TWO ■ Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 27,2006
The Official Newspaper
of ihe City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
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Shop local program successful
The ‘’S anta C ash
A u c tio n ” , a sh o p -lo cal
program sponsored by the
H eppner C ham ber of
C om m erce, was a “huge
success”, said Terry Baker,
Chamber executive director.
In the program ,
shoppers saved receipts from
local stores from November
11 through December 20 and
brought those receipts to the
Chamber to exchange dollar
for dollar for Santa Cash. An
auction using the Santa Cash
w as held D ecem ber 21.
$20,540 w orth o f S anta
Cash was used by the end of
the night and around 30-40
people attended. “This is
only a small fraction of what
people spend in Heppner,”
said Baker. “It was fun to
see how high people would
bid when they are not using
real cash. Even the children
had fun and were able to bid
on a few “kid only” items 1
had set aside,” she said.
Gazette closed New Year’s day
The Heppner Gazette-Times will be closed on
Monday, January I, for New Year's. Submission deadlines
will be 5 p.m. on Friday, December 29. The newspaper
will be published as usual on Wednesday, January 3.
The staff wishes everyone a happy holiday and a
wonderful new year.
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Sunday, December 31st -
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p .m rv
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Crab Feed Dinner
starting at 6:30 p.m.
Music to follow!
Foster care volunteers needed
V olunteers
are
needed now for foster care
reviews in Morrow County.
Local community members
serve one day every other
month to provide oversight
and case review of children
in fo ste r care. As co u rt
appointed volunteers, they
meet as a board and work to
ensure every child lives in a
safe, sec u re , healthy,
permanent home, preserving
families whenever possible.
No special skills are
required - only a sincere
interest in helping the abused
and neglected children and
youth of this community.
Interested applicants with
re la te d o r u n ique life
experiences are encouraged
to apply.
The Citizen Review
B oard m eets the fourth
Monday every other month.
Training for this volunteer
position is provided. Limited
funds are available to help
meet costs associated with
volunteering such as day
care, mileage, etc. Interested
volunteers may contact Toni
Sloan at (541) 276-5520 or
Kelly M errick, volunteer
coordinator at (503) 731-
4578 or by e-m ail at
KellyMMerrick@ojd.stale.ifr.us
for an information packet.
PGE employees exemplify
season of giving
This year, Portland
General Electric employees
and retirees set a new record
for th eir g en ero sity and
pledged $ 10,412 (including
PGE's 50 percent match) to
nonprofit groups located in
Morrow County during the
company’s annual Employee
Giving Campaign.
"The dedication and
co m p assio n
of
PGE
employees and retirees never
ceases to amaze me,” said
Peggy Fow ler, C EO and
president of PGE.
"The record-setting
$1.4 million raised in this
y e a r's Em ployee G iving
Campaign will go a long way
in a ssistin g n o n p ro fit
organizations that are greatly
d eserv in g o f fin a n c ial
support.”
The 2006 PGE
Employee Giving Campaign
totals $ 1,411,128, up almost
15 percent from the previous
record of $1,228,992 set in
2005.
P G E 's
2,700
employees and more than
1,000 retirees can designate
any charitable nonprofit or
accredited school to receive
th e ir p led g es, and PGE
matches their contributions
by 50 percent. The four-
week campaign concluded
Oct. 31. Since the company
match program started in
1998, PGE employees and
retirees have contributed
more than $7.4 million to
their communities through
the E m ployee G iving
Campaign.
For 2006, donations
are being distributed to 797
diverse groups, two thirds of
which are located in Oregon.
Top recipients include:
Providence Cancer
Center; Oregon Food Bank,
Inc.; Doembecher Children's
H o sp ital
F o u n d atio n ;
Em anuel M edical C enter
Foundation Oregon Burn
C en ter; O regon P ublic
Broadcasting; SOLV; United
Way o f the C o lu m b ia-
Willamette; PGE Foundation
Community 10 Ism; Oregon
HEAT; and United Way of
Columbia County.
A sam p lin g o f
sch o o ls and n o n p ro fit
organizations in M orrow
County that are receiving
donations from this year's
Employee Giving Campaign
include:
-Grants awarded in
Boardman: $375 donated to
Boardman Senior Citizens,
Inc.; $390 d o n ated to
Columbia River Emergency
M edical
T ech n ician
Association; $1,521 donated
to
N orth
M orrow
Community Foundation, Inc.
-Grants awarded in
Heppner: $ 156 donated to 4-
H Wild Riders Hbrse Club;
$624 donated to Heppner
Day C are, In c.; $156
donated to Morrow County
H ealth D istric t; $156
donated to N eighborhood
C enter of South M orrow
County, Inc.
-Grants awarded in
lone: $180 donated to lone
Community Agri-Business
Organization; $450 donated
to lone Creative Care Pre-
School; $5,144 donated to
lone Education Foundation.
-Grants awarded in
Irrigon: $1,260 donated to
Irrigon-Boardman
E m erg en cy A ssistan ce
Center.
In
ad d itio n
to
making monetary donations
to
th e ir
fa v o rite
o rg a n iz a tio n s,
PGE
employees and retirees also
give of their personal time.
D uring 2006 alone, PGE
volunteers will have logged
approximately 90,000 hours
with their favorite nonprofit
organizations.
Obituaries
Cordelia E.
LaRue
Cordelia E. LaRue,
Hermiston, died December
19, 2006. She was 88. At her
request, there will be no
service. A private inurnment
will be held at Hermiston
Cemetery.
M rs. LaR ue was
born M ay 14, 1918, in
Tempe, Ariz., to Henry and
Amanda Neeley Thompson
where she was raised and
atte n d ed sch o o ls. She
married Eldon P. LaRue on
June 1, 1936, in Tucson,
A riz. T hey m oved to
H erm isto n in 1965 and
operated the La Rue Dairy
for 38 years.
Mrs. LaRue enjoyed
011 p a in tin g and her
grandchildren and g reat
grandchildren.
She is survived by
daughter, Deanne Hiatt of
Irrigon; sons, Robert LaRue
o f Post Falls, Idaho, and
Wesley LaRue of Corvallis;
sister. Ora West; brother,
Jan ies T h o m p so n ; six
grandchildren;and ^ g r e a t
grandchildren. Mrs. LaRue
was preceded in death by her
p a re n ts, h er h u sb an d , a
b ro th er, R aym ond, and
sisters, Edna and Opal.
M e m o r i a l
contributions may be made
to the Tri City Chaplaincy
H ospice, 2108 W. Entiat
Ave., K ennew ick, Wash.,
99336.
Burns Mortuary of
Hermiston is in charge of
arrangements.
Barbara Ann
Grohs
Barbara Ann Grohs
died Dec. 14, 2006. She was
80. A celebration o f life
service will he held at noon
Saturday at The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in Umatilla.
Mrs. Grohs was bom
A pril
18,
1926,
in
B ak e rsfie ld , C a lif., to
W illiam L. H ubner and
Jamima Mahler Hubner. She
grew up in Arcadia,Calif.
In May of 1947, she
married Glenn Pitts in St.
L ouis, M o. T hey later
divorced. She married Bob
Jo h n so n in 1951. They
divorced in 1962. In 1963,
she married Cletus Grohs.
He died in 1990 and she
reunited with Glenn Pitts.
She was a Lam b-
W eston em ployee for 22
years.
She is survived by
her children, Robyn Faust of
Boardman, Jeffery Johnson,
Curtis Grohs, Dennis Grohs,
all o f Springfield, David
G rohs o f Yucaipa C alif.,
Michael Grohs of Coburg
and Kim Dyer of Umatilla;
12 grandchildren; 25 great
g ra n d c h ild re n ; and tw o
great-great grandchildren.
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Carol Lee Ford
Carol Lee Ford, Irrigon,
d ied D ec. 18, 2006, at
Oregon Health and Science
U n iv e rsity H o sp ital in
Portland, after a long battle
w ith
m y e lo d y sp lastic
syndrom e (bone marrow
transplant). She was 56.
A funeral service will be held
at 10 a.m . F rid ay at
Columbia View Community
Church in Irrigon. Burial will
follow at D esert Law n
Memorial Cemetery.
Mrs. Ford was horn
June 1,1950, in Coulee City,
Wash., to Leonard Elija and
D olly Faye B en efield
Hamilton.
She g ra d u a ted from
U m a tilla H igh S ch o o l,
atten d ed Blue M ountain
C om m unity C ollege and
w orked for the city o f
Irrigon and Watts Brothers
Fertilizer.
On Nov. 12, 1976,
she married Larry Leonard
Ford in Reno, Nev., and
returned to Irrigon.
Mrs. Ford was a member of
the Umatilla Baptist Church
and the Hermiston Ladies
A u x iliary . She en jo y ed
sewing, reading and music.
She is su rv iv ed by her
husband; father; daughters
Andrea Roberts of Irrigon
and Jaim e A llen o f
Vancouver. W ash.; sister
L inda K in n ib u rg h o f
Vancouver, Wash.; and three
g ra n d c h ild re n . She was
preceded in death by her
m other,
D olly
Faye
Benefield Hamilton.
B urns
M o rtu ary
of
Hermiston is in charge of
arrangements.
SWCD,
Livestock
Growers plan
meeting
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The Morrow SWCD
and
M orrow
C ounty
Livestock Growers will hold
a jo in t annual m eeting
program on T hursday,
January 11, beginning at
1:30 p.m. at the Heppner
Elks Lodge.
The d ra ft agenda
in clu d es in fo rm atio n on
Ethanol and bio-fuels and an
ethanol plant being built at
the Port o f M orrow ;
Heppner High School Vo-ag
stu d en ts w ill give a
p re se n ta tio n on recen t
activities; Frank O'Leary,
Oregon Rangeland Trust,
will provide information on
the trust; Columbia Plateau
P h easan ts F o rev e r w ill
update attendees on past and
p lan n ed a c tiv itie s; and
Jordan Maley will discuss
quality control and food
security in the ag industry,
along with information on
in frared p ro tein testin g
technology and a review of
the Gilliam County Specialty
W heat program . A fter a
short break the two groups
will hold their individual
business meetings.
The program will
provide information for all
agricultural producers. The
program and meetings are
open to the p u b lic and
everyone is invited to attend.
Sykes appointed
to county
planning
commission
The Morrow County
C o u rt last W ednesday
appointed David Sykes of
H eppner to the M orrow
C o u n ty
Planning
Commission.
Sykes is the
o w n er o f the H ep p n er
G azette-Tim es newspaper
and Sykes Real Estate. He
will serve on the commission
from January, 2007 until
December of 2010.