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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Obituaries The Official Newspaper o f the City o f Heppner and the County o f Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S P S 240-420 M orrow County’s H o m e-O w n ed Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner. Oregon under the Act o f March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at IXX W Willow Street telephone (541) 676-9228 Fax (541) 676-9211 l-m ail editorrdrapidserve.netordavtd@heppner.net Web site: www. heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Bov 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: $26 in Morrow County; $20 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $32 elsewhere; $26 student subscriptions David Sykes... .............................................................................. 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We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and w ill not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The G T reserves the right to edit. The G T is not responsible for accuracy o f statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “ Card o f Thanks” at a cost o f $I0. Fire concerns Letter to the editor: I'm not a writer, but I'v e counted to 10 several times and feel 1 have to speak my mind. First I want to say Thank You to all the firefighters that came to Monument to help put out The Monument Complex fire, you all did a great job. What I would like to correct is that the fire did not start Friday the 13th, it started about 9 p.m. Thursday the 12th. There was a call made informing you that there was a fire. t. I'm wondering where Madison Lookout was and why he didn’ t have this turned in, as he was less than 10 miles from where the fire started. I worked seven years on Lookouts. When a storm was coming I was to stay in tower and mark any down strikes on the windows so when morning came you checked those areas for smoke. Well, Friday morning we could see quite a bit o f smoke, so why the hell did we burn 54,000 acres? This is the third fire that has burned us out in five years and they were all uncalled for. Years ago, in 1940 to 1960, we had fires and when someone saw smoke they grabbed their gunny sacks and shovels, everyone fought the fire and they put them out. The ladies fixed lunches and meals and it didn’t cost what it cost to put the fires out today. Common sense tells me that this is because o f poor management o f the Umatilla B.L.M and O.D.F. We have talked to B.L.M. for sometime they need cattle on the J.V. Ranch. It’s nothing but a fire trap to all o f us in the Top and Wall Creek areas. The Umatilla is the same, they have taken most o f the cattle o f f so all we have is fuel. The other thing that O.D.F. and Umatilla do is they get to a fire and sit, talk, and write instead o f getting the fire out first. I know this has happened several times n and let the fire blow up. We all pay too much taxes for what we get out o f it, plus all the acres o f timber, grass and fences it bums out on all o f us. So I'd like to know why that we could put fires out with gunny sacks and shovels and you can’t with the manpower that's been trained and equipment. There's something really wrong with this picture. Common sense tells me that reading it out o f book and training doesn't do it. I know there are a lot o f people that feel like we do. So maybe we all need to get together and see if there is something we can all do. (s) Darlene J. Forrest Monument Teresa Ann Lewis Vaughan Teresa Ann Lew is Vaughan began her next great journey on Sunday, August 5, 2007, surrounded by family and friends. She was born July 2, 1955 in Ontario to Keith and Fern Lewis. She lived in Ontario until the sum mer o f her 17th year when her father’s promotion with the O regon State P o lic e moved the family to Baker City. Teresa always had a great love for animals. She learned to ride horses at a young age and became a skilled horseman and rodeo competitor. Her specialty was barrel racing. She even tually went on to be crowned Miss Oregon High School Rodeo Queen and competed in National Finals in cow' cutting and barrel racing in Utah and Colorado. She continued as a member o f the Blue Mountain Rodeo Team while attending Blue Mountain Community C ol lege. She en joyed hard work. She worked for A l bertson’s Bakery while at tending college. After col lege she w orked for the G rizzly Bear Commissary before finding her life long career, 30 plus years, as a legal assistant at the law firm o f Banta, Silven, and Young. In 1980 Teresa met a young lawyer, a gentle giant o f a man who stole her heart and became the love o f her life. Despite the daunting prospect ofjoining the Vaughan clan, includ ing Floyd, Kathy and their ten children, Teresa threw caution to the w ind and ac cepted Charlie’s proposal. They were married Septem ber 26, 1981 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Durkee. The reception which fo l lowed at the Durkee Grange (formerly the Durkee grade August 4: M orrow C ounty S h e r iff's O ffic e deputy reported he was at a residence in Boardman checking on some cows. There was a cow out. -M C S O r e c e iv e d report from a Boardman subject that his neighbor's goat was hung up on a fence and a brown heifer was out. He said it was an ongoing issue. -M C S O received a report from a Boardman subject that his aunt was try ing to sell a vehicle without his consent. -M CSO, Boardman Police Department respond ed to a possible domestic dispute in Boardman. The deputy reported that while he was out with the vehicle, a male was found to have a M C SO warrant. Ronald Lynn Cronen, 52, was ar rested on an Irrigon Justice Court warrant for Failure to Appear/Driving While Sus pended. He was also cited for Possession o f Less Than One Ounce o f Marijuana. He was lodged at Umatilla At the MCGG GREEN FEED STORE in Heppner: FAIR ANP nOPSO SPECIALS! Women's Wrangler Blouses, Tops ft leans 20% OFF Teresa Ann Lewis Vaughan school and gym attended by C h a rlie ) was g rea tly enhanced by several bou quets Teresa and her maid o f honor and dear friend Jane Bohn Sackos, "borrow ed” from several unsuspecting contributors. Floyd Samuel Lewis Vaughan's birth on S ep tember 3, 1985 made it a true Labor Day. Sam was 8 weeks premature, weighing in at 2 pounds, 11 ounc es. He spent his first two months at O H SU ’s neo-natal unit. As soon as Teresa could be at his side, she never left it. A scenario that would be repeated 15 years later when she again nursed him back to perfect health after his diagnosis o f lymphoma. Sam 's robust health and personality are among her greatest triumphs. Equally joyous were the births o f Kaitlin Eliza beth in l 988 and K eith Patrick Alexander Vaughan in 1991 and their many accomplishments. Fam ily meant everything to Teresa. She was a devoted parent and partner. She still found time to serve the community and church in many capaci ties, including as a board m em ber and o ffic e r for Baker City Y M C A , Baker Little League, South Baker PTO , Team Parent for all three children’s many activi ties, Clark Foundation, and St. Francis Parish Finance Sheriff's Report County Jail. -M CSO received re port o f three-juveniles in a vehicle peeling out, tearing up the drive and throwing rocks from tires. -M CSO received re port from a Heppner woman that a subject was calling her from jail and she wanted it stopped. -M CSO received re port from an lone woman that her brother traded some guns and a lawn mower. The subject would give the guns until the lawn mower was checked. -M CSO received re port from an Irrigon woman that her 15-year-old daugh ter was not at home by 4:28 p.m. and should have been home by I p.m. -M C S O r e c e iv e d report that subjects were burning an illegal slash pile in Heppner. The subject was warned and advised a bum ban. -M CSO cited Clyde James Redman, 48, for in significant boat numbers and no boater registration card. - M C S O a rre s te d M ontana Silver 25% OFF IO% OFF 4-H Feed and Supplies D arrell D w igh t R ollin s, Jr., 40, on Umatilla County Circuit Court warrants for Possession o f Methamphet- amine and Less Than One Ounce o f Marijuana. He was lodged at Umatilla County Jail. -M CSO received re port from an Irrigon subject that her m om ’s boyfriend called her to cause prob lems. -M C S O r e c e iv e d report o f a vehicle that ran several people o f f the road in Irrigon. -M CSO received re port from an Irrigon woman that her m iddle daughter and her b o y frie n d w ere causing a verbal dispute. M CSO responded that par ties separated and problem resolved. -M C SO made con tact with a subject in lone and the subject was advised how to handle a restraining order that was in place. -M CSO received re quest for a deputy from the Bull Prairie Campground host regarding three intoxi cated campers who would W I L L O W CREEK W A T E R LA RK e e fc M a E iH y W rangler’s BMWZ Cowboy Cut Jeans $19.95 Committee. Teresa had many in terests and talents. She was a great organizer o f closets, shopping trips, weekend get-a-w ays, fam ily vaca tions and fabulous dinners - be it elegant special oc casions or feeding hungry coaches and players. She enjoyed gourmet cooking and had an innate sense o f design and style. There were never enough flowers to plant or recipes to try. She combined her natural talent for color and design and her love o f meeting new people with the experience o f her mother Fern Taylor in join tly establishing the successful business known as Cover Works. Teresa was a posi tive person who remained open to new ideas, respected ideas and opinions different than her own, and taught this to her husband and children. She convinced her skeptical fam ily to experience new places and different people - both with activities outside their daily com fort zones and on trips far outside their usual time zones. Her fam ily will always be eternally grateful for her determina tion to not only get herself but also her family to Paris, France, Graz, Austria, and all across Italy. Teresa truly believed that wealth is not measured by what you have but rather by who you have beside you. In her case, it was count less friends, her children’s friends, clients, customers, faithful pets (M ickey, Gus, Sophie and Pete, to name a few), and her entire loving family. Teresa's fam ily in cludes: husband Charlie; children Sam, K ate, and Pat Vaughan; mother Fern T a y lo r and her husband Bob; father Keith Lewis and his w ife Sharon; her great Aunt Marge Burgess; Uncle /O y iia A i/ S A T U R D A Y , A U G U S T 2STH 6:00 P . M . • 10:00 P . M . $1.00 admission includes swimming and a meal (including patron« with pas««*) NEW SHIPMENT! Sedona Wert Straw Hats M orrow C ounty Grain G row ers G reen F eed & S eed 242 W. Linden Way, Heppner • 676-9422 • 989-8221 (MCGG main office) We'll be serving hot dogs, coleslaw, watermelon and pop Proceeds will go towards improving our pool with shaded areas! B ill L ew is and w ife Pat, Uncle Walt Gordon and wife Cleo, Uncle Pete Dunn; "sis ters” Kim Cutsforth, Kathy Fulmer, Kathleen Eckrich, Laurie Carnahan, M argie Walter, Reagan Vaughan, Heather Vaughan, and Joan Vaughan; life lo n g friend and a cc o m p lice Rhonda Scattinni; brothers-in-law Tom Vaughan, Joe Vaughan (deceased}, James Vaughan, Mark Eckrich, M ike Carna han, William Walter, and Ed Fulmer; other in-laws Steve Stevenson and Zoe Leach; the Dunn family; the Heriza fam ily; the Lew is family; the Gordon family, the Pif- her fam ily and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, neph ews, and cousins. In lieu o f flowers the family prefers those want ing to remember Teresa to make a donation to her fa vorite organizations: Baker Family Y M C A , St. Francis Church Renovation Project, or Susan G. Komen For The Cure. Marvin Robert Wightman, Jr. M a r v in R o b e r t . Wightman, Jr. died on Au gust 3, 2007 in Santa Rosa, CA. Mr. Wightman was born in Heppner and at tended Heppner schools un til 1954. He graduated from Salinas, C A High School and Heald College. He was an architect in Santa Rosa. He is survived by: his wife, Lorena Wightman o f Santa Rosa; son Andrew Wightman o f Santa Cruz; daughter Selena Wightman o f Santa Cruz; brother James Wightman o f Lone Tree, CO and Margaret (P egg y) Cia- pusci o f Bandon. He was preceded in death by his parents, Marvin and Claudien Wightman, and sister Janet Wightman. not be quiet. The campers were told that a deputy was en route, so they went to bed. Who gets ‘Tippage Fees” to be on ballot continued from page one demands, and August 9 they fo llo w e d through on the threat and filed a measured titled "A n ordinance requir ing distribution o f landfill fees to cities/towns” with the county court. Under the proposed or dinance beginning in fiscal year 2008-2009 the county would give up 25 percent o f the tippage fees to cities. In 2009-2010 that would jump to 50 percent and 2010- 20 11 it would top out at 75 percent. The ordinance stipulates that the cities portion will be divided in half, with one half the funds divided equally among the cities, and the other half divided according to population. The measure is expected to be voted on in the May election. Marriages M o r r o w C o u n ty Clerk Bobbie Childers has released the follow ing re port o f marriage licenses issued: -A u g u s t 8: C had M ichael Cham berlin, 33, Boardman and Ashley Paige Crowell, 24, Boardman. -Au gu st I0: M a t thew Paul Van Liew , 25, East Windsor, N.J. and M e lissa Rae Hanson, 26, East Windsor, N.J.
