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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 28, 2007 The Official Newspaper of the C ity of Heppner and the County of Morrow Baker, DeMayo honored at open house Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S.P S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post O ffic e at Published Heppner, O regon under the A c t o f M arch 3, 1879. Period ical postage paid at Heppner, O regon O ffic e at 188 W W illo w Street. Telephone (541) 676-9228 Fax (541) 0 7 0 -0 2 11 I -mad editor'd rapidserve net or david u heppner net Web site www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner G a ze tte -lim e s, P.O. H o\ 337, Heppner. O regon 97836 Subscriptions: $26 in M orrow County; V2() senior rate (in M orrow County only; 62 years or older); $32 elsewhere; $26 student subscriptions. I )av id Sy k e s ............................................................................................... Publisher Autum n M o rg a n .............................................................................................. bditor All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p m For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 pm Cost for a display ad is $4 90 per column inch Cost for classified ad is 50« per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5 50 per column inch For Public/Legal Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p m Dates for pub- ation must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary wntten in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters All letters MUST include the author s address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the nght to edit letters The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under "Card of Thanks" at a cost of $10 Terri Baker and Dave DeMayo were recently honored at an open house held at Heppner C ity Hall. Baker recently resigned as Heppner Cham ber of Commerce director and DeMayo may he recalled to active duty with the U.S. Army. MC Sheriff’s Office investigates theft and vandalism incidents On November 26, the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office took two reports involving theft of large amounts o f w ire from two separate victims. A third incident occurred in the mountains south o f Heppner involving vandalism On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.net o f county equipment. • Start or Change a Subscription • Place a Classified Ad • Submit a News Story Morrow County Public Works reported that when • View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes workers arrived at the county rock crusher facility located • L o c a l Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations off o f Gravel Pit Lane in Irrigon, they found that a large • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! amount of the electrical cabling used to operate the crusher -facility had been stolen. The theft occurred sometime be tween Wednesday, November 21, and Monday, November "26. In addition, a number o f items were damaged during Rev. Francis A. the theft. The preliminary estimate of damage and loss is well in excess o f $10,000. Hebert Wesley Wise who operates a rock crusher in the Rev. Francis A. He same area, also had 1,000 plus feet of electric cabling taken bert, 90, o f Fossil, former from their facility as well. The value of the items damaged/ long time Heppner resident, stolen in this incident is estimated at over $3,000. died Thursday, November In addition to these two incidents. Morrow County 22, 2007 at Pioneer Memo Public Works reported that sometime between Wednesday, rial Hospital in Heppner. November 21, and Monday, November 26, someone van Recitation o f the Rosary dalized two portable “reader boards" that were on Tupper was held at 7:30 p.m. Tues Lane just off of the 21 road in southern Morrow County. day at St. Patrick’s Catholic The subject(s) involved also used a county excavator lo Church in Heppner. Funeral cated nearby to place a slash pile in the roadway obstruct Mass was held at 11 a.m. ing vehicular traffic. Estimates o f damage in this incident Wednesday at St. Patrick’s are not available at this time. Catholic Church with con All incidents are currently under investigation. cluding serv ice and burial The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office requests at the H eppner M asonic Rev. Francis A. Hebert that anyone with information on possible suspects and or Cemetery. He was born April years he helped at St. Wil suspicious vehicles seen in the area o f any o f these three 29..J.917 in Custer, SD, the liam 's Parish in lone and incidents, contact MCSO at 676-5317. son of Emmanuel and Mary St. Patrick's Parish in Hep Prep work begins on Court Street Conw ay H ebert. He was pner. He most recently has raised and attended school at been a resident o f Haven Hill City, SI) where he grad House Retirement Center uated from high school. He in Fossil. While in Fossil he worked in the Citizens Con served weekday Mass at St. servation Corp for several Catherine’s Catholic Church years before being drafted when his health permitted. into the Armed Service in He is survived by: June o f 1941. He served a sister, Aileen Brooks, o f in the United States Army, Gannett, ID; a niece, Jean participating in the Major Ann Adams, o f Heppner; European Campaigns dur and 21 additional nieces and ing World War II. He was nephews. He was preceded honorably discharged in in death by sisters Margaret Lerseth, Rita Harrington, December of 1945. Before entering the and Camilla Samples. Sem inary, Father Hebert Memorial contribu worked in the mines and tions may be made to Haven in the woods, occasionally House Retirement Center, using horses in that line of P.O. Box 386, Fossil, OR work. He was ordained as 97830 or to the Pioneer Me ,i Catholic priest in May of morial Hospice, P.O. Box 9, I960. He served as a priest Heppner, OR 97836 or the in the Idaho Diocese, first donor’s charity o f choice. serving Mass in Hailey, ID. Sweeney Mortuary Follow ing his retirem ent of Heppner is in charge of he moved to Heppner to be arrangements. Court Street was blocked off for a few hours on Tuesday, No near family. For nearly 20 Obituaries vember 27, as workers used a crane for prep worked needed for road expansion that w ill begin in 2009. -Photo by Autumn Ip Conte to lone and join us for our Annual Open House and Bazaar. The tradition al open bouse will la k e place on F riday November 30 fro m 10 am to 3 pm a n d will include the uoual g re a t food an d door p rize s fro m local businesses. New this year will he a two-dav Holiday Bazaar at the Legion Hall from Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 from 10 am to 4 pm each day. Be .nire to stop by T aylor s and m a k e a bid on one or more o f the m a n y wreath.* created b y various organizations. Bidding is open u n til December / 5. Morgan j | Royce, Willow Creek Symphony & Singers to perform first concerts of the season The Willow Creek S y m p h o n y and W illow Creek Singers are gearing up for their first concerts o f the season on December 1 and 2, 2007. The ensembles, which are part of Inland Northwest M usicians (1NWM), will perform Saturday, Decem ber 1 in Arlington at 7 p.m. and Sunday, December 2 at Heppner Elementary School in at 4 p.m. Both concerts are free. “This is the seventh year that Willow Creek has been a part o f 1NWM. We are proud to continue to be an active m em ber o f the music culture o f this region and to have this student/ adult ensemble activity be available to the citizens of those communities,” said R. Lee Friese, Music Director/ Conductor o f Inland North west Musicians. Friese is the principal conductor o f the Willow Creek groups, and is assisted by Associate Con ductor Holly M acDonell, who is a resident o f Arling ton and the public school music teacher there. Willow Creek Sym phony and Willow Creek Singers will jointly perform What Child Is This? (arr. H opson) at the co n cert, plus several selections sepa rately. The symphony will perform six other pieces, among them Snow White Fantasy by Churchill (arr. H e rfu rth ), Scarborough Fair (arr. Muller) and Fi nale from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky (arr. Carlin). The singers will perform four other com positions, including Skye Boat Song (arr. Rodgers) and This Is My Country by Raye/Jacobs (arr. Scott). “The audiences will recognize several o f the pieces we are performing, and I know they will also enjoy the less familiar piec es; it will be a great pair of concerts for our two en- sembles,” said MacDonell, Associate Conductor. The audience is in vited to a reception after each concert to meet and mingle with the musicians. Donations will be accepted at each event. Inland North west M usicians relies on local support in each com munity in which they per form. The Heppner concert is being sponsored by the M orrow C ounty U nified Recreation District. For more informa tion on the abov e concerts or for the entire season sched ule, please call the Inland Northwest Musicians office at 541-966-6649 or visit online at inwm.org. If you are interested in supporting the o rg an izatio n , annual Sustaining Memberships are available. Inland N orthw est Musicians will continue its season in December with a trio o f holiday concerts fea turing Handel’s Messiah. Inland N o rth w est M usicians is a nonprofit, regional organization whose mission is to bring fine or chestral and choral music and education opportunities to large and small communi ties in northeastern Oregon and so u th ea stern W ash ington. Founded in 1999, it is comprised o f five per forming ensembles— Inland N orthw est O rchestra and Inland Northwest Chorale (rehearsing in Pendleton), Wallowa Valley Orchestra (reh earsin g in W allow a) and W illow C reek Sym phony and Willow Creek Singers (rehearsing in Hep pner). The ensembles have performed 180 concerts in 50 com m unities through out their history. All o f the m usicians are volunteers who believe that music is for everyone, regardless of income or geographic loca tion. All concerts are free. Birth Announcement Cole Jon Roy - Josh and Jessica Roy o f Hep pner announce the birth o f their son, Cole Jon Roy, bom Monday, November 19, at Good Shepherd Hospital at 9:46 a.m. At birth he weighed nine pounds, 11 ounces, and was 23 inches in length. Grandparents are Jim and Donna Roy o f Heppner and Jeff'and Kathie Maben o f Mount Vernon. Area school Christmas programs announced Heppner Elementary School will hold their Christ mas program “ Elfis and the sleigh riders" on Tuesday, December 11, at 6 p.m. at the HES gym. Heppner High School will hold a Christmas concert at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 18, in the high school cafetorium. lone School will hold their Christmas program at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 11, in the school caf eteria. The public is welcome to attend these events. We wish you a Happy | Birthday on Dec. 31 Your Friends lone Community Church welcomes new pastor The lone Commu nity Church in lone has a new permanent pastor. Stacy Shelton will preach her first sermon as the permanent pastor this Sunday, Decem- 10°/o OFF PARTS AND LABOR through February, 2008 We also have special financing: six months no interest, no payments on $1,500 or more of Case IH parts and service from Sept. 1, 2007 through Dec. 31, 2007 Morrow County Grain Lexington 9 8 9 -8 2 2 1 • 1 -8 0 0 -4 5 2 -7 3 9 6 For farm equipment »lilt our w«b sit« at m cn.net her 2. S helton com es to lone C om m unity Church from Murray Hills Christian Church in Beaverton where she has served as an asso ciate pastor since August o f 2000. Shelton and her husband, Jason Reid, will be mov ing to lone this week and are looking forward to getting to know the com munity. Sunday School starts at 9:45 followed by the regu lar Sunday serv ice at 11 a.m. All are inv ited.
