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VOL. 122
NO. 22
12 Pages
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Color Guard and lone townspeople honor our military on Memorial Day Monday
Stories of the Flood
Collaboration to bring about Heritage Plaza
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace W. Lipsett and child
Oregon Army National Guardsmen come to work on Heritage Park under the direction
of Sergeant Jim Gresham.
Taken from the San Francisco Call June 18.
Years o f hard w ork north part o f tow n to uptown.
1903 edition:
and determination, along with It w ill a ls o b e u s e d in with the state funds, the Baker-
The fearful disaster at Heppner, O regon reaches
m any volunteer hours, and c o o p e ra tio n w ith th e A g M orrow Partnership donated
far and wide, carrying sorrow to num erous hearts m iles
help o f government funding is M useum for exhibits. Concert $7,500.
aw ay from the scene. Y esterday Mr. and M rs. A rchie
now turning the former Union slabs had been laid that will
Lipsett, of238 North Seventh street in this city, received a
L ab o r has been
Oil
Co. (UOC) bulk plant area host displays o f old farm ing donated to this project not
dispatch from H eppner stating that his only son, Wallace
into Heppner’s Heritage Plaza. equipment. Also donated from only from citizen in the area but
W. Lipsett, and the latter’s wife and only child, 14 months
The City o f H eppner the Ag Museum is a windmill also from the O regon A rm y
o f age, had perished in the flood. Mr. Lipsett started for
p u r c h a s e d th e h a lf - a c r e that will sit in the middle o f the N ational G uard. T hrough a
H eppner today to perform the mournful duty o f burial.
property from UO C for the Plaza.
When the bodies were found, the child was clasped
sum m er training program the
a
p p ra is e d v a lu e o f $100.
in his father's arms and the lifeless mother was only a short
A lso on display, will Guard conducts, five members
H ow ever, before purchase be a silhouette sculpture o f a were sent to H eppner to help
distance away.
co u ld b egin, U O C had to sheepherder with his dog. Don w ith the form building and
Wallace Lipsett was brought up in Gilroy, where
clean up the property so that M onahan donated the money c o n c r e te
he was graduated from the G ram m ar School. The family
la y in g .
The
it
w o u ld
pass
D E Q for the sculpture and M ark G uardsm en will be here until
rem oved to San Jose, and here he was graduated from the
inspections. The property has Bruno o f lone is creating the the project is completed.
B usiness C ollege. L ater he w as w ith the U nited States
re
c e iv e d a “ c le a n b ill o f sculpture.
typographic survey on the steamer Albatross up north, and
The footbridge that
health,’’ according to M ayor
three years ago he was married to M iss Adam Farnsworth,
cro
sses
H inton C reek and
The Heppner Garden
Bob Jepsen. Jepsen also said Club has also asked to plant a connects the Plaza to M ain
o f San Francisco. Later, his w ife's uncle secured him a
that this process took about rose garden in the Plaza. The Street was donated and put in
position as head bookkeeper o f the M orrow County Wool
eight years.
and G rain C om pany at Ffeppner, and, although only 31
City gladly accepted and are by th e A rm y C o rp o f
O nce
th e
la n d themselves putting in turf.
years old, he was to have becom e soon the general
Engineers from The Dal les.
received a NFA (no further
m anager and secretary o f the com pany. M rs. Lipsett
The landscaping for
Funding for the Plaza
action necessary) approval cam e from legislation passed the Plaza was design by Tricia
recently spent several weeks here visiting her husband’s
from the D E Q is only took b y th e O r e g o n S ta te Martin, a college student from
parents, and she returned to her hom e in H eppner only a
about 6 m onths to purchase L egislature to clean up and the University o f Oregon. The
short time ago. Their tragic ending has brought sorrow not
the land.
only to their parents but to many friends here and elsew here.
restore “brow nfield” areas in original plans were simplified
P la n s a re th a t the O regon. A “ brow nfield” is a to acco m m o d ate tim e and
Plaza will be a link from the “ v a c a n t o r u n d e ru tiliz e d money, but m any o f M artin's
c o m m e rc ia l o r in d u stria l ideas w ere kept in tact.
C o lu m b ia
B a sin
property where environmental,
economic and social obstacles E le c tr ic C o -O p is a ls o
use
a n d w orking to rem ove the poles
Celsius (year-round) Antifreeze/Coolant h in d e r
redevelopment,” according to and guy w ires that are in the
Regularly $5.85 par gallon
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th e D E Q . T h r o u g h th is area o f the Plaza.
M any other people
legislation and the O regon
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C ity o f H ep p n e r receiv ed suggestions to help create a
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$ 16,500 for the project. Along beautiful area in Heppner.
SUMMER COOLANT ON SALE
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