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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1976)
Ptgc ft, THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Hgppaw, OR. Tfcfday. Dot. U 197ft Elementary grades plan special Christmas Some of the teachers at the Heppner Elementary School have organized their students as Santa's helpers. They have planned together carefully what the youngsters would do to help spread joy these last few days before Christmas.- Mary Benedict's kindergar ten students, both the morning and afternoon groups, went to couple of carols with the the nursing home on Monday, Dec. 20, to sing carols to the residents. This was their first field trip" and they were ex cited about going away from their schoolroom. Mrs. Ruby Shear's fifth grade have been working on gifts for their parents. Mon day they went to the nursing home to give gifts and to sing a kindergarten children. On the 22nd they were busy making pies and caramel apples for their own "last day" party. Mr. Herzog's room has prepared a food basket to take to the Heppner Neighborhood Center for some of the less fortunate persons in the com munity. Mrs. William's fifth graders are busy making gifts for their mothers. They are fashioning unusual planters which they will probably fill with plants before presenting them. Mrs. Murray's pupils have formed a Drama Group which presented a play, "The First New England Christmas Tree," to the grades from five through eight on Wed., Dec. 22. at 11 a.m., and to the four lower grades this morning, Thursday, Dec. 23, at 9:30. The following students took part in the play: Andy Gor man, Ann Sproed, Mike Wal singham, Earl Hammond, Bill Hoffnagle, Pat Parker, Mark Launer, Harry Groshens and Nancy Miller. Mrs. Inez Erwin's 6th grade Lions Club plays special Santas helpers classes have always planned ahead and worked hard on their annual Yule efforts. This year the class decided to raise money for Care food pack ages. Their project was to bake and sell cupcakes. They sold the cakes to other classes and to teachers. They had baked so diligently that they had cakes to sell after school to the public down by the Coast-to-Coast store. Their baking and selling brought in an overall profit of $54.45. They want to thank those who supported their sale and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sargent of the Coast-to-Coast for their help. Now the class has made decorations for the school tables for the big Christmas luncheon today. They made elves and used them along with Christmas greenery. Thus, their efforts made the last day of school more festive for everybody. The hard-working, careful planning Erwin sixth-graders are: Darla Anglin, Many Britt, Mike Brosnan, Greg Connor, Mike Currin, Linda Galbraith, Shawn Gibson, Jay Hayes, Mardel James, Jenni fer Johnston, Jay Keithley, Sandra Kelsay, Charles Knopp, Rita Lovgren, Wesley Marlatt, Patricia Morley, Dennis Paplneau, Charles Parker, Will Patching. Mela nie Seitz, Billy Smith, John Stevens, Jon Sumner, Judi Ward and Annette Wilgers. The Heppner Lions have been busy this holiday season as Santa's helpers. In mid-December, a Santa mailbox was utilized at local post offices for receiving let ters to Santa so that Lions Club Santa could call in re sponse to the letters written by Heppner, Lexington and lone youngsters. Approximately 180 letters were received, about 30 of them duplicates as some were written as a class project and some were written at home. Of benefit to the Santa callers this year was the class project of both the first and second graders writing in. On the letters from the school classes, the parents' name and phone number was pro vided. The Lions' Santa talked to about 300 children and visited with all of the children in a family when they called. Santa was aided by seven Lions members. They were Dick Sargent, Al Osin, Bill Lande, John Edmundson, Dave Dollarhide, Elmer Sams, and Clayton Herzog. This week, the Lions pro vided Christmas goodies for 23 patients at the nursing home at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Escorted by Earl Pettyjohn, Santa (Albert Connor) pre sented the sacks of candy, oranges and peanuts to the patients. Piano lessons cancelled Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens will not return from Portland until after the holidays, according to a letter she wrote to the Gazette-Times to inform her piano students. Mrs. Groshens' father, Earl Hough, passed away in Port land and she attended his funeral on Dec. 8. She decided to stay through the holidays, but had not informed her students. MMMIUtMiAliMJi4liUliM Merry Christmas From Our House to Yours Shalom ft I O Ti "" '11' kMMMMki Santa tells us he likes knowing you're wearing clean clothes" say the Bill Weatherfords. (4 e p p H e.R t. by Bridget! Greenup Heppner Laundromat Ax- J k I 1 I a. I I m i ! . L 1 v 1 Tit! , i ' . 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