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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 5,2011 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner Wheelhouses celebrate 50,h anniversary GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3,1179. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 1*8 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676- 922*. Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor'dirapidserve.net or david@rapidserve. net Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97*36. Subscriptions: $27 in Morrow County; $21 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $33 elsewhere; $27 student subscriptions. David Sykes.................................................................................................Publisher Andrea Di Salvo.............................................................................................. Editor All New s and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m column inch Cost for classified ad is 50« per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5.75 per column inch For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Oates for pub require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries Obituaries are published In the Heppner G T at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary wntten in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor M U S T be signed by the author The Heppner G T will not publish unsigned letters All letters M U S T include the author s address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the right to edit letters The G T is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks will be placed In the classifieds under "Card of Thanks’ at a cost of $10. Bank of EO welcomes home Major Qualls Major John Qualls, o f Heppner High School O regon A rm y N ational and Eastern Oregon Uni Guard, recently returned versity in LaGrande, OR, where he obtained from his second a degree in Agri tour o f duty in Iraq. cultural Business Qualls will return Management. Af to his previous em ter a short stin t ployer, the Bank with the O regon o f Eastern Oregon State U niversity (BEO ), w here he Extension Service, will be helping man Major John Qualls joined Bank age the overall lend Qualls of Eastern Oregon ing function at the in April of 2002. bank. Q ualls will Qualls was recent have a number o f lenders reporting to him, as well as ly promoted to Major in the the entire loan processing Oregon National Guard. He served 18 months on active staff. “We are pleased to duty in Iraq from 2004 to have John back with us af 2005. He left for his sec ter his deployment. We are ond tour in August 2010 proud o f his sacrifice and and returned in September service to our country,” said 2011. He and his w ife, BEO president and CEO Doashea, and children— Sydney, Hayden and Sophie Jeff Bailey. Qualls is a graduate Lynn—reside in Heppner. Christian movie night The Seventh-Day Adventist Church will be hosting a Christian movie night once a month starting this Saturday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. Movie nights will continue on the second Saturday of every month. The movie showing this Saturday is Soul Surfer, starring Carrie Underwood, Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt. It is the story of Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm to a shark attack. The movie is set around the details of the event and her struggle during the aftermath. Everyone is welcome to attend these free events. Participants are encouraged to bring a friend, as well as a snack to share, during what promises to be a fun fam ily night. W e are not kidding... w e are Christmas Sidewalk Sale having a F R O M Thursday, October 6th at 9 am U N T IL Friday, O ctober 7th at ? Cheek out our new Digital Photo Machine Jan and Jay Wheelehouse -Photo by Tyler Wheelehouse Jay and Jan Wheel- house will be celebrating their 50lh wedding anni versary Saturday, October 15. The celebration will begin with a reception at the Hermiston Assembly o f God from 2 to 4 p.m. The church is located at 730 East Hurlburt Ave. in Hermiston. Jay and Jan (Janice Martin) met July 11,1959 at a rodeo dance in Heppner, when Jan was a princess in Jan and Jay at their wedding the Morrow County Fair and in 1961. -Contributed photo Rodeo. They married June insurance and investment 18, 1961 at the Methodist business in which he still is church in Heppner. After involved. Jan helped Jay as a honeymoon to Victoria, secretary for his insurance BC they lived in Arizona and investment business for at Williams Air Force Base 18 years, retiring in 2001. for three and a half years, She also enjoyed waitress- where Jay was an instructor ing at a Mexican Restaurant for 5 years and worked for in pilot training. JoAnn Fabrics in Hermis Both their children ton two years. were bom there, Greg in J a y ’s a c tiv itie s 1962 and Karen in 1964. have included 35 years T hey en jo y ed m ak in g with Kiwanis Club and co friends there that have last chairing the Mayor’s Prayer ed these 50 years. Breakfast in Hermiston, In January 1965, Jay and Jan brought their leading Bible studies at the family to Heppner to ranch prison for over 30 years, with Jan’s father and moth being a leader and teacher at er, Randall and Marie Mar the Hermiston Assembly of tin. The couple worked with God church, photography, the youth in the church dur hunting and helping Jan’s ing those years and enjoyed. father at M cKay Creek the friendships gained. « • Jan’s activities in In September 1969“ ' they moved to Hermiston, cluded leading 4-H clubs where Jay worked at C&B in sew ing and cooking, Livestock, cutting the fat teaching how to sew with cattle for market for 11 wool, leading Bible classes, years. They bought a home painting, singing, playing just outside the city limits piano, organ and keyboard, and enjoyed farm life very reading, and learning to close to town for 27 years. quilt in the last 10 years. Jay and Jan moved Jan was a stay-at-hom e mom. She enjoyed leading to McKay Creek this sum 4-H clubs for 12 years and mer not to retire, but to be also taught wool tailor closer to his work on the ing classes through Blue ranch yet still be involved Mountain Community Col with his insurance busi lege. In 1981, Jay began the ness. Try our Pumpkin Frappe! % Kahlua & Cum Latte £5 .25 M edium Caram l Frappe f3 .7.5 ' lin c i T a b li cy Mill er & Jimmy Walt on S a tu rd a y , O c to b e r 2 2 n d St Heppner • Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 Varying Morrow, Wheeler & Gilliam counties Since 1959 No more tax dollars to Road Canyon To the editor, Sometimes you can’t avoid a fight. I was thank ful when the landowners dropped their petition to vacate Road Canyon Road. 1 have never supported closing moun tain roads, and I had little incentive to see Road Canyon closed to the general public. Nevertheless, I had reasons to write a letter of support for the landowner who owns most of the property our Matteson School House heritage rests on (including a deeded access to our property that would have allowed local access). I had no intention of making those reasons public until an East Oregonian writer, Erin Mills, misled the public by writing that I disowned my letter of support. The battle over closing mountain roads started over 30 years ago when State Representative Ray French successfully introduced legislation that allowed landown ers to fee hunt the American people’s heritage - trophy elk. In order to make fee hunting work, the public mountain roads had to be closed. Schilling Ranch Road - closed. Mountain Creek - closed. Wilson Creek to Summerfield and Willow Creek - closed. The foothills to the Blue Mountains that provided hunting and recreation oppor tunities that supported a thriving economy in Heppner, including five gas stations and five grocery stores, were closed to the public. Fee hunting provided little benefit to the local economy and today Heppner has one gas station and one grocery store. I do not support one dollar of public tax dollars going into Road Canyon Road until all city roads are re paired. There is no public access the entire length of Road Canyon Road. One million dollars of taxpayer dollars (most borrowed against our children and their children) in the past two years for a road that has “no trespassing” signs from one end to the other. The road is fine the way it is. The Morrow County road department is planning to spend hundreds of thou sands of dollars to repair the latest storm damage. The last thing we need on Road Canyon in more traffic, especially Cadillacs. We already have enough blue collar vandalism at the school house. Count me in when the public is ready to fight to restore our hunting and public mountain road heritage. Until then the tax dollars should go to the local cities and their roads, the roads the county claims they have no money for. Stuart Dick Irrigon October 7 is the first Friday of the month, and that means it’s time for the next session of First Fridays Friends o f Jesus. The program is for children ages 4 through 12, and is sponsored by the shared ministry of Hope Lutheran Church and All Saints Episcopal Church. All sessions are held at All Saints, on the comer o f Church and Gale streets in Heppner. Activities begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at noon. A free lunch is served. Newcomers are always welcome. For more information, call the church office at 541-676-9970. B usinesses have only one more week to sign up for a membership in the lone Cardinal Booster Club and get their ads included on the community calendar. The club will also be pub lishing two sport posters, one for winter and spring sports and one for sports next fall, with business ads. With membership, each business will also be listed on the backs of all sports programs, in all district and state newspa per ads, and will have the business name in the district tournament programs. Any business inter ested in the $100 member R o y P ro cto r B en efit T a c o F eep Friday, October 7th 5:30 pm to halftime ship package, or that wants an ad on the community calendar for $50, should contact Jeri McElligott at jerimce@hotmail.com or PO Box 4, lone. All income from the sale o f commu nity calendars supports the Booster Club scholarship. Family m em ber ships are also available for $50. Names will be includ ed in all district and state newspaper ads, on the sport posters and in the district tournament program. The Booster Club encourages all community members to take this oppor tunity to support academic and athletic programs at lone Community School. C o f u n til w e ru n o u t ) M o r r o w C o u n t y F a irgro u n d s 2 TACOS, RICE, PRINK, A N D DESSERT (5.00 Organized by H E Sa n d H H 5 Staffs, HE5 Parent-Teacher Club and MuMuj'i ÜAug 217 North Mam My name is Morgan and I am a student at Hidden Valley High School in Grants Pass, OR. I am researching your county for my U.S. History class, and would re ally appreciate any of the readers sending me postcards, information, or links about Morrow County. Please send them to my teacher Mr. Burgess at Hidden Valley High School, 651 Murphy Creek Rd., Grants Pass, OR 97527 or e-mail it to my teacher at stuart.burgess@threeriveres. kl2.or.us. Thank You, Morgan L. lone Booster Club offers memberships H H S Booster Club ^ The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name o f the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and will not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit, The GT is not responsible for accuracy o f statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card o f Thanks” at a cost o f $ 10. First Fridays program continues | Many new capabilities!! Print directly from your facebook page! Letters to the Editor ~ Request for information about Morrow County For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5 per lication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits ~ A d sponsored by Bank o f Eastern Oregon M em ber FDIC $500 R E W A R D FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF PERSONS COM MITTING CRIMINAL ACTS TO OR AGAINST PROPERTY BELONGING TO M O RRO W COUNTY CABIN OW NERS 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 T Y CABIN O W N E R S A SSO C IA TIO N , INC.
