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A ’green’ solution recycles
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Heppner resident Lois Winchester may not have been singing ’Home
on the Range,’ but she definitely has a home where the buffalo roam.
Winchester took this photo on Winchester Drive around 9:30 a.m. on
August 9.
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Conferences set
Heppner Junior High and High
School will hold parent-teacher
conferences on Monday, Nov.
13.
Teachers will be in their room
for parents to drop in from 11
a.m.- 4 p.m., and from 5-8 p.m.
all teachers will be in the gym to
visit with parents.
Report cards and fall levels
testing results will be given out
to parents when they arrive.
For more information, contact
Principal Dick Allen at 676-
9138.
Veteran’s Day
ceremony
planned
A Veteran's Day ceremony has
been planned on Saturday,
November. 11, beginning at 11
a.m. at the mim-park in Heppner.
Organizers hope that the event
will include a fly-over.
Drop in sales
shows up as
co-op
loss
Because of lower wheat prices,
and a smaller harvest, the
Morrow County Grain Growers
posted a $44.904 loss in fiscal
year 2000, it was announced at
its annual meeting Monday night.
Total income for the co-op
dropped from almost S38 million
in fiscal year 1999 to a little over
S25 million in 2000. The gram
department took the biggest hit,
dropping from almost $21
million in sales, to slightly over
$11 million last year. The co-op
had a profit of over $1 million in
1999.
Acting co-op manager John
Ripple, however, told memebers
next year's outlook does look
better. "We've had good rains the
past months, and the long range
outlook is for higher prices,"
Ripple said. He said worldwide
grain stocks were dropping which
should result in higher wheat
prices next year.
Ripple took over as interim
manager when Chris Meyer
resigned the job last month. Co­
op board of directors president
Steve Hill said the board is in a
search process now to find a new
manager. He said Harvest States
is helping with the recruitment
effort. "Keep supporting your co­
op," Hill urged members. "We're
going to pull together and get it
back into the black."
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(Left to right) Front-Jim Primdahl. Judy Rea. deconstruction crew members. Brad Woelfle, Matt
Redhead. Mike Wilson; middle-crew members, Nathan Kieffer. Erin Collins: back-crew members,
Enrique Hernandez. Jonathan Fuller, and Frank Halvorsen, representing the Masonic Lodge.
What do you do when you want Center where they are sold for
to get rid o f a building, but don't new' construction. Dimensional
want to bum or bulldoze it?
lumber is sold there at half of
Judy and Keith Rea of lone retail.
discovered a unique answer to
The deconstruction crew'
that quandary. The Reas typically doesn't get involved in
purchased the old Masonic sales. But. because the lone hall
Lodge in lone and eventually is so far from Portland, hauling
want to build a home there. They all the materials to the center just
had to remove the hall, but also would not be energy efficient.
wanted to somehow preserve the Primdahl hopes to sell the
materials used to construct the materials on site and invites
historic building.
community members to stop by.
Judy Rea discovered the name
The building has some unique
of an organization that would just features because of its age—porch
fit the bill. The ReBuilding columns, solid wood walls,
Center, a non-profit organization mahogany trim and 16.\2-inch
headed by director Jim Primdahl. floor joists that stretch 30 feet.
specializes in "deconstruction
Frank Halvorsen o f lone, on
services."
hand representing the Masonic Judy Rea with photos of historic
Once the ReBuilding Center Lodge, says that the lodge was
gets a call to "deconstruct" a active for 100 years, from June lone Masonic Lodge in its
early days.
building, employees of the 14. 1900. to June 14. 2000
organization, which is based in
look
at construction materials
Primdahl says that the owner
Portland, descend on a building has first option on any building from an energy outlook-the
and take it apart, board by board, materials and may get a tax break energy it takes to grow the
brick by brick. Primdahl says on any materials they wish to product, cut it and construct it.
that they dissassemble a building donate to the ReBuilding Center. "Our job is to extend the energy
much the way a contractor erects
Primdahl started out as a of materials as long as possible."
a building, except in reverse.
builder and has had 25 years in
He added that the
The whole process is the construction business, with organization's emphasis on
surprisingly fast, with some 13-14 of those years in "green conservation is consistent with
buildings taken down in just a building"—construction with an the lifestyles and values of lone
day Primdahl and his crew of environmental emphasis. He "It's interesting to be in an
seven arrived in lone Sunday worked with Habitat for the agrarian community, where
evening and started work Humanities International in conservation is a way of life." he
Monday morning. They expect Georgia. Washington. D C., and said. "When I stand here in lone
the project to be completed by then in Tulsa. Oklahoma, for two and look around in the
Friday. Primdahl says that years, before moving to Portland community, you can sense that
Long active in the the people conserve materials."
"nothing" will be left at the site,
movement,
While in lone. Primdahl said
which will be "broom clean on environmental
Primdahl ran for mayor of Tulsa that he and his crew stayed at the
Saturday."
Over the last year, the at the age of 24 on an anti­ Woolery House and enjoyed
organization has deconstructed nuclear ticket. He laughs that he breakfast served before they
around 40 houses and 10 garages garnered only six percent of the started work on Monday
and pole bams. One specialty vote, but the nuclear plant under morning..
project was for Adidas. Primdahl- construction was shut down He
said that the company had also worked as an environmental
purchased Bess Kaiser Hospital consultant with the American
and wanted to convert it, so Iron and Steel Institute, an
of
steel
Adidas hired the ReBuilding association
manufacturers.
Center to deconstruct the facility .
Primdahl is enthusiastic about
As a result o f that project, the
center, working with Mercy the deconstruction program "The
The Heppner High School
Corps International, made it concept is generating jobs." he football team will play in the first
possible for hospital fixtures to said. "These 30 jobs (are round of the 2A state playoffs
be sent to clinics in Bosnia, generated) from trash. And, we're this Saturday, November 11, at
Montenegro, Azerbaijan and keeping a tremendous amount of the Morrow County Fairgrounds
materials out of the landfill. The in Heppner, beginning at l p m.
Honduras.
Most o f the houses the center owner gets a tax break, the versus Pine Eagle.
deconstructs were built in the workers, good pay, and we keep
OSAA ticket prices are $6 for
20s, 30s or 40s and there are materials out of the landfill. It's adults and $4 for students No
good reasons for most o f them to such a win-win-win situation passes will be honored
We are able to extend the
be taken down, says Primdahl
Pre-game tickets will be
embodied
energy o f a materials available on Thursday at
He says the products from a
deconstructed building are we encounter."
Primdahl savs that he tends to Heppner High School.
usually taken to the ReBuilding
First round state
2A playoffs in
Heppner Saturday