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BESSIE WET2ELL U OF ORE ' NEWSPAPER LIB EUGENE OR 97403 The Heppner rTnir-TrwnK1 Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper VOL. H, NO. 42 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1H0 12 PAGES 20 CENTS HEPPNER, OREGON Gazette staff shares weekly holiday feature Starting this week and continuing through New Year's Day. the Gazette-Times staff will be sharing a special holiday feature. Look on page 3 for this week's feature. Tri-County Health agency recipient of HEW grant The Tri-County Home Health Agency, a program whose "primary purpose is to provide skilled nursing and physical therapy in a home setting, and cut down on hoKpital and nursing costs." has received an expansion grant from the Dept. of Health, Education and Wel fure, according to local dir ector Sheridan Tarnasky. TarnuHky, who is the daughter of Ilene Laughlin, former administrator of Pi oncer Memorial Hospital, says the grant will enable expansion of services and purchase of supplies and quipment to improve patient . care. Some of the priorities speci fied in the grant include hiring of a registered nurse for the lone-Lexington-Heppner area, hiring of a physical therapist and j?urchase of centrifuges and a portable EKG (electro cardiogram) machine. The local agency, which covers Morrow, Wheeler and Gilliam counties, hus, up until now, relied entirely on patient Local Navyman Sheridan Tarnanky reimbursement for services and private donations. "Up until now," said Tarnasky, "we've had to charge all the patients the same. With the grant we will be able to implement a sliding scale." Tarnasky. who credits the Fast Central Oregon Associa tion of Counties, her secre tary. Sandy Rill, and com munity support for help in obtaining the grant, says the grant will expire Sept. 30, 1981. The program, however, is certified on a yearly basis and will be up for re-certification in July. 1981. Tri-County Home Health, however, has met all requirements for state and federal certification, all three years of its existence. The program started out three years ago with the help of a grant, but, says Tarnasky. has operated entirely on its own the past two years. During its three vears of operation, the program has expanded from 33 patient visits a month in 1978, to 90 In 1979. to an average of 130 a month in 1980. Tarnasky not only serves as program administrator for all three counties, but has also been the staff nurse for the Heppner-lone-Lexington area. The grant would allow hiring of another RN to cover that area. The aRency presently has a nurse in Condon. Fossil. Boardman-Irrigon. Arlington and Mitchell. "Most of our patients are home-bound." said Tarnas ky." and all of our Medicare patients are. We try to keep people in their homes, where they want to he. We try to teach people to take care of their own." Most of the acenev's clients. (BO percent. are geriatric or cancer pat ients, although in special circumstances agency staff visit babies and young people. "We're trying to take up where the medical profession leaves off." she added "Of course all of our home health care is under medical super vision." "One of our biggest roles is teaching. It's a slow process, but it's working. It's a good program " A joint meeting of the agency's five-member board of directors and the seven member advisory group will be held at the agency office on Dec. 4 at 7:30 p m The office is located behind the First National Rank in Heppner. The public is welcome to attend. PMH dining room has new look SPL"- o completes basic Navy Engineman Fireman Recruit Evan R. Troxell, son of Robert D. Troxell of Lexington, has completed the basic engineman course. During the course at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, III., students received instruction on the use of basic hand tools and machine shop equipment. They studied the theory and construction of internal combustion engines, plus the operation, mainten ance and repair of small diesel engines, distilling plants, air compressors and auxiliary boilers. The students were also introduced to the types of duty watches that enginemen stand aboard ships. A 1979 graduate of Spray High School, Spray, Troxell Joined the Nuvy in May, 1980. j ipi ., ai ""NN'i VJ J ICV!)..,...,..,-. .. . 1 . . r i The Pioneer Memorial Hospital downstairs dining and activity room hus a new look -thanks to the efforts of many loyal supporters. First of all, a beautiful bright floor has been put in the room. The hospital auxiliary funded the project with money generated by their fund-raising activities. Another room brightener, a full wall mural, was purchased by some of the hospital employ ees. Some of the younger employees made up a fair booth and fair parade float. The prize money was used to finance the mural. To top it off, the nursing home crew, on their own time, gave the walls a new coat of paint. The result is a nice bright attractive room for the long-term patients to enjoy. In a hospital news release, the patients and employees at Pioneer Memorial Hospital say they "wish to take this opportunity to express their appreciation" to all who participated in the project. Senior Advisory Council meets at Irrigon; Sue Jepsen announces resignation by Justine Weatherford Members of the Morrow County Senior Citizen Advis ory Council, staff members from the Pendleton office of the Area Agency on Aging, representatives from the three county mealsites and several guests attended the bi-monthly meeting at the Irrigon mealsite in the Irrigon Lions' Club Building on Mon day afternoon, Nov. 24. Council President, Doris Goliyhorn, lone, presided at the meeting where various reports were presented and considered. Sue Jepsen, dir ector of the tri-county Home maker Program, reported that the program whs running smoothly and many are being assisted. As she concluded her report, area director Rollin Reynolds, announced that this was Mrs. Jepsen's final report as she will leave the area staff at the end of this month. Sue has also been working with the area nutrition project, and after Dec. 1, Sue Comrie, Pendle ton, will take over that responsibility as supervisor of the 18 mealsites in the five counties of the area which are regularly inspected. Representatives from the Irrigon. lone and Heppner mealsites reported that each county mealsite has shown a small attendance increase. They told of special programs such as slide shows and appearances by children's groups. A special election of a delegate and alternate to attend a March state meeting saw Sue Jepsen chosen dele gate and Mary Nikander chosen alternate delegate. Director Reynolds said a few problems may surface as new regulations are announ ced, such as the need for ramps at mealsites, which may be a problem for the basement site at lone. He introduced Nelle Shu mate of the Eastern Oregon Project Independence Serv ices for the Blind who said she is eager to locate blind or deaf-blind of any age whom she wants to help in several ways. She can be contacted through the Pendleton area office. As the meeting concluded, it was announced that the next bi-monthly council meeting on Jan. 21 will be held at the lone mealsite. Sports page 9 Town-wide sale marks Christmas season opening Marge (L) and Leroy Gardner, and Andrea Campbell show some of the merchandise Christmas shoppers can find at Gardner's Mens Wear during the town-wide Christmas Opening this Saturday. Nov. 29 in Heppner. Several activities are planned for Saturday to mark the opening of the Christinas season. Santa Claus will be in town on Saturday to take requests from the youngsters, Santa will set up his "office" between Cole's House of Fashion and Abrams & Kuhn's office starting at 2 p.m Little ones can sit pn his lap and talk to him at this time. Also of interest for the kids will be free rides on a horse-drawn cart. Floyd Hutchinson will be next to the Heppner TV office on Main street to give rides for the youngsters on Saturday. New physician in process of moving to Heppner Elton J. 'Tim" McCoy, a Newport physician who is planning on establishing a practice in Heppner, is expec ted to visit Heppner sometime this weekend before beginning a three-week course in obstet rics (maternity care, child birth ) on Monday in Portland. McCoy, who is expected to begin practice in Heppner around the first of the year, his wife, Mary, and their 17-month old son are now in the process of moving to the area, said Pioneer Memorial Hospital Administrator A K. "Lucky" Felt. Dr. McCoy has made ar rangements to lease space in the Pioneer Memorial Hos pital, where he will practice as an independent family phys ician, said Felt. McCoy won an appointment to Annapolis as a young man and served as a Naval officer. He was introduced to the Northwest when stationed at the Sand Point, Idaho, Naval base. He subsequently attain ed a Ph D at the University of Texas Medical Branch and instructed students in physi ology. In 1975 McCoy received his r - ' y -V -; . ' r ' " - - -j ; ' ! 4 Elton J. "Tim" McCoy, MX). degree in medicine from Temple University at Phila delphia, Penn. After a year of internship in the department of medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, he spent 16 months in family practice training at Boise, Id. In January 1978, McCoy opened a private family prac-" tice at Newport where their son was born. He and his wife, who has a background of teaching in secondary educat ion, say they are looking forward to living in Heppner. $140 in gift certificates for kids' coloring contest It's free-and kids could win a $20, $10 or $5 gift certificate good at any participating Heppner business. It's a Christmas coloring contest for area children and it begins this week. $140 in gift certificates will be given away. To enter, just stop by any of the stores listed below, pick up your free poster, take it home, color it and return it to any participating store by Friday, Dec. 5. One entry is allowed for each child. The colored posters will be judged by residents of the Pioneer Memorial nursing home in Heppner. Nursing home residents will pick first, second and third place winners from each of four age groups: 3 and 4 years, 5 and 6 years, 7 and 8 years, and 9 through 12 years. The kids' artwork will be displayed in participating store windows for everyone to see over the Christmas holiday. Pick up your coloring contest, from these participating merchants: CENTRAL MARKET COAST TO COAST COLE'S HOUSE OF FASHION GARDNER'S MEN'S WEAR KROLL'S DEPARTMENT STORE LERL'SIl SHOPPE MURRAY'S DRUG PETERSON'S JEWELRY SHOE BOX Winners will be contacted Dec. 8 and their names will appear in the Gaaette-Times Dec. 11. .. ? I.
