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VOL. 121
NO. 29
8 Pages
Wednesday, July 17,2002
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
School demolition will be completed next month
The Condon Wind Project
The old Heppner High School building is being lorn dow n by McCormick construction of Pendleton.
By Sarah Coller
Within just a couple short
w eeks, what was once a
prominent Heppner landmark has
been quickly reduced to piles of
rubble being hauled off in dump
trucks. Within a couple more
short weeks, all that will be left is
a vacant space w here the
century-old building once stood.
Demolition o f the old
Heppner High School building will
be complete around the first of
August said Nan Hall, a project
spokesperson. Workers will begin
excavation for the new building
after the site is cleared.
McCormick construction of
Pendleton is contracted to do the
tearing down and rebuilding. The
cost of the demolition is S102.000
and the total contract with
M cCormick is $2.2 m illion.
A dditional street work and
improvements will be done on
Elder Street along the west side
o f the existing H eppner
Elementary School.
Fair tab deadline
July 24
The deadline for articles to be
included in this year’s Fair and
Rodeo Special Edition is
Wednesday, July 24. All news and
photos must be at the Gazette-
Times office no later than 5 p.m.
on that day. The issue will be
printed on August 7.
Man & wife to go “pie-to-pie”
Mike and Kim Armato take their pie-baking seriously. They w ill compete
next week in the first-annual pie-baking contest during “Celebrate
Heppner’s History.'
Mike and Kim A rm ato o f
Heppner are ready to go “head-
to-head” in the first-annual pie
baking contest as part o f
“Celebrate Heppner’s History”,
on Friday. July 26. The contest,
which is sponsored by Sherrell
Insurance of Heppner. is open to
all bakers and will accept any kind
of pie. Pies must be dropped off
at Sherrell Insurance between 8
a.m. and 10 a.m. the morning of
the contest and will be judged and
auctioned off beginning at 6 p.m.
that evening.
lone Pool schedules
junior high swim
The lone Pool will hold a junior
high swim on Saturday, July 27,
from 7-9 p.m. All junior high kids
are welcome to attend. The pool
is asking for donations of a new
pair of socks to be donated to the
O utreach
M inistries
for
admission.. There will be adult
lifeguards supervising. Food, pop,
music and prizes should make for
a fun evening, said a
spokesperson.
For more information, contact
Shelly Key at 989-8520.
Columbia Basin Electric Co-
Op announces the availability of
a “green power” option for their
consumers. This environmentally
friendly electric power comes
from the new Condon Wind
Project in Gilliam County. “Wind
power is the fastest growing
generation principle around the
world. It’s ‘green’power because
even as it is being used, there
aren’t fossil fuels being burned.
There is no emission from the
generation of wind power, making
it one of the cleanest generation
processes in the w orld” a
spokesman said.
“ Wind power has become
very popular in the Northwest,”
said Tom Wolff o f Columbia
Basin. “Our Board of Directors
decided to make ‘green’ power
available to our consumers so
they can take advantage of this
ecologically friendly energy.”
The Condon Wind Project
was developed by SeaWest
WindPower, Inc. of San Diego.
California. The project consists of
83 towers, each with a 600-
kilowatt w ind turbine on top. The
three blades on each tower are
72 feet long for a span of 153
feet. Each tower is 200 feet tall
and topped with a very bright
strobe light during the day, and a
bright red light at night, and can
be seen from local ridge tops. The
turbines start to turn in just 9 mph
winds, and will automatically shut
down in sustained winds at or
above 55 mph.
The ‘green’ power will be
available for consumers starting
August 1. The power will be
marketed in blocks of 200 kwhs.
Each 200 kwh block costs a
monthly surcharge of $5, which
will be added to the monthly
invoice. There is a 12-month
commitment for this service. The
average residential home
consumes 1,100 kwh per month.
New superintendent ready for
coming school year
New Morrow County School Superintendent .lack Crippen is ready for the
coming school year
By Sarah Coller
School
D istrict
Superintendent Jack Crippen
comes to Morrow County with
a wealth o f knowledge and
experience.
The new
administrator has slowly been
making his way to Morrow
County over the years from
South Dakota. He received his
bachelor degree and first
teaching job in his home state and
taught there a while before
moving to Nevada where he
taught and sold real estate from
1971-1988. Then he went to the
University of Nevada and got an
Education Specialist Certificate,
qualifying him as a school
adm inistrator.
His first
administration job was at a boy’s
reform school in Nevada. He then
moved to Idaho where he was
principal at a high school, and
finally, to Oregon. He spent a total
of 17 years in positions in Jordan
Valley, Moro and Tillamook,
getting his doctorate from the
U niversity o f Idaho in the
meantime. Now he's here in
Morrow County and ready to
tackle the 2002-2003 school year.
Crippen is married to
Judy and is the step dad of four.
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