Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 17,2011
Sidewalk Stompers to appear at Music in the
Parks
The
Morrow
County Unified Recreation
District
and
Portland
General Electric will to
present The Sidewalk
Stompers, August 22, at 7
p.m. at Music in the Parks
in Irrigon.
The
Sidewalk
Stompers is a traditional
jazz band formed in 1997
in the Tri-Cities area of
Washington.
The name
Sidewalk
Stompers
identifies the band as a
small acoustic street band
able to play anywhere
without piano and drums
and small enough tt> move
from spot to spot, similar
to New Orleans street
bands. Occasionally the
band is augmented with a
guest jazz pianist when a
stage venue allows. The
Sidewalk Stompers are
strictly an off-the-cuff
extemporaneous
group,
no charts. Listeners may
recognize most all of the
tunes, twenties and thirties
standards.
“Nothing
obscure, just a lot of great
old tunes you haven’t heard
for a long time,” according
to a news release.
Sidewalk Stompers
The band plays for
parties, winery functions,
pubs, jazz clubs, and jazz
festivals. The Sidewalk
Stompers have been the
traditional
jazz
band
stomping the sidewalks
of Ellensburg at their July
jazz festival (Jazz in the
Valley) every year since it
started in 1998. This will
be the sixth year the band
will be performing for
the finale of the Irrigon/
Boardman Music In The
Parks program.
The band is lead
by Karl Walterskirchen.
Karl moved to the Tri-
Cities from San Francisco
in 1993 to work at Hanford
as a mechanical engineer.
Originally from Missoula,
Montana, he started playing
banjo with traditional jazz
bands in the San Francisco
area in the mid 60's. He
played on and off at the Red
Garter in San Francisco
and played banjo with
numerous San Francisco
style and New Orleans
style traditional jazz bands
in the San Francisco area.
After moving to the Tri-
Cities Karl played with
the local Three Rivers Jazz
Band before starting the
Sidewalk Stompers. This
year’s ensemble at Irrigon
will
include
trumpet,
clarinet, banjo (or guitar),
and jazz piano.
ODFW reports wildlife viewing
opportunities in Morrow, Gilliam and
Wheeler counties
Our fledglings have grown
into immature birds and
are working on filling
out before they head
south for the winter. See
American robins, northern
oriels,
black-headed
grosbeaks, house finches,
the
occasional
pine
siskin and black-chinned
hummingbirds.
In the riparian and wetland
areas, see yellow-headed
and red-winged blackbirds,
marsh
wrens,
black
necked stilts, American
avocet, great egret and the
occasional Lazuli bunting.
Along the waterways, look
for blue-winged, green
winged, and cinnamon
teals, mallards, northern
shovelers,
gadwall,
American
wigeon,
redheads,
bufflehead,
Barrow’s
goldeneye,
as well as common and
hooded mergansers.
In the grasslands, you can
spot short-eared owls,
prairie falcons, northern
Tumbling demonstration at Rebekahs plan craft bazaar
fair
Oct. 8
Cindy S u m n er’s
tumbling students will be
doing a tumbling demon
stration during the Morrow
County Fair.
The presentation
will take place Friday, Au
gust 19 at 5 p.m. between
the Snack Shack and the
stage at the fairgrounds.
Everyone is invited to stop
by and watch these talented
tumblers.
If you or someone you know has a gambling problem,
help is available and that help Is FREE of charge.
If Y O U have a family member who suffers from
gambling addiction, Y O U can also receive F R E E treat
ment even if the gambler is not receiving treatment.
If you are a resident of Morrow County and you wish
to take advantage of the services above or desire more
information, Please call any of the following numbers
to set up a L O C A L appointment or just to talk:
Bobby Harris @ 541-676-9925 or 541-256-0175
Community Counseling Solutions (CCS) @ 541-676-9161
O R 1-877-695-4648 (1-888-MYLIMIT)
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The 2011 edition
of the “Morrow County
Chronicles” is on sale
this week at the Morrow
County fair.
After the
fair
closes on Sunday, the
“Chronicles”
will
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ferruginous hawks have the forest. Try dawn and
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there before heading south turkeys with their brood
for the winter. Most of our about the forest.
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Murray’s Drug in Heppner
the Morrow County Fair set to begin this Thursday.
and the Morrow County
Heritage Museum.
Morrow County Court holds August 3
meeting
The following is
provided by Commissioner
Leann Rea.
The
Morrow
County Court met on
August 3 in Heppner with
Judge Terry Tallman and
Leann Rea in attendance.
The court reviewed
and approved the account
payables in the net amount
of $47,500.85. The court
also discussed and agreed
to transfer $20,000 from
the General Fund to the
CSEPP fund to cover
current charges pending
the arrival of funds from
the
State
Emergency
Management fund.
Road Report: The
crew is currently working
on pothole patching on
some of the paved roads. To
date they have patched the
west end of Juniper Lane,
Ione-Boardman Road, Ella
Road and Dry Fork Road.
They are currently working
in the lone Gooseberry
Road area. The grader
and a few trucks have been
hauling gravel and base
rock to alkali blowouts
on the Cutsforth Road,
Dolven Road, Nichols
Lane, Turner Lane and
Petty’s Canyon Road.
Another grader is working
in the French Lane area.
They are now working
on Strawberry Lane. Part
of the crew is ripping up
and processing a short
piece of asphalt on Grieb
Lane reverting it back to
gravel. Dave Pranger has
finished the paint striping
in Morrow County for
now and is currently
paint striping in Umatilla
County. A 1.4 mile section
of Sunflower Flat Road
has been watered, graded,
rolled and dust abatement
has been applied in the area
of the cabins and homes.
The
court
conducted the following
business:
The court
reviewed and signed an
addendum to the Depot
Hazard
Analyst
IGA
with InterMountain ESD
(formerly
Umatilla-
Morrow ESD) forthe period
October 1, 2011 through
December 31, 2011. The
court reviewed and agreed
to make the payment for
fair entertainment
by
Tiller’s Folly to Nolan
Murray. The court was
introduced to the OYCC
crew that has been working
in Morrow County this
summer.
The crew was
also provided with a tour
of the courthouse and
spoke with most of the
department heads to learn
how the county operates.
R e v i e w e d
m i s c e l l a n e o u s
correspondences
and
discussed
upcoming
meetings.
Anyone whowould
like to be placed on the list
to receive county minutes,
may contact Karen Wolff
at (541)676-5620.
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