TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
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Church raffles quilts Cimmiyotti lucky
winner of a laptop
to raise funds
Proceeds build houses in Kenya for
orphans and elders
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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.
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