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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 5,2012 POLAND TRIP County Court news The Morrow County Court met in Heppner on Nov. 28 with Judge Tallman and Commissioners Grieb and Rea in attendance. The City and Citizen Comment period for lone/ Lexington was opened with no one in attendance. The court review ed and approved the Account Payables in the net total amount o f $44,084. The court reviewed the cash bal ance activity for the week o f Nov. 26. 2012 through nov. 30. 2012. The report projects the cash balance will be $4,951,270.88. Planning Dept. Up date: Planning Director Carla McLane provided two Plats for the court’s review and approval, explaining that, while the county is ac cepting property for public roads, it does not mean that the county will be respon sible for the construction or maintenance on these roads. The court reviewed and signed the following Plats: Partition Plat LP-N- 404 accepting Public Road Dedications from the City of Boardman and Partition Plat LP-N-427 from Sk- oubo in the area of Wilson Lane and Downey Road. McLane informed the court that Don Chance has been chosen as the project man ager for the Local Reuse Authority (LRA) and that Stormy Botefuhr has been named as the Administra tive Assistant. Botefuhr had been previously employed at the Army Depot. McLane stated that the LRA would like to have representa tives appointed from the various entities involved in the close-out process. The court appointed Tallman and McLane as the county’s representatives. McLane informed the court about possible legislation that is being proposed regarding the installation of transmis sion lines by Independently Owned Power Suppliers. The court asked McLane to keep them updated on any actions regarding this matter. McLane reported that she had attended the Willow Creek Valley Eco nomic Development Group (WCVEDG) meeting ear lier in the day. McLane and Sheryll Bates will continue working together to assure the county is ready for the influx o f workers as the wind projects and Port of Morrow projects moves forward. The court conducted the follow ing business: Reviewed and authorized refunds to the following: Damon and Carie Brosnan, $1,805.63 due to overpay ment by A m erititle and C orelogic for M idland Mortgage; David McCur- ry, $824.32 due to over payment; Joe and Donna R ietm ann, $540.22 due to overpayment; William Brannon, $817.09 due to overpayment and Pacific Ethanol Columbia, L.L.C., $1,002.21 due to a change in valuation by the Oregon Tax Court. The court re viewed and signed an order for a change in rates by Sanitary Disposal. V arious c o rre sp o n dence and upcoming meet ing notices were reviewed and discussed. This information is pro- vided by Com m issioner Leann Rea. Anyone who would like to receive coun ty court minutes, contact Karen Wolff at 541-676- 5620. Morrow County seeks planning commissioners M orrow C ounty is looking for volunteers to represent Irrigon or the northeastern portion o f the county on the Morrow County Planning Commis sion. Planning commission ers serve four-year terms, with this position beginning on January 1, 2013 and running until December 31,2016. The planning commis- sion generally meets once a month, alternating meeting locations between Heppner and Boardman. Duties of the planning commission include approving land- use actions, maintaining the county’s subdivision and zoning ordinance, and working with the county court to manage the coun ty’s land-use comprehen sive plan. Planning Director Car la McLane invites Morrow County residents who are interested in taking a more active part in land-use plan ning in the county to send a letter of interest to the Morrow County Court at P.O. Box 788, Heppner, OR 97836, by Dec. 17. Anyone with questions about the positions can reach her at 541-922-4624. Sheriff's Report The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office reports handling the following business: J u l y 10: M o rro w who mixed up the pedals -Boardman Police De County S heriff's Office and drove through a yard partment received report of deputy cited Jeremy Mi in Boardman. She was cited fraud/forgery at the Board- chael Brelan 21, for Failure for Careless Driving. man Market. to Use Seatbelt. He also re -MCSO received report -Boardman Ambulance ceived a warning to change that Oregon State Police ar received report of a male his license from Idaho to rested Benito M. Ramirez, with several abdom inal Oregon. 30, on an Irrigon Justice pain. -MCSO received report Court warrant for Failure to -Heppner Ambulance from a Heppner woman that Appear/Driving While Sus received report that a male, someone had used her debit pended and Failure to Obey who had a hip replacement card number. a Traffic Control Device. surgery two weeks previ -MCSO received report He was cited and released ous, fell from a standing of a lot of gravel all over the with $598 bail in full. position. road on Highway 207 in the -MCSO received report -Heppner Ambulance Buttercreek-Lexington area of a subject driving a Chevy receiv ed rep o rt that a that could be a real hazard Cavalier very fast in the 70-year-old female need to a motorcycle. park in Irrigon. ing assistance was trans -MCSO. Boardman Po -MCSO received report ported to Pioneer Memorial lice Department, Irrigon of a two-vehicle, non-injury Hospital. Fire Department, Irrigon crash in Irrigon. July 11: Morrow Coun Ambulance received report -MCSO received report ty Sheriff’s Office received of a single vehicle accident from an Irrigon subject that a request for a cat trap on Hwy. 730-Irrigon with a car hit her neighbor’s dog from an Irrigon resident. A one occupant, a 16-year-old and took off. The reporter deputy responded and left a male shook up. but walking said that they have the dog trap at the location. around. The car was in the at their home. MCSO cited -MCSO received report ditch. Chantel Robinson, 26, for of a small dog, very skinny, -MCSO received report M aintaining a Dog as a that needed to be taken to of a female learning to drive Public Nuisance. Pet Rescue in Irrigon. * B an k o f One o f the real joys o f the holiday season is the opportunity to say thank you fo r your business & to wish you the very best for the New Year. Heppner team members: Arietta Arnspiger, NMLS #508276 Mortgage Lending Manager Teresa Bedortha & Anna Wedding Mortgage Loan Processors Lacey Davison Receptionist (not pictured) BEO Mortgage Division 1 877 472-6217 - - www.bcobank.com -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE though, when language nursing homes, rescue shel was an issue. She recalls a ters, potlucks and picnics. morning when she had to She says she discovered a take a taxi to the train sta vibrant community of faith tion by herself at 6 a.m. “I said (to the driver), and hope as Poland “ ... ‘Do you speak English?”’ emerges from the suppres The man simply smiled sion of its communistic past at her and shook her head. and embraces its capitalist The train station itself was present.” another challenge. “The Polish people are “I saw a train with the warm and friendly, and they same word on it that was on love Americans. Consider ing what is usually broad my ticket and hopped on, cast on American news, 1 hoping this was the right was pleasantly surprised train.” DeMayo said the best to discover this,” she says. “They shared with pride so part was learning about much about their culture Poland and its people, how and history. It seemed im warm and friendly they portant to them that 1, as an are. There were moments, American, have some un though, that she did find derstanding of what they’ve embarrassing. “ For instance, when been through.” She said one of the dif they told me about the de ferences between our two struction of Warsaw at the countries is the number of end of World War II,” she remembers. “The Allies, of church denominations. “To them, it’s all either which my country was one, Catholic or Lutheran. They chose not to lend support to couldn’t believe that Hep Poland’s resistance army pner has so many church to save the beloved and es and that we do things historic old town. Because together,” says DeMayo. of this, many Polish lives “ ’You have a shared minis were lost, and the old town try with the Episcopalians?’ completely destroyed.” She added that the de they would ask. ’How can struction o f Warsaw also that be?” ’ showed her the spirit of DeMayo said she had the Polish people.. .at great never realized how unique time and expense, they re ly American is our spirit of built the entire downtown working together to make to look exactly as it had things happen. “I received an insight before. “That pride and spirit,” ful comment from a social says DeMayo, “That (at worker in the Czech Re titude), ‘We will not be p u b lic,” she says. “A f devastated by war, by any ter sharing with her about thing.’ I thought that was several things I have seen impressive.” accomplished in my coun While DeMayo said try because our communi ties rally to make it hap she ran across no strange pen, she smiled, and said, customs or foods to make ‘That’s Americans. I like it her feel uncomfortable, she but it would never happen was puzzled by the Polish people's seeming obsession here.’” The most difficult thing with cake. “They always start with about her trip, she says, was the language barrier. Even two servings and then will that w aj rarely an issue, ask if you want more,” she since hjdSt people spoke recalls. “Finally, I got bold English. If they didn’t, their enough to ask why they eat children did; since the fall so much cake. That’s when of communism in Poland, I received a brief lesson on children begin learning what it’s like to live under a English in the first grade. communist government. “ Sugar was one o f By the time they gradu ate, DeMayo says, they many commodities that no are required to know two one could afford even when languages aside from their it was available in their native Polish, usually Eng stores. If you were not a member of the Communist lish and German. T h ere w ere tim es, Party, which left out church -MCSO received report o f a Labrador in Irrigon turned over to a deputy at the Irrigon Justice Court. The dog was transported to Pet Rescue. -MCSO received report of cattle out on Bell Canyon Loop/Blackhorse Canyon, Lexington. The owners were contacted and said they would take care of the cattle. -MCSO received report that Umatilla Police De partment arrested Eliodoro Salseda Castaneda, 20, on a Morrow County Justice Court warrant for Failure to Appear/Providing False Information to a Police Of ficer. He was lodged at the Umatilla County Jail with $6,000 bail. -MCSO received re port of a suspicious person wearing a button-up shirt and a hat with a small plas tic bag in Heppner. Subject was located. -M C SO , B oardm an P olice D epartm ent re ceived report o f an alarm at Riverside High School in Boardman. MCSO as sisted Boardman Police, the building was cleared, but they were unable to locate anything. -MCSO received report from the H eppner City Manager that five protesters were outside the door of a meeting on wind energy. A deputy responded and stayed for the meeting. -MCSO received re port of a suspicious person sleeping on the caller’s porch swing when the call er got home from work on Highway 74, Heppner. The subject was given a courtesy ride to Lexington were he was staying with friends. -MCSO received report of an elderly gentleman talking to himself, standing in the middle of the parking lot at the Lexington Shell looking for a phone number in the phone book a long time. -MCSO received report from a subject in H ep pner that she had a plastic bag full of money in her members, you would not be given ration cards for lux ury items when they came available. Polish Christians paid a high price for re maining faithftil. Since their freedom from communism some 23 years ago, sugar is readily available and affordable. They refuse to deprive themselves of such a treat.” She said she spoke with one person who didn’t taste her first Snickers until she was 18 years old; for an other, the amazing discov ery was the banana...both things most Americans take for granted. “I really learned what it was like to live under com munism and what it was like to experience freedom when you were not bom into it,” she says. DeMayo also says they pay $8 a gallon for gas, but no one complains because they are simply thankful to have cars and gas. They also use public transit, and walk. “They walked every where,” she says. “They’d say, ‘It’s not far.’ And nine miles later...” DeMayo says that, un like some of their neigh bors, the Poles were quick to catch on to capitalism and are moving full speed ahead. Because they did not sacrifice their zloty (Polish currency) for the Euro, they are not being pulled down by the financial problems of their neighbors. In fact, they have one o f the strongest economies in Europe. In the end, DeMayo says the experience is one she will treasure and never forget. “It was good that it was forced on me, so to speak, because I never would have woken up and said, ‘I’ll just go experience Europe by myself.’ It’s what your heart wants but you would never have the guts to do.” Above all, she says, it was a learning experi en ce...n o t ju st learning about Poland, but learning about herself. “I learned some things about being an American. By experiencing their cul ture, I have come to dis cover my own.” bathroom drawer that had disappeared. She requested deputy contact. -MCSO received report from an Irrigon subject that there were people smoking marijuana between trail ers at the Irrigon Mobile Court and one of them was pregnant. -Boardman Police De partment received report of a subject possibly having a seizure. -BPD received report from a female subject that her daughter had been miss ing for two weeks. -Boardman Ambulance received report from a fe male that she had fallen the day before and her back and hips were hurting. -Boardman Ambulance received report of a subject with a possible seizure. The patient refused transport. -Heppner Ambulance received report of an uncon scious male. He was trans ported to Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner. The Gazette-Times will be publishing the Christmas Edition December 19th Any business or individuals who would like their Christmas greeting included should contact Megan at 541 -676-9228 or email megan@rapidserve.net by Friday, December 14th, at 5 p.m.
