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The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday November 9, 1978 THRP:E Area police busy over weekend A ' umm.mmm "'" ; mhttfmM vmmmm"N'mmmm.. '''mmniiH ' New grocery store A new business has opened its doors in Heppner in the same line and location as Thomson Brothers Grocery, usic highlights BMCC actitives A full calendar of music activities is planned by the instrumental and vocal de partments at Blue Mountain Community College during November and December. Hermiston High's Jazz Fest ival will feature BMCC's Pop-Vocal Ensemble as the only' guest choir at the competition. The 22-member ensemble includes 16 vocalists and six instrumentalists. Randy Bowman, of Pendleton, will be a soloist with the BMCC group. Dave Miller, vocal instruct or at BMCC, will be one of the ajudicators of the festival. Also judging will be Doug Anderson from McMinnville High School, past president of the Oregon Music Educators Association. Preliminary competition for the high school groups at the jazz contest will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Armand Larive Junior High Auditor ium. BMCC will perform during the evening finals which begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, will be the instructors turn to perform in a Faculty Recital. The per formance is scheduled for 3 p.m. in Pioneer Hall Theatre. Performing will be John Weddle, instumental instruct- aXn)f fir r SUNDAY SPECIALS j Virginia Style i Baked Hem i Prime Rib featuring The Sarin The BEECHER'S :IONE: Bud Englert and Tammy Ruples stand ready to serve customers entering Heppner Family Savings a new grocery store located in the old Thomson Bros. Grocery building. Owned wich closed earlier this year. Heppner Family Savings a grocery store opened Mon day in the Thomson Bros. schedule or playing the clarinet and Miller singing. A trio compos ed of Loree Tucker-McKenna, cello; Paul Heisler, piano; and Chris Bonds, violin will play a Beethoven piece. Especially exciting to the BMCC music groups this year is the prospect of a trip to Hawaii for national competit ion. Last year at the same contest held in Los Angeles, BMCC Pop-Vocal Ensemble took top honors in competition against four-year colleges as well as other community colleges. The Hawaiian trip is sched uled for April 17-24 and the BMCC music groups are setting up money raising projects. "There is no institu tional money used so we need to raise $416 for the 31 choral people who are going at this time," Miller noted. The jazz band is awaiting judgement in on a tape they sent to audition for the competition. Swing Choir and Chorale did not have to try out because of their high rating last year. Projected money raising activities include selling fire wood, Christmas trees and singing Christmas cards. They also plan an auction, Beecher $50 Best Salad West by a Heppner corporation, the store will feature shelf-shopping and case and half-case lot purchases. opens here location, and will feature case and half-case lots of grocery items in addition to a complete line of shelf items. No fresh racquetball tournament, three-on-three basketball tournament and out-of-town discos. December concerts for the BMCC music groups include a . Dec M concert featuring Jazz -Band and Swing Choir at 7:30 p.m. in Pioneer Hall Theatre. College-Community ' band and orchestra will perform Dec. 3 at 3:15 p.m. in Pioneer Hall Theatre. The Chorale Christmas concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in Pioneer Hall Theatre also. Earlier this month the BMCC Chorale, Pop-Vocal Ensemble and Jazz Band traveled to Weston-McEwen High School for a joint concert with the school choir there. Other high school visits will be planned during the year. Concerts at the college are free. 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A corporation com prised of Englert, Bob Laugh lin, Dale Adler, all of Heppner, and Bob Journot, of Hermis ton, owns the store. Bill Huss of Heppner is currently train ing to take over management "of the store. ' Hospital Notes Patients admitted to Pione er Memorial Hospital this past week and still receiving care are: Kevin Renshaw, Lexing ton, Vernon Gilman and Bob De Spain, both of Heppner. Admitted and later dis charged this past week were: Clarence Cress, Spray; Mich ael Parker, Hermiston ; Mark Rugg, Boring; Rick Paige, Gresham; Venda Burkenbine and Vivian Hayes, both of Heppner. I'm proud of where he bought my diamond! r AMERICAN GEM SOCIETY Jewelers 676-9200 A iarge electric generator and a set of come-along winching tools were stolen from a pumphouse at Board man Ready-Mix last week, sheriff's deputies reported. The equipment, valued at about $1,750, was owned by Frontier Construction Co. A chain saw was stolen from a carport at the Scott Madison Ranch on upper Rhea Creek last Friday. Morrow County Sheriff's deputies said that a man believed to have taken the saw was seen attempting to load a washer and dryer from the Madison home into a red Ford pickup. The suspect fled the scene without taking the appliances. Kevin Renshaw, 15, of Lexington, was listed in stable condition at Pioneer Memorial Hospital, after the bicycle he was riding was struck by a car on Hwy. 74 midway between Heppner and Lexington on Sunday. Witnesses told sheriff's deputies that Renshaw rode into tiie path of an eastbound car driven by Elizabeth Ferg uson, 5(, of Hermiston. Mrs. Ferguson told deputies she was traveling about 45 miles per hour at the time of the collision. Rhenshaw struck the car's Turkey Hindquarters 1 j BallPark Beef Franks ib pk9 39 u Heinz MD Toilet Cold Power j KetCnUp TiSSUe Detergent I 1 Mission Spaghetti. f fRtE I ranotWssion 1 Grapes Emporer or Calmeria C Sweet Potatoes hood and windshield before falling to the highway pave ment. The youth suffered severe head injuries. Mark Lee Pace, 18, of Umatilla, and Michael Park er, 19, of Hermiston, escaped serious injury when the truck in which they were riding veered out of control and rolled off Willow Creek Road, Morrow voters follow statewide trends Cont. from page 1 Senate race, and in the campaign for U.S. Represent ative, incumbent Al Ullman polled 1.502 votes to 603 for Republican challenger Terry Hicks. Ballot measure six. the California-style property tax relief initiative, went down by a 1,165 to 910 margin in Morrow County. Measure 11, the legislative alternative, was rejected 1,324 to 723. Morrow County voters favor ed the return of capital punishment allowed under Measure 8 by a 1,568 to 512 margin, but rejected state funded abortions Measure 7-1,090 to 1,000. In the only county race to receive contention, Republic (OUR UDWER WOP PRICES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES ! 2 ih $39 3-lb. Pkg. fct ' r; ib. y .a -a, 1 " Stalk about eight miles east of Heppner last Friday after noon. The truck, driven by Pace, was forced onto the highway shoulder by an oncoming car that veered left of the center stripe, according to a sheriff's report on the accident. The vehicle rolled four times before coming to a rest. an Homer Hughes was elected to another term on the Morrow County Court by a margin of 1,245 to 807 over Dan Creamer of Irrigon. Creamer, a write-in candidate who did not actively campaign for the court posit ion, outpolled Hughes in Boardman 209-143, and in Irrigon, 249-111. A fire destroyed the Don Papineau home in Lexington in the predawn hours Tuesday may have an effect on Lexington voters, who cast 85-27 in favor of a levy to purchase a new fire truck. Other city and county of fices in the local area were uncontested. Frozen y Nabisco Saltine Crackers Pepsi $ 39 8-Pak Plus Deposit Gold MtOAl -it Yams Grapefruit f v. 6l Grocery 676-9164 Meat 676-9288 PRICES EFFECTIVE Thursday, Friday November 9 & 10 Alena Anderson of Heppner received a broken collar bone and superficial injuries last Thursday, when the car in which she was a passenger collided with a vehicle operat ed by Laverne Hams of lone at the junction of Hwy. 207 and Hwy. 320 in Umatilla County, state police at Hermiston said. Ping pong Cont. from page 1 The match is sanctioned by the International Table Tennis League, a private organiza tion that promotes profession al table tennis. Tickets for the match and luau can be purchased in Heppner at Murray's Drug, Cole's House of Fashion, Heppner Family Savings and Black Mt. Repair. In Hermis ton, tickets can be purchased at Roemark's Men's Wear. CUSTOM BUSINESS FORMS & STATEMENTS 676-9228 Chicken Whole Fryers m v id m m Gold Medal mm m 4 m m m riuui $1 39 puWOS 10-lb. MARKET
