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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 8,2006 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) 676-9211. E- mail: editor(“ rapidscrve nct or david(? heppner nei Web site: ww w heppner.net. Post master send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times. PO 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 Foster.......................................................................................................... Editor All 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 For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author. The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters. All letters M UST include the author’s address and phone number for use by the GT office. The GT reserves the right to edit letters. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks" at a cost of $10. On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.net • Start or C hange a Subscription • Place a C lassified Ad • Subm it 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! Morrow County School District blocks MySpace.com continued from page one after further investigation, a M orrow C ounty adm inistrator was able to gain access to a number of “ p riv a te ” student sites inadvertently through other s tu d e n ts ’ “o p e n ” sites, shedding light on the dangers and m isco n cep tio n s of internet safety. One principal noted that all they had to do was log on to MySpace.com, type in a student’s name, and they had complete access to her age, cell phone number, where she goes to school, where she likes to hang out, etc. As A lex an d ria Rocha, news columnist from the Palo A lto W eekly reported, “besides posting p ersonal in fo rm a tio n ..., som e stu d en ts are also putting highly suggestive sexual and drug and alcohol re lated co n ten t on th eir profiles.” Nancy Pasternack of the Santa Cruz Sentinel rep o rts that. “ P la y b o y ’s current campaign, the Girls of M ySpace, solicit nude photos...to be considered for p u b lic a tio n in the magazine.” Jim Boyce, dean of student affairs at White R iver High School in Buckley, Washington, states, “ We have seen a very n eg ativ e im pact w ith MySpace.com as students from our school and others use it for negative purposes such as threats, harassment and malicious gossip.” M ost PTA and parent-help organizations strongly encourage parents to ed u cate th em selv es thoroughly by visiting the site to see how it works. Some sites of help to parents may be: netn an n y .co m , getnetwise.org, w ire d safe ty .o rg and safekids.com. State erf Oregon Public Encouraged to Attend Meetings on Water Quality Planning for Willow Creek Basin Departm ent of Hosted by Morrow SWCD DEQ First Tuesdays in March, 5 p.m. at the Morrow Soil and Water Conservation District Office, 430 Heppner/Lexington Highway DEQ is studying water quality in Willow Creek and its tributaries. Temperature and pH measurements in Willow Creek periodically exceed State water quality standards. Bacteria levels in the Balm Fork are above standards as well. The study will determine target levels of pollutants or other controls needed for streams to meet standards. Plans will then be prepared by land and water management authorities to achieve those goals. We want to hear your questions and concerns. On March 7 and subsequent meetings. DEQ staff will present findings and will he available to answer questions and discuss what this may mean to you. After the discussions and draft documentation are completed, a formal public comment period and hearings will be held, as early as June of 2006. Comments can also be made to the Pendleton DEQ office any time during the development of these “Total Maximum Daily Loads and Water Quality Management Plans.“ Please join us at any or all of these sessions to talk about the plan to restore and protect water quality in the Willow Creek Suhhasin. For more information, please contact Don Butcher, with DEQ in Pendleton, at (541) 278-4603 or (800) 304-3513. Information is also available through your local Morrow Soil and Water Conservation District at (541) 676-5452. Information about DFlQ’s Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program can he found at: http:// www.dcq,state,or,us/WQ/TMDLs/lmatillaBasin.htm __________ - Letters to the Editor The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and w ill not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under "Card of Thanks" at a cost of $10. Cyclist expresses appreciation for Heppner participation To the Editor: Dear Residents of Heppner, They say it is never too late to do something. In my case, I hope “ do something,” means writing a letter o f appreciation for som ething in 2005 that I should have written in 2005. I wanted to give my a p p re cia tio n to y o u r co m m u n ity fo r the sp o n so rsh ip , d o n a tio n s, volunteers and support on the 2005 Columbia Plateau Cycling Race. I appreciate the warmth your town gave tow ards m y self and my cycling peers during the athletic com petition. It is really your involvement and co o p eratio n th at m akes these cycling races happen. Your help p ro m o tes a healthy alternative for kids and adults to spend their free time. Your support fosters an environment for our future Olympic athletes and even Tour de France riders. If it was not for your community, I would not even get the future opportunity to tell my g ran d k id s all the w acky stories that go along with cycling races. My New Y e ar’s resolution is to write these letters for events like this that I take a part of in a more timely fashion. (s) Jay Freyensee West Linn Help needed for litter pickup To the Editor: Due to doing a rather silly thing on skis, I am unable to head up the Adopt- A-Highway Litter Pickup on the state highways through tow n p rio r to the St. Patrick’s Celebration. 1 w ould like to appeal to the residents and b u sin esses on the state highways to do their usual great job of cleaning up their highway frontages prior to the St. Patrick's Celebration. The next “form al” litter pick up will be prior to Memorial Day weekend. I a p p re c ia te your assistance. (s) John Edmundson Heppner Obituaries June Anderson Mclnnes Ju n e A n derson Mclnnes, 89, of Redmond, WA, formerly of Heppner, died on Feb. 28, 2006 in Bellevue, WA. A graveside service w ill be held at 10 a.m ., Saturday, March 11,2006 at the Heppner Cemetery, next to her mother Nellie and her brother, Gay, Jr. The service will be officiated by Pastor Keith Brudevold. She w as born on June 23, 1916 in Heppner, the daughter o f Gay and Nellie Anderson. She was raised in H ep p n er and graduated from H eppner Obituaries ~ __________ High School. She lived in M enlo Park, CA prior to moving to Redmond, WA in 1992 to be near her son. S urvivors include her son, Richard G Roller, of Redmond, WA; nieces, Sharon E. Shipley of Aurora, UT and Jill Spears of Talent. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas F. Mclnnes. Remembrances may be m ade to H ep p n er Hospital Foundation. A rran g em en ts are u n d er the d ire c tio n o f Flintoft’s Issaquah Funeral Home. LEXINGTON AUTO BODY IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH LOOSLIE AUTO BODY. Lexington A uto B ody is doin g A uto B ody R epair, G lass R ep a ir an d R eplacem en t Towing. Letha W. Rippee Letha W. Rippee, 95, form erly o f Heppner and Condon, died Monday, Feb. 20, 2006 at P ro v id en ce C e n tra lia H o sp ital in C e n tra lia , WA, from complications of pneumonia. M emorial services will be held Saturday, March 11 at The Manor at Canyon Lakes in Kennewick, WA at 1 p.m. Interment will be at the Heppner Cemetery at a later date. Disposition was by cremation. She was bom on July 26, 1910, in Heppner, to John and Elma (McFerrin) Hiatt. A fter g ra d u a tin g from Heppner High School in 1928, she married Oscar Rippee on Aug. 30, 1928, and they had two sons. They lived in Heppner until 1949, when Oscar transferred to Condon with the O regon State Highway Department. Letha was active in Condon in many areas. She served as City Treasurer of Condon d u rin g the 1970s and worked for many years as a b o o k k e ep e r for C ondon Motors. She was a member of Eastern Star and the United C h u rch o f C h rist. She enjoyed playing bridge and bowling and took up golf when the Condon course was completed. She enjoyed h er g ard en and o u td o o r activities, spending many treasured days at the family cabin at Reed’s Mill. Her n e e d le p o in t w ork w as esp ecially prized by her family. L eth a and O scar c e le b ra te d th e ir 50th w ed d in g a n n iv ersa ry in Condon in 1978. She moved to Kennewick, WA, after his d eath in 1990, and to Centralia, WA, in 2003 to be near her son. Survivors include: a siste r, D oris H odge o f Kennewick, WA; son, Don and wife Loretta of Chehalis, WA; d a u g h te r-in -la w B ev erly R ippee of Milwaukie; grandsons, Tim Rippee and wife Judy, also of Milwaukie, Chris Rippee and w ife V alerie o f Vancouver, WA and Calvin Rippee and wife Patty of P a lo u se, WA; granddaughter, C orienne and husband Larry of the Tri- C itie s; g re a t-g ra n d so n , Jeffrey Rippee and wife Erin o f Vancouver, WA; great- g ran d d au g h ters, H eather Adams of Albany, Chelsie of Tri-Cities and Sarah Rippee of Portland, and great-great- granddaughters, Katelynn and Kylee Adams of Albany, and H aley Jo R ippee o f Portland. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her son Lowell in 2003. American Burial and Cremation of Tumwater, WA w as in ch arg e of arrangements. Irene Anhorn Irene Anhorn, 87, of H ep p n er, died Sunday, M arch 5, 2006, at W illo w b ro o k T errace in Pendleton. A memorial service w ill be held at 3 p .m ., Monday, March 13 at First C h ristia n C h u rch in Heppner. She was born Jan. 21, 1919 at Heppner, the daughter of Wm. Jefferson “J e f f ’ Beam er and C lara Reid Gertson. She attended Heppner schools, playing trumpet in the high school band. She graduated from H eppner High School in 1936, then continued her e d u c a tio n at P acific University for two years. W ith a hom e economics education degree from O reg o n S tate University, she secured a teaching position at Central Point High School, where she m et C arl W illiam “Willie” Anhorn. They were married on July 27, 1941 at Heppner. The couple started their married life in Central Point and raised four sons and a daughter. A n h o rn began working in education as a substitute teacher. She was a 4-H lead er in Jackson County and an honorary FFA member of the Scenic and Crafter school FFA chapters. H er h u sb an d preceded her in death in 1970 and she returned to Heppner in 1976. She becam e very activ e w ith 4-H at the Morrow County Fair. She w as a v o lu n te e r at the H ep p n er L ib rary and an sw ered p h o n es at the Senior Center. She was a RSVP volunteer, visiting the nursing home, driving retired c itiz e n s to the d o c to r’s offices and running errands. The city o f H ep p n er recognized her commitment to v o lu n te e rin g in the community by selecting her Woman of the Year in 1983. H er fa v o rite p a stim es in clu d ed re se a rc h in g the fam ily history and family trees, her cats, m in ia tu re h o rses, m iniature goats, sew ing, c ra ftin g and c o lle c tin g anything associated with owls. She was a member of the Heppner First Christian Church helping with Sunday school and vacation bible schools. On Sundays she help ed w ith the ch u rch services and played the piano at the P ioneer M em orial N ursing Hom e. She was liv in g at W illo w b ro o k T errace in P en d leto n , Oregon at the time of her death. S u rv iv o rs include sons, William G Anhom and w ife Pat o f L aG ran d e, Jeffrey C. Anhom and wife Bonnie o f San Jose, CA and M ichael J. A nhorn o f M ed fo rd ; d au g h ter, Catherine Christensen and husband Rex of Pilot Rock; sister, Mary Beamer Goheen of H ep p n er; seven grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and five great- g reat-g ran d ch ild ren . She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl Anhorn, son, James B. Anhom, parents, Jeff and Clara Beamer and brother, James Beamer. M e m o r i a l contributions, for those who wish, may be made to the Anhom Scholarship Fund in care o f T he C ra te r Foundation, PO Box 5172, Central Point, OR 97502. Sweeney Mortuary o f H eppner in charge o f arrangements. He * “it * * * * < * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * i J TAYLOR'S RESTAURANT IN I0N E * * * * 5 k - Saturday, March 11th-• BLACKJACK! \0 \ * 9 Check out Taylor's full menu * * and dinner menu it J - TAMM'S RESTAURANT • 422-9(00 - J * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
