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
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David Sykes.................................................................................................Publisher
Andrea Di Salvo.............................................................................................. Editor
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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.
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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
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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
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