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FOUR The Heppner Giette-T1me.
Around About
By Justine Weatherford
Last week I wrote about the land, sea and air traveling that
Inez Erwin, my son, Ross, and I did in Canada and Alaska
during the last week in June and first days of this month. I
told of our trip by air from Vancouver, B.C. to Prince Rupert,
then on the M.V. Malaspina to Skagway and over the White
Pass by bus to Whitehorse.
After looking around the Yukon Territorial Capital we flew
to Fairbanks. This flight took us over thousands of acres of
black spruce forests, above many hundreds of lakes and
about a dozen winding rivers. We spotted two forest fires and
could not see habitation for many miles. During this flight
we moved our watches back two hours.
Our schedule sflid we departed Whitehorse at 4 p.m. and
arrived at Fairbanks at 4:10 p.m. However, the flight took
more than two hours. In Alaska's second largest city, the
home-base of the University of Alaska, we had some very
interesting experiences. Inez and I took a full -circle city bus
trip our first evening, beginning and ending at our rather
suburban condominium, and taking us into the city center
and out to the hill-top university campus. This showed us the
great territory the city covers.
During our second day in Fairbanks, we three had a fine
morning tour around the area and learned about the two
boom periods in the city's history. The first resulted from
Felix Pedro's finding of gold in Discovery Creek. The recent
boom resulted from the building of the great pipeline which
passes nearby carrying over one million barrels of oil a day
from Prudhoe Bay, 400 miles to the north, to the port city of
Valdez, 300 miles to the south.
We stopped along the pipeline, touched it, took pictures of it
and were very interested in a gold dreg reworking tailings
nearby rAlioTwe really en joyed visiting the university farm
and gardens, seeing the acres of flowers blooming there and
the animal quarters. The students were just moving baled
hay into the barns. Inez was delighted to see the "furthest
north" golf course, and we viewed the site of the dog-sled
race course. We visited the superior museum on the
University of Alaska campus. We were driven past some
beautiful suburban homes and around the downtown
where we learned of the historic development of the city.
We had an afternoon tour scheduled, and our bus stopped in
the center of the city at noon so that passengers could lunch
and do a few errands. Inez and I went into a very nice
bakery-restaurant and Ross, saying he would join us very
soon, ran across the street to visit the city's largest bank. We
two ate, bought some bakery goodies and wondered what in
the world happened to Ross. When he hadnt joined us by 1
p jn. and the tour bus was ready to depart, I ran over to the
bank to look for him. I found the bank's front door locked,
and when I moved to the window I could see Ross seated
inside. He shook bis head sideways when I signaled for him
to come quickly. About then a bank employee opened the big
door a crack and told me "This bank was robbed just after
noon, and we must hold everyone inside until they are
released by the police." So I took this news back to the bus.
The driver had started the motor and we were about to pull
out as Ross raced aboard saying that he was released
because he was a bonified tourist and had been talking with
the bank manager quite a distance from the teller's window
when the robbery took place.
Our afternoon tour saw us transferred from the bus to the
sternwheeler "Discovery II" which took us for a most
enjoyable cruise along the Chena and Tanana rivers. We
learned about the Athabascan Indian culture and about
trapping and fishing. Our visit ashore at an old Indian fishing
and trapping camp included lectures on the use of storage
caches, on drying salmon, on the operation of fish wheels,
and about life in the little, old log cabins there.
After this delightful river cruise, we, along with about 600
other folks, went to an Alaska salmon bake in Alaskaland
Park in downtown Fairbanks where we had a tremendous
picnic-style meal and enjoyed looking at the exhibits of old
mining equipment. This park has a large auditorium where
concerts and other activities are held.
On Wednesday, June 30, we left Fairbanks at 8:30 a.m.
aboard an Alaska-Yukon motorcoach for the scenic trip to
Denali National Park (formerly Mt. McKinley Park). This
great park is larger than the state of Massachusetts. It is
served by highway and by the railroad from Fairbanks on its
north and Anchorage on the south. WTe checked into a chalet
before noon, from which we took several park bus trips.
Our longest trip in the park was the Wild Life Tour from
5:30a.m. until 2p.m. on Thursday. The bus we toured in had
its last five or six rows of seats filled with Japanese tourists,
whose interpreter, an attractive American-Japanese girl
from N.Y. state, repeated all the information our bus driver
gave. We enjoyed a tremendous morning view of Mr.
McKinley, and everyone shot numerous pictures. We also
had good looks at moose, particularly several cows and
calves; at caribou; at many Dall sheep; at a large bear; and
at other animals as well as Golden Eagles and other birds.
We all got out and walked on the tundra, that spongy, springy
growth covering the permafrost. We enjoyed a box lunch
high up on a mountain-surrounded viewpoint.
The bus and train for Anchorage were waiting when our
tour concluded, and we then we traveled south toward the
coast through a lovely part of the state, stopping at the native
village of Nanana where the breakup of the ice on the Tanana
River is so accurately timed and at Talkeetna where most
McKinley climbers start and where the heroic glacier pilots
Don Sheldon and Bob Reeve made their homes. Our journey
took us across Willow Creek near the hamlet of Willows
which has been selected as the probable location for the state
capital if and when it is moved from Juneau. The Willow
Creek area affords space for a great airfield, has no
permafrost, is along the highway between the two largest
cities, but closer to the Anchorage port area where more than
half of the state's entire population lives and where a great
deal of its commerce is centered.
As we approached Anchorage we passed through part of
the Matanuska Valley where the farms produce crops such
as 75 and 80 pound cabbages. Anchorage is really a booming,
big city. Our second day there Inez and I took two tours while
Ross kept busy with friends and insurance matters
downtown. In the morning we were driven about the
business, industrial and port areas and saw the huge
international airport. We visited Earthquake Park, saw
many lovely homes, drove past Alaska Pacific University
(formerly Alaska Methodist) and the Anchorage campus of
the University of Alaska. We visited the city museum and the
multi-level Captain Cook Memorial Park on Cook Inlet. Just
after noon we had a lunch stop and looked around the Alyeska
Ski Resort where some of the bus travelers took the chairlift
up the slope of Mt. Alyeska for a spectacular view of the
Girdwood Valley, Turnagain Arm and eight glaciers.
The conclusion of this trip will be published in next week's
Gazette-Times.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July IS, 1982
lone woman attends Eastern Star session in Portland
Mrs. Lewis Halvorsen, lone,
worthy matron of Ruth Locust
Chspter No. 32, Order of the
Eastern Star, attended a
grand chapter session recent
ly at the Memorial Coliseum
in Portland, reported a
spokesperson.
At the close of the three-day
session, installation of the
grand officers for 1982-1983
term were installed in a for
mal ceremony. Mrs. Meryl
Reardon of Portland and "tin
nier Horn of Pilot Rock are the
new worthy grand matron and
worthy grand patron of the
order, she said.
Mrs. Halvorsen was ap
Pacific School of Religion student
interns at lone, Condon U.C.C.
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Ginny Curinga
Ginny Curinga of Berkeley,
Calif., arrived in lone June 26
and will assist lone and Con
don United Church.of Christ
pastors Cathy Barker and Art
Buck throughout the summer
during an internship. A stu
dent at the Pacific School of
Religion at Berkeley, she will
also fill in for the pastors
HHS class of
The Heppner High School
graduating class of 1967 held a
15-year class reunion Satur-
day, June 26, in Heppner.
The reunion featured a class
golf tournament at Willow
Creek Country Club with six
class members participating.
Dennis O'Donnell won the
tourney with a score of 37,
reported Roger and Margue
rite Leonnig of Gresham,
spokespersons for the class.
Class members also enjoyed
a picnic where children played
volleyball, participated in
sack races, a balloon toss and
tug-of-war.
At the Heppner Elks Lodge,
the class enjoyed dinner and
was treated to a special ap
pearance by the Henchmen, a
band that performed in the
Heppner area from 1965 to
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pointed as a member of the
committee for Eastern Star
Training Awards for Religious
Leadership (ESTARL). These
scholarships are given to any
person entering Into religious
training whether musical,
educational, missionary or
pastoral, she stated. This year
the members of Eastern Star
in Oregon contributed enough
to award 36 $500 scholarships.
They also awarded eight East
ern Star Scholarship Endow
ments at $500 each, and 28
Lelsie S. Parker Scholarships
of $500 each, she continued.
Other philanthropic projects
Eastern Star members all
during their vacations and get
a look at rural life in Eastern
Oregon.
Miss Curinga, 26. is working
to achieve a Masters of Divin
ity degree and said "I hope to
be called to a church and
ordained."
During her stay in lone,
Curinga and the Rev. Cathy
Barker led Sunday services at
Pioneer Memorial Nursing
Home July 11. The intern said
she was impressed with the
ecumenical ministries taking
place there, but would like to
see local congregations pickup
residents at the home and take
them to church fellowship
times and other functions.
Also while in lone, she will
assist with a planned garden
exchange, where local resi
dents may exchange harvests.
Any extra food items will be
given to needy families in the
area.
Curinga is also excited
about being able to get a good
look at harvest at the Bob and
Bill Rietmann ranch.
Having always lived in ma
jor cities, she says she is
interested in living in a rural
community, and would like to
'67 holds 15-year reunion
1968. The group rewrote the
song "Class of '57 and sang it
as the "Class of '67." Mem
bers of the Henchmen were
Kathy (Melby) Jurchich. Tim
Smith and Roger Leonnig. the
spokespersons said.
Class members present
were: Mr. and Mrs. Dean
(Maralee Murray) Trotter,
Mr. and Mrs. John Dubuque,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim (Erin Dick)
Clem, Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Wagenblast, Mr. and Mrs. Hal
(Nonda Clark) Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. Jeff Turner, Mr. and
Mrs. Tim Smith, Mrs. Jim
(Gale Malcom) O'Brien, Mr.
and Mrs. Randy (Donna Pot
ter) Quadros, Mr. and Mrs.
Mike Sweeney, Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis (Peggy Snyder)
O'Donnell, Mr. Lennie Hanna.
Mr. Mac Hoskins Mrs. Jim
(Marty Boyajian) Lieuallen,
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over the state were involved in
were a blood program; the
heart fund; $32,984 to the
home endowment fund for
support of the Eastern Star
and Masonic Home at Forest
Grove; and over $37,000 pre
sented to the University of
Oregon Medical School for
cancer research.
Almost l,f00 members reg
istered for the session this
year. Others from Ruth Lo
cust Chapter attending were
Mrs. Virginia Wilkinson, past
grand matron and Mrs. Kath
erine Lindstrom, the spokes
person concluded.
visit people in their homes to
find out some of the joys and
drawbacks of living in rural
communities.
Curinga will leave Friday,
July 16 to return to Condon
where she will conduct Sunday
services at a Condon area
ranch. During her first visit to
Condon, she assisted with Va
cation Church School and
Fourth of July services.
After arriving in lone for the
second time August 12, she
will plan the program at an
lone senior citizens pot luck.
No d;ile has yet been set for
the August pot luck. She will
remain in lone from Aug U
until Labor Day weekend,
when she will return to Ber
keley Of her internship in Eastern
Oregon. Curinga commented
that it is interesting to exper
ience two congregations and
see two pastors with very
different styles. Most interns,
she said, are assigned to only
one church. "Being supervi
sed by a woman pastor is also
a unique opportunity and to
see how well the congregation
responds to Cathy is encoura
ging." Mr. Steve Baker. Mr. Steve
Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Johnston. Mrs. Sieve i Kathy
Melby i Jurcich. and Mr. and
Mrs. Roger (Marguerite
Moore) Leonnig.
Special guests at the reunion
were Mr. and Mrs L.E. Dick,
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Melby.'
and Mrs. Dee Smith.
Class member Kathy Jur
cich had reunion shirts made
for the members to buy with
all of the class names printed
on them. They were worn
during the day by several of
the class members, said the
Leonnigs.
"The class plans to hold
another reunion in five years
with the same schedule of
events, but hopes that more
classmates, friends and
teachers will be able to
come," they concluded.
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LaRues receive lone Yard
of the Month Award
lone's July Yard of the
Month Award belongs to Del
and Linda LaRue. They live
on the corner of Main and E
streets, announced an lone
Garden Club spokesperson.
The LaRues have lived at
their present uddress for eight
years and have developed
very attractive minimum
care landscape around their
house. The lawn extends up to
the house in many places. A
huge Colorado spruce con
trasts in shape and color with
the weil-shaped locust trees on
the west side of the property.
A row of small spreading
junipers accents the east
fenceline and the evergreen
spruce on the opposite side of
the house. Passersby will
notice a collection of red vol
canic rocks, forming a small
rock garden at the near end of
the fenceline with sedums and
native cacti.
For color there are white
shasta daisies against the red
brick fireplace chimney and a
clmp of orange daylilies at the
Koad Report"
The Morrow County Public
Works Department has re
leased the following Work Re
port for the weeks ending July
3 and July 10.
South Morrow County roads
patched with cold mix during
the past two weeks were:
darks Canyon, Blackhorse,
Baseline to Lindsay, Pointer,
Pine City to Lena. Redding,
Iiwer Sandhollow, Willow
Creek, Miller Cutsforth, Ful
ler Canyon and Keck Canyon
Road
In the north end, patching
was done on Patterson Junc
tion Road and Wilson and
Kunre roads. Three tenths of
Olson Road were widened and
resurfaced with asphalt. This
section of road connects the
Frontage Road to Columbia
Boulevard
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For Harvest 7a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
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Starting Monday, July 12
Store, Parts Dept. & Shop
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fenceline. At the rear of the
property Is a young vegetable
garden where sprawling wild
Approximately one-half
mile of Petty's Canyon Road
from Highway 74 was widened
and straightened by contract
forces. This was a very trea
cherous stretch, and is a
school bus route. It was
necessary to use dynamite for
removing several rock bluffs.
A similar project has begun
on the Bunker Hill Road at
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according to Mn. LaRue,
Fuller Canyon. In addition to
widening the road, the bridge
will be reconstructed. Work is
expected to be complete by
this weekend.
Sand was spread on Barlow
Canyon and darks Canyon
roads to prevent further oil
bleeding.
Upper Rhea Creek and Hale
Ridge roads were bladed.
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