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
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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.
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1175 WASHINGTON ST Fossil, OR
188 W. Willow
P.O. Box 337
Heppner, OR 97836
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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
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