Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 8, 2018 -- TWO
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of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
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Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
U.S.P.S. 240-420
Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
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David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor
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column inch. Cost for classified ad is 50¢ per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to
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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.
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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.
The Willow Creek
Country Club ladies play-
day on July 31 was played
on a very hot day.
Low gross of the field
went to Nancy Proph-
eter, low net to Virginia
Grant and least putts of the
field was split with Karen
Thompson, Karen Hague-
wood and Sharon Harrison.
Low gross for flight A
was Eva Kilkenny. Low net
went to Loa Heideman.
Flight B low gross was
a tie with Betty Burns, Judy
Harris and Pat Dougherty.
Low net went to Shirley
Martin and least putts was
Pat Edmundson.
Bev Steagall took low
gross on flight C and low
net was Sue Edson. Jean
Creswick had the least
putts.
Virginia Grant had a
chip-in and a birdie on hole
number one. Special event
awards went to Virginia
Grant and Jackie Allstott.
The next event will be
a couples tournament.
Community lunch
menu
Next Chamber
lunch meeting
scheduled
The next lunch meet-
ing of the Heppner Cham-
ber of Commerce will be
held Thursday, Sept. 6 at
noon, in the Heppner City
Hall conference room. This
meeting will be for all enti-
ties reports.
Lunch will be provided
by Tacos Hometown for
$10. A choice of a small
beef or chicken burrito,
chips, salsa and dessert will
be served. RSVP is required
Deadline to file for
city positions
approaching
Willow Creek Baptist volunteers will serve lunch
on Wednesday, August 15 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center.
Lunch will be fish and chips, broccoli salad, fruit salad,
bread sticks and ice cream for dessert.
Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is
Cities and towns in
$3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
Morrow County will be
electing council members
and mayors in the election
scheduled for Nov. 6. The
The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following
last day for prospective
criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name
candidates to file for open
of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you
positions is Aug. 28, with
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
Firefighters have com- areas are well inside the fire all information to be re-
printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the pleted mop up operations line with minimal risk of ceived by the county clerk
right to edit. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in on the Wilson Prairie fire the fire moving outside the by Sept. 6.
letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under
The city of Heppner
located near the Morrow lines. Some hose remains
“Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10.
County Off Highway Vehi- on the fire line to be used will be electing three coun-
cle Park in south Morrow if fire or heat is discovered cil members, positions four,
five and six. The office for
County. The fire was ini- near the line.
To the editor:
ordination of various activ- tially reported on July 23
The Umatilla Nation- mayor will also be on the
I am putting into writ- ities, services and amenities and burned more than 400 al Forest Area and Road ballot.
ing the compliments that I during their visit.
The town of Lexington
acres. The fire is in patrol Closure around the fire
have heard from two sep-
What a great way to status as of Saturday, Aug. was rescinded as of Friday also has openings for three
arate groups of bikers (bi- watch your membership 4. Firefighters will continue afternoon.
council members and the
cycle) that have traveled dollars generate revenue to monitor the fire during
The weather forecast mayor. Council member
through our community. – the chamber does reach the heat of the day when for the region will return
These people expressed beyond the city limits. Sup- any potential smoldering to a hot and dry trend over
a “job well done” for the port your chamber of com- fire may become more ac- the next few days. People
work accomplished by the merce, we’re all working tive.
using the forest are asked to
Heppner Chamber of Com- together.
There are unburned follow restrictions currently
merce and Sheryl Bates. A
Sherron Woodside
areas of fuel within the inte- in place to limit potential
“big shout out” to Sheryl for
Ione
rior of the fire with smolder- human wildfire ignitions.
her communication and co-
ing and creeping fire. These
Northwest Farm Credit
Services, the Northwest’s
leading agricultural lending
cooperative, announced
2018 second quarter earn-
ings of $69.7 million, a 27.6
The Heppner Chamber
Two juvenile males Office. Various property percent increase, compared
will be auctioning off a
were arrested and taken to damage incidents around to $54.7 million for the
Coleman swimming pool at
the NORCOR juvenile fa- the city of Heppner resulted same quarter of 2017.
the Murray’s Beer and Wine
Earnings for the six
cility in The Dalles follow- in the arrest of the juveniles
tasting event held Thursday,
months that ended June 30,
ing an investigation by the for criminal mischief.
Aug. 16 at the fairgrounds.
Morrow County Sheriff’s
Due to the incident be- 2018, were $144.5 million,
Ken Grieb will be the
ing an on-going investiga- a 20.4 percent increase,
auctioneer for the 16’ X
tion, no other information is compared to $120.0 mil-
48” steel frame pool and
lion for the same period of
available at this time.
FFA baskets. Everyone is
the prior year. Increased
welcome to attend.
earnings were primarily
the result of continued loan
growth and a refund of
premiums previously paid
to the Farm Credit System
Insurance Corporation. To-
Ida Farra celebrated her 101 st birthday on Aug. 4 at the Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home.
tal capital increased 3.9
Wilson Prairie fire
mop up complete
~ Letters to the Editor ~
Job well done
no later than Friday, Aug.
31 due to the Labor Day
holiday on Monday, Sept. 3.
The meeting location is
accessible to persons with
disabilities. A request for an
interpreter for the hearing
impaired or for other ac-
commodations for persons
with disabilities should be
made at least 48 hours be-
fore the meeting to Sheryll
Bates at 541-676-5536.
positions two, three and
four are up for election.
Ione will be electing
a mayor and four council
members, numbers two,
three, four and five.
Boardman and Irrigon
both have three councilor
positions available.
Anyone interested in
running for an open posi-
tion should contact their
city or town of residence
for additional information.
The phone numbers are:
Heppner, 541-676-9618;
Lexington, 541-989-8515;
Ione, 541-422-7414; Ir-
rigon, 541-922-3047 and
Boardman, 541-481-9252.
Northwest Farm
Credit Services
reports earnings
Chamber to auction Two juveniles
swimming pool
arrested in Heppner
Ida Farra celebrates
101 years
A gathering of more than 25 people joined her to celebrate with cake and ice cream. Ida
says she is looking forward to her 102 nd birthday next year. -Contributed photo.
Murray’s 22nd Annual
Beer & Wine Tasting
“Luau Nights”
Thursday, August 16
6:00 - 10:30 pm
Morrow County Fairgrounds
Fair admission required
or the
f
s
s
e
r
D asion!
occ
Award Winning Wines From
all over the NorthWest
Price $10 starter pack 2 drink tickets &
take home glass.
Additional tickets $5 each
Joe Lindsay 6-7:30
Non-alcoholic
Drinks Provided By
Breaking Grounds Coffee
Red Bulls, Spritzers, Italian Soda
Nate Botsford 7:30-10:30
Bring your hula hoops
MONDAY
5:00 PM
THOMAS
ORCHARDS
Kimberly, Oregon
Live Entertainment
Hula Hoop Contest!
Limbo Contest!
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U-PICK
Sunbrite
Nectarines
Plums
REDI
PICKED
Nectarines
Peaches
If you don’t have a hoop one will be provided
The Heppner Chamber of Commerce will be serving up a chicken teriyaki dinner with pine-
apple over rice, homemade potato salad , cookie, and bottled water.
From 6-8 p.m.
$10 adults - $5 kids 11 and under
Prepared by Alvin Liu
QUESTIONS : Murray's 541-676-9158
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541-934-2870
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percent during the year to
$2.5 billion.
“So far in 2018, our
customer-members are gen-
erally seeing good growing
conditions and positive
returns, as evidenced by
the continued strong per-
formance and growth of our
loan portfolio,” said Phil
DiPofi, president and CEO.
“However, we are seeing
pockets of stress in some
commodities where produc-
tion costs have increased
and commodity prices have
declined due to unfavorable
market conditions. We’re
closely monitoring how
the current volatility in the
world trade situation and
pending Farm Bill issues
will impact our customers.”
Library board
meeting to be held
The Oregon Trail Library District Board meeting for
August will be held Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at
the Heppner branch.
On the agenda for the meeting will be the employee
vacation policy, the meeting room policy and director
report.
The next meeting will be held Wednesday, Sept. 19
at 6:30 p.m. at the Boardman branch.
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