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City water project swings into high gear 11111111111 • 1111111111111111 ! • i I Bessie Wetzell Newspaper Lit-- rv Univ ersity o f Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 As a backhoe digs a trench on Riverside, a worker begins prep arin g to install new water pipe. VOL. 124 NO. 14 8 Pages Wednesday, April 6,2005 Voter registration deadline nearing for upcoming election There will be an election on Tuesday, May 17. The last day to register to vote for this election is April 26. The positions and candidates filed are listed below. Heppner Rural Fire Protection District: There are three Director at Large positions of four-year terms and one Director at large position for a two-year term. Filed for the election are: Donald Bennett, two-year term; Lyle Peck, four-year term; Brian Thompson, four-year term; and Mike Mahoney, four-year term. Heppner Cemetery Maintenance District: There are two Director at large positions o f four-year terms and one Director of large position for a two-year term. Filed for the election are: Thomas Wolff, position #3, two-year term; Christopher “ Kit” George, position #1, four-year term; and Albert Riney, position #2, four-year term. Heppner Community Education Committee: There are three positions, 1, 2 and 4 for four-year terms and three positions, 3, 5 and 6 for two-year terms. No candidates filed for any o f these positions. Heppner Water Control District: There are two Director at large positions for four-year terms. Filed for the election are: Robert Laughlin and Donald Bennett. lone Rural Fire Protection District: There are three Director at large positions for four-year terms. Filed for the election are: Billy Rietmann and Wayne Rietmann. lone Lexington Cemetery District: There is one Director at large position for a four-year term. Filed for the position is Edward Baker. lone School District: There are three positions, 3,4 and 5, for four-year terms. Filed for the election are: John Rietmann, position 3; Anne Morter, position 4; Joel Peterson, position 5. Boardman Rural Fire Protection District: There are three Director at large positions for four-year terms. Filed for the election are: Randy Yates, Rick Sandlin and Don Russell. Boardman Cemetery District: There are two Director at large positions for four-year terms. Filed for the election are: William Sharkey, David Pedro and Blair Purcell. Boardman Park & Recreation District: There are two Director at large positions for four-year terms. Filed for the election are: Karen Pettigrew and Kathy Moore. Boardman Community Education Committee: There are three positions, 1, 3 and 6, for four-year terms; and three positions, 2, 4 and 5, for two-year terms. Filed for the election are: Dean Mason, position 1; Sylvia Barrera, position 6; Alissa Daltoso, position 5; and Kelly Doherty, position 4. Irrigon Rural Fire Protection District: There are two positions, 3 and 4, for four-year terms and one*position, 2, for a two-year term. Filed for the election are: Mark Calbick, position 3; William Cooley, position 4. Irrigon Cemetery Maintenance District: There is one Director at large position for a four-year term. No candidates filed for this position. Irrigon Community Park & Recreation District: There are three positions, 1, 5 and 4, for four-year terms. Filed for the election are: Melodee Tovey, position 4; Albert Partlow, position 5, Burrel Cooley, position 1. continued page 2 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon WVSC to host senior girls’ luncheon Backhoe loads Roger Britt’s dump druck on Riverside On Wednesday, April 13, Willow Valley Service C lub is sp o n so rin g an invitation-only Senior Girls’ Luncheon for the girls’ and their mothers. The luncheon will be held at the Episcopal Church parish hall and will be catered by the ladies o f the church. W VSC m eets the first and third Thursdays o f each month for a noon no host lunch at John’s Place. New members are welcome. For more information, call 676-9705 or 676-5576 St. Patrick’s parish to honor pope A memorial mass in memory o f Pope John Paul II w ill be offered at St. Patrick’s Church in Heppner on Friday, April 8 at 10 a.m. Everyone is w elcom e to attend. Economic group to visit laminating plant considering Heppner location Next Tuesday a group from the Willow Creek Val ley Economic Group, and other interested officials, will visit a newly opened lamina tion plant in Molalla that has expressed interest in opening a similar manufacturing plant in Heppner. The group will visit Sa vanna Pacific’s new glue lam plant to see how the opera tion is proceeding. Savanna officials have met with mem bers o f W CVEDG the Port o f Morrow and other offi cials to talk about opening a plant at the industrial site in Heppner. If the business does locate in Heppner it is expected to hire between 20 and 30 em ployees. ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEM ENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. New water pipe is stacked on Riverside in preparation of city water project After using last week to set up a staging area on Riverside Street for pipe work, workers with Moore E xcavating o f Portland have begun laying pipes on Riverside Avenue as part o f the C ity o f Heppner’s water project, said City Manager Jerry Breazeale. The project on Riverside is expected to be com pleted in May. This deadline has been set so that the c o u n ty can prepare the road (grade and g ra v el w o rk ) for p a v in g , w h ich wi l l be completed by the state this summer. The entire city water ren iv a tio n p roject is e x p e c te d to take approximately 300 days to complete, and will include la y in g new w ater pipe under much o f the town. 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