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Ex-Trail Blazer visits Heppner in run for governor
By David Sykes
Oregon governor
candidate and ex Portland
Trailblazer basketball play
er Chris Dudley paid a visit
to Heppner last week on his
quest to become the Repub
lican candidate for governor
HEPPNER
Oregon Governor Candidate Chris Dudley talks to a crowd at Heppner city hall last Friday.
Dudley played 16 years in the NBA, including six years with the Portland Trail Blazers. “How
tall are you?” someone asked. “Six foot ten and a half,” he said. Photo by David Sykes
imes
VOL. 129
NO. 13
8 Pages
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Blanket Hugs for Haiti’s Orphans
By Autumn Morgan
A fter the ea rth
quake in Haiti on January
12, 2010, Union College in
Lincoln, NB began send
ing groups of students to
help with the relief efforts.
These students were part of
the international rescue and
relief degree program at the
school.
Mindy Wenberg,
daughter of Ken and Bon
nie Wenberg of Heppner,
became one of the students
who would be traveling to
and from Haiti with the di
saster relief teams. She be
gan sending pictures of the
devastation to her mother.
After seeing the pictures,
Bonnie knew she wanted
to help but was not sure
how. One day at her bank,
Bonnie saw a poster listing
items needed in Haiti. At
the bottom of that list were
blankets.
B o n n ie b e g a n
working on a plan to make
blankets and send them
with the groups from her
daughter’s college travel
ing to Haiti. She received
some donations from the
Heppner community but
donated much of the fabric
herself. Bonnie, along with
a few others in the com
munity, began working on
the blankets. The first batch
they sent contained 82 blan
kets. The project was called
Blanket Hugs for Haiti’s
Orphans.
The blankets were
sent to the students who
would then take the blankets
to Haiti and pass them out
in person. This pro
cedure ensured that
the blankets would
reach the people in
need. Pictures are
taken of the recipi
ents, along with their
blankets, and sent
to Bonnie, who, in
turn, displays them
at Artisan Village.
“It is very rewarding
(to see the pictures),”
said Bonnie. “The
look on their faces
is enough to keep
sewing. The need is
.so great.” ______
W hile she Pictured is a young Haitian child
continued to make who received one of the blankets
blankets in Heppner, made in Heppner for the Blanket
Bonnie put the Blan Hugs for Haiti's Orphans project.
ket Hugs for Haiti’s -Contributed Photo
Orphans information
on the internet. Other quilt gree program are planning a
ing shops have seen the six-week trip to the country
information and have also this summerA
begun making blankets to
A total o f234 blan
send. The shops that have kets have been made in
responded are small shops Heppner and sent to the
like Artisan Village.
Haitian people. Blankets
The blankets being are the fewest of all items
made are lightweight with that have been donated.
two pieces of flat cotton
Anyone interested
and no batting in the middle in making a blanket can
because of the heat in the pick up a simple pattern at
Haiti. “(1 am) making them Artisan Village. For more
out of bright, colorful fab information or to donate
rics because their lives are fabric or money for ship
so drab right now.”
ping, call 541-676-8282.
Bonnie plans on If sewing is not your forte,
continuing to send blankets, you can also donate to the
at least through the summer. Red Cross or other relief
Along with the internation organizations. More in
al rescue and relief students formation about Blanket
that are traveling to Haiti, Hugs for Haiti’s Orphans
another group of students can be found at www.quil-
not affiliated with the de- tersroundup.com.
NOAA issues monthly climate
summary for Heppner
According to pre
liminary data received by
NOAA’s National Weather
Service in Pendleton, tem
peratures at Heppner aver
aged slightly warmer than
normal during the month
of March.
The average tem
perature was 44.6 degrees
w hich was 0.6 degrees
above normal. High tem
peratures averaged 56.8
degrees, which was 2.5
degrees above normal. The
highest was 73 degrees on
the 17th. Low temperatures
averaged 32.4 degrees,
which was 1.2 degrees be
low normal. The lowest was
25 degrees, on the 18th.
There were 16 days
with the low temperature
below 32 degrees.
Precipitation to
taled 0.89 inches during
M arch, which was 0.71
inches below normal. Mea
surable precipitation -at
least .01 inch-was received
on 6 days with the heaviest,
0.48 inches reported on the
13th.
Precipitation this
year has reached 3.31 inch
es, which is 0.98 inches be
low normal. Since October,
the water year precipitation
at Heppner has been 6.45
inches, which is 1.63 inches
below normal.
The outlook for
April from NOAA’s Cli
mate Prediction Center
calls for below normal tem
peratures and near normal
precipitation. Normal highs
for Heppner during April
are 61.3 degrees and normal
lows are 37.1 degrees. The
30 year normal precipita
tion is 1.40 inches.
The Nat i onal
Weather Service is an office
of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administra
tion, an agency of the U.S.
Commerce Department.
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in next November’s general
election.
Dudley gave a talk
to the gathered crowd at
Heppner city hall last Fri
day and then took questions
from the audience.
He focused mainly
on economic issues and the
loss of jobs and business
opportunity in Oregon. “I
am frustrated with the di
rection our state is going,”
he said. “We are not living
up to our potential. We have
to change our direction.” He
said Oregon is blessed with
great natural resources,
hard working people and
many other assets, but we
are not using them to cre
ate jobs for the citizens of
the state. He likened it to a
card game where the state
has four aces and throws
two away.
Dudley says in the
last year the state has lost
about 120,000 jobs, and our
elected officials are making
the situation worse. “There
are fewer private sector jobs
in Oregon than there were
10 years ago. We need to
promote and protect our
businesses. We need to ap
point people to government
positions that have some
business sense.” He said
especially since the pas
sage of measures 66 & 67
(both tax increases which
he opposed) businesses
are talking about moving
out of Oregon. He said the
state is in a “death spiral”.
The less money Salem re
ceives the more they tax
the businesses. The more
businesses are taxed the
less they produce and hire
workers, causing even less
tax money going to Salem,
he says. “We don’t need
more taxes, we need more
taxpayers,” he said.
Dudley says state
government is not being
starved as some would
have you believe, and in his
printed material he showed
that in the past 10 years
state spending has gone
from around $29 billion a
biennium, to close to $56
billion, a 48 percent in
crease in real dollar terms.
Dudley says that in
his travels around the state
he is finding that people do
not trust their government.
“They feel their voices are
not being heard," he says.
As an exam ple he says
during the last regular ses
sion of the legislature the
Democrat Governor would
-See GOVERNOR/Page SIX
Candidates to talk issues at Sunday’s forum
Governor, R epresentative, DA, C ounty Judge an d
Justice o f P e a c e candidates to participate
The public is in
vited to a candidates’ forum
Sunday, April 11, starting at
2 p.m. at the Heppner High
School cafeteria.
C andidates ru n
ning for Governor, State
Representative, District At
torney, Justice of the Peace,
Morrow County Judge and
County Commissioner will
be on hand to answer ques
tions from the public.
As of Tuesday the
following candidates had
indicated they would be
there: Governor candidate
Rex Watkins and a repre
sentative for Allen Alley,
#57 Rep. Coleen McLeod,
County Judge Terry Tail-
man and Dean Kegler, DA
candidates Justin Nelson
and Tom Cutsforth, and
Justice of the Peace Terry
Felda, Ann Spicer and Earl
Wood. County Commis
sioner Ken Grieb will also
be there, however, he is
running unopposed.
The forum will be
moderated by local attorney
Bill Kuhn, and is sponsored
by the Willow Creek Tea
Party Patriots. Members of
the audience will be able to
submit questions to the can
didates to be answered.
Easter Rabbit arrives by limo
Top Photo: The E aster
Bunny showed up in style
Saturday at the annual Elks
Easter Egg Hunt. A limou
sine delivered Mr. Rabbit
to the city park where he
visited with children before
the hunt.
Bottom Photo: The Easter
Bunny spends some time
with Hailee Peck, IVi years
old, Saturday at the Elks
Easter Egg Hunt. -Photos
by David Sykes
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