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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1980)
r with Justine Weatherford tynr The week before last I made my final highway trip for 1980, Inez Erwln and I wont northeast to Cheney and Spokane to spend two nights with my daughter, Ann Chenhall and family. We were surprised to find so much volcanic ash still very visible from south of Rltzville on Into the Spokane area. We enjoyed attending an ice skating outing for youngsters between two and four years of age In the Ice rink in the center of the U.S. Pavilion space. The rink was under the skeleton structure that held the canvas which covered the U.S. Exhibit during the 1974 Worlds Fair In what is now Spokane's Riverfront Park. We also enjoyed some excellent Mexican food at the Holding Company near Spokane's Center and spent several hours of walking about the Skywalk which connects most of the downtown buildings at their second story level. The windowed, street-spanning walkways are heated in winter and air-conditioned In summer, and make shopping much easier and quicker when one does not need to wait for changing walk or wait signals at each street intersection or climb any steps. Shopping with grandchildren, three-year-old Thomas and one-year-old Pearl, In a a stroller, was less tiring that way. We five got into the Skywalk via an outside elevator only a few feet from where parked our car. Friday, after 1 spent a little morning time out in the rain-drenched pine woods surrounding the Chenhall home, Inez and 1 started homeward. We reached the Columbia Center near Pasco for lunch and a little looking about and were back in our homes before dark. The Artifactory which happens this Saturday is a very special Heppner Innovation. Created by the local AAUW Branch, it benefits many. The University Women make the arrangements for this annual first-Saturday in December event ; they publicize it ; they coordinate It and clean up after It. The groups and individuals that take part are able to present their sale items to a much larger number of buyers than they could otherwise. Shoppers have the opportunity of examining a very wide variety of items under one roof with plenty of free car parking nearby. The Garden Club will again offer the public fresh green materials and trimmings and instruction in making holiday wreaths and swags. Those who have worked with greens School lunch menus IONK SCHOOL Thurs,, Dec. 4 - sloppy Joes, tfltor tots, green beans, fruit, milk Fri.. Dec. 5 - vegetable soup, crackers, tuna sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, dessert, milk. Mon.. Dec. 8 wiener wraps, sauerkraut, buttered carrots, nlums. milk. Tues . Dec. 9 - hamburRer gravy, mashed potatoes, but tered corn. Jell-o. milk. Wed.. Dec. 10 - macaroni and cheese, buttered peas, cinnamon rolls, fruit, milk. Thurs.. Dec. 11 - fried chicken. French fries, green beans, fruit, milk. Heppner Elementary 4 - hot dogs, crispy vegies. Thurs . Dec French fries. fruit, milk. Fri., Dec. 5 tuna A la king, cabbage salad. Harvard beets, fruit, milk. Mon., Dec. 8 Stroganoff. fresh frozen peas, . celery sticks, fruit, milk, rolls, but ter. Tues.. Dec. 9 - chili beans, calico salad, crackers, cake, milk. Wed.. Dec. 10 - turkey gravy, rice, tossed salad, fruit milk, rolls, butter. Thurs.. Dec. 11 School's choice. Fri . Dec. 12 - chicken loaf, spinach, orange wedges, rolls, butter, milk. Heppner High School Mon.. Dec. 8 - fish, French fries, toast, fruit, milk. Tues . Dec. 9 - beef stew, cottage cheese, pear halves, muffins, celery sticks, or salad bar. milk. Wed., Dec. 10 pork and noodle casserole, choice of vegetable, hot bread, dessert, or salad bar, milk. Thurs.. Dec. 11 - barbecued beef on a bun. buttered peas, salad, fruit crisp, milk. Fri.. Dec. 12 deli sand wiches, chicken noodle soup, fruit salad, cookie, milk. Wreath around inflation Stretch your holiday budget with do-it-yourself, inflation fighting Christmas wresths snd gift wraps that are easy, fun to do and strikingly original. You probably already have most of the raw materials or hand rickrack, fabric rem nants, white glue, colored tape and heavy corrugated card board. These, plus scissors and such, are all you need! Create a gay but economi cal ruffled wreath with a piece of heavy corrugated cardboard cut into a ring as your base. Select several different types of fabrics from your remnants solid, flowered, eyelet for eye appeal. Using a pinking shears (if you have them), cut four strips: one 4" wide, two 3" wide and one 2" wide. Here, a rickrack border is glued to a 4" strip of muslin for the first ruffle. Run a ring of Lliocr's glue around the outside edge of the cardboard wreath. Gather the fabric with your fin gers as you work it around the circle and push it firmly into the glue. Apply another ring of glue to the cardboard along inside edge of the first ruffle and work a 3" patterned strip around the wreath. Glue lace to second 3" strip of muslin and work this around just inside preceding strip. The final strip is the eyelet ruffle which is glued to the board along the inside of the ring. Rickrack is glued to the inside edge of the ruffle to help hide the cardboard. Make a bow of calico and glue it to finished wreath. With nee dle and heavy thread, tie a loop for hanging the wreath. Make your own original gift wrap. It's easy and inexpensive and will make your packages stand out. The secret is the use of last year's Christmas cards (or the early ones from this year they seem to come earlier each year!), some plain paper, Mystik tape and Elmer's School Glue. Wrap box with plain paper tissue or lightweight shelf paper and glue edges down. Cut pic ture f rom old greeting card and glue to top of package. For added interest, frame pic ture with strips of colored cloth tape in a pleasing arrangement. It's all easy and fun and you can have all your gift wraps and a wreath for your door for just a couple of dollars this year. It's one way to save so you have more left for the presents themselves. ax 1 I i grr " Bad spots can sometimes be removed from pewter by rubbing them with grade 00 steelwool dipped in olive oil. previous ye.-irs know that they should bring along their clippers- find first time wreath or swag makers are asked to bring garden clippers if possible. The wire circles from former years are re-usable, also, but new circles for wreaths and wrappinR wire will be available. Be sure to plan to spend Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Artifactory, It is educational, exciting and a wonderful boost toward Christmas. This busy week and all this busy month, folks are finding extra pressures as our world approaches the celebration of the birthday of the Prince of Peace. The cheerful Christmas lighting of Heppner's streets reminds us that we are in the usual rush to assemble and wrap gifts for family and friends with whom we share our love. One of the first home trees I noted began sparkling through the window of Marshall and Edda Mae Lovgren's home last week. In addition to the street lights so faithfully installed each year by the workers of the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op, the moving display in Peterson's jewelry store windows really delights me each year. The attractive young couple arc so busily decorating their tree and dear Santa is resting up for his big night while one of his elfin helpers works along. Long may they reign. I'm still thankfully counting blessings, one of which is that we are so lucky to live in Morrow County. Did you catch the big headline on last Sunday's Oregonian "Morrow 'booming' as Harney 'busts' "? The paper stated that this county has an unemployment rate at 4 4 percent "thanks to an amazing industrial diversification that has made it the fastest-growing area in '.he state." Then after telling of the woes of Harney County where the unemployment rate is 29.9 and "many have left the area to seek employment elsewhere," it continued about the "strong industrial development in Morrow County, an area of bustling activity" and it especially outlined the phenomenal growth and good planning in the Boardman community. Do you suppose that some of those leaving Harney County, along with others who read this impressive front page article on the state's major newspaper, will rush into Morrow County which it labels "beauty" as opposed to its economic The Heppner Gazette' opposite. Harney County "the beast"? The several media have certainly kept me interested lately. An amazing item on TV last week told of the baling of tumble weed (Russian thistle) in Arizona where they are hoping to really stimulate its growth because the University of Arizona shows that II can be baled and then made into "Tumble Ixgs" which will sell way under the price of other artificial logs. The baled weed is also being used as an industrial fuel. The exciting discussion on the use of this prolific weed which has "no natural enemy" made me wonder how soon someone will be ready to make a fortune off of the abundant sage brush or rabbit brush? Back to the current busyness of women folk. Many of them just demonstrated their skills by hostessing large family groups over Thanksgiving. Super cook Eleanor Gonty and husband Ed had a thirleen-person. four generation gathering at their home. They have been so generously letting me use the crib and highchair that was last used by their European -based son Doug for my grandchildren's visits. They borrowed them back for their great-grandson. Tyler Gonty. to use over the holiday and then on Sunday evening returned them to my home so that one of my granddaughters can use it over Christmas. Little Tyler is the grandson of their young-looking oldest son Ray of the Seattle police force. Former teacher. Inez Erwin. is also a super cook, and she was hostess to a wonderful eleven-person, three generation celebration of Thanksgiving, As a privileged guest there. I know that everything was delicious: the after-dinner slide program was most interesting: and I was jealous that Inez had two of her six sisters joyfully helping her. My one brother is mighty fine, but I always wanted a sister, too-how lucky Inez is with six dandies. I know that many families had wonderful reunions last week. When I went across town to the Erwin home on ThanksgivinR Day, I found very few signs of life. My own family reunion took place via long-distance telephone, but most of my family has promised to make it to Heppner either Dec. 25 or 26. Clista Venard was one who attended a family gathering elsewhere. She went to Kalama. Wash., where nearly all of Times. Heppner, Oregon. Thursday, December 4, I9K0--8EVEN the Dickey Family (four generations, about 25 persons) gathered at her sister's home. Clista says this is the first time ' in many years that many of them have been together. They enjoyed a large delicious turkey and a large equally delicious? ham and. most of all, lots of visiting. Some of us are slowly recovering from the shock ofl receiving our tax statements and notices of changing true cash value and assessed value. We hope and believe that we are getting our money's worth from our county and city, ft isn't too bad to have the value of property rise (except that taxes must rise also), but how terrific it is for young people to, try to buy property now when prices and interest charges have skyrocketed so. Well. I guess, lots of the lucky young ones are earning three or four times as much as I ever earned during my top working days. Georgia Van Winkle, mother of the darling Jessica, came through my yard just as my good helper, Susan Vosberg, and I were finishing raking most of the mass of fallen leaves last Wednesday. Georgia needed to Inspect the house for the county Assessor's Office. Does this mean that taxes are going up or maybe coming down? , I've just learned that a lovely selection of dipped holly from Cons Bay will be sold by Heppner Garden Club members next Saturday at the Artifactory where I expect to see most of you) Life is full of various ups and downs. 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