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A taco feed
is set for Friday, October
7, at the Morrow County
Fairgrounds in Heppner
beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The Mexican meal
will begin before the Mus-
tang/Stanfield game and
continue until halftime or
until the food is gone. The
staffs of Heppner Elemen-
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Heppner Elementary staff show their support for
tary and Heppner High, in
conjunction with the HES
Parent-Teacher Club and
HHS Booster Club, are
sponsoring the dinner in
support o f Roy Proctor,
alumnus of both HES and
HHS.
Roy underwent his
second bone marrow trans
plant in Portland in August
in his battle with Fanconi’s
Anemia.
“Please plan to at
tend this event to enjoy
two tacos with all o f the
trimmings, rice, dessert, a
drink and the good feeling
of helping someone,” said a
spokesperson. “ The cost of
the dinner is $5 per person,
but the good feelings are
totally free.”
Mayors & managers propose big
changes in county government
Group says, “times have changed”
VOL. 130
NO. 38
8 Pages
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
‘Village People’ entertain at HHS
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The “Village People” HHS mothers (left to right) Teresa VanDoorn, Sandi Day,
Ashli Gould, Lana Orr, Misty Bennett, Jymme Franzwa, Sariena Garrett and
Shannon Boor surprise the Heppner High School students at their homecoming
pep rally held October 22 after the noise parade.
Photo by Sandy Matthews
Bank of Eastern Oregon names Arietta
Arnspiger lending manager for BEO
Mortgage Division
“We are pleased to
announce Arietta Arnspiger
has been named mortgage
lending manager for BEO
Mortgage Division,” said
president and CEO, Jeff
Bailey. Bailey continued,
“Arietta has over 15 years
o f mortgage lending ex
perience and is ready to
continue providing the ex
cellent customer service our
customers and associates
are accustom ed to from
BEO Mortgage Division.”
A rn sp ig er co m
mented, “I am excited by
the opportunity that Bank
of Eastern Oregon has pre
sented to me. Rural mort
gage lending poses unique
challenges, so growing up
in eastern Oregon helps
me to understand the rural
lending needs of our cus
tomers. I am well versed
in the entire real estate
process, bringing knowl
edge from time spent as a
realtor, escrow officer and
loan originator. The time I
have spent in the mortgage
industry and knowledge of
the loan programs available
gives me the experience
necessary to help our cus
tomers with their mortgage
needs.”
A r n s p i g e r wa s
raised in lone, attended
BMCC and spent time in
the Port-
1 a n d
a r e a
where
s h e
raised
h e r
f a mi l y
and be
gan her
career
Arietta Arnspiger
in the mortgage and real
estate business. In 2007, she
joined the BEO mortgage
team. She has three grown
daughters and a grown son.
Her roots run deep in Mor
row County as her great-
great grandparents home
steaded in the lone area and
her uncle, Melvin Brady,
was one o f the first em
ployees at Gilliam County
Bank in Arlington and later
served as a director.
BEO Mo r t g a g e
p r o v i d e s full s e r v i c e
m o r t g a g e l e n d i n g to
c u s t o me r s t h r o u g h o u t
eastern Oregon.
BEO Bancorp is
the holding company for
Bank o f Eastern Oregon,
which operates 12 branches
and two loan production
offices in nine eastern Or
egon counties. Branches
are located in Arlington,
lone, Heppner, Condon,
Irrigon, Boardman, Bums,
John Day, Prairie City, Fos
sil, Moro, and Enterprise;
loan production offices are
located in Hermiston and
Ontario. Bank of Eastern
O regon also operates a
mortgage division and of
fers brokerage services
through BEO Financial Ser
vices. The bank’s websi'e
is www.beobank.com.
The Heppner Gazette-Times wants to see
pictures o f your trophy animals from this
hunting season. Stop by to have your
picture taken, drop off photos, or email
them to editor@rapidserve. net.
ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEM ENT DEADLINE:
MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M.
By David Sykes
The mayors and
managers o f the county’s
five cities say M orrow
County’s form of govern
ment is outdated and it is
time for a change.
Increasingly
frustrated by what they say
is a lack of representation
of the cities in county gov
ernment, the mayors and
managers are proposing
changing the city charter
to have five elected county
commissioners instead of
the present three.
A news release
issued following one of its
meetings says the group
will form a committee made
up of “two members from
the communities of Hepp
ner, Boardman and Irrigon,
and one member from each
o f the communities of Lex
ington and lone.” They said
the committee will draft a
proposed charter changing
the form of county govern
ment to what some call
“home rule” or five elected
county commissioners. The
charter would have to be
passed by county voters in
order to be enacted. “The
process is expected to take
many months and involve
a great deal of pubic input
before the draft charter is
placed on the ballot,” the
news release said.
The relationship
between the cities and the
county has been increas
ingly abrasive, with much
of the adversity dating back
to March of 2008 when the
cities banded together to
place an initiative on the
ballot that would change the
way some $1 million in Tip-
page fees (money received
from dumping fees at the large
Finley Buttes Landfill in Mor
row County).
The cities felt they
were not receiving enough
o f the money. The cities in
the county had banded to
gether and placed a measure
on the March 2008 ballot that
would eventually redistribute
75 percent of the money from
the county general fund to the
cities.
Voters defeated
t ha t m e a s u r e h o w e v
er, 753 yes to 1363 no.
The latest squabble between
row County met in Heppner
Wednesday September 21 for
their monthly meeting. The
hot topic of the day was the
proposal to change the way
that county government is
structured. The Mayors and
Managers have become aware
that the current government
structure was established by
general law with the Oregon
Constitution. With the growth
of the county population, bud
get. and the complexity o f the
situations that the county deals
with, the Mayors/Managers
believed that it was time for
a change.
“The present coun
ty government structure was
established with the Oregon
State Constitution in 1859
under general law provisions.
Times have changed and the
needs and issues facing Mor
row County are much different
now than they were in 1858
when Morrow County was
established. The M ayors/
Managers believe that there
needs to be a more contem
porary government structure
with more than three members
elected from the population.
Counties that have updated
their form o f governm ent
from general law have usually
settled on five commission
ers to conduct their county’s
business. Having more com
missioners allow for a wider
perspective o f interests and
would allow for broader repre
sentation of constituents.
“The M ayors/
Managers of Morrow County
discussed that changing the
county government structure
will be a difficult task and
there are many questions that
will need to be answered. The
group consensus was to form
a Charter Committee made
up of two members from the
com m unities o f H eppner,
Boardman and Irrigon and
one member from each of the
communities o f Lexington and
lone. This committee will be
tasked with drafting a charter
that can eventually be submit
ted for a vote by the citizens
of Morrow County. The pro
cess is expected to take many
months and involve a great
deal o f public input before
the draft charter is placed on
“ The May the ballot.
ors and M anagers o f Mor
the cities and the county in
volves state highway funds.
The county has traditionally
given money received from
the states for use by the cit
ies in their road funds. The
county budget committee
learned however, that it
was not required to give
that money and at first de
cided to cut the distribution
of those funds in half this
year and maybe eliminate
them altogether next year.
After fierce protests
from the cities, some o f
which the allotment made
up their entire road main
tenance budget, the county
compromised by adding
another $50,000 to the cit
ies’ share of the road funds
next year, bringing the total
to $227,500. Last year, the
cities got $355,000.
The cities were
also upset that they were
not told of the cuts and were
in the process o f putting
together their budgets when
informed of the cuts.
Morrow County
Judge Terry Tallman said
the cuts to the city are nec
essary because the county
is facing its own funding
shortfalls and must come
up with ways to save money
in its own budget. Health
insurance for county em
ployees is going up by 10
percent, he said, and retire
ment accounts and person
nel also are growing more
expensive — most county
employees will get a three
percent raise this year, a
compromise in exchange
for cuts to their health in
surance program. And tax
revenue is not rising as fast
as the county’s expenses,
Tallman said.
The mayors
and city managers in Mor
row County hold monthly
meetings and the decision
to move forward with for
mulating a new charter
was finalized at their last
meeting. The following is
the entire press release ap
proved for distribution by
the group.
News Release
Mayor/Manager Meeting
September 22, 2011
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