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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 14, 2009 A view from the hill By Boris Brosnan iff The residents at Willow Creek Terrace w ho have youthful viewpoints saw an opportunity for some laughter and frivolity on September 30, Chew ing Gum Day, and only hesitat ed briefly before popping wads of bubble gum into their mouths. More than one playful person admit ted to not chewing bubble gum for many, many years, since being teenagers, but that didn't stop them from working those jaws until they were able to produce somew hat pliable wads and attempt to blow bubbles. Amid lots of laughter some bubbles did result, some as big as about four inches in diameter, proof again from the Hill that there is no age restrictions on fun for the sake of fun. More than one participant had sore jaws later. The next day, resi dents were able to greet a new neighbor. Vi Oliver moved into an apartment from her previous home in Heppner and is surely learning quickly about the opportunities for light hearted fun, as well as educational, entertaining, and inspirational activities at the Terrace. Fitting into those categories this month have been activities that cel- ebrated Guardian Angel Day and World Smile Day, as well as Fire Prevention Week and National Carry- a-Tune Week, and favor ites for obvious reasons, National Angel Food Cake Day and National Sausage Pizza Day. R e s id e n ts w ill have more celebrations through October that will feature food, fun, serious conversations, and fright. National Face-Your-Fears Day (13th), Grouch Day ( 15,h), Chocolate Cupcake Day ( 18th), Evaluate-Your- Life Day (19,h), Boston Cream Pie Day (23rd) iden tify a few of those. And the Halloween month features “Super Heroes” this year. R e s id e n ts w ill welcome pre-school chil dren on the 27lh and invite them to choose pumpkins from the Terrace garden that they can then paint. The staff will dress as their favorite heroes on Hal loween. And many of the residents will be eager to welcome trick-or-treaters that evening from 4 to 9. Maybe the parlor will be full of super heroes large and small that evening, so the ghouls and ghosts might have a formidable challenge to their spooki ness. And a guarantee has been issued: The Great Pumpkin will appear! Ab solutely a sure thing, guar anteed. The rest o f the harvest from the garden has been preserved for the months ahead, and plans are already in the making for next year’s garden. The garden has been a great ad dition to life on the Hill, ac cording to several staff and residents. Many friends and relatives have also continued to share their garden produce, so the Ter race community thanks the Meligans, Debbie Warren, Bill Boyd, the Wunder- lichs, the A1 Osmins, the Gateses, and Daisy Collins. And the baked goods that Floss Watkins has brought have complemented the menus nicely. A new addition to the monthly picture at the Terrace will be Mrs. Beth Dickenson's Heppner High School class that plans to visit once a month, with various activities in mind. Something the residents will look forward to. They also look forward to a special event on the last day of October. Dick and Virginia Wilkin son will be celebrating 59 years of marriage, and that is a success that the residents view with admi ration. Morrow County proposes amending zoning ordinance The M orrow County Planning Com mission has held the first o f two public hearings to consider amendments to the M orrow County Zoning Ordinance and the second is scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, at 7 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Morrow County School District Building in Lexington in the board room. A c c o r d i n g to Planning Director Carla McLane, this will be the second chance for Mor row' County residents to comment on the draft pro visions. The pr oposed amendments affect Article 1, Introductory Provisions, Article 2, Establishment of Zones, and Article 4, Supplem entary Pro visions, Section 4.130, Manufactured Home or Recreational Ve hicle Authorized as Tem porary Residence for Care of a Relative in Conjunc tion with Existing Resi dential Use. According to McLane, changes to Or egon State provisions and requirem ents prompted these amendments. How ever, planning department staff are also taking this opportunity to correct any inconsistencies and gram- matical and typographical faced with removing hard errors that may acciden ship dwellings, which are tally have been introduced second dwellings placed into the affected provisions on a piece o f property over time. to provide housing for a The change will caregiver for a resident re add definitions for the quiring close-at-hand care. terms ‘tax lot’ and ‘parcel’ The ordinance currently re to Article I; add the new quires that hardship dwell zoning designations that ings be removed within were approved earlier to 60 days after they are no Article 2; and update the longer needed. The revised language in Article 4, Sec ordinance would allow an tion 4.130 to allow the additional 30 days, for a planning director to make total of 90 days, to remove permit renewal decisions a hardship dwelling. The and to meet state require revision also aligns the or ments for approving hard dinance more closely with ship variances. state requirements for ap Associate Planner proving hardship dwellings Lori Timmons explained in Exclusive Farm Use and that adding definitions for Forest Use zones. the terms ‘tax lot’ and ‘par Building on the cel’ to the ordinance will discussion from the Sep eliminate confusion when tember 29 public hearing, the terms are used in future the Planning C om m is land-use actions. sion looks forward to the The c o u n t y is second hearing and addi seeking to update Article 2 tional comment from the primarily to include in the citizens of Morrow County. List of Established Zones At the conclusion of the the zoning designations ap second Planning Commis proved by the county in the sion hearings, the Planning last few years. These zones Commission can choose to are the “Resource Related hold a third public hearing Industrial Zone (RR1),” or forward the amendments “Tourist Commercial Zone to the County Court for (TC),” “ Rural Light In final adoption. The County dustrial Zone (RLI),” and Court hearing is tentatively “Speedway Limited Use scheduled for December Overlay Zone (SO).” 2009. Section 4.130 of Copies of the staff Article 4 is being revised to report for the proposed ease the burden on families amendments and copies of draft amendments will be available at the Planning Department. For more infor mation, please contact the Morrow County Planning Department at 541-922- 4624 or 541-676-9061 ex tension 5503 or send an e- mail message to mcurry@ co.morrow.or.us. IONE ^ CARDINAL BOOSTER CLUB Date: Saturday, October 24,2009 Location: lone Legion Hall No host social hour: 4:00 pm Dinner served: 5:00 pm Cost: $10 per person The 1st annual hall of fame dinner will see inductees from 1922 to 1960-A total of 51 inductees Come help celebrate this wonderful event and honor our hall of fame Please RSVP dinner reservations to Betty Gray (541) 422-7335 by October 2 0,2009 h _______________ — ______________________________________________ j Wolff, Meyer named Commend ed Students Ashley Wolff and Julia Meyer o f Heppner High School were recently named Commended Stu dents in the 2010 National M erit Scholarship Pro gram. Commended Stu dents placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2010 competi tion by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualify ing Test (PSAT/NMSQT). HHS class of 1999 to hold reunion Pictured are member* of the Heppner High School class of 1999: First row (L-R) - Christy Kenny, Shane Matheny, Brooke Boyer-Kates, Derek Gunderson, Jaci Hughes, and Sarah Monahan. Second row (L-R)-Travis Winters, Heather Davis Hendricks, Sarah Greif Skroch, Audra Bunch Huntington, Brooke Sweeney, Jill Barber-Greenup, and David Bates. Third row (L-R) - Royal Robinson, Janelle Healy, Kristi Worden-McNamee, Kathleen Greenup- Albitre, Travis Judd, and Dusty Rollis. Fourth row (L-R) - Bias Elguezabal, Riley Tingue, Julie Watkins, Casey Evans, Jessica Maben-Roy, Bobbie Rankin-Bates, Brian Knowles, Tim Dickenson, and Jared Eckman. -Contributed Photo The Heppner High School class of 1999 will hold its 10 year class reunion on Saturday, November 7, at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge. A steak dinner will be served. The cost is $25 per person and kids are free. Weather permitting, possible options of bow ling or golfing w ill be available earlier in the day on November 7. Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP and send a check to Janelle Healy at 645 Hager Street, Heppner, OR 97836 by October 25. For more information contact Jaci Hughes at hughesjaci@yahoo.com. Morrow County Court weekly meeting held The M orrow County Court met on Oc tober 7 in Heppner with Judge Tallman, Commis sion Grieb and Commis sioner Rea in attendance. Following is a summary of the meeting provided by Leann Rea. The court r e viewed and approved ac counts payable and 4-H photography prem ium s for a total of $201,962.51. Also reviewed the pooled cash report provided by the treasurer. Health D epart ment: Heard a status report regarding the H INI (swine flu). Statistics from Uma tilla and Morrow Counties and the State of Oregon for the regular flu and the H1N1 flu were reviewed. R oad D e p a r t ment: The crew has been working on the Spring Hol low Road between Rhea Creek Road and Toll Rock Road. The road needed to be shaped, as it has been cut down for several years and was below ground level, causing w ater to stand in the road way. The crew is putting rock on the top to raise the grade. This road is not a high priority. However, it does serve a couple of ranches who haul cattle into pasture each spring. Hopefully, this will improve the condition of the road enough to make it more serviceable. G r a d in g : T he crew is grading the 21 Road, the Blake Ranch Road, Rhea C reek and Sanford Road as well as in the Alpine area. Cutsforth Pond: This project is almost com plete. Currently the crew is building the main overflow system. This should take care of the pond’s needs with limited or no main tenance in the future. The crew hopes to be able to have this pond finished and full by spring so the pond can be stocked with fish and be back in service for fishermen next summer. Cutsforth Park was full the first weekend of deer season. There are 11 new campsites in the Van Win kle Section of the park. The crew began working on this project 10 years ago. The sites are now ready for use. HHS Volleyball Schedule Oct. 15 - Irrigon at home (A/B/C), 6 p.m. (Jet. 17 - 4-way Union/Ent. at Stanfield (A/B/C), noon Oct. 22 - at Pilot Rock (A/B/C), 6 p.m. Oct. 24 - 4-way WM/Elgin at Elgin (A), noon Oct. 27 - Stanfield at home (A/B/C), 6 p.m. I Will continue attempting to secure some funding to get power and water to these sites though grant sources. Until that can be achieved these new sites will be dry camp sites. In dividuals are beginning to use the new cabins. These are a welcome addition to the park. B u n k e r Hi l l Road: The crew will be starting some work with re claim asphalt, w eather per mitting, in the next week or so. The Bunker Hill road from Clarks Canyon to the top at the intersection of Meadow Brook Road is the planned work area. This section of the road is fairly steep and is hard to maintain as a gravel road. Sheriff’s Depart ment: Heppner, lone and Lexington areas - Five hour search for an individual that was thought to be suicidal. Subject located in Penland Lake area. Responded to a single vehicle roli over where an individual was entrapped in vehicle. Mul tiple agencies responded. Irrigon area - Responded to a complaint at the Skate Park, a burglary and home intrusion, and a boat with a motor that would not start and was stuck in the Co lumbia River. A Good Sa maritan towed the boat to the Irrigon Marina. Board- man area - Received a call from Deschutes County regarding a female being held by a male with a gun to her head. This call turned out to be a false alarm. The female was delusional and had been drinking. Located and assisted a boater back to land. A call was received from a woman regarding a possible suicide. Located and arrested the potential suicidal victim in the Lex ington area for possession of a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon. A call was received regarding a two vehicle accident on Three Mile Road. Power lines were down, but still activated. Several agencies responded to the accident. The court was told that there has been a lot of inter est shown from the ad on Ebay for the used Dodge Charger. Once this vehicle is sold, the court will need to decide what type o f vehicle to purchase for the car pool with the proceeds from the sale. The court au thorized a $3,000 increase to the Visa Credit Line for the Sheriff’s Department. Planning Depart ment: The court reviewed information regarding the Cascade Crossing Trans m ission Project. There will be an open house held on November 10 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Port o f Morrow in Boardman to discuss routing options. The court approved and Intergovernmental Agree ment (IGA) between the State of Oregon, acting by and through its Department o f Energy and Morrow County. This IGA will al low for reimbursement of county expenses related to the site of various energy related projects i.e. Idaho Power, Saddle Butte, and Carty Project. The IGA covers the time frame of July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011. Reviewed and ap proved a grant application from the Department of Land Conservation and Development for various projects in the Planning Office. City of Heppner: The mayor and city man ager along with several business people from the city spoke with the court regarding the property on May Street. They were requesting that the county provide some assistance with some the work that needs to be done to create a parking lot for the use o f the city and overflow parking for the county. The court asked that the city do some more research regarding the acquisition of the property, the condition o f the materials that will need to be removed and come back to the court with their findings. The reservoir #4 was also dis cussed. The city is propos ing to sell the reservoir. However, the reservoir is located on county prop erty. The county assessor, county surveyor and plan ning director w ill meet and research various matters regarding this matter. Reviewed various correspondences and meet ing notices. HHS Football Schedule Oct. 16 - Pilot Rock at Home, 7 p.m. Oct. 23 - Irrigon at Home, 7 p.m. Oct. 30 - Weston McEwen at Athena, 7 p.m. lone High School Football Schedule Oct. 16-Arlington at lone, 7 p.m. Oct. 23 - Nixyaawii at lone, 7 p.m. Oct. 30 - Echo at lone, 7 p.m. lone Volleyball Schedule Oct. 16 - Arlington (V/J V) at home, 4:30 p.m. Oct. 17 -(V /JV ) in Echo, 1 p.m. Oct. 24 - Dufur Tournament (V) in Dufur, 9 a.m. I
