SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 27,2013
ENERGY
PROJECTS
Wee Bit O ’ Ireland: Community Bank
Something fo r everyone holds chili cook-off
-Continuedfrom PACE ONE problems. The group has
enough temporary hous met several times.
McLane said the group
ing.
“ I looked down and is looking at changes to
1 had 14 projects I was zoning rules, talking to RV
w orking o n ,” she said. park owners, and taking
“Each project said ‘We other measures to prepare
have enough temporary for the temporary workers.
housing for our project,’ After the construction work
but then I got to looking at is completed, communities
the cumulative effect and hope to see more permanent
realized, * Where are we go workers settle with families
in the com m uni
ing to put all these
ties.
The Heppner
people?”’
sch
o
o ls, for in
She said after
stance,
have seen a
addressing a pos
drop
in
enrollment
sible housing short
since the closure
age with the county
of the Kinzua mill
planning commis
sion, she was to at Heppner busi- in 1998, which saw
tend a WCVEDG n e s s w o m a n the loss of 138 jobs.
meeting.
Nancy Snider WCVEDG is a t
In N o v e m elected W C tempting to capi
ber, McLane and VEDG presi ta liz e from the
upcoming energy
WCVEDG direc dent.
projects to benefit
tor Sheryll Bates
organized a group o f 40 the local schools and com
community leaders includ munity.
Also as part of its an
ing mayors, city managers
and elected county officials, nual meeting, WCVEDG
along with a number of state elected local businesswom
officials, and met for a day an Nancy Snider as the com
long session at the Port of ing year's president. Snider
Morrow to discuss how the is the owner of Wheatland
county could handle the Insurance in Heppner and
influx of people and do it has been on the WCVEDG
to the county’s economic board for many years. Ed
benefit. From that meeting, Rollins of the Bank of East
a countywide task force was ern Oregon was elected vice
formed to come up with president.
solutions to the housing
Heppner’s 31” St. Pat
rick’s Wee Bit O ’ Ireland
weekend is coming March
14-17, and residents are
reminded to dig out their
green hats, jew elry and
clothing and get ready to
have some good old “Wee
Bit O ’ Ireland” fun.
Weekend events start
on Thursday, March 14,
with Father Condon’s play,
“The Life o f St. Colum-
banus.” The play will be
performed in the St. Pat
rick’s Catholic Church par
ish hall, 560 NW Jones in
Heppner, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday will start the
bulk of the weekend events
with lots of arts and crafts,
the annual book sale, and
food galore. The sixth annu
al Chamber of Commerce
Amateur Irish Boxing event
will be held at Heppner
High School that evening;
the doors will open at 6:30
p.m. and the event will be
gin at 8 p.m. Shuttle service
will be available.
Saturday is truly a full
day, starting at daylight
with the sheep dog tri
als, the St. Paddy’s Arena-
Cross and lots of places to
shop, eat and sit. Vendor’s
Square will be back, as well
as the annual book sale,
arts and crafts. Anyone up
for a Remembrance Walk
and 5K run will find that,
too. Other Saturday events
include the Cruz-In with
vehicles on display; an
opportunity to take part
in the Welly Toss; KUMA
Coffee hour; visits to the
Morrow County Heritage
and Agricultural Museums;
Leprechaun Run for those
children in grades K-6; and
the Great Green Parade at 1
p.m. Following the parade
will be O ’Kiddie Tricycle
Races; Ceili; Ewe-Do-Bin-
go; and the O'Ducky Race.
The evening will close out
with some great entertain
ment; The Old Time Fid
dlers will be performing at
the fairgrounds dance hall
starting at 6:30 p.m, and
The Cascadia Folk Quartet
and Lindy Gravelle will be
performing in the Heppner
Elementary School gym
starting at 7 p.m.
Sunday will bring the
final chance to watch the
sheep dog trials, as well
as the opportunity to par
ticipate in the annual road
bowling competition.
For more information,
call 541-676-5536, visit
www.heppnerchamber.com
or visit Facebook at “St.
Patrick’s Celebration Hep
pner Oregon USA.”
And remember to wear
green.
New curbs, sidewalks Weed advisory
going in on Riverside board to meet
Workers pour concrete for new curbs, gutters and sidewalks
on Riverside Street in Heppner. The work is part of the larger
street and sidewalk renovation project now going on along
Riverside and Water streets. Van Nevel Concrete and Curbing
of Terrebonne, Ore. is doing this curbing work using a large
machine (seen above) being fed wet concrete by a mixer truck.
-Photo by David Sykes
Top: Community Bank employee Jenelle Von Gunten serves
chili samples to Nicole Gaspard and Kyle Norberg during
the chili competition at Community Bank on Monday, which
was National Chili Day. Any donations received went toward
Relay for Life. Bottom: Not only were chili samples available,
but people were given the chance to vote for their favorite
chili recipe. (L-R): Jenelle Von Gunten, branch manager and
cook-off winner Nikki Worden, and employee Nikki Skillings.
-Photos by David Sykes
WRE places first in
Oregon in Knowledge
Master Open
A regular meeting of request for assistance for
the Morrow Soil & Water/ siting coal transfer in Mor-
Weed Advisory Board will row County,
meet Tuesday, March 5, at
Two board positions
the Ag Service Center in representing the Boardman
Heppner at 6 p.m. Agenda and Irrigation areas are
items include a report from vacant. Landowner repre-
the weed supervisor, ap- sentation from all areas of
proval o f December and Morrow County is essen-
January meeting minutes, tial in order to conserve,
treasurer’s rqport, reyjpyi,, p ro tect,and develop soil, ,
p f budget submitted to Mon- ^vater an<^ ° th er natural
row County Budget Com- resources for the economic
mittee, staff reports and and environmental benefit Back: Victoria Palacios-Gonzalez, Rose Jurcich, Stephanie
partner reports. Estimates of the resources of Morrow Gonzalez, Jared Miller, Vanessa Schmidt, Brandon Harris,
will be reviewed for office County,
Damon Sawyer, Christian Reyes, Christian Murguia; Middle:
building roof replacement.
Meetings of Morrow Daisy Paredes, Estressa Daltoso, Dezirae Klaviter, Wade An
Greg Smith will give SWCD are open to the derson; Front: Zoey Gilbert, LilyAnn Rockwell, Cooper Szaz,
Andrew Zellers, Flint Hodge, Blake Gallegos. -Contributed
a presentation on Ambre public.
photo
Energy mitigation project
Fourteen fourth, fifth of their answers.
and sixth graders from
This contest is designed
Windy River Elementary to stimulate learning and
represented their school recognition for academic
in the Knowledge Master achievement. The Knowl
Open academic competition edge M aster Open runs
on Jan. 23. The team placed on classroom computers
first against other Oregon to allow all students .the
teams while also compet opportunity to com pete
ing against thousands of in a large academic event
other students in the U.S. without the expense of trav
and several foreign lands, eling to a central site. The
according to team coach competition is presented
Theresa Proctor-Reece. The twice each school year by
team faced their computer Academ ic H allm arks, a
to answer 100 challeng Colorado software pub
ing questions in the event, lisher. The next competition
which earned them points will be in March.
for the speed and accuracy
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Wednesday. March 27th, 2013
130 N. Thompson Street
8 a m. to 12 p.m.
Heppner, OR 97836
Marriage Licenses
The Morrow County Clerk has issued the follow
ing marriage licenses:
February 21: -Gabino Gonzalez, 32, of Board-
man and Imelda Navarro, 27, of Boardman.
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