Doherty appointed Lexington mayor;
Orwick, Steagall named to council
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Bessie Wet/eil Newspaper Library
University of Oregon
Eugene. OR 97403
VOL. 124
NO. 42
8 Pages
Wednesday, October 19,2005
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Volunteers clean up Willow Creek Lake
Left to right hack: John Edmundson, Leon Bowles, Dave Brown, Jerry Ellenberger, Ellen
Ellenburger, Beth Jeffreys, Kyle Taylor, Katie Tayloe and Courtney Tayloe. Front: Nicole
Brown, McKennen Murphy, Ken Stookey, Lynelle Bowie, Ay la Fuimaono and Micheál
Wellman. Not pictured are Cindy Taylor and Ida Bowles.
Volunteers pull wire out of the ground. Pictured left to right: Micheál Wellman, Lynelle
Bowie and McKennen Murphy.
A clean up effort last line that ran through the
weekend at Willow Creek area, and a shopping cart
Lake rounded up 25 bags of under the bridge.
“We had a better
trash collected from the
turnout
than I expected.
shoreline, organizer Dave
Brown told the H eppner They all worked hard and
were very e n th u sia stic ,”
Gazette Monday.
Brown says a group Brown said of the clean up
of about 17 participated in effort.
Donations from the
the clean up with people
working from 9 a.m. to I following businesses and
p.m. both Saturday and individuals that made this
clean up possible include
Sunday.
L anes,
The
v o lu n teers S ham rock
started at the upper parking Northwestern Motel. Willow
lot and worked their way Creek Diner and Bakery,
around the edge of the lai.e B ucknum 's, C entral Red
picking up broken glass, Apple, Willow Creek Clinic,
plastic bottles, tires, old wire C ity o f H ep p n er Public
D ept.
of
from a wooden-piped water W orks,
Transportation Maintenance
D ep t., C indy T ayloe,
D e stin a tio n D etail and
Heppner T.V.
HHS to present
offbeat comedy
The Heppner High
School Drama Department
will present the play, “Help!
I ’m T rap p ed in a H igh
School !” on Wednesday and
Thursday. November 9 and
10, at 7 p.m. at the Heppner
High School cafeteria.
A dm ission for the
“ w o n d erfu lly
o ffb eat
comedy” is $1 each.
ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEM ENT DEADLINE:
M O N D A Y S AT 5:00 P.M .
The Lexington City
Council voted to appoint
Lexington attorney Valerie
Doherty as Lexington mayor
during their regular meeting
held Tuesday, October 11.
The two remaining
c o u n cil m em b ers, Jean
Brazell and Kirk Looslie,
ap p ro v ed
D o h e rty ’s
appointm ent as previous
mayor, John Edwards, and
previous council member for
position two, Luella Taylor,
had been recalled. Prior to
appointing Doherty, Looslie
and Brazell accepted the
e le c tio n re su lts w hich
recalled Edw ards, 63-42,
and Taylor, 65-40. Council
member Jean Brazell will still
face a recall election on
November 8.
Doherty led a brief,
ordered meeting after she
was sworn in by Lexington
recorder Nicki Clement.
The co u n cil then
approved the appointment of
M ike O rw ick to council
position two and Beverly
Steagall to position three.
Both had in d ic a ted the
position they desired. Marcia
Kemp and Sam Martin also
said they were interested in
serving on the council, but
had not indicated which
position they desired.
In other business, the
council:
-approved a request
fo r up to $500 from
Lexington Fire Chief Charlie
Sum’ner, w ho re q u e ste d
funds to hire an electrician
to w ire in a new air
compressor at the fire hall.
Sumner also said the fire
department has funds left
over from a grant which the
department would like to use
to purchase new equipment.
He added
th at tw o
firefighters will be taking
their entry level classes.
-heard a report from
Dan M arshall, Lexington
maintenance, who said that
a log jam on Willow Creek
could create flooding. He
said that the owner of the
property at the log jam site.
Beryl Stillman, had given
permission for the town to
remove the logs. Marshall
su g g ested that people
needing firewood may want
to remove the logs.
- a p p r o v e d
publishing a legal notice
seeking an engineering firm
to c o m p lete the to w n 's
W ater M anagem ent and
C o n se rv a tio n Plan. The
town has up to $75,000 to
hire an engineer to complete
the Water Management and
Conservation Plan by March
of next year.
-approved increasing
the mileage reimbursement
rate to 48.5 cents per mile
for employees using their
ow n v eh icles fo r tow n
business.
-ap p ro v ed
the
October bills.
-learned that seven
accounts had been notified
that their water service was
to be d isco n n e c ted on
October 17.
-le a rn e d that an
O regon D ep artm en t of
Transportation grant to pave
L ex in g to n stre e ts was
denied. The town plans to
resubmit the request next
year.
Lexington Mayor Valerie Doherty (right) sworn in by recorder
Nicki Clement.
New Lexington Council member Mike Orwick sworn in by
Clement.
Clement swr irs in new council member Beverly Steagall.
-received notice that
the tow n is req u ired to
com plete an Em ergency
Response Plan by October
21. Brazell offered to help
in completing the project.
-learn ed that the
tow n receiv ed around
$5,106 for new fire hydrants
from the county’s tippage
fees, a llo c ate d by the
county's Need and Issues
Committee. Marcia Kemp
commented that she believed
the tow n should have
received a larger portion of
the monies allocated, w hich
am ounted
to
around
$ 1 20,000.
Kemp
volunteered to serve as the
town's representative on the
co m m ittee and o ffered
assistance to the town in
applying for grants. The
council agreed by consensus
that Clement should be the
town's representative on the
co m m ittee.
at
least
temporarily.
-on the advice of
D oherty,
tab led
the
remainder of old business
until the next meeting so that
the new council members
could have time to read the
material.
-heard a concern
from Lexington resident
D orothy E dw ards w ith
regard to the town missing
the original deed for the
town's Well #3. The deed is
recorded at the courthouse,
but the town does not have
the original deed, only a
copy. Council members did
not believe that obtaining the
original was necessary as
long as it had been recorded.
Two headed snake found in Heppner
Which way do we gu?
A two-headed bull snake was found Monday by
Rita Woolsey while working in her yard at her home near
the Morrow County Sheriff 's Office in Heppner.
Both heads on the snake were functioning with
the tongue com ing from each head som etim es
simultaneously and sometimes separately.
After a photo session at the Gazette-Times the
snake was released back into the w ild.
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