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.
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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.
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