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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 1, 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 Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ 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. ~ Letters to the Editor ~ The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following 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 verification 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 classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10. Need to learn flag etiquette To the editor: In recent weeks the news media has been filled with the stories of ath- letes disrespecting our flag. However, citizens of Hep- pner do not have to go very far to witness a flag that has been and is being dis- respected through neglect. My husband and I were walking our dogs around George Waterland Memori- al Field near the dam about two weeks ago. As we came around the outside of the outfield fence, I noticed a tattered and forgotten stars and stripes flag dangling from a pole. Growing up, I was taught that there are specific rules for the display of our flag as well as a rule to dispose of it properly when it is worn. That flag at the ball park apparently has been out there through bad weather and darkness long enough that it is in shreds. I was taught that for a flag to be properly displayed at night, it must have a light of some sort shining on it. 1 was deeply disturbed by this sight of neglect and disrespect and still am. Do we not teach flag etiquette to people any- more? Either in school or organizations that display a flag? Do the people who put these flags up at our local athletic events not realize that they should be taken down promptly? We have subscribed with the local boy scouts to have them place a U.S. flag in our yard on specific national holidays, and they are very prompt to retrieve them before dusk. If you display the flag for any activity, and need a refresher on flag etiquette, contact the local scout leaders. I’m sure they would be happy to help you. This is the second time I have witnessed a flag on display at one of our ball fields days or weeks after all the activities are over. Show your patriotism, learn the rules for displaying our national flag. Sally Walker, Heppner Death Notices Elizabeth P. “Betty” McDonald – Elizabeth P. “Betty” McDonald, 91, former Heppner resident, died Sunday, Oct. 29 at Haven House Retirement Center in Fossil. She was born on March 26, 1926. Funeral mass will be held Monday, Nov. 6 at 11 a.m. at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Heppner, with concluding service and burial to follow at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in care of arrangements. Bonita L. “Bonnie” Wenberg – Bonita L. “Bonnie” Wenberg, 69, longtime Heppner resident, died Wednes- day, Oct. 25 at her home in Camano Island, WA. She was born Jan. 5, 1948 in Little Falls, Minnesota. A com- plete obituary will follow in next week’s Gazette Times. Local arrangements are pending at Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner. Local veterans to be Ione Legion honored Auxiliary to hold fundraiser 10:30 a.m. The public is in- vited to attend the program A turkey bingo fund- available for purchase, as that will be held in the high raiser for the Ione Legion well as frozen fruit pies and school gymnasium. Auxiliary will be held at the ready to bake rolls. Ione Legion hall on Nov. For more information, 11 from 4-8 p.m. A bingo contact Becky Rietmann at packet and dauber can be 541-422-7230 or Maureen purchased for $10. Hot McElligott at 541-422- dogs, chili, baked potatoes 7156. and all the fixings will be Local residents have private information. If the reported receiving phone phone isn’t answered, the calls from callers identify- scammers often leave an ing themselves as IRS em- urgent callback request. The IRS initiates most ployees. Callers may know St. Patrick’s volunteers will serve lunch on Wednes- a lot about their targets and contacts through regular day, Nov. 8, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Lunch will they usually alter the caller mail delivered by the Unit- include chicken pot pie, orange-kissed beets, hot rolls ID to make it appear it is the ed States Postal Service. and lemon bars for dessert. However, there are special IRS calling. Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is Victims are told they circumstances in which the $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. owe money to the IRS and IRS will call or come to it must be paid promptly a home or business, such through a pre-loaded debit as when a taxpayer has an card or wire transfer. Vic- overdue tax bill, to secure tims may be threatened a delinquent tax return or with arrest, deportation or a delinquent employment suspension of a business or tax payment, or to tour a driver’s license. In many business as part of an audit cases, the caller becomes or during criminal investi- hostile and insulting. Or gations. Taking candy from from kids for $1 per pound, Residents are encour- children is usually frowned up to five pounds. Buy-back victims may be told they have a refund due to try aged to report telephone upon, but teaching kids the dates are during normal to trick them into sharing scams to local authorities. value of giving back by sell- business hours from Nov. ing their excess Halloween 1 through Nov. 7. candy in support of U.S. Americans spend an es- Troops and First Respond- timated $2.5 billion dollars ers is a win-win for kids, on a whopping 600 million parents, and dentists alike. pounds of Halloween candy This Halloween, local each year. In 2015 alone, The Mustangs Booster Elections will be held for trick-or-treaters will join 294 tons of that candy was club is seeking individuals president, vice-president, kids across the nation when sent to Operation Gratitude who are ready to support the secretary, publicity director they bring their Hallow- for distribution through its Mustangs and are interested and two at-large members. een candy and handwrit- Care Package Programs. The booster club mis- in joining the board. The ten letters of gratitude to “Operation Gratitude election of officers for the sion is to support Scholastic any branch of Community has shipped more than 1.6 2017-2018 school year will and Athletic Achievement Bank. The goodies will be Million Care Packages take place at the monthly for all students at Heppner shipped to Operation Grati- that include items such as meeting on Nov. 15 at 6 Jr Sr High School. tude for inclusion in care DVDs, handmade scarves p.m. in the HJSHS library. packages to U.S. service and hygiene products. Hal- members deployed over- loween candy is a won- seas in harm’s way and to derful addition to these The Morrow County nell Jackson, 65, Boardman. first responders serving packages,” says Operation Gratitude’s founder, Caro- Clerk’s office has released October 26, 2017: here at home. Community Bank is lyn Blashek. “The candy the following report of mar- -John Quentin Ferguison, riage licenses: 36, Lexington and Alison proud to participate in the is a great morale boost for October 24, 2017: Elese Vandever, 37, Lex- Operation Gratitude pro- the troops, and a means to gram to reduce excess sugar create positive interaction -Randy Lee Baker, 62, ington. consumption, prevent den- with local children. Boardman and Kathy Dar- tal decay, and teach children Candy and handwrit- the importance of saying ten letters or drawings to thank you to all who serve. service members will be To encourage partici- collected at all Community pation, Community Banks Bank branches and shipped The next session of First Friday Friends of Jesus will across Northeast Oregon to Operation Gratitude for take place this Friday, Nov. 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Southeast Washington distribution in mid-No- at the All Saints Parish Hall. All kids in the community will be purchasing candy vember. ages four to 12 are welcome. A free lunch is served, and NEW PHARMACY DELIVERY SERVICE! there is no cost to attend. Heppner High School will be hosting a program to honor local veterans for their service to our country on Thursday, Nov. 9 at Telephone scam impersonates IRS Community lunch menu Community Bank to buy back Halloween candy HJSHS Booster Club to elect officers Marriage Licenses First Friday Friends Rebekahs to play cards of Jesus to meet The Holly Rebekah Lodge, Lexington, will play cards on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Three mules, two brothers, and a Jack Russell Terrier. Together they rattle 2000 miles from Missouri to the great American Northwest in a covered wagon. Rinker Buck sets off to explore the Oregon Trail like the pioneers: in a mule-drawn covered wagon. 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