TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 20, 2005
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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.”
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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
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~ 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.
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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.