Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 29, 2019 -- SEVEN
ENERGY
agreements. PGE will have
the option of buying the
whole project in 10 years.
NextEra Energy Resources’
subsidiary will build and
operate the combined facil-
ity. PGE expects to invest
approximately $160 million
for its owned portion of the
project.
The battery storage was
added to the project since
wind and solar have prob-
lems with “load balancing”
or providing a steady flow
of electricity. These facil-
ities only provide power
when the sun is shining,
and the wind is blowing.
The batteries will help with
this. Jenkins said PGE will
also have online gas gen-
erating facilities and hydro
dam power to help bal-
ance loads. The company
currently operates a gas
electrical generating plant
at Boardman, but cancelled
plans earlier to build anoth-
er gas facility there in favor
of more wind and solar
generation for the future.
The wind component
of the facility will be oper-
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ational by December 2020
and qualify for the feder-
al production tax credit
at the 100 percent level.
Construction of the solar
and battery components
is planned for 2021 and
will qualify for the federal
investment tax credit. The
tax credits help reduce the
cost of the project over
time, thus reducing costs to
PGE’s customers.
In other business at
the WCVEDG meeting the
membership voted to elect
officers for the coming year.
Kim Cutsforth was re-elect-
ed president, Nancy Snid-
er, vice president, David
Sykes, treasurer and Marcia
Kemp, secretary. Dues for
WCVEDG are $25 per year
and anyone who would
like to become a member
is welcome to email da-
vid@rapidserve.net and a
dues invoice will be sent.
WCVEDG’s mission is to
maintain and improve the
businesses and economics
of Heppner, Lexington and
Ione.
Low cost rabies
clinic offered
A low-cost rabies clinic
will be held in Boardman on
Saturday, June 22 from 10
a.m. to noon at the Board-
man City Park. The cost
of the rabies vaccination
is $20 per pet. Along with
the vaccinations, the city of
Boardman will offer free
dog licensing.
The rabies vaccination
clinic will be given by Dr.
Burgess of Country Animal
Hospital. Rabies is a fatal
disease of the brain and
spinal cord, caused by a
virus carried by mammals.
Vaccinating dogs and cats
against rabies is essential
in protecting loved ones
and halting the spread of
the disease.
All dog owners who
reside in the city limits of
Boardman are required to
have their dog licensed for
identification purposes. For
more information, please
call Boardman Animal
Control Officer Jose Fer-
nandez at 541-481-9252.
Marksmanship
scores announced
The Heppner and Ione
marksmanship teams have
completed the fifth week of
competition. Athletes must
shoot at least 50 rounds
each week, either on Sun-
day or Wednesday evening,
at the Morrow County Gun
Club.
Week five total shoot-
ing scores for the Heppner
team were Tiffany Akers,
9; Madison Ashbeck, 34;
Tucker Ashbeck, 39; Xavi-
er Bohanon, 38; Zachary
Bredfield, 30; Hunter Gree-
nup, 44; Justin McAninch,
30; Gibson McCurry, 39;
Matt Orem, 30 and Kevin
Rea, 30.
The Ione team’s total
shooting scores for the
week were Jake Heideman,
33; Grace Ogden, 9; Kalvin
Rietmann, 21 and Evan
Ferguison, 33.
Chamber lunch meeting
The next lunch meeting
of the Heppner Chamber
of Commerce will be held
Thursday, June 20 at noon
at the Heppner City Hall
conference room. It will
be all entities reports. This
meeting will take the place
of the regularly scheduled
June 6 meeting.
Lunch will be provided
for $10 per person. The
menu information will be
provided at a later date.
RSVP’s are required.
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.
Exchange student
attends school in
Ione
Daycare welcomes
new director
Heppner Daycare has
announced the hiring of a
new director, Becky Cherry.
Becky and her family have
lived in Heppner for over 20
years and have been active
community members.
Cherry graduated from
BMCC with a degree in hu-
man services and has since
worked in the mental health
field as well as providing in
home early childcare.
According to a source,
Becky is excited and look-
ing forward to working at
Heppner Daycare. “Her
passion and love for chil-
dren has already made an
impact on the center. She
is dedicated to providing
a loving, safe educational
environment for each child
who enters through the
door,” they added.
New grain facility
to be built
Marie Chretien (left) plays softball with her host sister, Jessica
Medina.
Marie Chretien, 18,
looks like the all-Amer-
ican girl, making first
team all-conference for
her hometown basketball
team, the Ione Cardinals.
But Marie is from France
and has spent the last school
year as an exchange student
in Ione.
Marie is from Es-
boz-Brest, a town of around
460 in eastern France. Es-
boz-Brest is about an hour
from the Swiss border,
around an hour and a half
from Basel, Switzerland.
In France she lives with her
parents, Sophie, a nurse,
and Michel, an engineer.
She has three older broth-
ers, Maxence, 25, Theo, 23,
and Valerian, 21.
Several years ago Ma-
rie was able to take a trip to
visit Boston and New York,
which she loved, and gave
her the idea of becoming
an exchange student. Her
parents said okay and last
August she traveled from
France to Ione.
While in Ione she
played basketball and “was
quite an outstanding play-
er,” said her ASSE ex-
change student coordinator
Cathy Halvorsen. Marie
had played six years in a
basketball club in France.
Students in Europe gener-
ally do not have sports pro-
grams through the schools,
but instead play for private
teams.
Marie also played soft-
ball with the Heppner team.
“It was a fun experience,”
she says.
Marie got along very
well with her host family,
the Obdulia and Martin Me-
dina family. “I like my host
family,” said Marie, adding,
“I love them, and thank
them for the experience.”
The family also includes
Jessica Medina, 16, her host
sister, Ashley Medina, 19,
who attends Blue Mountain
Community College, Marty
Medina, 12, and Stephanie
(Medina) McElligott, who
recently had a baby. Stepha-
nie and her husband, Colin,
named the baby after Marie.
Marie has one more
year of school after she
returns home where she at-
tends Lycee Lumiere Lux-
euil-les bains, a school of
around 2,000 students. She
plans to eventually become
a physical therapist.
“I missed my friends
and family, but I had so
much fun here,” says Marie,
laughingly adding that she
also missed the bread and
cheese of France.
Marie’s parents will
travel to the U.S. before she
leaves and the family has
plans to visit San Francis-
co and Los Angeles before
they return to France.
Mid Columbia Produc-
ers is building new grain
receiving facility in Gilliam
County. The new facility,
Cedar Springs, will be com-
prised of three ground piles
totaling 2.0 million bushels.
The elevation capacity (un-
loading speed) will be rated
at 50,000 bushels per hour.
The facility will provide
storage for overflow bush-
els at Jordan, Mikkalo and
Condon as well as provide a
faster unloading alternative
for farmers who normally
deliver to the Arlington
elevator.
General Manager
Jeff Kaser explains, “The
ground piles provide the
strategic advantage of keep-
ing grain off the river during
the peak harvest season and
allow MCP to provide the
grain to the market when it
needs it as opposed to when
the elevator reaches its stor-
Route 74
congratulates the
Ione and Heppner Classes of 2019.
Good Luck on your Future Endeavors.
Karen and Dustin, Route 74
Route 74
will be closed for regular business on
Saturday, June 1, 2019.
We will be hosting an open house for
the Ione Class of 2019 at 2:00 pm for
Gracie
Jewett
ported she was raped by
Larios. He was located in
a bedroom at the residence
and when the officers at-
tempted to speak with him,
he jumped out of a window
and ran into an 80-acre field
of poplar trees south of the
residence.
Additional Morrow
County Sheriff ’s Office
Renee
Peterson
All are welcome. Food provided.
ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE:
Rape suspect in custody
Pedro Lopez Larios, that occurred at a residence
34, of Boardman has been on Meenderinck Farms
taken into custody and south of Irrigon on May
21 shortly before
lodged at the Uma-
7 a.m.
tilla County Jail on
Sergeant Brian
charges of Rape I (fel-
Snyder and Ser-
ony) and Sex Abuse I
geant Nathen Braun
(felony). The Morrow
responded and
County Sheriff’s Of-
fice received a report Pedro Lopez spoke to a 21-year-
old female who re-
of the sexual assault Larios
ing capacity during harvest.
Forced sales at harvest to
leave room in bins for farm-
er deliveries are typically
done at lower margin. New
facilities provide a custom-
er, farmer and company
solution and should give
MCP a strategic advantage
in the marketplace.”
MCP plans to finish
this facility for the 2019
wheat harvest and it will
receive soft white wheat
and hard red winter wheat.
During harvest 2019, hard
red winter wheat will be re-
ceived at Arlington, Cedar
Springs and Jordan. Dark
northern spring wheat and
feed barley will be received
at Jordan. Check with the
Moro grain department pri-
or to delivery to determine
what classes of grain will
be received at other MCP
elevators.
MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M.
deputies arrived to assist
with the search, along with
deputies from Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office and
two drones. After hours of
searching, Larios was not
found.
As Sergeants Snyder
and Braun continued the
investigation, Larios was
found attempting to leave
the state on May 23. Mor-
row County deputies with
assistance from Hermiston
Police Department con-
ducted a traffic stop on
a vehicle, finding Larios
hiding in the trunk. He was
taken into custody without
incident, transported to and
lodged at UCJ with bail of
$750,000.
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