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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 3, 2021 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 Church raffles quilts Cimmiyotti lucky winner of a laptop to raise funds Proceeds build houses in Kenya for orphans and elders 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. HWCD to meet The Heppner Water Control District will hold their annual meeting on Thursday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the Ag Service Cen- ter conference room, 430 W Linden Way, Heppner. Agenda items include minutes of the previous meeting, financial report, 2020 activity report, elec- tion of officers for 2021, director election terms and other business to come be- fore the board. Meetings of the HWCD are open to the public. Cemetery district to hold meeting The Heppner Cemetery Maintenance District will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at the Ag Service Building conference room at 430 W Linden Way. The regular meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Agenda items include minutes of previous meet- ing, financial report and cemetery operations. Meet- ings of the Heppner Ceme- tery Maintenance District are open to the public ac- cording to ORS 192.640(1). For questions, contact Janet Greenup at 541-561-6768. Kason Cimmiyotti Darcy Robinson, Rev. Jim Monroe, Cara Osmin display the quilt that was raffled and won by Kyle Robinson. The Heppner Unit- ed Methodist Church has raised funds over the past three years to build three quality homes for orphaned families in Northern Ken- ya, in the community of Maua. These funds have been raised, in large part, through the raffling of quilts, hand-crafted by Cara Osmin, of Heppner. The 2020 quilt raffle, intended to raise funds for the United Methodist mission team that will build the house, was delayed due to COVID and the team’s inability to travel to Kenya last sum- mer, until two weeks ago, on Valentine’s Day The winner of the quilt was Kyle Robinson, of Heppner. Kyle was tending calves the morning the quilt was awarded, so his wife Darcy received the quilt in his name. Darcy noted, “While, during the cold season, there were calves warming up in the house, they would not be wrapped in the quilt no matter what Kyle hoped.” In the community of Maua, Kenya, there is a mission hospital, The Maua Methodist Hospital, that oversees the housing pro- gram. Because there are few social service agencies in that rural part of Kenya, the hospital has under- taken the responsibility for providing housing for the orphaned children and elders in the community. Elders are also orphaned when their children die, mostly from malaria or accidents, because there is no social security system in Kenya. Elderly parents are dependent upon their children in the later years. The hospital takes orphaned children, matches them with “orphaned” elders by family ties if possible, but by need if not possible and creates a new family unit by building the house and providing education and medical support for the new family. The elders oversee the care of the children, and the children care for the elders. The homes are deeded to the oldest child so they will stay in the family. Over the years this program has built 600+ homes in the area and is considered a model project that is copied elsewhere in East Africa. The quilts, and the do- nations towards them, all help make it happen. Each home costs about $3,500 in USD. It was a program overseen by Rev. Jim Mon- roe, pastor of the Heppner UMC, when he and his wife, the Rev. Sue Owen, lived in Maua from 2012- 2015. During that time Rev. Monroe was the CEO of the hospital. Each year, pandemics and schedules permitting, the two of them take a team of 10-16 members to Kenya for three weeks to work on the hospital’s housing proj- ect and other needed min- istries. Their next team trip is scheduled for late June of 2022, in order to allow COVID to be controlled by vaccines both in the US and in Kenya. Cara Osmin is planning on being a part of that team and seeing how quilts save lives in Kenya. And yes, Kyle will have another chance at a quilt this com- ing year. Of course, so will anyone else interested in supporting this amazing cause. Contact the Heppner United Methodist Church for more information re- garding interest in either the next quilt or participating in the 2022 team. It is open to all. Each year, Eastern Ore- gon University Small Busi- ness Development Center participates in the Future Business Leaders of Amer- ica Regional Skills Contest, which normally is hosted at EOU, was held virtually this year on February 20. The director, Greg Smith, hosted a workshop detailing characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. In addition, the Small Business Development Center donates a laptop to one lucky student and this year’s winner of the draw- ing was Kason Cimmiyotti, a junior at Heppner High School. A beloved teacher and Kason’s FBLA advisor, Jeannie Collins, had this to say, “Kason is a three-sport athlete, on the honor roll and is a member of FBLA, FFA and TSA. He likes to go hunting, fishing, and Marriage Licenses The Morrow County Clerk’s office has released the following report of marriage licenses: February 3, 2021: - Adam Kendall Eubanks, 29, Ione, and Nicole Anne Fargo, 29, Ione. February 4, 2021: - Jose R Chavez Martinez, 27, Boardman, and Vanessa Sanchez, 32, Bakersfield, CA. February 5, 2021: - Kandan James Evans, 25, Kirk- land, WA, and Rachael Marie Cresta, 26, Bothell, WA. February 11, 2021: - Juan Antonio Afanador Ol- guin, 48, Boardman, and Maria Guadalupe Vazquez, 43, Boardman. February 12, 2021: - Orison Swett Acevedo, 46, Hermiston, and Alison Star Moss, 39, Hermiston. February 18, 2021: - Jesse Wayne Norris, 48, Pasco, WA, and Holly Lynn Bates, 41, Pasco, WA. February 22, 2021: - Yaneli Perez Barrera, 32, Boardman, and Leon Meliton Angeles, 41, Boardman. February 25, 2021: - Brittany Denise Blair, 30, Irri- gon, and Joshua Wesley Isakson, 39, Irrigon. -Gabriel Villasenor Macias, 22, Irrigon, and Leonor Hilda Garcia Gutierrez, 45, Irrigon. Small business funding available Morrow County and Tillamook County Cream- ery Association have an- nounced another round of funding to assist small busi- nesses with principal oper- ations in Morrow County. This funding is avail- able to all small businesses with less than 25 employees that can demonstrate: 1) Business was prohibited from operations, as directed by Executive Orders 20-12 or 20-65; or 2) Business can show a total decline in sales of 25 percent or more, caused by COVID-19 pan- demic regulations between March 1, 2020, and Decem- ber 31, 2020, as compared to the same period in 2019. The deadline is Mon- day, March 15, 202,1 by 5 p.m. to submit the complet- ed application form, which is available on the Morrow County website: https:// Chamber meeting scheduled Hermiston Office 750 W. Elm Ave. Hermiston, OR 97838 (541) 567-6414 Boardman Office www.UmatillaElectric.com 400 N.E. Eldrige Drive Boardman, OR 97818 (541) 481-2220 The next Chamber lunch meeting will be held on Thursday, March 4 from 12-1 p.m. in the Gilliam and Bisbee Building. The meeting will be all entities reports. RSVPs are required no later than Tuesday, March 2 to be guaranteed a seat and lunch. Lunch of a southwest camping; anything that has to do with the outdoors. Ka- son has just enlisted in the National Guard and plans to eventually become a he- licopter mechanic. His old chrome book died the day I called him so the timing of this was perfect” “I would like to thank Representative Greg Smith for donating this laptop and Mrs. Collins for making me fill out the entry form.” said Kason. Greg Smith added, “I am so appreciative of the time, effort and dedication demonstrated by the FBLA advisors to these students and this very worthy pro- gram, especially during the pandemic. FBLA members are gaining such valuable skills which they can apply as they pursue their educa- tional and career opportu- nities, whether or not they decide to start a business in the future. I’d like to en- courage students to strongly consider attending EOU as they have an outstanding business program which includes an MBA option.” For those wanting more information regarding the business program or other opportunities at EOU they should visit https://www. eou.edu/. chicken salad with bread- stick, a cup of soup and dessert will be catered by Bucknum’s for $10. Contact the Heppner Chamber at 541-676-5536 or by email at heppner- chamber@gmail.com for additional information or to RSVP. www.co.morrow.or.us/ planning/page/emergen- cy-small-business-grant-as- sistance-center. In addition, the grant application must include all information at the time of submittal. Please submit by one of the following methods: Drop off in-person at the Board of Commission- ers Office, 110 N. Court St., Room 201, Heppner, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., except over the noon hour; mail to the Board of Commissioners Office, P.O. Box 788, Heppner, OR 97836; or submit via email to gzody@co.morrow.or.us. If you have any ques- tions, please do not hesitate to contact Gregg Zody, Morrow County Director of Community Development at 541-676-5605. Our Newly Updated Web- site Makes It Easy To: •Submit news •Submit birth, engagement and wedding announcements •Send us photos •Submit letters to the editor •Place ads •Start a new subscription HEPPNER.NET Weekly deadline for all news and advertising is Monday at 5pm. 188 W Willow, Heppner 541-676-9228
