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VOL. 134
NO. 4
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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,
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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
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