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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 22, 2005 The Official Newspaper of the C ity o f Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S P S 2 4 0 -4 2 0 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Poet Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3.1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner. Oregon Office at 188 W Willow Street Telephone (541)676-9228 Fax (541 >676-9211 E- mail editor'aTapidaerve net or davidaheppoer net Website www heppner net Post master send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times. PO Box 337. Heppner. Oregon 97836 Subscriptions $25 in Morrow County. $19 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $31 elsewhere. $26 student subscriptions David Sykes ................................................................................................. Publisher Katie Foster.......................................................................................................... Editor Newt and Advertising Deadline It Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p m Cost for a display ad is $4 90 per column inch Cost for classified ad is 50< per word Coat for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words Cost for a classified drcpiay ad is $5 SO per column inch For Public/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 date must be specified if required) For Obituaries Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary wntten in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.net • Start or Change a Subscription • Place a Classified Ad • Submit a News Story • View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes • Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and morel DA’s Report The following report was released by M orrow County District Attorney David C. Allen: -Jaclyn Kay Smith, 21, was convicted of: Failure to A ppear-2, a C lass A M isdem eanor, and w as sentenced to 180 days in jail, suspended, with one year bench probation, 40 hours o f com m unity service, and $ 6 2 6 in fin es, fe e s and assessm en ts paid in $45 m on thly in stallm en ts; P oin tin g a Firearm at Another, an u n classified m isd em ean or, and w as sentenced to 30 days in jail, suspended, with six months’ bench probation with 10 hours o f community service and $126 in fines, fees and assessments. -Donald Ray Wright, 38, w as co n v icted o f U n law fu l P o s s e s sio n o f Destructive Device, a Class C Felony, and was sentenced to supervised probation for 36 months, 180 sanction units with 90 jail units and ordered to submit to breath or urine testin g for controlled substances or alcoh ol, participate in a substance abuse evaluation, permit probation officer to visit him, his work site or resid en ce, con sen t to a search, not p o sse ss w eap on s, firearm s or d an gerou s anim als, participate in a mental health evaluation, com p lete 80 hours o f community service and pay $916 in fines, fees and assessments, in monthly payments o f $45. -Eric Sanchez, 25, was convicted of: Unlawful Use o f a Weapon, a Class C Felony, and was sentenced to the custody o f the Oregon Department o f Corrections for 30 m onths with tw o years’ p o st-p riso n supervision and ordered to pay $932 in restitution to the C ity o f Irrigon; B eing a Felon in P ossession o f a Firearm, a Class C Felony, and sentenced to 30 months in the custody o f the Oregon Department o f Corrections to run concurrently. K enneth Jam es Sicard, Jr., 44, was convicted o f Criminal Trespass-2, a C lass C M isd em ean or reduced to a C lass A Violation, and was ordered to pay $626 in fines, fees and assessments in monthly $45 payments. -S h aw n M ichael Chandler, plead guilty to Possession o f a Controlled Substance, a Class C Felony, and was sentenced to 18 months’ formal probation, with 80 hours o f community service, ordered to complete a drug package and pay $921 in fines, fees and assessments in monthly $45 payments. Casey Ingraham receives nursing degree C asey Johanna Ingraham graduated from O regon H ealth S cien ces School o f Nursing on June 1. The commencement was held at the S ch w eitzer Concert Hall in Portland Her parents, Sally and Mark B rosnan, Buttercreek, and Mike and Wendy Ingraham, Vernonia, grandm other, Pauline M atheny, Heppner, aunt Patty Matheny and cousin Shane Matheny, Lexington area, were all on hand for the ceremony. C asey w ill b egin working July 1 in critical care at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Portland She is a 2 0 0 0 graduate o f Heppner High School. Births Olivia Dawn Foster- A daughter, Olivia Dawn, was bom Tuesday, June 21, 2 0 0 5 , at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, WA, to Katie and Chuck Foster o f Boardm an. T he baby weighed five pounds, six-1/ 2 ounces and measured 19 inches long G randparents are John and Kathy Marick o f Heppner and Norman and Joani Foster o f Forks, WA G reat-grandparents are Burton Burnside o f Sweet Home and Neva Lackey o f Winder, GA ÇJim a n d T tatkg G a n k in rfrutti! Ike honour o f you r freien er a t tke m arriage a l their daughter Hohhie Qian an kin fa rf)am d ri)&aylas Hates (Saturday, Qulg 2, 2 0 0 5 , 3 :3 0 p .m . Obituaries Heppner June Yard of the Month selected Iris Margaret Morton Brannon Word has been received o f the death o f Iris Margaret Morton Brannon, 92, on Friday, May 20,2005, at L ife Care C enter in Kennewick, Washington A graveside service for Mrs Brannon was held May 27, 2 0 0 5 , at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery Mrs. Brannon was born January 18, 1913, at Portland, to Homer J and Anna Gladys Morton She began her teaching career in a one room schoolhouse at Hardman around 1936 It Earl and Pggy Fishburn w as there she met her By Kay Proctor h u sb a n d -to -b e, M arvin E arl and Pggy Brannon, a Hardman native. F ish b u rn ’s hom e at 690 They were married June 26, Alfalfa has been chosen as 1938, at the Morton family the Heppner Yard o f the home in Portland Month for June After teaching for The Fishburn family several years at Hardman b o u g h t th e ir hom e in and Bums, the couple settled January, 1979, after Earl was in the John Day Valley where transferred here for his job Mrs. Brannon taught at John with the U S Forest Service Day, Mount Vernon, Fox and They had begun th eir Canyon City for over 40 m arried life in Y akim a, years, and Mr Brannon Washington, and the USFS served as Mount Vernon had taken them to W hite p ostm aster for over 25 Pass, Washington, Paisley, years. and Unity in Oregon Within A gifted calligrapher a short time o f moving into and painter, Mrs. Brannon th e ir H eppner hom e, illustrated a children’s book construction began on the published in the 1940s and Willow Creek Dam Alfalfa won awards for her artwork. Street is the last parallel Her music ability and artistic street before the dam and talen ts led to service as C o rp s o f E n g in eer land organist, pianist and church borders Fishbum’s backyard bulletin creator. She actively so they had a close-up view participated at her church in o f the building process One service and leadership roles o f the sides o f their one-and- and was an ordained elder o f a-half lot-sized property is the Presbyterian Church. the abandoned Balm Creek She b elon ged to road A switchback trail that m u ltip le ed u ca tio n a l is p o pu lar w ith w alkers organizations, often serving begins at the old road site in leadership roles. and follows the hill to the RV She enjoyed knitting, park. Every spring and crocheting and mg hooking summer, the youthful sounds She and her husband o f baseball games can be cared for her mother, Anna, heard from G eorge during her last years. Her W aterland Field, a short mother and her husband, block away which is very Marvin Brannon, both died appropriate for Earl who in 1984, and Mrs. Brannon served as Little L eague’ moved to Woodbum to be president for over 10 years closer to her sister, Nadine Many o f Heppner’s She m oved into a “ old tim e rs” recall the senior retirement facility resid en ce as the W ade there and continued her B othw ell hom e, a local involvement with church, contractor, who built the friends, and teaching young house in the 1930’s for his R ussian girls to speak own family and the house English. next door for his brother. A fter su fferin g When Fishburns moved in, several strokes, she moved th e re w as a sidew alk to Kennewick in 2002 to be co n n ectin g the tw o near her brother, Donald, backyards. Due to cracking and had spent the last five from tree roots, the sidewalk years at Life Care Center o f w as rem oved, but the Kennewick original connecting gate Survivors include remains As the sidewalk was her brother, Donald Paul rem oved, the Fishburns Morton Sr., o f Kennewick discovered that newspaper and many n ie c e s and had been laid on the ground nephews and other family before pouring the cement members. She was preceded and a large slab o f concrete in death by her husband, still had a clear imprint from M arvin, by her parents the newspaper underneath it. Homer and Anna Morton, The imprinted slab sits in her sister, N adin e, and their wood shed brother, Osmon The house, yard, Mueller’s Tri-Cities rock garage, root cellar, Funeral Home o f Kennewick chicken coop, wood shed w as in charge o f and an u n d eterm in ed arrangements outbuilding that son Mark used as a playhouse all show the character and sturdiness M a g n e tic o f the 1930’s era The D oor Signs Bothwell’s met the challenge o f their steep hillside by dry H ERE stacking a large variety of Heppner Gazette-Times stones and creating three 676-9228 terraces that run the entire depth o f the property The Fishburns make good use o f these terraces with fruit trees, vegetables, shrubs and perennials The two share a gardening philosophy o f “Let Nature take its course”, but N ature has a helping hand from Peggy and Earl on the corner o f Alfalfa Street Walking through the F is h b u rn ’s yard is like walking through a nursery or thum bing th ro u g h a gardening catalog Their orchard has Italian prune, apples, apricots, pie cherry, freesto n e peach, plum s, filbert and walnuts. In the vegetable/berry garden there are rhubarb, raspberries, quince, g o o seb e rries, to m ato es, squash, horseradish, red currants, straw b erries, asparagus, seedless grapes and a red, seedy berry they have nicknamed a ‘thornberry’. Peggy has a food dryer that she puts to good use Inspired by her g ran d m o th er, a bed o f several varieties o f mint grows by Peggy’s back door. They are there to wipe one’s feet on so the fragrance o f mint follows one’s footsteps. O rnam ental tre e s include several junipers, a green spruce and a maple. Several types o f shrubs are intermingled throughout the yard such as arborvitae, burning bush, butterfly bush, O regon grape, lilacs and junipers. A mature Beauty Bush anchors a corner o f their front yard showing off its peeling bark and dainty pink blooms. P eren n ials are everywhere throughout the yard in colorful abundance Some are peonies, irises (miniature and standard), d aisies, yarrow , pinks, pincushion, sandswort, flax, California poppies, snow in sum m er, ru d b eck ia, sunflowers, red hot poker, ribbon g rass, sedum s, colum bine, snow on the mountain, orange daylillies, coreopsis, carnations, red poppies, bachelor buttons, co ral bells, lavender, bleeding heart and hybrid lupine There are vines, also, such as vinca, tru m p et, honeysuckle and ivy. Every Spring, daffodils, grape hyacinths and crocuses start off the growing season with their bright colors scattered throughout the beds O ut o f all o f the plantings, Peggy’s favorites are the hybrid roses by the secluded backyard patio Earl’s favorite is the huge, Generous contributions make the lone 4th of July celebration possible. If you would like to contribute, please return this form with your donation to lone 4th of July, P.O. Box G lone, O R 97843. a t B u rton (Valley diradata 'Qanhin M ane, X x p p n er S te r p i inn le (eittun a! r 4n ten TOrtyh! ^Paett Name_______________________________________________ Address. Donation » shady w alnut tre e that produces a heavy harvest the Fishburns enjoy using or sharing. Their double patio swing is the favorite spot of both Fishburns. O f course, wildlife is attracted to such abundance and the Fishburns are visited by deer. Quail enjoy taking dust baths at the edge o f the garden Earl keeps feeders full o f hummingbird nectar, wild bird seed and black Nijer thistle There are two well visited birdbaths, one of them heated during winter He has spotted 25 to 30 species o f birds including dove, red-winged blackbird, bluebird, rufus towee and bunting. Peggy and Earl share their yard with Pepper, a cat who showed up one day and stayed Peggy works as a sales clerk/bookkeeper for Heppner Hardware and is the “weeder” in their yard. Earl is retired now «o he is the official lawnmower. He also keeps busy at the Willow Creek Country Club golfing and volunteering An active volunteer in the past with school activities, Peggy also keeps busy with the United M ethodist Church T heir tw o d au g h ters, Kristine and Erin, graduated from Heppner High School as did son Mark and live elsewhere now There are five Fishburn grandchildren who love to visit Grandma and Grandpa in Heppner and Peggy and Earl are waiting there in their charming home and yard on Alfalfa Street to welcome them Bridget McElIigott earns doctorate Bridget (McElIigott) Sarfino, daughter of L J and the late Maryan McElIigott o f lone, recently graduated with a doctorate o f nursing from th e U n iv ersity o f C olorado at Denver The May 27 ceremony took place at the Health Science Center and was attended by her father, husband Derek and in-laws, Mr and Mrs Joseph Sarfino o f Silver Springs, Maryland Sarfino is a 1995 g ra d u a te o f lone High School and a 1999 graduate o f R egis U n iv ersity in D enver She is currently employed as a critical care nurse at the V eteran ’s Administration Hospital at Denver
