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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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