EIGHT The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 23, 1984
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last league game
School districts talented
& gifted program now
in its 3rd year
A special program for
talented and gifted students in
the Morrow County School
District is now in its third
year. The program is designed
to offer a challenge to students
with very high academic
ability at all grade levels in all
grade levels in all schools,
explains John Edmundson,
program supervisor.
Students who are involved in
the program have participat
ed in science fairs, book fairs,
health fairs, newspaper publi
cation, advanced placement
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classes, creative thinking
groups, problem solving clas
ses, fast track classes, in
dependent study projects,
academic summer camps,
foreign language study, math
contests and computer con
tests. Teachers who coordinate
the program are given an
extra duty contract in the
same manner as a person who
is responsible to coach an
athletic team.
Edmundson says the pro
gram costs the district about
$11,000 per year, most of
which is used to pay coordina
tors and to purchase supplies
and materials.
"The project has gotten a
good start and we hope to
continue to improve it," the
program supervisor said.
Local market
didn't receive
contaminated
goods
No bakery products were
required to be removed from
Central Market during the
recent E.D.B. recall, says
owner Forrie Burkenbine.
E.D.B., a suspected cancer
causing agent used in chemi
cals to treat stored grains, has
been found in excessive levels
in some flour and bakery
goods; however, Central Mar
ket did not receive any of the
contaminated goods, said
Burkenbine.
Morrow County
Gun Club
Reorganization
Day
Sunday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m.
at Gun Club North
of Lexington
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The Heppner varsity Fillies
met the Pilot Rock Rockets to
play their last league game
Friday, Feb. 17 at Heppner.
The tip off went to the Fillies
as the first quarter started.
Heppner took the ball down
court and set it up to run
through the plays. The Fillies
were patient on offense and
ran through their plays until
there was an open shot for two
points. Heppner hustled back
on defense to hold the Rockets
from scoring. From the start
of the first quarter Heppner
took control and made the
Rockets play their game.
The second quarter was
started as the tip off went to
the Rockets. Heppner hustled
back on defense and faced the
Rockets to turn the ball over.
Heppner took the ball down
court and had the first two
points of the second quarter.
The Fillies were playing great
defense, forcing Pilot Rock to
shoot outside the key. Heppner
was rebounding well and by
the end of the second quarter
the Fillies were still ahead.
The score was 33-23.
The third quarter started
with the tip going to the
Fillies. They took the ball
down court all the way in for
two points. Heppner continued
to play good ball and kept
control through the rest of the
third quarter. The score at the
end of the quarter was Hep
pner 43, Pilot Rock 23.
The tip off went to the Fillies
to start the fourth quarter.
They took the ball down court
and set it up to run through
their plays. Heppner worked
the ball around until they
could get it in to put it up for
two points. The Fillies were
rebounding pretty well both
offensively and defensively.
The Fillies continued to
have control of the game until
the end of the fourth quarter.
The final score was Heppner
Fillies 55, the Pilot Rock Roc
kets 38.
"Our execution on offense
was good. We were patient, we
took good shots and we hit a
high percentage. Our play on
defense was super. We knew
we had to shut down their
inside game and that's exactly
what we did. I think we'll be
ready for Sherman County
this time," said Coach Mike
Royer.
Pam Orr lead the team with
22 ponts, 8 rebounds and 8
steals while Stephi Payne had
5 assists.
The Fillies will travel to
Pendleton Thursday, Feb. 23,
to compete in the district
tournament. The Fillies will
play Sherman Co. at 7:30 p.m.
at the armory.
The
Fifth Quarter
Sports by Mike Oths
(Editor's note: The Gazette-Times welcomes a new
column, "The Fifth Quarter, Sports by Mike Oths." Oths, of
Heppner, will write the column regularly for the G-T)
With another Winter Olympics in the books, I can't resist a
comment about the approach that the media and others take
to the games.
Print and broadcast journalists expressed great relief that
Phil Mahre and Steve Mahre, America's greatest-ever
Alpine skiers, have "vindicated" themselves by claiming the
gold and silver medals in the slalom race at Sarajevo. These
same people were only last week criticizing the Mahres for
their startling admission "that the Olympics were not the
most important things in their lives." The brothers Mahre
were excoriated for having mentioned that (a) the Olympics
were just another race, (b) that they were having trouble
concentrating on the races, and (c) that they were looking
forward to retirement.
It is unfortunate that this attitude reflects the all-too-common
sentiments that we as a nation take toward the
Olympics. When Americans win it's "We win"; When
Americans lose it's "They let us down THEY lost.
To begin with, those who dished out the criticism after the
Mahres fared badly in the Giant Slalom (and it was because
they didn't win) fail to understand Alpine skiing. Not unlike
golf tournaments, the best players don't always win. The fine
edge that is needed to win, and the luck that plays such a
large role, can't be present every week. In saying that he
wasn't on top of his game, Phil Mahre was simply stating a
fact. Furthermore, I suspect that he was serving advance
notice that he wouldn't tolerate the notion that his career
would have been somehow a failure if he had failed to win an
Olympic Gold.
Nothing can detract from the fact that Phil Mahre is the
only American to come close to winning the overall World
Cup skiing title, much less from the fact that he won that title
three years in a row. His only point and a very good point a t
that is that failure to win Olympic medals should not be the
measure of a career. I suspect further that both Muhre
brothers must wonder where all the media attention was
when things were going well.
The absurdity of the media's approach to the Olympics
certainly must have reached its peak at the press conference
following Sunday's slalom competition. When everyone
criticized Phil's "lack of concentration" they apparently
didn't bother to ask why his attention might be divided. As it
turns out, his wife gave birth to a son only minutes before his
victorious run, a fact of which he was unaware. At the press
conference, a reporter asked, "Which is more important:
your gold medal or having a new baby boy?" That Mahre's
response to that question was even printable was to his
credit. (He said that it was the most ridiculous question he
had ever heard).
The bottom line to all this is that the media, in all its control
effort to hype the Olympics, has gone completely out of
control. To me, the Olympics are as much about the
speed-skater from the Virgin Islands as they are about the
Soviet hockey team. They are more about athletes like pairs
figure-skaters Peter and Kitty Caruthers who were genuinely
more proud of the fact that they had done their best than
about the fact that they had "failed" by only getting a silver
medal.
They are definitely not related to the medals charts
showing the scoreboard of each country's haul of awards.
Similarly they are not about the "commentators" who tell us
that we need to pump more money into Olympic training
because our medals total was lower than they expected.
Finally, they are about raising a cheer for this year's hockey
team, which played just as hard as the team from 1980, and
which because of media pressure was in a no-win situation
from the start.
I hope Phil and Steve Mahre win a few more races before
they hang them up for good, but more importantly, I hope
that Phil Mahre's son grows up to be healthy and that he
gains his father's sense of perspective. That would be worth a
gold medal!
P.M.H. Aux. holds meeting
The Pioneer Memorial Hos
pital Auxiliary met on Valen
tine's Day for a monthly
meeting. Money making
projects were discussed, and
it has been decided to change
the monthly meeting date to
the third Monday of the
month, instead of the third
Thursday, according to Betty
Brown, an auxiliary spokes
person. Next meeting is to be
held March 19 at Kate's Pizza
and Pastry in Heppner and
will begin with a no host
luncheon at noon. Members
are asked to bring a guest, and
interested persons are invited
to attend, Brown said.
Merle Boyce was honored
with a gift for being Resident
of the Month, and celebrated
her 80th birthday one day
early.
The Soroptimist Club of
Heppner sponsored the Valen
tine party, and Valentines
were presented to residents
from children of the local
churches
school.
and elementary
'Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well."
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