6700 Roadside Danger Tree Project Decision Memo

USDA – Forest Service

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

La Grande Ranger District

Union County, Oregon

A 30 day period for those individuals or groups interested in submitting oral or written comments on the La Grande Ranger District 6700 Roadside Danger Tree Project Decision Memo (DM) will begin the day after publication of this notice in the La Grande Observer. The 6700 Danger Tree Project area is located in Sections 22, 23, 25, 26, and 36, T6S, R42E; and sections 21, 28, 29 and 30, T6S, R43E, Williamette Meridian, Baker County, Oregon. the project area covers the 6700 road from milepost 4.0 (Big Creek Crossing) to the 7700 road junction, a distance of over 10 miles. Danger trees will be felled and removed in order to minimize the risk to the public and our workforce from falling and down trees that present a safety hazard along four miles of the 6700 roadways.

In order to receive additional information contact Julie Tarvin at (541) 962-8559, jtarvin@fs.fed.us, or at the District office address provided below.

Comments should be addressed to District Ranger, Kurt Wiedenmann, at the La Grande Ranger District Office, 3502 Highway 30, La Grande, OR. 97850. Oral comments will also be accepted during this comment period and can be submitted by contacting the District Ranger at (541) 962-8582. All comments must be submitted or postmarked within 30 days of this publication notice.

Publish: June 16, 2008

Legal no. 3269

6220/6700 Roadside Danger

Tree Project

Decision Memo

USDA – Forest Service

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

La Grande Ranger District

Union County, Oregon

A 30 day period for those individuals or groups interested in submitting oral or written comments on the La Grande Ranger District 6220/6700 Roadside Danger Tree Project Decision Memo (DM) will begin the day after publication of this notice in the La Grande Observer. The 6700/6220 Danger Tree Project area is located in Sections 19, 20, 21, and 28 of T3S, R41E; and sections 22, 27, 28, 31, 32, and 33, T6S, R42E, Williamette Meridian, Union and Baker Counties, Oregon. The portion of the 6220 road proposed for treatment begins at County Road 65 and the Forest boundary and continues east approximately five miles to the Moss Springs Campground. The portion of the 6700 road proposed for treatment begins at County Road 71 and the Forest boundary and extends northeast, approximately four miles to Bridge #3 (Big Creek Crossing). Danger trees will be felled and removed in order to minimize the risk to the public and our workforce from falling and down trees that present a safety hazard along five miles of the 6220 and approximately four miles of the 6700 roadways.

In order to receive additional information contact Julie Tarvin at (541) 962-8559, jtarvin@fs.fed.us, or at the District office address provided below.

Comments should be addressed to District Ranger, Kurt Wiedenmann, at the La Grande Ranger District Office, 3502 Highway 30, La Grande, OR. 97850. Oral comments will also be accepted during this comment period and can be submitted by contacting the District Ranger at (541) 962-8582. All comments must be submitted or postmarked within 30 days of this publication notice.

Publish: June 16, 2008

Legal no. 3268

ADVERTISEMENT FOR PROPOSAL. Sealed bids for the Wallowa River-McDaniel Habitat Restoration Project, will be received by the Grande Ronde Model Watershed, in the reception area of the Office until 2:00 pm PDST on Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Sealed bids shall be addressed to the GRMW, 1114 “J” Ave., La Grande, OR 97850. The outer envelope should clearly indicate: “Wallowa River-McDaniel Habitat Restoration Project – ATTN: Mary Estes – SEALED BID – DO NOT OPEN.” Contracting documents, including Design Drawings and Specifications, may be obtained at GRMW office at 1114 J Ave., La Grande, OR. The pre-proposal meeting will be held on June 19, 2008 at 10:00 am at the project site. The project includes stream channel and wetland restoration work along the Wallowa River in the Wallowa Subbasin near Lostine, Oregon. Minority Business Enterprises (MBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (WBE) will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids on this contract and will not be subject to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin or sex in consideration of this award. Each bid must be accompanied by a bid security equivalent to ten percent of the bid amount. The successful bidder must post a performance bond and payment bond in a sum equal to 100 percent of the contract price upon execution of the contract. The GRMW reserves the right to reject any or all bids ad to waive any informalities therein. The GRMW may extend the time and place for the opening of the bids from that described in the advertisement, with not less than two calendar days notice by certified delivery, facsimile machine or other electronic means to those bidders receiving plans.

Publish: June 11, 16, 2008

Legal no. 3258

Notice of Permit Amendment

T-10537

T-10537 filed by Ted Carner on behalf of CCPD, Inc., PO Box 203, Pendleton, OR 97801, proposes additional points of appropriation under Permit G-11074. The permit allows the use of 4.0 cfs (priority date March 29, 1990) from one well in Sec. 35, T 2 S, R 39 E, W.M. (Grande Ronde River Basin) for irrigation and supplemental irrigation in Sec. 25, 26, 35 and 36. The applicant proposes to add three points of appropriation located between approximately 0.25 and 1.0 mile east (Sec. 26, 35 and 36, T 2 S, R39 E, W.M.) from the authorized well. The Water Resources Department has concluded that the proposed permit amendment appears to be consistent with the requirements of ORS 537.211. The last date of newspaper publication is June 16, 2008.

Publish: June 2, 9, 16, 2008

Legal no. 3242

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR UNION COUNTY PROBATE NO. 0805747

In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Ellen Dickson, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby required to present the same, with vouchers attached, to the undersigned personal representative at: PO Box 42, Meacham, OR 97859, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative or the attorneys for the personal representative.

Dated and first published this 2 day of June, 2008.

Charles Randy Dickson

Pers. Rep.

PO Box 42

Meacham, OR 97859

Lawyer for Personal Representative

Wade Bettis

OSB#72025

1906 Fourth Street

La Grande, OR 97850

541-963-3313

Fax: 541-963-4072

Publish: June 2, 9, 16, 2008

Legal no. 3240

NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

A meeting of the Summerville Cemetery Maintenance District will be held on June 27, 2008 at 9:00 A.M. at Summerville Cemetery Chapel. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008 as approved by the Summerville Cemetery Maintenance District Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inspected or obtained at Summerville Cemetery Chapel Summerville, Oregon between the hours of 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm. The budget was prepared on a basis of accounting that is consistent with the basis of accounting used during the preceding year. Major changes, if any, and their effect on the budget, are explained below. This budget is for Annual Period.

Publish: June 16, 2008

Legal no. 3223

TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE

Reference is made to the deed of trust made by Stacey Plummer, a married person, as grantor, to John W. Weil, as successor trustee, in favor of Ford Consumer Finance Company, a division Of Associates Housing Finance Services, Inc., as beneficiary, dated September 10, 1996, recorded on September 20, 1996, as Instrument No. 964234 in the Records of Union County, Oregon, which deed of trust was duly assigned to Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. assigned by Associates Housing Finance, LLC, a Delaware Limited, under an Assignment recorded August 2, 2005, under Instrument No. 20054056 in the Records of Union County, Oregon, covering the following described real property situated in the above-mentioned county and state, to-wit:

Commencing at a point 698 1andfrasl;2 feet west of the southwest corner of Block 68 of HINDMAN’S ADDITION to the City of Elgin, Oregon; thence North 110 feet; thence West 63 1/4 feet; thence South 110 feet; thence East 63 1/4 feet to the point of the beginning.

SITUATE IN the City of Elgin, Union County, Oregon.

Together with the manufactured home located thereon with ID No. 0RFLT48AB230160G13.

Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said deed of trust and a notice of default has been recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.735(3); the default for which the foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums:

Failure to make monthly payments of $598.53 each due on the 1st day of June, 2007 through March, 2008.

By reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said deed of trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to-wit:

$58,489.66, plus $4,441.34 interest, late charges and miscellaneous fees through March 3, 2008; plus 9.5% interest thereon; plus attorney and trustee’s fees and costs; plus $348.00 foreclosure guaranty.

WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee will on August 15, 2008, at the hour of 11:00 A.M., in accord with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, at the main lobby of the Union County Courthouse, 1008 “K” Avenue, La Grande, OR 97850, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by grantor of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or grantor’s successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and trust deed, together with trustee’s and attorney’s fees not exceeding the amounts provided by said ORS 86.753.

In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word “grantor” includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said deed of trust, and the words “trustee” and beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any.

We are a debt collector. This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

DATED: March 31, 2008

John W. Weil, Successor Trustee

1100 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 1507

Portland, Oregon 97204

Telephone No. (503) 226-0500

STATE OF OREGON )

) ss.

County of Multnomah )

Publish: June 16, 23, 30, 2008; July 7, 2008

Legal no. 3221

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

City of La Grande, Oregon

800 X Avenue

La Grande, Oregon 97850

The City of La Grande, Oregon, invites bids for the construction of 12th Street Improvements – 2008.

The Base Bid work generally consists of providing and placing approximately 1,375 tons of base rock, approximately 1,450 tons of hot-mix asphalt concrete pavement, approximately 1,800 lineal feet of sidewalk, approximately 1,900 lineal feet of concrete curb and gutter, 430 lineal feet of concrete curb, and other related work. Subgrade earthwork and aggregate base rock work for the project will be performed by Union County. Additive alternative work, project budget permitting, may include approximately 155 lineal feet of curb and sidewalk and 300 tons of asphalt concrete overlay.

Sealed bids for the described project will be received by Norm Paullus, Assistant Public Works Director, or his authorized representative, of the City of La Grande at the La Grande City Shops, 800 X Avenue, La Grande, Oregon 97850, until 2:00 p.m., local time, July 2, 2008. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 2:15 p.m., local time, the same day, at the Anderson-Perry Conference Center, 409 N. Fir Street, La Grande, Oregon 97850. The time for substantial completion shall be fifty (50) calendar days.

The Contract is subject to the applicable provisions of ORS 279C.800 through ORS 279C.870, the Oregon Prevailing Wage Law. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids upon finding it is in the public interest to do so.

Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations:

La Grande City Shops, 800 X Avenue, La Grande, Oregon

Anderson-Perry and Associates, Inc., 1901 N. Fir Street, La Grande, Oregon

Anderson-Perry and Associates, Inc., 214 E. Birch Street, Walla Walla, Washington

Associated General Contractors of America, Boise, Idaho

Oregon Contractor Plan Center, Clackamas, Oregon

McGraw-Hill Construction/Dodge Plan Center, Portland, Oregon

McGraw-Hill Construction/Dodge Plan Center, Boise, Idaho

AGC, Spokane, Washington

Tri-City Construction Council, Kennewick, Washington

Daily Journal of Commerce (Plan Center), Portland, Oregon

Hermiston Plan Center, Hermiston, Oregon

Copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained at the office of Anderson-Perry and Associates, Inc., 1901 N. Fir Street, P.O. Box 1107, La Grande, Oregon 97850, upon non- refundable payment of $100.00 for each set. The Contractor shall provide his mailing address and telephone and fax numbers when plans are requested. The Contract Documents will be available after June 13, 2008.

Minority and women-owned businesses requesting plans should indicate they are a minority firm at the time they request plans so they may be listed on the Planholders List as a minority.

A pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 a.m., local time, on June 24, 2008. The pre-bid conference will be held at the Anderson-Perry Conference Center, 409 N. Fir Street, La Grande, Oregon 97850. Representatives of the Owner and Engineer will be present to discuss the project. Bidders are encouraged to attend and participate in the conference.

June 10, 2008

Norm Paullus, Assistant Public Works Director

Publish: June 13, 16, 23, 2008

Legal no. 3266