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The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 2, 1978 NINE I Neighborhood Center lends helping hand by Elane Blanchet The Heppner Neighborhood Center, located in crowded quarters on West Willow St., is a place with a heart. For senior citizens, single parents struggling to make ends meet, unemployed persons needing temporary assistance or any low income family in Morrow County, the Center offers a helping hand. The Center, acting as a liason between all social service agencies and administering a myriad of federally funded service projects in the county, is, indeed, a center. An overflowing storage area provides donated clothing, carefully sorted, washed and mended by volunteers. Also, there are shoes, toys, house hold goods, and a stock of emergency food on hand for those who need them. The Center is also used as a meeting place for a senior citizens, craft group, social security advisors, Legal Aid, adult education classes, and Comprehensive Employment Training Act and Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (CETA and DVR). One large project admini stered through the Center is the serving of hot meals to senior citizens of any income at three sites in the county twice a week in Heppner and once each in lone and Irrigon. The dinners give the seniors a chance to enjoy the com panionship of their peers over tasty, nutritious meals for a nominal donation. Eleanor Gonty, assisted by Nellie Jones, is the cook supreme in south Morrow County for meals prepared in the Center kitchen and transported back and forth to the Elks Lodge in Heppner on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and to the United Church of Christ in lone on Wednesdays; feeding about 75 persons total at both sites. Meals served in Irrigon each Monday in the Lions' Club building are cooked by Opal Cleaver and assistant Carol Sweeney; 50-65 seniors attend each week. Trays for shut-ins and transportation to those who need it is also provided. Pat Brindle, director of the Neighborhood Center, said she received only 20 cents per meal per person from federal money to buy food; the rest of teh meal is paid for by the donations at the door and the use of donated and USDA commodity foods. This year generous donors gave to the Center 45-50 deer, some elk meat and fish, stocking six freezers, three refrigerators and three lockers. Locally grown fruit and vegetables are also donated, with lack of Storage space a limiting factor. ( A popular ongoing program operating out of the Center and administered by Commu Sity Action Project office in Pendleton, is the weatheriza ion of homes for low income persons. A two-man crew, $teve Duncan and Jere Le, Doux, has weatherized twen ty-odd houses in the county so far with more applications still being recieved. A handy man, Mike Stickney, does minor repairs, garden work and other jobs required around the house. The Tri-County Homemaker Service, an ECOAC program directed by Suzanne Jepson, uses the Center as a communi cation and referral source, and provides domestic help according to need to the bed-ridded, sick, elderly or other persons who qualify. Morrow County now has three homemakers: Charlotte Gray in Heppner, with 11 clients; Fern Marvin, lone, One; and Carol Sweeney in the Board-man-Irrigon area, who serves five clients. Cost for the service is determined on a sliding scale. Pat Wright, Morrow County health nurse, regularly con ducts blood pressure clinics throughout the county for seniors and others who need to keep a close check on their blood pressure, with the Center being a major referral source. Volunteers from the Center go to Pioneer Memorial Hospi tal each Wednesday to intro duce craft projects, play games and visit with nursing home residents. Mrs. Brindle feels there is a real need for other groups and individuals to spend time in personl contact with seniors in the nursing home. "People there would like to see someone besides other senior citizens once in awhile. Some patients don't even have family around here," she commented. During the Christmas sea son, activity at the Neighbor hood Center reaches a peak. It accepts donations of clothes, food, toys and money from individuals, groups and busi nesses for the 40 or so Christmas boxes given an nually to families who need them, in cooperation with the Children Services Division. The Center coordinates all volunteer labor involved in making the boxes and deliver ing them to all parts of the county. This Christmas, the Juve nile Advisory Council, under the direction of Carolyn Holt, repaired toys in the old Library building, while Ma xine Gray put in 174 hours cleaning and dressing 47 dolls. In emergency situations, the Center is also a place to turn. Neighborhood Center Calendar Monday Senior Dinner, Irrigon, Lions Club, 4:30, weekly 3rd Monday, Meal Site Council, Irrigon 4th Monday, Senior Citizens Advisory Council, Columbia Basin, 1 p.m. ' Tuesday Senior Dinner, Heppner Elks Lodge, 4:30, weekly Legal Aid advice (with appointment), at Center, 1-4 p.m. 4th Tuesday, Nutrition Project Council-Triple A, Colum- j bia Basin, 9 a.m. ! 4th Tuesday, Heppner Site Council, 3 p.m. 3rd Tuesday, Blood Pressure Clinic, Degree of Honor Bide.. Heppner. 2:30-4:30 p.m. 1 2nd and 4th Tuesday, BP Clinic, Irrigon, County Offices, 1-4 Wednesday Senior Dinner, Heppner, Elks, 4:30 p.m.; lone, United I Church of Christ, 5 p.m. 1st Wednesday, BP Clinic, lone United Church of Christ, I 4-5 p.m. Pioneer Memorial Hospital volunteers, weekly, 2-3 p.m. j (help welcome) i Thursday Senior Citizen social group, 2-4 p.m., at Center Adult High School and GED classes, 7-10 p.m., at Center 1 2nd Thursday, Neighborhood Center Advisory Council, I 7:30 p.m., Christian Life Center Friday 2nd Friday, Social Security, 10-12 a.m., at Center n V. , i? - " -Is " ,t . m . , $ ' "" - H j " 11 7 ; u ,.. ..J 1 k '-ry mmA ! ;' S- jf ' L - - ' ikd fcimrn,!.,, ,ii inniiniim.i J Cook Eleanor Gonty serves up a tasty, hot meal to one of the many Heppner senior citizens who take advantage of the low-cost, twice-weekly dinners. Meals are also served to seniors in lone and Irrigon once a week. Pat Brindle: "Storage space is nil Free blood pressure clinics are conducted by Morrow County Health Nurse Pat Wright at three different locations in the county, with many referrals coming from the Neighborhood Center. Check schedule for times and places. with pancakes a flappin9.... Episcopalians to host Shrove Tuesday fete An annual congregational effort by the members of All Saints Episcopal Church, the Shrove Tuesday Pancake luncheon and supper, will be presented to the community Tuesday, Feb. 7. Lent, the forty day period of fasting and preparation for Easter begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 8, as Easter this year falls much earlier than usual on March 26, instead of in April. Traditionally households prepared for the Lenten period of fasting by eliminating any fats and dairy foods from their kitchens. The name Shrove Tuesday, comes from the ancient custom of confessing (being shriven) on that day. It is a time of rejoicing in many countries and communities. It is the last day of the carnival season of southern Europe, corresponding to the Mardi Gras of the French and the Pancake Tuesday of the English. The public is invited to rejoice at luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and at supper from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the All Saints Church Parish Hall on Gale Street. The meals will consist of pancakes, ham, various fruits and a choice of beverages. Adults will pay $2, high schoolers, $1.50 and youngsters under 12, $.75. There will be a family rate of $5 for the entire family. Father Kenneth Miller said any profit realized from this congregational effort goes to the ECW (Episcopal Church Women) to use for their various charities. He added there will not be a traditional pancake race in Heppner this year, as is customary in England, but that this activity may be considered as a future possibility. For example, last week a family with three children and no money were stranded in lone with car trouble. Mrs. Brindle was contacted and she got medicine and food, inclu ding formula for an infant, to the family to help them through a difficult time. Last fall, a young, retarded hitch hiker, in rags and barefoot, was brought by the police to the Center, saying he had been rolled. He was provided with clothes, shoes, food and $5 from the emergency fund and sent on his way. Many of the 12-15 volunteers who man the Neighborhood Center office during weekdays and do a multitude of other services, are signed up in the Retired Senior Volunteer Pro gram, directed by June Wag ner of Pendleton. Nine paid employees, including the cooks, weatherizers, handy man, and part-time ofice help, complete the staff. In addition to services outlined above, the Center provides emergency fuel and medical aid, makes referrals to such agencies as Morrow County Mental Health and Children Services Division, and tries to connect all eligible persons with programs de signed to help them. One project Mrs. Brindle would like to see get started in Morrow County is an 'adopted 99 grandparent' program which would match children and senior citizens in a rewarding grandchild-grandparent rela tionship. "We just need someone to be the organizer," she said. A chronic problem at the Center, which moved from its spacious headquarters in the Gilliam-Bisbee building to remodeled rooms on Willow Street last year, is the lact of room. "Storage space is nil," Mrs. Brindle commented. Crowded or not, the Hepp ner Neighborhood Center is a warm, friendly place that provides services indispensi ble to any community with a heart. 0 Lexington news Delpha Jones 989-8189 Pine Thornburg and daugh ter, Linda King, were Lexing ton callers Friday, visiting friends and relatives. They make their home in Pendlet ton. Tom Bradd of Ontario was a weekend caller at the William J. Van Winkle home. Mrs. Bradd, who has been visiting her parents, returned home with him. Mike Kane is spending a few days with his wife and visiting other relatives enroute to Newfoundland, from Alabama where he has been employed the last three weeks. Mr. Kane's headquarters are in Hoquiam, Wash. Roy Campbell is a patient in Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Wheeler County extension agent Ken Killingsworth and wife were the guest speakers at Morrow County Pomona Grange held at Willows Hall Saturday. He spoke to the group on the various grasses used for feed, and the breeds of sheep and cattle raised in New Zealand and Australia. The slides shown were indeed beautiful as well as educa tional. He spoke of cross breeding, to produce a better string o' easy calving animals which would decrease deaths at birth. Preceding the program, business was conducted by the Master Bryce Keene. Out-of-county visitors were Alice Jackson, Myra Banks, Ethel Study, Amy Skiles Nathan and Margaret Thorpe. Jojean Stevens was in stalled as musician, Delpha Jones, secretary, and Art White, overseerer. 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