Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 9,2007 - THREE
U.S. Senator Wyden to hold town
meeting Saturday
Mop Up crews hard at work
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden will host Morrow County
town hall meeting on Saturday, May 12, at 10 a.m. at St.
Patrick's Senior Center. County residents are invited to
attend the open forums to voice their questions and
concerns.
In Wyden’s first U.S. Senate campaign in 1996. he
promised to hold a town hall meeting in every Oregon
county each year. Since being elected he has held more
than 430 town hall meetings.
HHS prom held
Approximately 260 total people, students and staff, of Heppnei
High School turned out on Thursday, May 3, for the Mustang
Mop I’p. 24 groups spread out throughout Heppner and
Lexington to perforin 39 clean-up projects.
Groups performed tasks such as cleaning, painting and trash
pick-up.
Some of the specific jobs performed included painting the
interior of the Morrow County Museum; 14 projects were
done for handicapped or elderly people; clean-up at the
fairgrounds and county property including Zig-Zag Trail,
Lakeside Trail, and Lover’s Lane.
Projects were also worked on at the Heppner Daycare and
Stable of Youth. At the ball fields Highway 207, work groups,
with the help of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, removed sod
from the trees and barked them. One group painted a vacant
apartment at St. Patrick's Senior Center. A landscape project
was done at Gondes Island. Groups worked at the hospital,
football Held stadium, high school fields and lower field at the
elementary school doing basic clean-up. Seventh graders were
in charge of picking up street litter. At Hager Park, a rock
walk was built, the ground was leveled, and trees were
planted.
Two work groups went to Lexington where they cleaned vines
and ditches. -Photos by Mahaley Huddleston
Kinzua, a logging company-owned community
Editor's Note: The
following article was found
in the April 20, 2007 edition
o f the Central Oregonian
out of Prineville.
Logging and lumber
mill operations in Wheeler
C ounty of north central
Oregon began to expand in
1927 when E.D. Wetniore
founded the town of Kinzua.
The new community was
located at the head of Thirty
M ile Creek. The Kinzua
Pines M ill C om pany
established the town as a
base o f o p e ra tio n s for
p ro cessin g its tim ber
holdings in the vicinity.
The name Kinzua is
reported to be of Seneca
Indian origin and means a
“place of many fishes.”
The newly formed
town was named for the
lum ber com pany. A post
office named Kinzua was
established in 1928. The
company named the town
for
K inzua
C ounty,
Pennsylvania, a community
on the Allegheny River.
The
com pany
co n stru cted the tow n to
house mill workers and all of
the b u ild in g s in the
community were owned by
the lum ber m ill. The
co rp o ra te -o w n ed tow n
provided for all the basic
needs for its em ployees
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This photo shows the logging company town
including housing and
necessary businesses.
The company even
provided for recreational
pursuits and established a six
hole g o lf course that
continues to operate today.
At its peak, the mill
and company-owned town
em ployed up to 330
w orkers. A rail line was
c o n stru cte d
to
carry
harvested timber to the mill
and manufactured lumber
from the mill to Condon
where it connected with the
U nion P acific line. The
C ondon, K inzua and
S outhern R ailroad was
e sta b lish e d in 1928 to
consolidate logging rail lines
in the area. The rail line in
the area. The rail line was 24
m iles from C ondon to
K inzua. The m ill and
community prospered during
the heyday o f lum ber
operations but as tim ber
supply began to decline and
operating costs increased,
the company decided to shut
down operations at Kinzua
and m oved the m ill to
Heppner in 1978. The rail
line ceased operations in
1976 and the railroad was
abandoned in 1978.
Later, all o f the
buildings were removed and
the area returned to a natural
state by the K inzua
Corporation.
No
com m unity
structures remain at the site.
The only reminder of
the once th riv in g mill
community is the six hole
golf course with a small club
house that is still utilized as
a popular recreational site
and operates on the honor
system for tee fees.
Heppner Talent Show date announced
The Heppner Talent Show will be held Friday, June 15. at 6 p.m. at the Heppner
City Park.
The categories for this event are: ages 5 and under; 6 -12 years old; 13-17 years
old; and 18 and over. Some examples of talents are singing a song, dancing, performing
an act, pet's talents, reading a poem, or telling jokes. Talent acts w ill be interspersed w ith
the pie auction.
The talent show will follow the free hamburger BBQ at 5:30 p.m. The BBQ is
being donated by the Bank of Eastern Oregon.
Entry forms for the talent show may be picked up at and returned to the Heppner
C ham ber o f C om m erce. For m ore info rm atio n call 676-5 5 3 6 or em ail at
heppnerchamber@centurytcl.net.
AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION
When you purchased your last
new vehicle, did you really know
if the price you paid was the
lowest you could buy it for?
Our low prices are posted
in every vehicle
Pictured left to right are Tony Haguewood, Amber Patton, Zach
Kurtz, Sarah Price, Queen Regi Seitz. King Aaron Allstott, Casey
Maben, Mahaley Huddleston. Lyndi Patton, and Justin Gregory.
-Photo by Sandy Matthews
lone School holds prom
Pie baking
contest to
be held
The sixth annual pie bak
ing contest will be held on
Friday, June 15, at John's
Place. Pies must be entered
by noon and judging will
take place at 2 p.m. All en
tries w ill become property of
the Heppner Cham ber of
Commerce and will be auc
tioned off at 6 p.m. at the city
park as a fundraiser for the
chamber.
Cash prizes will be giv
en to the tope three pies se
lected by a panel of judges.
The contest is open to the
public.
Criteria for judging in
cludes: A ppearance, 40
points; taste/flavor, 40 points;
texture, 10 points; and crust,
10 points. Bonus points may
be awarded for extreme cre
ativity and beauty.
Entry form s can be
picked up at the Heppner
Chamber of Commerce.
Van Cleave
awarded degree
Students from lone High School en joy their prom
lone High School hosted it’s prom on Saturday,
April 21. The theme of the prom was Casino Royale 007.
The junior class sponsored the event, and held it at the
lone Grange Hall.
Casino Night began at 8 p.m. Members of the lone
Community School staff acted as dealers, waiters, and
waitresses, and donated several items for auction. At 10
p.m. the dance began w ith DJ Dan Bums of 3D Productions
in Pendleton.
Several junior parents donated food and prepared
it for a breakfast held after the dance. The junior class
appreciates the parents, advisor, and the staff for all of their
donations, hard work, and time.
No injuries in prom night accident
Two Heppner High
School students traveling to
prom from H erm iston
escaped serious injury after
a ro llo v er accid en t on
Highway 207. According to
the Oregon State Police,
around 7 p.m. a vehicle
occupied by a male and
fem ale was trav elin g
southbound on Highway 207
near Sand H ollow Road
when, around milepost 15,
the vehicle, a 1997 Ford
Crown Victoria, crossed the
c e n te r line into the
northbound lane. According
to the OSP. the d riv er
overcorrected and the car
went of the shoulder, caught,
and rolled.
A ccording to the
OSP. when police arrived on
the scene the male subject
stated that he had been
driving when he lost control
o f the car. His fem ale
passenger stated that she had
Darren Van Cleave
was awarded a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Meteorol
ogy, summa cum laude. from
the University of Utah on
Friday, May 4.
Van Cleave was se
lected as Outstanding Senior
for the College of Mines and
Earth Sciences, and was
valedictorian for the com
mencement exercises. He
has been accepted into the
graduate program for atmo
spheric science at Colorado
State University where he
will work with weather sat Truck crash blocks Hwv. 207 near
ellites.
Van Cleave is the son Heppner
A truck crash along Motorists traveling in the
o f Tim and M yrna Van
Cleave of Heppner. and is a the H eppner - Spray area were advised to slow
2003 graduate of Heppner Highway (Oregon Highway down and drive with extra
207) near mile point 21 caution.
High School.
blocked one lane of traffic.
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not been wearing a seatbelt.
The male subject was cited
for careless driving and the
female subject was cited for
failure to wear a seatbelt.
H ow ever.
O SP
stated that while the officer
was writing up the report, a
witness came forward and
stated that som e o f the
details were not correct. This
witness stated that, in fact,
the female subject had been
driving and the male subject
had been the passenger. At
that tim e both su b jects
refused to give a statement.
O SP states that a
new report was filled out in
which the male subject was
cited for permitting unlawful
operation and failure to wear
a sea tb e lt. The fem ale
subject was cited for careless
driving, failure to wear a
seatbelt, and no operator's
license.
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Chefs Josh and Melissa Coiner
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truck hauling gravel was the
only vehicle involved in the
ro llo v er crash w hich
occurred around 7 a.m. on
Monday. May 7. The driver
o f the
v eh icle
was
transported to the hospital
with serious injuries. ODOT
crew s d ire c ted tra ffic
through the area. Oregon
State P olice and o th e r
em ergency service crews
were on site.