TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
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David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
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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
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