TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
CASA welcomes
new volunteers
GAZETTE-TIMES
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, 1879. Periodical postage
paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676-
9228. Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or david@rapidserve.
net. Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner
Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $30 in
Morrow County; $24 senior rate (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 $5 per
column inch. Cost for classified ad is 50¢ 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/legal 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 Obituaries: Obituaries 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.
Morrow County residents Kelly and Natalie Sanders were
sworn in by Morrow County Judge Terry Tallman (right) on
Feb. 17 as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). The
mission of CASA is for trained volunteers to advocate for safe,
permanent, loving homes for all children in foster care. At this
time, Morrow County has three CASA Volunteers in Morrow
County advocating for children in foster care. Anyone who
would like to hear more about the CASA program or become
a CASA in Morrow County is asked to contact Jesus Rome at
541-564-6878 or jrome@umchs.org. –Contributed photo
bers will serve lunch on Wednesday, March 4, at St.
Patrick’s Senior Center.
The meal will include fish and chips, coleslaw, sliced
tomatoes, cheddar biscuits and raspberry bars. Milk is
served at each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal.
Menu is subject to change.
Chamber lunch
meeting
Heppner grad named
to Pacific University
dean’s list
The next lunch meeting of the Heppner Chamber
of Commerce will be an all entities report on Thursday,
March 5, at noon in Heppner City Hall conference room.
Cost of lunch is $10.
Chamber lunch attendees are asked to RSVP at 541-
676-5536 no later than the Wednesday before to guarantee
FOREST GROVE, Ore.—Connor Pappas of Heppner a lunch.
has been named to the Dean’s List at Pacific University
for Fall Semester 2014.
Pappas is among 344 of Pacific’s 1,876 undergraduate
could watch “Jimmy” the
By Doris Brosnan
students to achieve this high academic honor.
Historically, the month groundhog bite the ear of
To qualify for the Dean’s List at Pacific, a student
of January in Heppner at the Sun Prairie, WI, mayor.
must achieve a term grade-point average 3.70 on a 4.0
the Willow Creek Terrace This may have been a first
scale and complete 12 or more graded hours.
has been a month of enjoy- in the history of groundhog
ing indoor warmth, safe forecasting.
On Feb. 10, the Heppner
from cold, snowy winter
weather—a good month preschool students came to
for provocative morning the Hill for a Valentine’s
conversations, crafts, and Party with the “Grand-
indoor games. January 2015 mas” and “Grandpas.” The
was, however, only about residents had a great time
The Morrow County review and approval of the one-third wintry followed with the four-year-olds who
Weed Advisory Board will Feb. 10 meeting minutes, by spring-like days, so on sang some songs, traded
hold a quarterly meeting treasurer’s report for Feb- Jan. 6, National Bird Day, Valentine cards, and shared
Tuesday, March 3, at 6 p.m. ruary, review and approval the discussion group wasn’t some tasty treats. Then, on
at the Ag Service Center of the fiscal year 2015-16 surprised to note that birds Valentine’s Day, the resi-
Conference Room, 430 W budget, staff reports, and have returned early, ready dents enjoyed their annual
Linden Way, Heppner. The partner reports. The agenda for spring.
“Sweethearts’ Dinner by
Morrow SWCD regular also includes a continuing
February has continued Candlelight.”
monthly meeting will fol- discussion and develop- the spring-like weather and
The next evening, four
ment of the district’s long- began with a Super Bowl residents attended and
low.
Time will be set aside at range plan.
Party and Buffet. Most enjoyed the “Little Feet”
A board position rep- residents, whether fans of concert that featured an
the beginning of the meet-
ing to receive comments resenting the Irrigon area football or not, agreed that energetic and enthusiastic
remains vacant; SWCD the buffet was an enjoyable choir of children aged six
from the public.
The agenda for the encourages landowner rep- change in the dining room, to 13, from India and Ethio-
weed advisory meeting resentation from all areas of so a repeat is sure to come. pia. Their program was an
includes a weed coordinator Morrow County.
Repeatedly, Groundhog entertaining approach to
Meetings of Morrow Day, on Feb. 2, is a news- shining light on the needs of
report and a code enforce-
SWCD are open to the worthy event, but it had a more than 100,000 orphans
ment update.
The agenda for the public.
twist this year. So, repeat- throughout the world. On
SWCD meeting includes
edly on the news, residents that same evening two other
A View from The Hill
Morrow County weed
advisory board to
meet
LUNCH SPECIALS
Wed.- Cheesy Broccoli Soup
Thurs.- Chicken Sirracha Pita
Fri.- Clam Chowder or Veggie Wrap
Tues.- Pork w/ Chinese Noodles Soup
Wed.- Chicken Parmesan
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around the
corner . d on ' t
forget to think
GREEN!
WEDDING TABLES
Travis Bellamy &
Hannah Lankford
Wedding - April 11
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criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name
of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you
provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The
address and phone number will only be used for verification and will not be
printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the
right to edit. 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.
Where is integrity in
the forest access talks?
Celebrate Dr. Seuss at Community lunch
menu
Lexington Grange
Nazarene and Seventh-day Adventist church mem-
The Lexington Grange will celebrate the birthday of
Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day on March 1 with
a read-aloud and the movie “Horton Hears a Who.” The
event begins at 1:30 p.m.; cost of entry is $1 or a new
book. Proceeds will be donated to the Ione and Heppner
elementary school libraries.
Chairs will be available to sit in, or participants can
bring pillows and blankets to lie on the floor. Popcorn and
drinks will be available.
The Lexington Grange is located at 66296 Marquardt
Rd., Lexington.
~ Letters to the Editor ~
IRISH BOXING
-Continued from PAGE ONE The shuttle will begin to
Tom Denchel Ford. The
corner sponsors are Bruce
Young Logging and John
Britt Logging. Seth Moses
Roofing and Restoration
will be the bout sponsor
and will be sponsoring the
“fight of the night.”
As in years past, shuttle
service will be available.
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pick up riders by Heppner
Family Foods at 6:15 p.m.
and at the back door of
Bucknum’s at 6:45 p.m.
and 7:15 p.m., and will be
repeating trips until all the
riders have been delivered
up to the high school. The
shuttle will also return to
drop riders off once the
Integrity: “An adherence to moral principles, hon-
esty.” Where has that gone, and why can’t we find it in
the discussion on the motorized access restrictions to the
Blue Mountains?
Some work in shades of gray, elected to positions they
feel they need to protect to continue their paychecks and
their positions of power. Some work in backdoor deals
to protect their business venture to access resources they
need to keep themselves afloat. Some work in “partner-
ship” with groups that strive to see general motorized
use removed from the forest under some moral calling
of protectionist dogma that inflates their egos and swells
their pocket books with lawyer fees.
When companies begin to state “why does the public
need to be there?” and civil servants tell businesses that
“any interference or preventing the Forest performing
road closures will jeopardize timber outputs on the For-
est,” we see the lack of integrity from both elected officials
and civil servants alike.
For the record, the counties do not “lose their seat
at the table” if they refuse to sign the MOU accepting
cooperating agency status with the forest service. This
narrative has been passed around by county officials far
too long. What it does require is elected officials doing
their jobs and being held personally accountable for their
actions, instead of giving themselves political cover when
they sell our access down the river.
One county has shown personal integrity to protect
its residents to see a forest plan revision developed that
protects the quality of life for all their residents, not just
the few influential companies that benefit from the “go
along to get along” mentality, and that is Baker County.
Integrity isn’t about doing what is easy, or person-
ally advantageous. Integrity is standing behind the words
you say and doing what is right. That seems to be sorely
missing from a great deal of elected officials and civil
servants nowadays.
John D. George, Bates, OR
residents attended a speak-
er’s interesting presentation
on Islam, sponsored by the
First Christian Church.
Yesterday, Feb. 24 the
new room at the Terrace
was a party room—a “thank
you” and “farewell” to out-
going board member Cliff
Green. Though still needing
a few finishing touches, the
room is being used regu-
larly for morning exercises
and for the reading of the
Gazette-Times, and was
perfect for the toe-tapping
music of the Ol’ Time Fid-
dlers on Feb. 18.
This short month will
soon fade into March, and
eventually the designated
first day of Spring will
actually arrive far behind
Heppner’s weather. Many
spring flowers are already
adding color to the flow-
erbeds at the Terrace, so
by the time Heppner’s St.
Patrick’s Day ceekend cel-
ebration brings all things
Irish to town, the blooms
and green grassy hills are
sure to provide a grand
welcome to visitors. Some
residents look forward to
seeing the new play that
Fr. Condon has written for
this year’s event and to the
Great Green Parade on that
Saturday.
There are no birthdays
to look forward to on the
Hill in March, but residents
helped three neighbors cel-
ebrate their birthdays in
February.
Liz Beuller is a Valen-
tine’s Day Baby who cel-
ebrated her “39 th ” birthday
with friends and family.
And on the 17 th , Bud Wilson
and Billie Lacey celebrated
their birthdays. This meant
that friends and families
had a special birthday lunch
and a special birthday din-
ner to enjoy that day.
The residents view all
birthdays with pleasure,
but the fact that chocolate
cake was dessert at one of
the celebrations and white
cake was featured at the
other birthday bash doubled
their pleasure and doubled
their fun.
The amateur
Irish boxing
on March 13
promises an-
other year of
knock-out en-
tertainment.
-File photo by
Mallorie Jones
event is over. Spectators are
Questions, contact the
encouraged to save parking Heppner Chamber at 541-
issues and ride the shuttle 676-5536 or heppnercham-
for a stress-free evening.
ber@centurytel.net.
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