Heppner couple apprehend suspect
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Lana Orr (Not pictured is Merry
Brannon, who was out of town
and
unavailable
for
a
photograph.)
It was clearly a case of "The
early bird gets the worm."
However, the bird doesn't usually
have to give chase and wrestle
him to the ground as was the
situation in Heppner last week.
It all started around 5 a.m. on
Wednesday, June 9. A pair of
early morning walkers, Lana Orr
and Merry Brannon, spotted a
man who was going through a
pickup owned by Ron and
Maryanne Anthony of Heppner.
Orr and Brannon left the area
briefly so as not to arouse the
man's suspicion, but shortly
thereafter went to the Anthonys'
house and woke them up.
Country club
plans barbecue
Big ’Red, W hite and Blues' Festival
planned in lone
The big "Red, White and
Blues" Fourth of July celebration
will feature two days of music,
food and fun in the park at lone
Saturday and Sunday, July 3-4.
Saturday's activities get off to
an early start with the annual
Fourth of July Golf Tournament
at the Willow Creek Country
Club in Heppner getting
underway at 10 a.m.
Proceeds from the tournament
will go toward the Jason
Halvorsen Memorial Fund. The
cost is $25. To sign up or for
more information call Jim
Swanson, 422-7410.
The music starts at 7 p.m.
Saturday at the Ior.e park with
the Blues group "Fat Boy." Food
vendors and a beer and wine
garden will be available that
evening.
Camping is available on the
lone football field and RV spots
Sunday's activities will kick off
with a 7 a.m. fun run. Pre-
registration forms are available at
the Post Office and the Bank of
Eastern Oregon. Registration
begins at 6:30 a.m. at the lone
school.
The lone United Church of
Christ has planned a church
service in the park Sunday
beginning at 9:30 a.m. Food
vendors will set up early on
Sunday with coffee and breakfast
sandwiches.
Registration for the horseshoe
tournament will begin at 9 a.m. at
the horseshoe pit with the
tournament getting underway at
10 a.m. Earl Papineau is in
charge of the tournament.
The information booth will
open at 10 a.m. with a button sale
sponsored by the Fourth of July
Committee.
The parade, featuring the Blues
Cruise Classic Car Show, will
begin on Main Street at a later
time than usual this year-1 p.m.
"We will have lots of cars this
year," said organizer Shelly
Rietmann. "We have gotten a
good response and should have a
good show for people who like
classic cars."
The money straw pile for kids
will follow the parade. The frog
jump,
organized
by
Joe
McEUigott will begin at 2 p.m.
Bingo, sponsored by the Lions
Club will be held from 2-5 p.m.
and 7-8:30 p.m.
All-day
activities, besides the kids games,
include new events-a dunk tank,
with all the favorite local
celebrities, sponsored by ICABO,
and go-carts in the school
parking lot.
Those who need a chance to
cool off can take advantage of
swimming from 2-4 p.m. at the
lone Pool.
The celebration will feature
"food galore" with pie and coffee
I
served by the Catholic church
ladies; Polish sausage by
ICABO/Mike Matthews Fund;
sno-cones by the lone fifth grade
class for outdoor school; and hot
dogs and lemonade by the lone
Youth Group, along with other
food vendors.
The lone Booster Club has
planned a T-shirt sale and the
preschool will have a carnival at
the preschool.
Photos of lone’s past will also
be on display.
Music in the park begins
Sunday at 3 p.m. with Ellen
White and the Reflux Blues
starting off from 3-5:30 p.m.;
The Willow Creek Country
Club will have a family barbecue
on Sunday, June 20 at 4 p.m.
Each family will bring their own
meat. Those whose last names
begin with “I” through “Z” bring
dessert, and “A” through “K”,
salad.
Hosts will be Bob and Lorene
M ontgomery, Les and Jan
Paustian, Earl and Carol Norris
and Betty Christman.
Too Slim and the Tail Draggers'
will perform from 5:30-7:30
p.m.; and the headliners, Strat
Daddies, will be on the stage
from 7:30-10 p.m. The Strat
Daddies is one of the hottest
blues bands out of Portland, says
Thursday, June 17, is the last
Rietmann. All of the members of day for entries in the contest to
the band had their own bands find Heppner a twin city in
before they joined together.
Ireland and a prize of $75 awaits
Music is sponsored by the the winning entry.
Morrow
County
Unified
Time remains, so interested
Recreation District
people will want to name the
Fireworks, with a promise of a Irish towns they select and list
bigger and better display than all their reasons for their
ever, begin at dusk.
choices. Entries should be taken
General chairman is Loyal to city hall or next door to the
Bums.
book store, Twice upon a time.
Thursday
twin city
deadline
School district, teachers sign contract
The Morrow County School
Board Monday night ratified a
teachers' contract which provides
for a four percent retroactive
raise for 1998-99; a three-percent
raise for the next two years,
1999-2000 and 2000-2001 (with
the exception of a five percent
raise for the teachers with the
most experience and education
for 1999-2000); and a two to four
percent
raise
2001 -2002,
depending on the Portland
consumer price index.
As usual, teachers will also
receive an additional 2.9 percent
salary increase for experience
step increases.
Base or step salaries and extra
duty salary raises will be
retroactive to July 1, 1998.
The total increase in salaries
and benefits for 1998-99 will cost
the district an additional
$399,000, a 5.74 increase in
district costs. Salaries for 1998-
99 will range from a low of
$24,931 for teachers with the
least experience and education to
a high of $44,384 for teachers
with the most experience and
education.
The total increase for salaries
and benefits for 1999-2000 will
amount to $416,000 in additional
costs for the district, a 6.1
percent increase. Part of the
increase is due to a 2.3 percent
increase in employers' PERS
costs. Teachers' salaries will
range from $25,679 to $46,603.
The total increase for salaries
and benefits for the year 2000-
2001 will be $245,000, a 3.05
percent increase in costs to the
district. Teachers salaries will
range from $26,449 to $48,001.
The increase in costs to the
district for 2001-2002 will
depend on the Portland CPI, an
increase of two to four percent.
The contract also includes an
increase in the number of years
of prior teaching experience that
the district will recognize at face
value when a teacher is hired.
Employees hired by the district
beginning in August 1998 will
be placed on a step consistent
with their current year of
employment recognized by the
district
(up to 16 years
experience prior to being hired
by the district). Previously the
teachers were placed on a step
consistent with their prior
experience (up to eight years).
Employees hired before August
1998 will still be placed on the
step consistent with previous
experience.
In other business, the board
voted not to renew the extra duty
contract for Robin Graff as
Heppner High School head
baseball coach. Graffs teaching
contract and his extra duty
contract as lone football coach
will not be affected.
The board also conducted the
following business:
-adopted a revision in the
interscholastic activities program
which would:
*add "work ethics and goal
setting"
to
the
district's
philosophy;
•add boys and girls' cross
country varsity and junior varsity
to the fall sports with a maximum
limit of 14 meets and stipulate
one coach for each separate team;
•add boys' and girls' varsity and
junior varsity soccer to the fall
sports with a maximum limit of
14 meets for varsity and stipulate
one coach for each separate team;
•add junior varsity golf to the
spring sports;
•add softball varsity, junior
varsity and C-team to the spring
sports with a maximum limit of
26 games for varsity and
stipulate one coach for each
separate team;
•eliminate the section
concerning C-team wrestling for
"any junior or senior high with
enrollment of 150 or more";
•eliminate junior high
baseball;
•revise the eligibility section
to include that a student must
demonstrate "appropriate school
behavior";
•change student body to "ASB"
(associated student body);
•revise
the
attendance
requirement to stipulate that
students participating in athletic
contests must be in attendance on
the "day before, the day of and
the day after" the particular
activity
and
adding
the
stipulation that exceptions will be
approved by the principal or
designee;
•add that the pay-to-participate
fee must be paid before the first
contest;
•add to transportation section
that student participants may
make pnor arrangement to ride
home from an athletic contest by
"direct contact with the coach.
Previous
transportation
arrangements were required to be
cleared by the principal or his
representative;
•add that athletes can be cut
from teams at the high school
level with the administrator's
approval.
•add to the coaches'
requirements that they have an
"American Sport Education
Program
Certificate”
or
equivalent, be finger printed, be
Type 20 or van trained if
required by principal, be licensed
teachers in full-time employment
of the district as a teacher, unless
the administration recommends
and the board approves a waiver
of this policy in each specific
instance.
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Maryanne and Ron Anthony
While Maryanne Anthony
called the. police, Orr and
Brannon decided to drive around
looking for the culprit. When
they returned, they and the
Anthonys saw a man going
through a car behind Heppner
City Manager Jerry Breazeale's
house across the street. "That's
him," said Orr and Brannon.
Ron Anthony yelled at the man
to stop. The man, however did
not stop, making one mistake in
a senes of many, hiding in the
bushes and then trying to run
away.
The man first ran toward
Maryanne, another mistake. As
he started to step over a backyard
fence, she pushed him and he
went back over the fence. The
guy then headed in
Ron's
direction. The suspect clearly
picked the wrong guy to go up
against. Ron, a former Vale
High School and college
wrestling champion who went to
state and national competition,
did what came naturally. He
wrestled the man to the ground.
According to the Anthonys, the
guy, who appeared to be quite
intoxicated,
said he was
Breazeale's nephew and that's
why he was in Breazeale's
vehicle. However, that story fell
through after Breazeale was
awakened and told them that he
did not have a nephew.
Ron advised the man to stay
right w here he was because the
police would want to talk to him,
but the man decided to get up and
try to flee the scene once again.
Once again Ron took him down.
Ron was finally able to subdue
the man, sat him down on the
sidewalk, took his driver's license
and awaited the police.
According to the Anthonys, the
man, who had numerous charges
against him before this incident,
had allegedly taken stuff out of
cars all the way down the block
and piled it in the yard of a house
nearby where he had been
staying. The woman who owned
the house where the suspect said
he had been staying denied that
she knew him, said the Anthonys.
However, they said, the two
knew each other on a first name
basis.
"Looking back on it, we
probably shouldn't have done it,"
said Ron. "He could have had a
knife or something."
"Merry and Lana deserve the
credit," added Maryanne. "If
they hadn't seen him. .."
Ron Anthony is the principal at
Heppner High School. Maryanne
Anthony is also employed with
the Morrow County School
District, at Heppner Elementary
School. The Anthonys, both in
their early 40s, have three
children.
The alleged perpetrator, David
Robert LaSalle, 20, was arrested
by Heppner Police on charges of
Unauthorized Use of a Motor
Vehicle, seven counts of
Unauthorized Entry of a Motor
Vehicle and two counts of Theft
II. He was lodged at Urtiatilli
County Sheriffs Office Jail on
$61,500 bail.
Duane Neiffer named IHS
teacher of the year
Jim Swanson (left) and lone High School Student Body President
Niki Sullivan present the Grant Rigby Teacher of the Year Award to
science teacher Duane Neiffer. Swanson is the brother of Dennis
Swanson who sponsors and finances the award every year.
Bareback rider paralyzed
Professional rodeo cowboy
Sheldon Ayres of Tempe, AZ.,
broke his neck June 5 during the
second performance of the Eliza
beth (CO.) Stampede when the
bronc he was riding fell on him
while coming out of the chute. The
accident reportedly crushed
Ayres’ spinal chord and his C7
vertebra.
Ayres was airlifted by helicop
ter from Elizabeth to Swedish
Medical Center in Denver, CO.,
where he remains. Although his
spinal chord w asn’t severed,
Ayres was paralyzed from the
chest down and doctors say it’s
unlikely that he will ever walk
again, according to his sister
Nicole Antonelli, as reported by
the PRCA news.
Ayres is the son of Phil Ayres
and Debbie Richelderfer, both
former residents o f Heppner.
Cards and letters may be sent to
him in care of Swedish Medical
Center, 501 E Hampton Ave.,
Englewood, CO. 80110.
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