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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1976)
days Riverside girls grace Three Riverside High School girls will grace the streets during the parade and everyday of the fifth annual, bicentennial Boardman Har vest Festival Queen Kathy Hilling will be joined by sister. Princess Charlotte Hilling and Princess Court picked in May The festival court was chosen in May during a talent show and competition for the court. Their outfits were donated by the Lions Auxiliary Club and w e r e purchased at Wood's Western Wear in Hermiston. The girls have three outfits. . .the basic out fit is western pants, denim shirts with bandana print trim, white straw cowboy hats and snakeskin boots, all in combinations of red, white and blue. They have white blouses which they can wear with their western pants and boots. Their other outfit is a long sun dress of brown and white, designed with an apron. With these dresses, the girls wear broad brimmed white garden hats. They have appeared in Hermiston, Tri-Cities, Hepp ner and Condon parades. They will be hostesses for a royal luncheon following the harvest festival parade where all visiting courts are guests at the luncheon at the grange hall. Chaperones for the court, who have also built and maintained the float, are Mr. and Mrs. Bob Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hodson, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reetz, assisted by the parents of the girls. The girls will all be at the activities throughout the three days of the festival including the boat races on Sunday when they will be on hand to present trophies to the winners. All three work at the CAD Drive In and worked this summer. Cally Broadbent. Kathy and Charlotte are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hilling. Mr. Hilling is the president of the Board man Lions Club, the group who Is sponsoring the festival. Queen Kathy is actively involved in athletics, partic- 1 i"'wn win! ,."' ! 1 i , ' h f t r 'i '-'v'""' i ( u' i IN l.iH.I.HIlfl The Boardman Harvest Festival Court. Clockwise from bottom, they are: Princess Cally Broadbent, Princess Charolette Hilling and Queen Kathy Hilling. A family affair The 1976 Boardman Harvest Festival court must be a special one for Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hilling. Two of their daughters are members of the Royal Festival Court; Queen Kathy and Princess Charlotte. Making it even more special is the fact that as president of the Boardman Lions, sponsors of the festival. Mr. Hilling had the honor of placing the crown on his daughter's head. Mrs. Hilling is a member of the Lions Auxiliary. Mr. Hilling, who works for Union Pacific Railroad, has lived in Boardman 13 years and his daughters have gone to school in Boardman all their years. The two Hilling girls art two of nine children. One older sister married and moved away but there are two boys and all girls at home. ularly tennis. A junior at Riverside High School, Kathy loves tennis, is a varsity cheerleader, a member of Girls Athletic Association at Riverside and also plays vol leyball. Kathy, with a busy athletic schedule rapped around her academic roster, plans to attend college. Her future, too, is set for athletics as she pursues a career as a physical education instructor or a tennis professional. She has participated in some tennis tournaments already and was an outstanding player on the Pirate net squad last season. Kathy, who some how finds time to work at the C&D Driveln, sang a solo for her talent in competition for the festival court. Princess Cally is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Broadbent of Boardman. She has lived in Boardman for 13 years so the harvest festival activities ought to come easy. Cally started school in Boardman in the first grade and has been a Pirate student ever since. A junior this year, Cally is a member of G A A and the pep club. Also active in sports, Cally plays basketball and enjoys such hobbies as sewing, doing macrame and reading. Cally too plans to attend college and major in writing or acting. She was formerly in 411 in a dog training club and serves the Boardman Community Church as a substitute teach er on Sundays. At high school, she is secretary of the honor society. The sister of a pair of brothers, Cally performed a pantonine and song for her talent in the festival court competition. Queen Kathy's sister, Char lolte is a senior this year at Riverside and is the oldest member of the court She is a member of GAA, pep club, a former 4 H er In dog obedi ence club, and enjoys sports. Charlotte collects comic books for a hobby, any and all kinds. She enjoys children and plans to teach first or second grade after college. Charlotte, who is already planning a trip to Minneapolis to visit rela tives, hopes to secure a scholarship and attend college in the Minnesota city. She, too, works at the C&D Driveln. She narrated a poem for her part of the talent I peeeentation.
