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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Donkey basketball is coming to town ride real, live donkeys in donkey basketball game this Thursday, April 3. The event, sponsored by Heppner FFA, will take place in the Heppner High School gym starting at 7 p.m. Team Ballin’ Burrows, made up of Jake Lindsay, Logan Grieb, Beau Wolt- ers, Patrick Collins, CJ Kindle, Coby Dougherty and Keegan Gibbs, will take on the Dunkin’ Don- Participants in a previous year’s bout of donkey basketball. keys team of Caitlynn Bai- –File photo ley, Rylee Kollman, Macy Murray’s Drug might ment and painkillers as Gibbs, Kaylyn Lindsay, report a shortage of lini- local residents prepare to Josey Evans, Ethan Akers, Cody Wizner, Cason Mitch- ell and Alex Lindsay. Players have been train- ing extensively. Donkey sports, Inc. of Entiat, WA will provide the donkeys and the game officials. Of- ficials will strictly enforce rules against players abus- ing donkeys, but say there are no such rules against donkeys abusing players. Advance tickets are available from FFA Advisor Beth Dickenson by calling 541-676-9138. Prices are $8 for adults, $6 for seven through 12 th grade, and $4 for kindergarten through sixth grade. Tickets are available at the door for $9 for adults, $7 for high school students and $5 for elementary students. In addition, Friends of Heppner FFA alumni are having a dessert auc- tion during game halftime. Proceeds go towards the projects of the Friends of Heppner FFA, including the annual scholarship for seniors. A full list of des- serts is not available but it is rumored there will be homemade nutter butters up for grabs. Phone: (541) 676-9228 Cell: (541) 980-6674 Fax: (541) 676-9211 188 W. Willow P.O. 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MCSO arrested Joshua Michael Crites, 31, for Possession of a Controlled Substance-methamphet- amines, Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle and Theft III. He was lodged at Umatilla County Jail with $15,000 bail. -MCSO Deputy re- ceived report from a truck driver that he had just called in a report near Space Age that a driver appeared to be smoking out of a glass pipe. -MCSO received report from a Heppner man that his 82-year-old wife had fallen and was lying on the floor on her back. Heppner Ambulance, Heppner Fire Department and MCSO responded. She was trans- ported to Pioneer Memorial Hospital. -MCSO received report of a missing 12-year-old boy who had gone to a friend’s house and was sup- posed to be home within an hour. The caller said she tried calling his cell phone, but it was going straight to voicemail. The caller’s daughter found him at the skate park in Irrigon. -MCSO received report of suspicious activity at Riverview Lane in Irrigon. The caller said an older male came up from the river and said his boat motor was messed up and asked to bor- row some WD40. She said she advised him she didn’t have any and there was no one around who could help him. She requested that the subject be checked on since she was there alone. -MCSO received report from an Irrigon woman that she and her husband had been fighting for sev- eral weeks and he was now making suicidal threats. She said she was currently at a neighbor’s and he was in their backyard making a phone call. -MCSO received report of a deer hit, but still alive on Hwy. 74-Lena. A deputy responded. September 18: -A call- er reported a deer was hit and was still alive but on the road on Hwy. 74. A deputy responded. -Morrow County Sher- iff’s Office was advised that Christopher Dwayne Schneider, 32, was arrested on an Irrigon Justice Court warrant for Failure to Ap- pear on Driving While Sus- pended – Misdemeanor. Subject was lodged at Two Rivers Correctional Institu- tion with a Morrow County hold placed. -A MCSO deputy re- ported being en route to Umatilla County Jail to look at some gold a person was using to try to pay a fine there. -A caller in Irrigon complained that sometime during the night someone took out all the mailbox- es and a fence. Unknown when it happened; fence was noticed by caller’s husband at 6 a.m. on his way to work. -A man in Ione reported that his mother’s shed had been broken into. He re- quested contact since his mother was out of town. A deputy responded and determined nothing had been taken. MCSO received a driv- ing complaint of a black du- ally pickup driving 45 mph and swerving all over the road at Hwy. 207/Baseline .