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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.
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