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A family affair
Pecks collections prove
Pride in the land runs in the family
Maintaining the Morrow
County Fair grounds and
looking after the many events
held there is a family affair in
Heppner.
For the past three years
Dorothy -Estberg and her
husband. Steve, have been
combining their talents to
make sure that when fair time
rolls around the grounds will
be ready for the many visitors
who will come through the
gates.
While Dorothy is the secre
tary of the fair board, which
oversees activitits at the
grounds, her husband is the
maintenance man who sees
that buildings are kept up and
Grain Exhibit competition hot
By BIKDIN'E Tl'LLIS
Will it be Stephens or
Wanser, or maybe Faro?
Perhaps some other variety?
Which farmer will point with
pride to his exhibit at county
fair, proudly wearing the hilfee
purple rosette that proclaims
it the best wheat exhibit? This
year, when crop yields and
quality have been exceptional
competition for the special
award should be intense.!
There are classes for other
grains, too, such as barley and
oats. Wheat sheaves are
always a big attraction at fair
... they seem symbolic of the
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Dorothy and Steve Eetburg
necessary repairs made.
"It's gotten to be a big
thing." Dorothy says of the
annual Fair and Rodeo. "It's
getting better each year, and
also more complicated." She
says it's necessary to begin
planning right after one fair
for the next year's. "It s not
all put together in one month."
adds Steve.
Actually the Fair and Rodeo
is only one of the many uses
the grounds have during the
year. "Right now we are using
the grounds 330 days out of the
year," says Dorothy of a job
which is keeping this husband
and wife a busy couple.
harvest season. There's a
special sweepstakes rosette
for the best sheaf, too.
Bill Rawlins, superinten
dent, is proud of his grain
department at the fair. He
volunteers to clean any grain
exhibit if it is brought early.
Bring more than the peck
required, if you plan to have it
cleaned.
Morrow County's wheat ex
hibits go directly from county
fair to state fair in Salem. The
county has often won an
award fr the best grains
exhibits at the state event.
Will that award come back to
Morrow County this year?
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By BOB COSTA
Pride in the land and a
bountiful harvest run in the
family.
"I entered wheat sheaves at
the county fair when I was
farming, but when I retired
and didn't grow wheat any
more, I started bringing in
sheaves of wild grasses." says
Harold "Shorty" Peck.
Last year. Peck collected 34
species of wild grasses from
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his Upper Rhea Creek farm
and made a display for the
Oregon State Fair. The exhibit
was such a hit. Fair officials
asked Peck if the grasses
could be kept for a permanent
exhibit. Peck has collected an
additional 18 grasses for
exhibit at the 1981 Morrow
County Fair. The grasses are
tied in attractive bundles
called sheaves.
"I guess I inherited it from'
my dad; he was quite a
fairgoer," says Peck. At the
1916 Oregon State Fair, "Shor
ty 'i father, Burton Peck, won
first premium for his individ
ual exhibit titled "Peck's
Dry-Farmed Products." The
exhibit was an attractive
display of grain sheaves, corn,
peas, beans, and 32 varieties
of potatoes, all grown under
dry-land conditions at the
Peck's Morrow County farm.