Bessie W e tze ll N ew spaper Library
University of O regon
Eugene, OR 9 7 4 0 3
Looking back at 2014,
HEPPNER
imes
VOL. 133
NO. 52 8 Pages
the Inside... ^
BMCC gallery exhib
it... PAGE TWO
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
The fire that infringed on Heppner city limits and burned nearly 1,000 acres of grass was
one of the local highlights of 2014. Find more memories on PAGE EIGHT -Photo by Kurt
Johnson.
Arctic front creates a winter wonderland
Church & Community
N ew s.... PAGE TWO
4-Hgives back... PAGE
FOUR
Sheriff's Report ....
PAGES FOUR & FIVE
News from the Health
Department .... PAGE
FIVE
Youth basketball
PAGE FIVE
....
Mustang basketball ....
PAGE S IX
H HS news .... PAGE
S IX
Classified A d s.... PAGE
SEV EN
Year in Review ....
PAGE EIG H T
\ ______ ___ ______ /
G -T
clo sed
fo r N ew
Y ea r’s
The Gazette-Times will
be closed Thursday, Jan.
1, for New Year’s Day.
Normal business hours will
resume Friday, Jan. 2.
The view from near Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner Tuesday shows something more like a winter wonderland than folks around here are used to see
We wish everyone a ing. The snow didn't arrive in time for a white Christmas, but the area did receive a blanket of white just in time for the New Year. The Arctic temperatures
safe and happy New Year. are expected to remain through Thursday, New Year’s Day, with the thermometer staying below freezing until Sunday. -Photo by Megan Futter
ODWF announces
new area o f known
wolf activity in
Desolation Unit
A new Area of Known
Wolf Activity (AKWA)has
been designated by ODFW
(Oregon Dept, of Fish and
Wildlife) in the northern
portion of the Desolation
Unit (Grant and Umatilla
counties).
On Dec. 15, tracks of
two wolves were docu
mented by ODFW biolo
gists in this new area.
Irregular reports o f
w olf activity have been
received over the past year
in this general area of na
tional forest, and biologists
documented two instances
of a single wolf earlier in
the year.
However, AKWAs are
created where and when
wolves have become estab
lished, meaning repeated
use of an area over a period
of time by wolves and not
simply dispersal of wolves.
At this time, ODFW
has little data regarding the
specifics o f this new pair
(i.e., sex, breeding status,
and specific use area).
The agency reports that
additional surveys will be
required to get this infor
mation.
G-T Trophy Corner
Reno Ferguson with his first cow elk, which he downed during
Thanksgiving weekend while hunting with his uncle Justin
Hoeft. Reno is the son of Charlie and Jodi Ferguson of Lex
ington. -Contributed photo
ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE:
MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M.
I
Wealth of old Heppner newspapers
now posted online
Access the newspapers through a link on the new MC Museum
website , morrowcountymuseum.com
Thanks to a partner
ship between the Morrow
County Museum and the
current Heppner Gazette-
Times newspaper, historic
issues o f The G azette-
Times (1912-1925)and the
H eppner G azette-Tim es
( 1925-1951 ) are now avail
able for keyword searching
and browsing on Historic
Oregon Newspapers on
line. You can access the
newspapers at www.dnp.
wordpress.com, or go to
the new Morrow County
Museum website at http://
m orrow county m useum ,
com.
The Morrow County
Museum has partnered with
the Oregon Digital News
paper Program (ODNP)
to digitize a wealth of his
toric newspaper content
from Heppner, and these
new additions provide a
comprehensive view of the
area’s history from a local
newspaper perspective.
The following Heppner
titles are currently available
for viewing online, free and
open to the public:
-Heppner Weekly Ga-
V \ \
V)
E m ail
7h>p/ry
C om er
photos
a n d details
to editoria}rapidserve.
net, stop by to have yo u r
p ictu re taken, text 541-
980-66 74 or drop them o f f
at our office.
zette, 1883-1890
-The Weekly Heppner
Gazette, 1890-1892
-H e p p n e r G a z e tte ,
1892-1912
-Heppner Times, 1903-
on the H istoric Oregon
Newspapers website was
published before 1922,
due to the public domain
copyright law that allows
free and open use of any
copyright agreements from
the publishers David and
April Sykes for a Creative
Commons Attribution Non
commercial license. This
means that any content that
Heppner Gazette-Times. (Heppner, Ore.) 1925-current, February 09, 1928, 45* Anniversary
Booster Edition, Image 35.
1904
-The Gazette-Times,
1912-1925
- H e p p n e r H e ra ld ,
1914-1924
-H ep p n er G a z e tte -
Times, 1925-1951
The majority of content
thing published on or be
fore Dec. 31, 1922. The
new additions from The
Gazette-Times and the Hep
pner Gazette-Times, as well
as the post-1922 content
from the H eppner H er
ald, is made possible with
you find on the site that was
published after 1922 can be
used for non-commercial
purposes, as long as proper
attribution is given to the
publisher and the Historic
Oregon Newspapers web
site.
p r r — — . ------------------- —-
all household
HEATERS
t0 20 %
Morrow County Grain Growers
Laxlngton 989-8221 » 1-800-452
-800-452-7396
1
1
r Finn *qu1pmmH. i