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
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$ 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
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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. Big 38’x28’
metal shop/garage in back
$72,500
3 bedroom, 1 bath mobile home
Take this one “as is” and get a good
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rage, two additions make for a
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5 bedroom, 3 bath home with view o f
city. 2857 sq. ft. makes this a great
home for kids! Yard, garage, hot tub
$ 110,000
3 bedroom 1 bath with extra lot
Home on double lot
Insulated shop with its
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price!
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3 bedroom, 2 bath (one with
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Newer manufactured home
on a foundation Oak cabinets
and many upgrades, including
underground sprinklers and
26x24 double garage/shop on
1 72 acres
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Two lots above
lake
Ready to build on.
One lot $ 20,900 the
other $19,500. View of
the lake.
PRICE REDUCED
$99,500
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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
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