EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Elementary students get civics lesson at city hall Field day slated Area musicians join forces
lone Elementary School fourth and fifth-grade students got a lesson in government during a visit
to lone City Hall on Tuesday from lone Mayor Betty Gray (pictured with students), city clerk Cindy
Doherty and maintenance supervisor Dan Anderson at lone City Hall.
WCC plans Jack and Jill
The Willow Creek County Club
golfers will have a Jack and Jill
mini-tournament on Friday evening,
May 18, at 6 p.m.
Couples will play in a nine-hole
m odified-type o f play with the
format determined by the committee
in charge.
Prizes will be awarded for low
scores and special events. The
charge will be $3 per couple for
members and $10 per couple for
non-members.
Light snacks will be provided
by the comm ittee in charge.
Hosts for the event are Earl and
Peggy Fishbum, Jim and Cam
W ishart, and Louis and Betty
Carlson.
President’s budget funds dam
The U.S. Army Corps o f
Engineers' Fiscal Year 2002 (FY02)
budget, as transmitted to Congress
by President George W. Bush,
includes $3.9 billion for civil works
projects that meet the nation's water
resource needs. "These projects will
help to maintain and manage
navigable waterways, effectively
operate flood damage reduction and
m ultiple-purpose projects, and
restore and regulate wetlands and
other important environmental
resources across the nation,"
according to a news release.
At the local level, the Corps'
Portland District is expected to
receive about $140 million o f the
national budget to fund, work in
the Rogue, W illam ette and.
Columbia river basins.
The Corps operates 19 multiple-
purpose projects within Portland
District, as well as the sediment
retention structure built in response
to the 1980 M ount St. Helens
eruption, the Willow Crock project
near Heppner, and Willamette Falls
Locks at Oregon City. In FY02,
about $58.5 million is proposed for
operation
and
m aintenance
activities.
Tree seedlings
available
An assortment ofPonderosa Pine,
Douglas Fir and seedlings will be
available on a reservation basis
Fnday, May 18, from 9 a m - 12 noon
at the M orrow Soil and W ater
Conservation District office at 430
Heppner/Lexm gton Hwy.
Morrow SW CD organizes the
dispersal o f these excess trees each
year in cooperation with the USFS.
"Trees provide shade, windbreaks,
and wildlife habitat as well as
m inim izing soil erosion," said a
SWCD spokesperson. "Take
advantage o f this opportunity and
plant a few trees this spring to
enhance your property. Survival
increases if trees are healed in now
and planted this fall."
Please bring containers such as
burlap sacks or garbage bags to
protect the trees in transport.
For more information, call the
SW CD office at 676-5452.
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A field day to tour and discuss
the grass seed research plots at the
Hermiston Agricultural Research
and Extension Center, 1/2 mile south
o f Hermiston at 2121 S. First Street
(formally Hinkle Road) has been
scheduled for Thursday, May 31.
In addition to the tour, there will
be in-the-field presentations on
topics o f interest to grass seed
growers o f Lower Umatilla Basin.
These research plots were
established in the fall o f 1997 and
were expanded to 10 acres in the
fall o f 1998. Major research efforts
include plots to study seedling
herbicide tolerance and a variety
evaluation for Fine Fescues,
Kentucky Bluegrass, Tall Fescue
and Perennial Ryegrass. In addition,
there are plots to study pea herbicide
carry-over effects, mildew and rust
control.
The field day program will start
o ff with announcements and an
update o f current concerns to grass
seed growers in the Umatilla and
Morrow County areas, followed
by a tour and discussion o f the
herbicide and variety plots lead by
Dan Ball, OSU Extension weed
control specialist. Disease control
plots will be reviewed by Phil
Hamm.
For more information call the
Extension Office at (541) 567-8321.
Three hours o f pesticide credits
for Oregon and W ashington will
be available for the morning tour.
A field day to tour and discuss
the cereal plots at the Hermiston
Agncultural Research and Extension
Center, 1/2 mile south of Hermiston
at 2121 S. First Street (formally
Hinkle Road) has been scheduled
for W ednesday, June 6.
In addition to the tour, there will
be in-the-field presentations on
topics of interest to irrigated cereal
producers o f Lower Umatilla Basin.
The field day program will start
out with announcem ents and an
update o f current concerns to cereal
growers in the Umatilla and Morrow
county areas, followed by a tour
and discussion o f the variety and
forage production plots lead by
Kolding. Phil Hamm will review
disease issues.
For m ore information call the
Extension Office at (541) 567-8321
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Professional soloists from
Portland and New York will join
regional
musicians
for
a
performance of Beethoven's famous
Symphony #9 on May 20, 21 and
23. These concerts will feature the
combined forces o f the Oregon East
Symphony and Chorale, the Grande
Ronde Symphony and Community
Chorus, the Eastern Oregon
University Chamber Choir and the
Baker City Com munity Chorus,
all conducted by OES Music
Director Kenneth Woods.
Bass-baritone Dean Ely o f
Buffalo, NY, will join Janice
Johnson, Kathryn Alexis Crump
and Brennan Guilleroy of Portland
as soloists in the final choral
movement of this symphony which
sets to music Schiller’s poem, "Ode
to Joy."
The concert schedule is as
follows: Baker City: St. Francis
Cathedral, 7 p.m. Sunday, May 20;
Pendleton: Vert Auditorium, 7:30
p.m. Monday, May 21; LaGrande:
Loso Hall, on the EOU campus,
7:30 Wednesday, May 23. Tickets
will be available at the door on the
night o f the performance.
Sponsors include the East
Oregonian, the Red Lion Hotel, Bart
Adams, MD, Steven Neal, MD, the
Leo Adler Foundation and an
anonymous donor. For more
information, call 276-0320.
Fossil Beds offer hike
John Day Fossil Beds National
M onument will offer a ranger-
conducted hike into the spectacular
Blue Basin fossil beds on Saturday,
May 19, beginning at 10 am. This
two-hour hike will feature the
geologic and fossil history o f the
basin.
The tour will begin at the Blue
Basin trailhead, located three miles
north o f the Sheep Rock Unit visitor
center, along State Route 19.
Participants should bring good
hiking shoes, a sun hat, jacket, water
bottle and a camera. Reservations
are not needed and there is no fee.
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