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VOL. 137
NO. 27
8 Pages
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Lindy Gravelle to perform
Lindy Gravelle, a gift-
ed musician who grew up
in Heppner, will be the
featured performer at Hep-
pner’s Music in the Park on
Sunday, July 8. Music in the
Park is held from 5 to 7 p.m.
at the city park on Main St.
Gravelle was a member
of the Leonnig family band
at the former Wagon Wheel
restaurant and now lives in
Central Oregon, performing
all around the northwest.
She will be joined by two
of her siblings, Roger and
Lorraine, near the end of
the show on Sunday.
Gravelle, former Heppner resident, will perform
Pulled pork sandwiches Lindy
July 8.
will be available by do-
nation to raise funds for
In the event of rain, is funded by the Morrow
Hopeful Saints well-drilling the concert will be moved County Unified Recreation
ministry and mission trip to the elementary school. District and facilitated by
to El Salvador in the fall The summer music series Hopeful Saints Ministry.
of 2019.
Final park behavior ordinance
readied for council approval
Violators could be banned for 4 months
By David Sykes
A new ordinance gov-
erning behavior at city parks
has been drafted and ready
for final city council ap-
proval at its July 9 meeting.
A public hearing on the new
ordinance will be held prior
to the council meeting at 7
p.m. The public may give
input at that time on the new
ordinance which covers
everything from gatherings,
permitting, signs and rowdy
behavior. The ordinance
is in response to a series
of instances where people
were acting up and the
council felt it was necessary
to have authority to “86” or
ban people from use of the
parks. The ordinance allows
for any city employee or po-
lice officer to ban someone
for up to 120 days from use
of the parks.
Some of the highlights
of the new ordinance are as
follows:
-Dogs. No person shall
permit any dog to run at
large within any public
park and all dogs shall be
kept in control on a leash
at all times.
-Hours. No person shall
use or frequent public parks
between the hours of 9 p.m.
and 6 a.m., except during
special occasions.
-Waste Materials. No
person shall discard or dis-
pose of any garbage, litter
or waste materials within
public parks.
-Signs. No person
shall erect signs, markers
or inscriptions of any type
within the limits of a pub-
lic park without a specific
permission from the city
administration. Temporary
signs posted no more than
24 hours are permitted.
-Soliciting. No person,
while in a public park, may
operate a concession, or
sell any merchandise, or
use a public-address system
without written permit per-
mission from the city.
-Public Nuisance. No
person shall use abusive,
threatening, boisterous,
vile, obscene or indecent
language or gestures in a
public park. Drunken or
disorderly conduct shall be
cause for expulsion.
-Permits shall be re-
quired to an event attended
by 25 or more persons. The
city council may require the
person, persons, club group,
organization or corporation
to furnish police, fire, med-
ical, sanitary and clean-up
services. Permits shall also
be required for music, art,
religious and other shows.
-Exclusion. Any police
officer or city employee
may exclude any person
who violates for a period
not to exceed 120 days.
These are just some
of the highlights of the
proposed ordinance. A com-
plete ordinance is available
for the public to read at city
hall.
-See ORDINANCE/PAGE
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Lions hold annual barbecue
and installation
Students and adults helped with sight and hearing
programs
Left to right: Dan Sharp, vice president, Molly Rhea, Sight and Hearing Chair, Dick Paris,
president, District Governor, Debi Castor, Steve Rhea, secretary/treasurer and Jimmy Fich-
ter, tail twister.
The Heppner Lions
Club held their annual bar-
becue and officer instal-
lation on June 20 at Hag-
er Park in Heppner. Club
members had ribeye steak
dinner and elected the fol-
lowing officers: Dan Sharp
vice president, Molly Rhea,
Sight and Hearing Chair,
Dick Paris, president, Steve
Rhea, secretary/treasurer
and Jimmy Fichter, tail
twister. The officers were
installed by special guest
District Governor Debi
Castor.
Also at the meeting,
Lion member Molly Rhea
was presented the 2018 Dis-
trict G Volunteer of the Year
Award for her work with
Sight and Hearing in the
community. “You would be
surprised how much need
there is in our community,”
Rhea said when accepting
the award. She also cred-
ited the Morrow County
Public Health CARE Team
that works in the schools in
Morrow County for alerting
the club to those students
who need assistance.
“In the past 12 months
Heppner Lions has helped
adults obtain 12 eyeglass-
es and two hearing aids.
Working with the Mor-
row County Public Health
CARE Team, Heppner Li-
ons arranged for 10 children
to receive eyeglasses and
two hearing aids through
the KEX Kids fund,” Rhea
reported.
In other business the
club went over the various
money-making projects for
the year used to raise funds
for Sight and Hearing and
for scholarships given to
Heppner seniors each year.
The club will be selling
fireworks this year, selling
tickets for a rifle raffle and
also selling programs at
the rodeo again. Each year
for the past 20 years Sykes
Publishing has printed the
rodeo programs and then
donated them to the Lions
Club to sell at the rodeo.
The club keeps all the pro-
ceeds from the program
sales.
Anyone who may think
Heppner Lion Molly Rhea is presented with the 2018 District G
Volunteer of the Year Award by District Governor Debi Castor.
they or their children need
eyeglasses, checkups or
hearing aid assistance can
contact Molly Rhea at 541-
399-3420, any Heppner
Lions Club member or the
county health department
for assistance. Following is
more information about the
KEX programs and who is
eligible for assistance.
The KEX Kids Fund
is a non-profit organiza-
tion established to pro-
vide students with free
comprehensive eye exams,
eyeglasses and/or hearing
aids. We work closely with
a network of committed
providers, school staff and
volunteers.
Donors to the KEX
Kids Fund have the com-
mon desire to see that our
students receive the as-
sistance that they need;
therefore, all participants
must exercise care in order
to ensure proper use of the
funds. For many years now,
the Oregon Lions Sight and
Hearing Foundation has
collaborated with the KEX
Kids Fund in providing hu-
man resources and support
for all operational aspects
of the vision program.
In order to be eligible
for funding through the
KEX Kids Fund, a student
must meet the following
criteria:
-Student must be en-
rolled in the School Lunch
Program (free or reduced)
--If not enrolled, family
will need to report their
household income and the
number of people supported
by that income on the vision
application.
--Financial guidelines
set at 175 percent of federal
poverty level.
-Student must be be-
tween the ages zero and 21.
--Vision applications
are reviewed on a case-
by-case basis for students
between the ages of 19-21.
-Student is required to
be in school (alternative or
continuation) at the time of
applying.
-Student must not have
used the KEX Kids Fund
program during the past 12
months.
Lions Club sells
fireworks in Heppner
New alert system to warn
citizens of emergencies
Sign up to receive notifications on weather, crime,
missing persons and more
By David Sykes
Morrow County res-
idents can now receive
emergency alerts about
weather, crime and more
from a new system installed
by the Morrow County
Sheriff’s Department. Citi-
zens get these alerts on their
cell phones, by email or on
their home landline phones.
The new service, recent-
ly purchased by Morrow
County, is from a company
called AlertSense.
To receive the alerts
you will need to sign up on
the county web site, cus-
tomize the type of informa-
tion you want to receive and
how you want to receive it.
It’s a free service that alerts
you to events such as dust
storms, earthquakes, fire
warnings, floods, fog, frost,
high winds, severe thunder-
storms, tornados, volcanos
and winter storms in the
areas. You can specify what
kind of warnings you want
to get when signing up.
These emergency alerts can
also be related to hazards
such as fire, evacuation,
shelter in place, boil water,
etc. You can also receive in-
formation on crime and im-
minent danger, evacuation
alerts, hazardous materials
alerts and missing persons,
such as amber alerts.
In addition to receiv-
ing information on your
cell phone or wireless de-
vice, you may also sign
up to receive notification
on a traditional landline
phone. Adding your address
will provide you with geo-
graphically targeted alerts
when an emergency im-
pacts your location. These
alerts are provided free of
charge, however, standard
text messaging rates and
other charges may apply.
Apart from this sign up,
you can also receive alerts
by downloading the Alert- Emergency phone app
Sense app for Android and
Apple devices.
To sign up go to the
ANNUALS
county web site at www.
co.morrow.or.us, click on
the sheriff’s office section
and click on the emergency
notification link to begin
the sign up. Sign up is not
difficult, but if you need
help you can email help@
alertsense.com.
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Molly and Steve Rhea and Jimmy Fichter sell fireworks at the
Lions Club stand at the grocery store parking lot in Heppner.
The stand will be open from 1-7 Tuesday and also open on the
Fourth of July with a wide variety of fireworks for purchase.
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