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
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paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676-
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$30 student subscriptions.
David Sykes .............................................................................................. Publisher
Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor
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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
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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.