TV Celebrity visits Heppner
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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.
In other business the
council heard a report from
Lamb who said the state
will be coming at the end
of the month to check back
flow valves of people with
Right: The Lexington town
hall got a face lift with new
paint last week.
Below: A new utility trail-
er has been purchased to be
used for the maintenance de-
partment. -Contributed pho-
tos.
underground sprinkler sys-
tems around town. The
town has been footing the
cost of $25-$55 fee to check
a valve and wanted to know
if they wanted to continue
doing that. The backflow
valves need to be checked
periodically to make sure
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