be expanded to
cover the dispatch duties. The
court approved the position.
The court approved a request
from the Public Health director
to increase the department's Visa
limit to $2000.
They also
approved increasing to $1000
the Visa limit for the special
transportation buses.
They
approved an addendum to the
Elesco contract to include the
Kinzua Mill site. They tabled
until next week the abandonment
of easements to property the
court sold to Tom Wolff,
wanting to check on the
electronic
and
telephone
easement. They accepted the
resignation of Gary Obcrg from
the Fair Board and they
appointed Judge Tallman to the
advisory council for the Area
Agency on Aging.
TTie court discussed travel plans
for the CSEPP National
Conference in Salt Lake City on
June 2 and 3, and they were
reminded of meetings on April
22: with Innovative Emergency
Management, the Umatilla
County Commissioners and
FEMA representatives, as well
as one later in the day with a
representative of the Governor's
Community Solutions Team
JV baseball team takes two
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang JV
baseball team improved their
record to 4-0 this season by nip
ping Pilot Rock, 4-3, on Saturday,
April 24, and beating the Weston-
McEwen TigerScots 8-2, on Mon
day, April 26.
Against the Rockets, the Mus
tangs won a pitchers’ duel with
the help of seven Ptlot Rock er
rors. Stefan Matheny pitched a
complete game, three-hitter, strik
ing out nine and allowing no walks.
Trailing 1 -0 in the bottom of the
third, Matheny led off by beating
out an infield hit and then stole
second. Mark McEUigott bunted
him over to third and scored as a
pop fly hit by Zack Fabian was
lost in the sun. Fabian moved over
to third and Kelly Paullus reached
first by beating out an infield hit.
Josh Hill then doubled to score
both Fabian and Paullus to give
the Mustangs a 3-1 lead.
The Rockets came back to tie
the score with single runs in the
fourth and fifth innings. Nick An
thony reached first on a fly ball to
right field that was dropped for an
error; stole second and went to
third on a single by McEUigott.
Anthony then scored the go-
ahead run on another pop fly in
the infield that was lost in the sun.
Matheny got the Rockets out
one-two-three to get the win.
McEUigott ended up going 3-3
and Hill 1-2 with the two RBI
double.
The TigerScots took a 1 -0 lead
in the top of the first, but the Mus
tangs came back to take a 2-1
lead. Travis Bellamy reached base
on a fielder’s choice, got to sec
ond on a passed ball and scored
on Cory B ennetto’s single.
Bennetto moved to third on passed
balls and scored on a Paullus
single.
The Mustangs tacked on an
other run in the second as
Matheny singled, stole second and
scored on a McEUigott triple.
Weston-McEwen narrowed
the lead to 3-2, but the Mustangs
scored another run of their own
as Bennetto bounced the ball over
the fence in right field for a ground
rule double and went to third, then
scored on wild pitches.
The Mustangs put the game
away in the fourth as Anthony led
off with a double, went to third on
a passed ball and scored as Hill
reached first on an error. Matheny
reached on a bunt single and
McEUigott doubled to scored both
runs. McEUigott later scored as
Bennetto reached on a fielder’s
choice.
Bellamy pitched a complete
game, four-hitter, striking out nine
and allowing just three walks.
McEUigott ended up 2-4 with a
double and triple, and three RBIs.
Bennetto went 2-3 with two
doubles and two runs scored.
Fabian, Anthony and Cody
Bellamy each doubled as the Mus
tangs banged out nine hits for the
game.
The JVs’ next game ii a double-
header against Riverside here on
Thursday, April 39, starting at 3:30
p.m.
Statistics:
Pilot Rock at Heppner
Pilot Rock: 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 7
Heppner 0 0 3 0 0 1 * 4 6 2
Black and Johnson; Stefan Matheny and
Kelly Paullus W-Matheny, L-Black. 26-Josh Hill.
HR-none.
Weston-McEwen at Heppner
Weston-McEwen: 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 4 4
Heppner 2 1 1 4 0 0 x 8 9 3
Jorgenson and Petrine; Travis Bellamy and
Paullus W-Bellamy, L-Jorgenson. 2B-Cory
Bennetto (2), Mark McEUigott, Nick Anthony,
Zack Fabian and Cody Bellamy 3B-McElligott
HR-none
SWCD Board
to meet
A regular board meeting of the
Morrow SWCDAVeed Advisory
Board will be held Tuesday,
May 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the Chris
Rauch place on Bombing Range
Road.
Agenda items include: current
-status on Conservation Reserve
Program,
Environmental
Quality Incentive Program
update, manager's report, weed
report, agency reports and other
business.
The meeting is open to the
public.
lone women's team defeats Umatilla; men fall
On Saturday, Apnl'24, the lone
tennis teams hosted Umatilla.
The lone men fell 2-4, while the
women defeated Umatilla 4-3.
In singles, Jeremy Rietmann
easily defeated Bill McCorkle,
8-0. Rietmann started the match
with the upper edge on his
opponent and never let up
throughout the entire match.
Adam McCabe fell to Chans’e
Page 6-8. McCabe finished off
the first game with an ace serve.
He then lost the second game but
came back and claimed the third
game. McCabe also had a huge
return of serve in game six, tying
the score, 3-8. In game nine
McCabe started the game off
with an ace serve and then lured
his opponent to the net and hit
the ball past him and down the
line to bring the score to 6-3.
Page then claimed the following
five games to take the win.
Colin McEUigott displayed
great hustle and good placement
of shots before falling to David
Sanchez, 5-8. McEUigott served
up an ace in game four and also
put away a shot at mid court in
the same game. McEUigott hit a
shot on the baseline and then
chipped a shot over the net to
win the point in game six.
Sanchez had an explosive serve
in game seven that Colin
handled
extremely
well,
surprising not only himself but
Sanchez as well and he won the
point.
Jeremiah McEUigott posted
another win for the boys,
defeating Jack Hess in a
marathon match 9- 7. Jeremiah
used his diligent patience to map
a lead of 4-1 before his opponent
finally settled in to bring the
score to 5-5.
The elder
McEUigott persevered to take
the win.
Jessica Krebs fell to Ashley
Lee, 3-8. Krebs brought her
opponent to deuce several games
keeping them match tight
throughout; she did a nice job of
hitting short shots and bringing
her opponent in for the lob.
Ton Odinet was overpowered
by Rachel Swanson, 5-8, Tori
had many long rallies with her
opponent. Odinet hit a serve
receive down the right hand side
in game seven Swanson, covered
the court extremely well, but
Odinet was able to put away a
forehand shot in game nine that
Swanson was unable to get to.
Molly Barrow defeated Patty
Mendoza, 8-2. Barrow served
up an ace in game two and, by
displaying her remarkable
forehand, had no problem
putting away her Umatilla
opponent.
Jennifer Thompson haunted
Hanna Baker, defeating her 8-2.
Thompson kept her serves
consistent and did a noteworthy
job of placing shots in the open
spots.
Adam McCabe and Jeremy
Rietmann made a valiant effort
before falling to Bob Routson
and Brian Morris, 4-8. McCabe
and Rietmann were down 4-0
but Umatilla double faulted in
game 5 to grant the lone team
their first win of the match.
Molly Barrow sizes up her Umatilla opponent
Rietmann was fierce at the net
while McCabe displayed hustle
at the baseline. Rietmann aced
the first serve in game six,
followed by an overhead slam
by McCabe to claim the next
game. In game 8, Rietmann put
the ball away with a monster
forehand and McCabe followed
up with another ace serve to end
that game with a win.
Colin and Jeremiah McEUigott
fought a tough match with Paul
Valle and Adrian Palomino
before losing, 2-8. Colin hit a
serve return down left hand alley
while Jeremiah ‘wowed his
opponents with good net play,
hitting the ball at their feet and
making pick up shots difficult.
Both McElligotts bore the
"never say die" attitude and
hustled on the court the entire
match.
Amellia Peck and Niki Sullivan
were conquered by Rachel
Swanson and Mayra Robledo, 5-
8. Peck and Sullivan were down
0-3 before they were able to post
their first win. Sullivan hit a
shot down the middle in game
eight and Peck hit an awesome
forehand to the deep right comer
to even the score at 4-4.
Katie Tworek and Rose Baker
won the battle against Trista
White and Karlyn Masters, 8-5.
Katie was fierce at the net and
Rose aced a serve in game 10 to
bring the score to 7-4. Shelby
Krebs and Allison Halvorsen
defeated Lindsay Dahl in and
Chelsea Kik, 8-0.
Both
Halvorsen and Krebs are
credited with consistent serving
and net play.
Riverside senior
athletes win
award
Riverside High School, with
51.6 percent of the graduating
senior athletes earning a 3.5
GPA or greater over seven
semesters, is the winner of this
year's Harry Glickman Scholar
Athlete Award for Division 3A.
Trophies for this award will be
presented prior tc the Portland
Trail Blazers/Los Angles Lakers
game on Tuesday, April 13, at
the Rose Garden Arena in
Portland.
Riverside has been invited to
send two representatives to
receive the award.
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