Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 16,2011
CITY/SHERIFF CONTRACT
Smith goes undefeated
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to tell her constituents what
is being done in the city. “I
think a lot of people herd
think there is little crime,”
Doherty added. She said
people look at the $ 181,272
and say that’s a lot and we
don’t have that much crime.
“They say, “ Why do we
have to spend that?”’
M atlack held
up a stack of papers to the
council and told them it was
Ryan Smith (Jr High) went undefeated during the team's meet
six months’ worth of code
last Thursday night. -Photo by Jeremy Lcmthorn
violation case files. “These
are mostly dog complaints,”
he said. He pointed out that
people in Heppner want the
police to take care of dog
complaints and they do. In
Umatilla County if people
call the sheriff about a dog,
the deputies do not respond.
He said the sheriffs in Hep
pner handle the complaints
because “That is what peo
ple want.” He did point out
that it is time consuming
because loose and violent
dogs have to be transported
to Pet Rescue in Hermiston,
which this takes up a lot of
deputies’ time.
Council mem
b e r Cody High questioned
one section of the contract
which has Heppner pay
about $26,000 per year for
police vehicles. High pro
posed a plan which would
have the city lease vehicles
and save money. “I am op
posed to this (contract),”
High said. He pointed out
that the city spends $53,000
every three years on patrol
cars, which works out to
$159,000 over nine years.
The city receives two of the
used patrol cars back every
three years, but High says
the city could save $31,500
by renting the vehicles
instead.
On a discussion
about what level of protec
tion the sheriff department
would have to give the city
if it cancelled its contract,
the sheriff said, like lone
and Lexington which do
not have contracts with
the county, the department
would have to respond to
911 emergency calls, but
not run of the mill code
infraction violations. Hep
pner could hire its own
code enforcement officer
to enforce city codes, but
that officer would not have
full police privileges such
as running identifications,
license plates and radio ser
vices and would have to pay
separate for those services.
The majority of
the council did not want to
approve the contract Mon
day night, and voted three
to two against renewing the
contract.
Matlack urged
the city to reconsider and
approve the contract and
to do it soon. He said if
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the city did not renew the
contract he would have to
lay off two deputies and he
needed to know that right
away. “It will be terrible for
this end of the county if you
do not have this service,’ he
told the council. “We don’t
want kids to get in trouble
with alcohol. Whether you
have your own department
or contract with us you need
police protection.”
The city had its
own department up until
2005 when it laid off its of
ficers and began contracting
with the sheriff. The sher
iff supplied the city three
deputies at that time.
The sheriff urged
the council to reconsider its
vote, saying he could not
wait a month for another
council meeting to hear
their decision. The council
did reconsider and voted
again this time unanimous
ly for the contract.
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Johnson, a busi
ness and computer technol
ogy teacher in civilian life
at Irrigon High School in
Irrigon, Oregon, used to be
a pastor fulltime, but said
he always wanted to serve
his country.
“ When I was a
pastor, and even before
when I was going to Bible
School, I thought it would
be interesting to be a chap
lain. But it wasn’t the right
time,” he said.
L i k e so m a n y
Americans, the deadly Sept.
11, 2001 terrorist attacks
helped push Johnson into a
more proactive role. “After
9/11, I wanted to look for
a place to serve. My kids
are older, and they are al
ways looking for chaplains.
There are never enough,”
he said.
While Johnson said
his passion is teaching, he
also said he believes the
role of the chaplain is es
sential to the overall health
of his unit. While he acts as
a chaplain and a counselor
to soldiers, he is also a key
instrument for the 3rd Bat
talion's commander, Lt.
Col. Phil Appleton. “Some
times the command will ask
us to gauge the morale of
the troops, and sometimes
we can act as the counselor
for the com mander,” he
said.
In the end, though,
it all comes back to the
spiritual w elfare o f the
soldier, Johnson said. He
said he sympathizes with
the challenges soldiers in
the 3rd Bn., 116,hCav. Regt.
face on the roads as part of
convoy escort teams.
“Some of our sol
diers are seeing a lot of time
outside the wire,” he said.
So Johnson’s role
runs a full circle each week.
He visits a number of dif
ferent CETs preparing to go
out on convoy duty and it is
usually in the dark, under
the stark lights of a com
pany staging area. There
he gathers around a group
of soldiers and prays. The
focus, of course, is partly
on divine guidance. Yet
another main element to his
prayers rests, as it should
and as it always has, on the
soldiers. He prays for their
safety and their families and
their future.
“I pray they don’t
get hurt. I pray they do a
good job,” he said.
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ruary 23, at St. Patrick’s
Senior Center. The meal
will include navy beans
and ham, carrot salad, fruit
juice, combread, and apple
crunch. Menu is subject to
change.