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HEPPNER G T 50¢ azette imes VOL. 134 NO. 4 8 Pages Wednesday, January 28, 2015 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Heppner manhunt leads to arrest of local man After a brief manhunt, driveway during the night. Morrow County Sheriff’s The vehicle was recovered Office last week arrested the next day on Kenny Rd., just off Sand Hol- a suspect in con- low Rd. The vehicle nection with a re- appeared to have cent vehicle theft been in an accident. in South Morrow During the County. course of an inves- In recent weeks, tigation into that car thefts have been theft, MCSO depu- reported in Heppner Josue ties discovered that and Ione, as well as Montano Josue Montano, 30, the theft of some four-wheelers from a Hep- had multiple felony war- pner resident. On Tuesday, rants out of Washington. Jan. 13, Heppner resident Last Thursday, Jan. 22, Misty Bennett reported that deputies from the sheriff’s her green Honda Accord office attempted to contact has been stolen from her Montano on Minor Street Boyd to retire after 28 years with Forest Service Dale Boyd, shown here by the ranger district office that has served as home base for a little more than a decade, will retire from the USFS this week. –Photo by Andrea Di Salvo By Andrea Di Salvo The Heppner Ranger District will lose its District Fire Management Officer when Dale Boyd retires this week. Boyd, 49, has been with the local U.S. Forest Service office since 2003; his last day on the job will be this Friday. Though Boyd and his family—wife, Kandy, and children, Jesse and Meeka—have lived in Heppner for more than a decade, Boyd’s time with the Forest Service extends much further back. The Shamrock Hunt is back “I’ve been fighting fire for 28 years with the Forest Service. It started as a sum- mer job while I was going to college,” says Boyd, adding that a summer job turned into a career. He had been looking for an outdoor-oriented job such as the forest service or fish and wildlife, he says. “It just kind of fit.” Boyd was born in Cor- vallis, OR and raised in nearby Toledo, OR, gradu- ating from Toledo High School in 1983. He then went on to obtain an as- sociate’s degree in forest management from Central Oregon Community Col- lege (COCC) in Bend. A long relationship with the Ochoco National Forest in central Oregon began when he started in a temporary position in 1987, moving into permanent em- ployment in 1991. “I spent 14 years on the Ochoco,” Boyd says. He lived first at Rager Ranger Station. Rager, established in 1908, was one of the For- est Service’s most remote year-round ranger stations, about 75 miles outside of Prineville, OR. Boyd spent his summers there for three years, returning to school each fall. It was while at school in Bend, in the spring of 1991, that he met his future wife, Kandy. The couple was married in 1995. It was also in 1991, af- ter graduation from COCC, that Boyd took permanent employment with the Forest Service. The position was in Hines, OR, but he, and later Kandy, spent every summer at the Allison Guard Station near Burns, OR. “We had some great in Heppner. Montano ran from the deputies when they at- tempted to contact him and proceeded on foot up the hill behind Minor Street, across Water Street and down the hill and across Morgan Street. On Morgan Street, Montano was diverted into the creek. Deputies set up a perimeter there and began searching for Montano. After deputies searched for about 45 minutes, Mon- tano was located hiding in -See MANHUNT LEADS TO ARREST/PAGE THREE BEO announces seventh annual Wrestling Invitational The Mustang wrestling team will be on its home turf—or mat— for the seventh BEO wrestling invitational. Pictured (L-R) are: Coach Mark Lemmon, Jacob Moses, Jesse Boyd, Cord Flynn, Ryan Smith, John Propheter, Jorgen Anderson, Will Lutcher. Not pictured: Tim Jaca. –Contributed photo HEPPNER—Bank of Eastern Oregon has an- nounced the invitees to Bank of Eastern Oregon’s 2015 Invitational Wres- tling Tournament to be held -See BOYD TO RETIRE/ at Heppner High School PAGE THREE on Feb. 7. High schools scheduled to compete are Adrian, Baker, Crane, Cul- ver, Elgin, Enterprise, Grant Union, Heppner, Imbler, Ir- rigon, Joseph, Mac-Hi, Pine Eagle, Riverside, Union -See BEO INVITATIONAL/ PAGE FOUR CREZ approves over $1M for community improvements Committee appropriates money for Morrow County education, public safety, housing, community enhancement BOARDMAN, Ore.— The Columbia River Enter- prise Zone (CREZ) commit- tee approved disbursement of more than $1 million in funds to Morrow County communities in late 2014. The committee met Dec. 19 and agreed to dis- tribute $1.15 million of non-committed enterprise Heppner chamber of Commerce Executive Director Sheryll zone dollars for the en- Bates (left) displays the shamrock that will be hidden some- where in Heppner, while Bank of Eastern Oregon Heppner Branch Manager Tricia Rollins holds the Silver Eagle coin that will go to the winner. –Photo by Andrea Di Salvo housing, public safety and community enhancement. The enterprise zone board is made up of two representatives each from Morrow County govern- ment, the Port of Morrow and the City of Boardman. The zone is managed by Morrow County planning director Carla McLane. Alternate members are also assigned for each entity to serve when needed. Through several meet- ings, the board discussed what kind of impact they wanted to have in Morrow County, McLane said. “These deliberations led to the creation of four general categories for fund- -See CREZ APPROVES $1M/PAGE FIVE Urban med student appreciates slower pace in rural setting to guide you to the hidden shamrock will appear in each edition of the Heppner By Andrea Di Salvo Gazette-Times. For medical student Vincent Manning, life in 2. A total of five clues Heppner is a far cry from beginning with the Feb. 11 his hometown of Portland, edition will be published but he says he appreciates each week on the front the benefits of getting to page. practice medicine in a rural 3. The hidden sham- setting. rock is not on private prop- Manning, 27, was born erty and no digging or mov- and raised in Portland, ing of objects, dirt or other graduating from Reynolds materials is necessary to High School in 2006 and find the shamrock. then obtaining a degree in 4. The first person to biology and chemistry from find the shamrock and bring the University of Portland it to the Heppner Gazette- in 2010. He is in Heppner as Times office will claim part of his medical studies at Oregon Health & Sci- their prize. ences University (OHSU) in Portland; his five-week rural rotation at Pioneer Memorial ends next week. Manning says that, once he obtains his medical degree from OHSU, he isn’t interested in specializing too much. “I’m thinking of emer- gency medicine, and I’m thinking family medicine, Treasure-seekers will be on The Shamrock Hunt winner the hunt for this hidden sham- will receive this 2014 Silver because I want something generalized,” he says. rock. Eagle. After a long hiatus, the St. Patrick’s Day shamrock treasure hunt is back. Start- ing with the Feb. 11 issue of the Heppner Gazette- Times, clues to the hunt will be published in the paper for the following five weeks. If followed, these clues will lead treasure hunters to a shamrock hid- den somewhere in the city of Heppner. The first person to find the hidden shamrock will win a 2014 Silver Eagle donated by the Bank of Eastern Oregon, which is on display at the Heppner branch. The Silver Eagle is valued around $50. Rules of the hunt are: 1. A new set of clues hancement and develop- ment of Morrow County. Port of Morrow general manager and committee member Gary Neal said the group decided to split the funding into categories that continue to be identi- fied as priorities for Mor- row County during board meetings. He said those categories are education, ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. OHSU medical student Vincent Manning is used to Portland’s urban setting, but says he values Heppner’s slower pace when it comes to friendly people and learning opportunities. –Photo by Andrea Di Salvo That goal is what he says makes Heppner’s Pio- neer Memorial the perfect place to learn. He spends much of his time working with doctors Russ Nichols and Betsy Anderson in the clinic, but is also there Polaris Service Special when the doctors are need- ed in the emergency room. “Basically, I go in, talk to the patient first, do an exam, and then I go talk to the doctor I’m working with and tell them what I think is going on,” Man- ning explains. “If there’s an emergency room encounter while Dr. Anderson or Dr. Nichols is on call, then I’m there, too, and get to be the first one with the patient.” That, he says, is what made him put Heppner on the short list when it came time to select a rural location for his five-week rotation. “The emergency room coverage, I really like,” -See SLOWER PACE FOR MED STUDENT/PAGE THREE $ 79. 99 Thru February 28th Morrow County Grain Growers Lexington 989-8221 • 1-800-452-7396 For farm equipment, visit our web site at www.mcgg.net