TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 29,2012
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
BEO sponsors fair
and rodeo queen
GAZETTE-TIMES
U.S.P.S. 240-420
M orrow C ounty’s H om e-O w ned Weekly Newspaper
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Bakers celebrate
65th anniversary
Bank of Eastern Oregon Heppner Branch Manager Tricia
Rollins presents Maggie Collins, 2012 Morrow County Fair
and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Queen, with her custom Mon­
tana Silver trophy buckle, which is sponsored by the bank.
-Contributed photo
First Friday event
this week
The next session of First Friday Friends of Jesus
will be held on Friday, March 2. from 8 a.m. to noon. All
children ages four through 12 are invited to All Saints
Episcopal Church on the comer of Church and Gale in
Heppner for a morning filled with Bible stories, games,
crafts, music and a free lunch.
This program is sponsored by the Shared Min­
istry of Hope Lutheran Church and All Saints Episcopal
Church. For more information about church activities,
call 541-676-9970.
Father-son duo, Joel (R) and Oskar (L) Peterson, play with the
lone Community Pep Band while sending off the bus in style
this past week during one of the Cardinals' playoff games. The
band is led by music director Jordan Bemrose and recently
won the district award for best pep band. The band consists
Clarence and Clarice Baker, still in love after 65 years. -Con­ of members from fifth grade up to 70 years old. -Photo by
Deacon Heideman
Clarence and Cla­
rice Baker celebrated their
65,h wedding anniversary
this week.
The Bakers were
married in Heppner on Feb.
28, 1947. They resided in
Heppner until September of
last year, when they moved
to Sun Ridge Retirement
Community in Pendleton to
be closer to their children.
A family dinner to
celebrate their anniversary
was hosted by their chil-
dren, Jan Murrell of Leba­
non, Steve and Patti Baker
of Pendleton, Bill and Vicki
Baker o f Tillamook, and
Marti and Kevin Mossman
o f Pendleton. Unable to
attend were their son and
daughter-in-law, Ken and
Abby Baker of Ooltewah,
TN. A daughter, Lynda
Lewis, is deceased. The
couple has 13 grandchil­
dren and 16 great-grand­
children.
FFA to speak at
garden club
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Right to privacy, or
a police state?
lone pep band spans
generations
tributed photos
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Seems we need to revive the pony express. Mail
from here to Pendleton or elsewhere will now be sent
first to Portland; that’s typical government efficiency with
gas approaching $5 a gallon. Other astounding policies
already in place were revealed on a Fox network program
recently showing over-the-top rules and regulations. Hard
to believe children’s lemonade stands or bake sales can
be illegal without permits, etc. It also showed the arrest
of persons for taking pictures of police activities in which
they are not involved. Also shown was the practice of
government agencies like EPA, which prohibits owners
from developing their own property. What have we be­
come, a police state? Now we have extreme privacy laws
as though we are guilty of spying on one another.
I’m glad 1 lived in an era when things were
less regimented and few people locked doors because
they trusted others. For country folks, when they had
car trouble and needed a phone, they could walk into a
neighbor’s house to use the phone even when the owners
weren't home. (Remember, back then it was your legs that
did the walking, not a smart phone.) 1 remember once
when I woke up our neighbors in the middle of the night
when my car broke down.
It used to be a common practice to inquire about
an employee who wasn’t present or even a customer when
walking into a bank or any store in town. It was okay to
find out when said person would be available or a person
could leave messages or even a package, knowing it would
be delivered. That was perhaps the advantage of living in
this area where everyone knew everyone else’s business.
It was also a means of keeping tabs on errant teenagers,
as 1 experienced after pulling a boo-boo. My parents had
time to strategize on appropriate discipline since they
found out before yours truly got home.
Now we have privacy laws that make it seems
like a communist state. Sharing of information through
nationwide or state databanks can be a boon, whether re­
laying health information to other providers or helping law
enforcement view criminals’ records. Are we becoming a
community that is fearful of sharing common knowledge?
It's not about revealing information that would be harm­
ful to others or endangering national security. Our free
society is becoming severely encumbered.
Merlyn Robinson
Heppner
Schools announce
students of month
Wolf forum planned
On Sunday, March
11, at 2 p.m. at Heppner
Elementary School, Wal­
lowa County Sheriff Fred
Steen will present “Law
Enforcement & Wolves,”
a free program of public
information and training
on the w olf depredation
issues.
Steen is consid­
ered a leader on educating
people on w olf depreda­
tion and the impacts of
wolves on eastern Oregon
communities. He will talk
with Morrow County resi-
dents regarding how wolf
packs have affected Wal­
lowa County, as well as the
growing concerns o f the
movement of w olf packs
in eastern Oregon. Steen
will also share “the rest of
the OR-7 story” as told by
members of Oregon Wolf
Education Committee.
This free meeting
should last approximately
two and a half hours. It is
open to the public, and all
community members are
encouraged to attend and
invite others.
FFA members will be the guest speakers at the
Heppner Garden Club meeting on March 5 at 7 p.m. at
St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Everyone is invited.
The Morrow County School District will hold
Community members are also asked to mark their
public
meetings
to inform and receive input regarding
calendars for the annual plant exchange on May 12.
the district’s 2012-13 budget.
Meetings will be held Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the
Riverside High School library; Wednesday, Feb. 29 at
the Irrigon High School library; and Thursday, March 1
Christian Life Center church members will be
at the Heppner Elementary School cafeteria. All meetings
serving lunch on Wednesday, March 7 at St. Patrick’s
will take place at 6:30 p.m.
Senior Center. The meal will include pork chops, po­
These community meetings have been scheduled
tatoes au gratin, mixed winter vegetables, apple sauce,
because
MCSD needs to reduce a significant amount
cheesy breadsticks and chocolate pie. Milk is served at
from
its
2012-13
budget. The school district plans to give
each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu
infonnation to the public on the financial condition of the
is subject to change.
district, as well as to listen to the concerns of each com­
munity as the district works through this process.
MCSD to hold meetings
Community lunch menu
HEPPNER ELKS 358
676-9181
''Where Friends Meet*
142 North Main
AD IES' NIGHT
THURSDAY/ MARCH 1
DINNER 6 P*M*
Barbecued chicken, baked
potatoes, coleslaw, whole kernel
corn, rolls, and apple dumplings
PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING!
We are also celebrating "Old Timer's
Night” on that particular evening.
Hosted by the talented Judy Buschke, Darlene
Lovgren, Sharon Lewis and Bev Sherman!
Top; Heppner Elementary School has announced the Febru­
ary students of the month. Top (L-R): Derek Howard, Kacie
Gray, Morgan Correa, Jorden Sweeney, Austin Moses, Kaitlyn
Martin, Leo Waite and Jake Lentz. Bottom (L-R): Madelyn
Nichols, Marlee Mitchell, l^son Vawser, Hayden McMahon,
Morgan Cutsforth, Cody Fletcher, Hannah Green, Aubriana
Rodriguez, Conor Brosnan and Camryn Scrivner. The char­
acter trait for February was diligence. Bottom: Heppner High
School has announced February’s students of the month. (L-R):
Seth Palmer, Makenzie Correa, JC Putman, Clyde Britt, Ethan
Barnes and Ella McCormack. February’s character trait was
diligence. -Contributedphoto
PGE to host open house
Portland General Electric will host an open house
at the Port of Morrow on March 5 from 4 to 7 p.m. and
March 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The open house is part
of a series of seven open houses in Oregon to update
residents on its proposed Cascade Crossing Transmission
Project. For more information, visit CascadeCrossing-
froject.com.______
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