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
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S u rv iv o rs
David Sykes............................................................................................... Publisher
ington
Community
include:
son Ken
Cecil Jones
Autumn Morgan............................................................................................. Editor
Church.
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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.
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