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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 25, 2003 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Letters to the Editor Heppner G A Z E T T E -T I M E S U.S.P.S. 240-420 M o r r o w C o u n t y 's H o m e -O w n e d W e e k ly N e w s p a p e r P u b lish e d w eekly and entered as p e rio d ical matter at the Post O ffic e at Heppner, O regon under the A ct o f M arch 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, O re -go n O ffice at 147 W. W illo w Street. Telephone (5 4 1 ) 676- 9 2 2 8 Fax (5 4 1 ) 676 -92 11. E -m a il: gtia heppner net or gt(alrapidserve.net. Web sue www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner (ia/ette- l imes. P O B o x 337, Heppner, O re go n 97836. Subscriptions: $24 in M o rro w C o u n ty; $18 senior rate (in M o rro w C o u n ty only; 62 years or older); $30 elsewhere. D avid S y k e s ............................................................................. 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HHS alumni golf tournament shots, can be purchased for scheduled those w anting to improve their The Heppner High School Alumni Committee will again spo n so r a g o lf tournament on Saturday and Sunday, July 5-6, at Willow C reek C ountry C lub in Heppner. The event is the committee’s annual fundraiser and is open to everyone who is out o f high school. “Teams compete in a scram ble format so even inexperienced golfers can take part and have fun,” said Dave Allstott o f the committee. Mulligans, or second chance We Print E n v e lo p e s Heppner Gazette- Times 6 7 6 -9 2 2 8 score. “This tournament is a lot of fun and we’ve been able to raise funds for a lot of worthy youth activities,” Allstott said. A steak barbecue is held at the clubhouse following play on Saturday. Cost for the tournament is $40 and includes dinner. Extra dinner tickets can be purchased for $ 10 each. The to u rn am en t winners will have a team photo and th e ir nam es engraved on a plaque which is on display in the high school trophy case. Other prizes include Mustang golf balls, and a few lucky golfers will take home a club made by HHS golf coach, Greg Grant. For more information or an entry form, contact Dave or Patti Allstott at 676-5216, or John and Sonja McCabe, 676-5231. Editor's note: Letters to the Editor must be signed. The Gazette-Times will not publish unsigned letters. Please include your address a n d p h o n e num ber on all letters for use by the G-T office. The G -T reserves the right to edit. The G -T is not responsible for a ccuracy o f statements m ade in letters. (A ny letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “C ard of Thanks “ at a cost of f 7.) Morter and Morrow County deserve apologies To the Editor: In regard to the letter written to the editor by Mr. A1 Beck o f Warrenton, Oregon. 1 would like to come to the defense o f Anne Morter. I have known Anne for about 10 years. She is a dynam ic individual that puts intellect and thought into the tasks she takes on. She is rock solid and can stand on her merit. 1 have known her to be a strong supporter of her community. Anne is a generous person. After our tragic house fire several years ago Anne was the first to arrive not only with sympathy but clothing and other essentials from her own family’s closets. Poor sportsmanship To the Editor: Last Thursday, June 1 2 ,1 witnessed some o f the worst sportsmanship I have ever seen. And incredibly, it happened at a summer league girls’ basketball game. The young woman coach from Riverside acted like it was the NBA finals. There was only one referee, but she complained loudly about almost every call and soon had the girls on her team chipping in. It was truly a pathetic scene. I’ve been a big fan o f high school sports for decades, but the behavior o f this “coach” made me wonder a t MCGG T uesday, J u ly 1 st from 9 a.m .«12 n oon A fire e x tin g u ish e r tech n icia n unit be on h a n d to service yo u r fir e e x tin g u ish e rs. Morrow County Grain Growers Lexington 989-8221 • 1-800-452-7396 For farm equipment, visit our web site at www. For m ore than a thousand people living in the northeast Oregon town o f Heppner in the year 1903, the end of the world began with a gathering o f clouds in the southern sky. “Days of Sorrow in Heppner,” proclaimed the headline o f the H eppner Gazette, which carried the story o f the flood that roared through town on a summer Sunday evening, “leaving only death and destruction in its jo/ve pouinb jury êm es ceLeéi^nopr ~ what the future holds. If that’s the kind of example our young athletes are receiving, high school sports will soon have as many examples o f poor sportsmanship and childish behavior as college and the pros. I have nothing against Riverside; I have friends there. But they should be seriously concerned about the message they are sending by allowing such a childish woman to coach a team, even if it’s just a summer league game. It was embarrassing. (s) Phil Jergins Echo Days of Sorrow book now for sale FIRE EXTINGUISHER SERVICE DAT Friday, July 4th 1 w ould be disappointed if those who don’t know Anne personally to think of her in the terms that Mr. Beck described. Her com m ents to The D aily Astorian were clearly taken out of context. It is unfortunate that Mr. Beck feels he needs to stir up trouble in our community. Mr. Beck is trying to weaken what holds our small community together- the people. I take that personally. Shame on you Mr. Beck. Perhaps your ap o lo g ies should go to Anne Morter and all of us in Morrow County, (s) Mary West lone Music starting at 3 p.m. ÍW W tl'Ò U S J^ * Local Musical Talent Show Thursday, July 3 * FUN FOR THE KIDS * Volleyball Tournament (Teams W elcome!) The Joanna Connor Band and C a ll lo n e City H all f o r m ore inform ation at ( 5 4i} 422-7414 Jim m y L lo yd Rea with Doug R ow ell wake.’’Now,-100years after the flood almost destroyed this community, the new book Days o f Sorrow describes what has been called Oregon’s most deadly natural disaster. “The place that best captures the devastation Heppner endured is the town’s cemetery,” says author Mark Highberger. “So many o f the gravestones share the same date o f death and hold the same dark message: lost in the flood, perished in the flood, drowned in the flood.” T his cen tu ry -o ld trag ed y stru ck w ith o u t warning on a hot Sunday evening in June, when a cloudburst in the hills above town sent a torrent o f water roaring toward Heppner. As it cut a sw ath through the community, the flood swept away the lives o f more than 200 people as well as 140 homes and 30 businesses. Yet even though the story o f the flood is a tale o f death and loss and heartbreak, it’s also one of courage, as two men raced their horses against the w ater, g a llo p in g downstream to warn other towns; o f com passion, as people from around the N orthw est donated food, medicine, and labor to the rescue; and o f endurance, as the survivors buried their dead, restored their town, and rebuilt their lives. “Perhaps the most dram atic elem ents o f the disaster were the sacrifice and the resilience o f the people who survived it,” Highberger says. “In this way, the story of the Heppner flood, more than anything else, is a testament to the human spirit.” The first edition o f Days o f Sorrow is available for $ 19.95 at local bookstores or from Bear Creek Press at 1 -8 0 0 -355-2554 or www.eoni.com/~-highberg/ bear creek_press.html. Music sponsored by the Morrow County Unified Recreation District j « St. Pat’s Senior Center news Obituaries Three apartments are being read ied for new occupancy at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Two will have new carp et; all w ill be th o ro u g h ly clean ed and p ain ted b efo re the new residents move in. Other improvements are four new frost-free refrigerators for those apartm ents not yet equipped with the newer model. While noting these changes, being reminded of some brief historical facts seem s a p p ro p ria te . The building was dedicated and first occupied in 1988 (date on the plaque). The building was originally the historic Heppner H otel. To p u rch ase and renovate the hotel was a million dollar project. Funds came from a block grant from the federal government (about half), a loan initiated by the City, a generous donation from the Odd Fellows Lodge, the senior citizen organization who had provided the weekly meal for a number of years, and the massive efforts o f volunteers who helped with much of the interior work. A ccording to Bill Kuhn, who has been legal counsel from the beginning, as many as seventy people would spend time on the weekends tearing out what needed to be changed to ready the interior for creating the apartments. The first step, however, and most costly, was to re-roof the whole building. The Heppner Housing Authority (HHA) owns and managers the building; the City o f H eppner holds the m o rtg ag e for the loan n ecessary to finance its development. HHA is a duly formed government entity, appointed by the city council to p rovide housing rehabilitation- an inhabitable environment for the people it serves; in Heppner those are the seniors. It consists of seven members, appointed by the city council and who are representatives o f the people whom it serves: The mayor, Bob Jepsen and one council m em ber, Kay R obinson, additionally, an apartment residents, George Jeffries, two members of the Senior Center Board o f Directors, Archie Padberg and Judy Buschke, and two citizens at large, Barbara Watkins and Karen Dubuque; these persons are the required num ber and m akeup the HHA. Judy Buschke is a member o f both the City Council and the Senior Center Board. More about the HHA will come in later articles. Any questions may be given to a m em ber o f the City Council, HHA, or Senior Center Board of Directors. Cara Kennedy is the new m aintenance person covering the dining room and kitchen on the first floor. The Heppner Christian Church will provide the volunteers for serving the noon meal at the Center on July 2. The menu has not been announced at this time. La Verne Manford “Pete” Peterson MCHD to hold meeting The Morrow County Health District will be holding its regular board meeting, Monday, June 30, at 7 p.m., at the Morrow County Annex in Iirigon. On the agenda are the CEO’s report, the 2003-04 budget am endm ents and adoption and the Boardman District, the May 20 election results, trauma designation/ CAH, and the May financials. Heppner Gazette-Time LaVerne M anford “ P e te ” P eterso n , 80, o f Boardman, died Thursday, June 12, 2003, at G ood Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston. A funeral was held June 19 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Boardman with burial at Boardman’s Riverview Cemetery. Peterson was born April 30, 1923, at Choteau, MT, to Casper A. and Clara Anderson Peterson. On July 21,1946, he married Lois G Gronberg at Choteau. He was employed as a heavy equipment operator in construction for more than 50 years, working throughout the N orthw est and M ontana. After he retired from Rogers Construction he served as an EMT for a few years. P eterso n w as a M ason, a m em ber o f the Lutheran Church and a life member o f the National Rifle Association. Survivors include his w ife, Lois, at the home; daughter, Lorrie Phillips of B oardm an; son, L arry P eterso n o f G resham ; grandsons, Dean Phillips and Terry Phillips; one great- g ran d so n ; b ro th er, Rex Peterson o f Choteau, MT; sister, Maxine Edwards of Sheridan, MT; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. M e m o r i a l contributions may be made to the Boardman Senior Center or Alzheimer’s Association through Bums Mortuary of Hermiston, P.O. Box 289, Hermiston, OR 97838. Bums Mortuary o f Hermiston is in charge o f arrangements. SWCD reminds everyone to fight puncturevine The Morrow Soil and Water Conservation District/ W eed C o n tro l A d v iso ry Board is reminding residents o f Morrow County, “It’s time again to check for and control puncturevine in the area.” It is up and flowering along roadsides and gravel areas. Spray it, pull it, bag it and bum it now before the seed ripens and falls off. Puncturevine or Goathead is very painful if stepped on by people or pets. It is easy to control, but it does take persistence. If you are unsure o f the identity o f a weed or need a ch em ical recommendation, call Morrow County Weed Supervisor, Dave Pranger at 989-9502. City of Heppner mails water reports The City ofHeppner’s 2002 water quality report has been mailed to residents. The report describes the quality of the city’s drinking water and explains health information, monitoring data and the sources of water. The re p o rt also provides updates on the progress o f the city’s water supply development projects. Anyone who did not receive a copy of the report in the mail can pick one up at City Hall or call 676-9618 to receive one. Order Magnetic Door Signs HERE Heppner Caiette-Times
