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
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David Sykes................................................................................................Publisher
Andrea Di Salvo..............................................................................................Editor
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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