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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - NINE A view from the hill Heppner, Ione & Lexington By Doris Brosnan PROPERTIES FOR SALE Restaurant and Bakery Drive-In R estaurant and Bakery in Heppner Includes 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, large shop, extra lot and car wash (needs repairs) Live in the home and run the business! $ 295,000 3 bedroom, 2 bath home 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in Lexington Carpet and hardwood floors, lots o f storage Owners have up graded and taken excel lent care o f this home Two swamp coolers, hot tub (runs excellently), two sheds and wood stove included in price Large lot with carport Must see this home to appreciate! Sale Pending $85,000 2 bedroom, 1 bath home 2 bedroom, 1 bath home in Heppner with propane heat, new cabinets in the kitchen and built-in air. 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REALTOR H Celebrations are a mainstay o f the Willow Creek Terrace, for the residents and staff view them as necessary ingredients in life on the hill April began with an especially important celebration and included several more, large and small And looking into May sees it beginning on the same high celebratory note On April 5, Elmer Meligan celebrated his 92nd birthday with family and friends Meligan moved to Heppner and Willow Creek Terrace, near his son Jack and daughter- in-law Jo, after living in Oregon City for almost six years and Portland for forty years Minnesota, Iowa, Texas and Montana also provided homes for Meligan and his wife, Violet, with whom he shared 68 years o f adventures M eligan’s mother sensed that her little boy would become a carpenter and he did Still today, he looks at many constructions, small and large, with a carpenter’s eye Along his life’s way, however, adventures also took him into underground mining for three years, through 19 years’ challenges o f fox farming and to sometimes-hazardous heavy-construction work This family man with three boys and two girls helped build dams. Some Meligan has mentioned are the Canyon Ferry Dam in Montana, the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport, WA, and The Dalles Dam Photos displayed in “Elmer’s Lovenest” (according to the sign on his door) do depict many years o f a lot of love, o f friends and family. Meligan enjoys reading, playing Bingo, visiting and getting out and about Most o f the Terrace residents look forward to getting out and about more often as the weather warms. Soon, some will be working in the soil a little and some will be enjoying a new walk The recent rainfalls have been music to the ears o f those who understand the increasing need for moisture in the Willow Creek Valley and those raindrops are also bringing their terraced landscape to life again and preparing the soil for their flower and vegetable seeds The walkers look forward to the addition o f a new sidewalk, in a couple of weeks, which will complete a circuit o f the facility. Along the already-completed sidewalk, from the patio to the gazebo, lay the bricks purchased by donors to the Terrace, which provides some reading material for strollers Some residents have recently been out and about for an evening o f music, the Willow Valley Symphony and Singers concert at H eppner High School. “ It was wonderful,” one reports. Three residents and two staff members were out and about town, literally, last weekend in support o f a worthy cause They participated in the MS Walk, even though the weather was not toasty and dry. All pleasures do not require getting out and about, however, as the recent “high tea” proves. The Terrace hosted the afternoon affair for the local Red Hat Society, and both the men and the women joined in In preparation, the residents created individual high fashion designs for the high tea red visors personalized with a variety o f baubles, bangles and beads A good time was had by all, celebrating just because. May 1 will bring another birthday celebration to the Terrace, as Joe Wright turns 94 Wright lived in Gresham for 50 years and was in a freight business with a brother for over 20 years. Among his many stories from his freighting days are the ones o f hauling thousands o f pheasants to Reno and the one o f the fateful trip to Burns in 1930, soon after starting the business. That winter trip, on unimproved “cow trail” roads, in a blizzard between Burns and Bend, was filled with drama and trepidation It included vehicles stuck in snow and cars “frozen up” in the sub-zero temperatures. It ended for Wright and some other travelers at a ranch on the desert, to which he had to walk, during which his hands lost feeling and were burned in a campfire Eventually, he and others were rescued and taken back to Bums, where his hands were kept wrapped but not truly treated Not until two weeks later was he able to travel by train to Ontario and then on to Portland, where he had to have several fingers removed From the freighting business, Wright moved into the hauling o f lumber and, eventually, logs He and his wife o f 60 years, Maryette, lived on both sides o f the Oregon Cascades. They moved to Heppner many years ago and joined M aryette’s parents, the Hamlins, in the Aikens Pastime business for a year, but Wright says that his “ears would prick up every time I heard a log truck go by.” He decided that driving log truck was what he really wanted to do, so he bought a truck and began hauling locally The couple also owned a flower shop in Heppner for a couple o f years, and Wright would help Maryette after his runs They moved back to the west side for another several years before returning to Heppner Wright’s daughter Joan, now deceased, worked for many years as a nurse in Heppner His daughter Judy and her husband Delmer Buschke live in Heppner, too For his birthday, at least three o f his five grandchildren will join him for the celebration Yes, May will begin with another celebration at Willow Creek Terrace, just as April did, and celebrations big and small will surely continue throughout the month 1B0W. Baltimore «5 Heppner. 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