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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 9, 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 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. Red Cross urges blood donation December may be the season of giving – but it’s typically a challenging time to collect enough blood donations. Add in a pan- demic, and this year could be even tougher than usual. That’s why the American Red Cross is urging those who are feeling well to give the gift of life by donating blood or platelets this holi- day season. The need for blood doesn’t stop for holidays. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, more than one million blood transfusions will be given in the United States. Donations of all blood types are needed to ensure hospital shelves remain stocked to meet patient blood needs. Make your appoint- ment to give blood, plate- lets or plasma with the Red Cross by downloading the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCross- Blood.org, calling 1-800- RED CROSS (1-800-733- 2767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device. To encourage donations this holiday season, those who come to donate blood, platelets or plasma with the Red Cross Dec. 18 through Jan. 4 will receive a long- sleeved Red Cross T-shirt, while supplies last. Important COVID-19 information for donors As COVID-19 hospi- talizations increase, hospi- tal demand for convalescent plasma has also grown. COVID-19 convalescent plasma is a type of blood donation given by those who have recovered from this coronavirus. Their plas- ma contains antibodies that may help patients actively fighting the virus. Learn more about convalescent plasma and sign up to give at RedCrossBlood.org/Plas- ma4COVID. The Red Cross is testing blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies. The test may indicate if the donor’s im- mune system has produced antibodies to this coronavi- rus, regardless of whether an individual developed COVID-19 symptom. Red Cross antibody tests will be helpful to identify individ- uals who have COVID-19 antibodies and may now help current coronavirus patients in need of conva- lescent plasma transfusions. Willow Creek Reservoir recreational use health advisory lifted ~ 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. Email to editor@rapidserve.net or upload to Heppner.net. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) lifted the recreational use health advisory issued for Willow Creek Reservoir in Morrow County on November 30. The OHA issued the advi- sory on September 3, 2020. Water monitoring has confirmed that the level of cyanotoxins in Willow Creek Reservoir are below recreational guideline val- ues for people. However, officials advise recreational visitors to be alert to signs of cyanobacteria blooms. This is because blooms can develop and disappear on any water body at any time when bloom conditions are favorable. Only a fraction of waterbodies in Oregon are monitored for blooms and toxins. People, especially small children, and pets should avoid recreating in areas where the water is foamy, scummy, thick like paint, pea-green, blue-green or brownish red in color, if a thick mat of blue-green algae is visible in the water, or bright green cells are suspended in the water. If you see these signs avoid activities that cause you to swallow water or inhale droplets, such as swim- ming or high-speed water activities. Cyanotoxins can still exist in clear water. When a bloom dies toxins released may reach into clear water around the bloom. Blooms can be pushed into other areas, leaving behind the toxins released. There also are species of cyanobacteria that anchor themselves at the bottom of a water body, live in the sediment, or can grow on aquatic plants and release toxins into clear water near the surface. For health information or to report an illness, con- tact OHA at 971-673-0482. COVID-19 antibody test results will be available within one to two weeks in the Red Cross Blood Donor App or donor portal at RedCrossBlood.org. A positive antibody test result does not confirm infection or immunity. The Red Cross is not testing donors to diag- nose illness, referred to as a diagnostic test. To protect the health and safety of Red Cross staff and donors, it is important that individ- uals who do not feel well or believe they may be ill with COVID-19 postpone donation. Each Red Cross blood drive and donation center follows the highest stan- dards of safety and infec- tion control, and additional precautions – including temperature checks, social distancing and face cover- ings for donors and staff – have been implemented to help protect the health of all those in attendance. Donors are asked to schedule an ap- pointment prior to arriving at the drive and are required to wear a face covering or mask while at the drive, in alignment with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public guidance. A blood donation op- portunity will take place on December 23 from 12:30-4:30 p.m. at St. Pat- rick’s Parish Hall, 525 Gale Street, Heppner. YOUR AD COULD BE HERE! Submit Ads heppner.net Call 541-676-9228 Email graphics@rapidserve.net We also offer design and printing services Heppner Gazette-Times Sykes Printing The Heppner Gazette-Times wants to share the holiday spirit! Please send us photos of Christmas lights and decorations. We want to share the wondrous beauty of the season with our readers and spread some Christmas cheer. DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5PM Mystery of iniquity To the editor: Biblical prophecy calls the present world COVID pandemic tribulation the “mystery of iniquity” (II Thess. 2:6,7). The whole world is required to wear a mask, social distance, schools are closed, liberty is abrogated, many busi- nesses are closed, some never to reopen. Neverthe- less, despite these draconi- an measures, the COVID pandemic supposedly and suspiciously grows more virulent by the day, very conveniently forcing more draconian lock downs. Indeed, this is a mys- tery, difficult to understand. Iniquity is lawlessness where the norm of laws and individual liberty are sus- pended for the greater good (i.e. the state). (see Daniel 7:25). Catholic Archbishop Carlo Marla Vigano, former Sec. General of the Vatican, and former Vatican am- bassador to the U.SA. has addressed this “mystery of iniquity” in a letter to Pres- ident Donald Trump, dated Oct. 25, 2020. “Mr. President; allow me to address at this hour at which the fate of the whole world is being threat- ened by a global conspiracy against God and humani- ty…In the midst of silence of both civil and religious authorities, may you accept these words as one ‘crying in the wilderness.’” “Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society, the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of business and education. We see heads of state and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of western culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights of citi- zens and believers are de- nied in the name of a health emergency…an instrument for an inhuman faceless tyranny.” World leaders, church and political, have ad- dressed this ‘mystery of iniquity’ positively as the “Great Reset.” Archbishop Vigano warns the “global elite are planning the ‘Great Reset’ …to subdue all hu- manity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of en- tire populations.” Perhaps the most insidious danger of the ‘mystery of iniquity’ will be what Vigano terms “the imposition of a health dictatorship imposing liber- ticidal measures hidden be- hind tempting promises of insuring universal income and cancelling individual debt.” The price of these con- cessions from the Inter- national Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adher- ence to a program of vacci- nation against COVID-19 and COVID-21 (coming) promoted by Bill Gates and the pharmaceutical in- dustry. The most diabolical plan of these global elites commanding the “mystery of iniquity” according to Vigano will be the “COVID vaccine requirement health passport and digital I.D. with subsequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world. Those that reject these measures will be confined in deten- tion camps or placed under house arrest, with all assets confiscated.” This is the reason the patriot standing in their way, Donald Trump, had to be defeated by any means, a phony Russian collusion, an impeachment debacle, or fraudulent national voting machines and outright poll cheating. In truth Trump won in a landslide. The God of our forefathers, (whom Patriots and Chris- tian’s still honor according to their written compacts, covenants, Declarations, and Constitution) will honor those that will, “Be strong and very coura- geous” (Joshua 1:7). Joshua faced Goliaths and never compromised. Stand my American brethren with Donald Trump, for God and Country. 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