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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 10,2005 - SEVEN Princess Heather at home on the ranch continued from page one busy. She plays volleyball and softball at Heppner High School where she will be a sen io r this year. She especially loves softball and has been playing “ since forever,” hoping to get a so ftb all sch o la rsh ip to college. And, to top it off. Heather helps out on the family ranch where she grew up, the T riple L C attle Company, and has a summer job working for the Oregon Youth Conservation Corps at C u tsfo rth and A nson Wright parks and the OHV park. H eather aspires to become a vet tech and her first choice in colleges is to attend E astern O regon University at LaGrande next fall. She is also considering Ontario Community College at Ontario. Heather’s queen this year is Jessica Wainwright. Heather and Jessica live only 10 miles from each other and have been friends since they were little. H e a th e r’s court horse is a big 13-year-old paint horse named “Billy Bob,” owned by Tom and Judy Lentz, B uttercreek. “H e’s a lot of personality. H e's a character,” laughs Heather. “He’s quite the pig. He loves to roll and I have to keep him clean and that's an issue.” “ He acts like h e ’s been doing the parade thing forever, but it’s just his first year,” adds Heather. Heather has been riding Billy Bob, who is unusually tall at 16- 1/2 hands, for the past three years. Besides Billy Bob, Heather has a Jack Russell Terrier, Roscoe, who is 11 weeks old. She also has a regular cow dog, Timmy, who is three years old. Easy going Heather says that “everything” has been fun th is y ear and doesn't even seem to mind the good-natured teasing she gets. “Everyone’s sarcastic,” she laughs. “And I, being a blonde, don’t really get it until about five m inutes la te r.” H er fa v o rite experience so far has been the first run-in at Prineville. “It was a rush,” exclaims H eather. “My heart was thumping. It was awesome.” Besides Prineville, the court has been to the Heppner St. P a tric k ’s p arad e, the H eppner L ight P arade, U m atilla L anding D ays, Athena, the Elgin Stampede, lone and Condon Fourth of July parades and the Irrigon Watermelon Festival and will attend the Hermiston Farm City Rodeo, the Pendleton Round-Up and, of course, the Morrow County Fair and Northwest Pro Rodeo. “The N.W. Pro Rodeo in Heppner is the third highest paid rodeo in the N.W. Pro Rodeo Association. They expect to double or triple the rough stock c o n te sta n ts,” says Princess Heather. “It’s going to be really good. We need a lot of fans and I want to get the crowd more involved than in the past.” She invites everyone to come out and enjoy the festivities. Look for a smiling Princess Heather at the fair and rodeo in her favorite o u tfit— black pants with chaps and a plaid shirt with rhinestones, accessorized with cowboy boots, a black hat and barbed wire jewelry (which she insists doesn’t hurt). WindWave Industrial park proposes Heppner continued from page one TV purchase continued from page one WindWave would com m it to upgrading all c u rre n t H ep p n er TV customers cable TV service by installing fiber optic lines to residences, while waiving the nonrecurring charge for this type of service (this would only cover existing members currently receiving services). The com m itted timeframe for this upgrade would be over the next five years. • WindWave would maintain existing pricing and service levels for at least the next 12 months. • U sing upgraded c a p a b ilitie s , W indW ave would expand the quality of services, to better compete with satellite offerings. This m ight inclu d e HDTV c h an n e ls, local programming, pay-per-view, video on dem and, and additional local educational content. • WindWave would attem p t to ex p an d the footprint o f TV services which might include future services to the communities of lone and Lexington. • WindWave would m ain tain the ex istin g employee base at Heppner TV, including the addition of company benefit packages id en tic al to that o f its existing employees. • WindWave would also commit to keeping the current headquarters for all cable TV service local to Heppner, with no changes to current staffing. • WindWave would assume all liabilities and assets of Heppner TV, with the e x cep tio n o f any p atro n ag e c ap ital or membership certificates (in lieu of upgraded facilities to member’s residences). WindWave believes it is important to continue providing a cost effective local cable TV solution to com pete w ith continued consolidation o f satellite serv ices n atio n ally . Maintaining and improving cable TV services locally is co m p lim en tary to W indW ave’s m issio n to improve and provide cost e ffe ctiv e advanced telecommunication services in Morrow County. As is required in the by-laws of Heppner TV, the members will need to vote to decide the outcome of this acquisition. A general notice will be made to all current members in the near future, with a vote scheduled to occur during the A ugust board meeting. • copast four years on the Sweet Home project, and there may be up to 60 jobs created there. W estern S tates R eliance Trust will soon have about $275 million in assets part of which will be used to finance the Heppner project. Western States is req u ired to d isp erse 85 percent of its profits to non profit organizations. So far the W estern S tates has contributed to eight different charities in the Sweet Home area. Last Friday Desler, and S tephen L aw n, an en v iro n m e n ta l serv ices specialist with Bergeson- B oese & A sso ciates o f Eugene, were in Heppner to examine the condition of the co-generation plant as well as seek fuel so u rces to operate the facility, and look o v e r the e n v iro n m en tal condition of the industrial park. He and Lawn talked to former Kinzua employees and also met with David Sykes and George Koffler of the W illow Creek Valley E conom ic D ev elo p m en t Group. A final announcement on whether the purchase will go through is expected to be announced within a couple of months. The co-generation facility has been shut down since a Canadian company o p e ra ted the fa cility intermittently and then left the area. An effort to sell the plant to another company also recently fell through. / \ iipszeialty Advertising Items Mugs Mouse pads Magnets Calendars Key Rings Sports Accessories Much More Call for pricing Heppner Gazette-Times more than Century Tel. “I with decorative rock and soil think I should only have to and used as a low pay franchise fees on the m aintenance area with a sam e rev en u e as Welcome to Heppner sign. The council also agreed to Century Tel,” Arbogast said. “I don’t want to have to pay apply for funds from the more than my competitors.” M orrow C ounty Tippage Mills said according to his Fee fund to pay fo r the research no city in Oregon project. “This town has more at this time is collecting parks than most towns our franchise fees for Internet size,” said councilmember service. “Heppner should Baker in support of the plan not be out on point on this,” instead of another city park. A report was given on the Mills recommended. “Let a bigger city pay the lawyer search fo r a new city fees to sort this out,” he manager. The League of O regon C ities has been added. Councilmember George contracted by the city to help Koffler agreed. “I don’t want find a new m anager. A to be the first one in the state. representative of the League I don’t think we should try will be in Heppner August 24 to institute a new tax,” he to go over resumes. A certain number of resumes will be said. The council instructed city picked out for background attorney Bill Kuhn to spend checks before the council some time researching the begins face to face franchise and come back for interviews. The council then heard more discussion at a future a report on the troubles with meeting. The council heard from the Senior Meal Site held D eputy Randy Rayburn, every Wednesday at the St. who requested the council Patrick’s Senior Center in co n sid e r adopting an Heppner. Councilmember Judy ordinance on cat control. Rayburn said he has had Buschke said the two cooks, som e co m p lain ts o f cat Cindy Kennedy and Debbie control problems, but the Basile have quit after having city has no ordinance to deal a dispute with Eva Mabbott, with cats. The city does have ex ecu tiv e o ffice r o f the laws on the books to deal senior services at CAPECO, with dogs. Rayburn said the which provides the meal site. Buschke said there have city of Irrigon has a cat ordinance, and if the council been on-going problem s wants the police to deal with between many of the staff cat com plaints he would and Mabbott, and added that need an o rd in an ce, she did not now if there otherwise he would have to would even be a meal site on tell people he had no Wednesday (August 10). She also reported there are authority. now five vacancies at the The co u n cil took no action, feeling there was not Senior Housing Center. enough o f a problem in Heppner. The council learned that a plan to have M oore Excavating tear down the old swimming pool and haul it o ff it does not seem feasib le. The pool was co n stru cted w ith lots o f re b a r w hich w ill m ake tearing out the pool very difficult. Order The city’s Parks and Lands C o m m ittee has held Yours Here m eetin g s and a public meeting to gather opinion and figure out what to do with the old pool. Since the old pool cannot be removed the options for use are now limited. Consensus of the council is that the pool will be filled in and then covered i--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 once the paving was completed. We just wanted to end it. It is a little bit of aggressiveness on our part, but we have already let it go on for 3 years,” he told the council. In other business the co u n cil heard from Bill Ferguson, the engineer on the city water project, who said ev ery th in g is on sch ed u le and the m ain project work should be done by the end of September. He said there are 19 people left working in Heppner for the c o n tra c to r M oore Excavation. Ferguson said the crew would be working on Balm Fork for one month hanging the main water line under the b rid g e. The m ain lin e is c u rre n tly buried under Willow Creek Lake and is being relocated. Other work that needs to be done is hook up the service lines from hom es to the m ain lin es already installed. Mills told the council that there is about $80,000 in the contingency fund that may be used to install water line on Baltimore Street, a street not included in the original project. The final amount for additional work has not been determined, however, the council voted to include Baltimore if there is enough money. In other action the council voted to move ahead with paving of North Main Street and Cam pbell Way. The council had earlier voted against the paving, but now reconsidered since learning that 75 feet of Main will be paved at no cost to the city. The council did not want to pave a patch in the middle of Main Street with the rest of the street unpaved. Also co n sid ered was that the paving could be done at a reasonable price of $6,600 since the paving company would already be in the area. The co u n cil had a d iscu ssio n w ith N ate Arbogast of WindWave a local telecom m unications com pany. The city is n eg o tiatin g a fran ch ise ag reem en t w ith both WindWave and Century Tel. Arbogast told the council the agreement presented to his company was not fair and said that the city charged him M agnetic Door Signs Heppner Gazette-Times 676-9228 MORROW COUNTY JACKPOT RODEO ENTRY FORM ENTRIES OPEN ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2005 BY CALLING 676-9451. ENTRY DEADLINE - 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2005. NO LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED, ALL ENTRY FEES MUST BE PAID BY AUGUST 18, 2005 BY 5 p.m. MUST BE MORROW COUNTY ALUMNI OR A MORROW COUNTY RESIDENT FOR ONE YEAR | i i j CIRCLE EACH EVENT YOU WISH TO ENTER I MUTTON BUSTIN (60 POUNDS AND UNDER) $20.00 CALF RIDING, AGES 9-13 (CAN USE TWO HANDS) $35.00 1 COW RIDING $40.00 JR. BREAK-AWAY ROPING, 14 AND UNDER (ONE HEAD) $30.00 Estate By DAVID SYKES SR. BREAK-AWAY ROPING, 15 AND OVER (ONE HEAD) $35.00 j PEE WEE BARRELS, 12 AND UNDER $15.00 JR. BARRELS, 13-17 $20.00 SR. BARRELS, 18 AND OVER $30.00 JR. GOAT TYING, 13 AND UNDER, BOYS AND GIRLS $25.00 REALTOR HOW PARENTS CAN HELP Past Real Estate columns and property listings are available at www.heppner.net/heritage continued from page one 676-9228 v_____________________ / GReal First-time home buyers usually have that first hurdle to overcome - the down pay ment cash. Since times have not been economically super, building up a savings account has not been easy. So where do you go for financial help? How about parents? In some families, gifts are easily given and parents are delighted to help their chil dren. For those fortunate enough to have parents who are both financially success ful and willing to share, home buying can be greatly simpli- Council okays music at the pool fied. Actually, such assistance is quite common. A recent study by the National Association of Realtors showed that 16% of all home buyers were aided by parents. However, for first time buyers, that figure rose almost double to 31%. One approach is an outright gift from Mom and Dad. In such a case, the lending insti tution will want a “gift letter” stating that the money is given freely and that all demands for repayment are waived. GOAT TYING, GIRLS ONLY 14 AND OLDER $30.00 AMATEUR CALF ROPING - TWO HEAD $40.00 (LIMITED TO THOSE WITH LESS THAN $1,000.00 LIFETIME | EARNINGS AND THOSE THAT HAVE NOT YET WON THE SADDLE) j OPEN CALF ROPING - ONE HEAD (CAN ONLY WIN SPURS ONCE) $35.00 | STEER WRESTLING - ONE HEAD $35.00 | TEAM ROPING- PICK A PARTNER/DRAW A PARTNER (YOU MUST BE IN DRAW) $70.00 per man PICK PARTNER’S NAME:_____________________________________ (ENTRY FEE ENTERS YOU IN BOTH) I CONTESTANT S NAME:____________________________________________ AGE:____________ | ADDRESS:_____________________________________________ PHONE:_____________________ | PLEASE MAIL COMPLETED ENTRY AND ENTRY FEES TO: MORROW COUNTY RODEO, ATTN. LYNN DEE RAMOS; P.O. BOX 113, HEPPNER, OR 97836 I ENTRY FEES NEED TO BE IN BY AUGUST 1 8TH. QUESTIONS: EVENINGS: 422-7559 I OR 561-5356, RODEO W EEK: 676-9451. RODEO OFFICE AT G RO UNDS OPEN | SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 THROUGH SUNDAY AUGUST 2 1 .9 a m. - 6 p.m. DURING FAIR 180 W. Baltimore #5 | & RODEO W EEK. W E W ILL BE TAKING CALL-IN ENTRIES FOR THE MORROW Heppner, OR 97836 i COUNTY RODEO STARTING SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 THROUGH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST , 17. PLEASE CALL 676-9451 TO ENTER BY PHONE. ALL FEES MUST BE PAID BY JfoäagejQuidiik A U G U S T 18 TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE ON SUNDAY, AU G U ST 21. (OTHER REALTOR B ATTRACTIONS: STICK HORSE RACES: 3 AND UNDER. 4-5 AND 6-7 AGE GROUPS JUST SHOW 541 676-9228 • UP AT RODEO WITH YOUR STICK HORSE ) - I F
