TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 26, 2001
Library has new circulation system
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Library/citv hall project worthwhile
To the Editor:
I'm writing to say that I am one
citizen o f the community who favors
the Library- City Hall Project. I have
read with interest the question/answer
discussion in recent issues o f the
paper. Getting these questions clearly
into public discourse is important
to the community and to the progress
toward completion o f this important
project.
The present library and museum
were resource places for the summer
youth project in which I was involved
in 1992 and 1993. At that time I felt
that the building which holds both
was no longer adequate for joint
quarters. Either one or the other
needed to move for both to be
enhanced and have enough space
to provide for what each is meant
to do.
About the same time I began my
work as a CASA volunteer (Court
Appointed Special Advocate for
children and youth caught up in the
Juvenile Court system by reason of
that research had been done on the
finding end o f the spectrum; I felt
that the people invited as resource
people were ones w ho had hands-on
experience with the kinds of
problem s presented by the
uniqueness o f Heppner community;
I felt all who came from "the outside"
were here to listen to us - not to "tell
us", so to speak. Their intent was
to take every suggestion we had made
and put them together according to
priorities, codes and other limitations
set by state and federal law. The
critics were by no means ignored.
Some time later, the second
meeting was called to look at and
discuss the architects plans, question
the plan and make further
suggestions. Lighting, heating,
cooling, energy saving, design and
accessibility were among some of
the specific concerns I remember
being discussed - and, yes, taxes.
I continue to feel that a number
o f people, city council and planners,
the library board and Oregon Trail
neglect or/and abuse). One o f my Library District personnel, have put
privileges was to attend interagency a lot o f thought into a necessary and
meetings, which were and are held difficult project. I know something
to build cooperation and a protective about writing for grants and felt that
network for children deemed to be the case for it was well described -
"at risk" by one or all of the agencies and not overblown. I did not feel
who deal with children and youth that any one was ram rodding
at any level. I do not remember one anything. Never w ere communication
o f these monthly meetings where lines closed.
someone, or more than one, from
I know there are others out there
local law enforcement did not express who feel as I do. I hope we can
a desire for better quarters for talking consolidate the energy for the new
with or formally interviewing Library-City Hall that was evident
children and even families who were at the previous meetings and which
under stress - a place o f safety for gave a go-ahead for what has been
the children and comfort while done to date. I don't know if my
decisions were in process and would grandchildren or great-grandchildren
need to be carried out quickly.
will spend their adult lives in
More than a year ago when the Heppner or not. Som ebody's will
first public meeting was announced. and I would like to think that I have
I breathed a sigh o f relief, thinking: contributed to that future.
At last, something is being done that
(s) Grace E. Drake
is important for the future, not only
Heppner
o f Heppner, but also something
which would enhance directly and
indirectly, the whole county. I went
to the meeting to be sure someone
would mention the need for
considering aids for vision impaired Faye Ruhl
Faye Ruhl, 88, o f Heppner died
persons -young and old - in a new
Friday, Decem ber 21, 2001.
library.
The
first
m eeting
was G raveside service will be held
informational, question and answer, Thursday, December 27, 2001, at
11 a m. at the Lexington Cemetery.
probing possibilities and then a
A complete obituary will be in
division into groups so every
the Jan. 2 issue o f the Heppner
individual could have input.
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Story and photo by Debbie Harper
Oregon T rail Library District has
a new' circulation system. No, the
heating system isn't working better.
The district, along with Eastern
Oregon Library Network, recently
merged its holdings database with
other libraries in Eastern Oregon,
bringing the number o f participating
libraries to 68.
The new circulation system,
called Pioneer Library System,
connects school, community college,
university and public libraries.
T elecommunications equipment
in both OTLD branches was
upgraded and DSL lines were
installed. The DSL lines enable
patrons to access information on the
Internet m ore quickly.
What does that mean to Morrow
County? In addition to more than
tripling the available libraries that
can now be searched on-line, the
merger created a universal borrowers
card. Your library card is now good
at any o f the 68 libraries in the
systei i. W ant to check out a
magazii e in Wallowa or check your
e-mail in Taker, you can do that with
your OTLD card.
The new system is up and running
in Heppner. Library stafTwould like
patrons to stop in and have their
existing cards scanned in order for
everyone to get their information
m igrated to the new system.
The new circulation system and
the telecom m unications upgrade
were made possible through grants
from the Ford Family Foundation,
the Meyer Memorial Trust and the
Collins Foundation. The hardware
supplier, Innovative Interfaces,
worked closely with Pioneer Library
System. It extended quote deadlines,
and project time lines and revised
quotes for the system.
Local student to compete in
National Geography Bee
Looslies win Lexington ju d ge’s
choice lighting award
Dan and Carmen Looslie
o f Lexington were the winners ot
the Lexington Christmas lighting
contest judge's choice award.
Their display was deemed the
"m ost appropriate to the season,
judge's choice award" by the
Lexington City Council. They
received $30.
Robert Montgomery won
first place in the "best decorated
fence" category and $30. Second
prize and $20 went to Dean Hunt.
Roger Ehrm antraut took
first place and a $30 prize for the
"best
decorated
entryway"
category. Lindsey Harle won
second place, with a $20 award.
The "most unique" award
went to Jerry Baker, who won a
$30 prize. The second place
award o f $20 was won by Steve
Wilson.
The "mini but bright"
aw ard, a ju dge's choice award
sponsored by the Morrow County
Grain G row ers, was won by
M arge Ball. She won a $25 gift
certificate.
The
aw ards
were
sponsored by the Lexington City
Council and C olum bia Basin
Electric Cooperative.
Lexington M ayor Val
Doherty presented the awards.
"W e wish that everyone could
have won and encourage more
participation next year," said a
spokesperson. "Anyone with
suggestions for categories, please
let the council m em bers know.
W e have about run out o f ideas
that would include more people."
Dam maintenance included
in Corps projects
The Fiscal Year 2002 (FY 02) meet new requirem ents for
Energy and W ater Development implementing the Federal Columbia
Appropriation Act, signed Nov. 12 River Power System biological
by President George W. Bush, opinion - The Dalles will receive
includes $4.5 billion for U.S. Army $300,000, Bonneville, $450,000
C orps o f Engineers' civil works and John Day, $300,000.
The Corps is continuing work
projects to help maintain and manage
navigable waterways, effectively on fishing sites for Native American
operate flood damage reduction and tribes which have treaty fishing nghts
multiple purpose projects, and restore on the Colum bia River. At a
and regulate wetlands and other proposed cost o f $5 million, the
important environmental resources Corps will continue design and
across the nation. O f the total construction o f treaty fishing sites
funding, the Corps' Portland District at Bonneville, The Dalles and John
will receive $141 m illion to fund Day reservoirs. Twenty-three o f the
work in the Rogue, W illamette, scheduled 31 sites were completed
Columbia and Cowlitz river basins. by the end of FY 01; eight more sites
To increase the survival o f will be completed during the next
migrating salmon and steelhead trouL six years.
The Corps operates 19 multiple-
Congress has authorized the design,
testing and construction o f new or purpose projects within Portland
improved fish bypass facilities. One District, as well as the sedim ent
o f the Corps' biggest construction retention structure built after the
programs is the Columbia River Fish 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption,
the W illow Creek project near
M itigation Project.
System -wide w ork includes Heppner, and Willamette Falls Locks
studies o f turbine passage and gas at West Linn. In FY 02, $63 million»
abatem ent and adult passage has been appropriated for operation
improvements. Among other projects and maintenance activities at these
at Bonneville Lock and Dam, $5.9 locations.
million will fund installation of adult
passage detection technology, doing
gas abatem ent m easures at the
spillway, continuing development
o f surface bypass at the second
powerhouse
and
continuing
evaluation o f adult fall back issues.
Elvira Irby, formerly o f Heppner,
At John Day, $4.4 million will
would appreciate hearing from
allow continued developm ent o f
friends and family. She now resides
extended screens and surface bypass
at the Good Samaritan Care Center
systems, as well as other fisheries
in Hermiston after falling and re
improvements. At The Dalles Dam,
breaking her hip after a hip
$3.3 million will fund testing o f a
replacem ent weeks earlier.
surface bypass system at the
Her address is: 970 W Juniper
powerhouse and continued juvenile
Ave. Hermiston, OR 97838-2197.
survival evaluations. The three
Her phone num ber is the same as
projects also will receive funds to
when she was at the Herm iston
Terrace.
Former resident
now in Hermiston
Heppner Junior High School National Geography Bee winners (left
to right): back-Robert Worden, Kyle Carlson, James Van Liew, Sam
Martin, Rory Kilkenny; center-Brendan McElligott, Roy Proctor,
Sloan Keithley. Dan Basile; front-Justin Delveaux, Casey O'Neal and
Juliana Moore.
For the 14th year, the National
Geographic Society is holding the
National Geographic Bee for students
in the fourth through eighth grades
in thousands o f schools across the
United States and in the five U.S.
temtones, as well as in Department
o f Defense D ependents Schools
around the world.
All Heppner Junior High School
Obituary
Verlie N. Derrick
Verlie N. Derrick, 85, died
M onday, Decem ber 17, 2001, at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital in
Heppner.
Funeral services were held Friday,
D ecem ber 21, 2001, at Bishop
Funeral Chapel in Pendleton.
Interment was at Skyview Memorial
Park in Pendleton.
Mrs. Derrick was bom March
4, 1916, in Clay County. Kentucky,
the daughter o f George W. and
Louisa Benge. She grew up in
southeastern Kentucky and attended
school there.
She moved to Eastern Oregon
in Decem ber 1940. Mrs. Derrick
had been a resident o f Fossil,
Pendleton and I leppner for the past
61 years. She enjoyed the outdoors,
yard work, gardening, barking bread
and pastries, and quilting.
Mrs. Derrick was preceded in
death by her parents, several brothers
and sisters, and her husband, Calvin
W. Derrick, in 1965.
Survivors include a son, Troy
E. Day, and a daughter, Joylene
Struthers, both o f Heppner;
grandchildren, C urtis Day o f
I leppner. Dm Branstetter and Robyn
Sergeant, both o f Pendleton; five
great-grandchildren; a sister. Eva;
and many cousins, nieces and
nephews.
Memorial contributions may be
made directly to Pioneer Memorial
Nursing Home. P.O. Box 9, Heppner.
Oregon 97836, or through Bishop
Funeral Chapel.
Bishop Funeral Chapel o f
Pendleton was in charge o f
arrangem ents.
seventh and eighth graders were
given a qualifying test in Linda
Dutcher and John Flaherty's social
studies classes. The results for the
first level o f in-school competition
include eighth grade: first place Roy
Proctor, second place Dan Basile
and third place Julianna Moore;
seventh grade-first place Casey
O'Neal, second place, Brendan
M cElligott and third place Justin
Delveaux. Seventh through 12th
places were awarded to the following
students: seventh place Rory
Kilkenny, eighth place Sloan
Keithley, ninth place Jam es
VanLiew, 10th place Sam Martin,
11 th place Robert Worden and 12th
place Kyle Carlson.
The next level o f com petition
was the oral school bee. Alan Beck
asked the questions and Doug
Orwick was tim ekeeper. TAG
coordinator
Linda
Dutcher
coordinated the contest. Sam Martin
placed second and Brendan
McElligott placed first in this level
o f competition.
Brendon McElligott, the winner
o f the Heppner Junior High School
Bee, will advance to the next level
o f com petition,
a
written
examination. All school winners
are eligible to win the national
championship and its first prize, a
$25,000 college scholarship, at the
national competition May 21 -22 in
W ashington, D.C.
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