TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
W ednesday, June 29, 2005
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of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
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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
^
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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
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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 !)