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TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 5,2013 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S PS. 240-420 M orrow C ounty's Hom e-O w ned Weekly Newspaper Published wcekl) by Sykes Publishing. LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner. I begun under the Act of March 3 ,1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at 188 W Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676- 9228 Pax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editorurapidserve.net or davidurapidserve net. Web site: www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-limes. P.O. Box 337, Heppner. Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $29 in Morrow County; $23 senior rate (in Morrow County only, 65 years or older); $35 elsewhere; $29 student subscriptions. David Sykes................................................................................................Publisher Andrea Di Salvo..............................................................................................Editor All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p m Cost for a display ad is $5 per column inch Cost for classified ad is 50« per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100"words Cost for a classified display ad is $5 75 per column inch For Public/legal Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Dates for pub lication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) For Obituaries Obituanes are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary wntten in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary For Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author The Heppner GT M il not publish unsigned letters All letters MUST include the author s address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the right to edit letters The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under 'Card of Thanks' at a cost of $10 Relay for Life rescheduled It’s not too late to get involved to help raise funds for the American Cancer Society/Relay for Life. Morrow County’s Re lay for Life, to be held at the Morrow County Fair grounds, has been resched uled for August 3-4, 2013. Originally scheduled for June 29-30, the event has been rescheduled to August 3-4 to accommodate neces- ~ Letters to the Editor ~ The Heppner Gazette Times will prim all letters to the Editor with the following criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and will not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks w ill be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks" at a cost of $ 10. Responses from Tupper attendees... Dear Editor, I am a sixth grader from H.E.S. and I would like for you to know how much we appreciate everyone who helped make Tupper great. Everyone who donated to Tupper and bought a magazine from our magazine sales, we appreciate you too. And to Pettyjohns for giving us supplies. And to all the people that volunteered their time and money to make Tupper great. We all greatly appreci ate everyone that helped make many memories. And we appreciate the counselors who helped out. Now 1 have more to look forward to, like being a counselor. We all appreciate everything. Sincerely, Zach Bredfield Dear Editor, I am a sixth grade student w ho got back from Tupper two to three weeks ago. Tupper was an amazing week and we couldn’t have done it without all the support we got. Everyone at Tupper appreciates all the support we got and everyone who came up and helped. For 40 years Tupper has been making memories. I came back with loads of fun memories from Tupper. The memories from Tupper will stay with me forever. I hope to make more memories at Tupper by going back as a counselor. After getting back from Tupper we were all a little sad; we didn’t want it to end. And 1 know that we were all very tired, but Tupper was amazing. We appreciate all everyone has done over the years. Sincerely, Morgan Burch sary maintenance on the water system. Anyone who would still like to put a team together, sign up to be a sponsor or who wants more informa tion on the event, still has time to get started. Contact the chamber Dear Editor, office at 541 -676-5536 with Tupper is such a great experience for the sixth graders any questions or to be re of Heppner and lone. Many of us have looked forward directed to a committee to Tupper since we were young and now that it has gone member. by and we have many great memories, I want to go back as a counselor. O f course these memories couldn’t have been made without the help of the wonderful communities of Heppner and lone. They have been supporting Tupper for 40 years in many ways. I hope that in 40 years Tupper will be still be as great as it is now and the that the com pared by Carri Grieb and munity will be supporting it just the same. Missy Lindsay at the Snider Sincerely, Jaiden Mahoney home on Rhea Creek, with Dear Editor, the Wheatland staff serving. I’m a sixth grade student at Heppner Elementary The date and time o f the dinner will be determined School and this is year was Tupper’s 40th anniversary. once the winner has been I’ve been waiting for Tupper Outdoor School since sec ond grade. Now that it’s over I’m disappointed. It was so drawn. The drawing will take much fun that I want to go again. We all appreciate your help with Tupper Outdoor place after the Relay for Life Morrow County Event School. I have wonderful memories that I won’t ever the first weekend in Au forget with friends from lone and Heppner. I wouldn’t have those memories or friends if you hadn’t purchased gust. All of the ticket sales a magazine or made a donation. We will all remember will go to the Relay for Life and support Tupper for the years to come. Sincerely, Gibson Mccurry of Morrow County. Italian dinner raffled for Relay for Life Wheatland Insurance Center Inc, Heppner and lone branches, will be sell ing raffle tickets for an Italian dinner for eight to benefit the Relay for Life of Morrow County. The tickets are $5 each and can be purchased at the Hep pner Wheatland office and the lone Wheatland office. Tickets also will be sold outside the Heppner office all day on Friday, June 14, during Celebrate Heppner. The dinner will be pre Over the Tee Cup Fourteen ladies were out on the course for a cool but sunny play day at Wil low Creek Country Club on May 28. Low Gross of the field was held jointly by Virginia Grant and Corol Mitchell. Lorrene Montgomery had low net and Pat Dougherty scored least putts. For flight A, Judy Har ris had low gross. Virginia Grant had a third-shot KP. On fligh t B, Sarah R ucher had low gross, Karen Thompson had low net and Betty Burns had least putts. For flight C, Beverly Steagall held low gross, while Toni Nichols had low net and Jennifer Jaca lad least putts. For other events, it was Jennifer Jaca on the sand trap, and the long putt was “A” Judy Harris, “B” Betty Bums and “C” Jackie All- stott. Account established for Taylor A bank account has been set up at the Bank of Eastern Oregon for local woman Krysti Taylor, who has been di agnosed with lymphoma. Donations will be used to help offset medical expenses for her treatment. Kinzua lunch group A small group attended the Kinzua lunch on May 17 at Service Creek. Those attending were OL and Jean Ann Adams, Bonnie Campbell, Frank and Melba Cecil, Pat Hyatt, and Midge Geer. No June lunch will be held, as the annual Kinzua reunion is June 15 in Fossil. Effective June 15, 2013, the Fire Chief of the City of Heppner is imposing a CLO SED SEASON for open burning based on local fire safety concerns. This burning ban is for the City of Heppner. A reminder that open burning also includes a “burn barrel.“ Dear Editor, 1 am one of several sixth graders that had the privi lege to attend the Tupper Outdoor School in May for its 40lh anniversary. After attending the school three \yeeks ago, I still remember many of the people and things that were taught there. 1 am sure that some of the things that I learned will come in very handy when 1 go camping. The students sold magazines to help raise money to pay for the school. 1 am grateful to the community and anyone who purchased magazines or donated money so that my classmates and 1 could attend Tupper Outdoor School. Thanks to your generous donations 1 was able to attend and do many activities. These activities included archery, water studies, gun safety, target practice, board games, night hiking, a pillow fight with my cabin mates in the large cabin, and sitting around a campfire. It was a lot of fun at the camp, but when we all got back to school we started working on papers and workbooks that related to all the fun things we did at camp. Who would have thought I would have learned so much while having such a good time. I believe that the Tupper Outdoor School should be held in the future so more children will be able to learn and have the opportunity to the experience outdoors. Thank you for all your support, I appreciate what the community has helped my friends and I attend. Sincerely, Charles Cason Dear Editor, Forty short years ago, when Tupper Outdoor School first started, every sixth grade student was excited about this new program where they got to go to the mountains and do stuff like fish and hike. In with that crowd of young boys and girls was a young troublemaking boy, just as excited as everybody else. He went to Tupper, managed to stay fairly well behaved, and came back with a boatload of great memories Forty short years later, his youngest daughter got her turn to go, and although she was much more properly behaved, she came back with lots of memories, too. It’s cool to think of that, how something so important to a small community can last so long, and never die out. And that’s why I’m writing this letter, to tell this small community of Heppner, Oregon how much I appreciated the opportunity to experience Tupper Outdoor School for myself, not just hear stories about it from my now not- so-young dad who went the very first year. I appreciate everyone who donated, volunteered and supported Tup per, and want to tell them how much I enjoyed it. (s) Olivia Schmidt Forest road closures don’t make sense To the Editor; Thank you for fulfilling my request in sending a copy of Andrew Di Salvo’s March 6 article entitled, “Forest road closures spark controversy.” I have several comments to make. First, in reading the Umatilla National Forest website reports, some of these roads are being closed not for “Aquatic Organism Passage Im provem ent,” but because the “road is no longer needed" by the Forest Service. Other roads are being “storm proofied) and stored,” which means the UNF is keeping them in road inventory, but closing them to public access. I question Todd Buch- holz’s statement that the road m aintenance bud get for the entire Uma tilla National Forest is only $50,000. Does he mean for the Heppner District or for the entire Umatilla NF, which includes land in Washington State? Regardless, $50,000 is indeed a small budget, which may explain why road maintenance is such a joke. Buchholz said there may not even be enough money to repair or maintain the 21 Road. That is prob ably a good thing because their maintenance prac tice of dumping gravel on gravel and spreading it out is not a sound maintenance practice. As a result, the road is getting narrower and narrower every year, and gravel is so deep in places that it doesn’t take a lot of speed to lose control. B uchholz said that many o f the roads were built or maintained by log ging companies, but now the UNF is getting no rev enue from logging. Last fall, there was a lot of evi dence of logging going on in the Heppner District. Are logging companies getting a free ride? Regarding the steep ter rain, Buchholz said, “Yeah, you gotta get out of your rig and walk. That can be hard as we get older.” This man just doesn’t get it. O f course, we have to get out o f our rigs to go hunting. Hunters who don’t, often don’t score. The prob lem is with game retrieval. If you get an animal down in a canyon or up a draw, a game cart sometimes will not work, which means you have to quarter the animal out and either drag ' ------------------------------------------------- or winch the quarters out or put the meat on a pack board and pack it out. Even for a 20-something, this is no tiptoe through the tulips. With more and more roads being closed every year, this adds a lot of work to game retrieval. If Buchholz really un derstands, then he would be more accommodating to the requests of the 197 signers of the petition requesting that these roads stay open. He either doesn’t under stand or he just doesn’t care. As for me having had ample time to voice my concerns because of pub lished notices in newspa pers and notifications on the UNF website, 1 have something to say about that, too. The website is not user- friendly. I have been unable to locate the documents about the proposed changes on several occasions until someone sent me a link. N ewspaper notifica tions are also no longer an effective notification tool, as most people have found other ways to get their news. A more effective way to notify hunters would be to post notifications of o ff b y T h u r sd a y J une 6. T h e c e m e te r y s t a f f w ill b e g in c le a n in g that day proposed changes at sign boards within the forest, at the OHV Park and at roads under consideration for closure. These notifications would need to be posted pri or to the town hall meetings and prior to the window for comment period. In his letter to me, Mr. Buchholz said he would add my name to their pub lic scoping mailing list. I welcome that not only for myself, but for anyone who is concerned about road closures and other changes within our National For est. I have not given up on keeping the Hog Creek Road and the Sunflower Flat Canyon Road open. Chuck Bechtold of the Or egon Hunters Association is working on our behalf to get the Umatilla National Forest to keep these roads open. Closure o f these and other roads will turn the Heppner Unit into another Fossil Unit—a unit where you can get a tag, but have no place to hunt. We, the people who use this for est, do not want to see that happen. (S) Molly Keman, Ti gard, OR > T he C em eter y fla tsto n e a r e a MUST BE COMPLETELY CLEANED P lea se h ave yo ur DECORATIONS REMOVED FROM THE CEMETERY BY T h u r sd a y J une 6 th • The closed season will remain in effect until further notice this fall as per O R S 478.960. Dear Editor, I am a sixth grader at Heppner Elementary. It is hard to believe that this is Tupper’s 40,h year. I think Tupper is still going strong. This is because the community will keep on supporting Tupper. We appreciate that. Tupper would not happen without the support of the community. Tupper also would not happen without all the donations we get or the money we get from magazine sales. I also appreciate the help of the volunteers. Tupper would not be the same without them. The whole community made my Tupper experience possible. Sincerely, Carson Brosnan H eppner M a so n ic C em etery H eppner M a so n ic C em etery
