TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 21, 2021
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FRANCHISE FEES
-Continued from PAGE ONE $2,500 to Northwest Farm
coordinate a tri-department
memorial stair climb event
for 9/11. Across the coun-
try fire departments have
been honoring the firefight-
ers of 9/11 by climbing
the equivalent number of
stairs firefighters climbed
in the World Trade Center.
Miles said they are still
developing plans and hope
to have promotional and
advertising for the event
to present to the council at
next month’s meeting.
The department is
working on other sources
for new gear and equip-
ment including contacting
the Forest Service for up-
dated fire engines and are
applying for grants such as
Credit Rural Grant program
for updated wildland gear.
The department’s current
wildland gear is over 20
years old and does not meet
all current safety standards,
her report said.
She said over the past
two months Lexington Fire
has been called to three
mutual aid fires and one
EMS call. She said it has
been a surprisingly quiet
fire season so far, “but we
would like to remind every-
one to continue to diligently
follow the burn ban this
summer.”
Miles also reported that
all six of the town’s fire-
fighters have completed the
firefighter one course with
Good News Only
By Doris Brosnan
Little did JoyceKay
Hollomon know that her
kids had an ulterior motive
for inviting her to join them
for dinner last Saturday
evening, while failing to
tell her where until they
headed for the Gilliam and
Bisbee Building. “We can’t
go there; they are having
that ‘60s class reunion,” she
warned them. This from the
admitted “reunion crasher,”
who, with her young hus-
band, Jerry, immediately
felt a special attachment to
the Heppner High students
they met when they moved
to town in 1962. They fol-
lowed those classes of the
‘60s, shared some choice
moments with them, and
always “felt so privileged to
be part of their lives,” Joy-
ceKay says. She has visited
with attendees at several
reunions over past years.
But she didn’t understand
on Saturday why she was
told that they were invited
to this reunion. After the
delicious dinner gifted to
her by an anonymous per-
son, JoyceKay eventually
learned why her attendance
was important: The hosting
class of 1965 presented her
a certificate declaring “Joy-
ceKay Hollomon, Honorary
Class of ’65 Graduate”
accompanied by an out-
standingly beautiful floral
bouquet. Some memories of
the Hollomons were shared,
JoyceKay recognized many
attendees, and she said the
marvelous evening made
her feel that “now I really
belong.”
The reunion of the HHS
classes of the 60s was a
greater success than the or-
ganizers had dared to hope
for, says Ken Evans. About
40 attendees enjoyed a no-
host dinner prepared by
Alvin Liu at the Gateway
the Ione Fire Department
and completed the driver’s
certification courses. They
will continue with the fire-
fighter two series in the fall.
In other business the
council held a hearing on a
request by Lexington busi-
nessman Sam Bellamy to
partition a 1.94-acre parcel
he owns at the old school
property into three lots.
Two of the lots will be for
residential building, and the
third on which the school
building sits would remain
commercial. There are wa-
ter, electricity and tele-
phone services in the area
for the building lots, but
Bellamy will still need to
obtain site suitability from
Umatilla County Health
in order to develop them
as residential lots. Since
Lexington does not have a
central sewer system each
lot will have its own septic
system.
The council also dis-
cussed several camp trailers
in town that are being used
as permanent residents.
According to town and
county ordinances RVs can-
not be used for permanent
living quarters. It was also
brought up there may be
septic waste being dumped
from the RVs out onto the
ground and neighbors are
complaining. “That is a
huge illegal activity dump-
ing septic on the ground,”
said council member Lem-
mon.
The council learned
that Anderson Perry En-
gineering is working on
writing two grants to do an
overall water system study
on the town.
Café on Friday evening,
and about the same number
returned for a breakfast
he prepared on Saturday.
About 70 classmates en-
joyed visiting and pizza at
the golf course later, from
10 until 2. The evening saw
138 gather for the social
hour at 5, dinner at 6, and
an evening of catch-up
conversations, with Roger
Leonnig providing back-
ground and karaoke music.
The hosting Class of ’65
showed the greatest number
of attendees, including a
couple of classmates com-
ing for a first time. But
Evans reports that the most
important feature of the
evening was the visiting
and the smooth melding of
the decade of ages.
When people are recog-
nized for a job well-done,
they have a good reason to
feel fortunate, appreciated,
even proud. But “flabber-
gasted” topped those feel-
ings on Saturday evening,
when Ken and Jan Evans
received an unexpected
thank-you from the Class
of ’65 for their many hours
of work necessary for a
successful HHS reunion
of the ‘60s. They received
air flight tickets, tickets to
two nights of the National
Rodeo Finals, three nights
at a hotel, and many bucks
to spend in Las Vegas.
And this columnist’s
good news is that she spent
twelve days in Salem,
house- and dog-sitting for
her family who were on a
road trip to visit some col-
lege campuses of interest
to granddaughter who will
graduate next year. The stay
included visits with several
acquaintances still living
in Salem, lots of blueber-
ry-picking, and a couple
rounds of tennis and bridge.
Always good to get back
home, too.
Ready for more good
news? Many people are,
so help make it happen
by sharing yours with the
readers. Please, share your
“tidbits” by sending them
before Monday afternoon to
dbrosnan123@gmail.com,
or call 541-223-1490, or
stop me on the street.
Here’s hoping that
some good news comes to
everyone reading this.
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