TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 18 , 2023 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. 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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. Obituaries Marjorie “Madge” Street Marjorie Street of Port- land, OR passed away on Dec. 9, 2022, at the age of 97. A me - morial service at her church will be scheduled at a later date, probably in the spring of 2023. Marjorie was born to Sadie and Dale Under- wood on Jan. 9, 1925, at the Hillsboro, OR hospital. She lived with her parents and her sister, Dorothy, who was a year and a half younger, in Forest Grove, OR. In 1935, the family moved to Yamhill, OR, where they had a grocery store. The family moved back to Forest Grove in 1939, where they again had a grocery store. The whole family worked in both. Marjorie attended high school there, and subse- quently graduated from Pacific University with a B.A. in psychology. There she met Don Campbell, and she married him in 1944 during World War II. Two years later she moved with her husband and daughter to a wheat ranch in Lexington and learned all about farm life, including flash floods, wood stoves and canning everything. When her hus- band decided to leave fam- ily farming and go back to school and into the ministry in 1955, the family moved to Eugene, OR. By 1959, they had three children, and her husband took a position as a pastor in Redmond, OR. Shortly after, the fam- ily moved to Portland, Or- egon, and Marjorie started teaching as an elementary school teacher in the Park- rose School District. She was divorced in 1961, and in 1964 mar- ried Peter Street. In 1974, Marjorie received her mas- ter’s degree in teaching at Portland State University. Previously, she obtained her teacher’s license there while raising three children and teaching. She taught in Parkrose for 22 years until she retired in 1983. Fol- lowing retirement, Marjorie volunteered as a teacher for adults for seven years. In 1992, her beloved husband, Peter, passed away. She subsequently moved to independent liv- ing at Holladay Park Plaza, and recruited numerous other Parkrose teachers to move there, which de- Obituaries from Baker High School in 1945. She spent summers in Ione working alongside her beloved aunt, Lucile Rietmann, during harvest. They had a very special relationship. In 1945 her family re- turned to Ione, where she worked at Bristow’s Mar- ket, the family store. By age 18 she ran the store alone, due to the health of her father after a major heart attack, until his recovery. Her wonderfully happy marriage to Ernest McCabe began on April 18, 1948. In 1959 they moved to Bay City, OR. Three years later they moved to Heppner, where they eventually be- came part owners of Central Market. They lived in Hep- pner until 2020, when they moved to Rose Arbor as- sisted living in Hermiston. Mrs. McCabe was the Treasurer of the City of Heppner for 25 years, a long-time member of the Heppner United Methodist Church and, for more than 15 years, a volunteer at St. Patrick’s Senior Center, decorating the dining room monthly. She had a tre- mendous sense of humor, loved people, and loved and enjoyed life. Many saw her dressed up over the years with Sharon Lewis on their shared birthday in unimaginable garbs. She especially enjoyed working at Peterson’s Jeweler’s with Randall and Marlene Pe- terson before being elected city treasurer. She enjoyed Scrabble, crossword puz- zles, bridge, the Oregon Coast, and most of all her family, friends and grand- children. She was preceded in death by her husband of 73 years, Ernie; her parents, Edmund Bristow and Mary Bristow; and her brother, Donald Bristow. She is survived by her son, John McCabe of Hep- pner, and daughters, Pam (Jim) Doherty of Golden, CO, Lisa (Joe) Gifford of Oro Valley, AZ, and Laurie (Dan) Wilson of Newberg, OR; three brothers, Tom- my Bristow of Rockaway Beach, OR, Jerry Bris- tow of Tillamook, OR, and John Bristow of Ione, OR; and the lights of her life, 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Heppner United Methodist Church, PO Box 733, Heppner, OR 97836 Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in charge of ar- rangements. You may sign the online condolence book at www.sweeneymortuary. com. lighted her. She was on the plaza board, engaged in many other activities, and volunteered in the Smart Program at two elementa- ry schools in Portland, as well as for the Northeast Emergency Food Program. Marjorie served as a HPP floor representative until her passing. She also trav- eled extensively through Elderhostel within the U.S. and overseas, and visited family. She moved from in- dependent living to assisted living, then to skilled nurs- ing at the plaza, retaining her many friendships there. Preceding her in death were her daughter, Dorrine Campbell, at the age of 12; her devoted husband, Peter, in 1992; her sister, Dorothy Tenny, in 2005; and her sons-in-law, Greg Mlynarcyk, David LaFond and Don McCune. She is survived by her daughter, Laura Mly- narczyk; her son, Will Campbell, and his wife, Patti; her step-son, Mike Street, and his wife, Alice; her step-daughter, Linda McCune; her step-daughter, Carolyn LaFond. Marjorie was blessed with 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Her nieces, Janet Spence and Judy Wels and their re- spective husbands Clay and Eric, their four children, spouses and grandchildren, were close to her also. The entire family had such ad- miration for her courage and strength. In lieu of flowers, do- nations can be made in her memory to Holladay Park Plaza Employees’ Scholar- ship Fund, Holladay Park Plaza, 1300 NE 16th Ave- nue, Portland, OR 97232, the Tuberous Sclerosis Alli- ance, 8737 Colesville Road, Suite 400, Silver Spring, MD 20910, or the Capital Improvement Campaign, Apply for your spring Westminster Presbyterian bear tag Church, 1624 NE Hancock Fall season for black St., Portland, OR 97212. bear closed Dec. 31. The spring bear controlled hunt season will open April 1, but the deadline to apply Mary Jean McCabe, for a tag is Feb. 10. That 95, died deadline will be here before Jan. 9, you know it. 2 0 2 3 , Cougar Cougar are well-dis- at Rose tributed in our forested Arbor areas. Calling with dis- House tress calls or cougar vocal- a t izations can be effective. Guard- ian An- However, locating a fresh, gel Homes in Hermiston, naturally-made kill has the OR. Graveside services best chance of success. were held at High View Coyote The population is Cemetery at Ione on Satur- healthy with good num- day, Jan. 14. bers of coyotes available for Mrs. McCabe was born those who wish to pursue on January 3, 1928, in Ione them. Watch wind direction to Mary (Grabill) and Ed- to help prevent giving away mund Bristow. She was your location. Calling with raised in Nampa, ID and game distress calls can be Baker City, OR, graduating very successful. ODFW Recreation Report Mary Jean McCabe Lexington council swears in -Continued from PAGE ONE that she hopes to get to. While there was no fire department report, the may- or also mentioned that she heard the Lexington Fire Department got paged out to a house fire in Heppner the first week of January. “That was exciting to see,” she said. “It’s nice to have them out in the com- munity.” In his report, Lexington Maintenance Director Keith Hess told the council that several valves needed to be replaced on the town water lines and talked about a new valve system that he includ- ed in the meeting packet. “They’re a little bit pricey, but they have quite a few benefits to them as well,” said Keith Hess. “You don’t have to shut the water off to install them, so it saves on that. They have a much smaller footprint, and they have a much longer service life.” He said the valves that needed replaced were one four-inch, one six-inch and two eight-inch valves. The two eight-inch valves are on the main water line. The cost for the four valves that needed replaced would be about $4,400. Keith Hess mentioned that the two on the main line could possibly wait until the town replaced the main line as is planned. He also said that in addition to the cost for the valves, in order to install the system himself he would have to purchase all the appropriate tools. “The tools for them are ridiculously expensive. It’s a lot cheaper to contract out to a company that would come install them,” he said. “I’m wondering, really, what is the level of it need- ing to be replaced,” said Imes. “Can it be repaired to last another two, three years?” Council member Bill Beard added that the prob- lem was that some of the valves don’t work at all, so there is no way to shut the water off. “If you have a pipe break, you better be really creative finding how far back you need to shut it off,” Beard said. “So are all four of them not working at all?” asked Kennedy. Beard replied that one of them is leaking severely from the stem and the pack- ing is “completely shot,” and said that they might be able to isolate and repack that one, “if we can find packing material any more. Last time I had to get into my own personal repair parts,” he added. Imes asked if it was that difficult to find resources, and Beard replied that it was difficult to find parts because everyone wanted to sell the whole valve. “Not like the old days, when you could find parts for them,” he said. Gordon asked if there were valves available that weren’t so expensive and costly to install. Beard re- plied that it was usually a fraction of the cost for brass valves but that it cost more to install them. Keith Hess added that the water would have to be shut off and they would have to dig a much bigger hole. Beard said they would get estimates for in- stallation of cheaper valves from local companies, and that would probably work much better price-wise. “This is new technol- ogy,” he said, referring to the more expensive valves Hess had mentioned, “and I think they’re probably going to go down later on after they’ve been out for a while.” Keith Hess also in- formed the council that the Port of Morrow was going to come down and vacuum excavate, or “pothole,” some lines that need to be replaced. Potholing is a L-R: Town recorder Veronica Hess, councilor Katie Imes, mayor Juli Kennedy, councilor Bobbi Gordon and councilor Bill Beard. Not pictured: Councilor Will Lemmon. -Contributed photo non-destructive excavation method of utility location done by simultaneously shooting compressed air or water jets and remov- ing excavated material by vacuum action. It’s less invasive, and usually safer and easier for the utility and the operator. “Instead of going on people’s property and dig- ging up people’s yards a stuff, we just pothole into the service line, clean the line, and close it back up,” Hess said. He also showed the council information on a Vermeer vacuum excava- tion trailer unit, which he thought would be helpful for the town to purchase. “It would help out a lot for when we need to do this type of work instead of hav- ing to access a contractor,” said Hess. “I would say something like this needs to be present- ed to the budget commit- tee,” said Gordon, adding that the town might look at it for next year’s budget. Hess replied that he had looked into financing plans, and at a seven-year plan the town would pay a little more than a thousand dollars a month for the machine. “I think that’s a pretty good deal for such a useful piece of equipment,” he said. Beard said he had seen similar equipment used and that it worked really well, and he questioned whether there might be any funding available through agencies like the Environmental Pro- tection Agency (EPA). “It would be nice to know,” he said. In her report, town recorder Veronica Hess informed the council she had set up a work session with Points Consulting, a consultant out of Idaho, with whom she had been working through the Mor- row County Planning De- partment. The consultant has been working with the cities in the Willow Creek Valley and has put together an economic development and employment lands as- sessment specific to each of the cities. The work session will be from 5-6 p.m. before the next town council meeting. It will be a community out- reach event, so there will be a flyer made encouraging the public to attend. There will be a brief overview of what they’re trying to ac- complish and time for input and questions. She said they will be doing the same type of event at council meetings in Heppner and probably Ione. Veronica Hess also said she is working on a draft report for the 2022 CREZ II money. She also informed the council that the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has started a Re- cycling Act movement for local governments to get more recycling options in towns across Oregon. The town needs to submit a needs assessment survey, which is due in April. “They’re probably go- ing to be financing whatev- er options are available or helping with it,” she added. She also met with the ODOT road inspector for final road inspection at the North Hill paving project. Veronica Hess and ODOT signed off on it and it was submitted for reimburse- ment. Imes and Veronica Hess gave an update on the Transportation Growth Management (TGM) Pro- gram with the state. Lex- ington had applied for a grant to fund development of a strategy to improve the safety of the Lexing- ton downtown area. The two said they met with a program representative and had drafted a letter of interest to begin education and outreach, which was included in a grant appli- cation submitted last July. “This is just a prim- er for us to get going on something to gain commu- nity input on improving our downtown area,” said Imes. The program would help facilitate the workshops and community outreach. “Then, when we go to apply in July for the next round, we’ll have this under our belt, and it will look good on our application,” she added. “Between now and July, we can probably count on having some kind of community outreach event that would hopefully draw the community to give in- put,” said Imes. Before the end of the meeting, Gordon gave an update of the town’s IT (internet technology) sit- uation. “I’ve been trying to chase down where a lot of things are and how every- thing connects, and I think I have it figured out,” said Gordon. She said she and the IT contractor will do some drawings showing where everything is and how ev- erything connects and then put together a proposal for some additional equipment. They have determined that the town recorder’s com- puter can probably be re- built and passed on to either maintenance or the fire hall. The maintenance computer is not upgradable. Gordon said she’s also trying to fig- ure out if they have budget- ed funds available, because they’re going to need to buy some equipment. “The main thing is that it appears that the connec- tivity for the internet that goes to the fire hall is just an extender from this side,” she said, and added that the consultant will probably propose some switches and a couple of wireless access points. “I guess the first thing we’ve got to figure out is if we’ve got any money.” She mentioned that the water fund had untouched money in the office expens- es category. “I’m thinking there might be enough money but, if not, maybe we can budget for the next year and do a little of it now and a little later,” she said. Gordon said the town already received an initial bill for $600 from the con- tractor, which was basical- ly to evaluate the system and get the ball rolling. It was pointed out that there are also funds in improve- ments and capital outlay, and Imes said the Amazon technology grant funds can also be used for technology enhancement. “But we definitely do not have secure internet here, and we really need to have a managed network,” concluded Gordon. “I’m hoping we can spend some money and do that. It makes me very nervous.”