FOUK The Heppner Gaiette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 7. 1980
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Nancy Miller
The Queen of the 1980 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
Court is a 5'5" hazel-eyed blonde-Lori Edwards.
Queen Lori, 18, is the youngest daughter of John and
Dorothy Edwards of Lexington.
Lori is a 1980 graduate of lone High School, and plans on
going to Blue Mountain Community College this fall.
In Lori's junior year at lone High, she held the office of
secretary treasurer for the Girls Letter Gub. She was a
ticket taker for the football games and was princess of her
class on the Football Homecoming court.
In her senior year Lori was vice-president of the Girls
Letter club. She was also a statistician for the Class "B"
State Champion Football team.
Lori has been active in sports all through her school years,
playing varsity volleyball for three years and varsity
basketball for four years, even though this year's basketball
season was cut short by a knee injury.
When asked when she started to ride horses, she says. "I
was too young to remember when." She does know that it was
on her dad's thoroughbred brood mares. Lori's family has
been raising and racing thoroughbred horses for as long as
she can remember.
In 1977 Lori was a pennant-bearer for the court. Last year
she was a princess.
Lori's offical mount is her 10-year-old mare, "Happy
Jaye." The horse was a pony horse on the horse racing
tracks.
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Lori Edward
Lori has two older sisters. Karen, who is married and has
two children, lives in North Carolina. Janice lives in
Pendleton and works at the First National bank.
Princesses for the 1980 Morrow County Rodeo Court are
Nancy Miller, 17, and Lottie Laughlin. 16.
Princess Nancy is a 5'5" senior at Heppenr High School.
The blue-eyed, brown-haired princess lives 9 miles north of
Lexington on a wheat ranch with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Tad Miller and brother, STeve, who is an eighth grader. Her
other brother. Mark, is married and lives close by and an
older sister, Michelle (Mrs. Don Burns) lives in Pendleton.
Nancy was a member of the Heppner High School varsity
volleyball and basketball teams last year and is a member of
the NHS and GAB. She will be Heppner High student body
treasurer this year and is a member of this year's dance
team.
Nancy, who has been involved in 4-H for 9 years,
specializing in horses, livestock and sewing categories, has
attended 4-H summer camp for two years. She was also a
counselor at thellth"grad"e outdoor school at Tupper.
In addition to all those outside activities Nuncy helps her
dad out on the ranch pulling rye and driving a wheat truck,
among other jobs.
Nancy's horse is "Tieg," who is a sorrel gelding. Nancy
has ridden him for two years and is training him for barrels
and poles.
Nancy's involvement with the Morrow County Rodeo goes
back two years. She served as pennant-bearer in 1978 and
1979. She was also a pennant bearer for the Heppner rodeo for
several years.
Princess Lottie Laughlin is keeping up a family tradition
when she was selected as princess this year her aunt, May
Kilkenny, was queen in 1924 or 25; another aunt. Colleen
Kilkenny Greenup was selected as a princess and as a queen;
cousins. Tag Greenup Ashbeck, Susie Greenup Walton and
Peggie Kilkenny Paulson in have all been chosen rodeo
princesses; and another aunt, Junice Spaulding Ansotegul,
was 1976 Rodeo Princess.
Lottie, 16, is the daughter of Robert Butch and Judie
Laughlin, Heppner. Her grandparents are Carl and Bette
Lottie Laughlin
Spaulding and Ilene Luughlin, all of Heppner. Lottie has
spent II years in Heppnr schools, and has been Involved In
4-H for 7 years. Her specialty areas include horses, cooking,
sewing and Artex. Ixittie was a pennant beurcr for the
Morrow County Rodeo for 5 years in a row until she was
chosen as princess this year.
Irincess Lottie's hobbies include vollyball, basketball,
powder-puff football, horse-buck riding and golf. She lettered
2 years in golf and was golf medalist for the year. She also
lettered one year in basketball. She spent 7 years on the
Heppner swim team, and went to the Junior Olympics In 1978 f
on a relay team, placing fifth.
"I have Iwn riding horses all my life, starting on a ranch
on Ilinton Creek." said Lottie. "We moved to Heppner when I
was about 6, but I still rode at my Uncle Don Greenup's until I
got my own horse "
Lottie's horse is "Hojo", a 4-year-old sorrel.
Tii lies I on the court, at 5'6", Lottie hus light brown hair and
brown eyes. She has an older sister, Tami Seal, who is living
in Hood River and a younger brother, Shane, 15. Lottie
includes as a family memlwr, her dog, Misty, who Is 8.
After graduation I-ottie plans to go to the U of 0 and major
in music. She hus Ix-en taking piano lessons "off and on" for
alsiut 8 years and has been in the bund for 7 years, playing
the clarinet, saxaphone, alto clarinet and base clarinet-"Anl
I love it," savs Lottie.
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Fair word dayo cet
The court and chaperone Mary Ann Palmer visit
with Cleo Van Winkle at the nursing home
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The Queen and her court accept saddle
from Morrrow County Grain Growers
Fair.. .Get Ready
With arrival of August, our
thoughts turn to County Fair.
Time is short till August 16,
the first day of 4-H events at
fair.
Work days have been sched
uled for 4-H parents, leaders,
members, or just anyone
interested, to put the finishing
touches on barns and the'
Annex. John Nordheim, 4-H
agent, encourages everyone to
get out to the fairgrounds and
help on Piday, August 8. ...all
day. They will work on barns
Fdrjbook
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FFA SECTION
The following items, which
appeared incorrectly in the
recently distributed fair book
should read:
p. 112 Superintendents:
Rick Danielson and Roger
Records 4. Livestock shall be
on the grounds by 10:00 a.m.
August 18th.
p. 11311. Bulls calved
Sept. -Dec. 31, 1978. C.W.
Acock & Son will not provide
for the champion steer.
p. 116 Norden Stefanides
will not be providing any
trophies.' A trophy will be
provided for the Champion
Beef Showman & Champion
Sheep Showman.
Garden Club
to finalize
piano for
fair booth
The Heppner Garden Club
will meet at Bob and Theta
Lowe's home next Monday,
August 11, at 7:30 p.m. to
finalize fair booth plans.
and grounds that day.
Birdine has scheduled Tues
day, August 12, as the day the
Home Ec. crew will move in to
set up and decorate the Home
Ec. area. Home Ec. and
Creative Arts leaders have a
head start on fair prepar
ation. ..they've already had
one work day early in the
summer.
4-H plans to be ready when
the big days arrive! Come join
the fun of preparation and be a
part of the 4-H action.
Big event
Out around the county there
are about 40, 4-H leaders, and
almost 200 parents who are in
various ways helping 4-H'ers
get ready for county fair.
Fair is the big event. ..the
time and place each year
where the members show
what they have accomplished
and learned. The special time
the public has the opportunity
to say "well done."
Successful fairs do not
happen without the support of
parents, leaders, and the
public. An audience is wel
come and appreciated at each
and every 4-H event. It is
especially reassuring to
younger members to look
around and see a proud
mother, father, or grandpar
ent there.
Don't, however, feel you
have to be one of those to walk
in, sit down, and watch a 4-H
event. All the members are
there to show everyone what
they have accomplished and
learned. All 4-H events are
open to the public.
4-H invites you to come to
the fair see what the youth
of Morrow County are doing.
You will leave with a very
positive feeling about the
youth of today. See them at the
Fair.
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Princess Lottie, (L) Queen Lori, Kinzua Gen.
Mrg. Harry Kenniaon, andPrincess Nancy show
saddle donated by Kinzua Corp.
Mrs Jim Swanson attends
big National Conference
International 4-H Youth Ex
change members from 35
states met in Wilmington,
Ohio, at Wilmington College
from July 16 to July 20 for a
national conference. Over 300
American IFYEs attended
plus about 15 inbound students
who have just come to the U.S.
from foreign countries.
Monica Swanson, lone, went
a few days early to enjoy a
special visit with the girl who
traveled with her in Greece in
1973. In 1978 Monica served as
an exchange youth group
chaperone accompanying a
group of American students
who visited the Labo Youth
Program in Japan.
The Ohio conference theme
was Fun, Family and Flight.
That state makes much of its
being the home of the Wright
brothers. The conference del
egates went to the Dayton Air
Show which is the second
largest air show in the U. S.
Almost everyone had the
interesting and exciting ex
perience of riding in a
colorful, hot-air balloon. Each
balloon carried the pilot and
two passengers.
Monica reports that the next
national IFYE conference will
be in New Hampshire and two
years from now It will meet in
Nebraska. She hopes that
Oregon will host this Eoup in
some future year.