FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Ione summer reading News from Hardman Community Center
On June 5 at 9 a.m., a in totes so they don’t have
kicks off next week
small group of volunteers to rewash every item every
The Ione library sum-
mer reading program will
kick off next Monday, June
13, with a free presenta-
tion of “Vladimir Goes for
Gold!” a play presented
by the Traveling Lantern
Theatre Company. The play
will take place at 4 p.m.
in the Ione Community
School cafeteria and is open
to all ages.
Sponsored by Libraries
of Eastern Oregon (LEO)
and the Ione Public Library,
the presentation takes the
audience on an Olympic
adventure with Vladimir
Cashewninski, champi-
on badminton player and
sole athlete from the tiny
People’s Republic of In-
surgistan. The night before
his big day competing at the
modern Olympic Games,
Vladimir has a dream that
takes him to ancient Olym-
pia, where he meets the
Olympic herald and teams
up with the audience to
explore the irst Olympic
Games.
Registration for Ione’s
Summer Reading Program
will follow the presentation.
For more information, visit
the Ione library website
at www.ionepubliclibrary.
com.
Ione church plans
VBS
Shake It Up vacation Bible school will be at Ione
Community Church June 13-16. Bible school will be from
5-7:30 p.m. Monday and from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday
through Thursday. The program will begin later Monday
because children are encouraged to participate in the li-
brary’s presentation of “Vladimir Goes for Gold” at the
school cafeteria beginning at 4 p.m.
Graduates from kindergarten through ifth grade are
invited to attend. Dinner will be served each night.
All family and friends are invited to come at 6:30
p.m. on Thursday, June 16, to enjoy a hot dog barbecue
and program presented by the children.
Local Catholics to take
part in pilgrimage
Members of St. Pat-
rick’s Catholic Church of
Heppner and St. William’s
Catholic Church of Ione
will participate in a pil-
grimage to the cathedral in
Baker City, OR on Friday,
June 10.
The pilgrimage is in
recognition of the Year of
Mercy proclaimed by Pope
Francis. The group will
meet for an hour of prayer,
penance and Holy Mass be-
ginning at 11 a.m. A no-host
lunch will follow, tentative-
ly at the Sumpter Junction
Restaurant in Baker City.
Car pool arrangements
can be made by contacting
Daniel Van Schoiack at
541-676-9971 or danielr-
van@yahoo.com.
Neighborhood Center
accepting donations
The Neighborhood Center of South Morrow County is
now taking food, clothing and household item donations.
Many improvements have been made to make the center
more functional and organized, and the community is
invited to come and check out the new layout of the store.
The center is open Monday – Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30
p.m. The food pantry closes daily at 4 p.m. The center is
located at 441 N Main Street in Heppner.
NOW
HIRING
DRIVERS
met to work on the dining
room ceiling of the Hard-
man Community Center.
Bob Allen and his boys
had cleaned out the attic
over Memorial Day and
tore out the old(est) ceil-
ing, and Scott Smythe had
been able to get in during
the week and inspect the
beams and shoot them with
a laser level.
Smythe found the com-
munity center had about a
two-inch sag in the middle
but that some of it was
caused by the fact that the
stringers put up to hold
the previous “new” ceiling
weren’t actually fully at-
tached to the beams, so the
irst order of business was
to screw all the stringers
down tight. Sam Martin Sr.
and Smythe got about two-
thirds of the way through.
Mel McDaniel and
Tom Wilson began prep-
ping the wall—pounding
in nails—for the drywall
that will go on after the
ceiling is inished, and then
McDaniel started putting
up the plywood on the ceil-
ing. Meanwhile, Bob Allen
fixed the water pipe that
had broken over the win-
ter under the building, so
Sylvia Allen and Claudia
Smythe could start cleaning
up the kitchen and the pan-
try—they say they got the
countertops and the pantry
done with some help from
Judy Stevens after lunch.
The group’s next work-
day will be on June 19
beginning at 9 a.m., when
they hope to get the rest of
the stringers screwed in and
the plywood on the ceiling,
and the kitchen cupboards
cleaned out, relined and ev-
erything washed and stored
year. Other tentative work-
days this summer are: July
10, August 7 and Sept. 11.
At 1 p.m., everyone
took a break for a pot-
luck lunch. There were not
enough members present
for a quorum, so elections
were postponed until the
next meeting, but a mo-
ment of silence was held
for Rhonda Wright, who
passed away this winter and
was largely responsible for
getting the hall listed on
the National Register. Bob
Allen gave an accounting of
the donations taken in over
Memorial Day—the hall
was open whenever some-
one was working in it—and
reported that they sold quite
a few t shirts and hats.
Claudia Smythe gave
the treasurer’s report and an
update on the projects that
had been slated for 2015.
Four projects were
completed—wainscoting,
photo retagging, history
book digitized and outside
handicap access.
Seven are in progress or
pending approval—ceiling
trusses, the bar, purchase
of a printer, upstairs clean-
ing, installing drywall in
the dining wall, the ceiling
and donation of books for
genealogical research.
Nine have not been
started or are not feasible
at this time—of those, two
to four may be doable this
year depending on time—
the railroad hutch redone,
photo digitization, label-
ing and photographing the
antiques, and painting the
handicap door.
Andrea Shaw, the pro-
fessional grant writer who
is donating her time to the
Community Center, was
In a story about a pro-
posed new farm worker
housing development
planned near Boardman,
and printed in last week’s
Heppner Gazette-Times, it
was incorrectly stated that
the planning commission
at its last meeting approved
a zone change for the proj-
ect. This was incorrect.
The planning department
recommended approval of
the zone change; however,
the planning commission
did not approve it at that
time, but instead held over
its decision until its June 28
meeting.
The decision to hold
over was based on a request
from a member of the pub-
lic who attended the hearing
and asked that the record
be held open for additional
time, in order to submit
more information. The
planning commission will
meet Tuesday, June 28, at
7 p.m. at the Bartholomew
Building in Heppner, at
which time it is expected
to make its decision on
the rezoning. At this hear-
ing no new written or oral
testimony will be accepted
and the planning commis-
sion will deliberate and then
make a recommendation to
the county court.
The zone change from
Space Age Industrial to
Exclusive Farm Use is be-
ing requested in order to
clear the way for a proposed
new housing development
planned for construction on
Tower Road near Boardman
and capable of handling be-
tween 200 and 800 seasonal
farm workers. The new
housing project, which will
consist of 36 three-bedroom
units, is to be built on 66
acres currently owned by
the City of Boardman but
that is being sold to nearby
Threemile Farms.
“Threemile Farms is
looking to increase the use
All kids and their families invited
DINNER AT 6PM $12
SPAGHETTI & GARLIC BREAD
VETS & KIDS 18 AND UNDER EAT FREE
MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M.
present and said that she had
applied for 32 grants and
that seven are still pending.
She would also like to start
a GoFundMe campaign, but
will need a quorum of the
board to proceed, meeting
time TBA. No other speciic
information on grants or
the campaign is available
at this time.
The west end residing
cannot be completed with-
out a large, nonmatching
grant, as the group does not
have the manpower (they
say their workforce isn’t
getting any younger), the
time (for those few who are
able to scramble around on
scaffolding) or the funds.
They say they expect it will
be a long process to ind a
grant that its.
The next general meet-
ing has not been set at this
time. It has been suggested
for the evening of June 19
at 5 p.m. and will include a
remembrance for our local
saddle maker. Members
may send dues to Hardman
Community Center, c/o
Claudia Jo Huston Smythe,
Secretary, 48284 Hwy 207
S, Heppner, OR 97836 or
they can be paid at the next
meeting.
In other news, Rick
McDaniel inished the bot-
tom of the bar over the
winter and Claudia Smythe
stained it over Memorial
Day. It can’t be sealed until
they get a more dust—as
in sawdust—free environ-
ment. Also, there are still
a couple of pieces of trim
that cannot be matched with
their current technology,
but members say they think
they are close enough to call
Before and after the bar reno-
vation. -Contributed photo
it ive projects completed.
Mel McDaniel found the
back bar in his shop in the
old store at Hardman and
has it in the saddle shop.
Correction on farm worker housing story
THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH
Annual Youth Night
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Mel McDaniel gets going on the ceiling in Hardman Commu-
nity Center. -Contributed photo
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of organic farming prac-
tices,” the application said
about the project. “Organic
farming is a much more
labor intensive process and
requires the use of a larger
workforce.” The documents
also stated that Threemile
plans to use the Farm Work-
er H-2A Visa Program to
employ the additional 200-
800 workers on a season
basis.
Application for actual
construction of the hous-
ing project has not been
dealt with by the Morrow
County Planning Commis-
sion; however, the rezoning
would clear the way for the
project since farm worker
housing is an allowed use
in an agricultural zone. Also
part of the application is a
request to extend sewage
lines from a nearby Port
of Morrow sewage treat-
ment lagoon system across
Tower Road, to serve the
new housing project.
Middle schoolers
invited to free summer
tech camp
PENDLETON—Mid-
dle school students—look-
ing for something fun to do
this summer?
The InterMountain
ESD is offering a free
summer technology camp
for middle school students
from June 20-24. The pur-
pose is to offer fun activities
centered around technol-
ogy. The camp is Monday
through Friday from 8:30
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Sun-
ridge Middle School in
Pendleton, but is open to
students in Morrrow, Uma-
tilla and Union counties.
There is adult supervision
all day and lunch is includ-
ed every day—and it’s free.
The camp is for students
who are finishing sixth,
seventh or eighth grade
during this past 2015-2016
school year.
Transportation is being
organized so students will
be able to travel to Pend-
leton through free bussing
from Boardman (stops at
Umatilla High School and
Stanield High School).
For more information
and to register, please visit
http://step.imesd.org or the
IMESD website at www.
imesd.k12.or.us.
BURNING
BAN
Effective June 15, 2016, the Fire Chief
of the City of Heppner is imposing a
CLOSED SEASON for open burning
based on local fire safety concerns.
This burning ban is for the City of Heppner.
A reminder that open burning also
includes a “burn barrel.”
The closed season will remain in effect
until further notice this fall as per ORS 478.960.