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Elks float wins first in Light Parade C e s i l o ì Tst sal l U of 0 Library Lu;:o:io, J-'R v . ' i J j The Light Parade in downtown Heppner Thursday drew a variets of entrants and a large crowd of spectators despite the cold weather. V O L.120 NO ^9______ 8 Pages Wednesday, December 5,2001 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon City of lone builds bike path to Emert addition Light Parade entries lit up downtown Heppner Thursday Claudia Hughes Heppner Chamber Light Parade Chair Darrel Raver oversaw 12 entries this year. "Participants are to be commended for their hard work," said a Chamber spokesperson. Ballots were deposited in a large package in front of Central Red Apple and the results reported by Kim Houweling were: first place, the Elks Club; second place, Lexington Fire Department Bake sale to benefit Heppner Fire and Rescue The Corbin family of Heppner has planned a bake sale on Friday, Dec. 14, to benefit Heppner Fire and Rescue in memory o f those who died in the September 11 attack. The sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Post Office. Flags will also be available for purchase in addition to baked goods. Anyone who would like to donate baked goods or make a monetary donation should call Linda Corbin, 676-5270. Checks should be made out to the Heppner Fire and Rescue Auxiliary. HHS game in Joseph Friday Heppner High School's basketball game on Friday, Dec. 7, vs. Joseph will be held in Joseph, not Heppner, as originally scheduled. The game will begin with JV play at 3 p.m. safety issue. We wanted the kids, and their dogs, too, off the highway. They should have a safe walkway. If this saves one child, it will be well worth the time and effort." The path was funded through a combination of sources. Booker Construction, which was in the lone community working on new reservoirs, completed the excavation as a community service. The Oregon Highway Department provided 480 yards o f rock and $16,000 in county tippage fee monies paid for paving and other materials for the 10-foot wide. 2,200-foot long path. When additional funding is available, city officials eventually plan to install a crosswalk and flashing lights at the end o f the path at Ella Road and extend the path along the old railway to the city park. They also hope to install benches and make the path walker-friendly. Town meetings planned on proposed city hall/library project Heppner City officials met November 26 with Mary Nixon from Rural Development Initiatives to discuss town meetings on the subject o f building a combined new library and city hall. The meetings are planned to sort out the issues involved with the proposed project, according to a city news release. After meeting with officials, Nixon agreed to facilitate the meetings, the first of which is scheduled for January 3 at the St. Patrick’s Senior Center at 7 p.m. Members o f the Oregon Trail Library District are expected to be present. A press release will be issued next week which will explain in more depth the structure and function o f the meetings. A survey about the project will be sent out from the city of Heppner sometime after the meeting. Participants at the meeting will have an opportunity to be involved in the preparation o f the survey. Church to donate beef to needy Christian Life Center, located at 535 W. Morgan St. in Heppner, will be giving away approximately 60 boxes of beef to needy families on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m. The beef was donated especially for the boxes, which will also include a sack o f potatoes and the "Book of Hope", a book which tells the story and life o f Jesus Christ. Anyone in need of meat or who knows anyone who is in need this Christmas holiday is encouraged to come to the church at 6 p.m. Church members will briefly explain one. Heppner businesses rolled out the red carpet as spectators munched their way up and down Main Street, strolled Heppner pnor to the parade, and enjoyed the lights including the community tree lite by the expertise of Tom Rawlins. Watch for further Heppner holiday happenings, including a live Nativity, during the businesses' Sunday afternoon openings. Ex-sheriffs dispatcher sentenced in sex-charges lone City recorder Cindy Doherty at end of new bike path. A city o f lone project will make walking to school a lot safer for area school children. The project consists o f a paved bike path starting at the Emert addition and ending at the beginning o f Ella Road, parallel to the highway. "There are 28 kids at the Emert Addition," said lone city recorder Cindy Doherty. "A lot o f people like to walk and it's really dangerous to walk along the highway." "We realized that there were a lot o f children in the Emert Addition," added lone Mayor Betty Gray. "It was a Auxiliary; third place, Pathfinders; and the Kris Kringle aw ard to Archie Ball on his antique tractor. Parade sponsors were Klamath First, Central Red Apple. Murrays, Bank of Eastern Oregon, Artisan Village. Willow Creek Clinic. Gardner's, Morrow County Grain Growers, and John's Other Place. Fire Chief Rusty Estes, Murrays, and Hal Bergstrom performed a last minute "rescue" in more ways than why the meat is being given away, pray for any prayer requests and then the meat will be distributed. According to a news release, the church wishes to give the boxes to any families who need the beef-no other restrictions apply. For more information, call the church office at 676-5581. News Deadline 5p.m. Monday Hector Pacheco Morales, disk. The disk had a picture of Boardman, an ex-Morrow Morales, along with other County Sheriffs Office images. dispatcher, was sentenced Nov. The discovery lead to a 29 to 13 months in jail and four search of Morales' home on June years post-prison supervision for 2, where police found over 1,000 sex abuse and official images of child pornography on misconduct, according to Morales' home computer. He Morrow County District was arraigned August 3. Attorney David C. Allen. following his arrest. The court also Allen said that recommended that Morales be consultation with an expert on registered as a sex offender. child pornography led him to Morales is serving a jail believe that all except the 12 sentence for three counts of images from the sheriffs office encouraging child sexual abuse were professional images in the second degree and official obtained through e-mail and chat misconduct. The charges are rooms. connected to Morales attempting to build a Web site with photos of 12 juvenile boys involved in explicit sex acts. None of the boys, who were 10-15 years old, were believed to have been from Morrow County. According to Morrow Morrow County Sheriffs County Sheriff Verlin Denton deputies brought an injured Morales was terminated from his position as dispatcher in the snowmobiler out of the woods summer of 2000 because o f an near Ukiah on Sunday. Dec 2 The deputies responded unrelated matter. with snowmobiles to aid the 21- Denton said that the year-old injured man from Pilot sheriffs department discovered Rock. He had been thrown from Morales illegal activity on his snowmobile and injured his computer disks he had left behind at the office after his back and shoulder. The man was taken to a termination. According to Allen. waiting Pendleton ambulance Morales had downloaded and then transported to St. juvenile booking photos at the Anthony Hospital where he was sheriffs office and saved them to treated and released. Deputies aid injured snowmobiler Allen said that they believed Morales eventually planned to create a Web site of his own using "thumbnail” images. Morales, however, never published the images on the Internet, said Allen. According to Allen, the law distinguishes between possession of pornography and publication of pornography. Allen also said that his office proposed a deal to Morales last fall if he agreed to submit to sex offender evaluation. But, he said that Morales was reluctant and never received the evaluation. Christmas events planned Downtown Heppner merchants will be open this Sunday. Dec. 9, from noon to 4 p.m. for Christmas shopping. A live Nativity scene will be held by the Shoe Box from 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday. Children arc invited to pet the animals. Photos w ith Santa will be available from 1-4 p.m. at Murray's Country Rose. Cost is S6 for a 5x7 photo. Photographer is Sandy Matthew s. On Thursday. Dec. 13. the Heppner Elementary School program, "Christmas Traditions in America.” will be held at the elementary school beginning at 7 p.m. — Watch For Our Circular In The Mail! Sale Starts Dec. 6th. IV I o r row C ounty Grain Lôxington 989-8221 • 1-800-452-7396 f * faon rçwipmwi m »t « k at «««wqiitt V *:
