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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 20, 2005 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post 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) 676-92 ll.E - mail:editor<g>rapidserve netordavidfa’heppnernet. Website: www heppner net Post master send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O 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 S y k e s.....................................................................................................Publisher Katie F oster.......................................................................................................... Editor News and Advertising Deadline is 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 50c per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $5.50 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 written 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 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! Chamber Chatter By Claudia Hughes, executive director As I entered Heppner this morning for the first time in ten days, it was like taking a fresh look at our community. The tree-lined M ain Street, the flow er baskets, the businesses were all inviting. No, w e’re not located in the Canadian Rockies and we’re not a major tourist attraction, yet, but we truly have our own ambiance. What comes to mind is a big thank you to all our businesses who open their doors every morning. It truly takes determination, perseverance, creativity, a bit of luck, and a love of Heppner for that to happen, both from the business owners and from the employees who faithfully come to work each day and wear a happy face for all the people who pass through the doors. These dedicated people try new things, keep some of the comfortable old, and volunteer in many areas to keep Heppner’s vitality and help it thrive. They take one day at a time and offer their unique talents and skills to create a fine community for their friends, family, and strangers who pass by. People bravely start new businesses because it has been their dream. (Get your new 1900’s hat at the Victorian Rose to wear during “Celebrate Historic Heppner”.) Others keep working at the tried and true businesses with courage, energy, and dedication. They are downtown Heppner as are their clients in the city limits and out. Join the community in celebrating Heppner by shopping the sidewalk sales, entering the talent show, baking a pie, fishing in the first annual bass and crappie tournament, attending Dinner at the Cemetery, participating in the Ouilt show, all on July 29-31. It will be a chance to sit back and enjoy your friends and neighbors while celebrating the local talent in the area. Come and have fun! Have you noticed the new face in the Chamber office? Come by to say “Hi” to Sheila Piper, a native of the Willow Creek Valley, full of vim and vinegar and lots of new ideas. Third Thursdays at Chamber feature a member business. The Heppner Ranger District has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Forest Service and if all goes as planned Tom Mafera will be sharing “The Greatest Good”, a historical presentation of a longtime “business”. If not now, then later. Thought for the week: “A procrastinator is a person who puts off until tomorrow the things he has already put off until today.” TJijitui th e DCiiot ? H )e can he!ft! Come in a browse our large selection o f Wedding Invitations, Announcements and Accessories by Regency® Heppner Gazette-Times 676-9228 188 West Willow, Heppner ROSES.. fu st perfect for: ■f^rthdaqs A ROSE SPECIAL July 25th-30th One Dozen Roses for $25 (while supplies last) Editor's note. Letters to the Editor must be signed. The Gazette-Times w ill not publish unsigned letters. Please include your address and phone num ber on all letters (or 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 of $10.) Unfair asbestos bailout bill To the Editor: Any major building built before 1979 has the strong possibility of having Asbestos in it, including the w rapping around heating system s, w ater pipes and floor tiles. We now know that burning certain plastic products releases known carcinogens. A sbestos is dorm ant until disturbed. W hen it is saw ed, h am m ered , b roken or burned, it is very dangerous. Minute particles in the dust that workers breathe causes asbestos-related lung cancer. Asbestos can reside in your lungs for 10 to 50 years before it becomes an active small cell lung cancer . Asbestos will continue to increase in numbers for the next 20 years and will be blamed on smoking. Doctors just call it "lung cancer” . This is how it has been swept under the carpet for so many years. I have p erso n ally known several families who have lost th eir husband, father, b ro th e r and son, leaving behind wives and children with very limited means of support. In every case, the deadly cancer has been d ire c tly re la ted to asb esto s ex p o su re. T his leaves the burden of support for these families upon us as taxpayers. This bailout bill allows the corporation who allowed its workers to be exposed to asbestos to avoid responsibility for same. (s)Barbara Andrews Echo Asbestos bill bad for veterans The asbestos bailout bill before the US Congress is a bad deal for veterans, w ho w ere p o iso n ed by asbestos because they were helicopter mechanics in the Vietnam War. Or worked on tanks. They are also asked to give up their rights to hold the asbestos manufacturers accountable. It is a bad deal for victim s o f neighborhood asbestos exposure who are excluded from ever receiving compensation for medical bills, pain, suffering and death. A nd p lease d o n ’t forget about all our local mechanics that have in the past years worked on brake pads. It is also a bad deal for the US taxpayer, who will eventually bear the cost of this new and destined-to- fail bureaucracy. Who is it a good deal for corporations like WR Grace, Honeywell, and USG, who are given literally billions of dollars in liability relief when they k n o w in g ly manufactured a product they knew was killing veterans and civilians alike. (s) Robert H. Brown, Sr. Echo Don’t bailout big business To the Editor: I am worried, after reading about the asbestos le g islatio n in C ongress. Senator Arlen Spector (R- PA} who introduced the legislation is wanting us the U.S. taxpayers to bail out an o th er big b u sin ess industry, which has made billions. A nother group o f A m ericans are suffering because our co n g ress is bow ing to big business. W orkers who have spent their lives building, repairing and keeping this country great. I am talking about plum bers, steel w orkers, re frig e ra tio n w o rk ers, mechanics, carpenters and especially our veterans who have w orked on navel v e sse ls and tan k s from WWII to present. Asbestos is still in products today. Look it up on a co m p u ter. T h ese w orkers are dying from asbestos lung cancer. The medical bills, the worries about wives and children su rv iv in g w ith o u t th e ir support. That does not count fo r the em o tio n al and physical pain, suffering and death. This cancer can take 15 to 50 years to become activ e enough to be diagnosed. Doctors will be fin d in g this c an c e r for another 20 years. Why should we as tax p ay ers b ailo u t this in d u stry ? T hey are the resp o n sib le o n e s.-If you agree please call your U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, 503- 3 2 6 -7 5 2 5 , and G ordon Smith, 541-278-1129. Walden staff to hold office hours in Boardman, Condon, Fossil U.S. Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR) has announced that a member of his staff will hold office hours in M orrow , G illiam and Wheeler counties on Friday, July 22, to assist Oregonians with questions or difficulties they may have with various fed eral ag en cies or departments. Justen Rainey, who is based in Walden’s Bend office, will be available to answer questions concerning a g ricu ltu re, h ealth care, Social Security, taxation, economic development and education issues as well any other questions constituents m ight have co n cern in g federal government. It is not n ecessary to m ake an appointment. His schedule for the day is as follows: Boardman: Friday, July 22, from 8-9 a.m., city hall, council chambers, 200 City Center Circle. Condon: Friday, July 22, from 10:30-11:30 a.m., Gilliam County Courthouse, lower conference room, 221 South Oregon Street. Fossil: Friday, July 22, from 1-2 p.m., Family Services Building, Visitor’s Office, 401 Fourth Street. Congressman W alden re p re se n ts the S econd C o n g ressio n al District of Oregon, which in clu d es 20 c o u n tie s in southern, central and eastern Oregon. He is a member of the House Com m ittee on Energy and Commerce as well as the Committee on Resources. Link your web site to the Heppner Home Page Anyone who has a web site for their business, church or other organization in Heppner, Lexington or lo n e and w ould like to g en erate m ore traffic is encouraged to submit their site fo r lin k in g to the Heppner Home Page, says David Sykes, who maintains the web site. There is no charge to have your site or page linked to the Heppner Home Page, Sykes says. “All we ask is th at you put a re c ip ro c al link back to www.heppner.net. We want to put as much information as we can find about the local area on the Heppner Home Page,” he added. (s) Ella F. Sewell Web site address Echo can be e-m ailed to Veterans will suffer david @ heppner.net. America’s veterans early death will receive an have fought to protect the enormous windfall. Under rights of our countrymen, this b ill, many asb esto s EWU announces but our Congressm en are v ictim s, and a preparing to pass a bailout disproportionate number of dean’s list for the asbestos companies N avy vets w ill go Eastern Washington that would deny the rights of uncom pensated for their University has released its Navy vets sickened or killed medical bills, loss of wages, dean’s list. Following are by this substance. and pain and suffering. local students who have V eterans who T hey sh o u ld be qualified: Ashley Carmack, b ra v e ly and honorably Congress’s first priority, not lone. served their country will the special interests pushing suffer the consequences of this unfair and dishonorable this legislation while the bill. corporations responsible for (s)Glenda and Bill Hedge their physical suffering and LaPine, OR 97739 nm ve rscrrie s T ii on k You'« U u s t 6 ecause s I m <3 o r r 4 s ^ M umutj D m J vj Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 * Letters to the Editor 2 Serving ’7” Heppner, " Lexington 4 tone \ ~ THANK YOU ~ The Neighborhood Center would like to thank the Willow Creek Baptist Church, the Jericho Project team, Ted B ritt, Bruce Young and John G riffith for donating, hauling and ricking the fire wood that was brought to the Center. You are all greatly appreciated. mm DA’s Report M orrow C ounty District Attorney David C. A llen has released the following report: C arol T honore Warren, aka Carol Grover, p lead g u ilty to D riving U nder the In flu en ce o f In to x ica n ts, a C lass A m isd em ean o r, and was sentenced to 180 days in jail w ith 90 days suspended, w ith ap p ro v al fo r the e le c tro n ic su rv eillan ce program for 90 days, 24 m onths bench probation. She was ordered to complete an alcohol package and pay $2,071 in fines, fees and assessm ents. Her driving privileges were revoked for three years. She also plead no contest to another charge o f D riving U nder the Influence of Intoxicants and was sentenced to 180 days in ja il, w ith 60 days su sp en d ed to be served c o n cu rren tly w ith the previous sentence. She was approved for 120 days with electronic surveillance and 24 months’ bench probation. She was ordered to complete and alcohol package and pay $2071. H er d riv in g privileges were revoked for her lifetime. Jam es K enneth Ellison, 34, was convicted of two counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance II, a C lass C Felony and was sentenced to 18 m onths’ probation and 80 hours of com m unity serv ice, in addition to other numerous conditions of probation, and was ordered to pay $916 in fines, fees and assessments. His driving privileges were suspended for six months. Travis L. Grigsby, 25, was convicted of Failure to Register as a Felony Sex Offender, a Class C Felony, was sentenced to two years’ probation, in addition to other numerous conditions o f p ro b atio n , and was ordered to pay $666 in fines, fees and assessments. Gary Lee Murphy, Jr., 31, was convicted of Possession of a Controlled S u b stan ce II and was sentenced to 18 m onths’ probation, in addition to other numerous conditions o f p ro b atio n , and was ordered to pay $1,414 in fines, fees and assessments. His d riv e r’s license was suspended for six months. Sports physicals set Sports physicals are scheduled for August 2 and 3 at Pioneer Memorial Clinic in Heppner G irls in grades seven, nine and 11 and any who have not had a physical in the past year are scheduled for August 2 from 1:30 to 4:30 pm Boys in grades seven, nine and 11 and those who have not had a physical in the past year are scheduled for August 3 from 1:30 to 4:30pm. Coaches are asked to try to be there to assist.
