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-
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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.
(See McDaniel's full letter
on PAGE TW O )
The problem originated
last year when Water Street
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