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
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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.
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(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.)
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