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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 3, 2017 The Official 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 SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ 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. National Day of Prayer celebrated in Heppner Thursday Locals will gather for a time of prayer at noon this Thursday, May 4, around the flag pole in Heppner’s Heritage Park. The event, hosted by the South Morrow County Ministerial Association, is held in conjunction with the National Day of Prayer; all who would like to participate are invited to attend. Catholic men to hold first Friday meeting The men of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church of Heppner and St. William’s Catholic Church of Ione will hold their first Friday of the month meeting on Friday, May 5, at the parish office in Heppner. The meeting will start at 6:45 a.m. and will be followed by First Friday Mass at 7:30 a.m. Holly Rebekah last card party of the season Saturday Holly Rebekah Lodge will host its last card party of the season on Saturday, May 6, at the lodge hall in Lex- ington. Play will start at 7 p.m. The cost is $5 per person and includes snacks, prizes and lots of fun. HHS plant sale resumes this weekend The Heppner High School Ag department invites community members to “come and get your spring on” at the annual HHS Plant Sale this weekend. The plant sale will be open on Friday, May 5, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 6, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The sale will include flowers ready to go out the door, hanging baskets and a variety of vegetable plants. Morrow County Road Dept. would like to remind all motorists that with any road maintenance project to be aware of the workers, they are very important to us. Watch for signs, flags and work-zone employees and equipment. Morrow County’s goal is to provide a safe roadway. However, it is always up to the motorist to drive according to conditions. Be patient and plan ahead. Leave early if you know you will be driving through work zones. Please use extreme caution and common sense. They will do their best and would appreciate your patience Temporary closers with grinding and reclaimation will be taking place with in the next few weeks. Some areas to be aware of with some delays and partial closers are... Laurel/Wilson Intersection in Boardman. Ione/Boardman Rd. (Juniper to Ella) Blackhorse east of Piper Canyon. Again be prepared and be safe. Questions or concerns may be addressed to 541-989-9500 Morrow County Road Department. Obituaries Frank L. Adams Frank L. Adams, 86, passed away at St. Anthony Hospital Saturday, April 22, 2017. There will be a celebration of life at a later date. He was born on Decem- ber 7, 1930 in Heppner, to parents Joseph and Ida Mae (Warren) Adams. Frank was raised in Hardman, OR, with two brothers and three sisters. He attended Hard- man Elementary School until seventh grade, when his family then moved to Heppner. Frank joined the Unit- ed States Navy where he employee for Firestone, served as an Aviation Ma- where he got to know many chinist on an aircraft carrier of the Pendleton residents. for four years from 1947- After retiring from Western 1951. He returned to Hep- Glove he worked for Bon pner after his hon- Bright Oil Com- orable discharge, pany, where he en- where he met and joyed driving an 18 married Fern Biddle wheeler. in 1953. Upon their Frank enjoyed marriage, the couple being a member of relocated to Pendle- the BPOE for 57 ton, OR. years. He was also Frank L. Prior to owning Adams a member of the Western Glove, in Veterans of For- which he served cit- eign Wars and the ies in Eastern Oregon for 20 Pendleton Drum and Bugle years, he was a long-time Corps, where he proudly Historical society plans trip to Whitman Mission The Morrow County Historical Society has an- nounced it is planning an all-day trip to the Whitman Mission at Walla Walla, WA on Friday, May 19. Admission cost to the mis- sion is $8. Thirteen spaces are cur- rently available on the bus, which will depart from Heppner’s St. Patrick’s Senior Center at 8 a.m. that Friday, planning to arrive at the mission at 10 a.m. They plan to arrive back in Hep- pner around 5 p.m. No food outlets are available near the mission, so participants are asked to bring their own lunches. The sign-up sheet is at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Tipping the driver is at each passenger’s discretion. Anyone with questions or concerns can call Dave DeMayo at 541-676-8017. played his bugle. Frank loved the game of golf and his weekly golf- ing trips with his buddies to Echo Golf Course, where he was a long-time member. Frank is survived by his wife of 64 years, Fern; his children, daughter Teresa Stebbins and son Don Ad- ams, both of Portland, OR; grandchildren, Sean Steb- bins and Kaitlin Connelly of Portland; and numerous nieces and nephews. Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements. Grief support group this week The Heppner area grief support group will meet at St. Patrick’s Catholic parish hall this Thursday, May 4, at 12 p.m. The group consists of a wide variety of people who have experienced an assort- ment of grief. The group meets to- gether in an attempt to help one another and others with their journeys. Each month they invite speakers who make it easier for them to be of service to others. This month the group will hear from Kimberly Lindsay, who has been working at Community Counseling Solutions for 20 years. She will speak on the grief that follows suicide and how to support indi- viduals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Lunch will be provided at noon with the presenta- tion to follow. Questions, please call Mary Ann Elguèzabal, 541- 676-5774, or Jean Adams, 541-676-5841. MERKLEY TOWN HALL -Continued from PAGE ONE throw it out. Merkley said President Trump on the a president that gets things average American. “The president’s budget is going to produce a lot of discus- sion and all I see is rural Oregon last,” Merkley said. He did commend President Trump on changing his views on infrastructure and realizing that a public-pri- vate partnership probably would not work. “He is get- ting up to speed,” Merkley said of Trump. Heppner resident Chad DeFalco asked Merkley if he was in favor of single payer, or complete govern- ment takeover of the health care system. “I am a propo- nent of single payer, but we are a long way from there,” Merkley said. “We need to drop Medicare down to 55 years old. There is great complexity in health care. It is a tangled web,” Merkley said. Merilee McDowell of Heppner said under Trump’s budget money was being cut from research and she was concerned, es- pecially about research into Multiple Sclerosis (MS). “If funds are cut we will go backward,” said McDowell, who suffers from MS. She asked if it was possible to fix the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and not just he thought the ACA could be fixed. Carol Michael of Boardman said she did not want to see funding cut for our national parks and historical sites. “We need to preserve our parks and history,” she said. Joe Miller of Hep- pner wanted to know why Merkley wastes the senate’s time and holds his one- man filibuster in the senate to protest the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch. Merkley said he was upset that the Republicans had stalled President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee at the end of Obama’s term. “That was a terrible idea to do that and I wanted to draw as much attention as possible to what they did,” Merkley said. Neva DeMayo said she was recently in Canada and saw news reports that the U.S. plan to impose tariffs on lumber imports from that country would hurt the Canadian economy. “Their economy is being hurt because of the actions of our president,” she said. “America has issues but should we be hurting our neighbors?” Merkley said on this issue he agreed with LADIES’ NIGHT soft wood tariff. “Canada has been cheating and the president called him on it. He did the right thing,” Merkley said. Merkley added that a lot of America’s manufac- turing has gone to coun- tries without any standards such as environmental and worker’s rights. Without these standards those coun- tries are able to cut pro- duction costs and beat the U.S., Merkley pointed out. “Trump raised that issue during the campaign and I think that is the primary rea- son he is president today,” Merkley said. “We need to not give advantages that put our companies out of busi- ness,” he added. Darlene Hansen told Merkely that she feels “It has been refreshing to have done. I am very happy with the cabinet.” She said she likes the idea that Trump can negotiate and bring down government spend- ing, and that “I am very pleased with his first 100 days. I wish the other side (Democrats) would work more with him to get things done,” she added. Merkley also talked about the current situation with North Korea, and the president’s efforts with Chi- na to curtail their military threats. He said everyone needs to be very careful be- cause the consequences of a war would be devastating. Previous to the town hall meeting Merkley had met with about 10 local community leaders to hear their off-the-record con- cerns and questions. APRIL WEATHER -Continued from PAGE ONE pner rise from 64 degrees curred on April 7. The outlook for May from NOAA s Climate Prediction Center calls for near-normal temperatures and near-normal precipita- tion. Normal highs for Hep- at the start of May to 73 degrees at the end of May. Normal lows rise from 40 degrees to 47 degrees. The 30-year normal precipita- tion is 1.66 inches. Community lunch menu Christian Life Center volunteers will serve lunch on Wednesday, May 10, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Lunch will include chicken parmigiana, spaghetti, green beans, sliced tomatoes, garlic bread and tiramisu. Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. Thursday, May 4th lasagna, salad, garlic bread, dessert Prepared by Patti Pappas & Giselle Moses Starts at 6pm TEXAS HOLD 'EM ♠♥ POKER ♦♣ TOURNAMENT IONE FFA FUNDRAISER Saturday – May 13 $40 Buy-in at 5:30 pm DEADLINE FOR NEWS AND ADVERTISING: MONDAY AT 5 P.M. HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES 541-676-9228 Play begins at 6:00 pm Re-buy after first hour Location: Ione American Legion Hall Sandwich bar for dinner cost is by donation Support our students raising money to attend the FFA national convention this fall.