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CREZ OKs purchase of
new Boardman fire truck
Increased Port o f Morrow construction
requires equipment upgrade
Bv David Sykes
In an effort to keep up
with added fire protection
demands brought on by
the new construction at
the Port of Morrow, the
Columbia River Enterprise
Zone approved purchase
o f a new 100-foot aerial
fire truck for the Boardman
Rural Fire District Monday.
F ir e C h ie f M arc
Rogelstad brought specs
and a financing plan for the
new fire truck to the CREZ
meeting, and said the truck
imes
VOL. 133
NO. 4
8 Pages
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Music ‘extravaganza’
heads to Heppner
The choreographer works with Eastern Oregon University
students in preparation for a previous year's musical. The
musicals have become a tradition with EOU. This year’s
musical, the Then & Now Hit Shuffle, will be in Heppner Feb.
9 - Contributed photo
The Eastern Oregon
U n iv e rs ity
M u s ic
Department and Chamber
Choir are bringing their
w inter extravaganza o f
singing and dancing to
Heppner on Sunday, Feb. 9,
at 3 p.m. The performance
will be held in the Heppner
Elementary School gym.
A d m is s io n is by
donation, and all proceeds
will benefit the school
music programs in South
Morrow County.
A production o f this
type has become an annual
event that has packed the
concert hall in La Grande
ever since it w as first
launched with a salute to
the Beatles.
S ince th en , annual
shows have featured music
from the ’60s, ’70s and '80s.
Now the gifted musicians at
Eastern are taking on their
biggest challenge yet, with
“Then & Now Hit Shuffle.”
A ccord in g to EOU
M usic P ro fesso r P eter
W ordelman, “ The show
covers a time period from
black and white to color,
from reel to reel to the iPod.
If someone hits shuffle on
their iPod, they get a little
of everything. This concert
has that.”
Probably the oldest
song to be performed is
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
The Columbia River Enterprise Zone approved purchase
of a truck similar to this one for the Boardman Rural Eire
Department. The bigger, updated truck is needed to provide
fire protection for the new industrial construction at the Port
of Morrow.
is needed to fight fires at built at the Port of Morrow,
the new food processing
-See CREZ FIRE TRUCK/
plants and data farms being
PAGE SIX
Bank of EO announces sixth
annual wrestling invitational
Heppner, OR—Bank of
Eastern Oregon announces
the invitees to Bank o f
Eastern O reg o n 's 2014
In v ita tio n a l W restlin g
Tournament to be held at
Heppner High School on
Feb. 8.
High schools scheduled
to com pete are A drian,
Crane, Culver, Enterprise/
Jo se p h , Gr ant Uni on,
Heppner, lmbler, Irrigon,
MacHi, Pine Eagle,
Riverside, Union/Cove and
Wallowa.
The competition begins
at 10 a.m. and Bank o f
Eastern Oregon invites the
public to come watch the
athletes compete. Tickets
can be purchased at the
door, and concessions will
be available.
Mark Lemmon, Bank
o f E a s t e r n O r e g o n ’s
C hief Financial O fficer
and Heppner High School
wrestling coach, has been
instrumental in organizing
the bank's sponsorship of
the event.
“ The
b a n k ’s
management has been very
involved in establishing
this annual tournament and
looks forward to the 2014
competition. The first five
years o f the event were
outstanding and we intend
the BEO Invitational to be
a ‘can’t miss’ tournament
on every school’s future
schedule,” said Lemmon.
“We appreciate bank staff
and local citizens who
volunteer to help at the event
or sponsor amenities; their
Heppner 2013 wrestling coaches Ken Bailey, Brian Lemmon
and Mark Lemmon shout advice and encouragement during a
match. The BEO Wrestling Invitational in Heppner is working
to become one of the region's “can't miss” events on wrestling
schedules. - File photo
“Sing Sing Sing” recorded
in 1937 by the Benny
help makes the tournament the event, contact Heppner
Goodman Orchestra. The
High S chool’s Athletic
run smoothly!”
youngest song is “ Some
A nyone who would Director Greg Grant at 541 -
Nights” from 2012 by the
like to volunteer or who has 676-9138 or Mark Lemmon
indie pop band Fun.
any inquiries concerning at 541-676-0224.
The show moves fast,
often pairing an older song
with a new one, and in one
section the music “shuffles”
from “Rock Around the
C lock” (a ’50s tune) to
“ L o co m o tio n ” (a ’60s
tune) to “I Can’t Dance” by
member. “We’re proud of
Genesis from the early ’90s,
how our community jumps
then to a ’70s tune called
in to help. We can make a
“ Play that Funky Music”
difference.”
by Wild Cherry.
The event boosts the
T he p ro d u c tio n
welcome mat to the local
involves about 60 singers,
St. Patrick’s celebration
dancers and m usicians.
with the social hour at 8:30
The event’s choreographer
a.m. at Heppner United
and dance instructor is
M ethodist Church. The
Catherine Herrmann-Kossi,
social hour, meant to start
form erly o f La Grande
off a great reunion morning
and now working in New
for families and friends,
York City at the Broadway
isn't all juice and power
Dance Center, and dancing
bars for the run ahead. All
for Cecilia and Martha.
eats and treats are made by
The band is led by Luke
the Remembrance Walk
McKern, a guitarist and
committee.
electronic musician. Roger
“’We don't get fed like
Barnes plays bass, Teun
this anyw here!’” Hisler
Fetz drum s and Danny
says one runner exclaimed
Bailey keyboards.
last year.
Heppner's performance
Beginning at 9:30 a.m.,
is part of a mini-tour of
the Remembrance Walk/
Eastern Oregon, following Remembrance walk/run participants greet each other as they gather for the event last year Run will proceed following
three performances in La in Heppner. - File photo
a route of handmade green
G rande on Jan. 31 and By Andrea Di Salvo
in all of us; her enthusiasm, citizens. Hisler says they shamrocks. The one-mile
Feb. 1.
On March 15, Friends her excitement.”
haven' t finalized their walk route was designed
H e l p i n g F r i e nds will
That said, Hisler says decision this year, but it to be eas y a nd fun,
com m em orate the sixth the event isn’t only about will certainly be a local traditionally beginning at
a n n u a l R e m e m b r a n c e Schonbachler's legacy. The cause, just as past recipients the Methodist church and
W a l k / 5 K Run w h i l e committee that works on the have b e e n . To d a t e , going up Main Street and
enjoying St. Patrick’s Day event each year has worked approximately $21,000 has past the old swimming pool
celebration that weekend. to include the memories been gifted through the before returning via Court
The walk/run will begin at of both local residents and event to local organizations Street and the elementary
9:30 a.m. with a social hour distant relatives, those who such as Pioneer Memorial s c h o o l . H i s l e r s a y s
buildings. In the interim. and registration beforehand have passed and those who Hospi t al , PMH Home participants may walk as
continue the fight.
Heppner Fire Department at 8:30 a.m.
Health and Hospice, St. much or as little of it as they
has made arrangem ents
“It’s a true remembrance Patrick’s Senior Center, and like. However, shamrocks
The event began in
this year will be randomly
to conduct fire and rescue 2009, says coordinator walk in memory of a lot of Willow Creek Terrace.
training exercises on the Susan Hisler, as a yearly special people,” says Hisler.
“ F r i e n d s H e l p i n g placed, so participants may
lots with various county and fundraiser in memory of
F r i e n d s H e l p i n g Friends has spear-headed have to walk a little to find
city fire departments as time home health and hospice Friends strives each year projects before to 'get the theirs.
Each shamrock sports
and schedules allow.
nurse Donna Schonbachler. to select a cause that ball rolling’ in funding large
A design team has been S c h o n b a c h l e r w a s would be near and dear expenditures, one being a pink heart with the name,
appointed to determ ine considered a dear friend by to Schonbachler’s heart, the GlideScope purchased and sometimes a photo, of a
b u i l d i n g s i z e a n d many; she lost her battle keeping recipients local for the Pioneer Memorial remembered loved-one. For
“footprint,” or outline of with cancer in 2008.
and true to Schonbachler’s H o s p i t a l e m e r g e n c y those who can't walk as far.
the total area covered by the
H isler says she was legacy of giving back to room tw o years a g o ,”
-See REMEMBRANCE
WALK/PAGE SIX
building, on the purchased asked for several years health care and senior says another com m ittee
property.
to create a walk/run for
“This team will work St. Patrick’s weekend but
with the architect firm to couldn’t think o f a good
create designs to achieve reason...and she certainly
this goal,” said Tallman. wanted a good reason to
“Public viewing and input bring people out into the
will take place before the normally cold and blustery
designs are accepted and weather that weekend.
made final.”
“Then Donna passed
Notice to citizens will away, and a year later it
be in the newspaper-when was the perfect reason,”
Morrow County Grain Growers
these meetings take place she says. “This event exists
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because of what she instilled
later this spring.
Remembrance walk/5k run planned
for St. Pat’s weekend
Process underway
for new county
administrative buildings
The Morrow County
Court has begun the process
to build new office and
administrative areas next
to the M orrow C ounty
Courthouse on Court Street,
M orrow C ounty Judge
Terry Tallman announced
last week.
T o w ard th a t e n d ,
T allm an said M orrow
County has purchased three
lots north of the courthouse
b etw een G ilm o re and
Court streets in Heppner.
The C o n d itio n a l U se
Permit process directed
by the Heppner Planning
Commission currently is
w aiting for inform ation
from the surveyor, Steve
Haddock, for re-platting of
the lots.
T allm an a lso said
Wenaha G roup w ill be
bidding out contracts for
demolition of the existing
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