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TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon W ednesday, June 29, 2005 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow H eppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S PS 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered u 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 editorairapidserve net or davidia'heppner net W eb site www heppner net Post master send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Tunes, PO Box 337, Heppner. Oregon 97836 Subscriptions $25 in Morrow County. $19 senior rate (in Morrow County only , 62 years or older), $ 3 1 elsewhere. $26 student subscriptions David S ykes................................................................................................... Publisher Katie Foster ........................................................................................................ Editor News and Advertising Deadline Is M onday at 5 p.m. For Advertising advertising deadline is M onday at 5 p m C ost for a display ad is $4 90 per colum n inch C ost for classified ad is 50# per word C ost for C ard of Thanks is $10 up to 100 w ords C ost for a classified cksplay ad is $5 50 per colum n melt For Public/Legal Notices public/legal notices deadline is M onday at 5 p m Dates for p l i cation m ust be specified Affidavits m ust be required at the time of subm ission Affidavits require three w eeks to p rocess after last date of publication (a sooner return date m ust be specified if required) For Obituaries Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet new s guidelines Fam ilies w ishing to include information not included in the guidelines or w ho w ish to have the obituary wntten in a certain way m ust purchase advertising space for the obituary On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.net • Start or Change a Subscription • Place a Classified Ad • Submit a N ew s Story • View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes • Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! lone plans two-day Fourth of July festival The 2005 lone Fourth o f July Festival will get underway Sunday, July 3, w ith th e annual g o lf tournam ent at the China C reek G o lf Club at Arlington, teeing off at 10 a m. A bus leaves from lone High School at 8:30 a m. with sign-ups at China Creek at 9:30 a m. From 5:30-6:30 the b ouncing room at the children’s space walk will be open The talent show gets underway at 6:30 p.m. that day with prizes for everyone and special prizes for first through third place. Contact LynnDee Ramos, 422-7559, to sign up. Poster contest winners will be announced. Food vendors are open in the park and people are invited to bring their own coolers. Collier’s market will be open from noon to 10 p.m. M usic in the park will begin at 8:30 p.m. with Zac Grooms and the band, “Unwound” . Get an early start on the Fourth with the Dawn’s E arly L ight Fun Run b eginning at 7:30 a m. C o n ta ct D ale or K aren Holland, 676-5034, to sign up The children’s fish pond, balloon races and horseshoe pit opens at 10 a m. The parade with the them e, “Red, W hite and Blues-Crusin’ to the Blues” begins at 11am . with grand marshals, Laurel Cannon, Irene Holtz, Jean Jepsen and Judy Rea, and the Blues Cruise Classic Car Show. At noon the food vendors will open in the park. Collier’s Market will also be open from 7 a m. to 8 p.m. O th er scheduled events are: pie and coffee in the fire hall, a used book sale outside the fire hall and bingo in the Legion Hall Also at noon the children’s games and other activities get underway with the straw money pile, frog jumping (fro g s a p p ro v ed ), space walk bouncing room, bicycle raffle, dunk tan k , open volleyball, ducky race and b o u n c in g /w a te r slide (weather permitting). The pool will be of>en with a fee swim from 2-4 p m. The B lues m usic festival begins at 3 p.m. with h e a d lin e r C h arlie Musselwhite, a big guitarist sm ackdow n w ith Jo h n Koonce and Terry Rob and more music The B lues C ruise Classic Car Show awards will be presented at 5 p.m. and a benefit auction will begin at 7 p.m. For more inform ation on the Blues C ruse C lassic C ar Show contact Chuck Nelson, 989- 8148. Fireworks begin at dusk Cruisin’ to the Blues buttons will be on sale all weekend for $10 each for a chance at several $25 drawings. (Must be present to win.) All proceeds benefit the lone Fourth o f July fund Over the Tea Cup Willow Creek Country Club Ladies held a playday June 21 with the following results: Low gross o f the field: Virginia Grant and Eva Kilkenny Low net o f the field: Jackie Allstott. Least putts o f the field: Bernice Lott Flight A Low gross: Corol Mitchell. Low net: KarenThompson. Least putts: Loa Henderson. Flight B Low gross: Lois Hunt. Low net: Luvilla Sonstegaard Flight C Low gross: Joanne Barbee. Low net: Lorrene Montgomery Least putts: Pat Dougherty Chip ins: Virginia Grant, #10 and #12; Jackie Allstott, #12. Virginia Grant had a birdie on #10. A nine-hole invitational will be held on June 28 G-T closed July 4 The Heppner Gazette-Times will be closed on Monday, the Fourth o f July News and advertising deadline for the July 6 newspaper will be this Friday, July 1, at 5 p.m. Have a safe and happy Fourth DA’s Report O bituaries M orrow C ounty District Attorney David C A llen has release th e following report: Justin Jay Shelton, 28, was convicted o f four counts o f Sexual Abuse I, a C lass B felony, and was sentenced to 75 months in the Oregon Department o f Corrections, 10 years post prison supervision and was ordered to pay 42,656 in fines, fees and assessments Bobbie Leslie Wade, plead no c o n test to U n au th o rized U se o f a M otor Vehicle, a Class C felony, and was sentenced to 24 m o n th s’ form al p ro b atio n , 80 h o u rs o f community service and was ordered to pay $921 in fines, fees and assessments D aniel Joe H urn plead guilty to Harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, suspended, w ith 20 hours community service ancj was ordered to have no offensive physical contact with the victim, complete a DV package, com plete a b a tte r e r ’s in te rv e n tio n program, write a letter o f apology to the victim and pay $564 in fines, fees and assessments. Hurn was also in violation o f probation and probation was extended for one month with credit for five days served. R o b ert M ichael White plead no contest to M enacing, a C lass A m isdem eanor, and was sentenced to 180 days in jail, suspended, with 40 hours com m unity serv ice, 12 m onths’ bench probation, ordered to have no contact with the victim and pay $ 131 in fines, fees and assessments. Obituary Joyce Marie Adams The funeral for Joyce Marie Adams will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 2, at The Rock Community Building in Spray. Concluding service and burial will follow at H aystack C em etery near Spray Mrs. Adams, 74, o f Spray, died Thursday, June 23, 2005, at her home She was born July 8, 1930, on the family ranch in the Haystack Valley near Spray, to Pence and Eula Bennett Brisbois. She came from a long line o f native Oregonians going back to her great-grandfather, Oliver Brisbois, who was a French voyager, w orking in the employ o f Dr. McLaughlin She loved history, especially family genealogy and could recite long lines o f her family tree A lifelong resident of Spray, she graduated from Spray High School in just 3- 1/2 y ears S h o rtly after graduating she fell in love w ith O dell A dam s. The couple m arried Feb. 27, 1948, at Goldendale, Wash. Their only daughter, Candy, was bom in 1950. Mrs. Adams was a longtime supporter o f the local school. She was one o f the driving forces behind the establishment o f the local museum and many o f the items on display are from her own collection. Survivors include her husband, Odell Adams, o f Spray, daughter, Candace Humphreys and her husband, D avid, of Spray; g ra n d c h ild re n , C hris H um phreys, R ebecca Humphreys and Angelica Humphreys, and three great- g ra n d ch ild ren ; a sister, P a tricia A dam s of Kennewick, Wash, and many brothers- and sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in d eath by her p aren ts, brothers, Bill Brisbois, and Lee B risb o is, and a grandson, Paul Humphreys. M e m o r i a l contributions may be made to th e Spray P ioneer M useum , P.O. Box 84, Spray, OR 97874 Sweeney M ortuary o f Heppner is in charge o f arrangements. Death Notice G e o rge Bulow George Bulow, 87, Irrigon, died Tuesday, June 21, 2005, at his home. Arrangements were pending at B urns M o rtu ary o f Hermiston. Marriage licenses The Morrow County Clerk’s office has issued the following marriage licenses during the past week: June 24: Ubaldo S. Perez, 23, Umatilla, and Gabriela C. Perches, 23, Umatilla. June 24: Larry Leo Earnest, 51, Irrigon, and Portia Charlene Stafford. 52, Irrigon June 27: Pedro Cisneros, 36, Boardman, and Imelda Navarro, 21, Boardman Correction ^ b ' i Shaun D rake C h an d ler, 32, w ho is employed with Bailey Heavy Equipment in Heppner, is not the same man who was listed in the DA’s report June 22 . Shaun M ichael Chandler, not Shaun Drake Chandler, plead guilty to Possession o f a Controlled Subsiance. BMCC announces summer hours Summer hours for July and August for all Blue Mountain Community C ollege locations are as follows: Monday through Thursday, 8 a m.-5 p.m.; Friday 8 a m.-12 noon. BMCC Pendleton Library hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a m.-6 p.m. through July. The library will be closed the entire month o f August BMCC Pendleton Bookstore hours are M onday th o u g h Thursday 7:30 a m -4 p.m. and Friday 7:30 a m - 11 a m All BMCC lo cation s will be closed Monday, July 4 C a le d o n ia n G am es Jvaly 9 th 4c 10th C ity P a r k in A th e n a , O r e g o n Scottish music, sheepdog trials and the caber toss! All free at Caledonian Games! Concert and dinner at City Park on July 8th featuring Scottish entertainer, Red McWilliams Full schedule at www.athenacaledoniangames.org OR e-mail atadmlngathenacaledoniangames.org for information Letters to the Editor Editor's note: Letters to the Editor must tie signed. The Gazette-Times w ill not publish unsigned letters. Please include your address and phone num ber on all letters for use by the G-T office. The G-T reserves the right to edit. The G-T is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. (Any letters expressing thanks w ill be placed in the classifieds under ‘Card of Thanks' at a cost o f $10.) Fish ruling alarming To the Editor: The US District Court’s decision to in v a lid a te th e federal government’s plan for fish survival at the dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers is deeply disappointing Its ruling th at o rd e rs m ore water to be spilled through five dams on those rivers is alarming to those o f us in the electric utility industry. In c re a se d spill means less water can be used for power generation, which in turn means higher electric rates will have to be charged to ratepayers o f the B onneville Pow er Administration in Oregon, W ashington, Idaho and Montana In addition to the higher power rates caused by the loss o f more than $67 million, federal biologists estimate that increasing spill could significantly worsen the survival rate o f the Snake River Fall Chinook during the summer o f 2005. The National Marine Fisheries Service, now know n as NOAA- Fisheries, developed a plan for fish su rv iv al using decades o f research and analysis. This plan calls for transport o f young salmon as far downstream as possible in o rd e r to avoid the predators that warm water a ttra c ts. In creased spill m akes th is m uch less effective because fewer fish can be collected and moved downstream Salmon have been returning in record numbers for the past five years Despite disappointing runs so far this year, endangered salmon are still doing much better than they have in a long time What we’re doing is working The plan that is in place has been e ffectiv e, and yet environm ental advocacy groups are ignoring good science to further their goal o f dam removal. We believe it is unconscionable that one City mails water report T he C ity of Heppner’s water quality has been mailed to residents. The report describes the quality o f the c ity ’s drinking water and explains h ealth in fo rm atio n , m onitoring data and the sources o f water The re p o rt also provides updates on the progress o f the city’s water supply d ev elo p m en t projects Anyone who did not receive a copy o f the report in the mail may pick one up at City Hall or call 676-9618 to receive one District Court judge that is not a biologist or scientist is making decisions in regard to salmon, river operations, power generation and the economy o f the Northwest The N O A A -F ish eries agency has expert biologists hired for the purpose o f restoring endangered salmon to o ur rivers. T h eir professional knowledge and efforts should be respected, and their plans followed in a biologically sound manner T h e B o n n ev ille P o w er A d m in istratio n , N O A A - Fisheries and U S Army C o rp s o f E ngineers, the federal government agencies involved should appeal the decision. The electric utility associations o f which our utilities are members are working hard to overturn Judge Redden’s decision and return com m on sense to im proving salm on runs. Salmon need our help, and ratepayers and businesses in the N orthw est need their voices heard. Cathy Wilson, General Manager Wasco Electric Cooperative, Inc. The Dalles, Oregon Dwight Langer, General Manager Northern Wasco County PUD Tom Svendsen, General Manager Klickitat County PUD Goldendale, Washington Jim Stubblefield, General Manager Columbia Power Cooperative Association Monument, Oregon John Gerstenberger, General Manager Hood River Electric Cooperative Odell, Oregon Jerry Healy, General Manager Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative Heppner, Oregon Sign up for lone talent show T he th ird annual lone Talent Show will be held at th e lo n e A m phitheatre on Sunday, July 3, beginning at 6:30 p m The show is open to kids 18 and under P rizes w ill be awarded to all entrants. Top awards will be presented to first, second and third place winners. For early registration call Lynn Dee Ramos, 422- 7559, or registration is also available the evening o f the show by 6 p.m ATTENTION ALL YOUTH C o m p le te d 7 - 1 2 Hringyour parents fo r an end of the year barberue bash with the youth from the “Jericho“project! Food and Fun for All! Water balloons will be ready to launch! Thursday, July 7th. 7 p.m. at the Fairgrounds W illow Creek Community Youth Group For more information, rail Keith at 676-5656 (N o you th g ro u p this w eek ... ta k e this w e e k o ff to re s t up y o u r a n u s !)
