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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1984)
CESS I E WETZELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB EUGEI.'E OR 07403 Tlie Heppeer n i HEED Morrow Countya Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 7 O VOL. 102, NO 22 T1U HSI)V. JINK 7. I8 10 V MIHS Heppner, Oregon 25 Weather by the City of Heppner High Low Prec. Tues.,May29 88 50 .01 Wed., May 30 61 35 Thurs.,May31 62 36 Fri.,Junel 69 49 Sat., June 2 66 42 Sun., June 3 70 47 .43 Mon.,June4 59 43 ,33 The total precipitation for May was 1.16 inches. Normal is 1.26 inches. lone and Heppner graduate seniors vim i . HOWARD n&RBIH SCOTT him IT STEVE 'Via s 1 CBA16 ivi i my. ' I J.rV M V Maas always had his brand of ministry lone Iljh School graduated seven si-niors at commence ment ceremonies last Thursitay, Mny 31, l'J84. Pictured from Heppner High School graduated 45 seniors at commencement services Friday, June 1. left: Howard Leavitt, Mike Douglas, DarrinPadberg, Steve Millman, Scott Parnett, Andy Hobcrts, and Craig Hams. Begin planning for July 7 Saturday Market . n f - H Carllena Katlibun and Kovin Kenison Michele Saling and Dean Rill Booth space is available for the "Saturday Market" which Heppner merchants are plan ning for Saturday, July 7. Anyone needing booth space should contact Linda Hutchin son, 676-90(11 to arrange for space on Main Street during the market. Merchants have planned to have their regular sidewalk sale bargains on this day, but want to encourage the whole community to participate. Main street will be blocked during the day and many people from Lexington and lone as well as Heppner will be invited to exhibit their work and sell merchandise. Com mittee members will be con tacting area organizations to Plan for VBS next week Vacation Bible School offer ed. The United Methodist, All Saints' Episcopal and Hope Lutheran churches have again combined to offer the com munity a Vacation Bible Scho ol, next week, June 11 through June 15, from 9 a.m. to noon daily. The cost is $6 00 per child, up to $18.00 per family with three or more children. The preregistration will be at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, June 11, at the Methodist Church. School will close at noon, Friday, June 15, with a sack lunch brought from home, held on the lawn of All Saints. There is still a need for some helpers and at least one teach er. If you would like to help or if you have any questions, please contact the Rev. Ed Watts or Geneva Matthews. Summer story hour scheduled During the summer months, children's story hour at the Heppner library will be held only on the last Thursday of each month. The library will remain o pen from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays for the convenience of the public. arrange for "carnival -type booths." The merchants 'goal's' to get as many people Involved as possible in promoting Hep pner. Merchants will adver tise the Saturday Market on KUMA radio and in four sur rounding area newspapers. They are also having posters printed which will be display ed in Heppner as well as surrounding communities. If you read the letters to the editor column, have coffee in one of the local coffee shops, or spend much time around downtown Heppner, chances are you have met the Rev. John Maas of the local Luth eran Church. Maas will be leaving soon to go to the Prinville Lutheran Church. He visited recently about his six and one-half years in Heppner, what it has meant to him, and about his own particular brand of ministry-While many people shy a- way from controversy, choos ing to remain silent on com munity issues, Maas is just the, opposite, usually jumping feet first into an issue to express his views, and point out injust ice where he sees it. J "I like to take sides on an issue," he says flatly. "My' family has alwaysteen debat ors. We would sit around the dinner table and tear an issue apart. We could argue, but it didn't mean we didn't love each other." He sees a town, a commun ity in the same way. "It comes down to family. If we don't work together and talk things over; we become isolat ed and scared of each other, and that's not good." His willingness to speak out has not always been smooth sailing; however, and Maas says, with a hint of a smile, "My wife Judy cringes when she sees me pick up a pen sometimes " On a personal level the people of this area will re member him for his friendly smile and pleasant words to those he meets on the street and at clubs and meetings. "These two congregations (Heppner and Valby Church es) have made me incredibly secure because of their sup port and caring. With that kind of base to operate from it has allowed me to take some risks and to take some shots." Those shots also include the emotional hazards of being a minister. "It's not easy to watch someone die," he says. ) . "It's hard to visit someone who is sick. It's hard to understand the old, because I've always been healthy. It's hard to deal with problems in t marriage, drinking, abuse. But those things are really the core of what Jesus is called to share; that no matter what the F- conditions you deserve to be . .loved." A He says one of the things 5 which Convinces him God is there, is that he can go into these situations and not be destroyed by them. An accessible minister, Maas says meeting people is a fundamental premise of his ministry. "I didn't start at the beginning and say 'I'm going to be downtown a lot,' but the congregation, in its way, said that's O.K. I do much better when I'm out meeting people. If I sit in the office I get stale." The son of an aircraft work er, Maas was born in New York and grew up in southern California, where the family moved a lot. "This is the longest I've ever stayed in one place," he says. Before entering the minis try, Maas served in the Air V- 4 4 . f f') A ' V . ...... i.-.,. ...... J T X -- ;. - J i. liiiiirniiaMi'i"''IM' Ml II 1 HOT I I 1 lie Kev. John Maas Force, built airplanes and worked for the phone com pany. It was a radical religious experience that brought him to the ministry, and though he hesitates to call it a rebirth, it was strong enough that he "could not say no." "I was glad I had that experience, and 1 was glad it happened because Lutherans are seen as kind of intellectual and hide bound concerning doctrine. It was a conversion experience. It was dramatic and abrupt." Heppner and Valby were his first churches and Maas says he and his wife Judy, who teaches school, have felt "in credible affection and accept ance." "My six and one-half years here has strongly impressed me with being with people, going through events and sharing the good and the bad. That's my validity as a minis ter, being part of people's lives." Port of Morrow celebrates 1-84 interchange opening iifim The new interchange will eliminate the need to drive chip loaded trucks through Boardman city streets and over the narrow bridge cross ing the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at the north end on Main St. Other county officials brav ing 30 m.p.h. gusts to observe the opening ceremony were Morrow County Commission er Irv Rauch and County Planner Deane Seeger. From Boardman were County Plan ning Commision Chairman Gene Trumbull, Mayor Jerry Peck, City Administrator Larry Dalrymple, Council members Ron Black, Dewey West and Bill Sharkey and also Port Commissioner Pat Flug. "Our goal has always been to get traffic off the freeway and into the Port of Morrow", said Carlson in a dedication address which followed at the Dodge City Inn. Two hundred and fifty trucks per day will now be using Port Industrial Park roads rather than driving through Boardman, Carlson estimated. He also mentioned the new general cargo docking facility under construction at the port. Port of Morrow hopes to corner the market for containerized cargo now being shipped by rail or truck. The dock with its planned 33 ton kone crane will be "the best we can afford" said Carl son. Dock completion is ex pected in four months. Carlson praised efforts by Port Manager Wayne Sch wandt and the State Depart ment of Transportation saying the $1.6 million interchange is an example of how "things happen when intergovern ment agencies cooperate to get things done." Louis Carlson, Port of Morrow Commission Chairman officially opens new Interchange in traditional ribbon cutting ceremony. By JUDY MILLER On a windy Wednesday af ternoon, May 30, Port of Mor row Commission Chairman Louis Carlson of lone snipped the ribbon officially opening the new Port-184 interchange located a mile east of Board man. Leading the list of state and local dignatories to witness the ribbon cutting ceremony was Representative State Sen ator Gene Timms from Burns. Timms was appointed to serve out the term of Bob Smith who resigned after be ing elected to congress in 1982. Currently Timms serves on the state interim committee on Transportation. Also attending were Harry Oswald, Oregon State High way Div. of Pendleton; Mike Gardener, Interchange Pro ject Engineer, Hermiston; and Bob Hector, Regional Highway Engineer from La Grande. All were instrument al in completion of the inter change project. Joining the celebration were Kinzua Corp. 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