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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 15, 2020 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 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 Giselle Moses.........................................................................................Advertising 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. ~ Letters to the Editor ~ The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and will not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit. 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. Do masks protect? To the Editor, There is great confu- sion and frustration over the Governor’s dictates to “make the people safe from COVID-19.” Presently all Oregonians are mandated to wear masks in public. A COVID-19 mandated vaccine is in the works with a reported tracking device. Also in the works is mandated digital dollar to replace cash. All these government dictates come with a pledge to keep us safe. Our schools are closed for the same excuse, to keep our kids safe from COVID-19. Who are we to trust? Are we to trust the national press and media that push the COVID panic and fear button daily, as they push their destroy Trump agen- da? How about trusting Governor Brown as she releases dangerous felons from prisons and exhorts BLM and Antifa rioters to destroy and desecrate our businesses, institutions and heritage? Are we to trust the WHO, CDC and Dr. Fauci as their projections and analysis constantly change always on the side of more Socialist government con- trol? Do the mandated masks protect the user and the public? There have been no blind controlled peer reviewed empirical or sci- entific studies to verify. General public masks have never been required before for virus protection, ever. There is anecdotal evidence both pro and con, however empirical evidence proves these mandated masks have no positive impact on COVID-19. In Africa with 1.2 billion citizens and very few masks there have been less than 22,000 deaths. In India with minimal masks and 1.4 billion citizens there has been 20,600 deaths to COVID-19. Same in Ban- gladesh, South America, Philippines and all over the world. The worst cases of COVID-19 occur where masks are required. What about closing our schools? In Oregon there has not been a death from COVID-19 under the age of 35. There is no scientific or empirical evidence that our youth will contract or spread COVID-19 nor is their evidence of adult to Obituaries Michael G. Smith Michael G. Smith, 70, and baseball, lettering in of Bend, passed away in all three Sisters, OR on July 8 from After graduation Mike, injuries sustained in a mo- or Smitty as he was known torcycle accident earli- to his friends, at- er in the day. A grave- tended Lane Com- side service will be munity College held Saturday, July 18 in Eugene for a at 1 p.m. at the Heppner short time. He re- Masonic Cemetery. As turned to Heppner per Oregon guidelines, in 1971 and started any in attendance must Michael G. working at Kinzua Smith wear a mask. Corporation as a Mike was born lumber grader. He April 20, 1950 at Baker played slow pitch baseball City, OR to Lennadell and for a local league until a Glenn Smith. The fami- knee injury during a game ly lived in Pondosa, OR kept him from playing per- where Glenn worked for manently. Mike traveled to the Collins Lumber co. Europe in the 70’s, bought While living in Pondosa, an old van in Amsterdam, each summer the family drove through several coun- would pack with horses into tries with a friend and de- the high lakes for fishing cided Greece was the most and camping trips. Many beautiful country of all. He memories were made from had the travel bug. those trips. In 1955 the Mike’s favorite pas- Smith family moved to times were hunting, fish- Heppner where Glenn took ing, riding his Harley and a position as head sawyer sports. He could be found with Kinzua Corporation. fishing the streams or the Mike attended Heppner el- Columbia River with his ementary and high schools, father Glenn. Occasionally graduating in 1969. During they would go to the coast his high school years, he and fish “for the big ones.” played football, basketball For years he hunted deer and elk in the high lakes above Baker City with fam- youth transmission. There ily and friends. In 1981 Mike married is no valid reason to close our schools. Time to stand Patty Huddleston. They later divorced. for our youth. Mike was an avid sup- Is there a valid reason to continue the police state porter of Heppner High COVID-19 dictates in Or- School sports, wheth- egon? On July 7, the CDC er watching his nieces or admitted the death rate nephew or friends’ children (USA) for COVID-19 has play. He was always there gone down for ten straight to cheer the teams on. He weeks and was about to be was also an avid “O” Ore- removed from pandemic gon supporter. Due to medical re- status. The positive num- bers have increased because straints, Mike retired from the testing has and will mill work around 2007. He moved to Tumalo, out- continue to increase. America is on fire and side Bend, in 2008, living our way of life, our his- “across the field” from his torical heritage is under sister until his passing. Mike was a member of assault by those that despise America, our institutions, the Heppner Elks Lodge. our Constitution and our While living in Tumalo he free enterprise way of life. rode with several Harley America has allowed the groups, making trips to God of our forefathers to be Canada, Montana and Hells removed, along with prayer, Canyon to name a few. He the Bible, the Ten Com- participated in the Teddy mandments and the sanctity Bear run with the Bend of life. Evil, Communism/ Harley group, picking up Marxism, hedonism, racism donations of teddy bears in the form of BLM and around Christmas for dis- Antifa, has filled the void. advantaged children and Those that yield their liber- he rode in numerous poker ty for government promised runs each year to help the Veterans Association. safety will have neither. He was preceded in Stand my fellow Amer- icans for God and Country. death by his parents, Len- Stuart Dick, Morrow nadell and Glenn Smith. He is survived by sister, Judy County Knight, (Gordon); niec- es, Kimberle Wright and Nance Keeney (Chanz); nephew, Brent Wright (Na- dia); several great nieces and nephews and his be- loved dog, Sugar. Memorial contributions may be made to the donor’s charity of choice. Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in care of ar- rangements. You may sign the online condolence book at www.sweeneymortuary. com Garrett Eugene Wilhelm Garrett Eugene Wil- helm, Heppner and Pilot Rock, was born De- cember 11, 1977 and passed away April 4, 2020, pass- ing away peaceful- ly at his parent’s house, mother Debbie McCall and Garrett stepfather Daryl. He Eugene Wilhelm had been on hospice for around a year. Garrett was diagnosed with brain cancer approxi- mately six years prior to his death. He was told that his life expectancy would be around three years. He went through three brain surger- ies, radiation and chemo in hopes to slow down the can- cer. He wanted to see both of his boys graduate from high school. Garrett raised both of his boys, Lane and Wyatt, the best that he could by himself. Garrett worked most of his adult live in the oil fields and timber industry. According to his family, when he was working for Britt Logging in Heppner, he “was so happy to be able to use the same skidder that his stepfather used when he was a skidder operator.” It was said he bragged about that to everyone. Wilhelm loved to fish and hunt. He told everyone that he shot a big buck that was going right to his moth- er, and he did. He loved to look for mushrooms and be- ing up in the mountains as much as he could. He took his boys fishing often and bragged about catching the biggest one. He also took his boys 4X4ing in his pickup and won the mud race one time. He was pretty happy about that. Gene was a spe- cial friend to Garrett and looked after him. Garrett spoke often of Gene and told many stories of the things they did together. Garrett missed the things he used to do with his family and apologized to his boys often when he couldn’t do fun things with them. He spent the last two years of his life with severe head pain due to the cancer spreading. He asked frequently, “How much longer? I just want to get it over with.” He was preceded in death by his older infant brother, Milo James Wil- helm; grandfather, James Wilhelm; uncle Joe Wil- helm; grandmother, Jack- line Mars and grandfather Tom Mars. He is survived by his two sons, Lane and Wyatt Wilhelm; father, Gary Wil- helm; stepmother, Crystal Wilhelm; mother, Debbie McCall; stepfather, Daryl McCall; brother, Darren McCall; sister, Tammy Rus- sell; grandmother Betty Wilhelm and many nieces and nephews. Per Garrett’s request, he was cremated and there was no funeral held. A View from the Green Over the Tee Cup The July 7 playday hosted 14 ladies at the Wil- low Creek Country Club on a cool and breezy day. Low gross of the field went to Nancy Propheter. Low net of the field winner was Kathy Martin. Karen Haguewood had the least putts of the field. Low gross for flight A was Karen Thompson. Low gross for flight B was Pat Edmundson. Shir- ley Martin had low net and Tiffany Clement had the least putts. Bunnie Lindsay took low gross for flight C and Kris Lindner had low net. Lorene Montgomery had the least putts. Karen Haguewood got a chip-in on hole 13 and Pat Dougherty got one on hole nine. The ladies with the long drives were Nancy Propheter for flight A, Pat Edmundson for flight B and Lorene Montgomery for flight C. Willow Creek Country Club men hold playday The men’s club play- day held July 12 at Willow Creek Country Club hosted 18 men. First place gross was Scott Burright with 65. Logan Burright and Dave Pranger tied for second with 67. Gary Propheter came in first in net with 56. Roger Ehrmantraut was second with 59 and Jim Swanson was third with 60. In special events, Del- bert Binschus got KP with 6’4” on #4-13 and David Allstott had a long put of 25’7” on #5-14. The next playday will be held July 19 with Rick Johnston, Greg Greenup and Delbert Binschus host- ing. 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