TWO • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 17,2007
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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.
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Stargazing
program
continued from page one
patron check-out at the li
brary. Those attending wil^
then move outside the library
for viewing the night sky.
Duke will bring several tele
scopes and a portable obser
vatory.
The program is
sponsored by the nonprofit
Libraries of Eastern Oregon
(LEO) through NASA fund
ing provided to LEO by The
Oregon Museum of Science
and Industry. LEO provided
the library with its new tele
scope. 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.
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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.