TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 7,2007
Obituaries
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
GAZETTE-TIMES
Paul George Werner
Jr., 86, a resident of Arling
ton, formerly of lone, died
at a local care facility on
Monday, February 26,2007.
M emorial services
will be held at Arlington
Methodist Church at 2 p.m.
on Saturday, March 10, 2007
with Rev. Bob Reasoner of
ficiating. Private cremation
was held at Win-Quatt Cre
matory in The Dalles with
Spencer, Libby and Powell in
care of arrangements.
He was born in
Tillam ook on M arch 20,
1920, to Paul and Georgia A.
(Johnson) Werner. He was
the oldest of five children.
He was raised in Nehalem
and served in the U.S. Army
during WWII and was de
ployed to Japan during that
time.
Paul m arried Ada
Worthington on June 1, 1940
in Vancouver, Washington.
He was trained by
the C .C .C . C orps under
Roosevelt to operate a bull
dozer. He logged in the
Tillamook area until moving
to Sandy in the 1960s to
build ro ad s around Mt.
Hood. He moved back and
forth between the coast and
lone area until 1983 when he
retired to Arlington in 1998.
Paul was the manag
er of Terrace Heights Trail
er Court in Arlington from
1999 to 2006. He helped his
daughter, Marie, with the
lone Cemetery for 17 years
and was her right hand help
er and best friend. He en
joyed hunting, fishing, calm
digging, woodworking, do
ing home additions, going on
family outings and being
with his family and friends
just to talk.
He is survived by his
wife. Ada Werner of Arling
ton; his daughter, Marie Ru-
disill of Arlington; his son,
Richard W'erner of Wood
land. WA; his brother, Lee
Werner of Arroya Grande,
CA; his sister, Lenora Ander
son of Nehalem, OR; nine
g ran d ch ild ren and many
great and great great-grand
children. He was preceded in
death by his parents; his sis
ters, Mary Rose and Aggie
Bell; and his son, M ike
Werner.
M emorials may be
made to Oregon Veterans
Home, 700 Veteran Drive,
The Dalles, OR 97058 or
A rlin g to n
M eth o d ist
Church. Arlington, OR.
U S P S. 240-420
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Heppner Library ICABO to
holding book and hold meeting
bake sale
lone C om m unity
The
H eppner
Friends of the Library will
hold a Book and Bake Sale
on St. Patrick's weekend.
The sale will begin on Fri
day, March 16, from 1-6
p.m. and continue on Satur
day, March 17, from 9 a.m.-
2 p.m. The sale will be held
at H eppner City Hall on
Main Street.
At this tim e, the
Friends of the Library are
requesting donations of gen
tly used books for this sale.
They may be dropped off at
the Methodist Church, the
library, or Spicer-Kuhn Law
Offices. Anyone donating
books is asked to do so by
Tuesday. March 13.
The Friends of the
Library are also asking for
donations of baked goods.
They may be delivered to the
library or city hall by noon
on March 16. Anyone wish
ing to donate baked goods
may sign up at the library or
call Sally Walker at 676-
9112.
Also, anyone avail
able to work for an hour or
two on Friday or Saturday
may contact Sally Walker as
well.
The money raised
w ill be used to provide
equipment, books and activ
ities for all patrons of the
Heppner Library.
Dean Hunt
Paul George
Werner Jr.
Heppner
Agricultural Business Orga
n izatio n also know n as
“ICABO" will be having a
nightly meeting on Wednes
day, March 14, at 6 p.m. at
the lone Legion Hall.
Anne Morter and the
lone International Club will
serve dinner. Tickets for din
ner are $9 each and can be
purchased at the door.
All o rg a n iz atio n s
and groups will be reporting
on what they are doing and
their goals for the year. Elec
tion of officers for this year
is an agenda item. Taylor’s
Restaurant will have a no
host bar.
Everyone is invited
to attend and can RSVP to
Stacie Miller at 422-7410 or
Betty Gray at 422-7335.
Dinner reservations need to
be in by Monday, March 12.
St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
lunch menu
Heppner Christian
C hurch m em bers will be
serving lunch on Wednesday,
March 14.
The menu consists of
meat enchilada, Spanish rice,
ranch beans, fresh salsa with
to m ato es and chopped
onions, and ice cream with
strawberries.
Organized by the Pendleton City Club.
All proceeds go to local
youth activities.
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D ean
(Deano) Hunt. 79, of Lex
ington died Sunday at Ka
dlec Hospital in Richland,
Washington.
Memorial service for
Mr. Hunt were held on Fri
day. March 2, 2007 at the
United Methodist Church in
Heppner.
He was born July
20, 1927 at Heppner, in what
is now the Eddie Gunderson
house, the oldest child bom
to Arthur Lee and Bertha D.
Tucker Hunt. After his birth
Dean lived his entire life in
Lexington. He graduated
from Lexington High School
in 1945 from a class of four.
A fter g rad u atin g
from high school he was
drafted into the Army Air
Force where he was sta
tioned in California at what
is now known as Travis Air
Force Base in the Army Air
Transport Division.
Following an honor
able discharge he returned to
Lexington. He joined his fa
ther in operation of the fam
ily ranch, which after his fa
ther’s death, he ran until his
retirem ent in 1987. Even
thought he was supposedly
retired Dean was still in
volved in the farm's activi
ties right up until his death.
Often he could be seen driv
ing his old farm pick-up with
his border collie. Missy, by
his side, or in nicer weather
she would ride with him on the
back of his four-wheeler.
Mr. H unt was a
m em ber o f the H eppner
United Methodist Church,
Heppner B.P.O.E. No. 358.
and served on the Lexing-
ton-Ione Cemetery District
Board for 25 years, part of
that time as board chairman.
Dean was very ac
tive in his earlier years be
fore his emphysema became
ad v an ced . He loved to
dance, bowl, swim, water
ski, hunt, fish, and spend
time with family and his
friends. He and his wife en
joyed supporting the local
high school sports programs
long after their children left
home and they received an
award for their outstanding
support of athletics. Dean
loved coffee and was ready
to sit and visit anytime when
anyone asked “Hey Deano,
wanna cup of coffee?” He
also enjoyed rum m aging
through old farm antiques.
He is survived by his
wife, Lois Hunt of Lexing
ton; daughter Tricia Jeannine
(TJ) Hunt Robinson and her
husband Curtis of Pendleton;
son Gary Dean Hunt and his
wife Rebecca, grandson. Jef
frey D ean H unt, g ra n d
daughter. Miranda Hunt all
o f H erm isto n ; b ro th er,
Donald (Duke) Hunt and his
wife Nadine of Beaverton;
sister, Shirley McCarl and
her husband Morris of Lex
ington; and several nieces
and nephews.
Memorial contribu
tions for those who wish may
be made to St. Patrick's Se
nior Center Trust Fund. PO.
Box 266, H eppner, OR
9 7 8 3 6 or to the U nited
Methodist Church Memori
al Fund, PO. Box 733, Hep
pner, or to the charity of
choice.
Sweeney Mortuary
of Heppner is in charge of
arrangements.
HHS students assisting local
Pheasants Forever Chapter
with construction
Heppner High School students assisted with construction project.
The students at Heppner High School are helping
the local Pheasants Forever Chapter by constructing
Wildlife Watering Guzzler roofs. The rest o f the water
facility consists of an underground tank that collects the
water from the roof and stores it for later use by birds and
other small wildlife. The Columbia Plateau Pheasants
Forever group is installing the guzzlers as part of an overall
habitat project that includes nesting cover, brood raising
cover as well as food plots and shrubs. "The water guzzler
is the real cornerstone of the project,” says Skip Matthews,
PF Chapter president, "Once we get the water available
and the other planting installed the benefit to upland birds
and other wildlife is tremendous.”
The Columbia Plateau Chapter is installing several
of these projects as an overall goal to improve pheasant
habitat in Morrow. Gilliam and South Umatilla counties.
The projects are being paid for with money raised by the
chapter at their annual banquet as well as assistance from
Heppner ODFW and other Federal cost share dollars. Any
landowner with potential habitat can sign up to get a project,
although welcome to hunt areas receive a priority for
funding. "We are targeting the ODFW Upland Cooperative
Access Program acres for improvement," Matthews said.
“Although there is some assistance for other applications,
one of the goals o f the chapter is to develop hunting
opportunities for the general public.”
Anyone interested in installing a habitat project
should contact one of the following members of the chapter
to get the application process started; Skip Matthews. Bill
Ewing or Misty Bennett or the Heppner ODFW. There are
also applications at the Heppner Pheasants Forever office
located in the Pettyjohn Office Building or the Gilliam
County Soil and Water Conservation District office.
EPA approves Willow Creek Basin
water quality goals
The
U .S.
Environm ental Protection
Agency (EPA) has approved
water quality goals for the
Willow Creek Basin. The
goals, which took several
y ears to p rep are, w ere
approved Feb. 19,2(X)7. The
accompanying plan lays out
step s needed to reduce
stream temperature, bacteria
and o th e r w ater q u ality
impairments, which would
make these w aters more
fishable and swimmable.
T he
re c en tly
ap p ro v ed W illow C reek
Basin Total Maximum Daily
Load
(T M D L )
for
te m p e ratu re sets g o als
leading to less solar heating,
while the management plan
describes how these goals
can be m et. The stream
management plan addresses
excess solar energy that
enters streams because of
v e g eta tio n and ch an n el
disturbance associated with
certain agricultural, urban
and forest activities. The
report also emphasizes the
need for increased in-stream
flow.
A significant finding
in the TMDL report is that
three
m easu res
can
c o n trib u te , though to
differing amounts, to cooler
water temperature in Willow
Creek; the greatest benefit
is from increased streamside
v e g eta tio n , p a rtic u la rly
trees; next is to allow the
stream to naturally restore
itse lf to a n arro w er and
d e ep e r n atu ral channel
sh ap e; and, lastly , flow
improvement will lead to
te m p e ratu re re d u ctio n .
These measures combine to
d ecrease so lar input, or
decrease the effect of solar
heating by increasing the
volum e o f w ater being
warmed by the sun.
W h e r e a s
tem p eratu re is the m ost
w idespread w ater quality
problem in the B asin,
b a c te ria and pH (the
concentration o f charged
H y d ro g en )
are
also
addressed. The Balm Fork is
ta rg e ted
for b a cte ria
reduction. Elevated summer
pH originates in the warm
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