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False alarm clears senior center Library f Oregon Eugene. OR ** 5 (K Residents wait in front of Heppner Family Foods for St. Patrick’s Senior Center to be cleared after a fire alarm caused the building’s evacuation around I p.m. Monday. When they received the alarm, the Heppner Fire Department deployed two structure engines, which Heppner Fire Chief Rusty Estes said was standard procedure for a building fire. All the occupants were evacuated, including three seniors w ho had to be carried out by firefighters after the elevator had been disabled. Further investigation showed there was no fire; a smoke detector in one of the rooms had shorted out. The building was cleared for reentry after 40 minutes. Even though it was a false alarm, Estes said he was glad to see that everything went smoothly. “It was nice to know the whole system worked perfectly, like it was supposed to,” he said. -Photo by David Sykes 18 applications come in VOL. 131 N O . 15 8 Pages Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Bunny sightings in Heppner Mason Seitz (L) and Keeley Nairns cuddle up with the Easter Bunny, who hopped over to Heppner City Park last Saturday. The Easter icon handed out candy and posed for pictures with the children who braved the chilly air to gather for the annual Easter egg hunt. -Photo by Andrea Di Salvo Artist offers hands-on instruction to students By Andrea Di Salvo Heppner elemen tary students are getting hands-on art instruction this week with the addition o f a temporary artist in residence. Linda Davies Gage, an artist of “indeterminate" age, will be working with students at Heppner El ementary School all week, teaching different methods o f drawing and painting. She is visiting Heppner from Jordan Valley, popu lation 180, in southeast Oregon. Gage has been em ployed by the Jordan Valley School District for the last four years, teaching art to students in elementary school through high school. She also teaches kindergar ten through eighth-grade art for three other outlying communities, and has spent the last four years serving as an artist in residence through the ArtsEast pro gram. Among her other work, Gage has done illus for city manager job By David Sykes The city o f Hep pner has received 18 ap plications for the soon-to- be-vacant city manager job, the city council was told Monday night. Current city man ager David DeMayo turned in his resignation Feb. 14, and the council has been taking applications for his replacement. DeMayo has said he will work until Au gust 31 to give the city time to find a replacement. Deadline for apply ing was April 11, and the council plans on holding a special meeting April 23 at 6 p.m. to go over the ap plications. “Some (of the ap plications) are no-brainers, but some we need to take a hard look at,” Mayor Les Paustian told the council. “ We w ant to be open and transparent about this,” he added when an nouncing that the council would hold a public meet ing to go over the applica tions. Paustian said he wants all the council mem bers to get a copy o f all the applications and take Homeowner Ed Tarnasky shows where proposed street reloca tion would cut into his yard and take out a large birch tree. - Photo by David Sykes some time to go over them before the meeting. The mayor also said he wanted to narrow the applications down to the top five or six for consideration at the meeting. D eM ayo urged the council to consider personal characteristics when considering the ap plications. “Don’t overlook character traits, not just experience and training,” he said. Council member Judy Buschke said she thought city employees should have input into who was hired. Most of the appli cations came through the League of Oregon Cities, an organization the city en listed to help advertise the job opening. One applicant came in from as far away as Houston, TX. In other business at Monday’s meeting, the council heard from hom eowner Ed Tarnasky, who discussed the upcoming renovation of Barratt Blvd., where his home is located. Tarnasky is con cerned about the engineer ing work that has been -See CITY MANAGER/PAGE FIVE School board puts stamp of approval on Ambre Energy By April Sykes State Representa tive Greg Smith told the Morrow County School Board Monday night that the school district could expect to receive around $350,000 from Ambre En ergy if the energy com pany’s application to site a coal-shipping facility at the Port of Morrow is ap proved by the Army Corps of Engineers. Sm ith said that the d istric t’s receipt o f the “m onies w ould not mess” with the district's state funding formula; in other words, the monies Greg Smith presents a shipping facility plan to the Mor would not be used to offset row County School District. -Photo by April Sykes Artist-in-residence Linda Davies Gage uses an overhead pro the amount o f money the jector to show sixth-grade students at Heppner Elementary school district receives in through a foundation and that he was m aking the then be distributed as grants presentation as a private School a technique for three-dimensional drawing. -Photo by state funding. Instead the to the district. -See MCSD APPROVES Andrea Di Salvo monies would be funneled Smith, who stressed AMBREJPAGE FOUR trations for book publishers acrylics, oil, pastels and in three western states and mixed media. Her subjects has shown and sold fine also cover the gamut, from art in five western states. figurative to landscape to Her art has appeared in ar portraits. Gage loves to share ticles in Western Horseman, on Market Western Cowman, Cascade her gift of art with the kids Horseman and Range mag she encounters through azines, as well as in local teaching, believing anyone & supplies and regional newspapers. can learn to create art. “Painting is like She does both drawing and Morrow County Grain Growers Green Feed & Seed -See ARTIST IN RESI- painting, working with pen <^ 4 ^ V ^ in d a r^ A /a ^ i_ H e £ £ n a ^ ^ 6 7 ^ 4 2 2 ^ ^ 8 ^ 2 2 ^ M C G ^ T ijh i^ m c 2 2 _ DENCEJPAGE EIGHT cil, pen and ink, watercolor. 10% discount Æ ^Ê Ê S K I [ Y J J j ] jy
