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Eugene, O R
VOL. 132
N O . 42
12 Pages
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
D & L owner to retire
after 30 years
By Andrea Di Salvo
W hen it co m es to
Heppner institutions, D&L
Auto Parts and Repair on
May Street fits the bill.
That may not be the case
much longer, though; Dale
Adlard, owner o f D&L,
says he will retire around
the first of the year.
“I’m ready,” says the
67-year-old. “My body says
I’m ready.”
This would have been
Adlard’s 30th year as owner
of the local auto parts store.
“I opened it, walked
through the front door for
the first time, Jan. 2 o f
1984.”
A dlard was born in
The Dalles, OR but was
raised and attended school
in Heppner, graduating
from Heppner High School
in 1965. After graduation,
he says he was drafted for
Vietnam.
“The government sent
CREZ board begins
dispersing money
$150,000 to education , $150,000 to housing
Dale Adlard, owner of D & L Auto Parts and Repair in Hep
pner, stands in front of bis shop on May Street. Adlard says
he plans to retire around the first of the year. -Photo by Andrea
Di Salvo
me a nice letter on my 19th
birthday,” he remembers.
Adlard was in Vietnam
from 1966-1967, serving
in a headquarters company,
working with transportation
and supplies.
“If the man thought
they needed it, we got it to
them,” says Adlard.
A fte r r e tu r n in g
stateside and getting settled
in, Adlard took a job with
McCormack Construction
Company in Pendleton,
OR. He says they were at
-See AUTO SHOP OWNER
RETIRES/PAGE FIVE
Man sentenced for vehicle,
motorcycle accident in Irrigon
Last Thursday Judge
Daniel Hill sentenced Gary
Lynn Ball in connection
with a June 20, 2011 car
versus motorcycle accident
on Highway 730 in Irrigon.
Ball was convicted
o f Attempt to Commit a
Class B Felony-Criminal
N e g lig e n t H o m ic id e ,
charges of which stemmed
from a fatal motor vehicle
accident that occurred in
2011 near the intersection
o f H ig h w ay 730 and
lone High School celebrated Homecoming last week with a variety of festivities ranging from
theme days to a Powder PtilTfootball game and Macho Man volleyball. The week ended on a high
note with (one’s football game versus Arlington and the Homecoming dance. Pictured are the
lone Homecoming King Luke Jobes (senior) and Queen Vicky Gluder (exchange student from
Germany) with crown bearers C arter Eynetich and Elizabeth Doherty. Photo by Paula Emmel
D ivision St. in Irrigon.
Donald Garrett Dyer, 63,
was pronounced deceased
at the scene by paramedics.
P rio r to ju d g m e n t,
Morrow County District
Attorney Justin Nelson read
statem ents from D yer’s
wife, Carmen Lee Phillips-
Dyer; his daughter, Angela
Dyer; and his teenage son,
Branson Dyer.
“I have no dad to teach
me things or do things with
me in the future,” Branson
Dyer, who was 11 when
his father was killed, said
in an emotional statement
to the court. “He was my
support in my sports and
in school; he was my role
model. I often rode on the
back of my dad’s bike with
him and now I will never be
able to have that bond with
him again.”
Ball was found guilty
-See MAN SENTENCED
FOR ACCIDENT/PAGE
SEVEN
No ‘masking’ the fun this
Halloween...
Bv David Sykes
The Columbia River
E n te r p r is e Z o n e has
begun dispersing funds it
has collected from new
b u sin esses locating at
the Port of Morrow and,
after a lengthy discussion
Monday, the board agreed
to send $ 150,000 to Morrow
County Schools and another
$ 150,000 to a housing plan
to entice new workers to
live in Morrow County.
The board will receive
its first big payment of
$ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 from a new
data farm currently being
constructed by VA Data
at the Port. The farm will
be used by Amazon.com
and is a large building full
of computers running the
com pany's websites. VA
Data gets a property tax
break for locating in the
enterprise zone, but pays
fees to the CREZ instead
of taxes.
Over the past several
months board members
had been discussing how
to spend the money, and
had first considered giving
the entire $300.000 to the
new ly form ed M orrow
County Education
Foundation, which in turn
would disperse the funds to
schools located within the
county. The board had also
considered earmarking the
money to purchase a Kindle
Fire for every student in the
Morrow County School
District. A Kindle Fire is a
seven-inch tablet computer
made by Amazon. lone
schools have issued each
one o f their students an
Apple iPad. lone has its
own school district and also
has a separate education
foundation to disperse
donated money.
At its meeting Monday,
however, the CREZ voted
to give just the $150,000
-See CREZ DISPERSES
MONEY/PAGE FIVE
Mammoth tusk excavated
near lone High School
By Lauren G arrett
L ast sp rin g , while
movi ng cattle for Joe
M cE lligott, Sergio
Rodriguez discovered a
mammoth tusk protruding
from a cut bank.
Dale Holland’s science
c l a s s wa s c o n t a c t e d
to explore and possibly
excavate the tusk. They
realized that this find
would best be done by a
professional. Holland then
contacted former student
Beth Morter, geology major
at University o f Oregon,
who relayed the message
to th e p a l e o n t o l o g y
department.
S a t u r d a y , Oct . 5,
graduate students Amy
Nelson. Nick Famoso, John
Jacisin III, their professor
Edward Davis, and his four-
year-old son Graham Davis
arrived in lone, having
come all the way from
Eugene. Their task was to
excavate the mammoth tusk
found near the school. They
(Top L-R) lone student Lauren Garrett, Graham Davis and
Professor Edward Davis take a break in some meager shade
while (front L-R) Nick Famoso and Amy Nelson discuss
the ongoing dig; the mammoth tusk is covered in plaster.
-Contributed photo
started the dig at 1:30 p.m. the end of the tusk.
-See MAMMOTH TUSK IN
that day and ended near 6
IONE/PAGE FOUR
p.m. with a plaster cast on
AT MCGG GREEN FEED & SEED IN HEPPNER:
FALL BOOT SALE
a
Scarecrows of all shapes and
sizes, like these on Water
Street, are cropping up to
join in the fun as Heppner
gets ready for Halloween.
-Photo by Megan Futter
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