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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 17, 2004 The Official Newspaper of the C ity of Heppner and the Count\ of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S P S 240-420 Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly N ew spaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner. Or egon under the Act of March 3. 1X79 Periodical postage paid at Heppner Ore-gon. Office at 188W W illow Street telephone 1541 >676-9228 Fax(5 4 1 >676-92) I K- mail gt aheppncrnel ot gtiiiapidserse net Website www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to tlie Heppner Gazette-Times. PO Box 317. Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions S24 in MorTocv County SIX senior rate (in Morrow County only: 62 years or older): S30 elsewhere David S ykes................................................................................................... Ihiblisher Katie Foster ...................................................................... Editor News and A d ve rtisin g Deadline Is M onday 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 lot classified ad is 50tf per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $7 up to 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is S5 35 per column inch For PuOlic/Legal Notices public/legal 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 dale must De specified if required) On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: nteu.heppner.net • Start or Change a Subscription • Place a Classified Ad • Submit 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' Entry deadline for Oregon’s Wool Contest approaches Oregon’s 57th annual Make It Yourself with Wool contest will be held at the Hood River Inn in Hood River on Saturday, Dec 11 The contest is open to all ages, but entry forms must be submitted to program director Maureen Krebs by Friday, Nov. 26 E ntry c ate g o rie s include Preteen (12 and under); Junior (1 3 -1 6 ), Senior (17-24); and Adults (25 and over), plus an additional Made for Others category (any age) Entry forms and further details are available from K rebs by calling (541)422-7548 Winners in the Junior and Senior divisions receive an expense paid trip to com pete in the N ational Make It Yourself with Wool «(M ^Thisra:^f,nalswiU- be held at John Ascuaga’s "•Nugget in Rert6VWv, Jdn 27-29, 2005. C o n test rules are simple. C ontestants must construct their garments of 100 percent wool or wool blends (m inim um o f 60 percent wool or specialty w ool fibers). All en try garments must have been completed after Jan. 1, 2004. C o n testan ts model their garments before a panel of judges, before submitting the garm ent for ev alu atio n . W inners are announced during a fashion show held Saturday evening The objective o f the contest is to demonstrate the beauty and versatility o f wool fabrics and yarns, but also to encourage personal creativity and develop life skills, in clu d in g responsibility, sportsmanship and appreciation o f diversity Major sponsors for the Oregon contest are the O regon Sheep G row ers Association and the Oregon Sheep Commtèsidrl Entry form s may be' ‘requested from the office o f the Oregon Sheep Growers Association in Salem, (503)364-5462, or the C ounty E xtension offices Flu Clinic to be held in Boardman A flu clinic will be held Tuesday, Nov. 30, from 8:30 a m to 7 p m at the B oardm an H ealth Department, located at 101 Boardman Ave. Flu shots will also be available at all regular clinics while supplies last Flu vaccinations are strongly encouraged and reserved only for individuals who m eet any o f the following criteria children ages 6-23 months, adults ages 65 and older; anyone ages 2 to 64 with underlying chronic medical conditions; women who will be pregnant during influenza season; residents o f nursing homes and other long-term care facilities; children ages 6 m onths to 18 years on chronic aspirin therapy; health care w orkers who deliver direct patient care, and out-of-home caregivers and household contacts o f children under 6 months. Call the M orrow County Health Department at 676-5421 or 481-4200, for more information. GET YOUR CUSTOM BANNERS Heppner Gazette-Times 676 9228 I_______________________ ! Letten to the Editor Editor's note: Letters to the Editor must be signed. The Gazette-Times w ill not publish unsigned letters. Please include your address and phone num ber on a ll letters lo r use by the G-T office. The G-T reserves the right to edit. The G-T is not responsible (or accuracy o f statements made in letters (Any letters expressing thanks w ill b e placed in the classifieds under 'C ard o f Thanks' at a cost o f $7.) Lexington parents voice opinion on school choice Heppner gets a taste of Germany To the Editor: Noah Fleischer, 16, We are parents o f cam e to H eppner from ch ild ren living in the on stu d en t Lexington/Pine City area G erm any Drug testing shows care for the exchange to learn about the Our children attend lone American culture students Schools Earlier this year, we Fleischer, a resident were encouraged to hear a To the Editor o f Hamburg, a town o f 1.7 A m erica and E astern M orrow C ounty School The East Oregonian Oregon has a devastating D istrict board m em ber million people, has hit a little editorial “ Student’s Rights” drug problem While the express his optimism for a culture shock com ing to (Nov 12, 2004) exhorts East Oregonian claims drug conclusion to the conflict Heppner He thought it very M orrow C ounty school testing is destructive, these between the two districts interesting that everyone officials and p a re n ts to parents and professionals We w ere equally knows each other and that oppose the School Board’s realize it is drug abuse that d isco u rag ed when the lots o f people don’t even drug te stin g policy at is destructive. The E.O. M CSD su p erin ten d en t lock their doors- something H eppner High School opposes the cost o f drug repeatedly accused lone that would never happen in According to the unnamed testin g Has the E.O. com m unity m em bers o f Hamburg editor the Morrow County considered the cost o f Tie being “unneighborly,” and School Board’s drug testing America’s prisons o f which s c h o o l labeled th e ir effo rts policy is “the latest assault 85 percent of the inmates are s y s t e m “questionable ” on the rig h ts o f young incarcerated because of drug is Is it “questionable” here Americans.” According to and alcohol abuse? also a lot for the M CSD the E.O editor this drug Had the E.O editor superintendent to claim that d iffe re n t policy “will only discourage read the Gazette or called the he is prepared to negotiate t h a n teens from participating, school adm inistrators he while denouncing individual G erm any especially th o se already w ould have realized the lone community members? s a i d using drugs.” I would expect M orrow C ounty policy Is it “questionable” for the Fleischer this permissive attitude from carefully provides for a superintendent to nominate H e r e , the left wing ALCU, but not scope o f te sts and a mediator who is clearly s tu d e n ts the E ast O regonian No confidentiality o f results. biased0 Is it “unneighborly” receive a Noah Fleischer wonder our communities are It is no wonder that to lobby the OSAA to lot m ore being ravaged by drug abuse Heppner continues to field persecute an individual lone homework and sports are an and under age drinking. Do elite athletic teams in boy’s High School student athlete? active part o f school as well. the East Oregonian editors fo o tb all, b asketball and Is it “ q u estio n ab le” and In Germany, there is less understand that Umatilla baseball, despite being one of “unneighborly” to spend an homework and the sports are C ounty is th e M eth- the smallest 2A schools in inordinate amount o f time privatized. Also, in Germany, M arijuana capital o f the Oregon The sports teams and reso u rces obsessing classes stay together a lot Pacific Northwest? that Heppner fields represent over what a separate school more, not changing rooms The issue is not what Pendleton used to be and teachers for each class, district is doing? Student Rights. What about under Don Requa, Dale lone is not trying to which Fleischer says helps student resp o n sib ilities0 Warberg, Bob White and “recruit” or “steal” students. create closer social contact Extra curricular activities are Lyle Phelps. The Heppner classm ates and If the M CSD o b stru c ts w ith not a right, but rath er a com m unity- p aren ts, lone’s efforts to become a teachers. privilege A student involved administrators and coaches- In com ing to charter school, they will not in extra curricular school are establishing a random Heppner, Fleischer has been gain a single student. In the activities represents his or drug policy because they process, they will have to able to learn about the game her sch o o l, family, care about the welfare o f abolish c h a rte r schools o f football and sees it in a community and at times our their students and athletes statewide What does the different light Before, he state A huge am ount o f and they wish to sustain their MCSD stand to gain0 Is this said that he just thought it team w ork, co-operation, program o f extra-curricular the best use o f MCSD time was a “bunch o f men hitting d e d ica tio n and selfless excellence D rug abuse each other.” He now sees it and resources? devotion to the team or d estro y s not only the We have great as a sport that has tactics and activity p ial^s the privilege individual, but also the team. confidence in the quality of strategy. He has had the and ¿brricular The East Oregonian ed u catio n in H eppner opportunity to play on the actiüiiyBaviialüomponient in editorial was irresponsible schools. They should be team this year o ur com m unities. D rug and undermines the hard A nother different proud o f their schools and abuse ruins teams, families, w ork o f those that are sports aspect is that the their community. We always marriages and communities. attempting to reduce drug feel welcome in Heppner. coaches are a lot harder here The purpose o f the abuse and restore athletic However, we are members than in Germany. But he sees d ru g -testin g program at and e x tra -c u rric u la r o f the community o f lone. that this is necessary to get Heppner was printed in the ex cellen ce in H eppner, We are committed to sending the work out o f the athletes H eppner G azette-T im es, Pendleton and throughout our children to lone schools and makes for a good team Nov. 10, two days before the Eastern Oregon B ack at home, The lo n e School E.O. editorial Fleischer’s parents, Asjad (s) Stuart Dick D istrict has sacrificed to “ 1) To provide for Pendleton and B arbara, own a honor their commitment to the health and safety o f all restaurant in the business o ffer fam ilies in the Drug testing co-curricular participants Lexington/Pine City area a district. He also has one 2) To undermine the should be for choice in education. We sister, Sinia, 10. Although effects o f peer pressure by appreciate them doing so. It F leisch er w as born and providing a legitimate reason everyone, not is difficult to comprehend raised in Germany, his father for participants to refuse to just students why a school board and their is from Bangladesh. use illegal drugs In his free time back To the Editor: superintendent, assigned the 3) To encourage I am in favor o f responsibility o f doing what at home, Fleischer enjoys participants, who are found random drug testing in our is best fo r stu d en ts, is playing video games and to be using drugs, to school. . if it is truly random fighting so hard against soccer with his friends and participate in drug treatment and as long as all students, also going out to the bars school choice. programs.” all te ac h e rs, prin cip als, (s) Brian and Peggy Doherty and clubs with his friends, The p aren ts, su p erin ten d en ts, school another difference he’s seen Lexington co ach es, teach ers, board members, janitors, between the countries. In administrators and elected Germany, the drinking age is cooks, secretaries, coaches, school board members in teacher’s aides and all school Gazette-Times to around 16 and it is more o f M orrow C ounty realize volunteers have their name be closed for a social factor than actually drinking in the random drawing. I Thanksgiving H ere in H eppner, would hope it would be truly Fleischer is staying with Bill random holiday Kuhn and Ann Spicer and the As for The H eppner cat, Tippy. “They are really confidentiality, forget it Gazette-Times office will be nice and I can speak with Everyone in Morrow County closed on T hursday and will know who is tested and Friday, Nov. 25 and 26 for them about everything,” said the results. the Thanksgiving holiday. Fleischer o f living in the You can put my The office will reo p en Kuhn/Spicer home On retu rn in g to name in the drawing too, if M onday, N ov 29 at its Germany, Fleischer will have you wish I will try to hit the regular time th ree m ore years o f cup schooling before he can (s) Mary Jean McCabe en ter u n iv ersity He is Heppner thinking about studying either law or history. I I I I M orrow C ounty I I Gun Club invites all shotgun I shooters to attend the first I shoot this season on Sunday, ■ ■ - j III a. ill. In 3 p.m. I Nov. 21, beginning at 12 V. Momm loint) I noon Non-members shoot Fairgrounds in Heppner I their first 25 clays free, after Çffts ?rjJ j {omemfJe Crtflte - Ltirjch wfflteblc I that it’s $3 50 per 25 Bring I %2 admission uro»s to Yoith Scholarships I your own shells or buy target Sponsored by Willow Valley Service Hob I loads at the club house Annual Membership Dinner Meeting The 60th Annual Meeting of Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative, Inc. will be held at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Hall, Heppner, Oregon, on Thursday, November 18, 2004. Registration will begin at 4:00 p.m., dinner at 5:15 p.m., and business meeting at 6:00 p.m. This meeting is for the purpose of electing four (4) directors, and for the transaction of any other business to properly come before this meeting. Gun Club news Saturday. Vnv. 2lllh j
