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TV Celebrity visits Heppner HEPPNER G T 50¢ azette imes VOL. 139 NO. 34 8 Pages Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Virtual Livestock Auction to be held Saturday The 4-H/FFA livestock auction will be held Satur- day, August 22 from 1-4 p.m. virtually via ShoWorks this year. Bidding will be available via cell phone, computer, tablet or other handheld devices. Buyers may pre-register at https:// mcf4h.fairwire.com/. Visit the website at https://auc- tion.showorks.cloud/fair/ mcf4h to access the auction site. The auction will be open for browsing, pre- bids and add-ons on Friday, August 21 at 1 p.m. Com- petitive bidding begins at 1 p.m. August 22. Buyers must login to place a bid. When bidding, buyers will receive a text message if their bid has been outbid. The sale order for the auction will be sheep, goats, beef and swine. Bids will begin to close Saturday beginning at 1 p.m., lasting 90 seconds per lot. Lot and item closing times could vary from the actual posted times. Buyers will be con- tacted by Morrow County Livestock Growers Asso- ciation/Bank of Eastern Oregon to obtain payment information and an invoice will be emailed. For those who are un- able to attend the auction but would still like to lend their support, contact the OSU Extension office at 541-676-9642 to request a form to complete. Pictured (L-R foreground): Tresslyn Clement, Jacob Shandy, Amy Roloff, Chris Marek and Tiffany Clement. -Photo by David Sykes. Amy Roloff, star of TLC’s Little People, Big World and her fiancé, Chris Marek made some stops in Heppner last week. She was very accommodating and seemed happy to pose for pictures with some of the local people. According to reports, Amy, Chris and some oth- er friends were on a mo- torcycle ride through the eastern part of the state. On Tuesday, they traveled from John Day to Heppner. They had a bit of a mishap on the ride from Ukiah to Heppner, needing to stop at Cutsforth Park to borrow some gas since they were running very low. While in Heppner, Rol- off visited Murray’s Drug and Breaking Grounds Cof- fee. In honor of Roloff’s visit, Breaking Grounds posted on their Facebook page, “Thank you Amy Roloff for grabbing a cup Diana Healy, Rylee Kollman and Hunter Houck posed for a of coffee from BGC this picture with Amy Roloff (front) at Breaking Grounds Coffee. morning. To celebrate hav- ing such a kind and sweet celebrity in our community today, Amy’s order of a hot 16 oz Americano topped with whip cream is only $1 all day today to our cus- tomers.” Quaid Jensen, Grow Em & Show Em 4-H Club, Heppner, with Isabelle Ogden, Farm Kids 4-H Club, Ione, shows her 2019 Olivia Ogden, Farm Kids 4-H Club, Ione, shows her Market Market Lamb at the Morrow County Fair livestock auction. Hog at the 2019 livestock auction. his 2019 Market Lamb. Lexington shop building expansion in progress By David Sykes The town of Lexing- ton’s shop expansion is still a work in progress, it was announced at last Tuesday’s council meeting. The build- ing will provide for more storage and parking space for the maintenance depart- ment. Town maintenance man Scott Lamb said lights will need to be installed and he had a bid from Co- lumbia River Electric in the Tri-Cities for $2,500 to put in eight-ft LED lights. There is still $2,700 left in the budget for the project. The council comment- ed on how great the new paint looks on the town hall. Lamb and town recorder MacKia Tarvin, with oth- er volunteers, painted the town hall tan with green trim last week, getting rid of the “ugly” green with blue trim. “The building looks great,” Mayor Juli Kenne- dy said of the completed project. In other business at last week’s meeting the council heard from Ed Howard of PrineTIME Internet Solu- tions, a Prineville-based company installing high speed internet in town. He said the company is ready to sign a franchise agreement covering the installation. Howard and his company are working hard to get fiber cable installed because he says with kids staying home from school this fall doing more dis- tance learning, there will be a higher demand for more internet access. “People need more internet band- width,” he said. Lexington did not have a franchise agreement ready, but coun- cilmember Bobbi Gordon said she would check with the League of Oregon Cit- ies for legal advice on the proposed agreement. The franchise gives PrineTIME the right to string cable in the rights-of-way around town. The company has offered the town some free internet access at various locations in exchange for the agreement. In other business the council heard a proposal to purchase a display case to be mounted outside the town hall in which notices could be placed for the pub- lic to read. The notices are currently taped to the town hall front window and the mayor suggested it would look better with a place to put the public notices. The council also heard from Justice of the Peace Glenn Diehl who attended the meeting to introduce himself. He is running for office in the upcoming Nov. 3 election and wanted to know if there was anything he could do “to make things better for everybody.” May- or Kennedy asked what Justice Court could do to enforce town ordinances. Kennedy pointed out that the town does not have a contract, as some cities do, with the county sheriff for code enforcement so it makes it difficult to have the town’s ordinances en- forced. Diehl was not sure of a solution to the problem but said he would check. 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