Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 10,2007 - THREE
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City Attorney Bill Kuhn swears in new council members Judj Buschke. JoAnne
Burleson and George Koffler at Monday ’s council meeting.
$30,000 if successful. If the
first
ap p lic atio n
for
refinancing is unsuccessful,
and the city wishes to make
another application. Rex will
be paid an additional $3,000.
The city also agreed to pay
up to $2,500 in additional
fees such as filing fees,
photographic services and
other administrative costs
asso c iate d
with
the
application.
Monday council member
Judy Buschke said the center
recen tly
receiv ed
an
anonym ous
$2,000
donation.
In other business at
M o n d a y ’s m eeting the
council heard of problems
cropping up with the city’s
water system renovation
project completed about one
year ago.
A pparently there are
problems with the water line
installed under the bridge
across Willow Creek Lake,
and poor workmanship on
the asphalt patch jobs over
the new water lines. Public
Works D irecto r Brian
Hannon told the council that
the m ajority o f the
resurfaced trenches have to
be redone. Harmon said if
the gaps are not repaired
water and ice will get into the
crack s and d estro y the
streets.
There are also instances
of city sewer lines being cut
during water line installation,
repairs of which the city says
the contractor should pay
for.
Moore Construction of
Portland was contractor on
the job and is contesting
payment on some of the
problem s. The city is
holding back money from
the construction job until
Moore fixes the problems.
City Attorney Bill Kuhn said
some sub contractors of
Moore are complaining that
they have not been paid. The
project ended about one year
ago. “This is not the city’s
p ro b le m .” Kuhn said.
“Moore needs to fix these
problems." Kuhn also said he
was concerned there might
come a point where Moore
would “throw up their hands
and say heck with you
people, keep your retainer.”
The council heard a
report from City Manager
Dave DeMayo who said the
city has received payment
from H ep p n er G arbage
D isposal for delin q u en t
franchise fees. Last month
the co u n cil d iscu ssed
p roblem s with H eppner
G arb ag e. At that time
DeMayo said the company
was six months late with its
payments to Findley Buttes.
Monday DeMayo said the
payments with Findley are
now also current. “ We
h a v e n ’t
heard
any
c o m p lain ts since last
meeting," DeMayo added.
DeMayo also said he has
been approached by three
different individuals saying
that if the garbage franchise
with H eppner G arbage
Disposal is cancelled, they
would be “very” interested
in establishing a franchise
with a the city.
In other business the
council ap p o in ted the
follow ing
people
to
committees:
Planning Commission: Dave
Fowler and Duane Jones.
Budget Committee: Keith
Herbison and Ralph Walker.
Beatification: Les Paustian.
Kay Proctor, Chuck Bailey,
Joanne Burleson and Warren
placharsky.
Fire Dept. Advisory: Steve
Rhea and Hal Bergstrom.
St. Patrick's Celebration:
Tim Van Cleave and Cara
Osmin.
Parade o f Lights: C liff
Green.
Police Commission: Merle
Cowett and Glenn Baker.
U tilities
C om m ission:
George Koffler and Tom
Wolff.
Personnel: Les Paustian,
Tom W olff and Kay
Robinson.
Morrow
County
District Attorney Elizabeth
Ballard has released the
following report:
-Dustin
Allen
Shufeldt, 33, was convicted
of attempt b/fel manu/del
cntrld sub-SC 2, a class C
felony- drivers license
suspended for six months, 80
hours of community service,
submit to random monitored
drug
testing
at
the
directionof probation officer
and at the defendants
expense,
and
other
num erous
conditions,
$1,753 in fines, fees, and
assessments.
-T heresa
Rae
Homer, 55, was convicted of
possession of a controlled
subtance 2, a class C felony-
drivers license suspended for
six months, 80 hours of
community service, obtain a
substance abuse evaluation
as directed and follow
through with treatm ent
recommendations and pay
required costs, may be
required to enroll in an
aftercare program at the
recom m endations of the
treatm ent
provider/
probation officer, not use or
posses alcoholic beverages,
not enter into or frequent any
estab lish m en t
whose
primary income is derived
from the sale of alcoholic
beverages, submit to blood,
breath or urine tests at the
request of the probation
officer and at the defendant’s
expense, submit to an
alcohol evaluation, enter
into and successfully
com plete an approved
certified alcohol treatment
program, including inpatient
treatm ent, as directed,
comply with all follow up
treatm ent and pay all
required
costs,
take
Antabuse if medically able
and if directed by the
probation officer, submit
blood or buccal sample and
thumbprint pursuant to ORS
137.076, submit to testing
for
HIV
and
other
com m unicable diseases
pursuant to ORS 135.139,
and
numerous
other
conditions, $1,528 in fines,
fees and assessments.
The Rev. Janis Johnson ordained at All Saints Episcopal Church
The Reverend Janis
Johnson was ordained at All
Saints Episcopal Church in
H ep p n er on Saturday,
January 6. The Rev. Johnson
is the new priest at All Saints
and pastor at Hope Lutheran
Church.
Participants
included: the Right Rev.
William O. Gregg. Ph.D..
bishop of Eastern Oregon:
the Rev. Zane W ilson,
assistant to Bishop Paul
Swanson, ELCA Synod of
Oregon; deacon, the Rev.
Stephen Schafroth, St. Paul’s
E piscopal C h u rch , The
Dalles; presenters, the Rev.
C anon John Fergueson,
Church of the Redeemer,
Ned C lark, Cyde Estes,
Charlie Anderson, all of All
Saints, Gene Arntt. Hope
L utheran; vester. Ginny
Fergueson. Church of the
Redeemer; lectors, Wanda
Jones, Hope, and Kathy
Clark, All Saints; acolyte,
George Nairns. All Saints;
chalice bearers, the Rev.
Zane Wilson and Robanai
Disque, Hope; altar guild.
Gail Hughes, Cyde Estes,
Aloha DeSpain, All Saints;
cantor, Kylie Disque, Hope;
o rg a n ists, Gail Hughes,
Linda Walter, Bethlehem
Lutheran, Marysville. WA;
ushers, Bob Jepsen and Bob
D eSpain, All Saints;
greeters, Suzanne Jepsen,
Barbara Orw ick. All Saints,
Pauline Matheny, Cherry
Webber, Hope; gift bearers,
Ned Clark, Cyde Estes, All
Saints Vestry, Gene Arntt,
Irene Plocharsky, Hope
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Council, Marcia Anderson,
All Saints, Taylor Disque.
Hope, and Dianne Sharp, All
Saints. Marcia Anderson
c o o rd in a ted the buffet
luncheon, provided by All
Saints and Hope Lutheran
women, with the assistance
of Shelly Britt.
Special guests were
the Rev. Johnson's sister and
brother-in-law, Karin and The Right Reverend William O. Gregg. Bishop of Eastern
John Calhoun, Olympia, Oregon, and the Reverend Janis Johnson
WA; brother and sister-in-
law, Brian and Yvonne
Johnson, Anchorage Alaska;
nieces, Sarah Mead, Adna,
WA, and Emily Calhoun,
Olympia; and great-niece,
Hannah Mead. Adna. and
great-nephew Ethan Mead.
Adna.
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Did we do all we could?
Now that Congress
has eliminated the safety-net
payments to States through
The Secure Rural Schools
and C o m m u n ity Self-
Determination Act of 2000,
ask the question “did we do
all we could to reestablish
the industries and revenue
stream The Act was
designed to tem porarily
supplement.”
The answer to this is
a resounding ‘NO’. We have
known from day one this Act
would not last forever nor
was it designed to. There has
to
be
an
in-depth
understanding of the cost to
our society from the failure
to regenerate the natural
resource industries that
funded our schools and
roads for years.
T
h
e
“environmentalists” fight
rational, sustained timber
harvesting with a Fierce anti
use agenda. They use tactics
from unabashed, frivolous
litigation to false science, to
en v iro -te rro rism .
In
response, the private sector
w orks,
litigates,
compromises and pulls their
hair in an attempt to move
the timber industry back to
a c o n trib u tin g position.
Repeatedly our communities
are asked to step forward to
pick up the slack in school
funding. C o m m u n ities
usually step up when the
need is cru cial, though
private discretionary funds
are scarce.
While this struggle
rages th ro u g h o u t the
Northwest, educators, the
rep re se n ta tiv e s o f our
children who would gain
most from the success of the
rejuvenation of the timber
industry, stand silent. Classic
examples of this silence are
our educators’ failure to
reject the control o f the
liberal agenda unions such as
the O regon Education
Association and the lack of
their contribution to the
socio-political process that is
trying to gain long-term
stable funding for schools
without breaking our rural
communities.
On the contrary, the
OEA
supported
equalization-distribution of
the safety -n et payments
w ithout regard to the
counties who were most hurt
by the tim b er industry
collapse thus subverting the
intent of The Act. Every
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committee I am on has as
one of its highest priorities
the quality education and
development of our children.
Our children are our future
and that future is in jeopardy
due to the effort to oppress
the
natural
resource
industries.
We host a dinner for
Republicans and Republican
candidates yearly in Harney
C ounty. This g athering
understands the need and
potential to establish stable
funding for our children’s
e d u catio n . In Harney
County, 70 percent or more
of voters embrace the reality
of
natural
resource
production as a solution to
this problem. I assume this
70 percent voter group
represents at least 70 percent
o f the ch ild ren in the
community. When we have
this and other conservative
functions across this state we
are lucky to see one educator
per 100 in atten d an ce,
present and listening to the
m essage. Many young
educators are themselves a
product of the post healthy
tim b er ind u stry - OEA
system . They do not
re m e m b er when school
funds in many O regon
counties were plentiful and
independent of the state.
D uring those years our
schools and roads were
some of the top in the nation.
I believe most educators
intellectually know this is
true.
I am asking
educators statewide to come
to the table and listen to
those who would put the
quality education of our
ch ild ren ahead o f the
environmentalist lobby and
dogmatic education unions.
Without the assistance of
educators, the private sector
is handicapped to heal our
education woes. Instead of
fighting a perpetual battle to
retain more taxes for our
schools, fight to huild an
eco n o m y that d o e s n 't
require our total dependence
upon others' tax generosity.
Put employment contracts
secondary to the best interest
of our children. Plentiful and
su stain ab le funding for
schools assures good salaries
and the retirem en t our
quality educators deserve. A
rising economic tide lifts the
education boat as well.
(s)Tim Smith
Harney County
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