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FOUR • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 2, 2008 A look back at 2007 < May 16, 2007 - Voters said no to the County Road Levy by a vote of 701 “Yes” to 1167 “No”. August 18, 2007 - The Heppner High School class of 1057 recently held their 50th class reunion on July 21. The following members were in attendance. Front Row: Jon Blake, Lew Robbins (former teacher), Kathryn Hager (former teacher), Evvonne (Esch) Harshman, and Mary (Stewart) Hall. Middle Row: Alice (Peterson) Ployhar, Christine (Swaggart) Norden, Marilyn (Monagle) Barry, Lance Corporal USMC Michael Janet (Keithley) Rloeppel, Francine (Francis) Evans, Elaine (Stone) Rose, Meredith (Thomson) McCabe presented the colors at Walters, and Janet (Wright) Litchfield. the 2A State Semi-Final football Back Row: Al Esch, Edgar Olson, Jay Sumner, Richard Applegate, Lou Sayers, Dee Bailey, Gary game against the Lakeview Jones, Victor Groshens, Jay Dee Hudson, Laurel (Allstott) Lanes, and Virginia (Griffin) M arti Honkers on Saturday, Novem nez. August 18. ber 24. M bmi June 13, 2007 - Local sweethearts Nick Christmas and Cara Kennedy won the East Oregonian's W edding of Your Dreams competition. November 7, 2007 - Corps of Engineers plans to give long-term irrigation contracts for Willow Creek Lake water. December 12, 2007 - Mayors and city managers gather at the Morrow County Clerks office Tuesday morning to turn in signature petitions placing an ordinance on the ballot that, if passed, would redistribute tippage money from the Morrow County general fund to individual cities in the county. Left to right are Irrigon Mayor Charles Neumann, lone city recorder Gayle Eynetich, Heppner Mayor Les Faustian, Board- man Mayor Ed Glenn, Irrigon City Manager Gerald Brea/.eale and County Clerk Bobbi Childers. If the signatures are validated, the ordinance would be on a county-wide ballot in March. December 5, 2007 - The Heppner Mustangs took second in state this past weekend. The Mustangs lost their bid for state champi ons by a score of 10-6 to Culver. The Mustangs ended their season with an impressive 10-3 record. - Photo by Sandy Matthews March 14, 2007 - Heppner celebrated its first St. Patrick’s Day celebration 25 years ago. In this photo Eb Hughes and sister Anita of Milton-Freewater go on the air with KLMA. Jim Farley, founder of Heppner’s St. Patrick's celebration, stands to the left with his arms folded. October 10, 2007 - Miller & Sons Excavating purchased Hep pner Garbage Disposal. September 5, 2007 - In 1980 local farmers worked to patch Sand Hollow Road. Currently road crews are working to repair the road. October 31, 2007 - Students attending the Umatilla National Forest Fire and Fuels Orientation Camp performed many tasks during their week long camp. Among those was a prescribed burn in which non-commercial thinning was piled up and burned. Jills 4. 2007 - Kirk Street Bridge was in bad need of repairs. Neighbors and the city crew stripped off the old timbers on Sunday and put on a brand new surface on Monday.
