TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 7, 2019
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
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U.S.P.S. 240-420
July temperatures Wasteland Kings to
colder than normal perform for music
in the park
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Community lunch menu
Willow Creek Baptist volunteers will serve lunch
on Wednesday, August 14 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center.
Lunch will be fish nuggets, rice pilaf, orange-kissed beets,
three bean salad, zucchini bread and oatmeal applesauce
bars for dessert.
Milk, coffee and tea is served at each meal. Suggested
donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
According to prelim-
inary data received by
NOAA’s National Weather
Service in Pendleton, tem-
peratures at Heppner av-
eraged colder than normal
during the month of July.
The average tempera-
ture was 67.6 degrees which
was 2.2 degrees below nor-
mal. High temperatures
averaged 81.9 degrees,
which was 3.8 degrees be-
low normal. The highest
was 92 degrees on the 27 th .
Low temperatures averaged
53.4 degrees, which was 0.5
degrees below normal. The
lowest was 45 degrees, on
the 20 th .
On two days, the tem-
perature exceeded 90 de-
grees.
Precipitation totaled
0.27 inches during July,
which was 0.06 inches be-
low normal. Measurable
precipitation, at least .01
inch, was received on four
days with the heaviest, 0.13
inches reported on the 1 st .
Precipitation this year
has reached 10.47 inches,
which is 1.48 inches above
normal. Since October, the
water year precipitation at
Heppner has been 14.48
inches, which is 1.43 inches
above normal.
The outlook for Au-
gust from NOAA’s Climate
Prediction Center calls for
above normal temperatures
and near normal precipi-
tation. Normal highs for
Heppner during August are
85.5 degrees and normal
lows are 53.5 degrees. The
30-year normal precipita-
tion is 0.39 inches.
The Wasteland Kings
will perform at the final
concert in this year’s edi-
tion of Music in the Park.
The concert will be held at
the Heppner City Park on
Main Street Sunday, August
11 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
This group of gifted
musicians from La Grande
describes their music as
“rock n’ roll Americana”
played with their own
unique twist.
Pulled pork sandwiches
and more will be avail-
able for purchase by dona-
tion beginning at 5 p.m.,
with proceeds supporting
Hopeful Saints Ministry’s
well-drilling mission to El
Salvador in November.
This series of concerts
is funded by the Morrow
County Unified Recreation
District and facilitated by
Hopeful Saints Ministry as
a service to the community.
More information is avail-
able by calling the church
office at 541-676-9970.
Farra celebrates
102 years
Hearing scheduled on changes to
Wheatridge Wind Energy project
Increase acreage, add solar and install bigger blades
By David Sykes
The big Wheatridge
Wind Energy project, set
to get underway soon
in Morrow County, will
have a public hearing this
month before the State En-
ergy Facility Siting Council
(EFSC) asking for some
changes to the facility.
Wheatridge has already
received a permit from the
state to build, but now wants
to increase the total size of
the project by over 1,500
acres to accommodate a
solar facility. Also included
in the amendment NextEra
Energy Resources, LLC,
owner of the project, wants
to install longer blades on
the 292 wind turbines, and
change the way it builds
the battery storage which
is included in the project.
Instead of building one
large battery storage facility
the company wants to build
41 distributed storage sys-
tems. The longer blades are
apparently an improvement
in design that will allow
higher energy output. Also
enlarged from five to 10
acres is the substation site.
The public hearing on
the changes to the project
is scheduled for August 22
at 5 p.m. at the Port of Mor-
row Riverfront Room in
Boardman. Written or oral
comments may be provided
at the public hearing.
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Ida Farra and “the boys” celebrate Ida’s 102 nd birthday on
August 3 at Willow Creek Valley Assisted Living in Heppner.
Pictured (L-R): Doug Drake, Frank Osmin, the Rev. Jim
Monroe, Ida, Earl Fishburn and Ernie McCabe.
Marriage Licenses
The Morrow County Clerk’s office has released the
following report of marriage licenses:
July 15, 2019: - Cody James Beairsto, 24, Corvallis,
OR, and Maggie Kay Collins, 23, Heppner.
July 29, 2019: - Octavio Mendoza, 59, Boardman,
and Adriana Gomez Figueroa, 29, Boardman.
August 1, 2019: - Bryan Anthony Bach, 28, Moxee,
WA, and Elizabeth Glen Davison, 25, Kennewick, WA.
-Teiko Danielle Szasz, 42, Boardman, and Gerardo
Villegas, 37, Boardman.
August 2, 2019: - Javier Johnathen Hall, 18, Irrigon,
and Lina Aryanna Michelle Dunn, 18, Irrigon.
New leather shop opens
in Heppner
Clair Arnold
School Based Ione
Community Clinic
Since 2018
“It’s not just what I do,
it’s who I choose to be.”
Enthusiastic. Attentive. Hopeful.
A Healthier Morrow County is Within Me.
I love my job! Not only do I get to work with amazing
people at MCHD, but I also have the good fortune to
serve my community and the students through the
Ione Community Charter School. Every day brings
something new, and I can’t wait to see what we
grow next!
Read About How We are Working
Together to be a Healthier Community
Today and
Boardman | Heppner | Ione | Irrigon | Lexington
By David Sykes
A new leather shop has
opened in Heppner and is
located in the old bowling
alley building at 180 Chase
Street. Owner Don Carter
has over 40 years in the
leather business and lives
here with his wife Betty.
Carter got his start in
the leather business back in
1976 when he apprenticed
at a shop in La Grande. In
1978 he moved to Montana
and opened his own shop,
and then from there moved
to Prineville where he op-
erated a leather shop for
15 years.
“Don’t get me wrong,
I love Montana,” he says
with a grin. “The scenery
is great, the hunting fantas-
tic, but oh those winters,”
on why he moved back to
Oregon.
In addition to saddle
work Carter also does boots
and shoes, belts and all
kinds of custom leather
work. Carter says he is
“semi-retired” but loves
the business and has to stay
busy.
“Stop on by and say
hello,” he says. His phone
number is 541-420-6062.
Calls from SSA are a scam
Residents in Heppner
and the surrounding area
have reported receiving
calls from Social Security to
the Gazette. The following
explanation was obtained
on the AARP website:
The Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) report-
ed a surge in late 2018 in
scams involving fake SSA
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Where healthier is happening...
Don Carter looks over a saddle for a customer at his new leather shop in Heppner. -Photo by
David Sykes.
541-676-9133
employees calling people
with warnings that their
Social Security numbers
had been linked to criminal
activity and suspended. The
caller asks you to confirm
your number so he or she
can reactivate it or issue
you a new one, for a fee.
This is no emergency but a
ploy to get money and per-
sonal data: Social Security
does not block or suspend
numbers, ever.
You can call Social
Security’s customer service
line at 800-772-1213 to
confirm whether a commu-
nication purporting to be
from SSA is real.
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