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Baby dies, child injured in car accident HEPPNER 50¢ Mother’s blood alcohol content measures 0.15 Veronica Andrade, 39, and Nelson says it appears of Boardman has been ar- she will recover from her raigned in Morrow County injuries. Superior Court on charges He said that the Morrow that include manslaughter, County Sheriff’s Office and assault and driving under Boardman officers were the the influence in the crash first on the scene after re- early Sunday that took the ceiving the call shortly after life of her 7-month-old son 3 a.m. on June 2. Prelimi- and seriously injured her nary investigation revealed 3-year-old daughter accord- a silver 2003 Cadillac CTS, ing to information released operated by Andrade, was Veronica Andrade by Justin Nelson, Morrow traveling eastbound on I “I received calls from County District Attorney. 84 when it veered off the the Morrow County Sher- “This individual was at road onto the right shoulder iff’s Office and the Oregon a graduation party and, at and rolled. The 7-month- State Police, filling me in some point, had consumed old was ejected from the about the status of what was alcohol and then was driv- vehicle and sustained fatal occurring and the condition ing back after the party,” injuries. of Ms. Andrade, then the Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Nelson said. Oregon State Police 3-year-old child and then Court records indicate troopers arrived and took the infant,” Nelson said. Andrade’s blood alcohol command of the incident Nelson said he will content measured 0.15 since it occurred on the present the state’s case when she was taken into freeway. I 84 was reduced against Andrade to a Mor- custody at Good Shepherd to one lane for approxi- row County grand jury Medical Center after she mately three hours to allow either late this week or was treated and released. for scene investigation. early next week. Andrade and leave them there. “We In other action the Her daughter was air lifted OSP and MCSO were in is currently lodged at the have tons of tires around,” county held a public hear- to a hospital in the Portland touch with Nelson from the Umatilla County Jail with Bowles said. There was also ing on its proposed 2019-20 area in critical condition, beginning. total bail of $525,000. discussion about paying for budget. The total budget for dumpsters and having free the county is $43,618,361 a dump days when the public 15.2 percent increase over could clean up their prop- the current year. The county erties. “Maybe we could receives money from many have a cleanup day for sources including fees, county residents like some licenses, permits, fines, of the cities do,” Russell grants, etc. The amount of suggested. the budget estimated to be In other business the received from property tax- county approved a 9.6 per- es for the coming year will cent rate increase for gar- be $9,128,284 up $418,303, bage collection to Sanitary about a 4.6 increase over Disposal of Hermiston. the current year. The budget President Mike Jewett said has been approved by the the increase is necessary county budget committee, because “cost of opera- and the county commis- tions continue to rise in sion is expected to vote on all phases of our operation its adoption at its June 19 and our recycling income meeting. No one from the Ione High School class of 2019 held their graduation ceremony on Friday, May 31. continues to decline due to public attended or com- depressed markets.” The mented on the budget at the new rates mean residential May 22 hearing. curb service for a 90-gallon In other action the can will go up $1.46 to commission voted unani- $17.10 per month. The rate mously to approve hiring increase will take effect David Rabiner of Portland July 1 and will also affect to facilitate a goal setting other rate schedules such workshop for the county at as commercial. There are a cost of $5,500. Commis- about 1,000 customers on sioner Jim Doherty praised the Sanitary Disposal route a previous session held by and the company has not the county as getting the Heppner High School class of 2019 attended their graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 1. had an increase since July various departments and 2016. Heppner residents people in county govern- are not serviced by Sanitary ment working together. Disposal of Hermiston but “We had a lot of silos when by Miller & Sons Disposal. I came in. Seems a lot of Jewett said part of those silos came down and the reason for the rate in- people are willing to work crease is a large drop in more together,” he said in the recycling market. “We support of the goal setting have three thousand tons sessions, which he credits of cardboard in our yard with building team work right now,” Jewett told the and a more efficient govern- commissioners. He said the ment. Commissioner Melis- market dropped 17 percent sa Lindsay agreed saying and there is no place to it is hard to spend public sell recycled material now. dollars on team building, China has cut back on the but she finds this beneficial. Heppner High School seniors attended Baccalaureate at the St. Patrick’s Parish Hall on amount of recycled material In other business the Wednesday, May 29. it now buys. Money from commissioners appointed the sale of recycles goes Kalie Davis to the Eastern into Sanitary Disposal’s Oregon Workforce Board rate schedule to offset costs, to fill the position vacated but with the down market by Debbie Radie. Morrow that revenue has been lost County has two represen- he said. It has been reported tatives on the board with that the market is so bad the other being Heppner many Oregon cities are no Chamber of Commerce longer recycling materi- and Willow Creek Valley al, just dumping it in the Economic Group executive landfill. director Sheryll Bates. G T azette imes VOL. 138 NO. 23 8 Pages County talks ways to help clean up properties Car crusher, tire drop and cleanup days discussed By David Sykes The Morrow County Commission at its May 22 meeting discussed sever- al possible ways to put a dent in properties around the county that need to be cleaned up. Commission- er Don Russell said one resident in the West Glen area near Irrigon suggested maybe a portable car crush- er could be brought in to get rid of junk cars in the area. Having junk cars on property is against county ordinances, and there are apparently “hundreds” of them around the county. “When you have some people with 50 abandoned cars, they don’t have the money to clean them up,” Commissioner Don Russell said at a previous com- mission meeting. “We let them go on for years and then it only gets worse.” Undersheriff John Bowles said a portable car crusher had been brought in by the Sheriff’s Office in the past and that had worked well. The issue had come up before when County Planner Carla McLane re- ported the extent of “code” or trash violations there is around the county. “It took us 25 years to get here and it will take us 25 years to turn the boat around. It all depends on how much resources do you want to devote to it,” McLane said of the enormity of the prob- lem. It was pointed out that disposing of junk cars and other scrap metal is not as easy as it once was when the scrap metal market was good, and people could get money for old vehicles and metals. Russell said he counted eight trashed RVs on one property alone. It was pointed out that the West Lynn area of north county is especially in need of clean up. Bowles talked about maybe setting up a drop off site for old tires, saying they are expensive to get rid of and people just pile them on their properties 2019 seniors graduate Heppner Jr High holds end of year fun time at fit park May averages slightly warmer Seventh and eighth grade students from Heppner Jr High held their end of year event at the fitness park learning to play pickle ball. The PE classes were taught how to use the equipment According to prelim- degrees, which was 1.9 Heppner has been 13.53 so they continue to stay active and healthy. inary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton, tem- peratures at Heppner aver- aged slightly warmer than normal during the month of May. The average tempera- ture was 57.7 degrees which was 1.6 degrees above nor- mal. High temperatures av- eraged 69.9 degrees, which was 1.2 degrees above nor- mal. The highest was 83 degrees on the 12 th . Low temperatures averaged 45.5 degrees above normal. 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