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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 20,2007 - SEVEN Byrd co-chairs Pulitzer Board By Phil Wright of the East Oregonian Friday, June 8, 2007 issue Heppner, Lexington and lone Homes and Businesses Real Estate For Sa New Listing! For better market ing of your property we are now : Member MLS'"' Multiple □ L . . listing Serv ice Finish this remodeling project Owners started remodeling this 2-story house, but it is not com pleted. 2 bedroom 2 bath w ith large unfinished attic area that could be developed. New sheetrock throughout. There is complete new plumbing and new double pane windows. One bath remodeled, one not completed. Large living room and kitchen. 1559 sq ft. Located in Lexington. This home is waiting for someone with a little TLC to finish out the project. Give me a call and have a look inside. K fA L r O K $49,000 8-lane bowling alley & restaurant Mountain home on .26 acres Quiet and secluded, the home has had extensive remodeling. G re a t h u n tin g and o u td o o r recreation. Located near the new Off-Highway Vehicle Rec reation Park in Morrow County. Includes a sun room , sm all shop and wood shed. An an tique wood stove in great con dition is included with sale. All equipment, shoes, pins etc. included in sale. $94,500 $165,500 13.12 Acres In lone Two Bedroom , One Bath Home This Heppner home has been remodeled and is in very good shape. Good carpet, window s, roof. Has a s m a ll sh o p -ty p e work room and a cov ered patio. Also has a fenced yard in back. Three bedroom, two bath home on 13.12 acres m/1. Has barn with four stalls and chicken coop. Irrigated pasture. $ 200,000 $94,000 Restaurant & Lounge Restaurant - Lexington 2 Bedroom 2 Bath 1979 Single Wide With Expando Restaurant and Lounge in Heppner. All fixtures and inventor included insale. Turn-key operation. Real property included. Walk in and run your own business. Profitable restaurant and lounge Has Oregon lottery $ 165,000 Real property included. Garage with unfinished apartm ent below $159,000 Price Reduced! To h a ve yo u r p ro p e rty lis te d h e re c a ll m e If you are looking for a particular property please contact me $ 69,900 Former Service Station in Lexington Former service station in Lexington. Tanks removed and DEQ cleared. Would make good shop or repair building. Includes office area and shop area. $65,000 2 Bedroom Home in Heppner 2 bedroom, 1 bath home Located on quiet street. Owner will carry contract. $ 51,500 Mountain Property 2 parcels: 40 & 120 Acres m/l Good starter home. Ask about financing $ 63,500 Commercial building in lone 160 acres 2 Bedroom total back good lot zoned built in 1947, in 1971 Would make a location or use for storage Double lot 2 Bedroom, 1 bath Propane heat.U nfinished attic Large shop.C ity w ater and sewer. 66 x 130’ lot. Fenced yard $65,900 *For approved buyer $89,000 1898 home with 2092 sq ft living area. Double lot w ith shop on one lot. Front porch and deck in back. Now a member o f Residential Lot Ready to build on Located in a great neighborhood on hill property with an excellent view Heppner $15,500 Owner/Broker David Sykes 188 W. Willow *P.O . Box 337 Heppner. OR 97836 (541) 676-9228 * 1-800-326-2152 Cell (541) 980-6674 • Fax (541) 676-9211 Joann Byrd started her journalism career with the East Oregonian when she was an eighth-grader at Helen McCune Junior High School, and she recently took the position as co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, “See what can hap- pen to you if you start out at the EO?” said Byrd, who lives in Seattle. Byrd’s storied career in journalism stretches more than 50 years. “ It’s been such a great ride, and being on the Pulitzer Board has been one of the big honors of my life,” she said. “I'm thrilled from it.” She was 13 years old and had the last name Green when editor Bud Forrester hired her to work at the EO. Her mother, Nancy, lives at SuttleCare& Retirement in Pendleton and Bob Green, of the Pendleton accounting firm Green Newhouse, is her brother. Byrd said reading newspapers was a regular family activity, but she saw a gap in the EO’s coverage. “I noticed the East Oregonian wasn't covering my school. So I marched into Bud Forrester’s office one day and said, “You’re not doing enough to cover my school.’” Forrester didn’t balk or lose his cool. Rather, he offered her the opportunity to write a column for the paper about her school’s activities. “So the next thing l know they were putting in the paper what I was writing. Unbelievable,” she said. That led to an af- ter-school and holiday job with the EO, which lasted through high school and college. “It was a gift,” she said. Byrd left the EO in 1964 after she earned a bachelor’s degree in journal- ism from the University of Oregon. She finished early, exiting UO when she was 2 1. Byrd became a re- porter and assistant city editor at the Spokane Daily Chronicle. She then moved on to The Herald in Ever- ett, Wash., where for 12 years she was executive editor. Then from 1992 - 1995 she was ombudsman at The Washington Post, She retired from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2003, where for six years she was the editorial page editor. Byrd said while she was at The Herald, people daily were asking her ethical questions, but she had no basis for her answers. “ So I needed to know why I was making those choices, so I started to go to the ethics branch of philosophy.” She returned to col- lege and at 47 years old earned a master’s degree in philosophy, with a focus on ethics, “ I re a lly lo v ed it when I was older,” she said. After earning her master’s degree, Byrd taught journalism ethics at the University of Washington and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She was chairwoman of the Ameri- can Society of Newspaper Editors Ethics and Values Committee, and is the pri- mary creator of The Ethics Tool, a decision-making procedure for journalists, posted on the Poynter Web site. The University of Oregon inducted Byrd into its Hall of Achievement in 2000, and in 2003 she won the Society of Professor Journalists’ June Anderson Almquist Award for Distin- guished Service to Journal- ism. Byrd joined the Pu- litzer Board in 1999, re- placing Paul E. Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Board mem- bers stay on for up to nine years, serving consecutive three-year terms, Byrd said the board usually elects the most se- nior member as chairperson, but she and Mike Pride, edi- tor of the Concord Monitor, qualified for the chairman- ship because each is in the final year on the board and so will share the duties, Byrd is writing a book about the 1903 Hep- pner flood, in which more than 200 people drowned, But just Thursday she ex- perienced a small setback when the hard drive on her computer crashed. But Byrd d id n ’t seem too worried. “I have a copy of my draft,” she said, While at the EO, Byrd said she learned it matters to cover subjects fairly and accurately. She put that lesson and her ethics background into good use in 2003, as one of three out- side members on the New York Times committee that investigated Times reporter Jayson Blair for alleged pla- giarism and fabrication, “The people you’re writing about, the people who are affected by your stories, are the people you’re going to see in the line at the grocery store,” she said, Byrd said it’s a good tool of how well a reporter is doing his or her job if those people found the story accu- rate and fair, even while they may not agree with it. “ I c a r r i e d t hat through my whole career,” she said. “It works no matter where you go.” -- Marriage Licenses — The Morrow County Clerk’s office at the M.C. Courthouse in Heppner has released the following mar riage license information: -May 25: Roy Samuel Thurston, 62, Heppner, and Connie Elaine Delay, 54, Heppner. -June 8: Juvencia Sanchez Mendoza, 27, Board- man, and Anahi Dadila Avalos, 28, Boardman. -June 8: Isaac Donald Stillman, 19, Lexington, and Jennifer Dawn Johnston, 19, Hermiston. -June 14: Robert Darrin Padberg, 41, lone, and Camie Lou Anne Crum, 28, lone. -June 15: Joey Robin Vandoom, 38, and Teresa Michelle Hintz, 35, Heppner. E-mail: david@sykesrealestate net Regional Multiple Listing Service' V. i $160,000 (Editor s note: Joann Byrd is a Pendleton native who had recently researched information for a book on the Heppner Flood. She is a cousin to Cliff Green o f Heppner.) I Information deemed correct not guaranteed Deadline for Heppner GT: Mondays at 5 p.nu
