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KEMZn CAZCTTT-TTMC1. ThmxaAwf. Jmlf L ltTI Awards Galore Made At State Garden Club Meeting By EYA HAKXXXT IONE Tti Oregon SUU Ftd r ration of Garden Clubt, Ine, 19C1 State convention was held June 21-23 at the Sheraton Mo tor Inn. Portland. Award Awards were presented to many clubs In Oregon, and among those in Blue Mountain District No. 10 were: AP.CO ot Richiield Award for Conserva tion of Civic Beauty. $30.00 and Certificate of Achievement went to the Dirt Dabblers of Pendle ton for their airport beautifica tkm project They also received HO.00 and a Certificate from the Sears Environmental Improve ment Award for the above pro ject Capital District No. 17 was the State winner of this award. and will be entered in the Na tional Award, for their project of saving Deep-Wood, a histor ical site in the heart of Salem. They received a plaque and $200.00. The lone Garden Club receiv ed first place in the Club His tory Book Contest in Class I for clubs under 25 members, which was prepared by Mrs. Harold Huber. The lone Garden Club receiv ed 2nd place in the Yearbook Contest in Class I. and was prepared by Mrs. Fredrick Mar tin and Mrs. Van Hubbard. Laurie Chally of Heppner, re wived 3rd place in the Smokey Bear Coloring Contest for 12 to 14 year olds using water colors. Susan Lynn Simmons of En terprwe received Honorable Mention in the 6 to 8 year olds class using crayons. Mrs. Ernest Heliker of the lone Garden Club received a Bone China cup and saucer for the cleverest bag in the Litter bug decorating contest j Blue Mountain District No. 10 received an Award of Achieve ment for 10Oi club contribu tions to the State Life Fund for scholarships. Mrs. Fredrick Martin, State Chairman, presented the Horti culture Award for the Eastern part of the State to Mrs. Ralph E. Porter from the Pendleton Garden Club for her first place es-say on 'Daffodils". Klamath District No. 12 walked away with the remaining awards. Judges were Rev. Edwin Cut ting of Heppner, and Bill Raw lins of lone. The Oregon Conservation Award of $50.00 went to Mrs. Hans Breck of Oaklodge Garden Club of Milwaukie for a Nature Trail at the Clackamas Fairgrounds. Speakers A special speaker and the Oregon Horticultural Award re cipient was Harold Greer, 26 years old, from Eugene receiv ed $100.00 for hybridizing Rho dodendron, of which he has ov er 400 varieties of hybrid and dwarf. Other special speakers a TV program titled "Gardening for run"; Jerry Neuman of the J. G. Ferguson Publishing Co. discussed the Teacher's Guides, "People and Their Environ ment"; Mrs. Marian Stites and Lt. James E. Harvey, discussed "Lady Beware , which consist ed of self -protection from as sailants in the metropolitan ar eas. Mrs. Robert Hannoa of St. Louis spoke on the new Sears Environmental Irr.prov e m en t Program. A rras9ase& ta Mrs. Merritt England of Mer ced. Calif, was guest arranger, ho specialized in artistic wea thered wood. Miss Alma Rohr man of the Blue Mountain Dis trict designed and prepared an arrangement entitled "Beach Party". Mrs. Fredrick Martin, in the Si,. Duan- Reforestation A small group of friends and relatives attended the ceremo ny. A reception and buffet sup per followed at the home of Mr. m Mrs. Don Larson. Mrs. Ronald Baker made the beautiful 5-tiered wedding cake and granddaughters of the Bride took care of the guest book. The couple left on a short trip and will spend the sum mer at Hat Rock, returning this fall to Arizona. Those from lone attending were Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crabtree (Cecal, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hal- vorsen and Mr. and Mrs. Mar ion Palmer. Rainbow Girls to Assembly Mrs. Lewis Halvorsen. Mother Advisor and members of Rain bow Assembly No. 89, Cathy- Cannon, Worthy Advisor, Dee- absence of Mrs. Charles Dallas. I Ann Barrett Christina Linda Director, was one of the 13'trom. Cindy Martin, Cindy Eks members throughout the state, trom and Tanya Tucker left ho gave garden therapy dem onstrations at the afternoon workshops. "Bread Dough Birds", a project suitable for children, the mentally retarded, and trie Wednesday to attend Grand As serobly. They stayed Wednesday in Portland and attended the in stallation ceremonies of the Grand Chapter OES in which aeea was tne contnoution irom Virginia Wilkinson was install Blue Mountain District Na 10; ed as Worthy Grand Matron ami As Past Director of Blue ML j Katherine Lindstrom as Grand Adah. On Thursday they went to Corvallis to attend Grand As sembly. Tanya Tucker finished her year as Grand Religion and ior outstanding work was hon- At Snow Basin A giant reforestation project Is underway in the Snow Basin area of Wheeler County where a forest fire In 1968 destroyed 5.000 acres of valuable timber and grazing land. The Kinzua Corporation Is planting 43.0OO trees on 143 acres of their land located in the Snow Basin area. The project is rather unique in that unlike, other projects of this nature, which are done by air, the planting is being done by hand and mostly by women. The state is doing the work for Kinzua under contract which gives their seasonal em ployees an opportunity to work, as most of them are only em ployed during the summer months. In addition to five men who, are working on the project thei state decided to hire three! women in an experiment to see Peggy Rogers Passes Margaret Ann Rogers passed on Friday morning after a long illness in Portland. Memorial services were held Sunday at 1 p.m. at Bateman Funeral Chap el, Gresham. Mrs. Roger was born in Pen dleton Dec. 22, 1926. the daugh ter of Mr. and Mm. Thomas Young. She is survived by her hus band, Frank Rogers of Gresham; three sons, Gary, Frank, Jr., and Dan Rogers all of Portland; two grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Annie Young of Milton-Freewa- ter; two brothers, Samuel Young of Portland and Charlie Heard of Heppner; a number of nieces and nephews. Morrow County Keeps BC Coupons Coming Ida Lee Engelman is very if they were capable of thei haDDv these davs with the work. The three women have I good word from the State Wide proved their capability above; chairman of KOA Betty Crock - and oeyond the expectations of I er coupons. She wrote that Mor District Mr. Martin participated in a panel discussion The Dir ector in Rural Communities" on the District Director and Club Presidents Workshop. Election Newly elected State Officers are: President Mrs. T. R. Fet tis, Portland; First vice-presi dent, Mrs. Raymond Elmstrom. Portland; second vice-president Mrs. Y. B. Anderson. Bend; re cording secretary. Mrs. Carl H. K.-auspe, Portland; Correspond ing Secretary". Mrs. Boyd Schell, Portland; Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Goeckner, Milwaukie; State Chairman of Horticulture (East and also elected an alternate on the State Nominating Commit tee. Mrs. F. T. Martin. lone. Special guests were: Mrs. Max well W. Steel, President of the National Council of State Gar den Clubs, Inc., of Huntington, Pa.; Mrs. J.W. Scheel. 4th vice president of National Council. Corvallis, Oregon; and Mrs. Kenneth Barrett, Pacific Region al Director, Centralia, Wash. Delegates District Delegates from Blue Mt. District were: Mrs. Fredrick Martin, State Horticulture (East) Chairman; Mrs. Van Hubbard, lone Garden Club President Rev. and Mrs. Edwin Cutting of tne lone Garden Club; Mrs. J Newman and Mrs. D. Hayes of rreewater Garden Club: Mrs. T. B. Hyder and Miss Alma Rohr man of the Pendleton Garden Club; and Miss Barbara An drews, and Mrs. John Ramos of the Echo Garden Club. Some of the special entertain ment consisted of The Night Crawlers" a blind music group; a magician act by The Jame's"; 'Trip Down Memory Lane", a fashion show from the 18o0 to today; Four Hawaiian the supervisor of the planting operation. Henry Dahill of Monument Karen Massey and Judy Pot ter of Fossil and Judy Warm ing of Camp 5 are very' enthus iastic about their job. After the first few davs of sore muscles and sore hands the women are! enough taking their job in stride, and : 9 and row county coupons total to date is 62,900 plus a. bonus of 50.000 for gettig the coupons in on time which brings the grand total up to 112,900. The deadline for bringing in coup ons is December 31, 1971. Oregon has contr i b u t e d coupons to purchase will begin working for any Women Lib readers, j on the 10th machine. The ma ored with the Grand Cross of) they are being paid the same t-oiors. Tanya was also one of 22 girls who were presented with an educational scholarship giv en by the Rainbow Assembly. Cindy Ekstrom was appointed Grand Executive committee member for the 1971-72 term. The group returned home on Sunday. Guests at the Archie Padbera home bver the weekend were salary as their men co-workers. The Kinzua Corp., is investing almost $5500 in this reforesta tion project on 143 acres of its land. If the project turns out as successfuUy as the company hopes it will, it will have made quite an investment in the fu ture. Kinzua Log chines are at Immanuel Hos pital in Portland. Some of the larger counties have enough coupons to be credited with their machine and now they are working to get coupons to help the smaller counties. Friends of Mrs. Grarie Ware will be interested to know she Mrs. Padberg's daughter and has moved from Morton, Wn., husband, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon! to a nursing home in Centralia. Ross of Canby. Mrs. Ross was For those wishing to write, her here to attend her ten year address is Royal Care Convales class reunion. They returned cen t Center, 1303 Alexandra, home Sunday evening. Centralia. Wn. 9S531. Recent visitors to the Vida Heliker and Don Heliker homes in lone were Mrs. Heliker's 93 year old aunt, Mrs. Stella Cam eron and her daughter, Miss Eula Cameron of Jamestown, Calif. They are now visiting oth er friends and relatives in Port land, Salem and McMinnville and will return to California July 1. Lexington Services For Ellwynne Peck Funeral services for Edgar Ellwynne Peck, formerly of Lex ington, were held at the Lexing ton Christian Church June 26, 1971. He passed away June 20 in Anchorage, Alaska, The serv ice was conducted by Rev. Don Johnson. Graveside services were conducted by the Elks Lodge and American Legion. Mr. Peck was born Aug. 4, 1921 in Heppner. He attended the Lexington schools. Pacific U. and Oregon State University. During WW II he served in the U. Si Army Air Corps. He owned Peck's Grocery Store in Lexing ton, had an Insurance business and was the Postmaster in Lex ington before moving to Alaska. He served on the Lexington School Board and the Lexington lone Cemetery District Board. He was a member of the BPOE, American Legion and IOOF. At the time of his death, he was employed by the Coastal Drilling Co. in Anchorage. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Emma P. Peck, Pendleton; two sons, Keith Peck, Portland, and George Peck, Pendleton; two daughters, Dixie Peck, San Francisco and Joyce Wojak, Los Angeles; two grandchildren and a brother, Kenneth Peck, Lexington. PNG Luncheon The Past Noble Grands of Sans Soucl Rebekah Lodge No. 33 were invited to a luncheon as guests of Ualtee P.N. Grands of Ualtee R. L. 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