TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
The Oficial Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
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 Ofice at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage
paid at Heppner, Oregon. Ofice 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
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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
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GT will not publish unsigned letters. All letters MUST include the author’s address and phone
number for use by the GT ofice. 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 classiieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10.
Fundraiser planned
for Bennett Memorial
Scholarship
Community members
are invited to save the date
for a Ryan Bennett Memo-
rial Scholarship fundraiser
planned for March 25 at the
Heppner Elks Lodge.
The event will include
dinner and a silent auc-
tion. Money raised will
go to fund a scholarship in
memory of the late Ryan
Bennett of Heppner.
“While Ryan’s time
with us was far too short,
we hope to celebrate his life
into the future,” said one
event coordinator.
More details will fol-
low. To donate auction
items, monetary gifts or
time, call Amber Schlaich
at 509-629-1114 or Sue
Gibbs at 541-991-1070.
Bunco ‘girls’ night
out’ to beneit Ione
preschool
Area women are invited to a girls’ night out with an
evening of Bunco at the Ione Legion Hall this Thursday,
February 18. The evening will begin with a “chat, sip n’
snack” at 6 p.m. The game will begin at 7 p.m.; buy-in
is $20.
Finger food and lemonade will be provided, but
participants should feel free to bring more. The evening
will also include prizes, rafles items and a preschool art
silent auction.
All proceeds will beneit Creative Care Preschool
in Ione.
Marriage Licenses
Honor Flight invites WWII vets on 2016
D.C. trip
Honor Flight of Eastern
Oregon invites more World
War II veterans to travel on
Honor Flight trips to Wash-
ington, DC during 2016.
The nonprofit Bend
Heroes Foundation operates
Honor Flight of Eastern Or-
egon and has honored 505
World War II veterans with
free four-day trips to the
nation’s capital since 2010.
Veterans and their
guardians visit the national
World War II Memorial and
10 other veterans’ memori-
als.
World War II veterans
are eligible to travel provid-
ing they served anywhere
in the Armed Forces during
World War II, live in any of
the 17 Oregon counties east
of the Cascades, have not
visited the national World
War II Memorial in the past,
are able to travel and are
accompanied by a guard-
ian. Full-time medical staff
is available during the trip.
The use of wheelchairs,
walkers and portable oxy-
gen by veterans is allowed.
Guardians can be family
members or friends and
must be able to assist vet-
erans by pushing wheel-
chairs and walking reason-
able distances with them.
The guardian fee is about
$1,250 and covers all ex-
penses for the four-day trip.
World War II veter-
ans and their guardians
interested in traveling on
the May 11-15 trip should
contact the Bend Heroes
Foundation immediately.
A September trip can be
scheduled if more veterans
apply than can be honored
during the May trip.
For more information
or to apply, visit www.
bendheroes.org or contact
Yvonne Drury, Bend Heroes
Foundation Vice President/
Secretary at 541.390.4231,
yvonnedrury@hotmail.
com, or Darla Rozelle,
Bend Heroes Foundation
Director at 541.419.0007,
rthreads@uci.net.
Register early for Remembrance Walk
The Friends Help
Friends Committee would
like to remind everyone that
the annual Remembrance
Walk/5K Run is planned
for Saturday, March 19.
The event will begin with a
social hour and registration;
the walk/run will begin at
9:30 a.m.
While participants may
register the morning of the
walk/run, pre-registration
for the walk/run is request-
ed, as it makes the morning
of the event go much more
smoothly. As an incen-
tive to register early, the
committee will offer door
prizes for those who pre-
register. Prizes will include
gas cards, as well as meal
and drink cards.
Friends Helping
Friends is again asking for
a $5 donation per walker
or runner, as well as a $5
donation per shamrock.
Children accompanied by
adults are free. For donor
convenience, there is a drop
location inside Heppner
City Hall for fundraiser
stubs and donations.
Due to limited supplies,
Feb. 29 will be the last day
to order shamrocks. For
more information on the
walk or shamrocks, contact
Susan Hisler at 541-676-
5878. For information on
the run, email Janelle El-
lis at origanelle@hotmail.
com. Anyone wanting a Heppner or drop them off at
photo shamrock needs to Heppner Windwave in care
mail photos to Hisler at of Sandy Matthews.
56504 Little Butter Cr. Rd.
Local piano students
recognized at music festival
Above left: Reiah and Roen Waite. Above right: Hannah, Madison and Rylee Palmer. -Con-
tributed photos
The annual Oregon
Music Teachers Associa-
tion (OMTA) Bach festival
took place Saturday, Feb. 6,
in Pendleton.
Five local students par-
ticipated—Reiah and Roen
Waite, and Hannah, Madi-
son and Rylee Palmer.
Madison Palmer was
chosen to play at the OMTA
state recital held in Corval-
lis. Hannah Palmer and
Reiah Waite each received
honorable mention.
There were 80 partici-
pants in this year’s festival.
Meeting planned for Morrow County arts
and crafts
Morrow County Cre- ally, members are asked to
ative Arts and Crafts is bring a list of the work that
The Morrow County Clerk’s ofice has released the getting ready for its arts they will have for sale.
Also on the agenda are
and crafts sale during the
following report of marriage licenses:
classes
for this year. Artists
Heppner
St.
Patrick’s
cel-
February 11, 2016: -Kenneth Allen McCullough, 72,
Bob
Walton
and Betty Jean
ebration.
All
members
are
of Boardman and Lorraine Cunningham, 77, of Irrigon.
asked to attend a meeting Billups will be doing class-
on Feb. 23 at 1 p.m. at the es in the Tri-Cities in April,
Mustang Diner. Addition- and local classes could also
An article in last week’s Gazette stated that the iling
deadline for the May 17, 2016 primary election is March
8 for Morrow County Judge, which is iled with the Sec-
retary of State, and March 10 for all other positions iled
through the Morrow County Clerk’s ofice. The county
clerk’s ofice has informed the G-T that the iling deadline
is March 8, 2016 for all open Morrow County positions.
The editor apologizes for the error.
The men at Heppner Christian Church will be serv-
ing up a community breakfast Sunday, Feb. 21, starting
at 8:30 a.m. and running until 10 a.m. The breakfast is
Michael A. “Mike” Ferguison--Michael A. “Mike” free and everyone is invited.
At 10 a.m., the church will show the inal video from
Ferguison, 33, died Feb. 12, 2016 at his home in Stan-
ield. A celebration of life potluck gathering will be held the series by Institute for Creation Research “Unlocking
Friday, Feb. 19, at 1 p.m. at the Oregon National Guard the Mysteries of Genesis.” The community is also invited
Armory, 900 SE Columbia Dr., Hermiston. Burns Mor- to stay and watch the video if interested.
tuary of Hermiston is in charge of arrangements.
Correction
be planned for that time.
Members are invited to do
an internet search under
each artist’s name to get
ideas for classes, including
snow scenes, elk, etc. The
subject will be the decision
of the group attending the
meeting.
Also under consider-
ation will be craft classes.
The public is invited.
Anyone interested in class-
es should attend the meet-
ing or call Betty Mills at
541-676-5546.
Community breakfast PHONE SCAM
ing for the same thing—a
reports of any of payout,” Sandoval said.
planned at Christian ceived
these scam phone calls to “If you receive a similar
Morrow County residents call claiming your services
Church
recently, CBEC General may be cut, do not...ever
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Manager Thomas Wolff
said consumers still need to
be wary. Sandoval agreed.
“They may change in
the information they use,
with more and more using
actual companies or agen-
cies you recognize—even
your local police depart-
ment—but they are all look-
send money, wire money or
provide bank information.”
Anyone who receives
one of these calls may re-
port it to MCSO at 541-676-
5317. Anyone concerned
or who has questions about
their electric utilities or ser-
vices should contact CBEC
at 541-676-9146.
Willow Creek Baptist Church volunteers will serve
lunch on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at St. Patrick’s Senior Cen-
ter. Lunch will include ish and chips, coleslaw, sunshine
The Ione Library District Board of Directors will hold its
carrots, garlic bread and brownies.
monthly meeting on Thursday, Feb. 25, beginning at 10:30
Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is a.m. Meetings are held at the Ione Public Library, 385 W. 2nd
$3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
Street. The public is welcome to attend.
Ione library board to meet
PER Tim and Beth Dickenson
cordially invite you to the
119th Elks Annual themed
“Sweethearts Ball”
Where: Heppner Elks Lodge #358
142 N. Main St. Heppner
When: Saturday, February 20th
Times: Ladies Tea
2 p.m.
Lodge
3 p.m.
Dinner
6 p.m.
Live Music
8 p.m.,
Featuring Live music by Luke
Basile and Frazer Wambeke
RSVP: Heppner Elks; PO Box 494
Heppner, OR 97836; elks358@
centurytel.net ; 541-676-9181
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