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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 2009)
Heppner Gazette-Times welcomes new staff member The H eppner G a zette-Times has a new face in the office. Megan Futter joined the G azette-Tim es station November 19,2008 as the new g rap h ics d e signer. Born and raised in Heppner, Futter moved to Pendleton approxim ately seven years ago. It was dur ing this time that she mar ried. She and her husband, Andrew, have three ch il dren, Sabashtian (7), Gaige (5), and Faith (2). Bessie Wetzell Newspaper l ibrary University of Oregon Eugene. OK 97403 While in Pendleton, Futter received her Associ ate o f Arts Oregon Transfer Degree from Blue Mountain Com m unity College with an em phasis in com puter graphics design. Her cur rent job entails working on the Heppner Gazette-Times newspaper, printing jobs, ad design and web design. She and her family moved from Pendleton to Heppner when Futter took the job at the Gazette. Her h u sb an d w orks for JVB Dairy in lone. “ We a re e x c ite d about being back in Hep pner/’ said Futter. “The kids Megan Futter is the new graphic designer for the Heppner Ga really like it. It’s nice to be zette-Times. -Photo by Autumn Morgan around all o f my fam ily again.” City of Lexington loses mayor VOL. 128 NO. 1 10 Pages Wednesday, January 7,2009 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Morrow County elected officials sworn into office The C ity o f L ex ington lost its m ayor on Wednesday, December 31. Valerie Doherty died at Ka dlec Medical Center from complications suffered from two strokes. D o h e rty ’s fam ily moved to Lexington in 1963. She graduated from Hepp ner High School in 1971. In 1975 she graduated from the University o f Oregon and in 1979 from Willamette Uni versity School o f Law.. She later returned to Heppner and practiced law w ith the W inter and Sw eeney Law Firm. She later went into private prac tice for herself. Doherty also served as a former council member for the City o f Lexington. A fter being appointed as C ity o f Irrigon to hold public open house The City of Irrigon w ill hold a pu b lic open house on Thursday, January 15, at Stokes Landing Senior Center from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The open house is to estab lish a vision for downtown Irrigon and US 730. The City o f Irrigon has teamed with the Oregon Department o f Transporta tion (ODOT) and a team of transportation, urban design and economic specialists to create a Downtown Plan and US 730 S treetscap e Plan for D ow ntow n Irri Back Row (L to R) Count Assessor Greg Sweek and Sheriff Kenneth Matlack, Front Row (L to R) gon. The Project Team will County Surveyor Judson Coppock, County Clerk Bohbi Childers, County Treasurer Gayle Guti be spending the two days errez, and County Commissioner Leann Rea were sworn into office on Monday, January 5, at the touring Downtown Irrigon Morrow County Courthouse. -Photo by Autumn Morgan and meeting with various property and business own NOAA issues monthly climate summary for Heppner ers. On Thursday night, the public will have the chance to tell us your ideas about the downtown plan and US 730 streetscape. Comment forms can be picked up at City Hall and throughout the com munity after the meeting, or contact City Manager Jerry Breazeale at (541) 922-3047 or irrigon@ oregontrail.net for more information. 2 Ì 4 6 f> 7 3 ■» io 11 12 1J H 1$ H ” It 11 » ÎI a 23 a i Î5 » P a a JO J1 i** ü 't t *ni, Mom- va* r*r'r A ccording to p re liminary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton O r egon, temperatures at Hep pner averaged colder than normal during the month of December. The average te m perature was 30.7 degrees which was 3.7 degrees be low normal. High tempera tures averaged 40.4 degrees, which was 1.8 degrees be low norm al. The highest was 63 degrees on the 7th. Low temperatures averaged 21.1 degrees, which was 5.6 degrees below normal. The lowest was -5 degrees, on the 16th. uoi C ir ra to D a« Prov d«d By \ O A A.'Sa ton a V/aattor Servit» There were 25 days with the low temperature be low 32 degrees. There were nine days when the high tem perature stayed below 32 degrees. Precipitation totaled 2.38 inches during Decem ber, which was 1.03 inches ab o v e n o rm al. M ea su r able precipitation -at least .01 inch- was received on 14 days with the heaviest, 0.34 inches reported on the 19th. S n o w fa ll to ta le d 17.6 inches with at least one inch o f snow reported on five days. The heaviest snow fall was 5.0 inches reported on the 19th. The City Clerk Dee Burch (right) presented Lexington Mayor Val Doherty with a plaque of appreciation from Jim and Yung Nelson early last December. -Photo bv David Sykes mayor of Lexington to fin ish an existing four year term, Doherty decided to run for the same position during a general election in 2006. With two years left in her term, the Lexington City Council will appoint a mayor to fill the position until the next general elec tion in 2010. Items damaged at MC Museum Top Photo (left to right): Jo Burt, Sherry ( lark, and Peggy Fishhurn sort through various clothing items that were dam aged at the Morrow County Museum when a portion of the roof in the storage room collapsed last week from the weight of the snow. Bottom Photo: Jo Burt examines a dress damaged by the roof collapse. Photo by David Sykes greatest depth o f snow on the ground was 27 inches Tom W icklund M em orial Fund set up at BEO on the 26th. The Tom Wicklund Memorial Fund account has been set up at the Bank o f Eastern The outlook for Jan Oregon. Anyone wishing to make a donation may stop by and do so. uary from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center calls for near normal tem peratures ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: and above normal precipita tion. Normal highs for Hep pner during January are 42.3 degrees and normal lows are 26.3 degrees. The 30 year normal precipitation is 1.46 inches. 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