Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 2006)
Sunday morning fire closes ODOT maintenance station Ililiilmliliillliii'illiliiill Bessie Wetzel! Newspaper Library University o f Oregon Eugene. OR 97403 HEPPNER Damaged caused by a fire Fire consumes the < )DOT building in Heppner at the O D O T H ep p n er maintenance station, located at 273 W. L inden Way, Heppner. prompted officials to close the building. No one was hurt in the fire that started Sunday around 5 a.m. Phone services at the ODOT H eppner m aintenance station have been im p acted . P ersons needing to co n tac t the H ep p n er O D O T crew should call the O D O T Unidentified Heppner Fireman battles the blaze D istrict 12 O ffice in Pendleton at 541-276-1241. Local fire departments responded to the alarm early Sunday m orning and e x tin g u ish e d the blaze, which damaged part of the structure and one ten-yard ODOT truck. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation. The building will rem ain closed until further notice. D istrict 12 m anager for ODOT. George Ruby, said Wednesday. December 20,2006 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon he was very pleased w ith the good resp o n se from the Heppner Fire Department. imes VOL. 125 NO. 51 10 Pages High winds cause some damage in area Daylight reveals damage done to snow plow First annual alumni football game planned High winds last Thurday blew over this tree on a house at 605 NE Pioneer Drive near the Heppner hospital. The home was formerly owned by David and Deborah Kendrick who have moved from the area. The tree casued minor damage to the home. Another tree across the street from this home also was blow n down, hut caused no damage. Other w ind related incidents were reports of water and debris in the road in lone, and a man in Heppner reported to the sheriff depart ment that he “found his neighbor's roof in his yard" (no ad dress was given). lone School robotics team third highest in contest The lone School Board, at its regular meeting Monday night, was treated to a demonstration by the C ardinal R obotics Team, who recently competed at a robotics contest in Redmond with good results. The team scored second in project presentation, fifth in robot d esig n and ninth in team w ork for the third highest score out of 15 teams competing. A long w ith the ro b o tic s d e m o n stratio n , stu d en t A lex C arlson presented a report on soil bonding and nano technology. The project was sp o n so red by the lone Education Foundation and the school district. Carlson also w rote the gran t to o b tain fu n d in g . Stacee Halvorsen. Zac Orem. Adam Collin. Steven Holland and Evan R ietm ann demonstrated the robotics. Also at the meeting. S u p e rin ten d e n t Bryn Browning reported that the district has met all standards for public elementary and sec o n d a ry sch o o ls as required. In other business, the board: -ap p ro v ed a cost increase for an addition to the school bus route, which w ill run a p p ro x im a te ly $ 5,000 per m onth. The Plans for a first annual alumni football game are in the w orks. T he gam e is scheduled for June Ì6. 2007. Depending on the response, tw o gam es are planned, younger vs. younger, and older vs. older. If there are not enough players, a blue vs. w hite gam e w ill be played. A fee o f $20 will he charged for those w ishing to participate. This fee w ill cov er the use of facilities and equipm ent, and a t-shirt. There will be a small charge at the gate that will be used to purchase a trophy to be passed on from year to year. The remaining money will be donated to the football pro gram. Teams will be announced on Friday, June 15. 2007, and a practice walkthrough w ill be held. Participants are asked to bring both jerseys to this practice. If a player does not have a jersey. Greg Grant w ill allow use of prac- tice jerseys for the game. Anyone wishing to par ticipate can send a check made out to Jess Osmin and th e ir t- shirt size to 58794 Balmfork Rd.. Hep pner. OR 97836 no later than Mav I, 2 0 0 7 . Al s o , please send your Jess Osmin is phone or8anizt‘r number, the year you gradu ated. and the position you played in school. For more information contact Jess Osmin at 541 - 676-9079. Anyone interest ed in officiating the game or working the chains is also asked to call. Enough inter est must be shown by Max I or the game will have to be called off. addition is expected to cut sc^ool employees. -learned that L S I) down on the amount of time continued page J students spend on the bus. Transportation costs are 90 M CGG G REEN FEED S TO R E in H e p p n e r percent reimbursable from the state. Happy Holidays from Green Feed and Seed! -ap p ro v ed staff Store Hours through Dec. 23: Mon-Fri 8-5:30 / Sal 8-5 reco m m en d atio n s for: Brandi Heideman. lone High December Specials: School a ssistan t g irls ' b a sk e tb a ll co ach ; Jim 13MWZ Wranglers: $19.95 rf» **^ * ^ J * S w anson. IHS a ssistan t A ll o th e r * * * boys' basketball coach; Lynn 0 angler 4 * 0 * Dee Ramos. lone Middle •thing ______ 5 " 5 School g irls' b asketball %« coach; Dick A llen. IMS boys' basketball coach; and Dennis Stefani. IHS boys' head basketball coach. Plus enjoy coffee and cookies! - a p p r o v e d enrollm ent in the Oregon REGISTER TO W IN THE WORLD S LARGEST STOCKING! G row th Savings Plan for Drawing w ill be held Friday. December 22nd J o in us fo r ou r OPEN HOUSE ALL DAY FRIDAY, DEC. ZZnd! ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE FOR DECEMBER 27th ISSUE: FRIDAY, DEC. 22 AT 5:00 P.M. / CHRISTMAS TREES ARE 50% OFF! (Wr have Mnblp Fir. Grand Fir & Douglas Fir trees. W<‘ also have Christmas lights ti stands.) M orrow C oitoli/ (¿ m io (¿rowers (¿reco 1erH i'< Serri 242 W. Linden Way. Heppner • 676-9422 • 989-8221 (MCGG main office)
