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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 1,2012 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner Day care kids learn good cents GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow C ounty's Hom e-Owned Weekly N ew spaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical mailer at the Post Office at Heppner. Oregon under the Act of March 3,1*79 Periodical postage paid at Heppner. Oregon Office at I** W Willow Street Telephone (541) 676- 922* Pa* (541) 676-9211 h-mail editorurapidserve net or davidia'rapidserve net Web site www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, PO. 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 News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p m column inch Cost lor classified ad is 50* per word Cost for Card ol Thanlrs is $10 up lo 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 Dates for pub lication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits specified it required) For Obituaries Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT 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 written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary For Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters All letters MUST include the author s address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the right to edit letters The GT is not The children of Heppner Day Care, under the leadership of day care employee Ann Jones (right) visited Community Bank last week to learn about pennies. Bank employees Jenelle Von Gunten (left) and Nicole Skillings (center) explained the importance of saving and the value of a penny. Each child then received a piggy hank with a gold dollar and a penny to take hack to the day care to continue to discuss the letter “P.” -Contributed photo 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 Remembrance 5K walk/run planned On M arch 17, Friends Helping Friends will commemorate Hep- pner’s 30“’ annual St. Pat rick’s Day celebration with a Remembrance Walk/5K Run fundraiser event. The morning of the event will start off at 8:30 a.m. with a wee bit o’ fun. Friends Helping Friends will host a social hour and registration at Heppner United Methodist Church. Beginning at 9:30 a.m., the Remembrance Walk/Run will proceed following a route of green shamrocks and pink hearts. The com mittee once again will make Remembrance Shamrocks for loved ones. With a $5 donation to Pioneer Memo rial Home Health, an op tional Remembrance Sham rock will be added to the walk route. Last year, 155 shamrocks were made with 202 names remembered. Each walk/run participant also will receive a 2012 remembrance wristband the morning of registration. Everyone is en couraged and invited every one to join the event. The morning always proves to be fun for those who partici pate, and it’s a great oppor tunity to visit with family and friends while support ing local home health. “ As c o m m ittee members, we feel it’s im portant we support our community while giving back to health care in mem ory of loved ones,” said a walk/run coordinator. For four y ears, Friends Helping Friends has honored the memory of home health nurse, Donna Schonbachler. The yearly St. Patrick’s fundraiser sup ports the group’s mission, which is to give financial assistance to local health care programs. The funds from this year’s event will focus on aid to individuals and families who endure health-care hardships. All proceeds stay within the community; to date, nearly $12,000 has been raised for health care through contributions to Pioneer Memorial Hospital, PMH Home H ealth, Hospice, and Willow Creek Terrace. In a joint community ef fort, H eppner’s Pioneer Memorial Hospital Emer gency Room recently re ceived a GlideScope, which was made possible in part from contributions through Friends Helping Friends. D o n a tio n s and checks can be made payable to Pioneer Memorial Home Health and mailed to: Kathi Dickenson, PO Box 566, Heppner, OR 97836. Those wishing to have a person alized shamrock can mail their photo and honoree to Susan Hisler at 56504 Little Butter Creek Road, Heppner, OR 97836. Community lunch menu United Methodist Church members will be serv ing lunch on Wednesday, February 8 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. The meal will include navy beans and ham, broc coli salad, com bread, brownies and tomato juice. Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. WjJ T 'll if 'f Iff) * 5 $ v ru '- fr fj Join the Heppner Mustangs as they compete at the Bank o f INVITATIONAL 2012 WRESTLING TOURNAMENT Letters to the Editor ~ 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 of 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 of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost o f $10. Say no to wind turbines For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p m Cost lor a display ad is $5 per require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be - First Friday session this week The next session of First Friday Friends of Jesus will be held at All Saints Episcopal Church in Heppner this Friday, February 3 from 8 a.m. until noon. Children ages four through 12 are invited to attend a morning filled with Bible stories, crafts, games and songs. Lunch is included, and there is no cost to attend. Newcomers are always welcome. This monthly program is sponsored by the Shared Ministry of All Saints and Hope Lutheran churches. For more information, call the Shared Ministry office at 541 - 676-9970. Nordic club skis Martin Prairie Ten members of the Arbuclde Nordic Ski Club met Saturday, January 28 and skied into Martin Prairie. The group found w arm temperatures, overcast skies and plenty of snow on the trail. They stopped for a break with a good lunch and fire at the cabin. A new member joined the group for the day. “Nor mally, we have our assortment of hound dogs but we have never had an actual Veti. The dogs kept their distance. He was quiet on the trail and seemed to have a real liking of Little Smokies at lunchtime,” said club member Bill Ewing. Join ing in the «lay’s exercise were (L-R): Steve Brownfield, Dave Fowler, Kay Fowler, Brian Fow ler (Yeti), Luanne Brownfield, Kristi Crowell, Sherry Ewing, Dan VanLiew and Bill Ewing. -Contributed photo Missionaries to speak at Nazarene church Missionaries Bob and Rosa McCroskey will be speaking at the Heppner Nazarene Church on Saturday, February 18. The public is invited to fellowship time and a meal of pizza, spaghetti, salad and bread from 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. that evening. The service with the McCroskeys will begin at 7 p.m. Their program is geared toward young children as well as adults, so all children and families are encour aged to attend. Holly Rebekah card party Holly Rebekah Lodge will hold their February card party on Saturday, February 4 at 7 p.m. The cost is $5 per person and includes snacks throughout the evening. I’m opposed to any wind turbine generating facility with in a two-nau- tical-mile radius of lone or the Willow Creek Valley or any affected home owner/ property owner who doesn’t want them. I feel the process in which a proposed wind- turbine facility is publicly announced is too short. One date in a newspaper is too little time for people to respond or even know about the project. The project I speak o f is the Ella Butte project that the planning department approved last month. Anyone living with in a two-mile radius of any wind turbine project should have been notified by mail of the projects. I m yself was too late in getting a letter of op position to the planning de partment because of it only being published in a local paper on November 16; I was not notified by mail as a land owner affected by this project. I live within 3800 feet of the project and will have these turbines in view from my home. I urge the county court to rethink putting these wind turbine facilities within at least two nautical miles of lone for the sake of the residents living there. These wind turbines are an eyesore to those of us who enjoy our scenic views of the Willow Creek valley and the surrounding hills. There are lots o f studies and testimonials about the decreased market values that wind turbines have on homes within close view of the wind turbines. The study that was submitted to the county by the lawyer of the applicant talked about the assessed value but not about the market value, which is a huge difference. Assessed value is what the county thinks your home is worth; market value is what someone will pay you for it. Their study showed no change in assessed value from the county tax as sessors offices, but it said nothing about the declined market value o f 15-40% or more in some areas in the US that have wind tur bines. My question to the county is: why are we the ones who suffer from these wind turbines? Why isn’t the assessed value drop ping with the market value Cruise with Cassandra... and take the guesswork out of cruising with a fully escorted vacation of a lifetime to beautiful Alaska with Holland America Line! 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Why should we have to change or suffer because of greed? Wind turbines have proven to be unsustainable and not cost-effective. They w ouldn’t be going in if there were no subsidies. So my next question is: what happens when the subsidy money runs out and the wind turbine company can no longer afford to keep operating them? What then? Will we be stuck with all of these iron giants for good? They supposedly will have a salvage fund to dismantle them, but who is going to enforce that? The County Court? Or will it just be an other “Whoops, so sorry”? I have submitted two binders [of informa tion] and this letter to the planning department. One binder is about real estate values; it contains studies, testimonials from real es tate agents from around the USA, and various articles about wind turbines. The other binder is all about the health affects of living around wind turbines; it contains studies and tes tim onials from affected people. Again, I hope the Morrow County Court and Planning Commission re think their CUP process to better suit the residents who are affected by the wind turbines. I applaud Uma tilla County for requiring a two-mile set-back for wind turbines, and hope Morrow County will do the same, especially around the towns where most o f the people will be affected. Also, what about the golden eagles in the area? Why haven’t they been mentioned or addressed? Are they expendable? Is any o f the wildlife being considered? What good is a limited post-construction mortality monitoring plan? You can’t bring back the dead. ODFW won’t shut the wind turbines down after they’re all up and running and have killed many of the birds and run off all the other animals. , Do you re a lly think that the wind turbine facilities are going to report every bird that has been killed? I don’t think so. Sincerely, Richard Sandford III lone, Oregon ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: M O N D A Y S AT 5:00 P.M .
