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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 30,2013 Local rabbit earns Heppner, Boardman Boardman car crash Lexington owners chambers receive fatal for horses national recognition publication award KT’S Carbon Frost won big for Lexington owners Kathy Tellechea and Pamela Renfro at the American Rabbit Breeders Convention in Harrisburg, PA on Oct. 20. -Contributedphoto KT’S Carbon Frost, a broken black senior Mini Rex doe, won big at the American Rabbit Breeders Convention in Harrisburg, PA on Oct. 20. She won Best of Breed and first place in Colored Fur. KT’s Carbon Frost is co-owned by Kathy T ellechea and Pam ela R enfro o f L ex in g to n . The National Mini Rex Club is celebrating its 25th anniversary o f being a recognized breed. This is the first time in the history of the breed that the prize winning owners are from Oregon. Tellechea Hew with the show team while Renfro stayed home taking care o f all the other critters. Tellechea took only eight rabbits, but it was the elite eight. “Placing in the top 10 is always what you are at least hoping for when many o f the classes have 100 or more entries,” said Tellechea. As it turns out, only one out of their eight entries didn’t place in the top 10. They also had the Best o f Variety Blue and first place Otter senior doe in the show. More than 1,800 Mini Rex entered the show. Tellechea and Renfro are going into their 12th year of raising and showing Mini Rex. They say a quote from Colin Powell pretty much sums up their philosophy... “ A dr eam d o e s n ’t becom e reality through m agic; it takes sw eat, determ ination and hard work.” BEO announces new mortgage program Bank of Eastern Oregon advantage. “RuraLiving is different announced recently the addition o f RuraLiving, than most traditional home a new rural residential mortgage programs,” said mortgage program. Arietta Arnspiger, U n d e r th e new BEO 's M ortgage program at Bank Lending Manager. of Eastern Oregon, “This program qualified borrowers is s p e c i f i c a l l y can receive designed for rural affordable, flexible homes and hobby financing for the farm p ro p e rtie s that do not “country home o f Arnspiger their dreams.” follow traditional U ntil now, mortgage financing acquiring financing for rural guidelines.” and hobby farm properties To learn more about this has been met with limited new residential mortgage financing options. program, contact a Bank of The RuraLiving Home Eastern Oregon loan officer Mortgage program offers at your local branch or loan long-term 30-year and 15- production office, or call year fixed rate financing, 1-877-472-6217. with a com petitive rate C O M E IN A N D S E E O U R N E W L U N C H B IS T R O M E N U D a ily Soups N o w A v a ila b le ! M o n d ay - C b ic k e n & N o o d le Sou p T uesday - N a v y B e a n S o u p W e d n e sd a y - P otato S o u p Kunze Lane was the end o f the trail for three B o a r d m a n h o r s e s on Sunday. A r o u n d 6: 45 a. m. on Oct. 27, the Morrow County S heriff's Office Comm unications Center received a report of a car accident involving multiple horses on Kunze Lane near Toms Camp Road in Boardman. According to MCSO, a 1996 Honda Accord driven by Alfredo Cobarruvias- Rami rez o f Boar dman struck three horses that had gotten out of their pasture and wandered onto Kunze Lane. Boardman and Heppner chambers of commerce received The horses belonged to recognition for the 2013 “Chamber Tourism Piece for a Small Chamber" at the annual Oregon State Chamber of Commerce Conference recently. This last year the Boardman and Heppner chambers worked together to update the “Discover Morrow County" brochure. Each year, local chambers submit their publications for recognition; this year Diane Wolfe, Executive Director of the Boardman Chamber, submitted the brochure for consideration of a publication award. “We are so excited Several area churches to announce that we were a recipient at last week's annual accepted a challenge by the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce Conference,” says Heppner United Methodist Heppner Chamber Executive Director Shervll Bates. Photo Women (HUM W) to collect by David Sykes food for the Heppne r Neighborhood Center each Sunday through Dec. 8. Donated items will enable the center to fill Christmas baskets for those in need. H e p p n e r r e s i d e n t s from Brian Thom pson’s A l o n g w ith the are used to seeing cows, feedlot four miles outside of M ethodist congregation, including cow s on the Heppner on Hwy. 74. members o f St. Patrick's highway, but not always in The c ows got out C a t h o l i c Ch u r c h , All town in the small hours of around 9:30 p.m. and were Saints Episcopal Church, the morning. rounded up by the tennis Hope Lutheran Church, That’s what happened courts in Heppner by 2:30 Church o f the Nazarene last week, however, when a m., Thompson said. and the lone Community about 75 cows escaped Church will participate in Area churches take on food challenge Cows find their way to town S e p t e m b e r 14: -Morrow County Sheriffs Office received report from an Irrigon woman that her neighbor’s three dogs were in her yard and she was worried that they would get stomped on by her horse. -MCSO received report o f a horse walking on “Depot” in Irrigon. The person who found the horse put it on their property and advised that if anyone calls that’s where the horse is. -MCSO received report of a black and white Palouse horse on the golf course in Heppner. A deputy responded, found the owner and determined the horse was not on the course. -MCSO received report from an Irrigon woman that a male subject texted her boyfriend’s phone looking for her. She said she ignored him, but then he showed up at the game and there was a harassment issue in the past. A deputy told them to leave each other alone and not to contact each other on the phone. -MCSO received report from a Boardman woman that there were two cows in her pasture that had broken down her fence and she doesn’t know who they belong to. MCSO made contact and the cows were put back in their pasture. -MCSO received report from a woman on Gun Club Lane that someone had been on her property, leaving footprints in the drive and disconnecting the sprinkler, leaving standing water in the yard. MCSO made phone contact and took the report. -MCSO received report o f a suspicious dark red SUV with Washington plates that drove by a man’s residence in Boardman, pointed a high-powered rifle with a scope out the window toward the field and then drove back by, pulling over quickly when the deputy passed them and then continued on. A deputy and officer were unable to locate the vehicle. -MCSO received report o f a 71-year-old male in respi rat ory distress in Irrigon. The caller reported that the door was unlocked and a dog was inside, however it wouldn’t bite. The subject was transported. -MCSO received report o f a suspicious vehicle parked on Riverview Lane in Irrigon. A deputy made contact and the subject was walking with a friend near the hatchery. -MCSO received report from a subject driving on Hwy. 730/Paterson Ferry Road in Irrigon that he hit and killed a deer in the middle o f the road. He advised he would move the deer out of the roadway. -MCSO received report o f nine-10-year-old kids playing on the railing at a church on Gale St. The caller was concerned that they would fall off and hurt themselves as they were unattended. A deputy made contact and released the juveniles to the parent. -MCSO received report of a vehicle that a horse trailer that came unhitched and was in the ditch on Kunze Lane/Peters Rd. in Boardman. S e p t e m b e r 16: Morrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested Angelique Kettlewell, 20, on an Irrigon Justice Court warrant for Failure to Appear/Criminal Trespass I. She was lodged at Umatilla County Jail with $707.50 bail in full. -MCSO received report of a cow out on Wilson Rd. in Boardman. -MCSO received report o f Russian olive over the fence on S.E. Division St./Depot Lane in Irrigon partially blocking the lane. idau - V idei s C h o ic e "liilJftftY IN FOR iHflUbllICCN SUPPUCS! tendon Medicare Padents Open Enrollment is Now through December 7, 2013 It is ALWAYS a good idea to evaluate your Part D drug plan EVERY year. ^ M ummj ' j Dtug- 217 North Main St.. Heppner • Phone 876-9158 • Floral 876-9426 Serving Morrow, Wheeler & Gilliam counties Since 1959 ( the Neighborhood Center Sundays and collect food each Sunday for the center. Participants are asked to show up each Sunday with the item of the week, including peanut butter and jelly, Nov. 3; soup and crackers, Nov. 10; hot drinks and creamers, Nov. 17; toiletries, Nov. 24; pasta and rice, Dec. 1; and Jell-O and pudding packages, Dec. 8 . Any church that was overlooked in this challenge and that would like to participate can call Patty at 541-676-5444. Sheriff's Report ThuVsdau - V e g e ta b le B e e ! Sou p If you would like local service and want to see the plans Murray ’s participates in for 2014, please stop by. You may also use the medicare.gov website. (Remember to enter 97836, our zip code, and your medications to best see your plan options.) Or take advantage o f the Medicare Plan finder service offered by the Morrow County Health District, 541-676-9133. Mike and Sheila Corpus of Kunze Lane. One animal died from injuries sustained during the impact, while the other two had to be put down at the scene due to injuries they received during the crash. No injuries were reported for the driver. P ol ic e say poor visibility, including patchy fog and earl y-morni ng darkness, was a contributing factor in the accident. However, the investigation is ongoing. 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The caller advised that the subject was possibly someone from Columbia River Ranch. MCSO made contact with the ranch and they advised they would go get him and there was no need to send law enforcement. -L ex in g to n Fire Depart ment , l one Fire D e p a r t me n t , H e p p n e r Fire Department, Heppner Ambulance received report of a blue 1994 Toyota in a motor vehicle accident on Hwy. 207/Lexington. The caller did not know if there were any injuries. -B o ard m a n Fire Department received report of a truck and trailer going over the railroad tracks on the north side of the bridge going east on Marine Drive. The truck ran through the guard rail and was off the road on the embankment. Last week’s ad regarding the football playoffs incorrectly stated the Mustang game time versus Weston-McEwen as 3 p.m. Friday. The Heppner Mustangs will play the Weston-McEwen TigerScots in Athena at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. I . I
