Thoughtless hunters turn
Slaughterhouse into dump
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Dick Sargent looks over some of the many animal carcasses dumped on Slaughterhouse Road near
Heppner
VOL. 119
NO. 47
10 Pages
Wednesday, November 22.2000
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Top saddle bronc rider calls Heppner home
Heppner is now home base to
one of the world's top rodeo
cowboys.
PRC A saddle bronc rider
Chance Dixon, currently ranked
seventh in the world, now calls
Heppner home
Dixon, originally from Bend,
began rodeoing at the age of five.
He participated in pee wee and
high school rodeos and then was
recruited by Blue Mountain
Community College to compete
in their rodeo program. He
attended BMCC on a rodeo
scholarship from 1989-91 and
was a college champion for three
years.
"BMCC had a really
good rodeo team. I wasn't going
to school to leam, but to rodeo,"
said Dixon, who added that he
wished he had emphasized his
studies a bit more.
After his stmt at BMCC, he
went pro and made his first finals
in 1994. About that time, he met
Heppnerite Roger Britt at the
Spray Rodeo. He and Roger and
Rita Britt became "more family
than friends," says Dixon, and
the Britts are like grandparents to
Dixon's twenty-two-month-old
son, Riley.
Dixon had been staying with
the Britts for the last several
months and recently moved into
the Britt's rental home. "I like
small towns," said Dixon. "It's
nice to come back from the big
city to a nice quiet little town It's
a good place to raise kids."
Dixon won the Dodge
National Circuit Finals at
Pocatello in 1995, won the
Columbia River Circuit finals
five times and was the Columbia
River Average champion three
times.
”1 love to ride broncs and I
love to win." he said. "That's
what's kept me going for so long-
I love to win."
Dixon experienced a time,
however, when riding and rodeo
just weren't enough. In 1996 he
suffered a shoulder injury after
the national finals, which
required surgery. "I allowed it to
play head games with me and
lost about three years." said
Dixon of the injury
"It was
more mental than physical. I was
either going to get back to the
finals or quit. Then I realized I
had quite a few years to do what
I love to do. went back to having
fun, and now look where I’m at."
Dixon is once again headed to
the national finals on November
27.
He said that he averages around
100.000 miles a year traveling to
rodeos. He has his own pilot's
license for small aircraft, but
generally travels by charter,
commercial flights or by vehicle,
with traveling partners. Rod
Warren, two-time Canadian all-
around winner and currently 15th
in the world standings in saddle
bronc riding, and Toby Adams.
Chance Dixon at Cheyenne Frontier Days
G-T to close for
Thanksgiving
The Gazette-Times new spaper
office will be closed Thursday
and Friday. November 23-24 for
the Thanksgiving holiday
A safe and happy Thanksgiving
to all.
Trash is also dumped on Slaughter House Rd
-chunk up the carcass and throw
it in the garbage:
-add the carcass, with
permission, to the farmer or
rancher's dead pile or slash pile;
-dispose of the carcass
unobtrusively in a public forested
area and let nature take Us
course
Krein also reminds hunters tnai
offensive littering is illegal.
Bob Krein of the Heppner
office of the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife says there is
no one specific solution to the
problem.
Krein said, however, that
hunters have several options in
disposing carcasses to avoid
offensive littering on private
lands:
Heppner natives make discovery Parade of
In the "What a Small World" "Morrow Warehouse Milling
lights
category, two former Heppner Co., Proprietor of Woolgrowers
residents, both living in the Warehouse and Heppner Roller
Portland area and both working Mills, Grain-Flour, Feed, Steam
November 30
for Washington County, came Rolled Barley, General Storage
Chance Dixon and his son. Riley
also a saddle bronc rider w ho has
been to the finals for times.
After his rodeo career Dixon
thinks he might put his flying
experience to good use and train
to become a commercial pilot "If
Slaughterhouse road near
Heppner has long been used by
some people as their own
personal dump. But now at least
one local resident has seen
enough.
"I go up there all the time and
it's just a mess", says Dick
Sargent who lives at the foot of
Slaughterhouse road.
Sargent says people dump just
about everything up there, and
lots of times he is the one who
goes up there and cleans it up.
"I've been up there many times
just cleaning up after these
people, and this time I just got
tired of it." he says, as he shows a
spot along the road where
someone just dumped a fresh elk
carcasse. including the head.
Sargent says it gets so bad up
there during warm weather that it
stinks from the rotting meat, and
it’s just not healthy. "There are
people who walk up this way and
this is what we have to contend
w ith". he says, pointing to an area
where someone has thrown
animal bodies into a small creek,
w hich drains into Willow Creek.
In addition to the many
carcasses, there are piles of junk,
bed frames and other trash in
almost ev ery draw leading up the
hill. "For a long time people just
used this area for their dump," he
says. The state police found some
addresses in the trash gave a few
citations and it dropped off a little
bit.
"I wish people would realize
that Slaughterhouse road is not
their dump.” Sargent says.
I can succeed at rodeo. I can
succeed at anything," he said
Parents Club
plans wrapping
The Heppner Elem entary
School Parents Club will hold a
Christmas gift wrapping fund
raiser on Friday, Dec. 8. from 1-4
p m. and on Sunday. Dec 17. from
10 a m -4 p m at the elementary
school
Donations will be accepted.
and Forwarding-Wool, Heppner.
Oregon.
May 30. 1906
Hon. County Court.
Hillsboro, Oreg.
Dear Sirs:-I herewith present
bill for land and fencing in
connection with proposed road
along the east side of the Richard
Kuehne place:
To 1 1/2 acres of land at S60
per acre
S90
"Building 1/2 of fence along
across a 1906 letter concerning
property in Heppner
Clint Michael, son of Dan and
Midge Michael of Heppner. who
is a surveyor in the Washington
County offices in Hillsboro,
discovered a May 30. 1906. letter
to the Washington County Court
from R.F. Hynd. manager of the
Morrow Warehouse Milling
Company in Heppner.
Michael gave the letter to
Bruce Thomson, senior budget
analyst for Washington County ,
who also grew up in Heppner
His parents operated Thomson
Brothers Grocery in Heppner.
Thomson, in tum. gave the letter
to his sister. Meredith Thomson,
who is currently living in
Heppner
The Morrow Warehouse
Milling Company was a wool
warehouse and gram storage
facility which also provided
"forwarding"
The letter reads as follows:
road
$43.50 $133.50
I figure that division fences are
built and kept up jointly by land
adjoining, and am charging the
county with what the neighbour
on other side of fence would
build otherwise, charging nothing
for the upkeep of fence after
built. Trusting you will find
above correct and satisfactory.
Yours very truly.
R.F Hynd
Heppner's fourth annua'
Parade of Lights will be held
Thursday.
November
30.
beginning at 6 p.m. on Main
Street
Businesses and indiv iduals are
invited to enter. Cash prize' will
be aw arded for the best decorated
vehicles or floats First place is
S200: second place is $150; thv\j
place is $100: and the fourm
place Kris Kiingle award is a v "
gift certificate.
Entry forms are available :
the Gazette-Times, the Heppner
Chamber of Commerce offvc
Central Market and the Bark "I
Eastern Oregon.
Entry blank is on page 4
Bond Committee
plans meeting
A meeting of the Morrow
County School Bond Committee
will be held on Wednesday, Nov.
29. at 7 p.m at Heppner High
School
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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