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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, April 21, 2018 East Oregonian Page 5C OUT OF THE VAULT Running all in the family for Lexington athletes By RENEE STRUTHERS East Oregonian Lee Padberg was proud of his son Bryan, whose high school running career took off his freshman year at Heppner High School with state Class A titles in the 1,500 and 3,000 meter runs in 1986. But Lee was more proud that Brian broke 20-year-old school records in the mile and 2-mile runs the same year — records Lee had set himself 20 years earlier. Running titles were a family affair for the Padbergs, beginning with the family patriarch and continuing with daughter Jodi, a middle-distance standout during her high school career. Bryan’s freshman success, though, led to some attitude problems and he failed to repeat his win in the 1,500-meter race his sophomore year. “I didn’t work as hard that year,” Bryan said during an April 26, 1989 interview with the East Oregonian. But coach Dale Conklin agreed that Bryan learned his lesson and “worked his tail off” during his junior year, posting personal bests in the 1,500 with 4 minutes, 3 seconds, and the 3,000 meters at 8:54.7 at the Gladstone Meet of Champions. He capped his junior season by leading Heppner to the state Class A track championship, taking the titles for the 1,500 and 3,000 and anchoring the team’s fifth-place 1,600 meter relay team. He was named the Class A men’s athlete of the year in the 1989 issue of “Who’s Who in Oregon Track and Field.” Along with the boys’ first-ever state track championship, Bryan’s junior year also included a spot on the roster of Heppner’s second-place football team during the fall state Class A champi- onships. But it wasn’t all victories for Bryan and his teammates that year: the Mustangs failed to move past the district playoffs during basketball season, his favorite sport. Bryan was considering nibbles from the University of Oregon and Pacific Lutheran University track coaches as his high school career was drawing to a close, his senior year focused on improving his GPA in hopes of scoring scholarship offers. “I’ve got to do well this year. I guess that’s one of my pres- sures,” Bryan said as his mother, Linda, watched him prepare for yet another race. “Maybe he puts a little too much pressure on himself,” Linda said. “I think he’s nervous this year.” Bryan promptly ran away from the field, breaking the tape in meet-record time for the 800 meter race. DEAR ABBY Family judges pretty woman’s boyfriend on his looks alone Dear Abby: I am a about their comments? — 33-year-old woman with two Genuinely Happy young children (11 and 9). Dear Genuinely Happy: “Andrew” and I have been Mark Twain once said, “It takes dating for almost a year, still your enemy and your friend, learning about each other and working together, to hurt you building a foundation for our to the heart: the one to slander relationship. you and the other to get the My family recently told some news to you.” I think it applies Jeanne other family members that I am here. Do not “confront” your “too pretty” to be dating Andrew Phillips family. Just tell them you feel Advice and I “can do much better.” My that their comments are shallow younger sister even said Andrew and hurtful, and reflect more on isn’t good-looking enough and I need to them than on your boyfriend. find someone who matches my beauty Dear Abby: I’m a 13-year-old girl. as well as my heart. Shocked, I told her My friend “Bailey” and I both like the Andrew has been wonderful to me and same boy but didn’t want him to come my kids, and his looks don’t bother me. between us. We made a pact that we My last boyfriend was very good- wouldn’t ask him out. looking but turned out to be a horrible Bailey can be selfish, and I know person. He assaulted me, dumped me she’d say yes if he asked her. When I on the side of a highway and stole my told her my friendship with her meant car. Fortunately, a passerby stopped and more to me than the boy, she laughed helped me. After getting a restraining and said that meant she’d get him. I’m order and going to court, I decided my not sure what to do. I have liked him next boyfriend would be a good-hearted longer than she has, and I think he likes man with character regardless of his me back. He knows me much better at looks. Should I confront my family least. If he asks me, should I say yes and risk my friend getting hurt, even though I know she’d say yes in my place? — A Reader In Missouri Dear Reader: When you told Bailey your friendship with her meant more than the boy, her response showed that your friendship is less important to her than he is, and the pact means nothing to her. If the boy likes you, he will probably ask you out to do something. If he does — and your parents agree — you should accept. I say this because I don’t think Bailey is a true friend at all. Dear Abby: If someone organizes a trip for a nonprofit organization and charges a fee, and later finds out that, due to certain circumstances, the trip didn’t cost as much, should the money be refunded to the people who took the trip or be given to the organization? — Just Asking In New Jersey Dear Just: Because the trip was under the auspices of the organization, return the money to the organization and let them decide whether it should be refunded to the individuals. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 21-22, 1918 A new system of selling thrift stamps has been devised by Principal Drill which meets with the approval of all the students, as it promotes rivalry among them. An amount of $2000 must be raised in four weeks in order to make up the school’s quota. Mr. Drill suggests that each class take $500 worth of stamps and when they have sold them, the members of that class will be entitled to a one-half holiday. The president of each class called a meeting immediately after assembly to get a list of the number of students under his rule so each one would have an equal amount to sell. One of the classes at least is building air castles, they already having decided where they will hold their picnic, to celebrate the day they go “over the top.” 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 21-22, 1968 J. David Hamley, president of Hamley and Co., today announced plans to close Hamley’s Saddle Tree Shop and Custom Saddle Shop. After 85 years in the custom saddle business, “it had become a way of life with us,” Hamley said. “However, in this modern world it is no longer feasible or practical to attempt to continue these shops.” Rising production costs and a lack of interest by young people to enter the saddle making trade have forced nearly all of the old-time saddle shops out of business, Hamley noted. “We are phasing out our saddle busi- ness and will deliver all of the saddles on order.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 21-22, 1993 Seven Hermiston High School baseball players have ended their season following a school investiga- tion into alleged alcohol use during a team trip April 10. Six members of the 17-player varsity roster and one junior varsity player were among those suspended. “Some were starters,” Hermiston coach Rob Phillips said. “I can’t give the names.” The investiga- tion, Hermiston High School athletic director John Kopta said, “is still ongoing, but right now the people that have admitted to being involved have all come forward.” Hermiston traveled by bus to Bend on the evening of April 9 for an Intermountain Conference doubleheader with Mountain View on April 10. ODDS & ENDS It’s (another) boy! Michigan family with 13 sons gets No. 14 ROCKFORD, Mich. (AP) — There will be no shortage of hand-me-downs for this Michigan kid. The Grand Rapids Press reports that Kateri and Jay Schwandt welcomed the birth of their 14th son on Wednesday, five days before he was due. They have no daughters. WOOD-TV reports that the boy weighs 8 pounds, 4 ounces and is 21 inches long. His name was not announced by press time Friday. As with their last few children, the couple from Rockford, north of Grand Rapids, didn’t want to know the baby’s sex ahead of time. Jay Schwandt said earlier this year that he would have loved to have a girl, but didn’t think would be in the cards. He was right. Kateri Schwandt has said she’s used to large families, as one of 14 chil- dren herself. The couple’s oldest son is in his 20s. B I N G O $ 1,000 WILL GO! THIS DAY IN HISTORY On April 21, 1918, Manfred von Richthofen, 25, the German ace known as the “Red Baron” who was believed to have downed 80 enemy aircraft during World War I, was himself shot down and killed while in action over France. In 1509, England’s King Henry VII died; he was succeeded by his 17-year-old son, Henry VIII. In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, providing for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly. In 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States. In 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence. In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut, at age 74. In 1930, fire broke out inside the overcrowded Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, killing 332 inmates. In 1942, the first edition of “The Stranger” (L’Etranger), Albert Camus’ highly influential absurdist novel, was published in Nazi-occupied Paris by Gallimard. In 1955, the Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play “Inherit the Wind,” inspired by the Scopes trial of 1925, opened at the National Theatre in New York. In 1962, the Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World’s Fair, began a six-month run. In 1977, the musical play “Annie,” based on the “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip, opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,377 performances. In 1986, a rediscov- ered vault in Chicago’s Lexington Hotel that was linked to Al Capone was opened during a widely watched live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera; aside from a few bottles and a sign, the vault turned out to be empty. In 1998, astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220 light-years away, the clearest evidence to date of worlds forming beyond our solar system. Today’s Birthdays: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is 92. Actress-comedi- an-writer Elaine May is 86. Actor Charles Grodin is 83. Actor Reni Santoni is 80. Anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean is 79. Singer-musician Iggy Pop is 71. Actress Patti LuPone is 69. Actor Tony Danza is 67. Actress Andie MacDowell is 60. Rock singer Robert Smith (The Cure) is 59. Serving Families with Care and Compassion for 70 Years. • Peaches & Cream Smoothie BURNS MORTUARY of Hermiston & Hermiston Crematory 685 W. 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