Elks hold turkey hunt/ lone dedicates new water system
fisherman’s night
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Tom Wolff shows the 12-gauge
turkey special shotgun he won.
The Heppner Elks held its
annual turkey hunter/fisherman’s
night banquet Thursday, April 18,
at the Elk’s lodge.
About 75 people attended
the catfish and oyster dinner.
Grand prize winners were Tom
Wolff, who won a 12-gauge
Remington turkey special shotgun,
and Jay Keithley, who won a top
of the line fishing pole.
There were 40 other door
prizes given away.
Garden club to
hold plant
exchange
VOL. 121
NO. 17
12 Pages
Wednesday, April 24,2002
Coming soon to lone...
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
The H eppner G arden
Club will hold their plant exchange
on Saturday, May 4, at St.
Patrick's Senior Center from 9
a.m.-3 p.m.
For more information,
contact Chuck Bailey at 676-5211.
Local educator honored
The new Wheatland building under construction on lone's Main Street.
T em p era m en t
Talk
class scheduled
The M orrow County
Health Department and Umatilla-
Morrow County Head Start are
presenting a program to help
parents shape the behavior of
their children.
“Temperament Talk: A
Guide to Understanding Your
Child”, is a work text coauthored
by four La Grande women. The
program will use material from
this text to “help parents create
effective and uniquely individual
ways” to raise their children in
positive behaviors.
The class will be held
May 6 and 8 at 6:30 p.m. at 220
S. Main in the conference room.
Childcare will be provided at no
cost.
For more information and
to register your child for the free
childcare, call 676-9150.
Women’s
League may be
forming
The W illow Creek
Country Club Ladies may be
starting an evening Women's
League. Currently, the Women's
Play Day takes place on Tuesday
mornings. This docs not allow for
those working during the day to
participate. If there is enough
interest, the group will start an
evening league that is similar to
the Men's League.
For those interested in
participating, there will be a
meeting on Thursday, May 2, at 6
p.m. at the golf course. Following
the m eeting, there will be a
Scramble for anyone who would
like to participate.
Contact Dana Reid with
questions at 676-5367 or 676-
2101 .
The city of lone unveiled its brand new water system
Saturday, which will provide more water with a better taste to the city.
In addition to a new blue tank with the city's logo painted on
the side, the $ 1.2 million project replaced the city’s 26 year-old pump,
motor and casing at the city well. The old pump and motor have been
rebuilt and are on reserve. The well house received a new roof, new
concrete steps, and new paint.
Also, new pipeline loops were put in place to increase flows
through town. Water now moves into town from more than one
direction, making reserv oir isolation and pipeline repairs easier.
For water treatment, all water now pumped from the city
well is disinfected and aerated to improve taste and smell, particularly
hydrogen sulfide gas, the “rotten egg" smell.
In addition, six new fire hydrants were added and have been
placed where fire protection needed improvement. Three were placed
around the schools and ten more were replaced with pumper ported,
breakaway models. In the event of a motor vehicle/hydrant collision,
all of these new hydrants will break off and not release water.
The most obvious of the new system is the two new
reservoirs. The big one on the hill holds 720.000 gallons and one above
the Emert addition holds 50,000. The new combined capacity is 5.25
times greater than the old system
With the addition of the Emert Addition reservoir, these
residents have the convenience of gravity flow and pressure vs. the
old pump fed design. The system now operates even when power is
out. and they also have increased flow and pressure for irrigation and
fire protection.
Those involved with the project included Anderson. Perry
and Associates as the engineers. About 45 percent of the funding for
the project came from a grant from the USDA Rural Development,
and the contractor on the project was Booker Construction of Troutdale.
“ICABO donated 6.5 acres to the city for the large tank and we are
very grateful for that,” said lone Mayor Betty Gray.
She said the project, which was started four years ago,
came in under budget, allowing the city some extras on the project
that were not originally planned for. “Overall the whole project worked
out very' well. We are very proud of our new water system, and it
should take care of the needs of lone citizens for a long time to come,”
Gray said.
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Heppner High School teacher Linda Dutcher helps student Michael
McCabe in the classroom.
encourage them to take a
leadership role in whichever
The N ational Youth
career path they may choose.
Leadership
Forum ,
in
“ It is increasingly
com m em oration o f N ational
important for young people to
Teacher A ppreciation Week, understand the strength and
which will take place May 5-11, direction they must possess when
has recognized the efforts o f they consider their future. We
Linda Dutcher of Heppner High think of this early exploration as
School for encouraging students part of the critical path one must
to pursue their career interests. take in pursuing a career,”
“Dutcher shows commitment to concluded Weldin. “NYLF is
enhancing the educational
The Willow Valley
thrilled to work with educators to
experience by nom inating
Service Club May meetings
provide some of the essential
Heppner High School students to resources for these young people include
business
and
explore NYLF programs in law, to determine where, inside the presentations by the Ministerial
medicine and defense, intelligence professional universe, they wish A ssociation and about Reiki
energy medicine and healing. The
and diplomacy,”according to a to land.”
club meets for no-host luncheons
NYLF news release.
NYLF is a nonpartisan,
“ As we celebrate our nonprofit educational organization on Thursdays from 12-1 p.m. at
John's Other Place in Heppner.
10th anniversary this year, the designed to empower outstanding
On Thursday, May 2,
National Youth Leadership Forum young people with confidence to vice-president Ginger Keithley
is proud of educators like Linda make w ell-inform ed career will preside and necessary
D utcher
because
they choices.
business will be conducted.
dem onstrate the concern and
Pastor Duane Jones,
knowledge necessary to help their
Ministerial Association president,
will discuss this group's purpose
students get to where they want
and goals w ithin the local
to g o ,” said Donna W eldin,
communities at the Thursday. May
executive director o f NYLF.
Shelley Rietm ann of 9 meeting. Pastor Jones has been
“ Students who participate in
Heppner has been awarded a president of this association for
NYLF programs get a jump start
scholarship
from Linfield College two years. He and his family came
in figuring out if a career in
through
its
Academic
Competitive to Heppner eight years ago to
medicine, law or national defense
pastor the Heppner Church of the
Scholarship Program.
are, in fact, what they wish to
Rietm ann received a Nazarene.
pursue prior to college, thereby
Reiki M aster Casey
$16,000 scholarship through
saving tim e, energy and,
Linfield's Mathematics Depart­ Cheek will speak on Reiki energy
ultimately, college tuition.”
ment. The mathematics competi­ and medicine and healing on
Students are nominated tion consisted of a two-hour exam Thursday, May 16. Cheek was
to participate in NYLF programs designed to measure the partici­ employed in the human service
industry for 35 years, 15 years in
pant’s knowledge, background
based on demonstrated academic
private
practice. She and her
and
ability
in
mathematics
and
achievement and an interest in
family
moved
to Heppner from
general
problem
solving.
one of three core fields of study
on which NYLF focuses. The
young scholars from around the
Cenex Land O'Lakes 5 0 # BAG
country who attend NYLF are
introduced to industry leaders and
participate in rigorous reality-
based simulations that challenge
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By Sarah Coller
lone will soon see a vacant spot filled on Main Street. The
Wheatland Building, a three-part structure, is set to open this summer.
Two lone men, Jim Swanson and Loyal Bums, have partnered
io build the new office building that will house three businesses.
Swanson’s current business, Wheatland Insurance, which is
located next door to the new structure, will move to the first office
room. The second room is not yet rented. The third part of the building
will be home to, “Sunflower Junction”, a business serving a variety of
purposes.
Shilo Svetich and Lynn Dee Ramos have collaborated on the
shop, which will feature a hair salon, tanning beds and a gift shop, as
well as a place to get ice cream and espresso.
Bums, who is the chief builder on the project, had several
suggestions for an occupant of the vacant second room. “It would be
good for a realtor, an accountant, a lawyer who needs to be here
twice a week, or an Internet sales office,” he said.
Swanson said, “It would make a nice office for maybe a
bookkeeper. We think it would be very attractive to something like
that.”
The property surrounding the Wheatland building will feature
a courtyard with picnic tables as well as a parking lot behind Sunflower
Junction, equipped with handicapped spaces.
lone Mayor Betty Gray, along with council members and others
from the community, gather around the new water tank above
the city of lone Saturday in celebration of the completion of the
new water system.
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Willow Valley Service Club
plans May events
Student receives
Linfield scholar­
ship
Galveston, Texas, last year.
Anyone interested in
these meetings may attend.
WVSC serv ice for April
was sponsoring the Senior Girls'
Luncheon on April 4.
Rep. Greg Smith
earns endorsement
of the OEA
The Oregon Education
Association has endorsed Rep.
Greg Smith (R-Heppner) in his bid
for re-election to the Oregon
House of Representatives, serving
District 57.
The OEA praised Smith
for “his extraordinary work in
building coalitions between
students, parents, teachers and
adm inistrators," said a press
release.
“I'm honored to receive
the support of Oregon's education
com m unity,” Smith said.
“Education continues to be a top
priority for me and will be an area
of focus in the 72nd Legislative
Assembly."
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