TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, March 9, 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
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David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
Andrea Di Salvo ............................................................................................ Editor
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Obituaries
Conservation Stewardship
Program deadline fast
approaching
Conservation Stewardship Program applications are
accepted all year, however, farmers, ranchers and forest
landowners who have not done so should submit applica-
tions by March 31 to ensure they are considered for this
year’s funding (applications received after that date will
be considered for future funding).
Learn more about CSP and other NRCS Farm Bill
programs online at www.or.nrcs.usda.gov or visit the
Heppner USDA service center.
Pastors are invited to
submit Easter messag-
es to GT
Area pastors are invited to submit Easter messages to
the Heppner Gazette-Times for publication in the March 23
newspaper. Deadline for submission is Monday, March 21.
Messages may be emailed to editor@rapidserve.net,
mailed to Gazette-Times at P.O. Box 337, Heppner, OR
97836, faxed to 541-676-9211 or brought into the Gazette-
Times ofice, 188 W. Willow, Heppner, OR 97836.
Dominic Cordell McElligott St. Pat’s youth talent
Dominic Cordell McElligott, infant son of Mark and
Cydney (Morgan) McElligott, died Monday, February 29,
2016, at Doernbecher OHSU Hospital in Portland. He
was born Friday, February 26, 2016, at Pendleton, Or-
egon. A funeral mass was held Monday, March 7, 2016,
at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Heppner. A
private family committal service was held at High View
Cemetery in Ione.
Survivors include parents, Mark and Cydney McEl-
ligott of Ione; grandparents, Keith and Edie Morgan of
Hermiston, and Joe and Jeri McElligott of Ione; and many
aunts, uncles, and cousins. Maternal grandmother, Toni
Morgan, preceded him in death.
Memorial contributions may be made to Dominic’s
Swing Set Fund (for a swing set in the Ione City Park)
c/o Bank of Eastern Oregon, P.O. Box 106, Ione, Oregon
97843.
Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in care of arrange-
ments.
show
tryouts March 13
Tryouts for the 2nd annual St. Patricks Day youth
talent show will be held Sunday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m.
at St. Patrick’s Parish Hall in Heppner.
Tryouts for the talent show are for all those high
school age and younger. All talents (vocal, dance, in-
strumental, etc.) are welcome. This event is not judged.
For more information, text or call Leanne Lindsay,
(541)379-6331.
The talent show will be held During the St. Patrick’s
Day Celebration Saturday, March 19, at 6 p.m. Those
performing will be opening for the “CrossStrung” concert
at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Patrick’s Parish Hall.
Need For Transmission
Project is Still Strong
Idaho Power looks forward to reaching some major
milestones for the Boardman to Hemingway transmission
line project in 2016. The federal permitting process is
in the home stretch, with a inal Environmental Impact
Statement expected from the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) this year, and potentially a Record of Decision,
too. Idaho Power will inalize its application for Oregon’s
facility siting process after the momentous BLM events.
It has been a long, productive road to get to this point.
Idaho Power’s 2015 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), a
long-term resource planning study, recently reafirmed
that B2H is essential to serving future growth in customer
demand. Previous IRPs also have identiied the need for
this transmission project, going back to the 2006 IRP.
The need for B2H is still strong. When inished,
the project will help provide low-cost energy to Idaho
Power’s customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.
The project also will interconnect with existing transmis-
sion facilities owned by our project partners PaciiCorp
and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), allow-
ing greater amounts of electricity to move throughout
the Paciic Northwest. This helps meets a regional need
and provides beneits to the entire area, much of which
is served, directly or indirectly, by those two providers.
In addition, the project allows Idaho Power to serve its
growing load without building a carbon-emitting resource.
We appreciate the communities along the B2H route
for their past input and continued engagement with the
project. That public involvement began in 2010 with the
year-long Community Advisory Process and continues
today. The hundreds of hours spent by numerous folks,
from landowners to public oficials, to help ind the best
route for the project have been invaluable. We look for-
ward to continuing to work with you as permitting of B2H
continues, and through the construction of this project that
beneits the entire region.
(s) Mitch Colburn, leader of Idaho Power’s 500-kV
projects group
Church of the Nazarene volunteers will serve lunch
on Wednesday, March 16, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center.
Lunch will include corned beef and cabbage, potatoes,
onions and carrots, broccoli salad, carrot salad, black
bread and peach crunch cake.
Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is
$3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
Family and friends of Jackie Bergstrom gathered
in Seaside, Oregon, Wednesday, March 2, to celebrate the
life of Jackie, who passed away August 18, 2015.
The inal service will be held at the Gooseberry
Cemetery at a later date.
Leprechauns make merry
Walk MS set for April 23 in Heppner
Eastern Oregon MS Walk. participants -Contributed photo
help the cause by register-
ing as a virtual walker.
There is no regis-
tration fee for the MS Walk.
Donations of any amount
are welcome, as those funds
will help support the con-
tinuing ight against MS.
Participants raising $100
per person, or more, can
earn prizes for outstanding
fundraising, starting with
a T-shirt prize at the $100
level, while supplies last.
The registration/check-
in begins at 9 a.m. at All
Saint’s Episcopal Church,
460 N Gale Street, Heppner.
Starbucks will be serving
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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 veriication 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 classiieds under
“Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10.
Community lunch menu
Celebration of life
Heppner is getting
ready for the 18th year of
sponsoring the Eastern Or-
egon MS Walk. All towns
in Eastern Oregon are in-
vited to join in on Saturday,
April 23.
Everyone is invited to
join the movement and sign
up today. Pre-registration is
appreciated.
Pre-register on the web
at www.walkms.org, or by
phone at 503-445-8342.
Walk-ons are welcome-and
may register the day of the
event.
Those who are unable
to attend the day of the
scheduled walk, may still
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coffee and fruit and cinna-
mon rolls will be provided.
The walk will start at 10
a.m. with a hosted lunch
and door prizes to follow.
The well-marked 5k
walk is wheelchair acces-
sible. A 5k run has been
added along with a 10k
walk complete with a route
map. .
MS Walk posters, with
registration information,
will be located in local
businesses. For more in-
formation you may also
contact Heppner MS Walk
Co-Chairs, Barb Orwick,
541-256-0455, or Taylor
Disque, 541-256-0295.
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Volunteers help get ready for upcoming
St. Patrick’s Wee Bit O’ Ireland
The last few years St.
Patrick’s festivity volun-
teers have noticed that
the wooden Leprechauns,
which are placed out and
about announcing events
and activities, needed to be
replaced. Bob Hager from
Wood on Wood was asked
if he would be willing to
cut out some new ones
and he said he thought he
could do that, and, once he
received a sample of an old
leprechaun, he got busy and
at no time at all had 10 cut
out and ready for the next
phase.
“It helped knowing
some very artistic commu-
nity members,” said a vol-
unteer, “and Judy Laughlin
was asked and she said she
would get someone to help
her, later identiied as Phyl-
lis Piper. Judie’s husband
also helped in the prepara-
tion of these new Lepre-
chauns. “This is a very
time consuming job and I
am sure when the inished
Leprechauns and are out
and about, they will relect
the pride of their makers,”
said the spokesperson
At a recent St. Pat-
rick’s committee meeting, it
was decided to order more
“green lights” to go on the
downtown trees and they
would need to ind someone
to put them on the trees.
Doris Brosnan volunteered
her and her family members
to take on this responsibil-
ity. This wouldn’t have
been completed if it wasn’t
for Dan, Doris, Carie, Car-
son and Conor Brosnan.
“Our town will light up in
green just in time for our
celebration,” they said.
Volunteers string up green lights in preparation for St. Pat’s
Follow Morrow County History
From the Beginning When You
Purchase a $110.00 Value Pack of
the Morrow County Chronicles.
The Value Packs Will Be Available at Heppner City Hall
The 2015 Morrow County Chronicles are available at
various locations. There are 30 Editions.
The 1982 and 1983 Editions are out 0f print. The Morrow
County Chronicle was not printed in 2006 or 2007.