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I TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 30, 2014 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 M orrow County’s Hom e-O w ned Weekly N ew spaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3 , 1179. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W Willow Street Telephone (541) 676- 9228. Fax (541) 676-9211 E-mail: editoro>rapidscrve net or davidialrapidserve net. Web site: www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, PO Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: $30 in Morrow County; $24 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 65 years or older); $36 elsewhere; $30 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 tor a display ad is $5 per column inch Cost tor 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/LegaJ 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 Obituanes Obituaries 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 written in a certain way must purchase advertising space tor the obituary For Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor M UST be signed by the author The Heppner G T will not publish unsigned letters All letters M UST include the author's address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the nght to edit letters The G T 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 Birth Announcement Kathryn June Knowles— Brian William and Genessa Knowles of Heppner announce the birth of a daughter, Kathryn June Knowles, bom June 20, 2014 at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston, OR. She weighed 9 pounds, 15 ounces. Grandparents are Clark and Bonnie Bombach of New Town, ND, and Butch and Mary Knowles of Heppner. Great-grandparents are Bernard and Ruth Wanderass of Vida, ND; Neil and June Bombach of New Town, ND; and Kathryn Healy-Thome of Heppner. Benefit softball tournament planned for Rystedt Strike Out for Cancer, a softball tournament to benefit Alex Rystedt, is planned for Aug. 23 in Heppner. Sign-ups begin at 9 a m. with the tournament to begin at 10 a.m. Cost is $200 per team. Other events include a raffle for a Traeger grill and other prizes. Funds raised will go toward medical coasts for Rystedt, who has undergone cancer treatment. For more information, call Josh Henrichs at 541 -256- 0873 or Sharon Miller at 541 -626-1154. Envoy a hit at Music Bend performance makes local in the Park grandparents proud Envoy performed at Heppner’s Music in the Park on July 27. The Lower Field below the grade school turned out to be the perfect venue for locals to spend a midsummer evening with talented musicians. -Contributedphoto August chamber lunch meetings announced The August lunch meetings of the Heppner Chamber of Commerce will be an all entities report on Thursday, Aug. 7, and guest speaker Gary Neal with the Port of Morrow on Thursday, Aug. 21. Meetings are at noon in Heppner City Hall conference room. Cost o f lunch is $10. Chamber lunch attendees are asked to RSVP at 541-676-5536 no later than the Wednesday before to guarantee a lunch. Community lunch menu The Dakota Brown Band performed Sunday, July 27, at the Les Schwab Amphitheatre in Bend, OR. Dakota Brown's (vocals/guitar) grandparents are Paul and June Jones of Heppner. Guitarist Luke Basile's grandmother is Joan Robison, also of Heppner. A great turnout of a couple of thousand—and an outstanding performance by the band— filled the amphitheatre’s atmosphere with fun, excitement and catchy, sensational tunes for this free Sunday-afternoon event in Bend. The band originated in Pendleton. Check out future performance dates on www.dakotabrownband.com. -Contributed photo Christian Life Center to host guest speaker St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish members will serve lunch on Wednesday, Aug. 6, at St. Patrick's Senior Center. The meal will include chili pie casserole with chili, Terry Abbott will be the special guest speaker at onions, cheese and com chips; sliced tomatoes, cucumber Christian Life Center, 535 W. Morgan St. in Heppner, and onions; tortillas; and bread pudding. Milk is served at Sunday, Aug. 3 at 10:30 a.m. each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu Abbott is lead pastor at River of Life Assembly in is subject to change. Hood River, OR. He says he has a passion for “the gospel in shoe leather,” wanting to “see the good news of Jesus Christ walked out....” His favorite things are fishing, hunting, golf and computers. K T O n ro m m u m n Murray'a 18 u' Annual LIGHTNING STRIKE 'Beer & 'Wine Tooting Thursday, August 14, 2014 6:00 -10:30 pm Morrow County Fairgrounds Fair admission required ~ Letters to the Editor ~ The Heppner Gazette Times will prinl 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 o f statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card o f Thanks” at a cost o f $10. Don’t yield liberty to bogus fishing rights claims Editor's note: Mr Dick previously submitted this letter to the East Oregonian, which ran it with edits. The letter as it appears below is the unedited version. To the editor: In the July 8 (East Oregonian) headline, “CTU1R leadership says fishing rights not for sale,” regarding Ambre Energy’s efforts to form a partnership with the tribes based on “mutual respect, shared benefits, collaboration and cooperation,” the CTUIR claims the new dock would interfere with fishing rights reserved by the treaty of 1855 and their fishing rights are “not for sale.” CTUIR chairman Gary Burks claims the Port of Morrow is a “productive fishing area, and tribal resources must be protected. Our creation story teaches us.. .we have always lived here and we always will.” Ambre Energy would be in the midst of two miles of existing operating docks at the Port of Morrow. The Port of Morrow owns two and a half miles of the Columbia River out to the old high-water mark before the John Day Dam was built. The land was purchased and set aside for industrial and economic development and transportation of goods and commodities. The Port of Morrow provides 60 percent of the tax base for Morrow County (more than $12,000,000), plus 6,850 jobs and $48,000,000 in local and state taxes. Ninety-eight percent o f the Columbia River shoreline of the John Day Reservoir has been set aside for wildlife habitat and recreational use. In other words, the Native Americans have 98 percent o f the Columbia River to claim ancient fishing rights. The Port of Arlington spent $2 million building a dock on land they owned, set aside for industrial and economic development, only to have the Native Americans claim fishing rights. For the past seven years the Port of Arlington project has been stopped, deadlocked in courts due to the bogus claims of ancient Indian fishing rights. The E.O. editors have sided with the CTUIR, arguing that $800,000 per year “wasn’t very considerate” and “came off as garish money waving.” When one comprehends a conservative estimate o f over a billion dollars of revenue per year generated by the Wildhorse casino complex on which the tribes pay no state or federal tax benefits to the American way of life and intra-structure, then yes, $800,000 to the tribes is chicken feed. To those who work to sustain our American heritage in Morrow County, $800,000 for our schools and the $3,000,000 per year that Ambre Energy pays in local taxes and 25 full time permanent jobs is a godsend. In conclusion: To the CTUIR, you have not always been here. Your forefathers left no written records of your heritage. You migrated here just like the rest of us. Yes, you ceded your land in the treaty of 1855...land your forefathers never claimed they owned. Land that was never cultivated or economically developed. You are not guaranteed to always be here. Our liberty and freedom is only one generation from being lost, and we all have a responsibility to exercise our liberty as Americans to protect our liberty and freedom. You may economically own Pendleton but you do not own the Columbia River, and I urge Morrow County and Oregonians to not yield our freedom to another phony claim of ancient Indian fishing rights. (s) Stuart Dick, Irrigon Be proud of the Terrace Dear Editor, I want all the people in Heppner and surrounding communities to know they should be very proud to have Willow Creek Terrace Assisted Living. It is a wonderful place for us older citizens to spend our lives with such wonderful care. (s) Marjorie Batty Dale, Heppner -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE fire,” says Miranda Taylor, just over my house,” Wilson adding that they didn't even think about the danger to says. He says he was just themselves. “It was close flward 'Winning Igeai & Pizza and Salad dinner catered about to turn o ff some to their house and I didn’t Special Italian W lnu TeaturweU by "Howe's About Pizza" ru n n in g w ater w hen a know if they knew about Non atchoholic drinks available— Something for everyone! pickup rolled up. In it were it. I didn’t want it to...bum heaven or the alignment of is well aware of the risk the lucky stars, the rain ended two girls took in warning neighbor girls M iranda their house.” Join us for our OSU theme and Wear Orange! or green - meet BENNY THE BEAVER! “I was so grateful they the danger posed not only them of the threat. Taylor, 17, and Em ily Ouch Jam alto welcome! Coming to us all the way from “I didn’t even know Taylor, 14, the daughters come. It would have given to the Wilsons but also to Corvallis to visit Morrow County Fair! He sure to bring lawn chairs! of Joe Taylor and Glenda us just time to get the hoses nearby neighbor Bob Perry. them girls, and they came Taylor. The girls had come and sprinklers going that we The strike site, says Wilson, over here and warned us of Live Entertainment: to warn the elderly couple keep around the house just was only about an eighth of the fire and everything. If Jet Teas for the kids that rain hadn’t of hit when of some immediate danger for a situation like this,” a mile from their house. 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TRY OUR NEW HOMEMADE WAFFLE CONES The heavy rain ended was a risk they took. “ We d id n ’t see the rain, and that rain put that WITH SUTTER PECAN OR VANILLA Y0CREAM strike but we felt it. It was fire out.” the fire and any danger it “ T h a t’s w hat I call close. (Then) I saw the Be it blessings from posed, but Wilson says he neighbors of the best kind.” IT'S NOT^TOO^EARLY^rO^fHlKiirABoijf^OUR ^ 4H AUCTION BUYERS T H A N K Y O U B A S K E T S ■ 7 o u t o f 10 veterans have not accessed th e ir fed eral V A benefits. 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