TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 18, 2019
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of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
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David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor
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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
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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.