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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Coe and Jepsen awarded 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES masterpieces in the art of clothing and foods. All of U.S.P.S. 240-420 her children also partici- Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper pated and excelled in 4-H SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: activities. http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ Jan Coe was a leader in Published weekly by Sykes Publishing and entered as periodical matter at the Post the Heppner area for equine Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid and consumer arts. She 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: shaped lives and future ca- www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, reers of many youth in our P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $31 in Morrow County; $25 county. Like, Jepsen, her senior rate (in Morrow County only; 65 years or older); $37 elsewhere; $31 student subscriptions. children all participated in David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher 4-H through livestock and Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor expressive arts. Giselle Moses.........................................................................................Advertising Coe and Jepsen each 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 had a gift for convincing column inch. Cost for classified ad is 50¢ per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to others to go above and 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $6.05 per column inch. beyond as they themselves 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 did to further education require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be and positive youth devel- specified if required). For Obituaries: Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to opment. “They are both Morrow County 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Nancy Jepsen (right), with 4-H educator, Erin Heideman. meet news guidelines. Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines the face of dedication,” or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space says Erin Heideman, Mor- for the obituary. row County 4-H Educator. 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 “These ladies are the epito- number for use by the GT office. The GT reserves the right to edit letters. The GT is not me of the heart and soul of responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will Morrow County 4-H and be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10. their service is exemplary.” 4-H empowers youth to reach their full poten- Send engagement and wedding announcements to editor@rapidserve.net or tial, working and learning upload to Heppner.net. in partnership with caring adults while participating in fun, hands-on learning activities. Youth can expe- rience 4-H by becoming a member of a 4-H club, at- tending 4-H camp, or join- ing after-school programs. 4-Hers can compete with their projects at local, state, Members of Jan Coe’s family accept the Morrow County 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award on regional, or national levels behalf of their mother, posthumously. Pictured L-R: John Lowrence, Paul Lowrence, Tricia and also attend conferences and events. Lowrence, Scott Coe, Jace Coe, Char Bracher and Addie Coe. The Morrow County 4-H Leaders Association has awarded Nancy Jepsen and Jan Coe (posthumous- ly) the Morrow County 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of the gen- erous time and talents given to the youth of Morrow County. Both Jepsen and Coe were long time leaders and supporters of all things 4-H related for many years and the association recognizes their efforts and work on behalf of the youth of our county. Nancy Jepsen served as a cooking and sewing leader for many years in Ione teaching youth how to shop for, plan and create Engagements/Weddings Lovgren-Nichol to wed June 12 Coal plant demolition begins next year Generated over 97 million megawatt hours and burned over 56 million tons of coal in 40-year run Torri Lovgren and Kyle Nichol Torri Raye Lovgren and Kyle Nichol, both Heppner, announce their engagement to be married. Torri is the daughter of Patrick and Bobbette Lovgren, Heppner. She is employed at the MCGG Feed Store in Heppner. Kyle is the son of Al- bert “Abby” and Martha Nichol, Austin, TX, for- merly of McMinnville, OR. He is employed with the Morrow County Road Department. They plan a June 12 wedding at the Lovgren family ranch, Heppner. ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. By David Sykes The Boardman coal fired plant is now going through final decommis- sioning with demolition of the facility expected to begin in January of 2022 and last until Dec. 2023, Portland General Electric, PGE, has announced. Chris Bozzini, Decommissioning Project Manager at PGE, gave a report at a recent meeting of the Morrow County Commissioners. A history of the plant shows it began operation on August 3 of 1980 and ceased on October 15, 2020. The facility could have continued producing electricity, however, own- er PGE decided to phase out coal burning electrical generation in favor of more renewable wind and solar power. The company con- $2.69lb $6.99lb $5.99lb $3.99lb $3.79lb $3.79lb $5.99lb $3.99lb $2.29lb $3.99lb $6.99lb $1.99lb $1.99lb $1.79lb The Boardman Coal Plant has been operating for over 40 years tinues to operate a gas-fired electrical generating facility next to the decommissioned coal plant. During its 40-year run the plant produced over 97 million megawatt hours of electricity. A megawatt hour is equivalent to 1 mil- $2.49lb $3.69lb $1.99lb $1.99lb $1.99lb $1.79lb $0.99lb $0.99lb $4.99lb $4.99lb $2.99lb $5.99lb $2.29lb $3.99lb lion watts of electricity being used for an hour. To produce this much power, it burned over 56 million tons of coal and operat- ed for a total of 196,440 hours. The plant employed 110 workers while at full production. Employment is now down to 67 people who will be used to finish the decommissioning phase. According to PGE the laid off employees will receive “comprehensive retention and severance packages and educational opportunities.” The shutdown coal plant and the next-door Carty Gas generating facil- ity share some infrastruc- ture that must be separated prior to demolition of the coal plant, including septic, backup power, drinking water controls and fire wa- ter lines. Reclamation of the large coal yard began in March of 2020 and con- cluded in October of last year. Over 40 thousand tons of coal were reclaimed -See COAL PLANT/PAGE FOUR $3.99lb $6.99ea $4.99ea $1.49lb $1.79lb $6.99ea $4.99lb $5.99lb $7.99cs $2.99ea HEPPNER MARKET FRESH THURSDAY FRIDAY 238 N MAIN STREET FEBRUARY 4TH FEBRUARY 5TH HEPPNER, OR 97836
