Baby dies, child injured in car
accident
HEPPNER
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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.
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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. The
lowest was 37 degrees on
the 2 nd .
Precipitation totaled
1.90 inches during May,
which was 0.24 inches
above normal. Measurable
precipitation, at least .01
inch, was received on 12
days with the heaviest, 0.50
inches reported on the 20 th .
Precipitation this year
has reached 9.52 inches,
which is 2.24 inches above
normal. Since October, the
water year precipitation at
inches, which is 2.19 inches
above normal.
The outlook for June
from NOAA’s Climate Pre-
diction Center calls for
above normal temperatures
and near normal precipita-
tion. Normal highs for Hep-
pner rise from 73 degrees
at the start of June to 81
degrees at the end of June.
Normal lows rise from 47
degrees to 51 degrees. The
30-year normal precipita-
tion is 1.38 inches.
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