FOURTEEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, april 27, 1978
Kites and kids:
A little too much wind was
ordered for last Friday's
Kite-Flying Contest, as Hepp
ner Elementary and Junior
High youngsters struggled to
get their home-made kites into
the gusty air in one piece.
Sixth-grader Bobby Mc
Ewen, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Don McEwen, of Heppner,
sailed his bat-shaped kite. high
above , the fairgrounds last
Friday. He wasn't eligible for
any prizes in the contest since
his high-flyer was a commer
cial kite instead of homemade.
Windy Friday combination
The Morrow County Fair
grounds swarmed with young
kite-flyers sporting kites of all
sizes, shapes and colors.
Some, like Earl Hammond
who won the prize for highest
flying kite, finally succeeded
in getting their creations aloft,
while other tusseled unsuc
cessfully with tangled string,,
fragile designs and general
frustration.
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Despite the obstacle presen
ted with the high wind, all of
the young contestants ap
peared to be enjoying their
struggle with the elements
and their participation in one
of the traditional rites of
spring.
Winners for the best designs
in the contest included : Junior
high, Earl Hammond, first;
Harry Groshens, second; and
Bill Campbell, third. Fifth and
sixth grade, Wanda Riley,
first Danny Fortenberry, sec
ond; and Karla Crane, third.
Elementary grades, Greg An
derson, first; Tanya Powell,
second; and Teresa Lindsay,
third.
Eric Thompson and Duane
Ball tied for the award for the
smallest kite, and Bill Camp
bell won the prize for con
structing the largest kite.
Riverside drama
presentation today
The Riverside High School Drama Department will
perform three one-act plays, Thursday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m.
in the RHS auditorium.
Included will be "There's a Sandburr in Grandpa's
Stocking," a satire on the hero in the desert story; "Who's on
First" in the great Abbott and Costello tradition; and "Quiet
Home Wedding" which ends up anything but quiet.
Admission is $1 for adults, .75 for students and .50 for
children and senior citizens.
New Zealander visits lone
lone High School hosted a
visitor from "down under"
this week when Ross Gersto of
Tauranga, New Zealand atten
ded classes for several days
with lone senior Rick Gilbert.
Through the American Field
Service exchange program,
Gersto, 18, has spent the year
at Sherwood High School in
Sherwood, a suburb of Portland.
While in the United States he
is being hosted by the Hugh
Jackson family, Sherwood.
Jackson is the brother of Mrs.
Harold Wright, Heppner.
The New Zealander expres
sed the desire to visit a small
eastern Oregon school and has
been staying with Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Montgomery in lone
since Saturday. He was due to
return to the Portland area
today (Thursday) because of
speaking obligations.
Gersto talked to several
lone classes about some of the
differences between school in
New Zealand and in the United
States. In his own country he
would be in his fifth year of
high school, a pre-college
year. About 1,500 students
attend his school in Taurango,
located on the coast of North
Island.
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