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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 28,2010 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Obituaries Charles Cecil Jones participated in many orga C h a r l e s C e c i l nizations for the benefit of Jones, 95, longtime Lex Morrow County including ington resident died the Lexington City U.S.P.S. 240-420 Sunday, A pril 25, C ouncil, the O dd Fellows Lodge, the 2 0 1 0 at P io n e e r Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical maner at the c o u n ty p la n n in g Memorial Hospital Post Office at Heppner. Oregon under the Act of March 3,1879 Periodical postage c o m m is s io n , th e in Heppner. Funer paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676- G range and many 9228. Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editoriurapidserve net or davidwrapidserve al service will be net. Web site: www heppner net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner o th e r s o v e r th e held at 11 a.m. on Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $27 in Thursday, April 29, years. Morrow County; $21 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older), $33 elsewhere; $27 student subscriptions. 2010, at the Lex Charles S u rv iv o rs David Sykes............................................................................................... Publisher ington Community include: son Ken Cecil Jones Autumn Morgan............................................................................................. Editor Church. Concluding neth L. Jo n es o f All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p m. service and burial Lexington; daugh For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5 per column inch. Cost for classified ad is 504 per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to will follow at the Lexington ter Charlene F. Whitney of 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5.75 per column inch. Cemetery. Portland; grandsons M i For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p m. Dates for pub He was bom Feb chael Jones o f Kennewick, lication must be specified Affidavits must be required at (he time of submission Affidavits ruary 16, 1915 in Baker, WA, and Christopher Jones require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) the fourth o f five children o f R edm ond; and great- For Obituaries: Obituaries are published in the Heppner G T at no charge and are edited to born to C h arles H. and grandson Tanner Jones. meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines Rhoda Gillkison Jones. He He was preceded or vrtio wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary was raised and attended in death by his wife o f 63 For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor M UST be signed by the author The Heppner school at Union where he years, Delpha, and grand G T will not publish unsigned letters All letters M UST include the author’s address and phone graduated from high school daughter Kim berlee Ann number for use by the G T office The G T reserves the right to edit letters The G T is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will in 1933. Whitney. be placed in the classifieds under ‘Card of Thanks' at a cost of $10. O n A u g u s t 12, M em orial contri 1937 he m arried Delpha butions may be m ade to K. Merritt at La Grande. In the Heppner Odd Fellows 1945 the couple moved to Lodge #66, PO Box 642, Lexington. He has resided Heppner, Oregon 97836. Sweeney Mortuary Lisa Robertson and Denise Fujikawa, music on his ranch three m iles northwest of Lexington for o f Heppner is in charge of faculty members at Eastern Oregon and Portland State the past 48 years. He has arrangements. Universities, will present a concert o f music for violin and harp at the Fossil United Methodist Church on Sunday, May 2, at 3 p.m. There is no admission charge for the program. Donations will be accepted for the Heifer Foundation, an international relief organization, and the United Methodist Women will serve dessert. Robertson and Fujikawa will perform music from a wide variety of styles and composers, including dances from the Renaissance and music by Astor Piazzolla, John Williams, and French Romantic composers. The concert will last about one hour. The program is sponsored by the Wheeler County Cultural Coalition and ArtsEast. In addition to the Fossil Concert, the duo will be performing a M other’s Day weekend concert featuring music and dessert at the Pendleton Arts Center on Friday evening, May 7, at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the Oregon East Symphony Office in Pendleton by calling Students of the lone Youth Violin Project recently performed at the Tri-Cities Recital. Pictured left to right are Thomas Rudolf, 541-276-2320 Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Fossil concert, Mother’s Day weekend concert to be held lone Youth Violin Project students perform Holly Rebekah Lodge to host monthly card party Kayla Rodriguez, Hailey Heideman, Haylie Peterson, Cecilia McElligott, (¿race Ogden, Morgan Alldritt, and Teacher Alex Carlson. -Contributed Photo Heppner Daycare and Preschool to hold fall registration Holly Rebekah Lodge will be hosting their monthly card party this Saturday, May 1, at the Lodge Hall in Lexington. Play will begin at 7 p.m. and is open On Monday, May 17, Heppner Daycare and Pre to the public. The cost remains $5 per person and includes school will be open from 5-6:30 p.m. for fall preschool coffee, snacks, sandwiches, chips and prizes. Come and registration for three and four year olds. Kids will do a enjoy an evening of visiting, laughs and fun. craft and have fun playing while parents fill out paper work. Parents are asked to bring immunization records to the registration. Children who are returning to the pro In last week’s edition of the Heppner Gazette-Times gram need to have their records updated. the Shepherd Flats headline on Page EIGHT should Merry Chandler and the board members will be have read “FAA puts hold on big Shepherd Flats wind available to answer questions and take suggestions. projects.” Correction BEO Bancorp reports first quarter earnings B E O B a n c o r p added Koffler. (O T C B B :B E O B ) and its “We are well capi subsidiary, Bank o f Eastern talized by all industry stan Oregon, announced dards and have a First quarter 2010 T ie r O ne c a p ita l consolidated net in ra tio o f 10.18% . come o f $443,990 C a p ita l re te n tio n or $0.49 per share, through sustained compared to profitability will be $179,586 or $0.20 key over the next per share for first year. The strength quarter 2009. Total and speed o f the assets were $238.5 Jeff Bailey economic recovery m illio n up 4.7% in our trade area year over year. Net remains to be seen loans o f $175.39 m illion as high unemployment is were down 1.0% from the disconcerting. Therefore, same period in 2009, while the board o f directors has deposits were at $206.28 voted not to pay a cash divi million up 13.5% year over dend for first quarter 2010,” year. added Bailey. “ We a re v e ry For further infor pleased with our first quar mation on the company or ter results. Our staff has to access internet banking, worked extremely hard to please visit our website at control expenses during http://www.beobank.com. the p ast year. O ur core Forward-Looking State earnings are strong and we ments are m aking gains on our T h e s ta te m e n ts non-p erfo rm in g a sse ts,” contained in this release that said President and CEO, are not historical facts are Jeff Bailey. “During Febru forward-looking statements ary, we celebrated our 65,h based upon management’s anniversary o f providing current expectations and banking services to eastern beliefs concerning future Oregon. We are very proud developments and o f this milestone and look their potential effect on forward to many more years BEO Bancorp. There can o f serving our com m uni be no assurances that future ties.” d e v e lo p m en ts a ffe c tin g Chief Financial Of BEO Bancorp will be the ficer, Mark Lemmon, said, same as those anticipated “Return on Average Assets by management. is 0.74% and Return on Actual results may Average Equity is 11.96% differ from those project com pared to 0.31% and ed in the forward-looking 5.15%, respectively, year statements. These forward- over year.” Lemmon went looking statements involve on to say, “Our low cost risk s and u n c e rta in tie s. source of funds is adding to These risks and uncertain the bottom line in a favor ties include, but are not able manner. limited to: C h ief O perations Competitive pres O fficer, G ary Propheter, sures in the banking and said, “Total deposits remain financial industries. strong even in the existing Changes in interest rate environment. This new rate environment. record level o f deposits is General economic indicative o f the faith our conditions, nationally, re customers have in our em gionally, and in operating ployees and institution.” markets. “ We co n tin u e to Changes in regula see im provem ent in our tory environment. credit quality and overall C hanges in busi perform ance o f the loan ness conditions and infla portfolio,” said EVP and tion. C h ie f C redit O fficer, E. Changes in securi George Koffler. “ We are ties markets. seeing increased loan de Future credit loss m and and o p p o rtu n itie s experience. throughout our trade area,” SNAP program to be reviewed at chamber M .C . selected for leadership program The class will con The Boa r dma n lunch meeting This week’s speak er for chamber lunch meet ing will be Cynthia Eardley from CAPECO to review the SNAP program . The meeting will be held at City Hall. Lunch will served at noon. H o w e’s A bout Pizza will be the caterer. There will not be cham ber lunch m eetings on T hursday, M ay 6, or Thursday. May 13. The next all entities meeting will be Thursday, June 3. C h am b er o f C om m erce recently received notifica tion from the Ford Family Foundation that M orrow County has been selected for the Ford Institute Lead ership Program, beginning in January o f 2011. This fall the Ford Institute will select a class o f 2 5-30 stu d e n ts from around M orrow C ounty to participate in a series o f classes held over the course o f five years with such topics as Leadership D ev elo p m en t, E ffective Organizations, and Com munity Collaborations. SE1L YOUR GOLD FOR GASH! "Gold is at a record high" Sell your unwanted gold, silver, platinum jewelry for cash! Buying: 10 karat, 14 karat, 18 karat, 22 karat, and dental gold in any condition. See Store For Details We w ill iv e y o u a F EE e v a lu a tio n ! 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