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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 11, 2020 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner Friends of Morrow County 4-H recognized 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 publi- cation must be specified. Affidavits must be requested 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. Boardman to fill council vacancy by end of year The Boardman City Council is seeking letters of interest from individuals willing to be considered for appointment to fill a vacan- cy on the city council. The person appointed will fill Brandon Hammond’s seat, who resigned on October 2, 2020 due to moving from the area. His resignation was accepted at the No- vember 3, 2020 city council meeting. This term expires December 31, 2022. Those interested must Eastern Oregon Mobile Slaughter, Hermiston, received recognition. The crew from Les Schwab Tire in Heppner can always be Christy Correa from BEO counted on to help the youth of Morrow County. was recognized. The recipients of the Friends of Morrow County 4-H award for this year were Russell Seewald and Christy Correa, Bank of Eastern Oregon employees, Les Schwab Tire Center in Heppner, Morrow County Grain Growers Green Feed and three slaughter com- panies, Eastern Oregon Mobile Slaughter, Mike’s Mobile Slaughter and Fol- lett’s Meat Company. The purpose of the award is to recognize businesses and individuals outside of the 4-H program who have pro- vided outstanding support to the 4-H youth. Russell Sewald and Christy Correa go above and beyond the call of duty to support the livestock youth of the county. They manage all the monies that come in to support the youth auction, keep track of all accounting for the auction, cut checks to the youth and invoice the buyers. They are both involved in the auc- tion, bidding by proxy for those who were not able to attend in person and helped organize auction functions with Livestock Growers and the 4-H Office. John Gould and his team at Les Schwab are always supporters of every- thing youth oriented in the county. This year in particu- lar, Les Schwab of Heppner added a significant amount of money to every member who wrote a letter to them about their livestock proj- ect. John and his team can always be counted on to step up to the plate finan- cially and with their time to make the community better. When the 4-H program have resided in the City of Boardman during the twelve months immediately preceding the appointment. Letters of interest must be received no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, November 20, 2020 to City Manager, Kar- en Pettigrew at Boardman City Hall for consideration. The city council will inter- view the candidates and In October, the Neigh- appoint the new councilor borhood Center gave out at a city council meeting by 86 food boxes to house- the end of the year. holds and fed 179 people with a weeks’ worth of food. They also assisted one family with emergency rent assistance and another family with emergency gas assistance. The Center T h i s y e a r, d u e t o gifted five families in need Columbia Basin Elec- tric Cooperative in Hep- COVID 19 restrictions, the clothing and household pner and Condon will be Washington D.C. Tour has items. The Neighborhood accepting applications for been cancelled. In lieu of Center also provides finan- a scholarship in lieu of the the trip, Columbia Basin cial assistance for rent and Washington D.C. Youth Electric will be offering utilities in addition to the Tour now through 5 p.m. on four $500 scholarships. assistance available through One each for Heppner/ CAPECO (Community Ac- December 18, 2020. “At CBEC, we take Lexington, Ione, Condon tion Program of East Cen- tral Oregon). Those in need great pride in highlighting and Fossil. Applications are open of emergency assistance the value of cooperative membership to young peo- to all current high school ju- should contact Lisa Patton ple. After all, they are our niors during the 2020-2021 at 541-676-5024. The Neighborhood members-in-training. We school year whose parents provide a variety of pro- or guardians receive electri- Center will be holding a grams that benefit young cal service from CBEC and bag sale on Wednesday, No- people, from safety demon- attend a school in the CBEC vember 18. The cost of one strations to sponsoring service territory. Applica- bag is $15 and all other bags youth activities across our tions are available on the thereafter will be $5. Fill a five-county service territo- website at www.cbec.cc, or brown bag with clothing, ry,” the press release stated. at the schools in each area. shoes, movies, CDs and books. All other household ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: items are 50 percent off this day only. Proceeds from the bag sale help purchase food for the food pantry. CBEC offers scholarships MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. needs supplies, MCGG Green Feed is the go-to place. Jamie Helfrecht and his team always make sure that the program has live- stock tags, supplies and support for anything live- stock related. They have even helped develop live- stock nutrition workshops. This year, when the associ- ation found out there would be pigs on the grounds for a few days, the first call was to Jamie. He delivered a pallet of feed and offered a discounted price for the purchase. There are always many conversations with Green Feed about how to support our livestock youth. When the long-time processors for turned ani- mals backed out of taking the turned auction animals 10 days before fair the association was in a panic. Thanks to the close rela- tionship these processors, Eastern Oregon Mobile Slaughter, Mike’s Mobile Slaughter and Follett’s Meat Co., have with the Morrow County Livestock Growers, they agreed to split all the turned animals among themselves and pay the floor prices. It was an extremely generous gesture on their part when they were already swamped with orders. Time and time again, these people and organi- zations continue to step up to help the members of the Morrow County 4-H and FFA Youth program. In appreciation for everything they do for the program, the association delivered lunch to each of these organiza- tions to say thank you. Neighborhood Center helps families in need The annual November Canned Food Drive will not be held this year due to COVID-19. Donations of food are still needed for the Thanksgiving and Christ- mas food boxes. Anyone who would like to contrib- ute to the cause may drop off holiday food and mon- etary donations Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Families who live in south Morrow County, are in difficult financial circum- stances and need extra help from Santa can apply for the Neighborhood Center Giv- ing Tree prior to Tuesday, November 17. The Giving Tree and tags will be on display at Heppner Market Fresh starting November 20. New and gently used coats, hats, gloves, scarves, socks and snow boots for kids and adults of all sizes are now being collected. The Neighborhood Center will close at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25 and will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. NEW LISTING $85,000 Three bedroom 1 bath 2 story home in the quiet town of Fossil, Oregon. Large fenced yard ready for kids or pets. Some appliances included. Looking to get away from the big city? Here is the place for you. Call for a showing. 1175 WASHINGTON ST Fossil, OR 188 W. Willow P.O. Box 337 Heppner, OR 97836 david@sykesrealestate.net Owner/Broker David Sykes 541-980-6674 Morrow County Foster Children Gift Drive C ome take a tag from our g iving t ree . r eturn unwrapped gift by d eCember 9 th with tag attaChed . y ou don ’ t have to purChase everything on the list . g ive what you Can . i f you take a tag , please buy the gift . i f you Change your mind , bring the tag baCk and put it on the tree . 124 N. MAIN STREET HEPPNER OR 541-676-9481 Have a news story or photo for the Gazette? e-mail editor@rapidserve.net call 541-676-9228 or stop by the office on Willow St., Heppner Today