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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 7, 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 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. CREZIII say and Jim Doherty, and they operate in the state of will no longer be involved from the Port of Morrow Oregon. with deci- -Continued from PAGE ONE Rick Stokoe, Joe Taylor and T h e s io n mak- years Zone II has spread the Ryan Neal. Stokoe and Tay- group dis- ing on both money around the county in lor are port commissioners cussed a business four categories: education, and Ryan Neal is the port fee sched- negotiations housing, public safety and manager, making him the u l e t h e y and spend- community only non-elected person will charge ing by the e n h a n c e - on the CREZ III board. Melissa businesses new CREZ. m e n t , a n d Port Commissioner Jerry Lindsay applying to It will, but it recently Healy and Lisa Mittels- t h e z o n e , only if a new Rick Stokoe a d d e d i n - dorf, director of economic appointment of a fiscal business lo- frastructure development at the Port, agent and legal counsel, and cates within a designated s p e n d i n g were elected as alternates. business negotiating rules. “influence zone” around to its list of The three county com- It was announced the city. All other cities in Ryan Neal s p e n d i n g . missioners did not yet there are already the county also have their Money from name their alternates. businesses wanting influence zones, and they Zone II will con- Last week’s to begin applying too will have representa- tinue to be allocat- inaugural meet- for zone ac- tion on the board if ed by its board of ing of CREZ III ceptance. a business locates directors, but how was organiza- As stipu- inside their zone. and where the new tional and top- Jim Doherty lated by Or- If included Zone III will spend ics covered, in egon law, all on the board, indi- its anticipated funds addition to new offi- Oregon enterprise vidual cities will not will be decided by cers, included hiring zones will expire only be involved the new board of Greg Sweek as zone in five years June Joe Taylor with negotiations directors. with prospective Don Russell manager. Sweek, the 30, 2025, however, Elected at its Zone II manager, is Sweek say he expects businesses for the first meeting March 31 were the retired tax assessor, and the legislature will extend terms of their tax breaks, three county commissioners has extensive knowledge of the authorizations for the but also how the money will Don Russell, Melissa Lind- enterprise zones and how popular state-wide zones. be spent. If a new business One of the big differ- wants to locate in an area of ences between Zones 2 and the county not within any of 3 is the city of Boardman the cities’ influence zones, is no longer a permanent then the CREZ III board member of the board, and will be made up of only therefore not part of the first members from the county organizational meeting. and the port. That is not to say Boardman Shepherds Flat wind farm sold to Canadian firm Caithness Energy, the owner-operator of the Shep- herds Flat wind farms in north Morrow and Gilliam counties, has sold to Brook- field Renewable Partners (BRP) of Toronto Canada, it was announced. Caith- ness built the 338-turbine windfarms Shepherds Flat North and South in 2012 and at the time was one of the largest wind farms in the world. The sale of the 845 MW complex is reportedly for $700 million. Shepherds Flat still produces about a quarter of Oregon’s total wind power capacity. Caithness was granted a permit by the Oregon Facility Siting Council in January of 2020 to repower the facility with larger and longer blades and new gear boxes. Brookfield is expect- ed to follow through with the upgrade project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. BRP CEO Connor Teskey said in an earnings call with an- alysts earlier that it would be “one of the largest in the world and is expected to increase total generation by approximately 25 percent,” boosting annual output by approximately 400 GWh. Apparently the repower- ing permits are the main Lexington Fire displays new logo Shepherds Flat wind farm, located in north Gilliam and Morrow counties, has been purchased by Brookfield Renewable Partners of Toronto Canada. reason BRP purchased the facility from Caithness. The repowering will involve increasing turbine blade lengths and upgrading gear boxes and electronics to increase generation, par- ticularly at lower winds speeds. Increased revenue from the repowering is ex- pected to pay the cost of the upgrades, it was said. The plan is to keep the original turbine founda- tions and towers in place while replacing the turbines and machinery with more technologically advanced equipment that would in- crease generation without increasing the wind farm’s footprint, or number of turbines. The overall rotor diameter would increase by over 88 feet to a nearly 417 total feet, it was reported. Shepherds Flat has a 20-year power purchase agreement with Southern California Edison Co. The agreements expire in 2032 for Shepherds Flat North and 2033 for Shepherd’s Flat South. BRP reportedly has a renewables portfolio of trict or a governmental entity residing in the south Morrow County service area. The grant requires a commitment of 50 percent matching funds for the total project. Applications and grant information are available at the Heppner Chamber office, Heppner, Lexington and Ione city halls and the Bank of Eastern Oregon. It can also be downloaded from the chamber website, Heppner.com. Contact the Heppner Chamber at 541- 676-5536 or email hep- pnerchamber@gmail.com for additional information, Grant deadline approaches Willow Creek Valley Economic Development Group’s (WCVEDG)com- munity and public enhance- ment grant deadline is fast approaching, with the ap- plication period closing on April 19. Applicants must be a local organi- zation, club, special dis- AL S IL R P A E 5,318 generating facilities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, of which 64 percent is hy- dro, and the rest is wind, so- lar, distributed generation, The Lexington Fire Department recently purchased a “new to and storage facilities. them” truck which has been branded with a decal displaying Marriage Groundbreaking Licenses scheduled the updated Maltese Cross jackrabbit logo. -Contributed photo. The Morrow County Clerk’s office has released the following report of marriage licenses: March 9, 2021: - Mary Victoria Rietmann, 26, Ar- lington, and Herman Joseph Rosenberg, Jr., 31, Arling- ton. March 19, 2021: - Ali- cia Torres, 49, Hermiston, and Samuel Eli Morrow, 48, Hermiston. March 25, 2021: - Brandon Lee Howard, 25, Irrigon, and Samantha Terri Tompkins, 26, Irrigon. March 30, 2021: - Glenn P Lindsey, 49, Hep- pner, and Denise Garcia, 27, Heppner. Morrow County commissioners will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Sheriff’s Station 2 building at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 7. The property is located just south of the Heppner Fire Hall on Riverside Ave. -Contributed photo. Justice Court Report Morrow County Justice of the Peace, Glen Diehl, has released the following Justice Court report: -Donald C. 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