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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
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Andrea Di Salvo............................................................................................. Editor
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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
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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
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just over my house,” Wilson adding that they didn't even
think about the danger to
says.
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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
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“I was so grateful they the danger posed not only them of the threat.
Taylor, 17, and Em ily
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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
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“It
would
have
got
both
it did, that would’ve been
Wilson
adds.
the Wilson’s couldn’t see.
6:00 - 7:30 pm
of
us,
I’m
sure,”
he
says.
more
than a teardrop, it
Wilson says they all
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John Wambeke t Eric Jepsen
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five,
ten
minutes,
went
outside
to
see
where
would’ve
been the whole...
lightning strike and a big
Luke Basile with
if
it
hadn't
of
been
for
that
valley,”
said
Wilson. “If it
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fire
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sort
fire, and the fire was coming
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been
all
around
our
place.
as
dry
as
everything
is,
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went
out
there
us, only we couldn't see
it from the house,” says to see where the fire was, You can still see that big them girls would have been
and there was a big gush of teardrop up there.”
trapped right here with us. It
Wilson.
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close. (Then) I saw the
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