TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, January 26,2011
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
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Arbuckle Nordic Club
holds weekend outing
The Morrow Coun
ty Planning Commission
last Tuesday approved an
expanded gun range near
Irrigon owned by the Herm-
iston Rod and Gun Club.
The current gun
range includes an area for
shotgun shooting and skeet
traps. The approved expan
sion will allow the club to
install a rife and handgun
range.
The rifle range will
be 300 yards long and have
a berm at the end to stop
The Arbuckle Nordic Club had eight skiers for this weekend. shells. The berm will be
The forecasted rain never showed and the group enjoyed a few 12 feet high and 25 feet in
sun breaks through overcast skies. Temperatures were in the depth. There will be shoot
40’s. To get to decent snow, the group had to go out to the 53
road to the 5311. The club had their “charter member” along,
75 years young and still on his skis. -Contributed Photo
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McDowell and Burnside wed
Brian and Danielle Burnside
County planning commission approves
Gun club rifle and handgun shooting
BMCC offers retirement planning
and investment courses
Blue Mountain Com-
munity College will have a
three part education course
to help residents of Morrow
County plan and save for
retirement.
The classes are being
offered as a three part series:
Retirement Basics, Retirement
Income Planning, and Invest-
ment Basics. The courses
complement one another and
can be taken as a series or they
can be taken independently de-
pending on individual knowl-
edge and needs. The classes
will be taught by Rita Van
Schoiack, a financial advisor
who is owner of Blue Moun-
tain Investment Management
in Heppner.
The goal o f the
courses is to help attendees
gain the skills to estimate
how much money they need
to retire, learn how to ere-
ate retirement goals, review
investment basics, and more,
The series is being offered in
February and will meet at the
“Pettyjohn Building” in the
large conference room, 430 W
Linden Way, in Heppner.
The classes meet
from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on
three Saturdays; Retirement
Basics- February 12, Retire
ment Income Planning-Febru-
ary 19, and Investment Basics-
February 26. .The classes are
free and include a workbook,
Advance registration is re
quired.
For more informa-
tion call Anne Morter at (541)
422-7040 or e-mail her at am-
orter@bluecc.edu. Students
may also register online at
www.bluecc.edu. Rita Van
Schoiack is a financial advisor
with Multi-Financial Securi-
ties Corporation, member
FINRA/SIPC.
Hadley to retire from NRCS,
open house to be held
Danielle Marie McDowell and Brian Henry
Burnside, both Eugene, OR, were married in a double
Chet Hadley with the Natural Resources Con
ring ceremony September 18, 2010, at the First Baptist
servation Service (NRCS) has announced his retirement
Church of Eugene.
effective January 31. The Heppner Service Center Staff
The bride is the daughter of Bill and Merilee
will host an open house on Friday, January 28, from 1-3
McDowell, Heppner, OR. The groom is the son of Tom
p.m. in the Heppner Service Center conference room.
McElligott and Laura Bumside-McElligott, Heppner, and
Hadley has been with the Natural Resources
the late Howie Burnside.
Conservation Service (NRCS) since 1992. He began
Pastor Rudy Herr officiated.
his career in the Pendleton Office as a soil conservation
The bride was given in marriage by her par
technician and later transferred to Heppner to work as a
ents.
biological science technician for the John Day Umatilla
Maid of honor was Maggie Barnett, friend of the
Basin which encompasses Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam,
bride, Eugene. Bridesmaids were Catherine McElligott,
Grant and Wheeler Counties.
sister of the groom, Eugene, Tara Mahoney and Kathryn
Booth, both friends of the bride, Eugene.
Fifth Sunday shared ministry
Best man was Jake Cooper, Eugene, friend of
services to be held at Hope Lutheran
the groom. Groomsmen were Caleb McDaniel, Heppner,
The shared ministry of Hope Lutheran Church
Andrew Sykes, Pendleton, and Leland Rill, Eugene, all
and All Saints Episcopal Church worships together
friends of the groom.
Kiara Burnside, the groom’s niece, Corvallis, OR, weekly, alternating between church buildings. The first
was flower girl. Austin and Hunter Burnside, nephews of and third Sundays of the month, worship is held at the
Lutheran Church, and the second and fourth Sundays
the groom, Corvallis, were ring bearers.
Dan Burnside, Corvallis, Robert McElligott, of the month, worship is held at the Episcopal Church.
Portland, OR, and Brendan McElligott, Seattle, WA, all When a fifth Sunday of the month rolls around, as it does
brothers of the groom, served as ushers.
in January, the schedule varies. This month, worship on
The bride wore a white strapless satin Casablanca January 30 will be held at Hope beginning at 10 a.m.
ball gown with a dropped waist, featuring beading on the January 30 will also mark the beginning of two series of
bodice, an organza overlay and a chapel-length train. She classes. At 8:45 a.m. on Sundays, there will be a study of
wore an embroidered fingertip illusion veil with a blusher • 1 Corinthians held at the church where worship will occur,
and carried a hand-tied bouquet of pink and white roses. and at 5 p.m. on Sundays, a study of the basic teachings
Her gown was accented with a necklace of diamonds and * of the Lutheran church will be held at the parsonage. The
pink sapphires. Her “something borrowed” was a pair of second class will be repeated at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays at
diamond stud earrings belonging to her mother.
the pastor’s office.
The maid of honor wore a strapless pink tea-
More information about shared ministry worship,
length dress with a flared skirt and a chocolate brown events, and locations is available by calling the church
sash and brown detail at the hem. The bridesmaids wore office at 541-676-9970.
similar dresses, but in brown with pink sashes and pink
detail. They carried hand-tied bouquets of pink roses. The
flower girl wore an ankle-length dress in brown with a
alentine s ay is coming soon
pink sash.
The groom wore a black tuxedo with a white
vest, black tie and white boutonniere. The best man and
groomsmen wore black tuxedos with brown vests and ties
and pink boutonnieres.
ill soon be here
A catered dinner reception with a DJ and dancing
followed the ceremony.
Candies • Cards
Merry Chandler of Heppner made the bouquets
and boutonnieres, cut the cake and assisted with the
• Gifts
sweetie
flowers, decorations and reception. Robin Legg, Sisters,
OR, and Ann, Jessica and Jennifer Petzel, Denver, CO,
also assisted.
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Taylor and Mackenzie Storer, Brentwood, CA ,
served as guest book attendants.
Profiles for
The square, three-tired cake was frosted with
2010 available
white buttercream and featured the couple’s names and
wedding date and the names of the bridal party inscribed
upon request
on it. It was topped with pink roses.
The bride graduated from Heppner High School
in 2001 and received a bachelor of arts degree in psy
chology from the University of Oregon in 2005. She is
employed as a nationally certified pharmacy technician at
Bi-Mart Pharmacy in Eugene and is also a post-graduate Zebra Mocha $ 3.50
student at UO.
Chocolate Italian Soda 62.25
The groom graduated from Heppner High School
in 1998. He is employed as a crew boss with Miller Timber
Services, a firefighting and timber services company in
Philomath, OR.
217 North Main • Happnar • Phon# 676-915 i • Floral 676-9426
The couple plans a honeymoon trip to Oahu,
Serving Heppner Lexington 4 lone
Hawaii, in April.
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Monday, February 14th
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ing benches on one end.
The handgun range will be
90 feet long and its berm
will also be 12 feet high by
25 feet wide.
The shooting range
is located along the Uma
tilla and Morrow County
line and is located between
Highway 84 and the rail
line.
Planning commis
sion members added con
ditions that will assure that
anyone using the range will
have supervision. The club
also has a club house, park
ing and RV parking areas.
Strandberg to speak at
Chamber lunch meeting
This week’s speaker at the Chamber lunch meet
ing will be Tom Strandberg from ODOT to go over the
scheduled projects for 2012-2015. The meeting will be
held at City Hall, starting with lunch being served at
noon.
The lunch, catered by Heppner Family Foods,
will cost $9.
The upcoming meeting on February 3 will be an
“All Entity Reports”.
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Whatever happened to ‘Government of
the People, by the People, and for the
People?
Letter to the Editor:
Question, just what is the responsibility of elected
representatives to the taxpayers whom they are elected
to represent?
Reading the EO 1/15/2011 article, ‘Wind Dispute
Blows to Salem’ sadly indicates it’s a good thing Mor
r o w C o u n t y r e r iH p n ts h a v p a S t a t p t anH I N p R n a rH n f
Appeals (LUBA).
The serious question is, why should taxpay
ing private citizens need to pay legal council to defend
themselves in an appeals court against a corporation
(Invenergy) already heavily subsidized with both federal
and state taxpayer dollars, plus the Morrow County (MC)
taxes deferred by their Strategic Investment Program
(SIP) agreement? Especially when MC Planning Com
mission already ruled, and the corporation’s own study
admitted, that their wind generators did exceed state
mandated noise limits?
What criteria can account for MC Court’s deci
sion to allow Invenergy to continue with ‘business as
usual’ when the court itself could not even agree whether
a ruled-on, and admitted violation was a violation or
simply an ‘infrequent and unusual event’? Is it not the
burden of Invenergy to resolve the violation and prove
that it has done so?
Just what are private citizens to do? Faced by
a heavy handed taxpayer subsidized corporation and
ruled against by their own elected representatives, must
they now pay legal council to get redress from both the
well-funded corporation and their own elected representa
tives? Or are they to simply ‘shut-up’ or ‘move-away’ if
they have a grievance with an admitted ‘Industrial Noise
Trespass’ into their own homes?
Further, as a former county commissioner, a
‘citizen on-the-street’ recently advised me that the late
December hearing on this subject was cancelled by the
court at the last minute. Worse, the corporation was ad
vised, but the citizens were not. They showed up for the
meeting only to be told it was cancelled.
W hatever happened to ‘Government o f the
People, by the People, and for the People?
Ray Grace
Heppner
Neighborhood Center
receives donation
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Pastor Jonathan Enz, and Judy Cowett, a member of Heppner
United Methodist Church and president of the Neighborhood
Center board of directors, present a check in the amount of
$250 to Janice Skaggs, executive director of the Neighborhood
Center. The amount is the total of the money received in the
United Methodist Christmas Eve Service. Contributed Photo