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I I Hessie Wetze» Newspaper l.ibrars I nivcrs'HN ot Oregon Eugene. OK *>7403 VOL. 133 NO. 30 6 Pages OTPR All-Around Saddle presented Wednesday, September 3, 2014 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Jerry Healy retires as CBEC general manager Jerry Healy is well Jerry’s dad, Jack Healy, was known as the Columbia Ba a descendant o f the Irish sin Electric Co-op general in Morrow County and his manager and as a member mother, Gwen (Gaarsland) of the large Healy clan in Coleman Healy, descended Heppner, but not so well from Norwegian stock. He known as a principal driver was one o f five children of the burgeoning economy born to Jack and Gwen, in Morrow County. along with brothers, Jim H e a ly o f and John, and sis fic ia lly retired ters, Jean M arie August 29 after and Judy. 33 years with the He g r a d u co-op, but plans ated from H ep to continue his pner High School w ork as an ac in 1969 and then tive m em ber o f attended Eastern the Port of Mor O regon U n iv er row Commission sity at LaGrande Board. During his for a year before Jerry Healy stint of around 20 transferring to the years as Port of University of Oregon where M orrow Com m issioner, he received a bachelor of the Port has developed into science degree in finance a pow erhouse, enticing in 1973. big corporations, including The next year brought Amazon, ConAgra and Til Healy a life-changing expe lamook Cheese, and many rience when he volunteered other large employers, to for a stint with the Peace locate at the Port. Corps, traveling to the Do Healy is also an active minican Republic in August member of Morrow Devel of 1974. opment Corporation, which “ It w a s g r e a t , ” has provided gap financing laughed Healy. “ It was through USDA for small warm; there were pretty business loans in Morrow women.” Indeed, while he County. was there he met and mar He has served on the ried one o f those lovely board of Inland Develop women. Carmen Tineo, on ment Corporation (Wind- October 11, 1975. wave) since its inception. As a member of the Starting out as a non-profit Peace Corps there, Healy organization, Inland pro was a part o f a group of vided the first fiber optics 35 people working with to much of Morrow County, agricultural, savings and serving schools, the hospi loan and consumer co-ops, tal and libraries. mainly in accounting and Healy, 64, was one of promotion. The goal was the first babies to be bom at to follow USDA funds that Pioneer Memorial Hospital had been sent there, howev in Heppner. The hospi er the $4 million sent to the tal opened in June of that Dominican in February had year, and he was bom that been already spent by the October. His grandmother, time he arrived in August. Ida Coleman, was a cook He started out in the at the hospital at that time. largest coffee cooperative Above: C am eron Hopper (n o t p i c t u r e d ) was the w i n n e r of the 2014 All- A round Saddle this year, do n ated by The Bank of Eastern Oregon. Right: Seth H o p p e r winner of the Mike Currin M emorial buckle with (I- in the country and also r) Blane Mahoney, Jacee worked in a honey coop. Currin Jaiden Mahoney The honey coop provided an unusual experience, with honey growers bringing in five gallon containers of honey, with bees swarm ing all over. He said it was much like pictured on tele vision, where the bees were so plentiful they landed all over them in swarms. He said that he and the other workers just wiped them off of their faces and arms. Fortunately, said Jerry, the bees were not interested in stinging, but more so in the honey. Unfortunately, however, it soon became evident that the co-op was broke, so he moved to a regional coop that provided accounting services for six different operations in rice, savings and loans and a small grocery store. While still in the Do minican, Jerry had become ill, with suspected Typhoid Fever, which was never confirmed, however, and lost quite a bit of weight, weighing in at only 140 pounds upon his return. The couple was also concerned about Carmen’s health at See PAGE EIGHT fo r more Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo rodeo photos the time, and suspecting that she was pregnant, they moved back to the states in March of 1976 for better medical care. They first moved to Portland, where Jerry went to work for C am pbell’s Soup/Pietro’s Pizza where he worked as an assistant manager in Milwaukie and then in Vancouver. Prepar ing for their first bom, and always budget conscious, Jerry compared the cost of a delivery in Portland vs. Heppner. Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner won out. Their first son Joseph was bom at PMH in Hep pner on October 30, 1976, m aking him the second generation o f the family bom there. The Healy family then moved home, with Jerry working for his uncle Harry lone principal meets ice bucket challenge -Continued on PAGE THREE lone Principal Sarah Crane-Simpson gets soaked by Ashley McCabe in the ice bucket challenge. Students brought money to watch and raised SI29 for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Crane-Simpson challenged Heppner Principal Matt Combe to complete the challenge next. The full video may be seen on the lone booster club Facebook page. - Contributed photo Jerry and Carmen Healy, 1975 August temps warmer than normal Morrow County Health District adopts ‘Promise of Excellence’ A ccording to pre liminary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton Or egon, temperatures at Hep pner averaged warmer than normal during the month of August. The average tempera ture was 72.1 degrees which was 2.6 degrees above nor mal. High temperatures av eraged 87.4 degrees, which was 1.9 degrees above nor mal. The highest was 99 degrees on August 1. Low temperatures averaged 56.7 degrees, which was 3.3 degrees above normal. The lowest was 44 degrees, on August 2. I I On 11 days, the tem perature exceeded 90 de grees. Precipitation totaled 0.89 inches during August, w hich was 0.50 inches above normal. Measurable precipitation, at least .01 inch, was received on six days with the heaviest, 0.25 inches, reported on Aug. 15. Precipitation this year has reached 8.48 inches, which is 0.90 inches below normal. Since October, the water year precipitation at Heppner has been 10.85 inches, which is 2.59 inches below normal. T he o u tlo o k fo r \ September from NOAA>s Climate Prediction Center calls for near to above normal temperatures and n ear to below norm al p r e c ip ita tio n . N orm al highs for Heppner fall from 82.0 degrees at the start of September to 71.0 degrees at the end o f September. Normal lows fall from 50.0 degrees to 43.0 degrees. The 30 year normal precipitation is 0.56 inches. The National W eather S ervice is an o ffice o f the N atio n al Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency o f the U.S. C om m erce Department. L ast fall, M orrow County Health District de fined its “True North” (di rection) as “Welcoming our Patients and Providing Ex ceptional Care”. “A natural extension of this redefined direction was to develop a common set of standards that each individual would agree to live by,” said Dan Grigg MCHD CEO. “By creating and agreeing on a base set of expectations, ev ery individual in our system knows what is expected of them at work. It aligns us as a team and helps us focus on our True North," he said. The Promise of Excel lence is a set of 43 promises that range from how staff will care for patients , to how they will communicate with others, to how they will keep patients and each other safe. The develop ment of the Promise of Ex cellence began in January 2014 with the help of an outside firm called Impact Communications. All staff had an opportunity to give input and to help shape the final document. “We spent hours meticulously review ing every suggestion from every employee, shaping Ì and revising each statement line by line”, said Molly Rhea, chief nursing offi cer. “We wanted to make sure that it truly reflected the standards that we, as an organization, want to uphold". Once the document was finalized, signing par ties were celebrated with ice cream in Irrigon and in Heppner for staff to come and sign the document and to memorialize their ongo ing commitment to building a culture of excellence, said -Continued on PAGE THREE I
