Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Tuesday, July 3, 2018 -- TWO
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A View from the Green
Over the tee cup
The Willow Creek
Country Club ladies play-
day on June 26 hosted 24
ladies.
Low gross of the field
went to Virginia Grant, low
net to Pat Karen Hague-
wood and least putts of the
field was Pat Edmundson.
Low gross for flight A
went to Loa Heideman and
low net to Corol Mitch-
ell. Least putts was Sarah
Rucker.
Flight B low gross was
Betty Burns. Low net was a
tie between Shirley Martin
and Pat Dougherty and least
putts went to Judy Harris.
Sharon Harrison took
low gross on flight C and
low net was Sue Edson.
Mary Riggs and Bev Stea-
gall tied for least putts.
Virginia Grant got
the long drive and Karen
Haguewood won KP sec-
ond shot.
Loa Heideman got a
birdie on hole #4 and Kathy
Martin managed a 14’ 6”
long putt.
Men’s golf results
announced
Eighteen golfers played
on Sunday, July 1 at Willow
Creek Country Club.
Low net was Mike
Doherty with a score of 57
and a second place tie went
to Rod Wilson and Dave
Creswick with a 58.
Low gross went to Ron
Bowman with a 67, second
to Dave Pranger with a 68
and a third place tie was
between Josh Coiner and
David Alstott who shot a
Catholic men to
hold meeting
The men of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church of Heppner
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley will be holding a town hall
and St. William’s Catholic Church of Ione will hold their meeting at the Port of Morrow Riverfront room at 4 p.m.
First Friday of the month meeting on Friday, July 6 at the on July 8. The Port of Morrow is located at 2 Marine Dr.
parish office in Heppner. The meeting will start at 6:45 NE in Boardman.
a.m. and will be followed by First Friday Mass at 7:30 a.m.
MoCo completes hazmat response plan
Morrow County is one
of three Oregon counties
that has completed local
hazardous materials by rail
emergency response plans,
according to John Bowles,
Morrow County Under-
sheriff.
Bowles indicates the
plans identify rail lines
locally that transport haz-
ardous materials, outline
emergency notification and
response procedures and
are created in conjunction
with local emergency plan-
ning committees (LEPC)
and county emergency
managers.
The Oregon Office of
State Fire Marshal (OSFM)
recently worked with Mor-
row, Polk and Umatilla
counties to complete the
plans. Input is gathered
from stakeholder groups
including first responders,
emergency planners, tribal
representatives, railroad
operators, healthcare ad-
ministrators and many more
to ensure a “whole commu-
nity” approach to planning
and response.
For Morrow and Uma-
tilla County emergency
managers, this has been a
work in progress for over
a year. The emergency
managers wrote, submitted
New hairdresser
joins Hair
Expressions
Torri Lovgren has
joined the staff of Hair Ex-
pressions in Heppner as a
new hairdresser. Lovgren is
a 2010 graduate of Heppner
High School and is glad to
be back in her home town to
meet friends and customers.
After graduation
Lovgren went on to gradu-
ate from Aveda Institute of
Cosmology. “I am happy
to be back in Heppner and
look forward to meeting
everyone,” she said. Hair
Expressions, 305 Linden
Way offers cuts, coloring,
Community lunch
menu
St. Patrick’s Parish volunteers will serve lunch on
Wednesday, July 11 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Lunch
will be goulash, zucchini and yellow squash, spiced or-
anges and cinnamon pudding for dessert.
Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is
$3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
and were awarded a grant
through the State Fire Mar-
shal to fund the costs of the
project.
According to the news
release, the overall goal of
these local plans is to de-
velop the framework for a
safe, effective and efficient
response to a hazmat by rail
emergency that might occur
within their jurisdiction.
Plans include information
such as the frequency of
hazardous commodities
transported, emergency no-
tification and response pro-
cedures, evacuation routes,
probable areas and popu-
lation impacted along the
rail lines, and historically,
culturally and environmen-
tally sensitive areas.
With roughly 40 per-
cent of all hazardous ma-
terials transported in the
United States shipped by
rail, Oregon State Fire Mar-
shal Jim Walker applauds
communities for taking
preventative action locally.
“By planning notification
and response procedures
upfront, communities like
these get ahead of the curve
by preparing for an incident
of this magnitude and favor-
ably influence the outcome
for both responders and the
citizens they protect.”
Puppet show held
Torri Lovgren
waving, nails and much
more. Call 541-676-5271
for an appointment.
71.
Rod Wilson got KP
second shot on hole number
six with three feet.
The next regular men’s
play will be held Sunday,
July 8 and will be hosted
by David Allstott and David
Gunderson. Play will be a
shootout, which is a two-
man event. The teams will
play three nine-hole rounds
of various formats.
Senator to hold
town hall
Oregon Trail Library District hosted Penny’s puppets as
part of the 2018 summer reading program “libraries rock.”
Clinic celebrates anniversary
This month marks the
30 th anniversary of the re-
opening of the medical clin-
ic in Heppner, now known
as Pioneer Memorial Clinic.
A celebration to commemo-
rate the event will be held at
the clinic later this month,
announced a health district
spokesperson
On July 6, 1988, the
medical clinic in Heppner
was reopened after being
closed for approximately
a year and a half while a
search was carried out to
locate new physicians. The
Heppner community gave
a collective sigh of relief
when Drs. Ed and Jeanne
Berretta opened their prac-
tice on that day in July,
and finally the town had
full time physicians again.
Long-time clinic nurse, Tr-
ish Maben, RN, recalls that
before the Berrettas arrived,
much work had to be done
to prepare the clinic, stating
it was a, “start from scratch
project to furnish it, as there
wasn’t anything left in it.”
Many residents of
south Morrow, Gilliam
and Wheeler counties have
received care at the clinic
over the years and it has
seen many changes in staff,
structure and equipment.
The clinic is now part of
Morrow County Health
District and is staffed with
two full time physicians,
Russ Nichols, M.D. and
Dan Hambleton, M.D.,
along with Physician As-
sistant Amanda Fabian and
Family Nurse Practitioner
Betty Hamill, two manag-
ers, medical assistants and
support staff.
An anniversary cele-
bration will be held at the
clinic, 130 Thompson Ave.,
Heppner, on Wednesday,
July 25 from 12 noon to
1:30 p.m.
June weather near normal
According to prelim-
inary data received by
NOAA’s National Weather
Service in Pendleton, tem-
peratures at Heppner aver-
aged near normal during the
month of June.
The average tempera-
ture was 63 degrees which
was 0.2 degrees above nor-
mal. High temperatures av-
eraged 76.6 degrees, which
was normal. The highest
was 92 degrees on the 25 th .
Low temperatures averaged
49.3 degrees, which was 0.4
degrees above normal. The
lowest was 39 degrees, on
the 10 th .
On one day, the tem-
perature exceeded 90 de-
grees.
Precipitation totaled
0.60 inches during June,
which was 0.78 inches be-
low normal. Measurable
precipitation of at least .01
inch- was received on 5
days with the heaviest, 0.18
Willow Creek
Water Park
Regular hours:
1 pm to 8 pm Monday through Saturday
Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm.
Daily admission:
$4 for adults, $3 students, $2 children
Family Pass: $140 Single pass:$75
Swim lessons Levels 1 through 6
START JULY 9 AND JULY 30
and run for two weeks.
inches reported on the 11th.
Precipitation this year
has reached 6.51 inches,
which is 2.15 inches below
normal. Since October, the
water year precipitation at
Heppner has been 10.27
inches, which is 2.45 inches
below normal.
The highest wind gust
was 33 mph which occurred
on the 22 nd .
During the month of
June, there were no light-
ning flashes detected in the
vicinity of Heppner, accord-
ing to Earth Networks.
The outlook for July
from NOAA’s Climate Pre-
diction Center calls for near
normal temperatures and
near normal precipitation.
Normal highs for Heppner
during July are 85.7 degrees
and normal lows are 53.9
degrees. The 30 year nor-
mal precipitation is 0.33
inches.
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