FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Local teams join Asher’s Army, Poker tournament winners
announced
‘strike out’ for a cause
More than 100 participants stepped onto the
diamond for the Strike Out for Asher softball
tournament in support of Asher Schonbachler
July 1 in Heppner. Out of the seven teams in
the contest, top honors went to the team of
Where’s My Pitches At?, consisting of coach
Krystal Seitz, Brandon Seitz, Jake Lindsay,
Jon and Riane Dompier, CJ Kindle, George
Nairns, Logan Grieb, Megan Hauner, Patrick
Collins, Beau Wolters, Treve Martin, and Ja-
cob Justesen. Other community members and
organizations also stepped up to the plate to
provide donations and help during the events;
tournament sponsors who donated prizes in-
cluded Morrow County Grain Growers, Miller
& Sons, Bucknum’s, Ryan and Sharon Miller,
Jeff Wilson, Dale and Jacque Wilson, Jacque
Dompier, Silver Creek Contracting, Wood
on Wood, Murrays, Devin Oil and Heppner
Market Fresh. Above: Some of the members of
Where’s My Pitches At? take a break between
innings. Left: Asher, with father Eric Schon-
bachler, shows his fighting spirit as he winds
up for a curve ball at the tournament in his
honor. -Photos by Juli McDonald
New items in the Ione Public
Library for July
The Ione Public Li- lowing new items for July: Up by Lee Child, Every-
brary has received the fol-
Adult Fiction—Match- body’s Son by Thrity Um-
rigar, Dangerous Minds
by Janet Evanovich and A
House Among the Trees by
Julia Glass.
Audio Book—Popular:
The Power of Likability in
a Status-Obsessed World by
Mitch Prinstein and Theft
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by Finding Diaries by Da-
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vid Sedaris.
DVDs—Beauty and
the Beast, Rogue One and
Hacksaw Ridge.
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Ione’s annual Fourth of July Texas Hold ‘em poker tournament was held Saturday, July 1, at
the Ione Legion Hall. Winners for 2017 were (pictured L-R): fourth, Tom Gates; third, Danny
Doherty; second, Adam Doherty; and first, Gary Walls. -Contributed photo
CITY COUNCIL
-Continued from PAGE ONE responsible for operation tab for the paving. A final
put the matter behind them.
The final settlement
was for a total of $2,820.65,
which included $1,764 in
penalties for late payment,
and $1,056.65 for 35 hours
of vacation pay. The council
voted unanimously to pay
Cutsforth.
In other related busi-
ness current city manager
Edie Ball reported she had
contacted the city’s ac-
counting firm about doing
an audit on the city’s pay-
roll. The council had earlier
voted to have a five-year
audit on the city payroll
records done, and Monday
Ball said she was waiting
for a letter from the auditors
on how much it was going
to cost before proceeding.
In other business at its
Monday night meeting, the
council voted to appoint
Jack Meligan to fill a va-
cant seat on the Heppner
Housing Authority. He will
replace Peggy Fishburn
who resigned. Also Kathie
McGowan was appointed
housing authority chair,
and city council member
Teresa Hughes vice chair.
The housing authority is
DA’s Report
Morrow County District Attorney Justin Nelson has
released the following report:
- Skye Elissa Donate, 19, was convicted of Criminal
Mischief II, a Class A Misdemeanor. Sentence of 180 days
jail time was suspended and the defendant sentenced to
18 months bench probation, to include 40 hours of com-
munity service, with restitution left open for the statutory
90 days. An additional count of Menacing was dismissed.
All fines and fees were waived or suspended.
WEDDING BELLS
ARE RINGING AT
HEPPNER LES SCHWAB
TYLER & CAROLINE JEFF & CHRISTINE
ROBINSON
MCCRUMB
CONGRATULATIONS
of the Heppner St. Patrick’s
Senior Center.
Hughes said the com-
mittee is working with the
St. Patrick’s Senior Center
property manager Cascade
Management to resolve
issues, including the com-
pany paying the bills late.
She said representatives
from the company, which
also manages properties
in Hermiston and Pendle-
ton, keep referring her to
different people about the
problem but she thinks she
has found the correct person
to talk to now.
“The outstanding bills
need to be paid and we are
working to correct this,”
she told the council.
The council also heard
that some additional paving
is going to be done around
the new fire hall recently
constructed in Heppner.
The fire hall is jointly op-
erated by the City of Hep-
pner and the Rural Fire
Department. Heppner will
pay $7,000 of the cost, the
rural department will also
pay $7,000 and the Bry-
ant Foundation has agreed
to pick up the rest of the
figure is not available and
Ball said she is waiting for a
price quote from the paving
company.
In other action the
council approved a new
“courtesy notice” that will
go out to residents having
code violations on their
property, such as tall weeds,
trash, debris and abandoned
vehicles. The letter says the
city gives 15 days to correct
the violation and that a code
enforcement officer will
check back to “determine
if the violations have been
corrected.” If the violations
are not corrected the city
will then take more drastic
action against the property
owner.
In other business, the
council listened to an eclipse
presentation by Morrow
County Undersheriff John
Bowles. Bowles has been
traveling around the county
giving the presentations
to prepare residents for
the large influx of people,
and the problems they will
create, when they arrive in
Morrow County to view
the eclipse August 21. (See
related story PAGE ONE.)
TRANSPORTATION
FUNDING
-Continued from PAGE ONE Boardman, Lost Valley
Project $7,000,000.
Other items in Smith’s
announcement directly af-
fecting Morrow Count in-
clude an increase of $5,000
in funding for each county
fair in the state; funding
of $335,000 for a water
master position that will
service both Umatilla and
Morrow Counties; helping
the new large dairy near
Farm, cut through red tape
and secure a permit within
35 days; and assisting in
passing a bill which will
maintain eligibility for the
Port of Morrow in the state
enterprise zone program.
The Columbia River En-
terprise Zone was in danger
of losing its eligibility to
participate.
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