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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - THREE UMESD hires veteran business manager Boardman’s 3rd annual Show “N” Shine a “hot” success T h e U m a t i l l a - this position,” Reese said. M orrow E ducation S e r “ I think my background vice D istric t (U M E SD ) will help me grasp what announces the hir w o rk s w e ll an d ing o f Bob Reese, what doesn’t. I ’m a former Pendleton looking forward to School District busi g e ttin g my hand . i ness manager, as its a ro u n d th e p r o new purchasing and grams so I know all m arketing special that’s involved.” ist. He began work T he U M ESD staff are ex July 22. Bob Reese Reese retired cited to have Reese from the Pendleton jo in the team . “ I School D istrict June 30, am very excited about Bob 2009, after 10 years as the accepting the position, as district’s director of busi he brings a wealth o f real ness services. However, Re world experience which I ese soon realized he w asn’t know will be of a great ben quite ready to be retired. efit to the Umatilla-Morrow “ I wanted to con ESD,” said Scott Rogers, tin u e d o in g s o m e th in g the U M E S D ’s d ire c to r meaningful, which means o f products and services. accomplishing tasks,” Re “Bob's in-depth knowledge ese said. "I call it 'redirect o f public education finance ing my life in retirem ent coupled with his experi age’.” ence in the private banking T h e p u r c h a s in g sector will be a huge asset and m arketing specialist to UMESD, as well as our position at the UMESD is respective districts.” a new one for the agency, Reese has a degree and Reese hopes his exten in business administration sive background in finance, with an emphasis in market b u sin e ss and e d u c atio n ing from Washington State will provide a good start U niversity, and also is a ing point. His position will graduate o f the University serve tw o prim ary func o f Washington’s Executive tions: one, with the guid Development School, and ance o f the D irecto r o f the University o f Indiana’s products and services Scott Graduate School o f Sav Rogers, Reese will share ings and Loans. Prior to responsibilities associated being hired at the Pendle w ith the A sso c ia tio n o f ton School District, Reese E d u c a tio n a l P u rch asin g was vice president o f sales Agencies (AEPA) related and construction develop activities, including con ment at Coldwell Banker tract review and negotia W hitney and A ssociates, tions, vendor evaluation, vice president o f ancillary and m a r k e tin g - r e la te d services and director o f the events and needs; two, w ith St. Anthony Hospital Foun guidance from Chief Finan dation at St. Anthony Hos cial Officer Beth O ’Hanlon pital, and vice president and and the UM ESD’s business regional m anager for the office, Reese will provide Benjamin Franklin Federal direction and expertise to Savings and Loan, among the U M E S D 's u m brella other positions throughout districts in regards to pub hiscareer. lic procurement, financial i.-j-.i.i.t Reese is also ac management and business tive in the Pendleton com practices, and purchasing m unity. He is curren tly contracts. the chairman o f the Pend The UMESD, with leton Progress Board, as the AEPA, takes pride in well as a founding member h elp in g school d istric ts and board member o f the save m oney by coopera Pendleton Economic D e tively purchasing a variety velopment Board. He is an o f goods and services. adjunct professor at Lewis “All o f my expe and Clark College, and ac riences - because there’s tive with the Round Up City such a wide variety o f them Development Corporation - have prepared me for and Pendleton Chamber of situations that can help in Commerce. Senior Center Menu Nazarene/7th Day Adventist Church members will be serving lunch on Wednesday, August 5. The menu will include spaghetti with meat sauce, green salad w ith tomatoes, Jell-o with fruit, garlic bread, and tiramisu. Free sports physicals to be offered Free sports physi- from 1:30-5 p.m. Physi- cals w ill be offered for cals for girls will be given Heppner and lone school A ugust 4 and p h ysicals students in grades 7-9-11 for boys on August 5. All at Pioneer Memorial Clinic transfer students must have a physical. Form s are a v a il able at Heppner TV office or online at ww w.osaa.org. Forms will also be avail able at the clinic. A parent signature is required. Free sports physi cals will also be offered at Irrigon Medical Clinic for fall sports on August 18 from 1:30-5 p.m. and for w inter and spring sports on August 25 from 1:30-5 p.m.____________________ v . j Large newly remodeled home in Heppner You have to see this home inside. Complete ly remodeled including new kitchen counters, carpeting and d com pletely redone base ment. Small barn and lots of room out bock for horses or other animals. 3 plus bedrooms ond nice big living room. 1.5 ocres m/1 for your horses or animals. A total of 2856 Square/feet. Call 541-980-5045. $164,500 i ~ Letters to the Editor The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor w ith the follow ing criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name of the sender along w ith a legible signature. 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 will not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card ofThanks" at a cost o f $10. Two sides to every coin The third annual Show “N” Shine car show was held this weekend at Boardman Citv Park. -Contributed Photo O ver 200 specta tors braved the hot tem peratures Saturday to attend the Desert Rats Classic Car C lub’s 3rd Annual Show “N ” Shine at the Board- man City Park. Although temperatures reached 100°, th irty -fo u r p a rticip a n ts, from as far away as the Tri Cities, turned out to show off their prized vehicles. New this year to the show was the m otor cycle category which gave attendees a chance to see some two-wheeled favor ites. The show was free adm ission and spectators were able to admire unique cars and motorcycles, while listening to fun oldies and eating great food provided by Judy Scott’s Chuckwag- on. Organizers o f the event raffled off several car gift packages and gave away trophy aw ards in seven categories. Winner o f the Best o f Show trophy w ent to Darrell and Lorrie Hart o f Boardman with their 1938 Chevy Pickup. The Best C ustom tro p h y w ent to Larry Storment o f Herm- iston with a 1955 Chevy Pickup. The Best Classic trophy went to Donna An derson o f Hermiston with her 1942 Ford Pickup. The Best Hot Rod trophy went to Gene Long of Hermiston with his 68 V-8 powered V W Bug. Steve and Terry Boyer of Pasco, WA won the Best Contemporary tro phy for their 2008 Shelby Mustang, Best Motorcycle w ent to Ron Ford o f Board- man w ith his 2009 Harley Davidson, and Best Muscle Car went to Scott Adams of Hermiston with his 428 powered 68 California Spe cial Mustang. The proceeds of the event go directly back into the Boardman community. The Desert Rats Classic Car Club offers scholarships to Riverside High School graduates, gives money to the local gleaners organiza tion, and donates at Christ mas time to the area Giving Tree programs. The Desert Rats Classic Car Club is a Boardman non-profit orga nization whose purpose is to promote interest in the sport of Classic Cars, Street Rodding, and Muscle Cars, with an emphasis on family and com m unity service. The Club m em bership is m ade up o f C lassic Car enthusiasts who own pre- 1975, American made cars or trucks. They meet the second Thursday o f each month at 7 p.m. Organizers o f the event plan to start right away planning next year’s Show ‘N ’ Shine, w hich promises to be even big ger. For more information, co ntact G eorge Price at 481-3217. City of Boardman places bounty on noxious weed City council- ors gave the green light T uesday n ig h t to begin a new program aim ed at controlling Puncturevine. Each year the city receives c o m p la in ts o f the plant g row ing along the bike path, sidewalks and curbs. Throughout the month of A ugust the city will pay $1 per bag collected o f the noxious weed. If you have ever stepped on a Puncturevine seed, you know w hat a pain the plant can be. Each spiny bur or seed pod from the Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris), also known as a “ G o a th e a d ” , c o n ta in s 20 seeds equipped w ith long sharp spines capable o f puncturing a bike tire or a shoe. It takes only three weeks for this weed to sprout and make seeds. To make things worse, the seeds are some o f the hardi est in nature; they may lay in the ground dormant for up to 20 years until just the right conditions come along for them to grow. Any es tablished Puncturevine will HOST AN EXCHANGE STUDENT TODAY! continue to grow and spread until frost comes along - un less you stop it. The city hopes to enlist the aid of its citizens to control the spread o f Puncturevine by offering to pay for collection o f the weed. The Puncturevine and their seed pods need to be collected in bags provided by the city and returned to City Hall to receive the $1 per bag bounty. The city’s code compliance official, John Russell, said “this is a great opportunity for local youth to raise money for their organizations and to do something good for their community”. Areas o f the most concern are the city’s bike/ pedestrian paths, and resi dential areas. The Puncture vine Control Program will run the month o f August or until the first 300 bags are collected. Bags can be picked up at B oardm an City Hall anytime from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more in formation on the program, contact Boardman City Hall at 481-9252. For more information or to select your own exchange student from applications with photos, please call W arty a t I - 8 0 0 - 8 8 8 - 9 0 4 0 Cathv at 15411 422-7107 Magnetic Door Signs! Quitter's Round-Up I? Sale lures atnfmg and Make this year the most exciting, enriching year ever for you and your family Share your world with a young foreign visitor from abroad W elcome a high school student, 15-18 years old, from France. Spain, (¡ermany. Thailand, Denmark. China. Japan. Russia or Italy as part of your family for a school year and make an overseas friend for life To the editor, my neighbors, friends, and relatives: There are always two sides to every coin. I would like to share my side. I made a deliberate and well-thought out purpose ful decision to return to the farm with my husband 26 years ago after eight years o f marriage living elsewhere. Our choice was made because we wanted to be a part o f maintaining the rich tradition and deep-rooted values that are only found in a rural environment. We wanted communities like lone and Heppner to survive and to continue raising people that understand the importance of family, hard work, serving God, and caring for the land. We believe the values o f small communities that care for each other - fight with each other and hang in there together - over years and years, develop people that know how to stick in there for the long run and have much to offer a society that knows nothing about truly sustainable community (no matter how those city people toy w ith the term !) I also came to the farm because I love the privacy, the out of doors, and the immense blue sky - and learning to live with, struggle with, and become a part o f nature and helping plants to grow. I like being part of the chain that helps feed the world. I have no desire to live in the midst o f an enor mous power plant. Looking to the north - both east and west I am so saddened. Beautiful, productive farmland is being covered with cement and machinery and big red lights. All for the handout - not the hard work. The wind farms could not even be feasible without the enormous government subsidies that I believe are being given out to increase the government’s power over our lives. Environmentally, they are a sham. One coal-fired plant (Boardman) on about 5,800 acres of non-productive land produces 586MW o f power hourly while PGE’s Biglow Canyon wind facility on 25,000 acres o f prime farmland will only produce an average o f 150 MW on a leased footprint of 25,000 acres. In addition the coal plant pro duces this power consistently. The wind doesn’t blow all the time or at a consistent rate and often times it is not windy when it is very hot or very cold - peak usage times. You cannot store wind energy, and the demand on other sources of electricity are not so easy to put on line and take offline when wind is unavailable. PGE estimates that its own wind energy plant will produce on average only a third of its stated capacity for these reasons. Much o f the expressed energy demand is not even within our region, but will be shipped to California. When the subsidies dry up - the companies will go away. No one will know how or be able to afford to remove them. Our rural farmland environment will be permanently changed. Those who make this choice must be aware of the huge impact on the lives of their neighbors. Old timers will tell you that living here and main taining our communities has never been easy - but no one came here to live an easy life. They came here to work the land and raise their families. No matter how big the payment - farming around these towers will not be easy. Living near them will not be easy. Many who receive the payment will decide the money is so good - why farm? As farmers move away our communities and schools will truly become in jeopardy. I think the investment in wind energy, particularly in a state already rich in renewable energy is short-sighted. I think we are selling out on the goals that brought most o f us here in the first place. We are letting ourselves and our neighbors down for short term and in most cases for personal enrichment at the cost o f our lifestyle and values. I don’t think the return on the investment is worth the cost to our environment, our homes, our land, and our future. I don’t think we should be letting our struggling, brave pioneer forefathers down and give up on their dream and ours so easily. Think about where and how you want to live and what is truly important to you before signing wind leases. Do not believe that this will not change our part o f the world forever - it will. There are more creative, positive ways to maintain and sustain our communities - than to take the money and run. My vision for the future of our communities may contain struggle and hard work - but doesn’t anything that has value take that? Isn't resilience and hard work our legacy to the world? As I am a relative outsider and newcomer (even after 24 years) in the time frame o f a small community, I don’t believe we have the right to dismiss the thoughts o f new comers. I commend Mr. Kluehe on his ability to see so quickly my side of the coin. To my neighbors, friends, and relatives who are invested in wind - this is a small community - we can disagree and still love each other as we have in the past. Your choices are your own - I wanted you to know what mine will be - and why. Kerry Rietmann lone *Lots of Sizes* July 19 - Aug. 2 * Lots of Colors* New Christmas fabric arriving * Free Quotes* Great deals throughout the store. The Heppner "VtLLajgjc. wTtw.world-herilage.org » * O t l D H f t IT A G I I Gazette Times 193 N. Main St. Heppner 676-8282 ( 541 ) ß 676 - 9228
