Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - THREE
Sandfords return and open mortgage company
Rick and Sylvia Sandford
“ W elcome H om e”
seem s to be the m ost
common words spoken to
the Sandford Family. Rick,
S ylvia, L illian and Ivy
Sandford m oved to the
N o rth E ast Bay area o f
California in March 2002
and now have returned to
their home in lone
“Moving away was
the hardest decision that we
had ever m ade for our
family,” stated Sylvia. “But
we felt it was necessary at
th e tim e fo r my fam ily
m em bers in C alifo rn ia .”
B oth S an d fo rd s w orked
w hile they w ere in
California Sylvia continued
working in the real estate
in d u stry as an escrow
departm ent supervisor in
Subdivisions and Special
Projects. “I handled all the
newly developed sites and
the sale outs for the builders
then at the sam e tim e
worked on the commercial
escrows for the multi-million
dollar projects,” said Sylvia
Rick worked for Sylvia’s
sister and brother-in-law ’s
truck mechanic business as
a m echanic, w hile also
performing sales and service
for a year Then he started
w orking for a c o n crete
company where he was in
charge o f plant maintenance
and plant setup duties He
oversaw three area plants on
a daily basis where he did
fabricating, servicing and
repairs.
“ We have grown so
much in the two years we
have been gone, but we were
always calling Oregon home
We b o u g h t a hom e in
Fairfield, moved to the city
and were ready to settle in
for a five-to-10 year stay
Then it happened We made
several trips back to Oregon
to visit friends and work on
our house in lone It was
harder to return to California
each time There is no place
like home,” stated Rick
The Sandfords are
not strangers to w orking
hard and being versatile
They own the Willow C reek
Storage in lone; they had
Colum bia Basin Escrow ,
LLC and the copy business
that they closed when they
moved away, and Rick was
em ployed w ith the State
H ighw ay D ep artm en t in
H eppner fu ll-tim e w hile
assisting his wife with all the
other ventures Now they
have started another branch
o f all this vast experience
High View Mortgage, LLC
is th e ir new ly form ed
Mortgage Broker business
Sylvia is licensed in Oregon
to handle Real E sta te
Mortgage Brokering for all
residential and commercial
real estate loan needs.
“1 had been working
w ith an a sso c ia te in
California that represented
one o f the a re a ’s largest
builder lenders in the North
Bay area and he really got
the idea rolling for me I have
been working in Escrow for
over six years now and have
seven years in m ortgage
lending prior to the present
There wouldn’t be a single
day pass without someone
calling me at w ork and
asking if I would go to work
for them It is com m on
practice in our market for the
competition companies or
affiliates to contact you. 1
wasn’t use to it at first, since
that seemed to only happen
in the larg er cities. My
associate had offered me a
position with his firm as a
mortgage originator and I
had seriously thought about
that venture But I declined
when we decided to move
home,” said Sylvia.
H igh
View
Mortgage, LLC is located at
the Sandfords’ home/office
for the time being. They are
going to be building an office
in the near future They have
programs for all borrowers
including
p u rc h a se s,
refinances, home equity,
c o n stru c tio n ,
and
Rs-etect
manufactured homes for all
credit status portfolios They
can be reached at (541) 422-
7333 or 1 (877) 422-7330
“ 1 am available for
ap p o in tm en ts at your
lo catio n to obtain p re
q u alificatio n for buyers
looking to purchase homes,
or to start their refinance
today As for the real estate
professionals in our area and
neighboring counties, they
know my work ethic and
professionalism from the
past I am excited to be able
to work with them again and
provide the ‘ State o f Oregon
with service it so richly
d e s e rv e s ,’” co n clu d ed
Sandford
Over the Tee Cup
The final organized
Willow Creek Country Club
Ladies’ Play for 2004 was
held on Tuesday, Sept 28,
2004 A scramble format was
played with three special
team events.
First place went to
V irginia G ran t, Luvilla
Sonstegard, Lynnea Sargent
and Pat Edmundson
A tie for second
place went to Sandi Hanna,
K andy Boyd and C orol
M itchell and L o rren e
Montgomery, Betty Carlson,
Donna Crawford and Karen
Thompson
A tie was also had on
KP on #4 between Grant,
Sonstegard, Sargent and
E dm undson and
Loa
Henderson, Dorris Graves
and Pat Dougherty.
A KP on #6 went to
H en d erso n , G raves and
Dougherty.
A KP on #9 went to
Suzanne Jep sen , Joyce
Dinkins and Bernice Lott
A hosted luncheon
and fall business meeting
fo llo w ed m orning play.
Election o f officers for 2005
were held The new officers
are:
P resid en t-
Pat
Edmundson; Vice-President-
Kandy Boyd; S ecretary /
Treasurer- Virginia Grant;
and B oard M em bers-
Lynnea Sargent, Suzanne
Jepsen and Corol Mitchell as
Past-President
Organized play will
begin again on the first
Monday in April 2005 There
will not be any organized
play by the ladies’ group in
October, but all that would
like to play are encouraged
to come out for a 9 a m tee-
off
St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
news
Christian Life Center
volunteers are hosts for the
O ct. 13 noon meal The
posted menu is hamburger
gravy, mashed p o tato es,
green beans, peach jello
salad, whole wheat rolls and
brownies.
J a c q u e l i n e
Zim m erm an, D irecto r o f
Oregon Association o f Area
A gencies on A ging and
Disabilities, spoke to the
U m atilla-M o rro w AAA
advisory co m m ittee on
Tuesday, Sept 28 at the
CAPECO conference room
in P en d leto n The fo u r
rep resen tativ es from St
Patrick’s Senior Center were
present
There are 17 areas
with advisory committees
which Zimmerman keeps
inform ed ab o u t funds
available to support services
for the aging and disabled
(any age) This particular
g ro u p o f citizen s is
freq u en tly ignored or
overlooked There are few
people to be aware o f the
wide scope o f needs this
gro u p rep resen ts. O ften
resources saved are used up
b ecau se o f changing
conditions over which they
have no control.
O regon
P roject
Independence (O PI) was
established to enable people
who need some assistance to
remain in their own homes
The program has proven its
worth many time over in its
history. The cost o f in-home
assistance is much less than
institutional care OPI funds
are not federally matched, as
a result, they are in constant
jeopardy o f being completely
cut Only concerted efforts
to keep legislators informed
and aware of short and long
term benefits have saved the
remaining funds to date. The
p resen t g o v e rn o r and
attorney general have given
priority attention to senior
c itiz en s and the way
changing times has affected
them
Ukiah Senior Center
is nearing completion When
th e ir o p en in g meal is
an n o u n ced , the AAA
ad v iso ry g ro u p for this
region will attend as a group
to help them celebrate Later,
the Heppner Senior Bus will
schedule a special trip to
Ukiah
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CT scanner valuable resource to PMH
By Molly Rhea
Fall is in the air, leaves are changing colors and
each afternoon the sound o f helmets colliding can be heard
near the football field Yes, everything can feel almost
magical until these young athletes, who look so big in their
pads, suddenly smash together and don’t jump back up
When a child is lying still on the field, unconscious or
perhaps complaining o f numbness, the adults in charge
suddenly have the cold realization o f how small and young
this athlete is, and an ambulance is quickly summoned
When the ambulance crew arrives they quickly
assess the injured player, stabilize his neck in a cervical
collar and “ L ogroll” him onto a backboard In the
Emergency Room the child is examined by the on-call
provider (a physician or Physician’s Assistant) and, if a neck
injury is the concern, the patient is taken into another room
for x-rays o f the cervical spine (neck) If the patient was
knocked unconscious, then the provider is concerned about
the possibility o f a traumatic head injury and the patient is
taken into a different room for a CT scan
Luckily the CT scan revealed that the athlete did
not sustain a cranial (head) fracture, nor was there any
blood leakage into the brain He was sent home with his
parents with instructions and precautions to follow for the
next few days.
Computed tomography (CT), sometimes called
CAT scan, uses special x-ray equipment to obtain many
images from different angles and then join them together
to show a cross-section o f body tissues and organs CT
scanning provides more detailed information on head
injuries, stroke, brain tumors and other brain diseases than
do regular radiographs (plain x-rays films) It also can show
bone, soft tissues and blood vessels in the same images
CT o f the head and brain is a patient-friendly exam that
involves radiation exposure.
Unlike conventional x-rays, which produce pictures
of the shadows cast by body structures o f different density,
CT scanning uses x-ray beams in a much different way In
CT o f the head, numerous x-ray beams are passed through
the skull and brain at different angles and special sensors
measure the amount o f radiation absorbed by different
tissues (and lesions such as a bleeding tumor) As you lie
still, the scanner parts revolve around you (although you
cannot see this happen), emitting and recording x-ray beams
from as many as a thousand points on the circle A special
computer program then uses the differences in x-ray
absorption to form cross-sectional images, or “slices” of
the head and brain These slices are called tomograms, hence
the name “computed tomography.”
Since CTs readily detect bleeding, they are used to
detect a blood clot or bleeding within the brain shortly after
a patient exhibits symptoms o f a stroke, detection of
bleeding in a patient with a sudden sever headache who
may have a ruptured or leading aneurysm, detection of most
brain tumors, as well as brain damage and skull fractures
in patients with head injuries
Pioneer Memorial Hospital has had a CT scanner
since December o f 2000. Prior to that any patient arriving
at Pioneer M em orial’s Em ergency Room with the'"
symptoms o f a head injury or a stroke would have been
immediately sent to another facility and since time is of the
essence in these situations, many would have been flown
out via helicopter or fixed wing airplane
“O ur reco rd s show in A ugust o f 2004, we
performed 24 CT scans,” stated Gaylin Fickel, R T
(Radiologic Technologist) for Pioneer Memorial Hospital.
“If we did not have a scanner, eight o f those people would
have probably been sent out emergently. As it.turned out
none of them required treatment at a larger facility.”
Eddi Skow Match Play winners
announced
The Willow Creek
Country Club Ladies’ Match
Play Tournament Champion
for 2004 is Sandi Hanna The
matches took place over a
two-month period
(*ar€liicr\ M en’s W ear
in H e p p n e r, O reg o n is closing its d o o rs forever!
Complete Liquidation!
Wall to Wall Close-out!
Elect
Bobbi Childers
Morrow County
Clerk
“ Yes! After 40 years and two generations. Roe and'
Marilyn Gardner are closing their store in Heppner. "It’s
been a hard decision.” said Roe. " But we feel it's time
for us to slow down. We will miss our friends and cus
tomers that we’ve met over the years in Heppner
Everything will be ON SALE
from Fixtures to Furniture...
from Famous Brand Footwear
to Famous Brand Clothing
ALL AT CLOSE-OUT PRICES!
B e here when th e doors open!
This huge liquidation sale liegins
W ednesday, O ct. Oth
- All Sale* F in a l - C a sh o r M a jo r C r e d it C a rd * - N o L ay aw ay , P le a * e
Cwardner’s
M en ’s W e a r
Current Chief Deputy for
Barbara Bloodsworth.
Morrow County Clerk
/
have over fo u r years
o f experience and
training in the
Clerk's office.
I can do all the duties
of Clerk.
It's my job.
1 9 3 N. Main, Downtown H eppner
S tore hour«) 9 a .n i.-6 p.m . Monday th ro u g h Saturday
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Other winners were '
2nd- Karen Thompson, 3rd-
Luvilia S o n steg ard ; 4 lh- ;
Jackie Allstott; Consolation-'
Pat Edmundson; and 6,h- Loa'
Henderson
Paid for bv Bobtn Childers
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