SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 31,2010
Heppner FFA brings home state awards
Umatilla National Forest releases
updated Motorized Vehicle Use Maps
During State FFA
Convention, three Hep
pner FFA members won
their proficiency area at the
state and their applications
will advance to the national
level.
Devin Robinson
of Heppner was named the
State Beef Production Place
ment award winner, Brynna
Rust of Echo was named
the State FFA Grain Pro
duction Placement award
winner, and Garrett Gibbs
of Heppner was named the
State FFA Environmental
Science and Natural Re
sources Placement award
winner. All state winners
receive a check of $50 from
the State FFA Association
and $250 from the National
FFA. Their applications
will be judged and rated
gold, silver or bronze. If
chosen as one of the Top 4
National finalists each will
receive a plaque and a $500
check. The national winner,
selected from this group,
will receive an additional
$500 check and a plaque.
Updated motorized
vehicle use maps (MVUM)
are now available, free
of charge, at all Umatilla
National Offices and can
be printed off the Forest’s
website, announced Kevin
Martin, Forest Supervisor.
“ We’re excited to have
these maps available to the
public for the upcoming
recreation season,” said
Martin.
MVUMs are single
purpose maps developed
to display National For
est System routes (roads,
trails and areas) open to
motorized travel. They also
display designations by
vehicle class, seasons of
use and general travel rules
and regulations. “Basically,
they display what routes are
open, when routes are open,
and what type of vehicle
can travel on those routes,”
explained Larry Randall,
Forest R ecreation S taff
Officer. Roads and trails
not shown on the MVUM
are not open to motorized
travel.
R e le a s in g th e
MVUM completes the For
est’s implementation of the
2005 Travel Management
Rule that provided a frame
work for each N ational
Forest to identify and des
ignation routes suitable for
motorized travel. Policies
prohibiting cross country
travel and restricting mo
torized travel to designated
roads and trails have been
in place on the Umatilla
National Forest since the
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Pictured are members of the Heppner FFA that attended state convention, along with their
advisor Beth Dickenson. -Contributed Photo
The ESNR Profi
ciency area is sponsored by
Triscuit, the Beef Produc
tion area is sponsored by
Midwest PMS and National
FFA Foundation and the
Grain Production area is
sponsored by Pioneer Hi-
Bred.
State Degree Re
cipients from Heppner in
clude: Brett Harrison, Kel-
lee Jones, Jarreid Miller,
Haley Struckmeier, Bryn
na Rust, Devin Robinson,
Willy Gentry and Brandi
Hong.
The Heppner FFA
Chapter also received third
place at state in both Secre
tary’s Book (Kelsi Putman)
and Scrapbook.
Frontier justice, stress management and artist
programs coming to Boardman, Heppner Libraries
Free public pro
grams about frontier ju s
tice in early Oregon, how
to manage stress, and an
a rtis t’s views on paint
ing landscapes in eastern
Oregon are brought to the
Boardm an and Heppner
branch libraries this month
by the Oregon Trail Library
District (OTLD) and Li
braries of Eastern Oregon
(LEO).
Just over 100 years
ago, many Oregon cities
held public executions with
men, women and children
congregating to watch con
victed criminals hang from
gallows erected in local
fields.
A public program
titled “Justice in Frontier
Oregon, 1851-1905” will be
hosted by the Oregon Trail
Library District (OTLD)
at the Boardman Branch
Library, 200 S. Main Street
in Boardman on Monday,
April 5, at 6:30 p.m. and
again on Tuesday, April 6,
at 6:30 p.m. at the Heppner
Branch Library, 444 N.
Main Street in Heppner.
Oregon historian
and author Diane Goeres-
Gardner will present a lively
hour program on the state’s
early public executions.
The program is free and
open to anyone interested in
the state’s colorful past.
“Even after it was
common for stockades to
hide an execution, thou
sands watched and waited
outside their walls,” Go-
eres-Gardner said. “ In a
state known for its peaceful
agrarian communities, such
events were accepted and
even celebrated.”
The names of many
persons involved in Or
egon’s early executions
now dot the state’s roads,
buildings, parks and his
tory, Goeres-Gardner said.
Her orogram will explore
changing attitudes and per
ceptions - from the 1850
hanging of Native Ameri
cans for the Whitman mas
sacre to 1905, when the
last execution in Oregon
outside of a state peniten
tiary took place.
A former presenter
for the Oregon Humanities
council, Goeres-Gardner
resides in Oakland. Her
most recent book explores
early women criminals of
Oregon and newly-released
information from her re
search will augment her
program in La Grande.
On Saturday, April
17, “Stress Management: A
Healthy Mental Place” will
be presented at the Board-
man Branch Library at 11
a.m. and at the Heppner
Branch Library at 2 p.m.
The program will
be presented by Brianne
Bostian, an Oregon Health
Sciences University health
educator who will soon be
teaching public health as a
Peace Corps volunteer in
Kenya, Africa. The effects
of stress on the body, how
to recognize stress triggers
and how to manage stress
will be covered. The one-
hour program is open to
all ages.
On Thursday, April
29, nationally acclaimed
artist Daniel Robinson will
present a lively program on
oil painting at the Heppner
Branch Library. He will also
present at the Boardman
Branch Library on Tuesday,
May 4. Each program will
begin at 6:30 p.m.
Robinson, a Fossil
resident, has been featured
on National Public Radio
as a rising American artist
of the 21 “ Century, and also
has been featured as a spe
cial show on Oregon Public
B roadcasting’s “Oregon
Art Beat”. He has had solo
shows at prominent art gal
leries in Portland, Boston
and elsewhere that have
drawn rave reviews.
Robinson will de-
tail his techniques in oil
painting and will discuss
his process from concept to
completed work. Several of
his paintings will be shown,
including a few recently
completed works that have
not yet been shown to the
public.
The program s at
the libraries are hosted by
OTLD and sponsored by
Libraries of Eastern Oregon
(LEO) as part of LEO’s ‘A
Sense o f Place’ series of
programs in the arts, sci
ences and humanities.
F u n d in g fo r A
Sense o f Place has been
provided to LEO through
the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS),
our nation’s leading federal
agency in support of muse
ums and libraries.
For more informa
tion, contact OTLD direc
tor Marsha Richmond at
541-481-3365. Richmond
serves on the LEO board
of directors and is one of
the nonprofit’s founding
members.
Additional infor
mation about LEO is avail
able at librariesofeastemor-
egon.org or leolibraries@
gmail.com. To learn more
about IMLS, see imls.gov
on line.
early 1990s. “Because our
existing policies were in
line with the 2005 Travel
Management Rule, the user
will see little change on the
ground,” said Randall add
ing, “with a few exceptions,
of course.”
One exception is
the West-End OHV Area,
located on the Heppner
Ranger District, which al
lowed cross-country travel
on 91,000 acres. “To meet
the new regulations, the
Forest completed an En
vironm ental Assessment
in 2009, evaluating ATV
travel within the West-End
OHV area,” said Randall.
The decision to prohibit
cross-county travel and
designate routes for motor
ized vehicle use brings the
West-End area into compli
ance with the 2005 Travel
Management Rule and cre
ates consistency across the
forest and with adjacent
public lands.
O th e r c h a n g e s
have been made, over time,
to the 1990’s Access and
Travel Management Plan
to address safety issues on
mixed-use routes. Those
changes are reflected on the
2010 MVUM.
MVUMs can be
viewed and printed on the
Forest’s website at www.
fs.fed.us/r6/uma/recreation/
mvum/. For more informa
tion, please contact your
local U m atilla National
Forest Office or call the
Pendleton Supervisor’s Of
fice at (541) 278-3716.
Local students make honor roll
at Oregon State University
Names of students
who have made the Scho
lastic Honor Roll Winter
term have been announced
by Oregon State Univer
sity. A total of 624 students
earned straight-A (4.0). An
other 3,028 earned a B-plus
(3.5) or better to make the
listing. To be on the Honor
Roll, students must carry
at least 12 graded hours of
course work.
M orrow C ounty
students on the Honor Roll
included:
3.5 or Better: Jace
A. Jones o f Boardm an,
senior, environmental engi
neering; Leticia Rodriguez
of Boardman, sophomore,
human development and
family science; and Kip H.
Krebs of lone, sophomore,
general agriculture.
HHS Varsity Track Schedule
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
2 - at Mac-Hi, 11 a.m.
10 - at Riverside 12 p.m.
16 - at Stanfield 11 a.m.
17 - at Cascade, 11:30 a.m.
23 - at Umatilla 1 p.m.
24 - at Hermiston (JV), 10 a.m.
27 - Heppner/Ione Invitational at home, 4 p.m.
HHS Varsity Baseball Schedule
April 2 - Grant Union at home, noon.
April 3 - at Bums (double header), 1 p.m.
April 6 - Weston McEwen at home, 4:30 p.m.
April 9 - at Dufur, 11 a.m.
April 10 - at Stanfield (double header), 11 a.m.
o f $434 and a new desk April 16 - Irrigon at home (double header), 11 a.m.
top computer with large April 20 - at Pilot Rock, 4:30 p.m.
monitor in the amount of
$ 1,704. A request to add an
additional Trail Head Map April 3 - Grant Union at home (double header), 11 a.m.
and Etiquette Panel for the April 6 - Weston McEwen at home, 4:30 p.m.
Columbia River Trail at April 10 - at Stanfield, 11 a.m.
the eastern boundary of the April 13 - at Umatilla (double header), 4 p.m.
Irrigon Park was approved. April 16 - Irrigon at home, 11 a.m.
A Permit o f Entry from April 20 - at Pilot Rock, 4:30 p.m.
Portland General Electric April 24 - at Weston McEwen (double header), 11 a.m.
was reviewed and signed.
The Quick Claim Deed for HHS Junior High Track Schedule
the property in Heppner April 2 - at Umatilla (UMMSAA All League Opening),
that was recently sold at noon.
the sheriff’s auction was April 8 - at Riverside, 3:30 p.m.
reviewed and signed. Mis April 9 - at McLoughlin, 2 p.m.
cellaneous correspondences April 16 - Heppner/Ione Invitational at home, 1 p.m.
and notices for meetings April 23 - at Sunridge MS, 2 p.m.
were reviewed.
April 30 - at Sunridge MS, 2 p.m.
If you would like
to be placed on the list to
receive county minutes, April 2 - Grant Union at
April 12 - Pilot Rock at
contact K aren W olff at home, 10 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. home, 4:30 p.m.
(541)676-5620.
April 8 - at Umatilla, 4
April 15 - at Stanfield,
4:30 p.m.
p.m.
April 19 - Umatilla at
home, 4:30 p.m.
April 23 - Stanfield at
home, 10 a.m.
April 26 - Pendleton at
home 4:30 p.m.
April 29 - Umatilla at
home, 4:30 p.m.
May 6 - at Stanfield, 4
p.m.
Morrow County Court weekly meeting held
The Morrow Coun
ty Court met on March 24 in
Boardman with Judge Tail-
man, Commissioner Grieb,
and Commissioner Rea in
attendance. Following is
a summary of the meeting
provided by Leann Rea.
The court reviewed
and approved accounts pay
able in the net total amount
of $96,516.04.
Pubic Hearing
A public hearing
regarding a zone change
for property located near
the 1-84 and Tower Road
Interchange was held. Carla
McLane, planning director
provided the staff report.
The attorney for Love’s
Travel Stops & Country
Stores, (applicant) Bill Ka-
beiseman, made a presen
tation as to why the court
should approve this request.
Then the attorney for Devin
Oil Co. Inc., (opponent) E.
Michael Connors, made a
presentation as to why the
court should not approve
the zone change request.
One local citizen testified
in opposition to the zone
change. Stating that he did
not think there was a “need”
to site another Truck Stop
along 1-84. At the request
of the applicant the hear
ing was continued to April
7. The hearing will be held
at 2:30 p.m. at the Port of
Motion
Morrow with room to be
determined.
The court conduct
ed the following business:
The following purchasing
pre-authorizations were
reviewed and approved:
Treasurer a new computer
system in the amount of
$1,350 to replace an eight
year old system; Planning
Department new map cabi
net and base and new stor
age cabinet in the amount of
$42,598.90; Public Health
Department new wireless
access for the Boardman
and Heppner office in the
amount o f $890, a 3250
HP Generator with a heavy
duty cord in the amount
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April 15 - at Riverside
(double header), 3:30 p.m.
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