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Heppner Gazette-Tim es, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 11,1999
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Road Construction
Garden Club presents state contest awards
Status Report
Notice to the citizens who
utilize
and enjoy the Willow
Heppner
Creek (Coat Mine Grade) area:
The
U S.
Dept.
of
Transportation lists its planned
construction
activities
on
U S P S . 240-420
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Willow Creek Road for the week
of Monday, Aug. 9:
Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
This week, Tidewater will
Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon
under the Act of March 3,1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at 147
finish hauling base aggregate
W Willow Street Telephone (5 4 1)676-9228. Fax (5 4 1>676-9211. E-mail gt@heppner net
material from the Summerfield
or gtiu.rapidserve net Web site www heppner.net Postmaster send address changes to
Ridge Quarry site to the project
the Heppner Ga/ette-Times, P O Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions $22 in
and start hauling the next course
Morrow County, $16 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $29 else
of aggregate material. This site
where
David S y k es..................................................................................................................... Publisher
is near the intersection of Black
April Hilton-Sykes............ .................................................................................................. Editor
Mountain Road and FS 53 Road.
On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www. heppner net
There will be between 6-10
• Real Estate For Sale * City Council & Planning Minutes
trucks utilizing the main road
• Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations
between Black Mountain Road
• Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more!
and Cutsforth Park, hauling the
base aggregate and emulsified
aggregate base material. There
has been a truck sign placed at
Letters to the Editor
each side of the intersection to
the quarry site.
Editor's note Letters to the Editor must be signed. The Cazette-Times will not
The next course will be an
publish unsigned letters. Please include your address and phone number on all
emulsified aggregate base, a 4"
letters 'lor use by the C-T office. The C-T reserves the right to edit.
layer of aggregate mixed with
one percent asphalt oil, to seal
the base aggregate. After the
emulsified aggregate base course
and specialized equipment has been laid, the asphalt
To the Editor:
available to deal with toxic running surface will be placed.
I wanted to respond to Mr.
Greenup's letter in the July 28 fumes and synthetic burning They will continue working on
the Penland Lake Road
issue of the G-T where he materials.
intersection and should have it
Fire
fighter
safety
is
our
first
expresses his frustration and
completed
by Wednesday.
and
foremost
priority.
Our
disappointment
with
our
The surveyors will continue
response to the vehicle fire policy on not fighting vehicle or
incident on the Willow Creek structural fires is nationwide and setting stakes for the top of sub
very longstanding.
Our grade as they continue towards
Road on July 23.
objective
in the end of the project. There
This letter is essentially the employees'
shouldziot be any trucks hauling
same as one which 1 sent to him responding is to prevent the
material to the 20 mph comer
spread
of
the
fire
to
surrounding
right after the incident. I felt
waste site this week.
that our agency perspective lands, should the vehicle or
Emergency access through the
structure
fire
escape
the
should be offered to the
project will be maintained
immediate
incident
area.
community, so that people
throughout the construction
I sympathize with the family
understand why we have the
who lost their possessions, it's season.
policies that we have. First I
Willow Creek Road will
certainly
a sad thing to happen.
want to say that I certainly do
remain
open to local traffic only,
I know that the response
understand
Mr.
Greenup's
as
far
as Cutsforth Park. The
observed is frustrating and may
sentiments, but I would like to
park
will
remain open through
paint a negative picture of the
take this opportunity to explain
the
normal
season. The detour
Forest
Service
and
federal
that our "rules and regulations"
route
through
Shaw Creek Road
employees in general. However,
are in place for very good
to
the
four
comers,
to Penland
an unsafe response by untrained
reasons.
Lake
and
Ukiah,
is
and will
and
unequipped
people
would
be
First let me explain that our fire
remain
open
to
all
traffic.
nothing
short
of
negligent.
I
fighters
did
not
avoid
During the 1999 construction
want each and every one of my
suppression action because "they
season,
Willow Creek Road
employees home alive and
weren't on FS ground". The area
(Coal
Mine
Grade) (FS 53 Road)
uninjured
at
the
end
of
every
where the fire occurred is within
shift they work. In addition to will remain closed to through
a
cooperative
protection
traffic, from Cutsforth Park to
our regular workforce, many of
boundary with the stale of
.
the intersection of FS Roads
Oregon, but even within these ~ 0ur f,re fighters are the young
boundaries our actions, (gs well , F}en
,,
of our . 5321 (Penland Lake Road).
Watch for travelers, campers,
community, our sons and
as the state of Oregon's) are
and
wood cutters, observe the
daughters, and I feel a huge
limited to the suppression of
warning signs, including the
responsibility for their safety as
wild land fires only. Our fire
speed limit, on the Shaw Creek
they are entrusted to me each
fighters (and theirs) are only
Road
detour route, and observe
summer. Any one of them could
trained to deal with wild land
the
barricades
at both ends of the
have
been
who
might
have
fires and have neither the
construction zone. Have a safe
responded that day, and I would
equipment or training to address
summer and remember that the
hope they would have all done
vehicle or structural fires.
barricaded
road closures are for
exactly as they have been
Structural and vehicle fires
the
traveling
public's safety.
instructed.
.
.
that
being
we
do
entail added risks of unknown
Federal Highways asks the
not take suppression actions on
hazardous materials, including
traveling public for their
vehicle or structure fires.
flammable
and
explosive
patience, consideration and
I'm glad Mr. Greenup cared
materials, dangerous chemicals
cooperation, and appreciates
enough to write to me. and I
and different fire effects related
input from the public.
appreciate this opportunity to
to burning materials not at all
Contact Robert G. Toops,
explain our position to the
similar to vegetation. Structural
project
engineer, at (541) 676-
community
at
large.
fire fighters must have many
5904 in Heppner for additional
(s) Delanne Ferguson
hours of additional training in
Heppner District Ranger ■ information.
how to assess these situations,
Heppner
GAZETTE-TIM ES
Regulations exist for very good reasons
Applauds Garden Club
beautification programs
To the Editor:
I certainly appreciate the
beautification programs of the
Heppner Garden Club. The
work of the members makes the
dnve into town more delightful.
Their plants on Main Street are
an excellent contribution. The
"Yard of the Month" program is
a wonderful way to increase our
awareness of our beautiful
neighborhoods. Members are
especially active as the week of
fair and rodeos approaches, and
we are enriched by their efforts.
I know I am only one of many
who applaud their successful
efforts to beautify Heppner.
(s) Doris Brosnan
Heppner
Community
choir rehearsal
The South Morrow County
Community Choir will hold their
first rehearsal on Monday, Sept.
13, at 5:30 p.m. at the Heppner
High School band room.
The choir is funded by the
Morrow County Unified Recre
ation District and is sponsored by
the South Morrow County Arts
Council.
Pre-school to begin Sept. 30,
open house Aug. 31
The Heppner Pre-school will
start Monday, Sept. 13, at the
Heppner DayCare. .
Four-year olds will attend
Mondays and Tuesdays from
8:30-11:30 a.m. Three-year olds
will attend Wednesdays from
8:30-11:30 a.m.
Cost is $50 a month for four
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PAPER
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year olds and $25 a month for
three year olds.
Pre-school has planned an open
house on Wednesday, Aug. 31,
for sign-up and "a little hands-on
for the kids to get acquainted
with the center," said Merry
Brannon, director of the day care
center.
Brannon will teach pre-school
this year with assistance from
Renee Yocom.
Anyone with any questions or
comments is invited to stop by
dunng the open house or call
Brannon at 676-5429.
Poster contest award winners (left to right): Nathan Van Cleave, Kristen Van Cleave, Anna Unruh and
Matthew Van Cleave. Not pictured are Nathan Kennedy, Maurica Klein and Nicole Fritz.
The Heppner Garden Club
presented awards to state poster
contest winners at a club meeting
August 2.
The young people received
awards for their Smokey Bear
and Woodsey Owl environmental
posters and enjoyed cookies and
punch, courtesy of the Garden
Club.
Award winners include: Nathan
Van Cleave, Kristen Van Cleave,
Anna Unruh, Matthew Van
Cleave, Nathan Kennedy, Sarah
Johnson, Drew Johnson, Nathan
Kennedy and Maurica Klein.
Correction
,
A story in the August 4
Gazette-Times was incorrect.
The G-T listed Nonnee Walters
as the grand champion of the
Morrow County 4-H Horse Show
and Bobbie Rankin as the reserve
grand champion of the show.
The story should have listed
Nonnee Walters as the reserve
champion of senior horse
showmanship, but overall grand
champion of the event and
Bobbie
as
senior
horse
showmanship champion, but
reserve grand champion of the
event.
Rankin was high point rider
overall, i,- ,
,
i
The winners of the dressage,
firs level, test 1 were also listed
incorrectly. Tracy Rankin was
champion and Bobbie Rankin
was reserve champion.
Gun Club plans
‘end of harvest5
shoot
The Morrow County Gun Club
(MCGC) will hold an “end of har
vest” shoot on Saturday, Aug. 14,
with a family barbecue to begin
at noon and shooting to start at 1
p.m.
MCGC invites everyone to
“load up the family,” bring their
own meat and a salad and join
them for an afternoon of kids’ and
ladies’ shoots, along with regular
trap ana special games.
For more information, call 676-
5275 or 676-5042.
In further news, MCGC mem
ber Jeff Cutsforth won the B class
singles championship at an ATA
shoot in Hermiston on July 31,
shooting 97 of 100 targets.
BUSINESS CARDS
Commission to award grants
The Morrow County
Commission on Children &
Families is seeking community
development proposals for the
October-December 1999 quarter.
"The Community Development
Fund was established for
anticipated yet unidentified
community needs and leverage
funds and resources into
services, advocacy and unique
application projects for the
children, youth and families of
Morrow County, said Dar
Merrill, director of the Morrow
County Commission on Children
& Families.
The commission is seeking
new proposals for the upcoming
quarter. There is approximately
$1,500 available this quarter and
the maximum grant is $500. ■
Examples
of
reasonable
Community Development Fund
requests include, but are nqt
limited to: seasonal program
needs; small capital expenditures . ..
(except for private property);
service program staff training; ,s
one-time events and pilpt
projects, said Merrill.
Next quarter's proposals will
be reviewed on Tuesday, Sept.
14,
during
the
monthly
commission meeting but must be
received by the commission
office by Monday, Aug. 30 to be
considered.
Applications are available at-
the commission office at 12Q.
South Main in Heppner or hy._.
calling 676-9675.
Diversification study
topic o f meeting
The public is invited to
meetings scheduled in Heppner,
lone and Lexington to discuss
the recently completed Willow
Creek
Valley
Economic
Diversification Study. Dates
and times for the meetings are as
follows:
-Heppner: August 24, 12 noon
- no-host lunch sponsored by the
Heppner Chamber of Commerce
at Cal's Restaurant;
-Lexington: August 24, 7 p.m.
-MorrowCounty School District
office;
-lone: August 25, 12 noon - no \
host lunch sponsored by ICABO
at Beecher's Restaurant.
Copies of the study will be
available beginning the week o f ,
August 16 at the Heppner,,.
Lexington and lone city halls
and at the library in Heppner.
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Poster contest winners Sarah and Drew Johnson.
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Micro-Brewed Beer
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W ednesday, Aug. 18th, 6:30-9 p.m ,
FEATURING W INES RECOMMENDED
BY W IN E SPEC TATO R M AGAZINE
FROM LOCAL COLUMBIA VALLEY WINERIES
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Phone in your entries
for the Morrow County Jackpot Rodeo
Entritt will I k open Sunday S Monday, Aug. 15-16, <) a.m.-6 p.m.
To enter, call Marlene Currin, rodeo secretary at (541) 676-9711.
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