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.
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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
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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
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