EIGHT- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 10,2013
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PUBLIC NOTICE
NOT ICE OF PUBLIC
HEARING
Pursuant to ORS 477.250,
notice is hereby given that a
public hearing will be held to
receive from any interested
persons suggestions, advice,
objections or remonstrance’s
to the proposed budget
for the Central Oregon
Forest Protection District.
A hearing will be held on
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at
1:30 P.M., at the John Day
Unit, 415 Patterson Bridge
Road, John Day, OR. Copies
o f the tentative budget
may be inspected during
normal working hours. To
ensure the broadest range
of services to individuals
with disabilities, persons
with disabilities requiring
special arrangements should
contact 541-575-1139 at
least two working days in
advance.
OREGON DEPARTMENT
OF FORESTRY
DOUG DECKER, STATE
FORESTER
Published: April 3 and 10,
2013
Affidavit
PUBLIC NOTICE
REQUEST FOR BIDS
M orrow County Public
Works is accepting bids
for crane lift removal of
a portion o f the existing
clo ck to w e r and b ell
from the Morrow County
Courthouse, located 100
S. Court Street in Heppner,
OR.
It is anticipated that two
separate lift dates, one for
the removal of the existing
structure and bell and one
for the placement o f the
reconstructed structure and
bell, will be required. Each
date will require 2 or more
lifts as determined by the
contractor.
The existing clock tower
structure to be removed is
estimated at 7,200 lbs. The
bell is estimated to weigh
3,050 lbs. The existing
tower structure and bell will
be prepared for removal by
others prior to the arrival
o f the Crane contractor.
The Contractor shall lift
the stru c tu re and bell
and lower it to a location
directly adjacent to the
Courthouse.
On the second lift date, the
contractor shall crane lift
the re-constructed tower
structure and bell back into
position on the Courthouse
building.
The contractor shall be
responsible for all rigging
associated with the two
lifts. Specifications and bid
sheets may be obtained by
contacting Morrow County
Public works Sandi Putman
at 365 W. Hwy 74, P.O.Box
428, Lexington, OR. 97839.
541-989-9500.
Bids shall include all costs
associated with mobilization
for each separate lift date
and all costs associated
with rigging, lifting and
placing as directed. Dates
for lifts shall be coordinated
between the contractor and
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the Morrow County Public
Works Dept.
The successful contractor
m u st h a v e W o r k e r ’s
Compensation Insurance
covering work in Oregon.
The successful contractor
must also submit documents
a d d re s s in g in su ra n c e ,
non-collusion, tax law,
debarm ent, and conflict
o f interest as part o f the
personal services contract.
Sealed bids must be received
at the M orrow C ounty
Public Works Office, PO.
Box 428, 365 W. Hwy 74,
Lexington, OR 97839 no
later than 4:00 pm April
09, 2013. Bids must be in
a sealed envelope marked
“Bid for Clocktower Lift”.
Bids will be opened and
publicly read on April 10,
2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the
Morrow County regular
County Court session at the
Port of Morrow, 2 Marine
Drive, Boardman, OR.
Morrow County reserves
the right to reject any and
all bids and/or to postpone
the award of bids for thirty
(30) days from the date of
opening.
Morrow County does not
discriminate on the basis of
age, religion, race national
origin, sex or handicapped
status in h irin g or the
provision of services.
Published: March 20, 27,
April 3 and 10, 2013
PUBLIC NOTICE
MORROW COUNTY
HEARING
THE MORROW
COUNTY COURT will
hold the following hearing
o f p u b lic in te re s t on
Wednesday, Apri124,2013,
at 11:30 a.m. at the Morrow
C ounty C ou rth o u se in
Heppner, Oregon.
Request is to rename
Lexington Grange Road
that runs between Cutsforth
Comer and Baseline Lane
to Marquardt Road. The
proposed road is located
in Township IS Range 25,
Sections 2, 3, 10, 11, 14
and 15.
Opportunity to
voice support or opposition
to the above proposal or
to ask questions will be
provided. Failure to raise
an issue in person or by
letter or failure to provide
sufficient specificity to
afford the decision maker
an opportunity to respond
p r e c lu d e s a c tio n o r
consideration of the issue.
Copies of the
staff report and all relevant
documents will be available
after April 17, 2013. For
more information, please
c o n ta c t th e P la n n in g
Department at 541-922-
4624 or 541-676-9061
extension 5506.
DATED this 8th day o f
April 2013
M ORROW COUNTY
P L A N N I N G
DEPARTMENT
Published: April 10, 2013
Affidavit
PUBLIC NOTICE
Scholarship Applications
Now Available
The Me Rae Scholarship
C o m m ittee an n o u n ces
that 2013-2014 academic'
scholarship applications
are available to graduates of
Grant County high schools.
Graduates of high schools
w ithin Morrow, Wasco,
and W h eeler co u n ties
may also be considered
for a scholarship award,
if too few Grant County
applications are received.
Preference will be given
to Grant County graduates
who reside in Oregon and
have com pleted one or
more years at an accredited
college. For an application
form and application criteria
list contact the Me Rae
Scholarship Committee,
Grant County Court 201 S.
Humbolt Street, Box 280,
Canyon City OR 97820,
or call 5 4 1 -5 7 5 -0 0 5 9 .
Com pleted applications
and the required documents
must be received at the
Grant County Court office
on or before Monday, July
15,2013.
Published: April 10 and By Lucas Jobes, lone
student
17, 2013
On Monday, March 11,
Affidavit
the lone High School chem
istry class took a class field
trip to the PGE coal-fired
PUBLIC NOTICE power plant at Boardman.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT When the class arrived at
OF TH E STATE OF the plant they were met by
OREGON
the safety manager, Mike
FOR
T H E Garrett. He gave the class
COUNTY OF MORROW a private tour of the facili
Probate Department
ties.
In the Matter of the Estate
Starting with a safety
of:
video, starring Mike Gar
O R V I L L E
J . rett, lone students put their
BUCHANAN, Deceased. real chem istry skills to
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the test in the classroom
NOTICE TO
with head chemist Dean
INTERESTED PERSONS Mason and assistant Jason
N otice is given Schacher.
that the undersigned has
lone chemistry teacher,
been appointed and has Dale Holland said he was
qualified as the personal proud to find that each of
representative of the estate. his students asked at least
All persons having claims one question and wrote
a g a in st the e s ta te are down three questions while
required to present it, with taking notes. Dean Mason
proper vouchers, within said he was very impressed
four months after the date by all the kids and had
of first publication o f this never seen so many kids
notice, as stated below, to
the personal representative
at Kuhn Law Offices, 267
N. Main Street, P.O. Box
428, H eppner, O regon
97836, or they may be
barred.
The Umatilla National
All persons whose
Forest
will soon begin an
rights may be affected by
integrated
approach of pre
the proceedings in this
vention,
manual,
mechani
estate may obtain additional
cal,
herbicide,
biological
in fo rm a tio n from the
records o f the court, the control and cultural treat
personal representative or ments to reduce the risk of
the attorney for the personal invasive species expanding
on the forest. This work
representative.
will
be implemented under
DATED and first
the
2010
decision for the
published April 10,2013.
Invasive
Species
Treatment
Robert Buchanan, Personal
Project.
Representative
Treatment on the for
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est
is
scheduled to begin
Boring, OR 97009
in
May
and is expected to
To be published for three
continue
through O cto
consecutive weeks.
ber. “The majority of herbi
P E R S O N A L
cide treatments will be spot
REPRESENTATIVE:
application to individual
Robert Buchanan
invasive plants using back
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pack sprayers and ATVs,”
Boring, OR 97009
Telephone: (503) 658- said Joan Frazee, Forest
Botanist. Some broadcast
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application is also planned
A T T O R N E Y
FOR
P E R S O N A L along a small subset o f
roadsides.
REPRESENTATIVE:
Herbicides to be used
William J. Kuhn, OSB No.
include clopyralid, piclo-
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ram, glyphosate, metsulfu-
P.O. Box 428
ron methyl and chlorsulfu-
Heppner, OR 97836
ron.
“Manual and mechani
T elephone: (541) 676-
cal
treatments
are planned
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for
a
number
of
small in
Fax: (541)676-5502
festations,
some
o
f which
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have
been
treated
for
over a
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decade
and
are
subsequent
Published: April 10, 17 and
ly much reduced in size,”
24,2013
noted
Frazee. Herbicide
Affidavit
treatments will be carried
out following the project
lone chemistry class visits the PGE
coal-fired power plant
lone High School students paid a visit to the PGE power
plant at Boardman
with so much knowledge
and with no fear to talk. Ev
eryone learned about which
machine does what, where
chemicals go, and what the
machine would eventually
produce.
After almost two
hours of “chalk talk,” the
class got to see what the
plant was all about. Look
ing at all the machines up
close was an amazing sight,
and walking up all those
steps and seeing that great
view of the entire plant was
astonishing. Mike Garret
then took the class to the
conference room to talk
about jobs and salaries.
The plant has a job
for everyone. There are
jobs available that require
2-4 years of college or even
no college experience. The
Coal Fired Plant was a great
place to visit and had im
pressive facilities. The lone
chemistry class would like
to say thank you to the PGE
Coal Fired Plant, especially
Mike Garrett, Dean Mason
and Jason Schacher.
Umatilla National Forest to begin
invasive plant treatments
design features
of the Record of
Decision for the
Invasive Plants
Treatment Proj
ect.
In v a s iv e
s p e c ie s have
been shown to
reduce b io d i
versity includ
in g w ild lif e
habitat, wildlife
and dom estic
livestock forage
and streamside
vegetation. In
vasive plants targeted for
treatment include yellow
starthistle, leafy spurge,
spotted and diffuse knap
weed, rush skeleton weed,
meadow hawkweed, Scotch
thistle, sulphur cinquefoil,
dalm ation toadflax, and
houndstongue.
Partners include Coun
ty weed boards in Oregon
and Washington, Oregon
Department o f Fish and
Wildlife, Washington De
partment of Fish and Wild
life, Wallowa Resources,
City of Ukiah, City of Gran
ite, North Fork John Day
Watershed Council, Oregon
Department of Agriculture,
Rocky Mountain Elk Foun
dation, Blue Mountain Elk
Initiative, private landown
ers and ranchers. Funding
includes appropriated dol
lars and grant money from
Title U projects, Rocky
Mountain Elk Foundation
and Blue M ountain Elk
Initiative Challenge Cost
Share projects.
Treatment sites are
located across the Umatilla
National Forest and will
be signed at the time o f
treatm ent. Maps o f the
proposed treatment sites are
also posted on the forest’s
website at: www.fs.usda.
gov/umatilla/. For more
specific inform ation on
timing and location of her
bicide treatments, please
contact the local Ranger
District Office coordina
tor at the Heppner Ranger
District, Tim Collins 541 -
676-2114.
It was an elderly women
picking up garbage. She
advised she would move
her pickup.
-MCSO cited Donald
Lewis Felts, 49, for Viola
tion of the Speed Limit, 82
mph in a 65 mph zone. He
was to appear at Irrigon
Justice Court.
-MCSO received re
quest from an Irrigon sub
ject for information on how
to get someone evicted.
-MCSO received a com
plaint from a man in Irrigon
who said that someone on
his property put a sign up
that says free stuff and he
is going down there with
ammunition with the intent
to tell people to leave.
-M CSO rece iv ed a
request from a Heppner
woman to do an area check
because she was having a
new garage put it.
-MCSO received report
from a Boardman woman
that a subject, possibly a
teenager, came toward
her yelling from Kunze
towards Wilson and then
another car came by. A
deputy responded but was
unable to locate anyone.
-Irrigon Ambulance
received report from an
Irrigon woman that her
80-year-old husband had
heart problems all day. An
ambulance responded, but
the subject refused trans
port.
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Morrow County Court
will be considering one at-
large appointment to serve
on the M orrow County
P lan n in g C om m ission.
The term will begin at the
time o f appointment and
run until the end o f the
vacated term, December
31,2015. Interested parties
residing in Morrow County
are encouraged to submit
a letter of interest to the
M orrow County C ourt,
P.O. Box 788, Heppner, OR
97836 by April 22, 2013.
DATED this 1st day o f
April 2013
MORROW COUNTY
P L A N N I N G
DEPARTMENT
Published: April 10 and
April 17,2013
Affidavit
SHERIFF'S
REPORT
-Continued from Page
SIX
-MCSO cited Michael
Alexander Thompson, 24,
Irrigon, for speeding, 61
mph in a 35 mph zone, to
appear in Justice Court
April 24.
-MCSO received a re
quest to deliver a message
to a subject that his brother
was in intensive care in a
Eugene hospital.
-MCSO received report
o f a black pickup parked
in the middle of the high
way on Hwy. 74, Heppner.
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