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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 3, 2003 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner bow season By Dr. Jack Crippen. Superintendent G A Z E T T E -T IM E S U .S .P .S . 2 4 0 -4 2 0 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act o f March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Ore gon. Office at 147 W Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676-9228. Fax (541) 676- 9211. E-mail: gt(u heppner net or gtui rapidserve.net. Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $24 in Morrow County; $18 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $30 elsewhere. David S y k e s ...................................................................................................... Publisher Katie W a ll.............................................................................................................. Editor Nawa and Advertising Deadline it Monday at S 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 50< 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/Legal Notices pubiic/legai notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Dates for publi cation 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 A d • Subm it a News 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! St. Patrick’s Senior Center news Guests and treats were the focus of a recent Heppner St. Patrick’s Senior Center’s congregated noon meal. Marion Brosnan’s family came to help her celebrate her 89th birthday- about 15 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, spouses and others. They provided cake and ice cream for the group. The celebration included singing, visiting and laughter. Marion came to Morrow County as a teacher of one of the many country schools which now exist only in memory. She chose to stay when a local rancher suggested it. Over the years she has made rich contributions to our community life. Now she is one o f the residents o f St. Patrick’s Senior Center, and still remains actively engaged in her favorite activities. Ruby Steers is the most recent resident of the apartment complex. She came to Morrow County more than 55 years ago as a war bride from Arkansas. She and her husband (Sam) lived and worked most of those years in the Hardman area. Since his death in 1983, she has been for a time in Arkansas, and in other parts of the world and the U.S. on mission trips. “This is the place I have found peace, and I ’m going to stay,” was her comment during a brief conversation. Results of surveys, in the Morrow/Umatilla County area, indicated that minor and major home repairs, routine household chores, meal preparation or cooking, and finding prescription drug assistance programs were the five mentioned as most needed. O f more than 100 survey forms returned, 29 respondents were male and 80 female; Fifty-six persons were in the 80 and over age bracket; 34 were in the 70 to 79 bracket; and 16 were in the 65 to 69 age bracket. Sixty- three live alone and 45 live with another person or persons. These statistics are a part o f the information used to put together the four-year plan the Area Agency on Aging and CAPECO have been working on since March 2003. Meals on Wheels and Transportation Services are two other high priority services in Morrow County. These numbers were revealed at the quarterly meeting of the AAA Advisory Committee. Ed Baker and Tom Wilson, Morrow County members, and Grace Drake attended the scheduled meeting in Milton-Freewater last week. The senior bus is scheduled to leave for the Westward Ho Parade in Pendleton on Friday, Sept. 12 at 8:15 a.m. The bus will be leaving from the Main St. entrance of the Center. The bus will not travel this year to the Dress-up Parade as previously announced. Remember, Westward Ho Parade, Friday, Sept. 12, departing at 8:15 a.m. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, volunteers for serving the meal will be from the United Methodist Church. Correction in fair results Last week’s edition of Open Class Swine Champion the Heppner Gazette-Times G ilt. The w inner o f this misidentified the winner of the category was Kelly Lieb. ■N Fundraising Dinner fo r the Benefit o f the lone Education Foundation Saturday September 27th At the lone Legion Hall Social Hour at 6 p.m. • Dinner at 7 p.m. T h e e v e n in g w ill in clu d e L iv e M u sic, A u c tio n Ite m s a n d R a ffle D ra w in g . M e n u in c lu d e s P rim e R ib , C r a b , S a la d , B a b e d P o tato , B re a d a n d T w o b ev erag e s in clu d e d w itb - c b o o s e fr o m b eer, w in e o r s o f t Morrow County School District # 1 Fire restrictions continue during News S b rim p , D essert m eal d rin b s. Ticket price: $25.00 for adults. $10.00 for children 12 years and under. Children 6 and under free. Tickets are available at the Bank o f Eastern Oregon, lone Branch or contact Lynn Dee Ramos at 422-7559 Limited amount o f tickets available. NURSERY SALE T W O DAYS O N LY! Sept. 12 -13 Fruit Trees, Sha de & F lo w e rin g Trees Shrubs & Perennials P le a se jo in u s in s u p p o r t o f th e lo n e S c h o o l a n d celebrate a n h isto ric y e a r in th e life o f o u r c o m m u n ity . Tht Ion* Education Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit corporation. Contribution« to tha Foundation art tax-deductible Bow hunting season Last month 1 mentioned how excited I was to see began on A ug. 30, and Susan and Mick Tolar as Grand Marshals of Boardman’s co n d itio n s in the Blue Fourth of July parade. After I had sent the article in 1 attended Mountains are still very, very the Irrigon Watermelon Festival Parade and was delighted to dry with the risk o f fire see John Sebastian, principal at A.C. Houghton, honored as their Grand Marshal. It is very gratifying to see educators ex trem ely high. C ooler temperatures both at night and honored in so public a manner. during the day seem to lull August is Morrow County Fair time; the most interesting people into a false sense of site I saw was a lone skinny goat as the only contestant in one security, but the extreme division. Skinny or not, it was a blue ribbon winner. Please drive carefully, as school in now in session, again, dryness o f the fuels in the finally. It was getting to be too long and quiet a summer. It is forest hasn’t changed. The O regon D ep artm en t o f good to have the buildings filled with activity. Forestry and the Umatilla W here is Irrigon Elementary School? National Forest have Public- Irrigon Elementary School is the name the Board approved for the new building across from Columbia Middle Use Restrictions in place to School. The Board approved this name as one o f three help keep the public and presented to the Board from a committee set up for that firefighters safe. C am p fires, w ood purpose by the Board. Board member Pat McNamee chaired stoves, briquette fires are not the committee. The other two names presented were Tolar Elementary School and Stokes Landing Elementary School. allow ed except in a few designated Umatilla National So once again we ask, is there a High School in Forest campgrounds. These Irrigon? are Ju b ilee Lake and Yes, it will open in September 2005. The board did W oodward, on the Walla meet in August to set their goals for the year. As we talked last Walla District; Bear Wallow, month in this article they had two choices. Pick a day to open the high school or pick a day to make the decision. After North Fork John Day and Olive Lake on the North Fork extensive discussion they choose to open the school. There was a lot o f discussion about the criteria that John Day District; and Bull was set several years ago to decide when the high school was Prairie Campground on the to be created at the Columbia Middle School campus. Heppner District. Propane However, circumstances and board decisions since that time stoves and liquid gas cook have changed some o f the concerns. The most significant stoves are allowed. The use o f chainsaws change is the Board’s financial goal of2002-2003 dealing with is not allowed. Equity. The Board kept the financial goal and the Equity issue Generators or other as a 2003-2004 goal. So, in setting up the high school, it will be set up based on the money it generates is what it is allowed internal combustion engines are not allowed except in the to spend as all the other schools are currently doing. d esig n ated In looking at the size it is apparent at the present time above campgrounds in an area at that the high school in Irrigon will not be as large as Riverside least 10 feet that has been High School when they are split. The difference in the number William A. Rowell of students at A.C. Houghton Elementary and Sam Boardman cleared o f all flammable William A. Rowell, Elementary indicates the relative size of each. However, with material or in the cleared bed 76, of lone, died Sunday, Aug. the addition of the 7th and 8th grade in each it should still allow o f a pickup truck. Motorized travel off 24, 2003, at Jonathan M. for sufficient teachers to provide a sound basic core curriculum W ainw right M em orial in each high school along with reasonable electives. The Forest Roads and Trails is not Veterans Medical Center in difference will be in the number of sections for each class that allowed. ATVs, motorcycles Walla Walla. will be offered. One school may offer two sections o f U.S. and other vehicles must stay A graveside service on developed roads and trails. History and one may only offer one section. was held Sept. 3 at Lexington Sm oking is only There are a lot of questions that need to be answered, Cemetery. and the two years will give us time to find good answers and to allowed inside an enclosed ,i . Roweft was bom June make the necessary plans to have both high schools running vehicle or building, developed 22, 1927, at lone, to Arthur rec rea tio n site p r w hile smoothly from the beginning. stopped in an area at least and L.V. “Toots” Crowell How will the district deal with the additional money three feet in diameter that is Rowell. He attended school at from the Legislature? lone and attended Hermiston The district will be careful and cautious in the spending b arren or cleared o f all High School. flammable material. of the additional money. Although the legislature has finished He served with the F ollow ing these for the session and it appears that our state’s economy has U.S. Army during World War stabilized, there are still some questions to be answered. It restrictions will help ensure a n. appears that the group of people that have been working for safer, fire-free hunting season. Rowell worked in the Bow hunters come to over a decade to lower Oregon’s standard of living will be at it farming and logging industry in again. The initiative users plan to try to undo what the legislature the Blue Mountains from all the Heppner and lone areas has taken a record amount of time to accomplish. What creates over the United States (and a most of his life. the most concern is that they never offer any way to improve few other co u n trie s) to He loved to hunt and participate in the hunting our lives, only diminish them. fish and had a special passion season here. The Oregon The district’s administrators have been discussing how for playing bingo. we want to approach the use of this additional money. The Department o f Forestry, the He was active in the recently published testing results of the No Child Left Behind Umatilla National Forest, the South M orrow C ounty Act have provided a focus in the Boardman and Irrigon areas. Bureau of Land Management N eighborhood C en ter at We have known that our ELL program has not been all it could and the National Park Service Heppner and the Retired be. We intend to reassess how we have been spending our all have similar restrictions in Senior Volunteer Program ELL money and with the additional money from the legislature place. It is im portant for (RSVP). He helped with the we hope to substantially improve our ELL program k-12. With visitors to know the ownership delivery o f Meals on Wheels the Equity goal in place, it makes it clear that the ELL money is of the lands they’re recreating and drove the Senior Bus. He now where the ELL students are. Part o f our careful and on. Restrictions are much the alw ays v o lu n te e red for cautious plan is that this may take us a little time. We have same on both public and anything that would help already started looking at where we are currently spending p rivate, but hunters and others. m ust have money. When we finish that analysis we will look at what we cam pers Survivors include a feel we need to do to move towards the program we want to permission to be on private son, Mike Rowell ofHeppner; property. create. “ We have several and a stepdaughter, Terry In Heppner we were able to make some decisions W inters o f H erm iston; just prior to school starting. The principal was able to put large w ildfires currently grandchildren, Ryan Clayton together an add-back list based on conversations he’d had burning in the northwest,” said and Mellisa McDaniel, and with staff and patrons during the meetings to reduce expenses. John R obertso n , Fire four great-grandchildren. He We added a .5fte kindergarten position to bring it back to a Management Officer for the was preceded in death by full day program. We added a.5fte 3rd and 4th grade position Umatilla National Forest. “The sons, Carl and Raymond, and to bring it back to three full time teachers. We added a .33fte nation’s firefighting resources by his parents. in music to bring it back to a full time music position. At the are tapped. If a wildfire were M e m o r i a l high school we added a .5fte position, the principal will be to outgrow our local initial contributions may be made to able to shift some classes and add some cut classes and we attack resources it could be the South Morrow County devastating. There is nothing increased the Spanish program by one additional class. Neighborhood Center, P.O. Ifyou have questions about items in this article or desire more wasteful than a human- Box 895, H eppner, OR an explanation of items concerning education, please write or caused wildfire that could have 97836. E-mail me in care of this newspaper or to the Morrow County been prevented.” Sweeny Mortuary of For more information School District office at P.O. Box 368, Lexington, OR 97839. H eppner is in charge o f on restrictions, contact the arrangements. Um atilla N ational Forest 50% OFF ALL N U R SER Y STO CK lone Education Foundation will be kicking off sales of memorial bricks to be placed at the plaza to be built as part of the new school playground. G REEN FEED & SEED H e p p n e r • 676-9422 hUft J A memorial service was held Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Boardman Senior Center. Disposition was by cremation. In lieu o f flowers, do n atio n m em orial contributions may be made to the Boardman Senior Center. E llis was born at Dellvale, Kansas on Oct. 30, 1928 to parents LeRoy and Bessie Smith Ellis. He was a longtime resident o f Boardman and worked for the Union Pacific Railroad for 42 years. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the U.S. Army. He married his wife Alice on Feb. 20, 1970 in Sandy. Ellis was a member of the Eagles Lodge, Kiwanis Club o f Corbett and was one o f the Board o f Directors for the Boardman Senior Center. He is survived by wife, Alice, o f Boardman; sons, David Ellis of Cle Elum, WA, Tony Jimenez of Sumner, WA, Tim Jimenez o f Corbett and Ted Reiker o f Troutdale; daughters, Barbara Cruz of Cle Elum, WA, Tobi Ervin of Corbett, Tamra Ramsey of Boardman, Tanya Smith of Scio; sister, Donna Wyman of Beloit, KS; 16 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sisters and three sons. Bums Mortuary o f Hermiston was in charge of arrangements. i W tihM dLìÈL kkl V » Supervisor’s Office at (541) 278-3716; the Pendleton o ffice o f the O regon Department o f Forestry at (541) 276-3491, or visit w w w .fe .fe d .u s /r6 /u m a / fireupdate.htm. Rosetta J. Palmateer Rosetta J. Palmateer, 77, ofHeppner, died Monday, Sept. 1, 2003. R ecitatio n o f the Rosary will be at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 3, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Obituaries Heppner. A funeral mass will held Thursday, Sept. 4, at James LeRoy Ellis be 11 a.m ., at St. P a tric k ’s James LeRoy Ellis, Catholic Church, Heppner. 74, o f B oardm an, died A full obituary will run Wednesday, Aug. 27,2003 at in next week’s edition o f the his home in Boardman. Gazette.
