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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 20, 2003 The Official Newspaper o f the City of Heppner and the County o f Morrow H eppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Ore-gon. Office at 147 W. Willow Street. Telephone ( 5 4 1 ) 6 7 6 - 9 2 2 8 Fax (5 4 1 ) 6 7 6 -9 2 1 1 . E-mail: gt@heppner net or gt^frapidserve.net. Web site: www.heppner.net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 3 3 7 , Heppner, Oregon 9 7 8 3 6 . Subscriptions: $24 in Morrow County; $ 1 8 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 6 2 years or older); $ 3 0 elsewhere David Sykes..........................................................................................Publisher Katie Wall ................................................................................................ Editor Nawa and A dvertising D eadline it Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Cost for a display ad is $4.75 per column inch Cost for classified ad is 50t per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $7 up to 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5.35 per column Inch For Public/Legai Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Dates for publication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.net • Start or C hange a Subscription • Place a C lassified Ad • Subm it a N ew s Story • View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes • Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! Letters to the Editor Editor's note: Letters to the Editor must be signed. The Gazette-Times will not publish unsigned letters. Please include your address and phone number 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 accuracy of statements made in letters. (Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under "Card of Thanks’ at a cost o f $7.) Clean up begun, need permanent solution To the Editor: We w o u ld lik e to express our appreciation to everyone involved in the clean up o f the C ity C orporation Yard. Viewed from our front row seats, w e can see a big im p r o v e m e n t in th e appearance o f this property. K u d o s to R a n d y Rayburn for the long hours and hard work he is putting into this project. It is a pleasure to watch his skillful handling o f die cat. He was very considerate when he voiced his concern for us, about all the dust he was stirring up. W hat’s a little dust when we can see the positive results. T h e P u b lic W orks Director stopped by to apprise us o f the progress o f the clean up. We appreciate that he did that. H e g reeted m e w ith: “ Hello, you ornery old cuss”, or words to that effect. 1 guess 1 am an o rn e ry o ld c u ss, because I’d still like to see som e type o f barrier placed betw een NW Sperry and the City C orporation Yard. A fter all this area has been cleaned up in the past. A g a in , our appreciation to all. (s) G ene Sonstegard Heppner KT’s Cheyenne ends show career a winner Summer Concert to be held in lone (L-R): Amanda Byron, Kathy Tellechea and ARBA judge Donna Brak with Amanda’s Best Opposite Buck and KT’S Cheyenne. KT’s Cheyenne ends her show career a winner. She won Best of Breed and Best Fur at the Mini Rex Fanciers of the Greater Northwest Show in Monroe, WAon Aug. 9. DA’s Report John M artinez Frutos w as convicted o f Possession o f a C ontrolled Substance 2, a C la ss C felony. F ru to s ’ driver’s license was suspended for six m onths and he was sentenced to 18 m onths o f supervised probation, with 30 d a y s in ja il, 80 h o u rs o f c o m m u n ity s e r v ic e a n d paym ent o f $914 in fines and fees. Friday evening, Aug. 29, at the lo n e C ity Park Amphitheater, Brian Hanson and the Badland Patrol will be returning to perform at 6:30 p.m. Last year the group was so w e ll lik e d th e y w e re requested to return. Leader Brian Hanson plays fiddle like you wouldn’t believe. He also plays guitar and sings. H anson and the B a d la n d P a tro l p e rfo rm m o s tly in R e d m o n d a n d Prineville but have played their country m usic at Mr. B ’s in Portland. H anson has also performed in Pendleton when Births Syd ni M arie Pointer- a daughter, Sydni Marie, was bom Friday, Aug. 8, to Eric and Vikki Pointer o f Sublimity. Sydni weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces and w as 20 inches long. Grandparents are H ank and Kathi Pointer o f lone and Jack and Penny Holstad o f Atlanta, GA. C U ST O M BANNERS Heppner Gazette-Times 676-9228 he p la y e d w ith the g ro u p k n o w n as C ro ss C o u n try . “Many o f your favorite country songs w ill be heard at the evening performance,” said a W illow Valley Service C lub m em ber. “ If you m issed the concert last year, you m ust c o m e a n d e n jo y th e performance this year.” This is the last o f the Sum m er C oncert in the Park series which have been held in s o u th M o rro w C o u n ty , s p o n so re d by th e W illo w V a lle y S e rv ic e C lu b a n d funded by the Morrow County Unified Recreation District. 4-H News North Lex Market Steer dogs, potato chips and pop. Club M e m b e rs p r e s e n t Obituaries Eugene Lloyd Schmidt E ugene L lo y d Schm idt, 74, o f B oardm an, died Friday, A ug. 8 ,2 0 0 3 , at Providence Medical Center in Portland. A re c ita tio n o f the rosary w as held A ug. 13. A fim eral m ass w as held A ug. 14, w ith burial at R iverside Cem etery in Boardman. S c h m id t w as b o rn A ug. 28, 1928, at Sw alw ell, Alberta, Canada, to David and Bertha Lang Schmidt. He attended schools in C anada and then w ent on to th e U n i v e r s i ty o f W a s h in g to n to s tu d y engineering. H e w orked on the Space N eedle in Seattle. Schm idt w as a self- em p lo y ed perso n in m any professions. H e w a s an a v id baseball fan, enjoyed playing p o o l, p la y in g th e o rg a n , traveling, fishing, his roses, planes and cars. He w as a m em ber o f the Eagles Lodge. O n Feb. 2 6 ,1 9 9 6 , he m arried G loria I. O rjuela at Reno, NV. H e loved being w ith his family. Survivors include his wife at the hom e; sons, Lloyd Schm idt o f Spokane, Richard Schm idt o f B rooks, A lberta, Canada, and Larry Schmidt o f Spokane; daughters, G w en o f the Seattle area, B rigette Del Pilar and M ichelle Vanessa Schm idt, both o f B oardm an; brother, R onald Schm idt o f Terrace, B ritish C olum bia, C a n a d a ; s is t e r s , P h y llis Kingston o f Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Rita Bjorkman o f Abbotsford, British Columbia, C anada; grandchildren and great-grandchildren. H e w as p re c e d e d in d e a th b y h is parents, by a sister, B ernice P e te rm a n a n d a b r o th e r , Lyndon Schmidt. to O re g o n to start a m eat m arket w ith a partner. A t the age o f 9, Burkenbine’s family m oved to Heppner, so that his father could establish his own m a rk e t, H e p p n e r M ark et. Burkenbine began learning the trade and in his teens, he and his father pioneered one o f the first cold storage lockers in Oregon. B urkenbine attended H e p p n e r s c h o o ls and graduated from Heppner High School. Deciding to not follow after his father, B urkenbine p u r s u e d an i n te r e s t in m echanics and w orked at the Ford and Chevrolet garages in H eppner. He becam e a shop m anager for R oice Fulleton. He studied for every General M otors test offered in the area and receiv ed g rades o f 98 percent or higher. H e then w ent on to attend classes at G eneral M o to rs’ school in Tigard. He held their certificate o f “ C e rtifie d A u to m o tiv e Technician.” B urkenbine w as also an avid hunter and fisherm an and w as a m em b e r o f the National Rifle Association. He was also a lifetime m em ber o f the H eppner Elks Lodge 358 and a member o f the Episcopal Church. After joining the Civil A ir Patrol during W orld War I I, B u r k e n b in e b e c a m e in terested in airplanes. He spent m any hours helping to build the L exington A irport and built his ow n hanger to house his personal planes. O n June 11,1942, he m arried C hristina Brassfield, from Palco, KS. T he couple h a d fo u r c h ild r e n , C h ris Burkenbine, Lynn Burkenbine Schm orl, A nne B urkenbine B ro u sse a u and Jay Burkenbine. F ro m 1963 u n til 1981, B u rk e n b in e an d his fam ily lived in Portland. In 1 9 8 1 , th e y r e tu r n e d to Heppner. B u r k e n b in e w a s p re c e d e d in d e a th b y h is parents, step fath er M arion H a y d e n , a n d a ll th r e e brothers, R eese, M erle and Albert. w e r e R e g i S e itz , C a s e y Peterson, Makayla and Ashley T h e N o r th L ex A nderson, Kathy, C hris and M arket S teer C lu b m et at A n d r e R a u c h , N a ta lie Kathy R auch’s house on July M cElligott, and Daniel, A m y 27. M em bers clipped their and Eric Jepsen. s te e rs and th e n p ra c tic e d I showing them. After working We Print Business with the steers, members went M e m o r i a l Cards up to K athy’s house and had contributions m ay be made to Heppner barbecued ham burgers, hot th e A m e r ic a n Lung Gazette-Times A ssociation o f O regon, 7420 S.W. B ridgeport Road, Suite M e m o r i a l 200, P o rtlan d , O R 97224- contributions m ay be m ade to 7 7 9 0 , d ire c tly o r th ro u g h the Casey Eye Institute, 3375 Bums Mortuary ofHermiston, S. W. T e r w illig e r B lv d ., P.O. Box 289, Hermiston, OR Portland, O R 97201. 97838. Sweeney M ortuary o f Heppner is in charge o f current arrangements. By Eric Jepsen, Reporter Banking A n y t i m e from A n y w h e r e • View Balances • Print Statements • Transfer Funds • Pay Bills Online Loyd L. Burkenbine Loyd L e la n d “Burkey” Burkenbine died July 2 4 ,2 0 0 2 , at F lo ry ’s Place, a foster care hom e, in Portland. A m em orial service will be held on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2003, in the C hapel at Sw eeney M ortuary at 1 p.m . In u rn m e n t w ill b e a t th e H eppner M asonic Cemetery. Burkenbine was bom July 18,1918, in Stites, ID, to M abel M arie H utchens and Arthur Edwin Burkenbine. A fter his father had com e to Herm iston for work, he decided to move the family Marriage Licenses A ug. 11: J o s e p h Richard Yocom, 71, Lexington and Dwyla Jean Reynolds, 48, Lexington. Aug. 12: Jason Ray Buchanan, 26, Hermiston and H e id i Jo K n o e p f le , 2 3 , H e r m is to n ; J o s e M a ria M aldonado, 21, Um atilla and Jadira G om ez, 23, Umatilla. Aug. 15: Joshua Ryan R eeve, 20, H erm isto n and M egan Louise Andreason, 19, Boardman; Eliseo Rodriguez, 19, P a s c o a n d M i c h e l l e LaBelle, 19, Pasco. • And More! Wedel inq Tci bl es We're still your hometown hank , here to offer you personal service ... Now we can offer that service in more ways than ever! 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