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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 1, 2000 - THREE Engagement DeeAnna Raver to open fitness center Court appoints members to Rural Investment Board Sweeney - Coe Nicole Sweeney and Scott Coe Pat and Trish Sweeney announce the engagement of their daughter, Nicole, to Scott Coe, all of Heppner. Scott is the son of Jan Coe, also of Heppner, and Tim Coe of Fossil. An August 12, 2000, wedding is planned at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Heppner. DeeAnna Raver with Justin (front), Chance (left) and Colter Raver DeeAnna Raver will soon be opening the Iron Eagle Fitness Center in Heppner at 471 N. Main Street (across from the library). When it is completed, the Iron Eagle Fitness Center will be a full service facility offering free St. Patrick7; Senior Center weights, machines, cardio equip _________ Bulletin Board_________ ment, aerobics classes, personal training, massage therapy, supple ments, tanning, gym clothing and Ninety-three people were present for the senior dinner Feb. 3 and accessories and a children’s play 16 meals were home delivered. Members of the Catholic Church area. served. Blood pressures were taken before the meal. A good portion of the equip Doug Dubuque asked for volunteers for the Senior Center pie, ment was expected to arrive roll and soup luncheon Mar. 18. He, Archie Padberg and Tom Tuesday, Feb. 29, said Raver. The Wilson are co-chairmen for the lunch. Volunteers may contact any facility expects to be open for use one of them . The Meal Site cooks and Coral Mitchell are baking on Wednesday, March 15, with a the pies and rolls and making the soup this year. Those wishing to grand opening scheduled St. make donations to the senior board to help buy the ingredients for Patrick’s Day weekend. Raver the food may do so. It's much easier than baking pies, when there says she plans to bring in personal are so many other things to do that week. trainers to offer free personal Marian Murchinson gave a guided tour of the senior apartments training throughout St. Patty’s after dinner. Betty Carlson won the floral arrangement. John weekend to familiarize people Harde's name was drawn for the free first month's rent. February with the equipment. JL6 the centerpiece was won.:fry Joyce Buchanan, and Katherine Tentative hours for the facility Lindstrom won the free first months reht. Names drawn will be ' will be 6 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday kept on file If a person whose name is drawn moves into S t.' ■' through Friday and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Patrick's Apartments, that person's first month will be free. Tours on Saturday. Hours may be ad are every Wednesday at 1 p.m. justed later upon customer de The menu for Feb. 8 will be salmon with tartar sauce, parsley mand. potatoes, pea salad, orange sections, rolls and cherry crisp. David Hughes will help run the Members of All Saints' Episcopal Church will serve. Exercise class was held on Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m. gym periodically. Hughes is a top Pinochle was played Tuesday and Thursday, with two tables in national bodybuilding competitor play both days. Bingo was played Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m.. The from Portland. He is currently fea movie " Don't tell Mom the Baby Sitter is Dead" was seen tured in magazine issues of “Flex”, Thursday at 2 p.m. “Muscle and F itness” and The seniors extend their deepest sympathy to the family and “Musclemag” for his placing at friends of Elsie Leathers, Anna Ball and Rose Marie Buschke. Rose Marie was a very active volunteer at the Senior Center, as well as her church and the community before her illness. An office staff meeting will be held March 2 at 1:30 p.m. Elementary has magazine sale Heppner Elementary's recent magazine sale fund riser was a "huge success," according to HES Principal Phyllis Danielson. Subscription sales exceeded $10,500 and HES will keep 40 percent of the total. Money earned will be used to bring assemblies to the school, support the Outdoor School program and provide funds for other special projects or classroom needs. All money will be spent on kids, Danielson says. The sale was made successful by eager fourth, fifth and sixth grade sales persons, the magazine reading community and the parent volunteers who came daily to take care of the necessary accounting, Danielson said Parent volunteers were: Shelli Britt, Sheri Gregory, Debbie Peck, Karen Wolff, and Angie Hanson. "Plan on renewing your magazines next year with Heppner Elementary School," concluded Danielson. Local fiddlers to perform Kiwanis Kapers Six Heppner area fiddle students will compete in this year's Kiwams f Kapers competition in Pendleton on Thursday, March 9. The six young players, Alex Carlson, Eric Jepsen, Kate Kendrick, Blaine Maley, Seth Morgan and Brynna Rust, will perform an Irish song and dance routine called "Swallowtail Jig". ilia 1 J c CÏÏTTTJ ilia c uTTTll ilia c UTTfU ilia cilia HmU c UTTT uTTTu itti the 1999 NPC Nationals, as well as his endorsement with Human Development Technologies, a supplement company. He is an established personal trainer and will be available for personal train ing. A special presale on yearly memberships has begun this week and will run through April 15. The special offers no joining fee and monthly fees of $25 single, $40 couple and $60 family. The facil ity is also offering unlimited monthly tanning for $ 15 a month per person with a membership and $25 per month per person without a membership. This allows clients to come in and tan as many times as they would like during the month. This special will also al low clients to lock into these prices for the life of their memberships, says Raver. After April, 15* there,will be a $25 joining fee ana monthly mem berships wm<rMjnr$30 suvgle, $50 couple, $75 family; $20 a month for unlimited tanning with mem bership and $30 a month for un limited tanning without a member ship. A month-to-month member ship will run $45 per month. Discounts will be offered to teachers, students and senior citi zens. Raver is available to take mem bership sign-ups at the center’s location. The local fiddlers are part of a larger performing group which includes a total of 18 fiddlers, a drummer, string bass and guitar. All of the children performing are students of Peg Willis of Pendleton. Also performing with the group is a former Heppner student, Nick Berretta, now of Walla Walla, WA. The Kiwams Kapers performance starts at 7 p.m. at the Vert Auditorium. There will be different shows on Thursday and Friday nights, March 9 and 10, with the top performers selected to compete for cash prizes on the final Saturday night show on March 11. Tickets will be available at the door. The cost is $5 for adults, and $4 for students and seniors. By Doris Brosnan Having received recommendations from the Port of Morrow and all but one of the county's cities, the Morrow County Court, at its February 23 meeting, appointed five individuals to the Baker-Morrow Rural Investment Board. This board, which will work with members from Baker County on the newly formed Baker-Morrow Regional Partnership, will consist of Tom Myers of Boardman, Tom Sly of Heppner, Betty Gray of lone, Terry Tallman, Boardman, of the county court, and Gary Neal, Boardman, of the Port of Morrow. Department of Revenue representatives, Jim Manary and Scott Jackson, offered the court, Morrow County Assessor Greg Sweek, Becky Tullis of the assessor's office, and GIS/IS director Mary Phillips a presentation on mapping: history of the Oregon Land Information System and the state's mapping services, methods of fee collection, types and uses of maps. Manary explained that the state's goal is to tie the county mapping systems together and create regions to work together. He further demonstrated some applications for hazardous materials, steep-slope properties, health statistics, crime statistics, fire coverage, business activity, vacant-land searches, applications tied to real estate, utilities, soils, urban-growth boundaries, solid waste disposal, and sanitary-service districts. Manary described the role of an advisory-tech group and development of some standards that would enable looking up information on any county from our own county. Jackson explained how the tech group in the first region (Coos, Curry, Josephine, Douglas and Jackson counties) was formed and what their advisory functions are. Manary added that the Department of Revenue has two goals: to build a good tax-map base and to stimulate interest of all potential beneficiaries. Discussion continued and focused on lack of funding for the State Service Center, the efficiencies of sharing data and a stable funding base and a telecommunications consortium. The first step, said Manary, is to form a region. Sweek asked the court to sign the contract with The Software Group, Inc., which had undergone some revisions, which included a down payment by July 1. He explained the maintenance contract, the one-time software license charge, the installation, training and conversion agreement, custom changes and database purchase costs. The court approved the signing of the contract and discussed the features of the two financing bids. The court agreed to select financing after discussion with finance director Lisanne Currin. Heppner Mayor Bob Jepsen introduced to the court Lynn Lundquist as a candidate for secretary of state. Lundquist noted his desire to learn more about issues facing county courts and county clerks. Lee Palmer, member of the county road committee, repotted to the court a discussion and tour with a concerned landowner. Palmer considered the completed work satisfactory but f or _ i _ — — _ _ recommended the delay of paving until after the settling of the road. One suggestion from assistant public works director Burke O'Brien was to videotape as a record the conditions of fences and property before work is undertaken. Palmer also questioned the court about the checking of contractors' licenses when letting contracts and county counsel Bill Hanlon agreed that a contract review officer needs to perform overview of all contracts, checking on contractors' performance bonds, filings of certified payroll and their employee drug-testing policies. He stressed the need to monitor and follow up on these issues and recommended that the court appoint someone as a contract- review officer. Currin presented and the court approved two budget resolutions: one for an addition for the Health Department's "Babies First" and Family Planning expansion projects and a Historical Foundation grant for the history center; and one for a reduction in appropriations to reflect a decrease in budgeted resources. The court also approved purchase of a fax machine for the Behavioral Health Department. Currin also informed the court that she has a supplemental budget prepared. Public Health Director Laura McElligott discussed with the court the family-planning budget, the state's aforementioned expansion-project money and the local tax dollars. McElligott reported that the project money can not be used to supplant local property tax dollars. The court noted the need to determine this year's amount of local dollars and to examine legitimate uses for the project money. McElligott further explained that the State Health Division has dictated that reduction in local dollars be equal across the board among county departments and not target the health departments individually. McElligott also presented an "Enhancement of Parenting/Family Drug Abuse Prevention" grant request, describing the advertised benefits of the program. She said that the department could continue to use the program, although the grant would be for one year and include nursing time, translator time ar.d training. The court noted the need to cover administrative costs with the grant and McElligott assured them that 15 percent is allowed to cover such overhead. The court approved application for the grant, with the caveat that it cover expenses related to administration. In other business before the court, it appointed Shelly Salisbury to the Commission on Children and Families, reviewed and approved an agreement with A-One Construction for installation of restrooms in the agricultural museum facility, approved two approach permits, and reviewed and approved the joint management agreement with the city of Imgon to complete rural addressing beyond the city limits. SCRATCH PADS $1.00 lb. Gazette-Times ■ 676-9228 mm mm mm — mm mm^Sm — — — mm. N O W W O U LD y e B E IR IS H ? Your Name: BIRTHDAY Date you arrived in County Morrow: W here would you be livin' now: (specify the area in Morrow County) ( \ ______________Year arrived: Name o f your Irish a n c e s to r:____________ I f not in Morrow County, w here?_________ Love from your family & friends County in Ireland from whence he/she came: Sidelines yOU might Wish to Share (m a y co ntinue on a d d itio n a l s h e e ts ): g»i<a mnu ci«ia utttij c ilia iitjtti cilia rrmu cilia utjtd cilia rrryTu / Peterson's P i j a Jeweler* / BUSINESS CARDS H ep p n er (r o s e tte -Time* » m - m o Has your family been honored during the celebration? (circle) Y ES Thank you! Send this information to “You Bet I'm Irish“, P.O. Box 1232, Heppner, OR 97836 ASAP1 And be sure to come to the Wee Bit O’lreland KUMA Coffee Hour to put your wee flag on the map I NO
