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HeppnerGazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 12,2011 -FIVE BEO Bancorp Reports 3rd Quarter Earnings Bank of Eastern Or egon, a subsidiary of BEO Bancorp, announced third quarter 2011 consolidated net income o f $502,000, or $0.54 per share. That is compared to $518,000, or $0.56 per share, for third quarter 2010. Year-to-date earnings were $1,350,000 in 2011, as compared to $1,421,000 for the same period in 2010. Total assets were $251.8 million, up 0.9% year over year. Net loans o f $198.25 million were up 3.7% from the same period in 2010, while deposits were at $222.1 million, up 0.5% year over year. “ We are pleased with the third quarter and year-to-date results. Loan volume has increased, and we continue to search out good lending opportuni ties,” said president and CEO, Jeff Bailey. Chief Financial Of ficer, Mark Lemmon, said, “ We continue to increase value to our stockholders as shareholders’ equity is up 8.5% year over year. Our tangible book value per share stands at over $18, a growth of more than $6 per share since the banking crisis and recession began in 2007. This is a direct result o f continued profit prices are also strong and ability and prudent capital summer feed was plentiful. management. The overall quality of our ag “Year-to-date Re loan portfolio is very good, turn on Average Assets is and we continue to work 0.72% and Return hard at moving non on Average Equity is performing assets 10.98%,” Lemmon off of our books,” continued “That re said EVP and Chief turn on equity is im Credit Officer, E. pressive considering George Koffler. the bank’s tier-one “A com capital ratio is well Jeff Bailey mon perception in above our Oregon the national media and national peer is that banks are averages. not making loans. That is “ In creased loan not true. We are continually volume and steady deposit seeking loan opportunities, levels fuel our net inter and we are making loans to est margin, which dictates qualified borrowers,” added overall profitability,” fin Koffler. ished Lemmon. “ L o c a l fa c to rs C hief Operations point towards an improv Officer, Gary Propheter, ing economy, but the slow said, “In spite o f contin recovery in the national ued low interest rates, our economy, high unemploy deposit base is steady. Our ment, and the uncertainty branch personnel do a tre associated with the Euro mendous job of providing pean Union economic situ excellent customer service. ation are concerning. All of The bank continues to adapt these factors will play a role to the changing regulatory in how our local economy environment, and is happy performs over the next few to say we have been able to years,” said Bailey. “1 ap meet these challenges with preciate the efforts of our out imposing new fees and employees and the support charges on customers.” of our customers and share “This year’s wheat holders in making our fine harvest was fabulous, with institution successful even yields well above average in these turbulent times.” and good prices. Cattle FFA fruit sale goes forward The Heppner FFA chapter will be holding its annual fruit sale this year, but it won’t look the same as it has in the past. Due to inclement weather in late fall 2010, thousands o f fruit trees (specifically apple) were killed in the Walla Walla region, including four full Fuji orchards used by Davis Orchards. Due to the nega tive impact from the sheer loss of trees and fruit, Davis Orchards isn’t able to sup ply the Heppner FFA chap ter with any fruit this year... and possibly next year. The chapter mem bers said that they have had such success in the past—due to the support of community members, the high quality of fruit from the producers and great fruit prices— that they were saddened by the news from Davis Orchards. “ We w ant to be able to provide the service to our area and obviously appreciate the money we have raised in the past from our fruit sale,” stated Mag gie Collins, a fruit sale com mittee member. To be able to do that, the chapter has made arrangements with another company from Meford, OR. The company. Quail Valley Farms, supplies fruit for school organizations such as FFA chapters. “The fruit sale will look differently this year due to circumstances, but we hope to still provide a high quality product; this year we will have a diver sity that we haven’t been able to provide in the past,” said Ashlie Hanson, another committee member. D iv e rs ity ? The fruit from Quail Valley Farms includes: 20# box o f Grapefruit (Texas Rio Grande Valley Reds), 20# California Navel Orang es, 20# Crisp Washington Fuji apples, 20# Northwest D’Anjou Pears, and a Fes tival o f Fruit collection that includes a 22# box with 36 pieces of fruit (apples, pears, grapefruit and or anges.) All o f the boxes cost $25. FFA members will have order forms later this week and will be happy to help people place orders. All orders need to be in by November 21. The fruit will be delivered in the begin ning o f December (no date has been set yet). The date will be advertised closer to delivery. Christian cowboy concert in Lexington Jeff Colson, cowboy recording artist, will be in concert at Lex ington Community Bible Church on Sunday, October 16 at 5 p.m. Colson will be performing songs from his latest CD, “The Master’s Call.” The free concert will be followed by refreshments. Jeff Colson Hello this is Drew Brannon. Last summer I traveled to Australia. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity of playing football with and against other high school students from around the United States, Australia and New Zealand I just wanted to thank everyone who supported me all the way through this experience. This affected my life in many ways The first objective I had to follow through with was actually raising all the money. I needed to raise $5,000 to travel and compete in the DownUnder sports tournament for Football. It taught me many skills that I am thankful to have learned. I had the privilege to become friends with all these other players I was the youngest on my team and only 4 of the 25 players on my team were Juniors. The rest had graduated and a few a little older. One Australian team was between 19-53 years of age. A 53 year old man on the line, that was amazing I told myself! To compete physically at that age is one of my many dreams. It was a blast to play with and teach the Australians how to play American Football - or as they call it, Gridiron. I played two games and started on offense in both. We won the first 15-0 and lost the,second 9-3. We ended up with a silver medal. There were guys on my team from Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska and Idaho The only reason why I was able to do this amazing trip that I will remember forever is because of my family's friends' and community's support. My friends gave me unbelievable support and kept me encouraged. The community of Heppner never once let up on me The money just kept showing up and I knew with a town like Hep pner I could raise the money. I am so lucky to live in a town where everyone cares about everyone else I have an incredible passion for Football and love being a Mustang So thank you to all the people who helped me with this once in a lifetime memory Thank you so much!!! Anyone who I have forgotten, please let me know ' I P Al and Donna Osmin Arletha Brannon Anne and Ron Reibach Betty Christman Barbara Bexten Bill and Patricia Gentry Bill and Tammy Martin and Family Brian and Amy Kollman Bob and Aloha Despain Budweiser Distributing Chuck and Carolyn Holt Klara Kinzer Coca-Cola Distributing Columbia Basin Co-op Dale Boyd Daye Stone Dan and Karmin Schwertfeger Dave and Kim Baertlein David and Candy Kehr and Family David and Jennifer Jaca Don and Pat Kehr Doug Boor > Douglas and Carley Drake Ed and Mary Jean McCabe Edda Lovgren ~ Family Medicine of Grays Harbor Gene Doherty Graybeal Distributing Greg Grant Heppner Family Foods Heppner High School Jamie McCormack Jeff and Diane Gitchell Jeff Maben Jenelle Von Ganten Jess and Staci Osmin Jim Mahannah. Suzi Mercier and Family Jim Schlaich John and Karen Griffith John and Sonja McCabe John Edmundson Keith and Angie Hanson Kim Gutierrez and Family Kyle and Tamara Jacobsen Les Schwab Mac and Jan McDonald Marty and Gina Brannon and Family Michele Portmann Melvin McDaniel Mike and Shelly VanArsdale Morrow County Grain Growers Murray's Drug Robert Despain Robert Hubbard Ron and Muriel Beeler Russ and Dana Brannon Sandy Coila Sandy Putman Shannon and Julie Lourenzo Shannon Miller Shawn and Merry Chandler Shelli Britt Tim and Lisa Dick and Family Tim Hardy and Debbie Chandler Tayllor Gould Terry and Kellie Gray and Family Tim and Jackie Headman Virginia Grieb CITY COUNCIL -Continuedfrom PAGE “The permits will cans. ONE now be issued once annu used to promote the whole county, including lone and Lexington. As yet, neither Boardman or Irrigon has said how much they are willing to kick in. lone and Lexington, because of their size, will be included in the promotion but not required to pay. “ We w ould like to see a package. What does our money get us?” councilmemberCody High asked Wright. “An actual m ar keting campaign has not been developed because no budget has been estab lished,” Wright said. “The marketing dollars could be spent on several different mediums,” he explained. “ U sin g $ 5 ,0 0 0 (from the city o f Heppner), can you give us an example o f what mediums would you purchase?” City Man ager Dave DeMayo asked. W right used the example o f an ad in the East Oregonian Visitors Guide. He said a one-third page cost $1,200, and the city could spend $3,500 to $4,500 for a bigger ad. He said, with that scenario, one publication could eat up an entire budget. “Can you give us an exam ple o f what we could expect with a com bined budget (of all the cit ies)?” Mayor Les Paustian asked. “You would get a lot more circulation (with your print media) and I could get more exposure with digital and radio (ad vertisements),” Wright said. “We can reach over one million people, that is the benefit of combining with other cities.” “ You are asking us to come up with a cam paign when we don’t have a budget,” Wright told the council. “The East Orego nian Visitors Guide has a circulation of 100,000 but that might not be the best fit (for Morrow County),” he said. W right w ent on to say he does not have a firm commitment from Boardman or Irrigon on an am ount, and M ayor Paustian said it was his understanding that the two cities were waiting to see if Heppner would buy into the program and what its budget would be. Wright said the city of Boardman had turned the program over to its local Chamber of Commerce. “We need to know how much everyone else if putting in,” Councilmem- ber Cody High said. High also questioned if paying for toHrism advertising was even an appropriate activity and expense for city gov ernment. Paustian pointed out that the city pays for the Heppner Chamber of Commerce position. In other action, the city upgraded their burn ordinance and permit, tight ening restrictions on what can be burned, and also set the burning permit fee at $5 for one year. ally which will result in a wiser use o f resources (manpower and supplies),” the new ordinance read. In other business the council discussed sev eral ways it might spend $18,229 it recently re ceived from the sale of the HUD house at 160 Court St. Two proposals were presented. One would put the money toward repairs to the HVAC unit at the St. Patrick’s Senior Hous ing apartments. The other would give $ 1,500 each to Willow Creek Terrace, the Neighborhood Center and the Heppner Day Care. The money is required by HUD to be spent on community development projects. The city will investigate the exact definition by HUD of community development to make sure it spends the money correctly. In other action: -The city agreed to pay $500 toward an ad vertisement in the East Or egonian Visitors Guide. The city also purchased an ad in the guide last year. -Learned that the new lover’s lane bridge might not be installed until the year 2013. The city has a bridge at the city yard ready to replace the current dilapidated bridge next to the bowling alley across Willow Creek, but is wait ing for the engineering to be completed. -Reviewed and ap proved adjustments to the commercial sewer billings. “ Some people are going to be happy and some are not going to be happy,” DeMayo said. Some com mercial accounts in town are going to see their bills increase by up to three fold, others will see theirs drop. The council also received the following po lice report for the city for September. Traffic- There were 11 traf fic stops, resulting in two citations. MCSO received complaints about hunters driving poorly in town. A person was con tacted regarding an illegally parked vehicle. Code Etaforce- ment- A goat was reported missing from a residence. MCSO contacted two residences regarding loud music. Five loose dogs were reported. Two re p o rts o f barking dogs were report ed. F ive cats w ere transported to Pet Rescue. Four unlicensed vehicles were reported. The owners were contacted and are working on getting the vehicles moved. An other residence is working on removing garbage from outside of the residence. A resident was also contacted regarding tall weeds. T h e f t Co r a - plaints- A Deputy inves tigated a report o f stolen Chihuahua Puppy for Sale 10 week old male, has had first shots Call April at 54L980-4643 MCSO arrested an adult for stealing a vehicle registration sticker. Money was report ed stolen from a residence. A person reported suspicious activity with a bank account. M CSO in v e s ti gated juveniles who were committing theft using the can recycler at the grocery store. There were five drive-offs from the gas station. MCSO investigat ed a residential burglary. An adult male was arrested and lodged at the jail. AH Other- One person was arrested on an outstanding warrant. A juvenile was ar rested and lodged for proba tion violation. Two w e lfa re checks were conducted by MCSO. A suspicious ve hicle was reported to be parked by the elementary school. A disturbance was reported at the Mountain Glen Apartments. A deputy responded and determined it to be a verbal alterca tion. A p e r s o n w as reported to be throwing knives at the city park. The person was contacted and asked not to throw knives in the park. MCSO was con tacted by a business regard ing a possible false ID. The ID was determined to be valid. MCSO deputy con tacted juveniles regarding them playing with matches. A vehicle w indow was broken out by a juvenile throwing rocks. A paren t called MCSO and reported their child got out of the vehicle and was calling the parent names. A ju v e n ile le ft school on foot, during school hours. MCSO lo cated the juvenile and took the juvenile home. A resident com plained about a harassing phone call. It was deter mined to be a misdial. A resident called MCSO and reported they received one telephone call from kids playing on the telephone. MCSO received a report of harassment. Both parties were advised not to call each other or to go to each other’s residence. MCSO responded to a domestic violence call. An adult was arrested for harassment and criminal mischief and lodged at the jail. MCSO deputies re sponded to three domestic disputes. No crimes were committed. A resident called and complained about their landlord shutting of their power. A person called MCSO and reported their vehicle was keyed. A city employee contacted MCSO regarding a deceased dog being buried on city property. The dog owner was contacted and will remove the dog. J u v e n i l e s wer e seen picking flowers from private property without consent. A male called MCSO and reported his wife took some of their pos sessions. Male was advised it was a civil issue. MCSO contacted individuals regarding a civil issue over the transfer of property. MCSO assisted a citizen with a vehicle lock out. MCSO received a report of an assault at the city park. It was determined to be unfounded.
