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Woods, Spicer file for Justice of the Peace ||.U ,..I .U I I .....IN...II Bessie Wetzell Newspaper Library University of Oregon Eugene. OR 97403 VOL. 129 NO. 9 8 Pages Wednesday, March 3,2 01 0 Form er M orrow County District Attorney Earl Woods has filed to run for Morrow County Justice of the Peace. Woods was born in Klamath Falls in 1943. He grew up in the John Day and Mount Vernon area, and then moved to West Linn where he gradu ated from high school in Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon 1962. From there he went to Washington State where in worked as a logger be fore entering th e A rm y from 1963 to 1967. He spent the last year in Viet nam where he was an Earl Woods Army Rang er in Special Forces. After his service in the Army, Woods attended the University o f Wash ington where he received a degree in economics. He then went on to the Univer sity of Oregon Law School where he graduated with a law degree in 1974. In his law experi ence he was Coos County DA from 1976-1981 and then went into private prac tice for 10 years. From there he came to Morrow County where he served as DA from 1991 to 1998. He then went back into private practice in Hermiston. He worked with the Lincoln County DA’s office for three years before returning to the area and going to work with the Umatilla DA until Septem ber of 2009. He has since retired from the active prac tice of law. W oods and his wife, Cheryll, have two children, a daughter who is a captain in the Army’s 82nii Airborne and a son w ho works as an overhead wire- man in the Portland area. Long-time Hepp ner attorney Annetta Spicer has filed for the Morrow County Justice of the Peace position. Current JP Char lotte Gray has announced her retirement. Spicer and her hus band, Bill Kuhn, also an at torney, moved to Morrow C ounty in 1976. In law school at the time, Spicer moved to the county the fo llo w in g year. They Annetta p u rc h a s e d s Pieer their law of fice in Heppner in 1985. Spicer was Morrow County District Attorney from 1980-82 and was dep uty DA before that. Kuhn and Spicer are currently city attorneys for Heppner, Lexington, Stanfield, Echo and Irrigon. “I’m committed to this community,” said Spicer. “We have lived here going on 33 years. I think my background gives me a really good basis for work ing as JP.” Spicer grew up on Indian reservations through out the west as her father was employed with the Bu reau of Indian Affairs. She graduated from high school in Toppenish, WA, and from Portland State University in Portland in 1972 with a degree in education. She taught special education for two years and then at tended law school at Lew is & Clark in Portland where she graduated with a JD in 1977. She and her husband married that same sum mer. They have two grown children, Phillip, who is practicing law in Spokane, and Paula, who is pursuing a degree in special educa tion with an emphasis on autism. When Paula’s stud ies are complete, she will have a certificate in applied behavioral analysis. S picer has been a chairman of the Oregon Trail Library District and has been on the board at least 15 years. She was a 4-H leader for many years while her children were young. She serves on the board of directors for Do mestic Violence Servic es and is on the board of the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce. Kuhn and Spicer have also had a law office in Hermiston for the past 10 years. She has also been a member of various bar committees over the years. Sex offender arrested living across from elementary school Fr. Condon, cast, & crew named Grand The Morrow Coun information that Fisher was original charges against him ty Sheriff’s Office a sex offender. The has arrested Rich department checked ard John Fisher, 50, his status and dis for failure to regis covered that Fisher ter as a sex offender. had not updated his At the time of his status since Decem arrest, Fisher was ber o f2008 when he living at 515 Elder Richard was living in Eu Street in the Willow John Fisher gene. Sex offend View Apartments, ers are required to across from Heppner El update their status within ementary School. 10 days of their birthday or Sheriff Ken Mat- within 10 days of moving. lack stated that the sheriff’s Fisher’s arrest was department had developed a felony arrest since the were felony charges. Fisher was arrested Monday, February 22. On Tuesday, March 2, a grand jury indicted Fisher on two felony counts and one mis demeanor count of failure to register as a sex offender. Union County District At torney Tim Thompson is handling the case. Fisher is currently incarcerated in the Umatilla County Jail. He will appear in court on March 4. M. C. School District launches into social media In an e ffo rt to strengthen communication between students, parents and the community, the M orrow County School District has become part o f the social media, with accounts in Facebook and Twitter. You can become a “ fan” o f the M orrow County School District on Facebook and “follow ” the District on Twitter by clicking on the quick links on the District’s Web site, w w w .m orrow .kl2.or.us. The District can be found on Facebook under “Mor row County School Dis trict” and on Twitter under “MorrowCountySD.” The com m unity can now receive timely, up-to-date information via updates on Tw itter and Facebook, including the latest news, school closure or delay information, event reminders and more. “The use of Face- book and Twitter by our district is certain proof, that you indeed can teach an old dog new tricks. While I have not personally used social media in the past, I ’m elated that we now have new communication tools that will help us reach patrons that perhaps we’ve missed in the past,” said Superintendent Mark Bur rows. HES celebrates Dr. Seuss’ birthday Heppner students celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday by reading Dr. Seuss books during an assembly at HES. -Photo by Megan Futter Day and Coil win Heppner’s first state wrestling championship medals Mustang wrestlers Chance Day and Wacy Coil traveled to the Portland Me morial Coliseum to repre sent Heppner in the OSAA w restling cham pionship tournament. Day and Coil won the right to represent the team and Special Dis trict IV by placing in the top two at the district tourna ment on February 20. About 2,050 bouts were contested between more than 1,200 wrestlers during the three-day tour nam ent. C lasses 1A/2A through 6A competed si multaneously side by side on 12 mats during the tour nament before a cumulative attendance of over 25,000. Additionally, a girls’ state wrestling tournament was held on Saturday morning. G o in g in to the tournament Day was ranked fifth at 152 pounds and Coil was ranked fourth at 171 pounds. But because seeding at the state tourna ment is done solely based on the previous years’ state placing, both had the bad luck-of-the-draw to meet the num ber one seeded wrestler in the first round of the tournament. Each wrestler lost his first match and needed to win the next two to make it to the medal round. With the pressure on. Day easily pinned his next two oppo nents in a combined 93 sec onds, including a rematch of the previous week’s dis trict championship, which he had lost 9-0. Day’s con solation championship bout was also a rematch with the pre-tournament number one ranked wrestler and tour nament first seed that had beaten him the day before. This time Day was domi nant, nearly pinning his challenger as time ran out in the first round and then claiming the bronze medal with a 12-5 score. Coil took a more dramatic route to the medal round. After winning the first must-win bout 13-8, he faced Giles Ellet from Irrig- on to determine who would advance and who would go home empty handed. At the end of regulation, and through three overtime rounds, the score was tied 1-1. In the fourth overtime period, known as the ulti mate tiebreaker, if the top man controls the bottom Marshals for St. Patrick’s Celebration Grand marshals for this y e a r’s St. P atrick’s Day Celebration are Father Gerry Con don and the entire cast and crew of the dramas he has writ ten and put on over the y e a rs, the St. Patrick’s Fr. Gerry Day C om Condon m ittee has announced. There have been six different plays and an estimated 60 people have participated in their produc tion over the nine years they have been put on. “ I have enjoyed getting people together and putting on the productions over the years,” says Fr. Gerry Condon of St. Patrick Church in Heppner. He says he started writing the dramas when a member of the congregation suggested doing a drama about the life of St. Patrick. He says when he went to Ireland he checked with 10 book stores and could not find a book about St. Patrick. He then went to the national library and found no mu sicals there. “That’s when I thought, maybe I can do that myself,” he recalls. “So I wrote the play, and the people of Heppner seemed to enjoy it.” It was the first drama he had ever written. He says it usually takes six to seven rehears als to get each play down for production during each year’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. He says this year’s production will be something different; it will be a variety program rather than a drama. He says the music was arranged Area teams competing in state play Basketball teams from Heppner and lone will be competing this week in state tournament action. Heppner girls’ bas ketball team will play to night, Wednesday, March 3, at 6:30 p.m. against Portland Christian in Pendleton. lone b o y s’ b as ketball team will play on Thursday, March 4, at 8:15 -See WRESTLING CHAMPI- p.m. against Mohawk in ONSHIP/Page EIGHT Baker City. Pictured is a scene from one of Fr. Condon’s plays, From Cenacle to Calvary. by Joe Lindsay and it will involve a lot of music and humor. The productions he has written over the years are: St. Patrick, Patron Of Ireland, St. Bridget, Patron- ess Of Ireland, St. Colum- cille, The Masterful Monk, Emigration To Happiness, From Cenacle To Calvary, and Homecoming (co-au thor - Joe Lindsay). Heppner man dies in skiing accident Nate Arbogast, 39, of Heppner died Sun day afternoon, February 28, from injuries sus tained in a skiing acci dent at Anthony Lakes Ski Area. According to the Union County Sheriff's Office, Arbogast collided with a tree and died from injuries. The Anthony Lakes Ski Patrol initiated first aid and CPR on scene. At the time, Arbogast was chaperoning a Heppner High School Outdoor Club ski trip. Arbogast, a 1989 graduate of Monument High School, moved to Heppner in the mid-90s after graduat ing from college to work for the Morrow County School District. He later opened Wind Wave Communications to help bring high speed internet to the area, especially for the benefit of rural schools.
