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Minster says now is wrong time to cut lottery funds for economic development
By David Sykes
“The message here
is this is no tim e to cut
e c o n o m ic d e v e lo p m e n t
fu n d s,” Rick M inster o f
the state Business Develop-
ment Dept, told the Hepp centage of a certain project the use o f lottery funds for
ner Chamber of Commerce and have loaned millions of use in purchasing land for
last week.
dollars to small businesses.” parks and conservation, so
Minster, who lived As an exam ple, M inister there was nothing that could
in H e p p n e r and
pointed to the new be done about it.
raise d his fam ily
Greenwood Indus
Minster did say that
here but whose of
tries saw m ill near one bright spot o f his dis
fice is now based in
B oardm an w hich trict is the Port of Morrow
John Day, said with
used money from a in north Morrow County.
the poor state of the
special “Governor’s "W hen I go through and
econom y and O r
Fund” for econom see what they have done
egon’s 10.4 percent
ic developm ent to there, I just say this is the
unem ploym ent, a Kick Minster set up. He said the way it should be.” He said
plan to cut 25 per
business develop it is the only place in the
cent o f the lottery
m ent fund in his sate of Oregon you can find
funds received by his de department is the one that 300 contiguous acres for
partm ent is simply not a going to take the biggest hit development.
good idea.
with the cuts.
On the contrary,
The cuts have been
Minster took com Minster said Hamey Coun
proposed as a solution to a m ents from the Cham ber ty has been devastated with
$375 million state budget audience and Larry Mills the loss of businesses there.
shortfall this year. The 25 of Heppner said “I am ap- “ T hey have rea lly nice
percent reduction in lottery p alled w ith 9.5 percen t em pty b uildings. “ They
funds to economic devel unemployment and the Na have nothing. Their manu
opment would shift money ture Conservancy and State facturing has all left.”
to other areas of the state Parks want to put 15 percent
He said w ith o u t
budget. Minster says eco o f lottery into buying up b u sinesses and the jo b s
nomic development gets 7.2 m ore land. Now is not a that go with them any com
percent o f the lottery funds good time and I can’t see m unity is going to have
generated in Oregon. “We locking up 15 percent of the problems attracting young
all know education is a big lottery with the unemploy people and their families,
part o f the lottery funds,” he ment we have,” he said.
but retired people will come
said. “Both parties (Demo
M inster said that to the smaller communities
crat and Republican) have voters had earlier approved to live.
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there goes the rest of gov
ernment,” Minster said of
the state’s large education
budget. If the lottery money
is reduced, his department’s
funding will be cut back by
$8 million out of a budget
o f $408.3 million. He said
that o f the 65 people in the
department, nine positions
could be eliminated.
Minster has worked
for the department for 12
years after he was laid off
following the 1998 closure
o f the Kinzua sawmill in
Heppner. His coverage area
has grown where he now
serv ices seven counties
and says each one of those
counties has benefited from
the Business Development
Department. “Every com
munity out here has used
our development funds,” he
Top Photo: Oskar Peterson (8th grade) and Junior Verduzco
pointed out. “We work with (4th grade) get ready to head home after the first day of the
businesses on financing. We 2010-11 school year at lone Community School. Bottom Photo:
do lots of loan guarantees. Students at Heppner Elementary School enjoy their first after
We will come in at a per- noon recess of the new school year. -Contributed Photos
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VOL. 129
NO. 35 6 Pages
Wednesday, September 1,2010
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Health district hires physician’s
assistant for Irrigon Clinic
By April Sykes
M o rro w C o u n ty
Health District CEO M i
chael Blauer told the board
at their August 30 meeting
in Heppner that the district
has hired a new physician’s
assistan t for the Irrigon
Medical Clinic.
Blauer said that PA
John Adair from Idaho will
start shadowing physicians
in Heppner on September
13 and will begin work at
the Irrigon clinic when he
becom es licensed in Or
egon. Dr. Russell Nichols
will be his supervising phy
sician. Dr. Kenneth Wen-
berg is covering the clinic in
Irrigon in the interim.
According to Blau
er, Adair, who graduated
from Idaho State Univer
sity, grew up in Bums and
his wife is from Vancouver.
They have a two-year-old
child.
Blauer also report
ed that the district is in
the process o f remodeling
Pioneer M em orial Clinic
in Heppner. Board Chair
Larry M ills said that the
rem odeling will improve
the reception area, aid in
sound absorption and will
-See HEALTH DISTRICT/
Page SEVEN
Football season begins with trip to
Gold Beach, community ties
The 2010 Heppner ber 3, with an away game special will happen that tie
M ustang football season against Gold Beach. But the two teams, and towns,
begins this Friday, Septem during haifrime something together.
To start o ff their
season Gold Beach High
School will be inducting
the first group o f people into
their newly started Hall of
Fame. Among those people
is a former Heppner resi
dent, Charles Edward (Ted)
Ferguson, now deceased.
Ferguson was bom
and raised in Heppner and
moved to Gold Beach after
finishing college in 1954.
Ferguson, who had a love
for sports, became one of
the founders o f the Gold
Beach football team.
A fu ll s to ry on
Ferguson will run in next
While fishing near Astoria, Marv Padberg, with the help of week’s edition o f the Hep-
Howard Mullins, caught these salmon on August 18. Marv and pner Gazette-Times
a few others have been fishing for salmon to serve at the Annual
lone Education Foundation Dinner that is held in September.
G-T Trophy Corner
-Contributed Photo
lone School District to clarify admissions policy
By April Sykes
The lone Commu
n ity S chool B oard, at a
work session prior to their
regularly scheduled meet
ing Tuesday, A ugust 24,
discussed their policy on
admission o f non-resident
students. Superintendent
M ark M ulvihill told the
board that their charter and
policy statements concern
ing non-resident student
admission, particularly in
the new ly published stu
dent handbook, differed
somewhat and asked that
the board to give him clear
direction concerning their
philosophy on admissions,
enrollment limits and class
size targets.
Mulvihill said that
a policy statement clarify
ing the board’s expectations
o f the district’s admission
policy would be presented
to the board for review at
the next board meeting.
It w as also s u g
gested that the district’s ath
letic handbook be revised to
include activities as well as
athletics.
During the m eet
ing, Principal Jerry Archer
introduced the d is tric t’s
new music teacher, Jordan
Bemrose, whose position
was funded by the lone Ed
ucation Foundation. Archer
rem arked on B em ro se’s
“excellent” qualifications
and remarked, “The educa
tion foundation is fantas
tic. It is so supportive. It’s
am azing.” He said that
num erous students have
indicated that they plan to
participate in the program
and several musical instru
ment rental companies have
been scheduled to come
to the school for students
wishing to play an instru-
-See IONE SCHOOL DIS-
TRICT/Page SEVEN
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servance of the Labor Day holiday.
The deadline for news and advertisements for the September 8 edition o f the
newspaper is Friday, September 3, at 5 p.m.
Tribes seek ‘Squaw’ name changes
The Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla In
dian Reservation is seeking
to have “derogatory” names
changed for three areas in
Morrow County, the tribes
said in a recent letter to the
Oregon Historical Society.
T he T ribes have
identified Squaw Creek,
Squaw Spring and Squaw
Butte in M orrow County
as the three nam es they
want changed. In all there
are a total o f 44 proposed
name changes across Baker,
G rant, Harney, M orrow,
Union and Wallowa coun
ties.
“ Pursuant to O r
egon Senate Bill 363, the
Confederated Tribes o f the
Umatilla Indian Reservation
Cultural Resources Protec
tion Program is seeking to
replace derogatory names
for g eo graphic featu res
identified as ‘Squaw’ w ithin
the ceded lands boundaries
and traditional use areas of
the Weyiiletpuu (Cayuse),
Imatalamlama (Umatilla),
and W aluulapam (W alla
Walla),” the Tribes said in
an August 9 letter to the
Oregon Geographic Names
Board of the Oregon His
torical Society.
In the p ro p o sa l,
Squaw C reek w ould be
changed to Ninipa Creek,
which means “by the as
pens”. Squaw Spring would
be changed to Ninipa Spring
and Squaw Butte would
be changed to Sisu Butte
which means “smelly”. The
creek and spring are located
at Big Rock Flat in Morrow
County and Squaw Butte is
near Ella.
The Tribes say they
w ant the nam e changes
because they say the word
“squaw” is offensive as it
is a derogatory term for an
Indian woman.
Pettyjohn’s offers Direct TV discounts too
An article in last w eek’s Gazette-
Times about the closing o f Heppner TV,
quoted a Direct TV satellite employee as
saying people who want to switch to satel
lite need only to call the Heppner TV office
to receive a special discount.
Pettyjohn’s Building Supply in
Heppner, which is also a Direct TV dealer,
contacted the Gazette to say they can also
offer the same discounts as the Heppner
TV office, so former cable subscribers
who want to switch to satellite may also
call their business.
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