Elks float wins first in Light Parade
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The Light Parade in downtown Heppner Thursday drew a variets of entrants and a large crowd of
spectators despite the cold weather.
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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.
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