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I Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - THREE lone Booster Club recognizes businesses From the Morrow County Road Department Road department responds SIMPLY THE BEST GV . J Rk : j f B * \ , Business people honored at recent lone ball game By Debbie Kadie The lone Cardinal Booster Club recognizes businesses at each of its home games for their support for the academ ic and ath letic programs funded through the club. On January 3 the following businesses were recognized: D obyn’s Pest C o n tro l, re p re se n te d by Arlynda Gates, Wheatland Insurance A gency, represented by Jim Swanson, and The Bank o f Eastern Oregon, represented by Linda County snow plow works the roads as one or as many as four or Over the past several days five on any given day. When LaRue. Lyndee Ramos, the the Morrow County Road you consider this, the real C ard in al B ooster C lub Department has had either full number of the road crew is President, accompanied by or partial crew s working seven closer to 14. We work four 10 Eva C h itty and A lyssa days a week, including New hours days in the w inter, with R ietm ann, the lone Year’s Day, to try and keep half o f the crew working cheerleaders, presented each the roads open for the citizens Monday through Thursday business with a certification of o f M orrow County. Our and half of the crew working appreciation during halftime of ability to keeps roads open in Tuesday through Friday. This the face of the kind of storms gives us the ability, under the boys’ varsity game. we have been experiencing is normal conditions, to take care limited. We realize that the o f winter road needs. We need to do this is very have a total overtime budget necessary to the well being of of $30,000, of which we had the citizens of Morrow County used a third when this recent people as possible during who depend on our County storm began. severe weather conditions,’’ road system. We have a winter Morrow County has plow route which we maintain said Galen McGill, ODOT Intelligent Transportation over 1200 miles o f road, 400 seven days a week during the miles of which are paved. O f w inter, as needed. This route Systems manager. 511 and that, we have 900 miles of road includes Patterson Ferry, T rip C h eck .co m provide which we plow and sand. We Tower Road, Bombing Range highway adv isory information have eight trucks with plows Road, Base Line from 207 to for state and federal highways and seven o f those with 74, Rhea Creek from Morter in Oregon. The same crews sanders. We also have four Lane to 74, Willow Creek to who perform maintenance and road g rad ers w hich are the topofCoal Mine Hill and respond to incidents in the field ro u tin ely used for snow Fuller Canyon {Spruce Lane}. are the ones who provide this removal. All of this equipment This is over 90 miles o f road information. As the most has to serve double duty that for several different adverse weather conditions because when we are not reasons are priority winter hit, these field personnel often having a snow event we are routes. Tower Road has over are directed to locations where working on some part o f our 2,500 cars per day, a dairy the weather is most severe or road system. and the Coal Fire plant which Our total road crew is depend on it. Bombing Range where emergency situations 18 people. O f this, two are Road has the Finley Butte exist. “ When our crews on mechanics and one is the Landfill as well as all o f the the highw ay are helping county weed manager. We do North-South traffic. Patterson motorists or clearing snow, have people take vacation and Ferry has truck traffic from 1- there can be an impact on their call in sick. This can be as few 84 and Hwy 730 on a daily ability to update information,” basis. Baseline has over 400 McGill said. ODOT advises cars per day from the lone reviewing the TripCheck.com area. Rhea Creek has a dairy incident maps to get an overall which needs feed and milk picture of travel conditions. By trucks to be able to get in and The annual Heppner out on a daily basis. This year clicking on a variety of icons, displayed as snow flakes, C ham ber o f C om m erce th ere are tw o logging cameras, weather stations and L uncheon for cham ber operations hauling off of Coal general information, potential members and their guests will Mine Hill and down Willow travelers can get a good idea be held on Tuesday, January C reek as w ell as the 13, at 11:30 a.m. at All Saints o f what to expect. “ Even w ith the Episcopal Church. During the luncheon, increased usage o f late, TripCheck.com is carrying the the annual Hat’s Off Award will load very well,” McGill said. be presented and officers will A H eppner High be installed. New officers are School Class of2004 service V ictor Vander D oes, president, Brenda Sherrell, auction has been planned for first v ice-p resid en t, and this Saturday, January 10, directors, Nancy Gochnauer, during halflime of the girls’ and Kim Scalf was the L arry L utcher, B arbara boys’ basketball games. The boys will be sold winner o f the M erchants’ Hayes, Bert Houweling, John Reindeer Scavenger Hunt. She Murray, Nancy Snider and during halftime of the girls’ used her gift certificate at David Sykes. Darrell Raver is game, approximately 4:30 Central Red Apple. ex-officio and Claudia Hughes p.m. The girls will be sold during halftime of the boys’ The hunt was is executive director. sponsored by participating The luncheon menu game, approximately 6 p.m. merchants. will include baked chicken S now m obile folks on W eekends. Spruce Lane accesses the high school as well as the Morrow County Sheriff. On a routine basis we have school bus Routes and mail routes as well as those folks with emergency medical needs to consider. We also have those farm ers and ranchers with livestock that they need to be able to reach in order to feed and water them. During our recent storm event all of these factors were involved in decisions we had to make involving plowing. To add to that, we had two trucks broke down and one stuck for a day, as well as Monday with only six people working. Since then we have had crews working every day, including New Year’s Day, with the exception of Saturday when we only ran two trucks. Sunday we started again with our graders and most o f our trucks. We have all o f our trucks currently back on line and enlisted the aid of some local contractors to help break open drifts so we can plow them out with our graders. We do ap p reciate ev eryone’s patience and help during this past w eek. Please feel free to call our office at 989-9500 w ith any questions or concerns. TripCheck.com and ODOT travel info line break usage records In a record-breaking, nine-day holiday period, the O regon D epartm ent o f T ran sp o rta tio n ’s travel information Web site and new phone line -TripCheck.com and 511 - surpassed all previous usage num bers accumulated over any monthly period. From Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day, TripCheck.com logged more than 1.2 mi 11 ion visits. A partial tally for D ecem ber 2003 indicates more than 2.3 million site v isits. The p rio r TripCheck record was 1.5 million visits for the month of December 2001. The biggest day ever for T ripC heck occurred Dec. 29,2003, with 278,000 visits. The ODOT travel information phone system - 511 and (800) 977-ODOT - also set a record for the number of calls over the same nine-day period. Between Dec. 24 and Jan. 1, the system received 308,000 calls. Last year, 187,000 calls came in for the entire month of December. The previous monthly record was 250,0 0 0 c alls in December 2001. With the addition of 511, the number of available phone lines doubled, from 108 to 216 lines. Still, the lines continue to be busy at times during extrem e w eather events. “ We urge citizens to use the TripCheck.com Web site whenever possible, so that travelers who do not have access to the Internet can still get through on the phone. This way, we can get critical travel information out to as many SELF EMPLOYED? 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