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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 28,2009 Love’s requests extension on sale of tower road property T he B o a rd m a n City Council was notified Tuesday night o f L ove’s Travel Stop’s intention to exercise its first extension option w ith the city for the purchase o f approximately 30 acres o f city property lo cated on T ow er R oad near Boardman. The sales agreement to purchase the property expired on O c tober 14, 2009, but has an option w hich allows for two 45-day extensions. Love’s plans to build a travel stop on the property and is cur rently working on their pre liminary site approvals. L o v e ’s T r a v e l Stops & Country Stores is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK and has been in business since 1964. If the project proceeds as planned, this would be Love’s third such project in O regon, adding to the over 200 na tionwide. In other city news, councilors approved a reso lution in support o f apply ing for a D epartm ent o f Land C o n se rv atio n and D ev elo p m en t T echnical Assistance Grant. The grant will be used by the city to perform an Economic Op portunity Analysis. Also, councilors set the date for a Strategic Plan Town Hall meeting of November 19 at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. This is an opportunity for the communities’ input on the future direction o f the city. The next regularly scheduled meeting o f the Boardman City Council is Tuesday, November 3, at 7 p.m. at Boardman City Hall. lone homecoming king,queen crowned Parent Teacher Club to host annual School Carnival at HES The Heppner Elementary Parent Teacher Club will be hosting their annual School Carnival on October 29 at Heppner Elementary School. The carnival games will be available from 6-7 p.m. and dinner will be served from 5:30-7 p.m. They will be serving all-you-can-eat hot dogs, chili, or baked potato for $5 per adult and $3 per child. Games will include bingo, Wii bowling, junk food walk, fish pond, plinko, and much more. lone Community Church congregational meeting to be held lone's homecoming court was presented at halftime during lone's game against Nixyaawii on Friday, October 23. Pictured left to right are: Kirk Haguewood and Stacee Halvorsen (fresh men); Adam Collin and Mary Kietmann (sophomores): Marco Juarez and Stephanie Medina (juniors): and Eric Jepsen (king), Stefanie Archer(queen), Alex Carlson, and Vanessa Ziliani (seniors). Crown bearers were Katelyn Thompson and Tom Rudolf. - Photo bv Theresa Crawford lone C om m unity Church will be holding a congregational meeting on November 8 at 10 a.m. This meeting is to provide information on next year’s budget and to vote on adopting it. Breakfast will be served at 9 a.m., the children will go to Sunday school at 9:45 and the adults and youth will have the meeting at 10 a.m. All are welcome. Mr. Bill’s Traveling Trivia returns lone’s first annual Hall of Fame dinner a success Mr. Bill’s Traveling Trivia will return to Heppner on Saturday, November 14, at 7 p.m. at the Heppner Elks Lodge. Teams of up to six members will compete for prizes. The cost is $120 per team. Signup sheets are available at the daycare and will also be available that evening at the Elks do not have to be a member of the Elks to play. Former Heppner resident named Lodge. You A dinner of lemon chicken, sides and rolls will be available for $7. publisher of The Oregonian Proceeds of the evening will benefit the Heppner F orm er H eppner paper, the youngest editor Daycare and Preschool. resident Chris A nderson o f a metropolitan newspa For more information contact Cari Scrivner at 676- was recently named pub per in America. 8001. lish er o f The O r The Regis egonian. ter earned two Pu A n d e rs o n litzer prizes under grew up in Heppner A n d e rso n ’s le a d where he delivered ership and he was lone Community Church will be hosting a Hal The Oregonian as a named editor o f the loween dinner on Halloween night for any and all who Year by the Nation wish to come. Dinner will include maggot stew, mummy boy. He graduated from Albany Union Chris al Press Foundation dogs and slime juice. Dinner is served at 5 p.m. but all are in 1989. H ig h S c h o o l in Anderson welcome to come do crafts after the performance o f the 1968 and attended A n d e rs o n “Princess and the Pea” at lone Community School. Oregon State Uni m oved to general versity, where he earned management o f the Regis his B.A. degree in Liberal ter in 1992, then became Artifactory to be held November 14 Studies in 1972. He was president and publisher of Vendor tables are T he A r tif a c to ry editor o f The Barometer, The G azette in Colorado Craft Fair is back for 2009 still available. For more in the daily student new spaper Springs in 1994. He re and will be held November formation call Judy Buschke at OSU. His parents and turned to the R egister in 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at at 676-5826 or go to the three o f his siblings live in 1999 as publisher and CEO. the Heppner Senior Cen Senior Center and pick up In 2 0 07, A nderson was Oregon. an application. Tables must ter. Anderson worked nam ed the n a tio n ’s Pub There is no admis be reserved and paid for by as city editor o f the A l lisher o f the Year by Editor November 6. sion fee for the public. bany D e m o c ra t-H era ld , & Publisher magazine. He th en becam e m an a g in g left the Register in late 2007 editor o f the Walla Walla and has been consulting Union-Bulletin in 1975. He with media companies and d id n ’t not know why he later moved to The Seattle priv ate equity investors needed the police, but the Times, where he was as since then. said he wanted help off the sociate managing editor. In Anderson and his T h e M o r r o w couch. EMS and M CSO 1980, he was named editor w ife, A letha, have four of the Orange County news- children. C ou n ty S h e riff’s O ffice responded. -H eppner A m bu reports handling the fol lance received report of a low ing business: subject vom iting and de lone Community Church to host Halloween dinner Sheriff's Report SAIF Agricultural Safety Seminars planned SAIF Corporation has announced their sched ule o f fall and winter Ag Sem inar Series. On N o vember 23 they will be at the Port o f Morrow confer ence center in Boardman from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., lunch will be included. A full listin g o f sem inar locations can be found at www.saif.com, or by calling 800-285-8525. Topics covered will include risk management, fatal haz ards, ‘Safety in M otion”, and creating your plan to meet OSHA standards. Willow Creek Children’s Choir auditions to be held A uditions for the Willow Creek C hildren’s Choir will be held on Thurs day, November 12, at 4:30 p.m. at lone Com m unity Church. All children from 2-8 grades are welcome to audition. Directions will be given at the time o f audi tion. All who audition will be in the choir. Rehearsals will be on Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. with a Christmas con cert o f African American spirituals on December 16 at 7 p.m. For more informa tion contact Lea Mathieu at 422-7215 or Stacy Shelton at 422-7530. Your Telephone Service Is Your Lifeline. Did you know that discounts on basic phone service are available to low-income consumers? For individuals living in a CenturyLink service area, please call 800 . 201.4099 or visit www.centurylink.com/lifeline to find out if you qualify for the Lifeline and Link-Up discount. C en tu ryL in k Stronger Connected” A ugust 6: -BPD officer reported he was out with an inspector concern ing code enforcement. -BPD received re p o rt o f anim al n e g le c t/ abuse. No one was home, but an officer left a card for them to make contact. -B P D r e c e iv e d rep o rt that ow ners o f a residence were throw ing tum blew eeds from their backyard into the street. The subject said he was trying to clean up his prop erty and went down to the end o f the street to let the tum blew eeds go so they would blow into an open field, but the wind blew the w rong direction and the tumbleweeds went into the road and all over the prop erty. He said they would burn the weeds when the bum ban is listed. -BPD received re port o f a disturbance on K incade w ith a w om an screaming and a man run ning to his van. BPD re sponded and determined the subjects were just teasing each other and it was not a disturbance. -B o a rd m a n F ire D epartm ent received re port of a large amount of smoke in the Root Lane, M eadow Loop area. The fire chief sent someone to check it out. -BPD, Boardm an Ambulance received report that a male fell to the floor and needed assistance get ting up. He was conscious and alert. -lone Em ergency Services received report of a highly intoxicated male. The lone Am bulance re sponded and assisted. -IMS received re quest for assistance from an lone man who at first hydrated. -H eppner A m bu lance reported they were on standby for slack at the Morrow County Fair grounds. August 7: Morrow C ounty S h e riff’s O ffice received request for code enforcem ent. Units were not’available. -M C SO received re p o rt from an Irrig o n woman that a dead crow was found in her yard. Vec tor Control and the Morrow County Health District were contacted. -M C SO received re p o rt from a H e p p n e r business that a subject has been calling their Bend and Klamath Falls offices and harassing their employees. The caller did not want the deputy to contact the sub ject as she believed it would make it worse. -M CSO received report o f a suicide threat. -M CSO received report that Hermiston Po lice D epartm ent arrested Zakary Kelly Peterson, 22, on a warrant for Failure to Pay Fine/Possession o f a Controlled Substance-Less Than One Ounce o f Mari juana. He was lodged at Umatilla County Jail with $505 bail. -M CSO received re p o rt o f an u n d e ra g e m ale in to x ic a te d at the fairgrounds in H eppner. Deputies were unable to locate anyone. -MCSO received a noise complaint in Irrigon with loud music. The sub jects were out working on their cars. -M C SO received report o f a black lab and a Rottweiller missing from Lexington. -M C SO received I Pictured are the 2009 lone High School Hall of Fame inductees. -Contributed Photo The lone Booster Club hosted the first annual Hall o f Fame dinner on Sat urday, October 24. Fifty-two alumni of lone High School were in ducted into the hall of fame. The inductees attended lone High School from 1922 to 1960 and were honored as scholar athletes. Many fam ily members were present to accept awards on behalf of deceased honorees. Other honorees traveled from all over the west coast in or der to receive their awards. There were over 250 people present for the dinner and ceremony. Betty Gray, Boost er Club m em ber and di rector, who headed up the charge to m ake sure this event happened, said that she hopes the dinner will become a yearly tradition. Anne Morter, the lone Top ic Club, and Bill Breshears donated their time and ef forts to help make the din ner happen. report o f a female digging through the garbage in H ^p-, pner. A deputy was unable to locate anyone. -M C SO received report o f a black motorcycle going up and down Nevada in Irrigon. A deputy was un able to locate anything. -M C SO received report that a man was peek ing into the wom en’s rest room on the 1-84 Boardman rest area. According to the caller, he asked his wife if there w ere any other fe males in the restroom and she advised that there were. She said he continued to stand around the restroom, then after about 10 minutes a female subject got in the car w ith him. The caller ad vised that the male subject was just concerned about his wife who was taking a long time. -M C SO a rre ste d Cipriano Vera, 55, on an Irrigon Justice Court war rant for Failure to Attend C om m unity C o u n se lin g Solutions. He was lodged at Umatilla County Jail with no bail. -M C SO received report o f a non-injury motor vehicle accident on Sand Hollow Rd. in Heppner. -M C SO a rre ste d Joseph Lee Newby, 27, on a U m atilla C ounty w ar rant for Failure to Appear/ DUII and Failure to Appear/ Driving While Suspended- misdemeanor. He was cited and released with $10,000 bail. -MCSO received a request from an lone man that he needed help getting out o f his chair. A deputy responded to help. -lone Fire Depart ment received a report of a fire on Baseline. It was a bum in a steel grain bin. -H eppner A m bu lance reported they were transporting a patient from Pioneer Memorial Hospital to G ood Shepherd H os pital. -H eppner A m bu lance received report o f a female kicked by a steer. Xhç patient refused trans port. -H eppner A m bu lance reported they were out at the fairgrounds for the rodeo. -Boardman Police Department officer reported he was out with a female inside a vehicle which was in reverse and would not m ove. T he fem a le w as fine. -BPD received re port from a subject that approxim ately five ju v e niles were in the back o f a residence. -B o a rd m a n A m bulance received a request for mutual aid for Arlington concerning a female who was having trouble breath ing. August 8: Morrow County Sheriff’s Office re ceived report that bicyclists will be in Heppner and w ill be parking their cars at the school and sleeping in the high school gym. -MCSO cited Kel ley Lee Nickolsen, 34, for Careless Driving. -MCSO cited Ran dy Neil Farmer-ray, 21, was cited for Speeding, 73 mph in a 55 mph zone, and Driv ing While Suspended. -M CSO received report from a real estate agent who is selling a house that no one should be liv ing in the house. He said he received a report that someone was living in the house and possibly remov ing items from the property. MCSO trespassed two peo ple from the property. -M C SO received report from a female in lone that she was trying to move out o f her g ran d fa th e r's house, but every time she tries to go in, he starts yell ing and sw earing at her. She asked for assistance in getting her items out of the residence. MCSO advised her that they were not able to assist her without a court order. -Continued on Page TEN t
