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The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 22, 1979 ELEVEN Elementary teacher qualifies for Boston Marathon Andy Clark, a fourth grade teacher at Heppner Elemen tary School, has been taking long-distance running seri ously for less than one year .and already he has excelled to the caliber of a Boston Marathon runner. Not everyone can qualify for the Boston Marathon. This year the qualifying mark is two hours and 50 minutes or less for a certified marathon of 26 plus miles. Clark qualified for the elite Boston run with a clocking of two hours, 42 minutes and seven seconds at the recent 26 mile, 385 yard Portland Mara- r 'V-.' v. A' , A .-s , E Andy Clark jogs down the Balm Creek Road to get in shape for the Boston Marathon. Public Notice Public Notice Public Notice thon. He finished 26th out of 958 runners. He said he had to work his way past about 200 runners in Portland because he began the race in the section of runners who thought they could run the distance at a 6 : 30 per mile clip but Clark did quite a bit better than he had anticipated as he ran the race in an average of 6:10 per mile. "I was really surprised," he siad. "The conditions were ideal with the temperatures in the low 50's." The AAU and the Roadrun ners Associations are waiting to see if the Portland Mara thon will be certified. The decision is pending now. If it is not certified, Clark's time would not be accepted as a qualifying time for Boston and he would have to beat the 2:50:00 time in another mara thon. Clark said he is not too worried about the marathon not being certified because it is in its eighth year and "It's a very professionally run race," he said. The Pullman-raised instruc tor beat his previous best time in a marathon by more than 22 minutes. He ran the Seaside marathon last year in 3:04:00. Like most long-distance en- Public Notice Public Notice 1. Cash and deposits - Cash on hand and demand, and time or savings deposits 2. Federal securities - Obligations of U.S. Treasury (including short-term notes) and Federal Financing Bank 3. Federal agency securities - Obligations ol government owned agencies comprising CCC, Export-import Bank, FHA, GNMA, Postal Service, and TVA . 4. State and local government securities 5. Other securities - Bonds, notes, mortgages, etc., not included in the foregoing classes. Include the following privately financed former Federal agencies; FHLB, FLB, FNMA, banks for cooperatives, and Federal intermediate credit banks. Exclude accounts receivable, value of teal property, and any other nonsecurity assets. : ; Part V y EXPENDITURES OF GENERAL REVENUE SHARING AMD ANTIRECESSION FISCAL ASSISTANCE FUWOS ' " Report proposed anS actual expenditures (Omit cents) of General Revenue Sharing funds in columns A and B, and actual expenditures of Antirecession Fiscal Assistance funds in column C. DO NOT INCLUDE expenditures made from any other sources. ; Function or purpose of expenditure 1. Financial and general administration 2. Education , Health . Roads 3. Welfare 4. Hospitals 5. S. 7. I. 9. Correction 10. Sewerage 11. Other sanitation , Police Fire Parks and recreation Utility Systems - Spectty lype Repair to Courthouse and Museum i4. Interest on general debt Payment of principal on debl All Other - Specify. Column A GENERAL REVENUE SHARING AND FEDERAL ANTIRECESSION EXPENDITURES Column C PROPOSED (budgeted) Revenue Sharing Expenditures Current (1) 63,081 15,919 Capital i2i Column B Amounts ACTUALLY expended from Revenue Sharing funds (also include in part III Current 12) 31,546 15,442 Capital !2l Amounts actually expended from Antirecession funds f also include in part II; Alter July , 1t7T Antirecession Fiscal Assistance funds may not be appropriated lor capital expenditures Current 111 103 i.OOO Capital 2. 112 1?0 13,893 'arks I Part VI CERTIFICATION - This is to certify that the data contained in this report are accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. j'gnatuie of of I c 1 a I Title Area code Number Telephone Extension Date Cardinals beat PV; in state finale thusiasts, Clark has a rigorous training scheduled He usually runs everyday after school and he trains at about 60 to 70 iiles per week. Sometimes he runs as far as 90 miles a week. "I decided to take up running seriously last Janu ary," Clark said. "I had been in two Bloomsday races (in Spokane) and decided that races were so much fun that I wanted to run more than just one a year. So I started training for Seaside." The 1976 Washington State University graduate has run in shorter races too. He was ninth in the John Day race and second in the Tri City Sun Run. He finished 24th in Eugene at the Heart Fun Run. Clark, in his third year at Heppner, said he has "toyed with the idea of having a running club" but so far he has not had time to get one going. Boston is still a long way away, it is the third Monday in April, but Clark cannot truth fully say he is not thinking about it already. He has some relatives in that area. "I have not asked for any time off yet but I am hoping to get back there," Clark said "It just does not happen everyday." By Teena Lindstrom and L. Duane Fetsch The lone Cardinals will be advancing to the Class B State Championship game after de feating Powder Valley 28-8 in the semi-finals. The semi-final game was played Nov. 17 at Eastern Oregon State College in La Grande. The Cardinal scoring began in the first quarter. Junior running back Gregg Rietmann raced 21 yards for six points. The extra point attempt failed. Preceding the touch down was a 60-yard drive in seven plays. Moving to the second quar ter, following an 85-yard drive in 18 plays. Cardinal quarter back Dennis Stefani stepped in from one yard out. Stefani also ran the extra point for two more bringing the score to 14-0. The final touchdown in the first half came on a twelve yard run by Stefani. The extra point attempt failed. The halftime score was 20-0. Starting off the third quar ter of the game, North Powder's Boesel fumbled and Cardinal end Leslie Thompson recovered. Four plays and 19 yards later, junior back Shawn La Rue crossed over from one yard out for the final Cardinal touchdown of the game. Stefani ran in the extra point for two. Powder Valley's first and only touchdown came when quarterback Boesel passed to Records, who carried it 43 yards for six points. Moulton ran in the extra point for two more bringing the score to 28-8. That score was still standing when the final buzzer sounded. In an interview with Cardi nal Coach Gordon Meyers, he said "The defense played as good as they could. We shot down just about everything they tried to do. We contained 2 Sports banquet scheduled lone High School will have the annual Fall Sports Dessert Banquet Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Everyone is invited and asked to bring a dessert. lone game on radio The lone championship game against Prospect will be broadcast live starting at 12:50 p.m. on KOHU radio in Hermiston, 1560 on the dial. Boesel to the point where they were unable to generate any offense at all. A fine defensive effort by everyone. Offen sively, we did not do a lot of things. I felt that the offensive line was great. Powder Val ley's defense tried many different things to try to stop our offense, but our line picked up everything they tried." Coach Meyer's opinion of the game in general was, "Under the conditions of the field, we did a great job. As much mud as the field had, it didn't allow us to do as much as usual . So we just had to slug it out, so to speak, and drive right at them with our ground game. We were successful enought to put 28 points on the board and win the game." Coach Meyers wins LUUw game at lone Gordon Meyers, the lone Cardinals football coach, was honored last Friday at the high school pep assembly for winning his 100th game. He raised his 15-year record at lone to 100 wins when the team won by forfeit against Cascade Locks in the team's final regular season game of the year. "It was kind of a letdown to win my 100th game by a forfeit but a win is a win," Meyers said. His best year at lone was last season when the team was the state champion but he could do as well this year if he can post his 102nd win in the game against Prospect. With the win over Powder Valley last week, Meyers' record at lone is 101-39-2. Meyers is a graduate of Eastern Oregon State College and he majored in social studies, the subject he teaches at the high school. He took a minor in humanities. After two years in the service, he came to Ione. He played center and guard on the football team when he was in college. The lone coach has had some good football players perform for him and some have gone on to play at small colleges while others, who had a lot of potential, have decided not to turn out for various reasons, Meyers said. "Potentially I have had more players the last two years who could play college ball than ever before," Mey ers said. Meyers did say he was a little upset about the recent all-league selections that were made by the Big Sky coaches. He felt lone should have had more players picked for the first team on defense. At the pep assembly, Mey ers gave a pep talk to the students. "I forgive you (the seniors on this year's team) for giving me my only losing season (when they were freshmen) because you also gave me my only real winning season last year when we won the state title." Mevers said. I . I jrA I lb...... TwTiiii in SL 1 j t i 1 i 1 ( 1 Gordon Meyers, right receives a plaque from Dennis Stefani and the rest of the lone seniors for winning his 100th game. lone coaches may be superstitious about their red uniforms by the lone Journalism Class "We are not superstitious," assures Coach Gordon Mey ers, head mentor of the defending state champion lone Cardinals. "It is only incidental and coincidental that Coach Del LaRue and I have worn the same black pants, the same red shirts, the same ties since we started on our string of victories going back to an undefeated season last year and one game from the year before." "Even when it was very cold in some of the games late in last year's season, and the other day over in La Grande when we thumped North Powder, we wore the same clothes even if it was under heavier coats," Meyers ad mitted. "But we are not supersti tious," Coach LaRue added, "and the fact that we bought new red uniforms at the start of our undefeated string is also just coindental." Coach Meyers commented, "The new red unnies (that is coach talk for new suits) hasn't had anything to do with the string of victories. We just happened to have purchased them at a time when we had a number of great athletes. Fact is, these are the best players I have had as a group, in my 16 years of coaching football at lone High School." The respected mentor con tinued, "It is true we have worn the red unnies in all of our home victories last year, and that includes the semi's and the finals last year, and then the semi-final game over at Eastern Oregon State College last weekend against North Powder. I believe we had seven wins last year and we have added six wins to that number this season. Yea, I think we have 13 wins in the red unnies. "It is true we have won other games wearing the black unnies, the game at Dufur late this season is an example. We won that one 38-zip and that made us the power in the race for the league crown," the coach continued. "Had Cascade Locks not forfeited to us we would have had to wear black. We are the visitors the rest of the way this year and we are at the mercy of the team that is hosting the games as to which unnies we get to wear." The coach was quick to add, "But we aren't superstitious." "If the kids get hyped at the thought of wearing the red unnies, "then so be it. If the kids believe more in them selves than in the red unnies, then why not let them wear them." That was a statement, not a question." So back to the gridiron wars go the Cardinal Gladiators. No more time to repair the wounded, some of whom were even injured in the red uniforms and onto the final battlefield of the playoff wars in Prospect for the 8-man championship game. "We are not superstitious. It is only coincidental that Coach LaRue and I wear the same clothes each week for the ballgames, that we feel better with the kids in the red unnies, that we sprint out leading our players before every game, that nothing varies. But please say that we aren't superstiti tious and that the red unnies are just another uniform." Yes, coach, we will stress the fact that you and Coach La Rue aren't superstitious. By the way coach, what color unnies are you wearing for the championship game? Pros pect is in white and so you will be in the "red unnies."
