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TWO • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 17,2007 Edmundson appointed secretery The Official Newspaper of the City pf Heppner and the County of Morrow H eppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspiiper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act o f March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner. Oregon. Office at 188 W Willow Street. Telephone (3 4 1 >676-9228. Fax (5 4 1 1 676-9211. E- matl: edilortfrrapidscrve net or david® heppner n « Website: www.heppner net. Post master send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, PO. Box 337. Heppner. Oregon 97836 Subscriptions $26 in Morrow County: $20 senior rate I in Morrow County only: 62 years or older); $32 elsewhere; $26 student subscriptions. David S y k e s .......................................................................................................... Publisher Autumn M organ........................................................................................................ 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 JCard of Thanks” at a cost of $10. On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.nel • Start or C hange a Subscription • Place a C la ssified A d • Subm it a N e w s Story • V iew Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes • Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! Albany museum hires former Morrow County resident F orm er cu rato rial assistan t at the M orrow County Museum in Heppner was named administrative coordinator of the Albany Regional Museum on Janu ary 9, 2007. Tami L. Sneddon, a resident of rural Linn Coun ty, succeeds Bill Maddy who resigned November 13. Sneddon comes to the Albany position with five years of experience in small m useum operations. Her work experience includes being a technology/mainte- nance secretary with the Morrow County School Dis trict, office manager of a church and a legal secretary. She worked at the museum from 1995 to 2000 until it lost county funding. She attended East ern Oregon University in La Grande and Oregon State University in Corvallis. She is married and the mother of th ree ad u lt c h ild re n . A daughter lives in Albany. C h airm an John Buchner, in announcing the appointment, said the muse um ’s board was especially impressed with Sneddon’s operational experience with similar organizations. Refer ences described her as hav ing exceptional organiza tional skills, being computer literate, with good people skills and enthusiasm for museum work. S n ed d o n began work January 10, 2007 The Albany Region al M useum is open from noon until 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday. There is no adm ission charge, but donations are accepted. The museum is administered by a 12-m em ber v o lu n teer board of directors. The mu seum is principally funded w ith private m onies. Its m em b ersh ip s total 400 which represents nearly 600 individuals. The mission statement of the museum: To preserve, display and en courage knowledge of the history and culture of Alba ny, Oregon and its immedi ate surroundings through collection of artifacts, doc uments and photographs. Happy Birthday GARY 0STERH0LM 01 / 21 / ?? Carol A. Beckley of Elkton, OR joined the Board of the Oregon State Parks Trust in January. A longtime parks enthusiast, Ms. Beck- ley is Director of the Elkton Community Education Cen ter in Elkton, Oregon and is a professional organization al management consultant. The Trust also elect ed its 2007 leadership: The odore G. “T ed” H erzog (P ortland) as C hair, Lee Jimerson (Portland) as Vice C hair, John E dm undson (H ep p n er) as S ecretary , Daniel H. Skerritt (Portland) as Treasurer, and Mary Jane Guyer (Baker City) as an at large member of the Execu tive Committee. Herzog, elected to his second term as Chair, is an attorney with Tonkon Torp LLP. Jimerson is Man ager of Manufacturing Ac counts for the Collins Com panies and is active with Salm on Safe, A rlin g to n Club, Mary Rieke Elemen tary Green Schools, Toast masters, and Western Wood Products Association. E dm u n d so n , w ho will be serving his third term as Secretary, is a retired school adm inistrator, and serves on the Eastern Ore gon Byway Coalition, Hep pner C h am b er o f C o m merce, and Morrow County Parks Advisory Committee. Skerritt, likewise serving his third term as Treasurer, is an attorney with Tonkon Torp LLP and active with Ameri can College of Trail Law yers, Rigas Maja, and Vol unteers Lawyers Project. Founded in 1995, the Trust mission is to help safe guard Oregon’s state parks and protect, cherish, and cel ebrate Oregon’s great plac es. The organization has raised over $6.2 million to p reserv e O re g o n ’s state parks for present and future generations. The T r u s t’s 2007 priority projects include: completing the third and fi nal phase of the Willamette River Water Trail, updating in te rp re tiv e d isp la y s at C ham poeg State Park in preparation for the Oregon sesquicentennial, restoring and maintaining the seven publicly-accessible Oregon lighthouses, and developing model sustainable practices for Oregon state parks. For more inform a tion about O regon State Parks Trust, call 503-227- 0479 or 800-497-2757 or v isit w w w .o reg o n state parkstrust.org. Used - Oil Heaters Tanks sold separately $200 $300 REBATE REBATE $400 REBATE EL EL140H EL EL200H • EPA approved. EL EL340H • Includes our S T E A D V FLO fuel metering pump; no manual adjustments required, regardless of viscosity and ensures accurate fuel volume delivery • Tanks sold separately. • Electrical requirements 115 VAC, 60 Hz, 25 amps dedicated circuit. • Three-year parts warranty; 10-year heat exchanger warranty (5 full plus 5 prorated). 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LEO serves 46 pub lic libraries in 14 eastern Or egon co u n ties. T ogether LEO and OMSI are bring ing science programs to li braries and schools in east ern Oregon through a pro gram they have nam ed STARS - Science, Technol ogy and Rural Students. The stargazing pro gram will be held regardless of weather. For further infor mation, please contact Lyn Craig, LEO exec, director at 5 4 1 -7 6 3 -2 3 5 5 or K risty Crowell of lone at the local library. Obituaries Albert J. Lewis Albert J. Lewis, for whom the Lewis Addition in Irrigon is named, died Mon day, January 1, of complica tions from diabetes and heart disease. He was 73. A service was held at 2 p.m. Friday, January 12, at Mueller’s Tri-Cities Funeral Home, 1401 S. Union Street in Kennewick, with a private family burial to follow at D esert Law n M em o rial Park. He was born March 8, 1933 in Mankato, Kan., the youngest of seven chil dren to Albert P. and Serena K. Lewis. On March 28, 1953, he married Arlene A. Cox. In 1953 he was draft ed in the U.S. Army. He served in Germany where he drove a munitions truck. Af ter his f^onorable discharge, he and His family lived in Ida ho, Oregon and Washington where he worked as a ce ment mason. In 1975, they moved to Kennewick. He worked at the Hanford site and in Ha waii as a foreman until his re tirement. After retiring, he set up manufactured homes in Irrigon. He enjoyed his annu al rafting trips on the Grande Ronde River as well as fish ing and camping. He is survived by: his wife; daughter, Katherine McQuown of Grand Coulee, Wash.; sons Michael Lewis of Graham, Wash., Edward L ew is o f F ederal Way, Wash., and Rich Lewis of Kennewick; seven grand daughters; two grandsons; eight great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. To sign their online g u est b ook, log on to www,niuellersfuneralh(xiies.a xn M ueller’s Tri-Cities F u n eral H om e, 1401 S. U nion S t., K en n ew ick , Wash., 99337, is in charge of the arrangements. ~ Letters to the Editor ~ The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the follow ing 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 w ill only be used for verification and will 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. Oregon Transportation Safety Plan is anti-growth, anti-environment To the Editor, City of Boardman and Citizens of Morrow County; I currently represent the Turners in the sale of their property at the comer of Front and South Main adjacent to the existing main off ramp to 1-84. We are speaking against the Cities adoption of the Oregon Transportation Safety Plan. The plan is really anti growth, anti-environment, illogical, and condemnation without compensation. This plan is an antigrowth planners dream come true. No curb cuts within 1320 feet of a free way off ramp, no intersections within 250 feet of another, no freeway off ramps closer than 3 miles apart etc. etc... The State is trying to bribe you into accepting this failed system. No one is against proper traffic design for safety reasons. This plan does not take natural barriers, topogra phy, traffic counts, retail trade area sizes, or existing busi nesses into consideration. , Umatilla County wire the first County in Oregon to sign onto this one size fits all nonsense. Can you visualize The Dalles, Biggs, Arlington, Boardman, and Pendleton without any curbs cuts within one quarter mile of their off ramps? That’s what this does. Let’s look at what it’s done for Umatilla County. 1) It delayed the construction start on the 200 + jobs truck stop at Westland Road for one year because the plans had to be totally changed. The County pulled the access permits and demanded that Petro go 74 mile vs. about 800 feet to their first curb cut. They are also closing the access into the Livestock sales yard. They wanted us to move to a blind corner location with a canal on the east side of the road. The turn radius for trucks into the sales yard would have been impossible. This would have been acceptable because it matched the State plan. Petro had to do traffic studies and spend many months of time and a lot of money to get the access point moved back to the best line of site and turning radius location. 2) The new overpass behind the Wal-Mart Store was restricted to only have one curb cut in its entire radius. No Businesses have located there since its completion be cause it is not business friendly. There is very little traffic count on it because there is no reason to go there. No con sideration was even given to designing it to fit the business community. It was designed to never “fail”. Traffic sys tems only fail when they are used. 3) The Medians placed in the highway between Hermiston and Stanfield should be considered by the traf fic planners to be a complete success. No businesses have located there since they restricted the access points. 4) The median in Umatilla and proposed medians in Milton-Freewater are huge economic roadblocks that may ultimately kill those struggling commercial districts. 5) 1 am currently completing a plat where the Coun ty restricted me to have access on the East side of the Rail road tracks because Sparks Road was within 250 feet on the West side of the tracks. This road has about 10 cars per day on it. People slow down to cross the tracks; the visibil ity is unrestricted in every direction. Moving the access point 170 feet requires eliminating wheel line irrigation on several acres of good farm land, creates two 60 feet roads adjacent to each other that will both produce dust pollu tion. The only reason to do this is because Umatilla Coun ty signed onto the States plan. Common sense cannot be considered. When you look at what will happen to my client’s property if you are bribed by the State you will find. A potential customer will have to drive 1320 feet south, 250 minimum East, 1320 feet north, 250 feet west to get to the site. This is a total of 3140 feet each way or 6280 roundtrip feet= 1.18 miles. 1.18 miles with a stop light each way will require a potential customer to drive for approximately 5-6 more minutes at a 20 mile per hour average to purchase a taco or soda. How does this extra driving time improve traffic safety or air quality? How does the extra 3140 feet of road surface affect water quality? The number one stream pol lution contributor in the United States is from asphalt streets with curbs and gutters into storm drains. 1 think it's interesting that the government’s rest stops are directly adjacent to the freeway but the public sector creates traffic failure problems if anything is within a quarter mile. You may remember what Troutdale was like before O.D.O.T. put Krueger’s Truck Stop on the north side of the freeway out of business. O.D.O.T. created the Troutdale nightmare. They forced all the traffic to the south side of 1-84. Please don't be fooled by those bearing false prom ises. They are trying to buy you off vs. pay condemnation claims to those damaged. (s) Kalvin B. Garton Pendleton Creative Arts and Crafts Club will meet on Thursday The Morrow Coun ty Creative Arts and Crafts Club will meet on Thursday, January 25, at 1 p.m. at GD’s banquet room. This will be the last day to sign up to take Sandra Haynes workshops on Saturday and Sunday, January 27 and 28. Registra tion must be a week before class. To register, call 676- 8000. H aynes w ill be teaching colored pencil and will give some idea of sub ject at this meeting. If you have taken either scratch- board or colored pencil and need a day to finish, you may do so at this time. Also on the agenda will be St. Pat’s sale and w o rk sh o p s w ith B etty Crosswhite and Robert Wal ton. Anyone interested in these are asked to attend.
