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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 9, 2022 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. Bank of Eastern Oregon partners with local schools Bank of Eastern Ore- gon recently announced its school mascot debit card program contributed over $8,400 to participating area high schools in 2021. “The school mascot cards provide much needed extra funding for these stu- dent body programs,” said Becky Kindle, EVP and Chief Operations Officer. Initiated in September 2013, the Bank of Eastern Oregon mascot debit card program serves the high school associated student body programs of Heppner, Riverside, Irrigon, Ione, Condon and Weston-McE- wen, Oregon, and Colfax, Washington, The program generates $0.05 per transaction per- formed with each school mascot card to that school’s program and the annual renewal fee for each card ($10) also goes directly to the ASB. “Bank of Eastern Or- egon is committed to sup- porting our rural communi- ties and their schools. The mascot cards are a great way for fans to show their mascot spirit and help gen- erate funds for local high school ASB accounts. We encourage every- one in the surrounding com- munities of Heppner, Ione, Boardman, Irrigon, Athena and Condon to sign up at their local BEO branch for a mascot card. It’s easy and a great way to contribute to these student body accounts in support of future activi- ties,” said Kindle. Cattle Barons Weekend scholarships available Pendleton Cattle Bar- ons Weekend scholarship program is available for ap- plicants again this year. Cat- tle Barons scholarships are available to young adults who are enrolled in or will be enrolled in undergradu- ate or graduate studies in the field of agriculture. Ap- plicants must be from the eastern Oregon counties of Umatilla, Morrow, Grant, Baker, Wallowa, Union and Walla Walla County of eastern Washington. Applications for the scholarships are due by March 15, 2022. Applica- tions are available on the Cattle Barons website - https://www.cattlebarons. net/. Included with the op- portunity to apply for the scholarships from Cattle Barons is one scholarship offered in coordination with Protect the Harvest a long- time supporter of Cattle Barons Weekend. Appli- cation for the Protect the Harvest scholarship can also be found on the Cattle Barons website. In 2021 Cattle Barons awarded $7,500 in schol- arships to deserving young adults involved in agricul- tural studies. Final award of the scholarships, including the Protect the Harvest scholarship, will be made during the Cattle Barons event to be held April 29 and 30 at the Pendleton Convention Center and associated event locations. More information about the Pendleton Cattle Baron’s Weekend schol- arship programs and the events of the April week- end can be found at https:// www.cattlebarons.net/. ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. ~ Letters to the Editor ~ Good News Only The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and will not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit. 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. Email to editor@rapidserve.net or upload to Heppner.net. Truth and knowledge censored To the editor: “My people are de- stroyed for lack of knowl- edge.” (Hosea 4:6). The prophet Hosea was ex- horting his people in Is- rael to make corrections because “they had rejected knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6). The knowledge Israel had rejected was the Godly heritage established by their forefathers. “For the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, be- cause there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.” (Hosea 4:1). The Hebrew word for destroyed is to fail, or per- ish, to be brought to silence, to be undone. This word of prophecy had a double purpose, to the immediate inhabitants of the land and the inhabitants of the land at the end of the age. To- day in America there is a conspiracy to deny truth, mercy and knowledge of God in the land. The same verdict is true in most of the world today. G o d ’s p e o p l e , t h e church of Jesus Christ in America, are being de- stroyed in a manner they know not, brought to si- lence, undone, failing their calling. Truth and knowl- edge have been censored on virtually every media outlet, Facebook, Twitter, Sportify, Instagram, the national news and even commercial outlets like Airbnb and GoFundMe have censored and denied access to all who are not politically correct. Jesus warned at the end of the age there would be great tribulation, “such as not since the beginning of the world.” (Matt. 24:21). The censorship of knowl- edge is destroying the world as we know it, especially the body of Christ. A prime example is the stealing of funds designated for pro- testing truckers in Canada by GoFundMe. Airbnb has cancelled occupancy for Michele Malcom because of her conservative val- ues. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. all censor any knowledge that exposed their pro vaccine agenda. The most egregious and life destroying example is the censorship of truth re- garding the Covid vaccina- tion and booster shots. Ins- tagram and Facebook have barred Robert Kennedy Jr. “For spreading Vaccine Misinformation.” (npr.org Feb. 11, 21) If you google Bill Gates and his multiple decades of forced vaccina- tions to control population you will only find articles defending his Depopulation Agenda. “For twenty years Bill Gates and his founda- tion…have been vaccinat- ing foremost children by the millions in remote areas of poor countries, mostly in Africa and Asia.” (Peter Koenig, Global Research, April 18, 20). Most of the vaccination programs have caused disastrous results, causing the very illness (po- lio in India) and sterilizing young women in Kenya… without the informed con- sent of parents or children and backed by the Gates controlled ten billion dollar commitment to the World Health Organization. (Ibid, Koenig, 4/20). The Gates Foundation has been sued by gov- ernments (Kenya, India, Philippines) to no avail as Gates, Fauci and Big Phar- ma control the politics of the courts of the onetime free nations of the world. “No truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God in the land.” (Hosea 4:6) Accord- ing to Bill Gates “If we are doing a real good job vaccinating children, health care and reproductive ser- vices we could reduce the world population by 10 to 15 percent.” (Bill Gates, Innovation to Zero, TED show, 2010) The knowledge and truth regarding Gates, Fauci and their vaccine depopu- lation agenda that has been censored as ‘misinforma- tion’ is destroying God’s creation. In Europe today there have been “38,983 deaths and 3,530,362 in- juries through Jan. 29, 22 due to Covid Vaccinations.” (Brian Shilhavy, Editor, Health Impact News, Feb. 4, 22, see Eudra Viligence) The knowledge and truth of the depopulation agen- da in America has been censored and debunked as ‘misinformation,’ ‘anti vaxxers,’ ‘conspiracy nut cases.’ Since Covid 19 vaccinations were insti- tuted in America “deaths among people aged 18 to 49 increased more than 40 percent in the 12 months ending October 20, 21 com- pared to the same period in 2018-19.” (Epoch Times, death certificate data, CDC, JAN. 12,22) “My people are being destroyed for lack of knowledge” in America because the censored num- bers of death and vaccine injuries are worse here than any place in the world. The covid vaccines and booster shot are destroy- ing, i.e., making sick and silencing (some forever), multitudes of trusting cit- izens of our planet. Jesus taught “if you continue in my word, then you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” (John 8:31,32) Stay vigilant my brethren, our God is for us. Stuart Dick, Irrigon Umpqua peppermint ice cream gets delivered to Heppner. Pictured: Tina Davidson, Gary and Barb Watkins. -Contributed photos. By Doris Brosnan JoAnna Lamb has good news to share: Five small, local entrepreneurs now display products for sale at the Chamber office, so we are invited to stop in for a look and to shop. Liberty Grains from the Jepsen Farm in Ione sells whole wheat grains and flour. Wright Designs by Kirst is from Kirstin Espinola from Ione. She sells hand- sewn purses, bags, assorted sundries from headbands to aprons and tumblers. Jeanie’s Jams and Jellies are from Jean Collins from Heppner, locally made pre- serves. Browne House cof- fee has their specialty roasts here while they are doing their remodel and I have a fresh pot made daily for sampling. Barn Quilts come from Shannon Hill out of Condon. She is a fine artist who creates hand-painted heritage designs on pan- els that you can display anywhere. All of this is available at the Chamber office Monday through Fri- day from 8-5. Sometimes I might wander away, but I’m usually not very far away or gone for very long. Other small businesses and those with the entrepre- neurial spirit are welcome to join in with a yearly Chamber membership. In Monica Powell’s “tidbit,” she has passed on proof of the truth in some well-known adages: “Where there is a will, there is a way.” “Little things mean a lot.” “Never give up.” When Tina and Chris Davidson, Barb Watkins, and Monica whined a lit- tle on Facebook because Heppner had no Umpqua peppermint ice cream (had to be Umpqua) – a shortage and only made as flavor-of- the-month in December, Monica’s son Brad, who lives in Glide, posted a picture of himself eating a big bowl of the ice cream. Of course, comments flew across the internet, “possi- bly a threat or two.” Brad felt badly and possibly felt some pressure to make up. His wife, Judy, who is caring and persistent, got on it, searching stores around their area. Eventual- ly, she was able to find four half-gallons of Umpqua peppermint ice cream to put in a cooler with dry ice, and they drove seven hours last weekend to bring the treasure to the now “hap- py campers with tummies full,” and they also have some in a freezer. Monica says, “It is little caring things that make your heart warm.” And she thanks Brad and Judy for coming through for this mama once again, making our day. Contributors hope that their tidbits have brought smiles to readers’ faces, brought a small positive in- terlude to their days. If you have something positive to share, please send your tid- bit to dbrosnan123@gmail. com, or call 541-676-5382 or 541-223-1490. Thank you to our con- tributors this week. 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