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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1978)
B-FOURTEEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 17, 1978 lolid Gold Show will top Mil at Family F1111 Night fetivitfie Family Fun ' Night at the 1978 Morrow County Fair promises to be bigger and better than ever with dinner, entertainment and dancing highlighting the evening. A fried chicken dinner with trimmings will kick off the night's activities being served from 5 to 7 p.m. Immediately following dinner will be the crowning of Pioneer King and Queen Mr. and Mrs. Adrain Bechdolt. (Please see separate story this section.) At 7:15 p.m. the Annual Potato Auction will get underway with Gary Grieb selling Morrow County's best. A limited number of potatoes are available and interested buyers are urged to bid without restraint for a chance at a box of the prize tubers. Proceeds from the auction will go toward a covered exhibit building for fruits and vegetables. Headlining the evening's fun is the Solid Gold Show featuring Michele a top pop-country recording group that will provide a family show between 7:45 and 8:45 p.m. Following the Solid Gold Show, Michele and her troupe will provide dance music from 9; midnight in the arena in front of the grandstands. All of these activities Saturday night including dinner have a price tag of just $2.50 per person with tickets available at the gate. Persons arriving for just the show and the dance will be charged $1.50 FAMILY FUN NIGHT IS SET FOR SATURDAY r v V. Michelle and the Solid Gold Show will provide entertainment for Family Fun Night on Saturday. R OP1B g9 riding and racing win draw 1H H top Cowboys .to Moffo w M OO.CO Three action-packed rodeo performances await specta tors Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 25-27, when the 1978 Morrow County Rodeo gets underway. Dropping RCA affiliation this year because of costs, an open rodeo with WRA appro val has been scheduled for Saturday and Sunday per formances at 1:30 p.m. Head ing the weekend's activities will be the annual morrow County Show Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Friday night's show is restricted to entrants from Morrow County and it pro mises to be a favorite as always as contestants vie for purses and prizes donated by local businesses. An addition to all rodeo shows this year are races that are sure to keep excitement up. Included will be a 2-lap cow pony race, 2-lap cowgirl race, baton relay, pony ex press and chariot races. The races are being spon sored by Cole's House of Fashion, Les Schwab Tire Center, Paul Hansen and Columbia Basin Electric Co operative, all of Heppner. Top prize in the Friday night show is the handmade Severe Bros, saddle presented each year to the winner of the amateur calf roping event by Kinzua Corporation. Other prizes in addition to purses presented by local merchants include trophy buckles presented by Herman Green, Gardner's Men's Wear and Morrow County Grain Growers. Other trophies are presented by Columbia Basin Electric, Gardner's Men's Wear, Peterson's Jewelers, First National Bank, the Orville Cutsforth Family and Roemark's Men's Store of Hermiston. . Other activities on tap for rodeo weekend include dances in the pavilion Friday and Saturday nights featuring the music of the Jim Ackley Band. Dancing starts at 9 p.m. and the price of admission is just $2.50 per person. The Main Street Parade sponsored each year by the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce com mences at 10 a.m. Saturday morning. The All Saints' Episcopal Church is again sponsoring its annual barbeque Saturday, August 26 at 5 p.m. The event is held on the Church lawn at the corner of Church & Gale streets in Heppner. Rodeo-goers can get up Sunday to the taste and aroma of ham, hash browns, pan cakes and eggs as the Wran gler's Riding Club members again don their chef hats for the annual Cowboy Breakfast. Served between 6 and 10 p.m. at the Heppner City Park the food is great and the price is right. For a full weekend of fun, plan to take in the 1978 Morrow County Rodeo. Ijh tyF gazette-t,mes n Cm jk'Mrfa THUS' WiRirVi' 'tCyy1 jpfit HHjKjypii- .-
