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U C F 0 R K t: :v;: Ml II 0 Ii L I fa 7 The Heppner tu ii noiii Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Heppner, Oregon 25e VOL. 102 NO. 2S. THURSDAY, JUNE 21. 1984 8 PACES Weather by the City of Heppner Tues., June 12 70 48 Wed., June 13 71 49 Thurs., June 14 81 51 Fri., June 15 78 42 Sat., June 16 72 40 Sun., June 17 79 43 Mon., June 18 78 43 High Low Precip. .09 Heppner girl wins state essay competition gch()ol digtrict to leyy legs tax than planned ft "X ( V Noella Kill i" Noella Rill, daughter of San dra and William Rill of Hep pner, received ward recently thai her essay, "Food: Amer ica'! Growth Industry" re ceived first prize at the state level of competition for her age group. The contest is sponsored by the U S. Depart ment of Agriculture. Lexington slates events for centennial celebration Lexington City Council met Tuesday, June 12 for a regular meeting, according to city recorder Linda Jones. July 28 was selected for their city's observance of the Morrow County Centennial. Plans for the day include a chicken dinner sponsored by the Re bekah lodge early in the after noon. Two blocks of "C" street are expected to be blocked off for children's games, a flea market binge, a dunk tank, and a steet dance later in the evening. Also during the day, 10 balloons provided by the county will be released with a prize awarded Flood waters invade Hardman home to the person who returns a balloon from farthest away. The council appointed a committee of Shirley McCarl, Ray Papineau, and Linda Jones to oversee and co-ordinate the event. In other business, the coun cil: -accepted the resignation of mayor Ed Baker and appoint ed John Ripple as mayor until the November election. -held a public hearing on the 1984 85 budget and passed a resolution to adopt the budget, levy taxes and make appropriations. Last Wednesday, June 13, about 3 p m., it started to rain at Hardman. It rained about half an ho,.r then it began to hail and rain some more. By this time, water was running quite high along the highway and as more rain came, the Huston and Marie Lesley home flooded for the fourth time in recent years (one in 1979, in 191(0 and again in February and in July of 1981. Lesley descnbes last Wed nesday's rain as "the worst jstorni wo've had for a long lime," The Lesley home sits next to the highway and the other buildings in Hardman are on higher ground so are not eifec'ed by the high wat ers. After the floods three years ago, a second culvert was installed along the road to help carry the water away, "but it still doesn't do the Job," Lesley continues. He estimates the water was about five feet deep at its deepest place, but only about three t four Tnchescane into me house. Mrs. Lesley says that the water was in the house about two hours before it subsided enough that they were able to get in to clean up the mud. A dozen or so neighbors came to help. They brought brooms, shovels, and two commercial vacuum cleaners. Most ot the neighbors had helped them before, "so they knew what to do and just went to work. If not for their help, we'd never have got it done," she con cluded. The mud is beginning to dry up outside, but when the next rain comes. Campfire slates Day Camp Campfire Day Camp will be held July 23, 24, and 25, 1984 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Morrow County Fair Grounds. Registration fee is $9 per member. Non-members may attend with an additional cost of $4 for insurance. Contact Irene Plocharsky by June 25 to register for the camp. She has competed her soph omore year at Heppner High School, is in her seventh year of 4-H and "has made some big contributions to the Mor row County 411 program" says Morrow County Exten sion agent Steve Campbell. Rill, excited about winning, says she wrote her winning essay in March and "rewrote it about 15 times," before submitting it for local compe tition. After she won first place for Morrow County, her essay was forwarded to Cor vallis for statewide competi tion. Campbell received a letter from the Oregon State Extension Service announcing her selection as first place w inner and called her w ith the news. Rill has received a certificate and medal from the state competition. Her essay has now been forwarded to Washington D C. for national contest consider ation. If Rill's essay wins on the national level, she will receive an expense-paid trip for herself and an escort to Washington D C. where she will receive a 200 savings bond and a trophy from Secre tary of Agriculture Block dur ing the National Food and Fitness Fair. August 16-18. Rill, has lived all of her life on the family's farm; has two brothers. Dean, 17, and Cory, 11. and two sisters, Jennifer, 13, and Madera, nine; and she says she likes working out side. Meeting to air zoning problems Morrow County Judge Don McElligott has scheduled an open meeting June 26, 8 p.m. at the School District Building in Lexington at the request of the planning commission. The purpose of the meeting is "to clear the air on enforcement problems involving violations of the county's zoning and subdivision ordinances," said McElligott. The meeting agenda includ es information provided by Judge McElligott on zoning and subdivision ordinances; enforcement procedures ex plained by District Attorney, Rick McNerney; an explana tion of the Sheriff Depart ment's role by Sheriff Roy Drago; and examples of enfor cement needs explained by the planning and building depart ment. 25 year reunion set at Lexington school The 1959 graduating class of Lexington High School will be holding their 25-year reunion Sunday, July 15 at the school grounds in Lexington with a no-host potluck picnic. Since the class of '59 was the last class to graduate from Lexington High School, they also have extended an invita tion to those people who were not graduating, but were also attending Lexington high school at that time. Because of increases In sta te aid, and better tax collec tions, the Morrow County School District will levy $234, 278 less in taxes next year than had been anticipated, school Superintendent Matt Doherty told the board of directors, Monday night. Doherty said basic school support from the state was higher than anticipated, and collections of prior years was good, allowing the district to lower the amount of taxes for the 1984-85 school year. In other good financial news, Doherty, who attended his final school board meeting Monday, said that because of lower health insurance, elect ricity and fuel costs, the dis trict will have a carryover of about $2Wi,ooO in the current year's budget. (The district's fiscal year ends June 30.) The carryover was anticip ated, and is included in the coming year's budget. Doherty attended his last meeting as the Superintendent of Morrow County Schools, a position he has held for the past 10 years. J Doyle McCaslin from the Glide school district has been hired by Morrow County and will take over as superinten dent in July. McCaslin has been in the county looking for a home, and is expected to be back next week, Doherty said. In other business.the board : -heard that a judge had ruled in favor of the school district concerning a court case ovr ownership of land adjacent to Columbia Junior High in Irrigon. The district and Ken Evans, of Oregon Land and Water Inc. of Irri gon, had gone to court to determine ownership. The district had been using the disputed property for parking. The district's lawyer, Bill Kuhn, told the board Evans had appealed the decision, but Kuhn anticipated the appeals court would rule in favor of the district. -learned that the district will pay $2,000 as part of a sewer Save your fairbook Included in this week's issue of the paper is the 1984 Morrow County Fair i Rodeo Premium Book. Keep this special section for reference to all information about the fair and rodeo. Extra copies of the premium book are available at Morrow County Extension office in Heppner, The Enterprise newspaper office in Boardman, and The Heppner Gazette Times newspaper office in Heppner. A special thanks to all who contributed information for the book, and to the many advertisers who made its publication possible. line project at the county fair grounds. The district will help pay for the new line, as it benefits the bus shop located next to the grounds. -saw a demonstration of an alarm system by Jimmy L. Wilhelm. No action was taken on the alarm system. -voted to accept the resig nations of teachers Jim Har per, Riverside, Judy Maas, Heppner, and Terry Erlebach, Columbia. -voted to give extra duty assignments to the following teachers: Riverside High School Football - Stan Scott, head coach; Larry French, assist ant coach. Volleyball - Theresa Ruud, head coach; Donna Barton, assistant coach. Basketball - Larry French, head coach;. Mike Wetherell and Kevan Pratt, assistant coaches; Dirk Dirkson, head coach; Donna Barton, assist ant coach. Tennis - Maureen McElli gott, head coach. Golf Mike Wetherell, head coach. Baseball - Kevin Pratt, head coach. Track Larry French, head coach; Donna Barton, assist ant coach. Athletic Director - Larry French. Cheerleader Advisors - Sha ron Barrick and Cynde Bur-ford. Heppner High School Football - Head Coach.Craig Kitching; Asst. Coach, Les Payne and Tim Birkby. Volleyball - Head Coach, Barbara Stefani; J.V. Coach, Karen Howe. Basketball - Boys Head Coach, Brent Eggers; Girls Head Coach, Mike Royer. Track Head Coach, Dale Conklin. Baseball - Head Coach, Mike Royer. Golf - Head Coach, Duane Neiffer. Cheerleaders' advisor - Val- ery Volesky. Dance Team - Pat Clausen. Academically Talented -Larry Cerullo. Athletic Dir. - Dale Conklin. lone Schools High School: Head" Football Coach. Ron Mack; Assistant Football Coacn, Del La Rue; Head Volleyball Coach, Joe elyn Jones; Head Basketball Coach (Boys), Del La Rue; Assistant Basketball Coach (Boys), Dave Sime; Head Basketball Coach (Gir ls), Jocelyn Jones: Head Track Coach, Del La Rue; Athletic Director, Del La Rue; Annual Advisor, Peter Lonway-Vince; and Music (Pep Band), Dave Sime. Junior High: Football, Mark Jones; Volleyball Coach, Barbara Collins; Basketball Coach (Boys), Mark Jones; and Track Coach, Ron Mack. "" Academically Talented Co ordinator, Marlene Davison; and High School Cheerleader Advisor, Melinda West. Summer intern pastor arrives at I.U.C.C. Rodeo Court keeps busy ( : V ""V The Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Court won the "Best Court" award in the Spray Rodeo parade May 26 announced a spokesperson for the court. The following day, May 27, they made an official appearance at the Doherty sponsored Pioneer Picnic at the Morrow County fairgro unds pavilion. June 9, the court added a second place ribbon achieved at the Umatilla Landing Days parade. Later the evening of June 9, they attended the Sage Riders Rodeo. They competed in a special royalty event, which required chasing calves and trying to remove handker chieves from their necks. The Morrow County court placed third. A spokesperson for the court says that so far members of the court describe their exper ience as "Terrific, a lot of fun." T' Barry Cammer First year seminary student Barry Cramer arrived Wed nesday, June 13 to begin tea- Soroptimists award two scholarships wTw.n m i V the local winners is eligible to compete for regional match ing funds. AH entries were judged by the Youth Fellow ship Committee of the Soroptimists. cher training for Vacation Church School at the lone United Church of Christ. Cammer is enrolled in a four-year program at Pacific School of Religion at Berkel ey, California, after the com pletion of which, he well have earned a M.A. in Divinity and in Pastoral Counciling. Just prior to entering the ministry, he spent six years as a volun teer and three years as a professional director at a YM CA where his duties included adult education, and teen pro grams. Cammer's mother is retired and living in Santa Barbara, California, where she crochets and sells hats. His father who died 12 years ago was self-employed in the air freight business. He has a twin sister living in Alabama who was a missionary of the church for several years with a Christian radio station in Brazil, and two brothers, one in Virginia, the other is Santa Barbara. After supervising this week's Vacation Church School at lone, he will travel to Condon where he will perform Dance to honor Princess Stroeber Kristine Fishburn Ann Quigley The Heppner Soroptimists have announced two winners for their annually awarded scholarships. LeAnn Quigley was chosen from among three entries for the $200 vo-tech award and Kristine Fishburn was chosen from among six entries for the $200 academic award. Funds for the scholarships are earned by the local club's fund raising events. Each of Rodeo board dance director Don Christensen reports that plans are complete for the second dance in the series of rodeo dances. This dance, in honor of Princess Shelley Stro eber who celebrates her birth day on the same day, will be Saturday, June 23rd from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Morrow County Fair Pavilion. All ages are welcome to attend at a cost of $3 per person. The band "Jade", from Pendleton, will be providing the music. "Jade" has been a popular rock n' roll band in the area for several years. It promises to be a fun night for everyone. Coming on Saturday, July 6, wiii be Princess Bridgett Greenups' dance. Later in August, on rodeo weekend Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18, will be two nights of music and dancing. Put these dates on your calendar and plan to be Christensen. there 4 concludes the same duties for the next week. Then, while the Rev. Art Buck, is on vacation, Cammer will "assume all pas toral duties" there with the Rev. Cathy Barker of lone as supervisor. Following the Rev. Buck's return from vaca tion, Cammer will return to lone to assume duties there with the Rev. Buck as his supervisor while the Rev. Bar ker is on vacation. This is the third year that the Condon and lone churches have cooperated in hiring a summer intern pastor says the Rev. Barker. The program was designed to give seminary students a chance for a posi tive experience in a rural setting. Cammer says that part of his goal at seminary is to understand what the church is and can be by the time he graduates, and that to do that he needed to spend some time with rural, farming commun ities and will need to spend some time learning about ur ban, inner-city problems. Where this will lead him at the end of the three years, he doesn't know at this time; but is confident that in three years, he will know if he is to be a rural minister or chaplain or a private counselor. Cammer says that he likes working with people and finds that they are very much alike in that "similar things make us happy and sad." Seventeen years in the land scaping business at his home town of Santa Barbara, Calif ornia, brings him to say that "Ministry is a substitute for gardening because every plant and every person has a potential, something which they can be." He sees his role as a "minister" to help each person identify what they can be and to help them achieve it. If we understand that all living things are God's crea tion, we tend to respect each more," he concluded.
