TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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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
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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
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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,
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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