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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 3, 2004 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow H eppner By Claudia Hughes. Exec. Dir. G A Z E T T E -T IM E S U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper P u b lish ed w eekly and en tered as p e rio d ic a l m atter at the P ost O ffice at Heppner, Oregon under the Act o f M arch 3, 1879, Periodical postage paid at H eppner, O re-gon. O ffice at 147 W W illow Street. T elephone (541) 676- 9228. Fax (5 4 1 ) 676-9211. E-m ail: gt@ heppner.net or g t@ rapidserve net. Web site: w ww.hcppner net Postmaster send address changes to the H eppner G azette-T im es, P O . Box 337, H eppner, O regon 97836. S ubscriptions: $24 in M orrow C o unty; $18 senior rate (in M orrow C ounty only; 62 years or older), $30 elsew here D avid S y k e s .......................................................................................................Publisher K atie Wall „ ....................................... .. E ditor Nawi and Advertising Deadline is 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 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/lega! Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 pm 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 New 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! lone Site Council hold meeting and hears reports The lone Site Council met Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the school staff room. The minutes o f the previous meeting were approved. C hair Dean Robinson read the proposed changes to the by-laws which were approved by council members. Principal Dick Allen provided test results o f lone students in grades 3,5,8 and 10 over the past three years. The results included the proportion of students at each level who did not meet, met and exceeded benchmarks. The resu lts w ere then compared to district and state results. Council members agreed to look over the scores and make recommendations for school improvement at the next meeting. Allen explained in detail the State Report Card results from the O regon Department of Education, lone Schools received a “Strong” rating. More students are m eeting, but few er are exceeding, the standards. The Improvement Formulae goes back four years. The scores have improved from last year. lone School will be considered a Title I school next year, based on the number Chamber Chatter of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch. The council received an elementary staff request to attend an inservice. Teachers have a contractual agreement to attend one paid inservice per year. Site C ouncil recom m ends to the superintendent any subsequent requests by teachers. The request was approved based on funding in the budget. Parents who provided snacks for the students on test days w ere th an k s. Paul Neiffer and Natalie McElligott were recognized for placing first and Billy Gates third in the Elks scholarship competition. The boys and girls basketball teams both made it to district playoffs. Brittnee DesBoui lions made the all-star bowling team at the district competition in Hermiston and will advance to compete at state. lone High 2000 g rad u ate N ikki M cE lligott is having an outstanding season playing basketball at Oregon Institute ofTechnology. The next meeting o f the lone Site Council will be Monday, March 15 at 5 p.m., at the staff room. SPRING CROP INSURANCE MEETING W ednesday, M arch 10th lo n e G range Hall a t 7 p.m . Pie and Coffee unit be served Your C ham ber o f Commerce receives many calls for information about events, activities in the area, history and opportunities. It’s always nice to hear great things about Heppner and to pass them on to those who make the difference. One such com m ent cam e from a Kennewick visitor who plans to return for the 22nd annual St. Pat’s Celebration. She said, “We love to come to Heppner. I-ast year during your c e le b ra tio n we w ere so amazed at the people in all the stores who were so friendly and kind, in spite o f being so busy. Heppner is great. We’re coming back.” Way to go. We never know when a visitor will return to live, or start a business, or bring friends and relatives. Every resident and employee here makes a difference over and over and over. As our busy time o f the year draws near, the Heppner Chamber would like to share this message with all the wonderful employees and v o lu n teers w ho put Heppner on the map in a positive way: “We appreciate you for your ‘always’ attitude... Always willing to lend a hand, A lw ays th ere to understand. Please remember, as you say ‘hello’, Heppner appreciates and admires you so.” Michael Heppner and his wife Ursula Heppner visited in 1993, along with Kim and Helen Heppner from New Zealand. He writes to let us know that Heppner will mark the anniversary o f Henry H ep p n er in 2005 and suggested that if something is h ap p en in g they w ould consider making another trip to Heppner. Would this be an opportunity for a Heppner/ Hepner family reunion? The Cham ber office would be interested in hearing ideas along th ese lines. Opportunities are always there for new experiences. But for now we’re all Irish and ’tis a green focus we have. One w eek away is Heppner’s St. Paddy’s Day, so the smell o f corned beef and cabbage, preparation by the Kilkenny clan, entries for the Great Green Parade, fiddle music, float building, sheep dogs, cars being polished, painted windows, and auction items are the focus of the day. Remember those auction items and contact Kay Fowler or John Murray for pick-up. The auction is important to the ongoing celebration, the Parents Club and the Heppner Chamber. ’Tis appreciative they be. M agnetic Door Signs This Is an Important Insurance meeting and all Interested persons are Invited to attend He p p n e r Gazette-Times 676-9228 St. Bib’s Day, St Bib’s Bay; Join the Kilkenj Clu «bile 711 a ij; Celebratili Bebbj K’s magical day! Frinii t Family ill iicladed; listed timer it drills begia it S p.a. The touts fir Bibky will u t be mated! Satarday, March 13 th Jthi’s Plue, Mail Street f PJL-I / Obituaries Lettere to the Editor Arthur C. Warren 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. TbeG-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 of f 7.) Arthur C. Warren, a lifelong resident o f Morrow County passed away Monday, Feb. 9, 2004, at G ood Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston. A p riv ate fam ily service will be held later. He was bom March 13,1930 on the family ranch at Gooseberry to Clarence and E velyn M cD ow ell Warren. He started grade school at Gooseberry and graduated from lone High School in 1949. In 1951, he married Joanne Bothwell o f Heppner. T ogether th ey had five children, divorcing later. He farm ed and ranched in the Gooseberry, Hardman and Bombing Range area until the mid-60s when he expanded his grain hauling to form Warren Trucking. He retired in 1982, but continued working cattle, driving log truck and w o rk in g for C olum bia Im p rovem ent District. Warren spent his life active and outdoors enjoying his flying, hunting and fishing, but his priority was raising his five children and enjoying his nine grandchildren and many extra children who were part ofhis family. He was a member of the Oregon Wheat League, O regon C a ttle m a n ’s Association, BPOE #358, Willow Grange and Valby Lutheran Church. Warren is survived by his son, David and his wife Barbara Warren, and their sons Ryan and Cory, of Salem; son, Michael and his wife M ary W arren, and th eir children Michala and Sean, of Astoria; daughter, Darlene and her husband Dick Clevenger, o f T innie, N M , and her children Sheridan Klinger, o f Aztec, NM and Shane Klinger, o f Ketchikan, AK; daughter, Marilyn and her husband Bob Fuller, o f Olympia, WA and her sons Kris and his wife Breanna Mies, o f Vancouver, WA, Eric M ies, o f San Antonio, TX and Daniel and his w ife Sara M ies, o f O lym pia, WA; daughter, Debby Warren o f Heppner; and tw o g reat- granddaughters, Jordyn Mies, daughter o f Kris, and Lucy Mies, daughter of Daniel who is presently serving in Iraq. M e m o r i a l contributions may be made in his memory to the American Cancer Society. Bums Mortuary o f Hermiston was in care o f arrangements. Riverside High to host opera company Portland Opera Works has rescheduled the performance o f La Boheme at Riverside High School to Thursday, March 11 at 7 p.m., in the R.L. Bateman Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the RHS music department. The opera will be user-friendly, meaning it will be performed in English. Advanced tickets may be purchased in Heppner at M urray D rugs. T ickets purchased for the cancelled show may be used for the rescheduled performance. Prices are $5 for adults and $2.50 for students. For more information, contact Rick Drake at 676- 8772. COPY PAPER R eam o r C a rto n Heppner Gazette-Times 676-9228 Nationalism and freedom in America We all know what To the Editor: kind o f format CNN uses. I was asked recently, “Where are the letters to the editor?” I They try not to be biased, but can only hope this question is they are. Try this, ifyou happen to be connected to the Internet not edited. As much as I appreciate the and have at least half a day to question as a whole, 1 also pick and choose titles, type into appreciate the abrupt honesty. your search mode “ Bush So into the breach once more, driving record" then click on number six, “Special Reports.” dear editor. Nationalism and freedom. You’ll find a list o f 190,000 When Mr. Dean and others email entries. H e re ’s a few say, “We have the power to take back our country,” I examples from other people suspect they mean it quite across the country: -The American Patriot literally. Act or The Un-American Law There has been, since by A.H. Krieg. (A five-page the writing of the constitution, narrative.) He quotes George a state’s right to govern its own. More precisely, the Washington, “Government like people o f a state to govern fire is a useful servant, but a themselves. The “Death with fearful master.” -E llen M ariani, a Dignity Act” in Oregon for widow from 9/11. (A seven- example. It had to be voted on twice due to some religious page narrative.) “Bush knew intervention, but passed none and let it happen.” -“ Bush hides a the less. A friend took terrorist,” by Jack Balkwill. (A advantage o f the law shortly three-page narrative.) after it was ratified. His last -Q uestions m ount words to me were, “I’m going to meet my God.” He meant over New Hampshire Primary. that quite literally as well, (A three-page narrative about although he didn’t attend any ballot voting versus scanner formal church. With all the voting.) Martin Bento did an differing beliefs, I’m sure some analysis o f the systems, his would say he’s in hell, some results: Hand counted- Dean would say he’s in limbo and lost by 9.7 percent; Diebold others would say he was scanner- Dean lost by 14.7 forgiven ofhis sin of suicide percent. Does someone want and went to heaven. Ultimately Dean to lose the nomination? -“ W hat did oil he insisted on his freedom to companies know and when did choose. A second, m ore they know it?” by Margie precise example- California Bums. U.S. oil companies lost its right to choose when imported 22.9 million barrels the federal go v ern m en t of Iraqi oil during the month sentenced a state-authorized the war started, 25.78 million cannabis grower to 87 years the month before, February in prison. Hopefully the state and March 2003. This was commuted the sentence, after about trip le the norm al all, the state authorized the amount. , -“Cluster bombs: War production. Nationalism is defined crim es o f the Bush by Webster’s as follows: 1) A. ad m in istratio n ,” by Paul devotion to one’s country; Rockwell. -“At year’s end, signs patriotism ; B. excessive, narrow or jingoist patriotism; o f dictatorship abound in chauvinism; 2) the doctrine W ashington,” by Wayne that national interest, security, Madsen. A short description: etc., are more important than Walls have been erected international considerations; 3) around monuments and the the desire for or advocacy of White House, armed guards and black SUV’s in the yard national independence. First, there’s nothing to the point there’s very little with devotion, the USA is grass left. Madsen sees from his “ h o m e.” I ’m not going perspective, the Berlin Wall all anywhere. Patriotism is a two- over again. Mariani sees an sided coin. One side that says, endless supply o f greed. In “Kill anything that gets in the either case, there’s certainly an way” and the other that says, abundance of paranoia. To me “We’ll talk about it and come it brings this thought back, “He up with a tolerable solution.” who lives by the sword, dies Since the four deaths by the sword. A last thought for this on the Kent State campus time around, what people there hasn’t been talk from either side, which fits with don’t know, certainly can and does hurt. You figure it out. sense “B’ above. F in ally , n atio n al (s) Phillip Kight independence, it has been Heppner suggested the U.S. offer the oil producing countries only what MCCCF to hold is an affordable amount. If not meeting accepted, go elsewhere and The regular monthly watch their storage tanks fill up m eeting o f the M orrow in about a week. Reopen the C ounty C om m ission on Alaskan pipeline temporarily. Children & Families will be Stop all educational visas to held on Tuesday, March 9, in those over 21 years old, the the co n feren ce room o f terrorists are the older ones. D epartm ent o f H um an Stop all illegal immigrant Services Building, which is workers and levy a fine to located at 103 S.W. Kinkade, those cheap wage payers who in Boardman, at 7 p.m. hire them. A bsolutely no Agenda presentation asylum given to anyone. to include: RFP’s/Letters of Well, we all know Intent, program reviews, set what a neutral country is and site rev iew s and other we know what self-sufficient business as necessary. is. That’s another option that The p u b lic is hasn’t been mentions since encouraged to attend and 1970. participate in the discussions. A couple questions, For further information or if you “How many people do your need special accommodations read ers know that have call 676-9675. bothered to compare the TV news media with the Internet?” W e Print and “How many are too busy Business Cards trying to make a living to bother Heppner G azette-T im es watching the TV news?” 6 7 6 -9 2 2 8
