TEN - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 22, 2019
County plans remodel of
Bartholomew building
Golf team finishes third
at state
More office space to be added
By David Sykes
The county is going out
for bids on a minor remod-
eling project of the county
administrative offices Bar-
tholomew building in Hep-
pner. The $60,000 -$75,000
project includes moving the
current conference room
into the lobby area of the
building, moving a break-
room into current storage
area and construction of
three new offices spaces in
former breakroom location.
Construction on the
Bartholomew building
was done in 2015-16 and
is approximately 10,000
square feet of office and
conference room space. The
remodeling is expected to
take about one month and
is expected to begin June 1.
In other county busi-
ness Commissioner Don
Russell at last week’s com-
mission meeting discussed
his frustration dealing with
the Navy on what is its
responsibility for fire pre-
vention and control on the
47,000-acre bombing range
in north Morrow County.
Russell said there have
been fires on the range that
threaten nearby property
owners and the Navy has in-
adequate firefighting man-
power and equipment, and
very little fire prevention
measures like fire breaks
on its property. He said a
recent live-fire exercise by
the Navy in the middle of
the dry season and with an
on-going drought, started a
fire on the range which the
Navy “was not prepared to
deal with,” he says. He said
personnel he talked to did
not even know there is no
water source on the range
for fighting fires.
Russell also said the
neighboring fire depart-
ments like the Boardman
Rural Fire Department
will respond to fires on the
bombing range and then
not be reimbursed for their
efforts. “I understand the
Navy has as their mission
to train (pilots), but then
they start fires out there and
expect Ione and Boardman
(fire departments) to come
and put them out with no
reimbursement,” he said. In
talking to personnel on the
range Russell said the fire
fighter told him they were
only trained in wildland
firefighting and would not
respond to a fire in one of
the structures on the bomb-
ing range. They will also
not respond to mutual aid
and come and help Board-
man or Ione fire depart-
ments as most neighboring
fire departments do.
Russell also said he was
told there are fire breaks
between the bombing range
and the large 22,642-acre
Nature Conservancy grass-
land preserve southwest of
the Bombing Range. “There
are guys I know that have
lived near there for a long
time and they tell me there
is no firebreak,” Russell
said.
Russell said in addition
to fire problems there is also
a lack of predator and weed
control on the bombing
Range that is an ongoing
issue with neighbors. The
Navy’s unresponsive atti-
tude has been going on for
a long time, but Russell said
he was especially frustrated
because he recently attend-
ed a meeting with the Navy
people where he thought
something might finally be
done. “Their attitude was
it’s not a problem for us
(Navy) so we aren’t going
to do anything,” Russell
said.
Pictured with their trophy and score sheet (L-R): Gavin Hanna-Robinson, Casey Fletcher,
Logan Burright, Cason Mitchell, Reno Ferguson, Kellen Grant and Coach Greg Grant.
The Heppner Mustang
boys’ golf team finished
third at the recent OSAA
3A/2A/1A State Golf
Championships held at the
Emerald Valley Golf Club
in Creswell. This is the
second year in a row that
the Mustangs have brought
home a trophy as they fin-
ished fourth a year ago.
The Heppner team shot
a team total of 372 on the
first day of the tournament
and a 370 on the second for
a two-day total of 742. Ore-
gon Episcopal had a 664 to
win the state title and Ban-
don finished second with a
730. LaPine shot a 746 to
finish fourth and Riverdale
had a 751 to place fifth.
Other schools that were
competing against the Mus-
tangs were Portland Ad-
ventist, Brookings-Harbor,
Burns, Enterprise, Blan-
chet Catholic, St. Mary’s,
East Linn Christian, Re-
gis, Rogue River, West-
side Christian, Vale and
Sutherlin.
Kellen Grant led the
Mustangs with a two-day
total of 178 (86, 92) and
placed 13 th overall. Logan
Burright shot a 90 on both
days to finish tied for 15 th
with a 180 total. Cason
Mitchell tied for 23 rd place
by shooting a 185 (93,
92). Casey Fletcher shot a
103 on day one and Gavin
Hanna-Robinson played the
second day for the team and
recorded a 96. That combi-
nation finished tied for 28 th
with a total of 199. Reno
Ferguson shot a 207 (104,
103) for the Mustangs and
finished in 37 th place. A total
of 63 golfers competed at
the tournament.
The Heppner state
tournament team will lose
seniors Logan Burright,
Cason Mitchell and Reno
Ferguson to graduation
this year. The team will
return with state placers
Kellen Grant, Casey Fletch-
er and Gavin Hanna-Robin-
son. There are also several
other underclassmen that
are ready to step up for
the team. According to a
source, “The Mustang boys’
golf team certainly looks as
if they could make another
run at the state tournament
next year.”
Students qualify for state chess
tournament
Teens to hold climate event
Six students from Hep-
pner Elementary School
qualified for the Chess for
Success State Tournament
in Portland at the Moda
Center. Students earning
the trip, after placing at
the regional tournament,
are: Owen Guerra, Delilah
Sauceda and Journey Ca-
van, fifth graders; Claire
Lindsay and Joseph Mc-
Masters, fourth graders
Pictured (L-R) front row: Mary Ashbeck, Joe McMasters, and Mary Ashbeck and
Claire Lindsay and Isabel Payne. Back row: Delilah Sauceda, Isabel Payne, third graders.
Owen Guerra, and Journey Cavan.
The trip was funded by the
Howard and Beth Bryant
Foundation.
During the tournament,
Online Hunter Education
students played compet-
itively for two days. One
day was team competition
and the second day being
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against and learn from some
amazing chess players.
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students were using their
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The history of the
Date:
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Chess for Success began in
Location: Heppner High School
Instructor: Jim and Darlene Marquardt
1992 when three friends,
who believed in giving
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back to their community
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and knew that chess would
charges a $10 application fee for all hunter education students at the time of registration.
provide the tools students
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to pilot a chess program in
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Pictured (L-R): Dara Teeman, Chloe McLaren, Amelia Baker
and Hunter Houck
nine of the worst- perform-
ing schools in the Portland
Public School District. That
first year 200 students par-
ticipated in the after-school
chess program. In 2018 it
has grown to 3,080 students.
Those three friends, Frank
Eiseman, Phillip Margolin
and Dick Roy, co-founded
Chess for Success in 1996.
Since then, many students
have benefited from their
vision and generosity.
Studies show that
learning chess increases
students’ academic achieve-
ment in all areas. Chess
builds high-level thinking
and problem-solving skills
and participation in ex-
tra-curricular activities in-
creases student attendance.
After returning from
the tournament the students
created a thank you book
for the Bryant Foundation
to show their appreciation.
A group of teens in
Heppner will be holding a
climate strike in the Hep-
pner City Park on May 24
at 12 p.m. The goal of the
Heppner climate strike is to
educate the public about the
effects that our daily lives
have on the environment
and to show the general
public how to care for the
Earth.
The teens who created
the Heppner climate strike
are using the phrase “Fight
for our future.” to show
just what they are working
to do. People of all ages
are invited to this fami-
ly-friendly event. Attendees
are encouraged to bring a
strike sign with a message
pertaining to the global
climate crisis.
Educational handouts
will be provided. For addi-
tional information, you can
find the heppner climate
strike on Instagram at @
heppnerclimatestrike or
on their website at bit.ly/
heppnerclimate.
DEADLINE:
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Hunter Education
LES SCHWAB WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE
MUSTANG TRACK TEAM FOR THEIR SUCCESS AT STATE
Back Row- Leo Waite, Trevor Antonucci
Middle Row- Derek Howard, Hunter Nichols, Jackson Lehman, Trent Smith, Mason Lehman, Jayden Wilson
Front Row- Marlee Mitchell, Madelyn Nichols