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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Obituaries The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Gary Earl Bingham Heppner G A Z E T T E -T IM E S U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3,1870 Periodical postage paid at Heppner. Oregon Office at 1X8 W. Willow Street, telephone (541)676- 9228. Pa* (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor « rapidserse.net or daviddi rapidserve. net Web site: ww w.heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, PO. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: $30 in Morrow County; $24 senior rale (in Morrow County only ; 65 years or older); $36 elsewhere, $30 student subscriptions. David Sykes................................................................................................Publisher Andrea Di Salvo............................................................................................. Editor All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p m For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p m Cost for a display ad is 55 per column inch Cost for classified ad is 50t per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5 75 per column inch For Public/Legal Notices public/lega! notices deadline is Monday at 5 p m Dates for pub lication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) For Obituanes Obituanes are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters All letters MUST include the author s address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the right to edit letters The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under "Card of Thanks" at a cost of $10 The doctor’s in the house at HUMC The Chrismons are all on the tree and the Love candle will be lit during the fourth week of Advent at Heppner United Methodist Church. Rick Drake will lead the service with his message, “The Doctor’s In the House.” The HUMC choir, un der the direction o f Jean Brazell, will sing Give Thanks with a G rateful Heart. Hymns will include O Come All Ye Faithful, Come Thou Almighty King and To God Be the Glory. Scripture from 2 Samuel and Romans will be read by liturgist Carolyn Willey. Following the service a fellowship time that in cludes refreshments will be held. Service begins at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome. The Heppner United Methodist Church is located at 175 West Church St. For more inform ation check them out on Facebook, call 541- 676-9224 or e-mail hep- pneroregonm ethodists@ gmail.com. Nazarene Church to hold Christmas Eve service Heppner Church of the Nazarene will have a Christ mas Eve candlight service with the children’s choir on Wednesday, Dec. 24, at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. Methodists schedule Christmas Eve service The Heppner United Methodist Church will hold a Christmas Eve service on Dec. 24. Refreshments will be served during fellowship time, which begins at 6:30 p.m., with the service to follow at 7 p.m. Services will be led by Pastor Patty Nance and Liturgist Peggy Fishbum, and music will be under the direction of Jean Bra zell. For more information, check out the church on Facebook, call 541-676- 9224 or e-mail heppnero- regonmethodists@ gmail. com. The Heppner United Methodist Church is locat ed at 175 West Church St. Marriage Licenses Gary Earl Bingham of Bay, OR on October 12, Madras, OR passed 1951 to Earl and away from conges- Betty Bingham, tive heart failure Gary served in in B end, OR on the Junior ROTC December 7, 2014 during high school at the age of 63. A H at Marshfield High m emorial service School and in the will be held on De- ^ Ea r l ^ n'tec* States Army cember 20 at 3 p.m. Bingham from 1970-1976. at the Cornerstone He began his Baptist Church in Madras, life-long career in law en- Gary was bom in Coos forcement at North Bend The next lunch meeting o f the Heppner Chamber o f Commerce will be the chamber’s annual luncheon on Thursday, Jan. 8, from noon to 1 p.m. The annual meeting will be held in the St. Patrick’s Senior Center dining room. Cost of lunch is $10; Pudding on the Ritz will cater. Chamber lunch at tendees are asked to RSVP at 541-676-5536 no later than Monday, Dec. 29, to guarantee a lunch. C ham ber E xecutive Director Sheryll Bates also announced that, due to the w eather cancellation o f the Dec. 4 lunch meeting, nominations for the expir ing term board positions were not officially closed. By default, they have been closed and new chamber board officers and direc tors for 2015 are: President, John Gould; First VP, Kim Cutsforth; Second VP, Dan Grigg; and Treasurer: Taw ny Miles. Directors are Jeff Bailey, Matt Combe, Bert Houweling, Tawny Miles, Ann Murray and Nancy Snider. Tickets for the Hep pner Chamber’s Town and Country Community Event on Thursday, January 15, will be available for pur chase starting Monday, Dec. 29. CELEBRATE HEPPNER an iPad Mini, a Samsung 32” LED HDTV, and a nine-inch RCA Personal DVD Player, while those who enter the raffle drawing have the chance to win an Xbox 360 or a seven-inch RCA Mercury Tablet. Rewards at the $10 level include $10 gift cer tificates from Cornerstone, $15 M urray’s espresso cards, a six-pack of cin namon rolls from Willow Creek Diner, Drillmaster Rotary 80-piece tool kit, Skullcandy earbuds, or -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE be in the prize containers before 7:15. The evening will cul minate at 7:30 p.m. with the announcement o f reward card winners, as well as the drawing winners for the penny and Christmas raffle items. In case an evening of food and fun with neighbors isn’t enough of an incen tive, the prizes this year are also an enticement to come celebrate Christmas with the rest o f Heppner. Penny board prizes include five batik fat quarters from Artisan Village. Entries at the $20 level could win gift certificates from Peterson’s Jewelers, Devin Oil, Temple Vetiri- nary Clinic, The Barn or Bucknum’s; a gift certificate for a 30-minute massage; sterling silver twisted wire earrings with Swarovski crystals; or Drillmaster 18 volt, 3/8 Cordless Drill with 18V NiCd battery and charger. At the $50 level, re wards cards could win par- ticipants gift cards from Hamley’s, Heppner Fam ily Foods or Brannon Auto Repair; a children’s rocking chair, a Plantronics Marque 2 Bluetooth universal head set; Remington oiling and cleaning kit; or a Motorola Bluetooth Headset. These are simply a few of the prizes available; the list is too long to publish in full. Check around area businesses for the entire list of donated goodies to be had at this year’s Celebrate Heppner Christmas Event. OMSI’s Magic Planet in orbit at the Heppner library “The Magic Planet is amazing. It captivates the senses,” says Nate Lesi- uk, program developer for OMSI’s Earth From Space program. “People are fas cinated by it. Here at the museum, we call it ’eye candy.’” Where can you find this three-foot globe with dazzling displays and video Films projected onto its inside surface? At the Hep pner library, but only until Dec. 23. The librarians will gladly show you how fasci nating this program is. The travelling display is a smaller version of the Science on a Sphere exhibit at the Oregon Museum of CHRISTMAS COOKIES -Continued from PAGE ONE & STO CK ING STUFFER IDEAS! opportunities available in this positive youth devel opment program, contact the OSU Extension Ser vice in Morrow County at 541-676-9642; visit the website at www.extension. oregonstate.edu/morrow; follow them on social me dia—Facebook at Morrow County 4-H Oregon, Insta- gram@morrow4h; or email Ashley.Jones@oregonstate. edu. HEPPNER ELKS 3 5 * 676-9181 t r i m * \t*rf" Science and industry in Portland. The globe itself sits on top of a projector and is connected to a laptop programmed by NASA to show dozens o f moving pages and programs as the globe lights up and spins. People of all ages can control the Magic Planet to show any of dozens of brilliantly-colored displays such as Earth’s city lights, climate change, tsunamis, wind streams, ocean cur rents, geographic features, and much more, including videos about Earth that are projected onto the globe’s surface. Community lunch on Tuesday next week 142 N orth M ain —1 ---- — 4 FLORAL" Centerp ieces, Saturday December 20th, poinsettias, hostess gifts, table decor & more Tom & Jerry Party 4 PM SUNDAY ______DECEMBER B IS T _ _ _ _ Bingham; his daughters. Sherry Short and Joann Bingham; son-in-law Jason Short; grandchildren Justin Short and Brian Nelson; and sisters Cynthia Hank- witz and Wendy Helling. In lieu of flowers, do nations can be made to the Wounded Warriors Project online or by calling 904- 296-7350. Next chamber lunch will be annual meeting cookies, butterscotch gin The Morrow County Clerk’s office has released the gerbread cookies, classic spritz cookies, no-chill sug following report of marriage licenses: December 11,2014: -Everardo Leon Sanchez, 60, of ar cookies, peppermint Ore gon cookie balls and peanut Irrigon and Ofelia Balcazar Michel, 55, of Irrigon. butter reindeer cookies. This workshop was the HURRY and fill out your treasure hunt list! second part of a citizen Drawing December 1 Bth ship series Morrow County 4-H is hosting with fund a t Heppner’s Christmas event ing from the Oregon 4-H Foundation. For more in GREAT GIFT formation on 4-H and the GIFT C E R TIF IC A T E S , CO FFEE CA R DS -$ 3 .5 0 , $ 1 5 OR $ 2 5 , G O U R M ET F O O D S , SPECIALTY F O O D S, , i " ..G A M E S j T O Y S , D E C O R & M O R E Police Department, contin ued at Heppner City Police and retired as a Deputy Sheriff at Jefferson County Jail in Madras. Gary was an avid Se attle Seahawks fan, had a love of hunting and military history, and enjoyed play ing pinochle. He is survived by his wife o f 42 years, Jenny The community lunch at St. Patrick’s Senior Center will be served next Tuesday, Dec. 23, rather than on Wednesday, due to the Christmas holiday. Nazarene and Seventh-day Adventist church mem bers will serve a meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans, green salad, hot rolls, spice cake, milk, coffee and tea. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. PLEASE JO IN US! % We would like to invite the public to attend a reception for Com m issioner Ken Grieb 5 :0 0 DRINK SPECIALS- O range Stick M ocha Egg N og Latte - P u m p k in Frap p e Roast Beef Buffet H O L ID A Y H O U R S - Pinner 6 :0 0 pm OPEIM C H R ISTM AS EVE 9 A M -5 P M CLOSED C H R ISTM AS D AY DECEM BER 2 6 T H OPEN 9 A M -6 P M M e m b e r s & o u t o f to w n g u e s t s o n ly D ecem b er 24, 2 0 1 4 at the Morrow Comity Courthouse ^ 10:00 a.m . t o 12:00 p .t iv ^ ^ l o m e congratulate Ken on his ir r two terms in office following his final^g^mty C o ^ jj^ e tin g . OPEN SATURDAYS 8AM-BPM ^ M umwj ' a Dfiug 217 North M a in S t . H e p p n e r • P h o n e 676-9158 • F loral 676-9426 Serving Morrow, Wheeler & Gilliam counties Since 1959/ / ; HAVE A NEWS STORY OR PHOTO FOR THE GAZETTE? e-mail: editor@rapidserve.net call 541-676-9228 or stop by the office on Willow St., Heppner % i
