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Urging support for road levy
To the Editor:
1 am writing to urge
support for the M orrow
County Road levy. Because
of budget cuts, over which
we have no control, and with
e v er risin g co sts o f
All News and A d ve rtisin g D eadline is M onday at 5 p.m
c o n stru ctio n , it is not
possible to keep up with
m aintain in g n ecessary
county roads w ithout a
special levy.
Without continuing
to maintain and improve our
local transportation system it
will not be possible to keep
our economy on track.
Very little ,
if
anything would be saved by
turning major roads back to
gravel as has suggested. The
a d d itio n a l
cost
of
maintenance would use up
any savings from the lack of
paving.
In order to keep our
local econom y m oving
forward I urge you to join
me in passing this necessary
levy.
Raymond French
Heppner
of these types of projects for
several years.
We also have done
the following projects with
o u tsid e
d o llars.
R econstructed and paved
2.6 miles of Coal mine Hill,
reconstructed and paved 4
miles of Juniper Canyon,
replaced the Brenner Bridge,
replaced the Rhea Creek
Bridge, replaced the Clarks
Canyon Padberg Bridge #2
and will be replacing the
Padberg B ridge #1 very
soon. With Title II dollars,
4.5 m iles of the Penland
Lake road, 3.8 miles of Ditch
Creek road, as well as Shaw
C reek grade and Tupper
Lane very soon. We paved
10.5 miles of the Bombing
Range road as well as added
new turn lanes with Finley
Butte Road Fund dollars.
We will still be able
to do some of these types of
projects, just not as many.
This does not speak
to the snow plowing and
sanding, or the rebuild work
after storms to several roads,
or the twice per year road
grading we do on our gravel
roads
If we could find an
option to this we would be
happy to. However we to
this point have no options.
Our budget is not growing
and will not grow because of
the levy. During the 5 years
o f the levy we w ill be
w orking hard on these
projects with levy dollars.
But at the same time we
would still have our budget
for all of the other roads we
need to maintain. Please do
not force us to make the
choice between keeping our
good roads maintained or
sacrificing them for these
four roads because at the end
of the day we really have no
choice.
John Vandenbrink, Burrell
Cooley. Tom Currin. Roger
Britt, John Ripple, Lee
Palmer, Jerry Gentry, and
Ron McKinnis
Road Committee members
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Voters to decide on county road fix
up
-Continued from page one available to do this, yet it is
In particular those residents
of the Wagon Wheel Loop
addition are very dependent
on this road.
In the B oardm an
area we will be rebuilding
that portion of Kunze from
South Main Street to Tower
Road w ith State Funds,
leaving the rem ainder of
Kunze and Miller Rd. to be
done with no foreseeable
funding. These roads serve
the re sid en ts o f the
Boardman area. In the lone
area we have, through State
Dollars, rebuilt a portion of
the Bombing Range to lone
connection, that being the
new Juniper Canyon Lane.
We still need to complete the
rest of the road to lone. We
have no funds currently
of significant importance to
those folks in that area.
Sand Hollow Road
has been upgraded and had
preservation work done on
over 50 p ercen t o f it
however we are finding it
impossible to get funding to
finish the last 50 percent of
that p ro ject. The road
however is a very viable
route from Heppner to the
Hermiston area.
We realize that a
great deal of traffic from
Heppner uses or would use
this road if it were in decent
c o n d itio n . The C ity o f
Lexington while not directly
on the Sand Hollow Road,
does have access by way of
Black H orse C anyon as
well."
Support for the road levy
Letter to the Editor:
1 am w riting this
le tte r in support o f the
M orrow C ounty Road
Department tax levy. Over
the past 9 years we have
been fortunate enough to do
w ork on a su b stan tial
num ber o f roads in our
system. We have met needs
in every area of the county.
The projects we have done
have all been needed.
H ow ever many o th er
projects are outstanding as
well. The projects we have
yet to do include four very
large projects. These are the
projects referred to in the
levy. Without levy dollars
these projects will use all of
our maintenance dollars. If
the levy does not pass that is
exactly what we will have to
do. We cannot and will not
ignore the problems with
these roads. This will mean
the new road plan w ill
ad d ress only those four
roads. It will take us another
five to six years to get them
to a stan d ard that is
acceptable and safer. Yet this
Higher prices for recreation without forest management
Letter to the Editor:
A tten tiv e forest
practices guarantees needed
dollars for cam pgrounds,
outdoor recreational desires
and the environm ent we
have come to expect in the
Head Start sign up to be held May 1 North West.
H istorically forest
Ana Maria Reynaud will be at Heppner Elementary
m anagem ent
(tim b er
School on Tuesday. May 1, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
to meet with parents and fill out applications for Head Start
Mustang Mop Up
for the 2007-2008 school year.
For more information call 541-481-3254.
Letter to the Editor:
Well,
our school year
“After Hours” to be held by
is almost done and the spring
Heppner Chamber of Commerce
activities at the high school
have d e fin ite ly kept us
The Heppner Chamber of Commerce will host hopping up here on the hill.
“After Hours" at the Bank of Eastern Oregon on Thursday, With all the craziness that
April 26, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
happens in the spring, I
Coffee, punch, and hors d ’ oeuvres will be served. would like to introduce a
Quilts, artwork, and personal collections from bank staff new activity that I and my
and local families will be on display.
staff are extremely excited
about that will serve both our
community and our students.
It is appropriately named the
Mustang Mop Up.
The state of Oregon,
and our nation in general,
have really stepped up and
imposed increased levels of
school accountability at all
levels. Because of this, we
have had to put in place
creative local control to meet
the mandates of the larger
Monday, April 30, 2007
governing body. We have
You are invited to
Tour
M a d is o n Farm s
Biosolids Recycling Program
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Call Madison Farms 541-376-8107
for reservations
Learn more about the use of biosolids
including management practices,
regulatory controls and beneficial
impacts on the soil.
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harvest) was the funding
stream that provided the
needed
d o llars
for
recreation. Special Interest
groups have attacked forest
management with lawsuits to
stop forest harvest. With the
lack of forest management
we are setting our forests up
seen, implemented, and felt
the impact of things like the
No Child Left Behind Act,
our state report card, and
even in creased co lleg e
en tran ce req u irem en ts.
W ithout
sp eak in g
to
idiosyncrasies with each of
the afore m entioned, the
premise of each is to increase
the educational preparedness
of each student to enter the
workforce and our society as
a whole.
This brings us to the
new
g rad u atio n
requirements that the State
of Oregon have just put in
place that we have to
implement. As many of you
know- our GOAL (Graduate
O p tio n s o f A chieved
Learning) requirement has to
be implemented this year and
our students and staff are
working hard to make sure
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paying more for recreational
o p p o rtu n itie s, sch o o ls,
roads, and social services, at
the inclination of special
interest.
Charles J. Hurliman
Tillamook County
Commissioner
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our seniors are on track to
finish in full stride.
O ne
of
the
requirements to graduate is
com m unity service. The
Mustang Mop Up is exactly
that in a nut shell. We are
targeting community-wide
civic projects that benefit
everyone as well as a few
handicapped and elderly
projects were need is viable.
May third will be an amazing
day w here many o f our
students will get to use this
opportunity for more than a
w ork day. It w ill be a
learning day. No, it will not
be with books or the way
you m ight see school
tra d itio n a lly , but our
students will gain rtiuch
benefit from this experience.
U n d erstan d in g
and
educating the whole child is
our focus as a school, a state,
and a nation. For many, this
may be one o f the few
opportunities to learn what
their responsibility is with
g iv in g back.
T hese
principles are embedded in
the
p lan n in g ,
c o m m u n icatio n ,
and
implementation of such an
event. If you know o f a
project that would deem
appropriate for this day,
please contact me at 676-
9138.
We are lucky to live
in the South Willow Creek
Valley. Our school is an
e x ten sio n
of
o ur
communities and this is a
chance to prove that.
Daye Stone
Principal HHS
ODFW to hold meeting
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will
hold a public meeting on Wednesday, May 2. from 6 until 8
p.m. at the ODFW office in Heppner. The ODFW office is
located in the old Kinzua mill office at 54173 Hwy 74 in
Heppner.
The meeting will include discussion about the
proposed tag numbers for the 2007 big game seasons as
well as the proposed season structure and bag limit changes
for the 2008 seasons.
The public is invited to attend.
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THIS SATURDAY!
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for uncertain and unstable
futures.
T houghtful forest
management plans ensure
p re d ic tab le tim b er and
revenues for our schools and
local econom ies, diverse
habitats for wildlife and fish
and
re c rea tio n a l
opportunities.
to help meet graduation requirements
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does not mean they will be
rebuilt to a standard that we
would be able to with the
levy dollars. In the mean time
we will not be repairing the
narrow c ro ssin g s, chip
sealing, rebuilding sections
of gravel roads or overlaying
those sections of road that
either need it now or will
very soon.
To give you a feel of
what the comparison is since
1998 we have chip sealed
164.0 m iles, paved 18.6
m iles, reconstructed and
paved 11.3 miles, built 13
plus miles of gravel road that
was once paved, added 3" of
gravel to 21.45 m iles of
gravel roads, pave patched
14.5
m iles,
w idened
shoulder on 11.1 miles and
replaced four bridges and
reb u ilt 7 o th ers. T hese
projects have all been done
out o f our re g u la r road
budget.
If forced to rebuild
the four roads in question
with our road fund dollars
we would not be doing most
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Heppner Little League
A H ep p n er L ittle L eagu e
m eetin g w ill be h eld at th e
H ep p n er N eig h b o rh o o d C enter
on T hursday, A pril 26th at 7 p.m.
A ll in terested persons
are in vited to attend.
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lone School
District Board of
Directors to meet
The
Board
of
D irectors of lone School
D istrict will m eet on
Thursday, May 3, with the
Educational Foundation at
Wheatland Insurance Center
on Main Street in lone at 6
a.m.