SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Heppner students participate
in election
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The lone City Council will hold
their regular monthly meeting on
November 14, 2000 at 6:00 PM
at lone City Hall, 385 West 2nd
Street If you would like to be on
the agenda please call City Hall
at 422-7414.
Published: November 8,2000
PUBLIC NOTICE
Heppner Elementary social studies teacher Karen Smith-Griffith
with fifth and sixth grade voters on election day.
Heppner Elementary School
fifth and sixth-graders are
experiencing
the
electoral
process first hand this year.
The children, all students of
HES social studies teacher Karen
Smith-Gnffith, made patriotic
hats, waved flags and voted in a
mock election on election day,
Tuesday, November 8.
Smith-Griffith reports that 83
percent o f the sixth graders and
81 percent of the fifth graders
cast their votes for presidential
candidate George W. Bush; with
the remaining 17 percent of fifth
graders and 19 percent of sixth
graders voting for A1 Gore.
As of press time Tuesday, it
still remained to be seen if the
HES classes were bellwethers for
the national election.
Smith-Griffith said that as the
two-week election project came
to a close, the students would
learn about Veteran's Day.
CBEC announces contest winners
Columbia Basin Electric
Cooperative has announced the
winners o f its annual Electrical
Safety poster contest.
Winners are as follows:
Condon
Grade
School-first
Russell Thompson, second Alex
Fennem;
lone
Elementary
School-first Victoria Heagy,
second Tiana Camarillo; Fossil
Grade School-first Jesse Drake,
second Lenny Espinoza; Heppner
Elementary School-first Seth
Morgan, second Maggie Armato.
The year 2000 winners were
announced at the CBEC annual
dinner held in Condon on
Thursday night.
Grange elects
officers
New officers were elected at
the October meeting of the
Lexington Grange.
New officers for 2000 are as
follows: Master, Barbara Gilbert;
Overseer, Tom Wilson; Lecturer,
Jean Nelson; Steward, Wilbur
Jackson; Assistant Steward, Ned
Clark; Lady Assistant Steward,
Kathleen Clark; Chaplain, Zelma
McDaniel; Treasurer, Clarence
Buchanan; Secretary, Dorthy
Wilson;
Gatekeeper,
Bud
Newby; Flora, Vema Bnnda;
Ceres, Jeane Barbee; Pomona,
Dorothy Jackson; Executive
Committee, Cecil Jones, Archie
Padberg and Lyle Peck.
The charter was draped for
Beth Clark who had been a
grange member for over 60
years.
Plans were made to have a
table at the Artifactory on
Saturday, Nov. 18, to raise
money for the grange. The
Artifactory will be held from 10
a.m.-3 p.m.
Tobacco
prevention
meeting slated
A Tobacco Prevention meet
ing will be held on Wednesday,
Nov. 15. at 4 p.m. in the confer
ence room above Heppner Hard
ware.
The discussion topic will be
underage tobacco use.
The public is invited to attend.
First place winners were
awarded $20 and second place
winners were awarded $10. The
competition was open to all
fourth graders in CBEC's service
territory and generated over 60
entries.
DA's Report
Morrow County District
Attorney David C. Allen reports
handling the following business:
Michael Dean Hendricks plead
guilty to two counts of contempt,
a crime, and was sentenced to 90
days incarceration, suspended,
with 18 months probation. He
was ordered to have no contact
with the victim and pay $684 in
fines, fees and assessments.
Daniel Alan Mathews was
found in violation o f probation
for manufacture o f a controlled
substance. His probation was
revoked and he was ordered to
serve six months in custody, with
12
months
post-prison
supervision. He may not be
considered for temporary leave
from custody, reduction of
sentence,
work
release,
alternative incarceration program
or program o f conditional or
supervised release.
Juan Antonio Sauceda-
Sanchez plead guilty to driving
under the influence of intoxicants
(alcohol), a crime, and providing
false information to a police
officer, a crime, and was
sentenced
to
180
days
incarceration with 150 suspended
and 24 months probation and
had his driver's license revoked
for 12 months. He was ordered to
attend a victim's impact panel,
complete an alcohol package and
pay $1,314 in fines, fees and
assessments.
Flood program
rescheduled
A television program on
floods, featuring film shot in
Heppner this summer, has been
rescheduled
for
Saturday,
November 18, at 2 p.m. on the
History Channel.
Heppner footage is included in
the first half of the show and also
over the closing credits.
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1 would like to thank each indi
vidually for the good wishes and
all that was done to make Novem
ber 5 a memorable day. My fam
ily, St. Patrick’s Altar Society and
the many friends made the after
noon a very happy occasion. All
appreciated.
Eleanor Gonty
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To all our friends and family,
thank you for the surprise anni
versary party. To Karan, the best
sister and sister-in-law in the
world. Thank you for all your hard
work! Arlynda, thanks for always
treating us like family. Dorthy,
thanks for the beautiful cake. April
and Jacob, thanks for being there
and making the day extra special.
Chanssa, thanks for the great pic
tures. We will never forget our
25th anniversary.
Roy and Carol Taylor
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follow-up testing to see if other
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bacteria of greater concern, such
as fecal coliform or E. coli, are
present. We did not find any of
these bacteria in our subsequent
testing. If we had, we would have
notified you immediately.
What happened ? What is
being done ?
We think the flushing of fire
hydrants around town may have
caused this.
We have chlorinated our
system and took additional
samples, and found no more total
coliform bacteria in our system.
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We want to say how much we
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ers and cards congratulating us on
our 50th wedding anniversary on
October 31. It was such a sur
prise to hear from so many who
wouldn’t have known about it un
less someone had “leaked it out.”
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prit was our daughter Pam, who
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