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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 20, 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. Death Notice Carol A Ehrmantraut, 62, of Lexington, Oregon died Wednesday, December 13, 2017, at her home. She was born September 28, 1955, at Heppner. A graveside memorial service will be held January, 13, 2018 at the Lexington Cemetery. Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in care of arrangements. Births Marissa Lynn Carl- mother is Betty Rodman, son—Kyle and Brenda Henderson, NV. Paternal Carlson, Pendleton an- great-grandparents are nounce the birth of a daugh- Louie and Betty Carlson, ter, Marissa Lynn Carlson. Heppner. Marissa was born Dec. 12, 2017 at 1:03 p.m. at the St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton. She weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 19 ½ inches long. Maternal grand- parents are Kevin and Cathy Gleason of Dorris, CA. Pa- ternal grandparents Marissa Lynn Carlson are Phil and Kathy Carlson, Heppner. Marissa joins a brother, Maternal great-grand- Derek, age 2 ½. Adam Neiffer represents USA in CrossFit Australia Invitational A new face joined the USA team at the 2017 Ree- bok CrossFit Invitational in Australia, Adam Neiffer, formerly of Ione. Neiffer, a 2002 Ione High School graduate, has competed in the Affiliate Cup since 2009 with Cross- Fit Fort Vancouver. The team took third place this year in Madison, Wiscon- sin. The 2017 Reebok CrossFit Invitational was be held Nov. 5 at the Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Invitational is CrossFit’s all-star game, with the fittest men and women from each section ~ 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. Landing Lodge contractor refutes county comments To the editor: In response to your article about the Landing Lodge and the county, I feel compelled to correct some of the information. Firstly, the county is paid 10 percent, not 5 percent. It has been that way the entire time we were operating it. I have a signed contract that shows that. I have emails from Kim Cutsforth stating the chang- es they wanted to make at the restaurant including making park guests a pri- ority, changing our hours while adding to our menu. While it is true that we kept the balance of the gross sales, from that balance came our suppliers, staff, insurance, donations to the Heppner Mustangs etc. We employed two people who now are unemployed. Basically, they wanted to change a business that was privately owned and that had an increase in sales of 26.5 percent from 2016. As far as “doing things out- side the contract”, that is a mystery. My contract shows no provisions like that. I am interested to know what that is. Supporting the local booster club? Employing locals? They did mention that they did not know we were feeding firefighters while they were staying at the park. Would that not make them park guests? However the county gladly took the 10 percent commission from those sales and has for the past three years. There are so many untruths about how this came about, but enough is enough. After be- ing told by a commissioner to stand our ground, Kim stated in her last email to us that “I can add that it would be difficult for the county to continue under this pro- gram.” A private meeting? No public? People who have never set foot in there deciding what a private business needs to do? At that point we knew they didn’t want us. We worked hard, did well, and yes we are insult- ed to say the least. I hope the county finds what they are looking for in a vendor. I wish the new vendor much success. I will miss all my customers, but I have the memories, pictures and all the new friendships to take with me. Barbara Richmond Harris, Heppner Community lunch menu excavation and has a recirculator so the equipment can be used without freezing. No chamber lunch meeting Jan. 4 Marriage Licenses The next Chamber lunch meeting will be the annual luncheon, which was moved from the first Thursday, Jan. 4, to the third Thursday, Jan 18, to accommodate the Christ- mas and New Year’s holi- Justice court report The Morrow County Clerk’s office has released the following report of marriage licenses: days. The luncheon will be December 14, 2017: - Erica Arellano, 27, Umatilla held on Jan. 18 from 12-1 and Jose Delatorre, 23, Umatilla. p.m. in the Senior Center dining room. Heppner Market Fresh will be serv- ing the lunch. RSVP will be Morrow County Justice of the Peace Ann Spicer has required. released the following Justice Court report: -Shelton Daniel Sharp, 22, Hermiston, was convicted of failure to obey traffic control, $260 fine. ♦Custom gift baskets ♦New Selection of wine ♦new gift ware merchandise CENTERPIECES MAKE GREAT HOSTESS GIFTS 217 North Main St., Heppner, OR Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 holiday season comes I am filled with hope and listen intently as they call names at mail call each evening. Well, one just never knows what the wonderful power of longing to hear from home might strike in the heart of someone a world away. Well, this year I wanted to put an address on that need to write to someone. That someone is me. May peace and joy fill your holi- days. Aubrey Elwood 26839-064 FCI Sheridan PO Box 5000 Sheridan, OR 97378 South county students make OSU honor roll Five Heppner, Lex- ington and Ione students have been named to the Scholastic Honor Roll at Oregon State University for the fall term. Heppner students, Me- kayla S. Kindle, a senior studying Human Develop- ment and Family Science and Kane P. Sweeney, a freshman studying Politi- cal Science; Ione students, Oskar M. Peterson, a senior studying Mechanical En- gineering and August H. Peterson, a senior studying Agricultural Sciences; and Lexington student, Lo- gan S. Grieb, a freshman studying Pre-Business were named to the honor roll. To be on the honor roll, students must carry at least 12 graded hours of course work and maintain at least a B-plus (3.5) grade point average. BMCC releases fall term honor roll City purchases new sewer truck of the globe coming to- gether to compete. The two-hour competi- The city of Heppner recently obtained a newer sewer truck. tion was streamed live to The replacement truck has many features, including the ability to vacuum lines, clean with jets of water, do hydro Games.CrossFit.com. CLOSED Monday December 25th To the editor: Hello, my name is Au- brey and I am an inmate here in Sheridan. I am from your area, have no family left and lost contact with ev- eryone out there years ago. Just last week at work in maintenance, I was un- packing some parts and ran across an issue of your paper and immediately I was flooded with memories, wonderful memories. Now, at 65 years old I feel like a little boy writing his first letter to Santa. I guess one thing I never did was grow up, I just grew old. Each year when the United Methodist volunteers will serve lunch on Wednesday, Dec. 27, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Lunch will be scrambled eggs with ham, bacon and sausage, hash browns, slice tomatoes, spiced peaches, biscuits and Blue Mountain Com- gravy and monkey bread for dessert. munity College has re- Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is leased the 2017 fall term $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. honor roll which includes the following full-time students: President’s List, 4.0 GPA: Kolby Currin, Edgar Guzman, Jessica Kempken, Lily Mills, Kevin Murray, Jose Romero, Brock Rosen. Dean’s List, 3.40 to 3.84 GPA: Parker Blakley- Miller, Timothy Brown, Dawn Eddy, Casandra Fleming, Felix Hernandez, Baily Hogenkamp, Jake O’Brien, Brandy Queza- Adam Neiffer Friday December 22 Open until 7p.m. Sunday December 24th 10am-4pm (RX Closed) Inmate requests letters from home this season da-Hermosillo, Johnathan Roberts, Andruw Sorensen, Adara Spring, Colton Walk- er, Honor Roll, 3.0 to 3.39 GPA: Alma Angulo- Nunez, Samson Beckman, Chanse Bennett, Harley Burgener, Anthony Camp- bell, Collette Cason, Daniel Doherty, Ivan Escobedo, Anthony Landeros, Kaelyn Lindsay, Rita McElligott, Joseph O’Brien, Gina Ol- son, Paulina Pena, Rafael Salas Garcia, Angela Tip- ton, Ruben Villa Alumni Basketball games set for Dec. 23 Sign up for the sev- enth annual Heppner High School Alumni Basketball games is set for Saturday, December 23, at 3 p.m. at Heppner High School. The games are a fundraiser for the HHS men’s basketball program. The games are open to HHS alumni and their spouses or “significant others”. Former teammates and friends are encouraged to play and attend. The spectator admission fee is $2. Games are typically two 20 minute halves with a running clock. If there is a large turnout, some- times additional halves are added. Teams are split depending on numbers and ages of participants. Cost is $25, which includes a t- shirt. To sign up or for more information, message Jer- emy Rosenbalm or send him an email at Jeremy. rosebalm @morrow.k12. or.us NEW YEARS EVE PARTY PLEASE JOIN US! ALL WELCOME!! DECEMBER 31ST 7PM - MIDNIGHT . FAMILIES WELCOME GAMES, REFRESHMENTS AND A MOVIE. Located at the Heppner SDA Church gym Wheatland Insurance annual Canned Food Drive NOW THRU DECEMBER 18TH at Heppner & Ione Whealand offices. ALL DONATIONS WILL BE GIVEN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER TO HELP LOCAL FAMILIES IN NEED.
