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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 18, 2019 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676- 9228. Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or david@rapidserve. net. Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $31 in Morrow County; $25 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 65 years or older); $37 elsewhere; $31 student subscriptions. David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5.25 per column inch. Cost for classified ad is 50¢ per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $6.05 per column inch. For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Dates for pub- lication must be specified. Affidavits must be required at the time of submission. Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries: Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines. Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary. For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author. The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters. All letters MUST include the author’s address and phone number for use by the GT office. The GT reserves the right to edit letters. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10. Church volunteers do cleanup Volunteers from re- gional LDS churches par- ticipated in cleanup activ- ities around Heppner on Sept. 7. Volunteers paint- ed the old schoolhouse in the park, painted city hall, weeded at the local ceme- tery and performed many other projects. The group was provid- ed with a list of requests from Heppner Day Care, Willow Creek Terrace, Hep- pner Cemetery, Heppner Museum, city of Heppner and the Heppner Cham- ber. Some of the requests included power washing, sanding, repainting inside and out, pulling and clear- Volunteers paint the old schoolhouse in the Heppner City Park. ing weeds, clearing flower beds, planting grass, paint- ing curbs and parking spac- es, washing windows and screens, cleaning gutters, edging around gravestones and reorganizing storage spaces. A group of volunteers from regional LDS churches completed multiple cleanup projects in Heppner. Volunteers paint the Heppner city hall. Community lunch menu Willow Creek Baptist volunteers will serve lunch on Wednesday, September 25 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Lunch will be crispy oven-baked fish, apple bran muffin, macaroni and cheese, garlic asparagus with lime, broccoli salad and fresh fruit for dessert. Milk, coffee and tea is served at each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. The cemetery project included weeding and edging around the gravestones. Lexington recall vote scheduled for October 1 Maria Romero Referral Coordinator Irrigon Medical Clinic Since 2013 Controversy surrounds the recall process “It’s not just what I do, it’s who I choose to be.” Passionate, Caring, Community-Minded A Healthier Morrow County is Within Me. I’ve been in the medical field for 18 years and came to Irrigon Medical Clinic six years ago. I absolutely love this community, the patients we serve, and the people I am fortunate to work with. Every day presents a new opportunity to learn and grow, and I can’t imagine doing anything else! Read About How We are Working Together to be a Healthier Community Today and HealthyMC.org Where healthier is happening... Boardman | Heppner | Ione | Irrigon | Lexington 541-676-9133 By David Sykes A vote on whether to recall Lexington town councilmember Bill Beard is set to go before voters on a special election October 1, Morrow County Clerk Bobbi Childers told the Gazette-Times Tuesday. Beard’s recall is one of two in the town of Lex- ington with the other be- ing against Mayor Marcia Kemp. Only Beard’s is going on the Oct 1 ballot, however, because Childers says she has not been able to properly notify and re- ceive a response from May- or Kemp. According to state law once the county clerk re- ceives and validates the signatures on a recall peti- tion, she must then notify the city election clerk (who in this case is also the Lex- ington town recorder). The election clerk then in turn notifies the person being recalled who then has five days to respond either that they are going to resign or go through with the recall election. Controversy has arisen because Beard says he did not receive his letter until after the five-day limit was past, so he did not have an opportunity to respond. To complicate matters Beard apparently received his let- ter from the clerk who then resigned before Kemp’s letter was delivered, allow- ing Kemp to say she has not been officially notified of the recall. She has therefore not responded, however, when asked about the recall effort last week Kemp did tell the Gazette-Times she was not resigning. Beard also said he is not resigning, and an elec- tion will now be held Oct. 1 with only his recall on the ballot. But since he missed the response deadline Beard will not be able to have his statement printed either on the ballot or in the voter pamphlet. (See letter to the editor.) The recall against Beard, who has been at odds with Kemp on many issues, was initiated by town maintenance man Eddie Dickenson who said Beard has failed to come to a budget meeting causing the town shutdown, and threatened employees if they argue with him. A total of 18 signatures were need- ed on each recall petition and 20 were validated on Beard’s petition. I f K e m p ’s r e c a l l does move to an election Childers said now a second special election will need to be held. She said the Town of Lexington will be billed for the cost of an election which she said included not only printing the ballots but for paying election workers to carry out the counting and other jobs necessary in an election. Will Lemmon of Lex- ington started the recall pe- tition against Mayor Kemp saying, among other things, she has failed her oath of office, exceeded her author- ity as mayor and violated the town charter. He got 48 signatures on the petition he turned into the county clerk. Team to walk for ALS cure Team Heppner, a local group organized to help raise awareness and dona- tions for ALS, will be par- ticipating in the 2019 ALS walk in Portland on Sunday, Sept. 29. The donations from the walk go toward research for a cure as well as helping support medical needs for local patients. The team is walking for their friends, Martha Munkers and Terra Adams, who are living with ALS and for Delia Robinson, who recently passed away from ALS. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. There is no known cure for ALS but through funds supporting research we can hopefully find a cure soon. Donations can be made on the ALS Association website at alsa.org. Be sure to donate to Team Heppner for the Sept. 29 Portland walk. All donations stay in the local Heppner area to help ALS patients through the loaner closet, which provides free and low-cost medical equipment on a long-term basis. Those interested in joining the walk should be at the World Trade Center Plaza, 121 SW Salmon St, Portland, OR at noon. For more information follow Team Heppner on Facebook under Team Heppner Walk to Defeat ALS. For additional infor- mation contact Stephanie Rill, Darcy Robinson, Judy Healy, Rhonda Winters or Betty Hickerson.
