SIX • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. May 26,2004
Chamber Chatter
By Claudia Hughes, Exec. Dir.
Finally, a patch of blue. It’s been some years since
we saw this many days of rain falling in Morrow County.
Green is looking good and it hopefully means a good wheat
crop and grass for all those four legged energy converters.
We can use more of the same with some sunshine thrown
in to energize us and to make Memorial weekend pleasant
at the cemeteries. Isn’t it wonderful that cemeteries are in
such beautiful locations? Visitors from Eugene and
Medford were in the Chamber office this week trying to
locate a family cemetery of the 1800s. It’s a great weekend
to remember our history and pass it along.
“Our” Heritage Plaza dedication will be this Friday,
May 28 at 11 a.m., with coffee and punch served to guests.
Come see this joint effort of many, many volunteers and
city employees, which continues to enhance Heppner as a
great place to live, visit and do business. Remember when
the area was a fenced in weed patch, waiting for someone
to care? Remember when it was no use to anyone and
impossible to building anything on that spot? It took many
meetings, letters, applications, labor hours and persistence
by our mayor, city manager and city council to change
that. “Build it and they will com e.” Please join the
community in the dedication of this plaza where our
veterans are honored, mothers can push strollers, people
can enjoy walking and visitors can view antique machinery
depicting the history and heritage of Heppner and Morrow
County. The possibilities are endless.
Be sure to take your guests to the St. Patrick’s
Senior Center for dinner at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, May
30. Count on great food and meeting new and old faces
from near and far.
Looking ahead: Celebrate Historic Heppner is
scheduled for July 30, 31 and Aug. 1. The weekend will
include a sidewalk sale, BBQ and Pie Auction, “street
dance” to kick off the Morrow County Fair and Oregon
Trail Pro-Rodeo, all on Friday; Dinner at the Cemetery on
Saturday; and the annual Quilt Show on Sunday. What a
good time to invite friends and relatives to Heppner. What
a great way to save on gas and enjoy what’s right under
our nose.
Thought for the Week: “There is the positive side
and the negative side, and at every moment I decide.” -
William James.
Weed Management Area
hires new coordinator
The Lower Willow
Creek Weed Management
A rea has hired E rica
U ram kin as the new
C oordinator.
U ram kin
recently relo cated from
South Carolina to accept the
position and is looking
forward to starting on the
project. She had been
working for the US Forest
Service as a R esearch
Biologist
Noxious weeds are
posing a threat to the native
vegetation and grasslands in
the area. The WMA was
formed last fall in order to
help local land owners and
m anagers control weed
problems on their lands. It
encom passes
roughly
200,000 acres in northern
G illiam and M orrow
co u n ties, and is being
funded by a National Fish
and W ildlife Foundation
grant that was obtained by
The Nature Conservancy.
The idea behind the WMA
is to map out the problem
areas and w ork w ith
everyone cooperatively to
contain the weeds.
Having a WMA as
part
of
the
local
co m m u n ities is a great
o p p o rtu n ity . C om bined
e ffo rts, like th ese, are
generally more successful in
competing for grant money
and have proven to be a
greater force in dealing with
noxious weed problem s.
Another beneficial part of
the WMA will be future
workshops or newsletters
intended on keeping the
public informed.
C o n tact
E rika
Uramkin at (541) 422-7450
or uramkine@hotmail.com
for q u estio n s about the
WMA.
May 2003 seat belt blitz
The time has come through June 6. Local law
again for us to address the e n fo rcem en t
w ill
be
issue of seat belt usage. w orking
reg u lar and
Beginning on May 24, the overtime shifts doing seat
state o f O regon w ill be belt enforcement.
involved in a seat belt blitz.
On another note, it is
This is to hopefully increase w orth m entioning that
the seat belt usage rate in the during our local survey, a
state, which is currently at num ber o f people were
91 percent.
observed wearing the seat
Oregon is ranked in belt under their arm. The
the top four for seat belt public needs to be aware that
usage. This is in no small by statute the seat belt must
part due to the Three Flags be worn over the shoulder
7lh grade student: l '1- seat belt blitzes.
and not placed under the
Jordan Shepherd.
On a more personal arm.
8,h grade student: 1st- note, a survey of Morrow
Heppner students in
If you have any
Sean
Murray.
County was done on May 14 q u estio n s reg ard in g the
grades 4 through 8 competed
and we are currently at 66 safety blitz, you can contact
ag ain st o th e r M orrow
percent, which is well below the
C ounty School D istric t
M orrow
C ounty
the state average.
students on April 15 in the
Sheriff’s Department at 676-
On May 24 a seat 5317. Please drive safely
Math Contest hosted at A.C.
be|t bljp; will beg ip. and go and buckle up .Jt jU
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placed in the event.
4th grade students District and Weed Advisory
placing were: 4,h place- Zach Board will hold their regular
Hintz and Shane Smith; 5,h meeting on June 1 at 5 p.m.,
place- Zach Yocom; 6lh- at the P etty jo h n O ffice By Rick Paullus
Nick Christman then beat
Karlie Crumbliss; 7th- Justin Building in Heppner.
A n in e-ru n fifth out an infield single, Cody
The meeting agenda inning, all with two outs, Walton was hit by a pitch,
P ran g er; and 9th- T rent
items and discussion items carried
Cannon.
the
H eppner Elguezabal had a RBI single,
5lh grade students: include: Manager report and M ustangs to a 12-1 five- Coil walked, Walton came
2nd- Joe Armato; 4,h- Sarah agency reports. There is inning win over the home on a wild pitch, Quinn
Kendrick; 5lh- Ian Murray; prospect o f an executive Sherman County Huskies to Peck walked, Naims scored
6,h- Eric Chick and Justin session according to ORS win the C olum bia Basin two more w ith a single,
C o n feren ce
title
on Murray reached on an error
Gutierrez; and 7'*'- Donald 192.640(2).
The meeting is open Saturday, May 22 in The to score one and Gates had
Matthews.
Dalles. The win gives the a two RBI single to make it
6,h grade students: to the public.
Mustangs the number one 12 - 1 .
l ”- Lane Wright; 2nd- Ashley
seed into the US Bank/Les
Wolff, 5,h- Curtis Harper and
The Huskies went in
Schw ab C lass 2A State order in the bottom half and
C olter R aver; 7,h- Em ily
Karla
Noemi Tournam ent and a home the game ended because of
Thom pson and 8lh- Kyle
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Tayloe.
Full results for 7,h daughter, Karla Noemi, was 26 against the number two
Elguezabal went the
and 8lh grade placem ents bom May 10,2004, at Good team out of the Northwest distance to pick up the win
were not available at time of Shepherd Medical Center in League.
giving up two hits, one walk
p u b lish in g .
K now n H erm iston, to M ercedes
The Mustangs (22- and one hit batter, while
Abad and Roberto Afanador 2-1) took an early 1-0 lead striking out seven.
placement includes:
of Boardman.
in the top of the first when
Coil went two for
Chuy
Elguezabal led off two with a double, triple and
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with a single, went to second scored twice. Naims went
on a Jode Coil sacrifice bunt, two for three with three RBI.
went to third when Josh Gates went two for four with
G utierrez reached on an four RBI. Elguezabal went
error and scored on a Kiel two for four with two runs
Naims single.
and scored. Lovgren had a
The Huskies tied in homerun and two RBI and
the bottom of the second on Murray scored twice.
a hom erun, but the
Heppner 102 09-12
Mustangs came back to take 120
the lead for good in the third
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when Coil doubled, Naims 010 00-1 2 3
reached on an error, Luke
C huy E lguezabal
Murray was hit by a pitch and Jode Coil; Chad King,
and Billy Gates scored two Wallace (5) and Kaseberg.
with a single to make it 3-1. W- Elguezabal (10-1). L-
The Mustangs broke King. 2B- Coil (H); Wallace
the game open in the fifth (SC). 3B- Coil (H). HR-
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R esults o f the C olum bia
Plateau Stage Race 2004
This year’s edition
of the Colum bia Plateau
Stage Race saw record
attendance during this tenth
year of the event. We had
riders come from a wide area
again this year, with riders
from Oregon, Washington,
B ritish C olum bia, Utah,
Idaho, Montana, California,
Alberta, Ontario (Canada),
S a s k a t c h e w a n ,
Massachusetts and one rider
from Yukon T errito ries.
M ost o f the rid ers are
m em bers o f team s. The
members of each team work
together for the benefit of
their team members.
The
C olum bia
P lateau has becom e a
popular event for the riders
due to the unique nature of
the event- the three point-to-
point road stages and the
support o f the local
co m m u n ities. The race
consists o f four ‘stages,’
w ith the o verall w inner
being determ ined by the
lowest time for completing
all of the stages. Each stage
is an individual race. The
complete event consists of
three road races and one
time trial. In the road races
all riders in each group start
together, but in the time trial
the riders are started at 30-
second intervals and only
race against the clock.
The race started in
Heppner and first stage, on
Friday, May 7, of 76 miles,
took the riders to lone, via
Hwy 74 (east), up Franklin
Grade, Butter Creek Road,
Baseline Road and on into
lone. On Saturday morning,
the riders rode the time trial,
two miles up Ella Road,
from lone. On Saturday
afternopn, .stage 3 took the
riders from, Iw M o. J t e j J ,
via FJwy 74, Rhea Creek
Road, Hwy 206 and then
Hwy 19 to Fossil, a distance
o f about 75 m iles. On
Sunday morning, that final
stage, of 85 miles, took the
riders from Fossil back to
H eppner, via Hwy 19
(through Service Creek and
Spray), Hwy 207 (over the
big hill between Spray and
H ardm an) and on into
Heppner. The finish was on
the hill leading up to the
Willow Creek reservoir, just
south of town.
On the first stage, a
group of five riders managed
to get away from the main
field just a few miles out of
Heppner. One of the riders
in the lead group eventually
dropped back to the main
group, but although the main
group put in a major effort
to catch the leaders, the four
leaders m anaged to stay
ahead o f the main field.
Over the course of this stage,
the main field also broke up
into three main groups. The
winner of stage one was
British Columbia rider Cam
Evans (Symmetries).
Saturday morning’s
time trial saw Rusty Beall
(Ridge Mortgage Services),
from Clarkston, WA, put in
the best time for the day. In
the afternoon stage, the main
field again broke into
several smaller groups, but
the front group managed to
stay intact. Stage 3 saw Cam
Evans come across the line
first again.
At this point of the
race, Cam Evans was
leading
in
G eneral
C la ssific a tio n (GC for
sh o rt), w hich is the
combined of times for the
three stages so far. There is
also a points competition,
where riders earn points for
city limit signs during each
stage as well as the stage
finishes. There was one mid-
race sp rin t on stage 1
(Vinson) and two on stage 3
(C ondon and M ayville).
Cam Evans was also the
points leader, having won
the first two road stages and
also scoring points on all
three mid-race sprints.
On the final stage, a
group of about eight riders
got away from the main
group early on and built up
a lead of about 9 minutes by
the turn onto Hwy 207, just
east of Spray. During the big
climb out of Spray, this lead
group was whittled down to
three riders. Cam Evans and
his
team m ates
(Symmetries), were in the
group b ehind the three
leaders and gave chase for
the remainder of the stage,
but failed to catch the three
leaders.
O ne
in terestin g
development, during stage
4, was that two of the riders
in
the
lead
group
accum ulated quite a few
points during this stage, as
there are four m id-race
sp rin ts: S ervice C reek,
Spray, Hardman and Ruggs,
and one o f them , C raig
W ilcox (Ridge M ortgage
S erv ices), m anaged to
overtake Cam Evans in the
points competition.
As well as the GC
(overall time) and points
competitions, there was also
a team competition, which
was won by the Symmetries,
from British Columbia.
In addition to the
main race, the Pro/1/2 field
covered above, there were
also races for four other
groups of riders: Category 3
m en, C ateg o ry 4 m en,
M asters men (age 40 or
,more) and Women. The top
riders in each group are
listed below.
Pro/1/2 (GC): Cam
Evans, BC, Sym m etries;
Omer Kem, OR, Broadmark
Capital; Solomon Woras,
OR, Team Rubicon; Craig
W ilcox,
OR,
R idge
M ortgage S erv ices; and
Rusty B eall, WA, Ridge
Mortgage Services.
Pro/1/2 (Points):
Craig Wilcox; Cam Evans;
A nton Jack so n , WA,
Broadm ark C apital; Will
Routley, BC, Symmetries;
and Omer Kem.
Pro/1/2 (Team):
Sym m etries, B roadm ark
Capital and Hutch’s.
Category 3 Men
(GC): Galen Erickson, WA,
B yrne S p ecialty G as;
M ichael H enry, WA,
Recycled Cycles; Andrew
F ischer, MT, W hitm an
C ollege; Jason R enkens,
OR, PSU ; and M ark
Stadick, WA, Vision Tech.
C ategory 4 Men
(G C ): Sloane A nderson,
WA, V isio n /4 -C o rn ers;
Mark Davies, WA; Yanni
P apadopoulos, WA, The
Valley A th letic C lub /
Specialized; Keith Milne,
BC, Schwalbe; and Duncan
Steele, BC, Devo/Powerbar/
Ryders.
Masters Men 40+
(G C ): C lint C hase, WA,
Byrne Specialty Gas; Mark
K ing,
OR,
Low es
P ro p erties;
D ave
Z im belm an, WA, Excel
Sports B oulder; John
Tolkam p, BC, Escape
Velocity; and Randall Smith,
WA, Byrne Specialty Gas.
Women (GC): Suz
W eldon, WA, W ines o f
W ashington/K ing 5 TV;
C h ristin e F letch er, BC,
Team B C /D izzy C hicks;
Marcia Jensen, WA, Byrne
S p ecialty G as; Pam ela
Egger, BC, Escape Velocity;
and A lliso n B eall, WA,
Wells Fargo/Ragatz.