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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 1,2012 Morrow SWCD board to meet Livestock growers plan meeting The Mo r r o w SWCD board will meet on Tuesday, February 7 at 1 p.m. in the Ag Service Center at 430 W Linden Way in Heppner. The regu lar meeting agenda includes January 12 meeting min utes and treasurer's report, partnership reports, written staff reports and vacant staff position discussion. M eetings o f the l he Morrow County Livestock Growers will be holding a meeting Wednesday, February 8 at 7 p.m. at the OSU Extension Office in 1 leppner. Officer elections will be held at this time. The meetings are open to the public. For questions or more information, contact the OSU Extension Service at 541-676-9642. Morrow SWCD are open to the public. The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations for persons w ith disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting to Janet Greenup. 541-676- 5452x109. C h a m b e r lunch m eeting The Heppner Chamber of Commerce’s next lunch meeting will be an all entities report on Wednesday, Feb ruary 1 at noon at All Saints Episcopal Church. Cost for lunch is $9; Howe's About Pizza will be catering. Those planning on attending are asked to RSVP no later than the previous Wednesday. USDA invests in Boardman plant DA’s Report The Morrow Coun ty District Attorney’s office has released the following report: -David Earl Terrell Taylor, 22, pled no contest to one count each of In terference with Making a Report and Harrassment, Class A and Class Be mis demeanors, respectively. In carceration of 180 days and 90 days was suspended and the defendant sentenced to 18 months Bench Probation on each count. Some condi tions of probation included a total of 100 hours of com munity service, an anger management program, no offensive physical contact with the victim and a writ ten apology to the victim, submitted to the Morrow County DA’s office. Total fines, fees and assessments were $2,066. The U S. Depart ment ofAgriculture (USDA) recently announced that ZeaChem Inc. has been selected for a $232.5 mil lion USDA loan guarantee to help the construction of ZeaChem’s first commer cial scale cellulosic biore finery, which is already in development at the Port of Morrow in Boardman. • The state-of-the-art facility will turn woody bio mass and agricultural waste into fuel. It is expected to have capacity for 25 million gallons per year of cellulos ic ethanol. The new facility will create 188 construction jobs and 65 full-time opera tions jobs in Boardman. 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He stated he took the check to the bank and they deter mined that it was a fake check. He will be at home for contact. -A w om an from Irrigon called MCSO to report that a white pit bull was in their yard. It is the neighbor’s dog; it’s charg ing them and won’t let them in their own home. Owners live on the same side of the street. The dog’s name is Angel. -MCSO was no tified that Oregon State Police arrested Miguel Fu entes-Carrillo on a Morrow County Court warrant for failure to appear/resisting arrest and giving false info, as well as an Irrigon Justice Court warrant for failure to appear/no angling license. The subject was lodged at Umatilla County Jail with a UCSO w arrant and a MCSO hold placed. -MCSO issued a citation to Maria Silvia Soto Zepeda, 35, for violating the basic rule by driving 75 mph in a 55 mph zone. -MCSO received a call from a man who said he was released from jail on Thursday afternoon and went home and found that his dog and camera were missing. Caller stated that his neighbors stated they saw deputies at his residence while he was in jail. He would like contact regarding this to see if the deputies know where the dog and camera are. -A caller from Ir rigon reported that there was a man and a woman with a small girl walking westbound on the north side of the highway; the man and the woman were pay ing no attention to the girl and she almost got hit by a semi. The girl is wearing a pink coat and pink pants with really frizzy black hair. The man is wearing a dark hoodie and the female is wearing a light-colored hoodie. -A man called BPD requesting an officer to make contact at his house in Boardman. The man was headed to the house and his wife was there. She went to work that morning at 8 a.m. and when she went home for lunch, the place was burgled. She said a Wii and several other things were missing. N o v e m b e r 19: -MCSO issued a citation to Juan Antonio Lemus Gar cia, 30, for driving without insurance. The subject was also issued a verbal warning for failure to dim. -MCSO issued a ci tation to a 25-year-old male for driving while suspended and driving uninsured. Sub- -Continued on PAGE EIGHT >
