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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 28,2011 Morrow County Court holds Sept. 14 meeting Heppner “concrete award” topic at transportation committee meeting The North East Area Commission on Transporta tion (NEACT) will hold its next meeting on October 6 from 9 a m. to noon at the Oregon Department o f Trans portation (ODOT) Region 5 Headquarters, located at 3012 Island Avenue, La Grande, Oregon. The Heppner “con crete award” slide show is on the agenda. The N E A C T , comprised o f transportation stakeholders from Morrow, Um atilla, Union, W allowa and Baker counties, and the Confederated Tribes o f the Umatilla Indian Reservation, helps identify and prioritize transportation-related projects in the five-county area. The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities, per the Americans with Dis abilities Act. The general pub lic is invited to attend. On the agenda are the following key topics: General updates on O regon Trans portation C om m ission and current O D O T p ro jects; B yw ays C om m ittee, Tran sit, League o f Oregon Cities / Assoc, o f Oregon Counties updates; NEACT county/city roundtable; Bike / Ped Steer ing Committee update; Jobs and Transportation Act (JTA) projects update; ST1P vid eoconference comments and formal action; ConnectOregon IV update; Flexible Funds / Transit selections; Heppner Concrete Award slide show; Oregon Highway Plan Mobil ity Standards presentation. Time has been set aside for public comments re garding project proposals and other transportation related topics. To schedule time on the agenda at future NEACT meetings, please contact Lisa Hill at (541) 963-3179. An Ar ea Commission on T r a n s p o r ta tio n is an advisory body chartered by the Oregon Transportation Commission to help address all aspects of transportation. More inform ation about A C Ts is a v a ila b le at the ODOT Web Site at www.oregon.gov/ODOT/ COMM/act main.shtml. For more information contact Lisa Hill at (541) 963-3179, $500 REW ARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF PERSONS COMMITTING CRIMINAL ACTS TO OR AGAINST PROPERTY BELONGING TO MORROW COUNTY CABIN OWNERS ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. PLEASE CONTACT THE MORROW COUNTY SHERIFF S DEPT. AT 676-5317 WITH INFORMATION M O R R O W C O U N TY C ABIN O W N E R S AS SO C IA TIO N , INC. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, help is available and that help Is F R E E of charge. If Y O U h a v e a fam ily m e m b e r w ho su ffe rs from g a m b lin g addiction, Y O U c a n a ls o re ce iv e F R E E treat m ent e v e n if the g a m b le r is not re ce iv in g treatm ent. If you a re a re sid en t of M orrow C o u n ty and yo u w ish to take a d v a n ta g e of the s e r v ic e s a b o v e or d e s ire m ore inform ation, P le a s e call a n y of the follow ing n u m b e rs to se t up a L O C A L appo intm ent or ju st to talk: B o b b y H a rris @ 5 4 1 -6 7 6 -9 9 2 5 or 5 4 1 -2 5 6 -0 1 7 5 Community Counseling Solutions (C C S ) @ 541-676-9161 O R 1 -8 7 7 -6 9 5 -4 6 4 8 (1 -8 8 8 -M Y L IM IT ) email at Lisa.A.Hill@odot. state-pr-us . Northeast Oregon Area Health Edu cation Center offers grants Northeast Oregon Area Health Education Center will award $500 to each of the counties it serves in northeastern Oregon. The mini grants are intended to encourage youth involve ment in community health education events or experi ences. The funding will support the promotion of health career education in a community setting and/or use educational material to promote science education to their community’s youth. The application deadline has been extended to Oc tober 28. Information will be sent to the following per sons and organizations in our communities: hospital and clinics, other com munity health non-profit agencies and EMT education contacts. Non-profit organiza tions are eligible to apply for the mini grant if the organization already works with youth in some capacity in Morrow, Gilliam, Grant, Hood River, Malheur, Sher man, Umatilla, Union, Wal lowa, Wasco or Wheeler counties. Any organization can apply for funding if the activity will meet at least three of Northeast Oregon A H EC ’s work areas for health careers education: health career information, science education, role models/mentors from the health care business com munity, assure hands-on student health career educa tion activities, give youth out-of-class experiences in health career education, create health career edu cation networks with the community T hank Y ou To the following for contributing to the success of the 2011 lone Education Foundation Dinner and Auction Dinner Sponsors MCGG MCP ICABO BEO Wheatland Insurance Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company, Pendleton, OR Auction Item Contributors Arlynda Gates Loren & Della Heideman lone Grange IRS-Jeff& Dawn Eynetich Glenda Taylor Styles by Stefanie-Stefanie Sweeney Ty Barnett Tim Emmel Kaleb Dumler Mason Haguewood Oskar Peterson Daniel Holtz Charlie McElligott Cathy Halvorsen-lone School Library Torie Dowdy Jason & Tara Proudfoot John & Barbara Collin June Crowell Chuck Nelson Brian & Stephanie Spivey Art Derbyshire Yvonne Morter Kindergarten class lst/2nd/4th grades 3rd grade 5th & 6th grades Bill Mullins Community Bank Western States Nuchem-fraig Holland Brent & Jill Martin Kay Alldritt Vicki Wagenblast The Office Pat McElligott Medina Family Willow Creek Country Club Lindsay Kincaid Magnum Opus Jerry Archer Family Marlene Pointer-Sew On Etc. m Erin & Deacon Heideman Ashley & Cathy McCabe Brian & Peggy Doherty Zac Orem Joe Doherty Brandon Peck Willa & Don Coe Duane & Linda Neiffer Eric & Brandi Orem Howard & Dianne Mullins Brooke Lovgren-Special Education Rm Jodi Weebe & Jeri McElligott Morrow County Grain Growers Irene Holtz TreBon Salon-Randy & Wendy St. Marie Scott & Claudia Smythe Dorothy Dobyns June Crowell Sandi Carlson-Sandi's Soups & Catering Kevin & Karla Willman lone Education Foundation would like to thank Andrew O'Connell and 2Morrow Energy for their donation in support of the lone Education Foundation. lone Education Foundation would like to thank Marvin Padberg for organizing and leading the fish catching and cooking crew as well as Mark Patton and Tom Gates and their crew for preparing and cooking the prime rib, Dustin Padberg for setting up sound system and auctioneering, Betty Gray for organizing salad preparation, Bink Ramos for organizing the serving crew and providing potatoes, Glenda Taylor for providing dinner rolls, Jordan Bemrose and the lone Community School Choir and to everyone who attended, participated in the auction, and volunteered or helped The following is provided by Commissioner Leann Rea. The Morrow County Court met on September 14 in Irrigon with Judge Terry Tallman and Commissioner Ken Grieb in attendance. The court reviewed and approved the minutes of August 24. The court also reviewed and approved the account payables, retirement taxes, rodeo payables, a final payroll and payroll payables in the net amount of $209,478.39. The court reviewed the “pooled cash report” provided by Morrow County Treasurer Gayle Gutierrez. Road Dept.: The crew has completed a repair at the Bombing Range Highway 207 intersection. Two sections of that intersection had a sub-grade failure. The sections were marked and the equipment was moved to the site on September 9. On September 12 the pavement was cut and removed at those locations. Two locations were found where the base material had retained an ex cessive amount of moisture, which causes soft conditions which allowed the pavement it supported to fail. All of the wet material was excavated and replaced with new base rock and gravel. Then the area was patched with two lifts of hot mix asphalt. This will remain as a single patch until spring to make sure no other failures appear. With the huge amounts of grain being moved over the past summer, tonnages were also a contributor to the failure. After reviewing available funds and current bills, including dust abatement work, it was determined that the department will discontinue patching work when Olsen Road and Columbia Lane are completed. Right of way negotiations for the Spring Hollow Bridge have been completed and the crew will begin work on that project right away. The right-of-way work for the five intersec tions realignment is close to completion. These projects are ready to go as soon as the legal work is completed. There is a long list of projects for fall maintenance work to finish before winter. Ordinance Reading: Morrow County Plan ning Director Carla McLane provided the second read ing of an adopting ordinance for the “Ruhl Pit Locally Significant Aggregate Resource”. The court approved the amendment to the comprehensive plan and map to include the site. Sheriff’s Report: Morrow County Undersheriff Steve Myren discussed the disposal of refuse gathered by the Parole & Probation (P&P) work crew from county property. It was decided that the materials may be dumped at the Transfer Station as long as the material originated on county property. Materials from non-county locations will need to pay the regular disposal rate. Myren stated that the sherifFs dept, is continuing to have a problem with exceeding their credit card limit. It was decided to raise the current limit of $8,000 to $10,000. Myren also reviewed the following report with the court: Irrigon area: A suspicious person staggering, with slurred speech and carrying a puppy, was arrested on six warrants; a report was received regarding a big homed sheep aggres sively chasing children; a report was received on pit bulls aggressively chasing people; one of the dogs was tazed. Lexington area: received a report from the Road Dept, of a vehicle on fire and fully engulfed; Heppner area: A motorcycle crashed 1.5 miles above the OHV Park, with the rider going over the guard rail. The rider had broken bones and was flown from Pioneer Memorial Hospital by helicopter; responded to a call regarding a two-year-old missing from his home. Columbia River: responded for an assist to a 43-foot fishing trolley one mile down river from the Arlington Marina. Parole & Probation (P&P): P&P Director Dan Robbins informed the court that for the month of August there were 101 clients in the program. Robbins stated that the new work crew supervisor started August 29 and that the program is operating smoothly. Contracts: The court reviewed and approved an intergovernmental agreement with the state of Oregon in the amount of $305,939 for correctional services, effective July 1,2011, through June 30,2012. The court reviewed and approved a “consent to participate agreement” for future improvements to West Fourth Road between the county and Tim and Jeanette Meyers. Reviewed and approved the following contracts for Commission on Children and Families program: Backpack Program in the amount of $5,000; Heppner Daycare in the amount of $4,750; Heppner Daycare Preschool in the amount of $4,750, Morrow County School District Summer Lead ership Institute in the amount of $5,414; and Boardman Child Development Center Preschool in the amount of $5,062. All contracts were for the 2011-2012 fiscal year ending on June 30, 2012. The court conducted the following business: The court reviewed an offer from Pablo Flores to purchase six lots in the Irrigon area for $1,200 each. The court declined the offer and offered a counteroffer of $2,000 per lot. The court decided to retain the maintenance contract for the Konica Digital Copier commencing October 28, 2011, for one year. Reviewed misc. correspondences and discussed upcoming meetings. Anyone who would like to be placed on the list to receive county minutes may contact Karen Wolff at (541)676-5620. HEPPNER ELKS 358 676-9181 ''Khere F rim h Meet" E lk s M em bers and 142 North Main G u ests U p c o m in g E v e n t s Thursday 9/29/11- Hunters Night Rib Dinner and Prizes Thursday 10/6/11- Ladies Night Chicken parmesan Pasta marinara Mixed greens Sicilian style Garlic bread lone Varsity Football Schedule Sep 30 7pm @ Sherman Oct 7 7pm @ Dufur Oct 13 7pm vs Arlington Oct 22 2pm vs Hosanna Christian (Culver High School) Oct 28 7pm vs Echo Nov 4 7pm @ Condon / Wheeler lone Varsity Volleyball Schedule Sep 30 4:30pm @ Sherman Oct 1 Noon @ Griswold / Nixyaawii Oct 4 5pm vs eCondon / Wheeler Oct 7 5pm @ Dufur Oct 11 5pm vs Griswold / Nixyaawii Oct 13 5pm vs Arlington Oct 15 1pm @ Condon / Wheeler (Fossil) Oct 18 5:30pm @ Echo Oct 22 vs (Dufur Tourna ment) Heppner Varsity Football Schedule Sep 30 7pm @ Elgin Oct 7 7pm vs Stanfield Oct 21 7pm @ Pilot Rock Oct 28 7pm @ Weston- McEwen / Griswold Nov 4 7pm vs Irrigon Nov 12 1st Round Play offs Nov 19 Quarter Finals Nov 26 Semi Finals Dec 3 State Finals Heppner Varsity Volleyball Schedule Sep 29 6pm @ Irrigon Oct 1 Noon @ Union Oct 1 1pm vs Enterprise (Union) Oct 6 6pm @ Stanfield Oct 13 5pm @ Pilot Rock Oct 15 Noon @ Elgin (Elgin 4- Way Heppner/Stanfield) Oct 15 1pm vs Weston- McEwen (Elgin) Oct 20 6pm vs Irrigon Oct 22 Noon vs Union (Stanfield) Oct 22 1pm vs Enterprise (Stanfield) Oct 25 6pm vs Stanfield October Heppner Senior Mealsite Menus W ednesday, O c tober 5: Tilapia with par mesan topping, rice pilaf, g o v ern o r’s baked corn, peaches, hot rolls and baked apples. W ednesday, O c tober 12: Ham with raisin sauce, au gratin potatoes, m ixed vegetables, fruit ju ice, hot rolls and ice cream. Wednesday, Octo ber 19: Oven fried chick en, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, fruit cocktail, combread, straw berry mousse. Wednesday, Octo ber 26: Worms in Sauce, Purple People Eater Salad, W itch’s Fingers, D evil’s Food Cupcakes. Milk is served at each meal. The suggest ed donation is $3.50 per meal. Menus are subject to change. Churches serving are as follows: O ctober 5- Elohim Covenant; Oc tober 12-Christian Life Center; October 19-Willow Creek Baptist; October 26: United Methodist.
