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Bessie Wetzell Newspaper l ibran University of Oregon Eugene. OR 97403 lone Market changes hands, stays local It’s fair time in Morrow County Pictured from left: Former lone Market owners Don and Willa Coe stand with new owner1 Todd and Kate Knop in a changing of the guard Monday in lone. Photo by Andrea Di Salvo By Andrea Di Salvo Clients of lone Market will see new faces to greet them starting this week, but they won’t necessarily be the faces of strangers. Don and Willa Coe, who have owned the lone Market for five and a half years, and the Woolery House Bed and Breakfast for eight and a half years, have sold the local grocery store and B&B to Todd and Kate Knop. The Knops took over operation of the store on Monday. Don Coe, 63, was born and raised near San Diego, CA, graduating from Carls bad High School in 1969. Willa Coe, 64, has more local ties. Though bom in Roseburg, OR and raised in the Eugene and Corval Julianna Joyce interviews with 4-H Foods & Nutrition judge Seuzi Conlee w ith her 4-H cook lis areas, her family later ing exhibit at the Morrow County Fairgrounds Tuesday. The 101st Morrow County Fair moved to lone, where her opened Wednesday, Aug. 13, and will run through Saturday. -Photo by Andrea Di Salvo Morrow County schools regulate kitchen use By April Sykes The Morrow County School Board learned Mon day night that no longer will groups be able to use school ktichens for fundraising activities unless they ob tain a temporary restaurant license. Kim Mabry, nutrition director for Morrow County School District employed by Sodexo, a private com pany hired by the district, told the board that requiring a temporary restaurant li cense was not an option and the district will be required to adhere to the new rule. She said that a Norovirus outbreak in another part of the state prompted the new ruling. Norovirus is an intestinal virus, causing nausea, vomiting, diarrhea father Lloyd “Jim” Johnson was a teacher. She gradu ated from lone High School in 1968. She said she always had fond memories of her time in lone. “ I always wanted to live in a place like that, where everyone pitched in to help others,” she says. “Even though I only lived here for three years before heading to college, this was home.” Willa attended college at what was then the Oregon College o f Education in Monmouth. She graduated from there with a Bachelor o f Science in elementary education in 1972. After that, she went to work for the Salem-Keizer School District, where she taught at the elementary level for 29 years. Don’s career was a bit more complicated. He said he didn’t attend college; after getting m arried to his first wife and starting a family after high school, he went right to work. He has 35 years of experience working in the grocery store business, working for eight different grocery store chains, mostly in Oregon, while he and his family lived in Estacada, OR. He said he started at the bottom as a box boy and worked his way up the ranks to eventually become a store manager for Thriftway Su permarket. In 1989. after the death of his first wife, Don took their two chil dren and moved back to southern California. There, he worked for the Los An- -See ¡ONE MARKET/PAGE FOl K Accident creates instant drive- through at local restaurant and stomach cramps. The licenses may be obtained online by going onto the Umatilla County website, clicking on pub lic health, then clicking on environmental health and then clicking on the two-page temporary restau rant license application to download. Those wishing to obtain the license then may em ail, fax or mail the application back to the Umatilla County Health Department, along with a $34 fee for the license for school events. In addition to requiring the temporary restaurant permit, the district will now also require that at least one person at the event have a -See SCHOOL DISTRICT/ PAGE FIVE H owe’s About Pizza owners Ron and Bever ly Howe received a rude awakening early Monday m orning when they re ceived a phone call tell ing them they had some late-night visitors at their restaurant on Court Street in Heppner. A car containing two 16-year-old males from the Heppner area appar ently ran the intersection of Court and May streets, ramming through the wall of the pizza shop around 2 a.m. Ron Howe said he im mediately got up and drove down to the restaurant to survey the damage. “I looked like Christ mas Vacation down here,” he joked. “Lights every where.” Ron Howe of Howe’s About Pizza shows the plywood-covered hole w here a car drove through Morrow County Sher- the wall of his restaurant about 2 a.m. Monday morning. Photo by Andrea Di Salvo iff's Office, Heppner fire He said the car drove the Heppner Volunteer Fire and Heppner ambulance through the wall on the May Department. all responded to the scene. Street side of the building “ You’ve got to com The juveniles seemingly and lodged against a wall mend that volunteer fire suffered no serious injuries. stud in the front counter department. They stayed Morrow County Sheriff area. In the process, it im here and cleaned up every Ken Matlack said they ap pacted a reach-in beverage thing to where we could at parently walked home after cooler and sent it flying least open,” he said, adding the accident and were taken against the far wall. A new that volunteers Jay Keithley to the Emergency Depart cooler hides most o f the and Jim Kindle stayed until ment at Pioneer Memorial hole in the wall and the around 5 a.m. “They did a Hospital to be evaluated familiar mountain mural tremendous job.” later, after their parents that once covered that wall. MCSO says there have A tow truck removed been no citations or arrests were contacted. However, the damage the car from the wall about in connection with the in to Howe's About Pizza was an hour after the incident. cident so far. Matlack said more substantial. Cleanup took longer. Howe drugs and alcohol do not “ His front end was said. For that, he had high seem to be a factor in the sticking on our cash regis praise for the responders accident, but the incident ter,” said Howe. on the scene, especially is still under investigation. Ten months later Heppner woman ‘not so happy ’with city’s promised curb fix By David Sykes A local woman who 10 months ago said she was “enormously happy” when the city promised to fix a construction m istake in front of her house on Water Street, is not so happy now. Carolyn McDaniel, of 260 Water Street, came to the Heppner City Council Monday night and told of her “dismay and frustra tion” of dealing with the city trying to get a wrongly- installed curb in front of her house fixed. “It is with great dis may and frustration that I come before you this evening to inform you of the difficulties that have occurred due to the failure of the City of Heppner to rectify the errors made at my property,” she said in i FAIR & RODEO SPECIAL! Carolyn McDaniel stands in front of her house last October, where paint was used to mark the spot where she was told a driveway would be added to access her property. McDaniel is upset because ten months later the driveway is still not in. -File photo by David Sykes a written statement to the city manager, council and mayor. Ten months after being promised a driveway would be installed, nothing has been done and she still does not have access off I the street to her driveway. 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