The Heppner
Gazette-Times
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Ton> Curnn rM d v td the All
Around Cowboy Award at this year s
Morrow Co Kndeo He out distan
ced the other competition by placing
second in cow milking, steer wrest
ling open calf roping, amateur calf
roping, and fourth in team roping,
for a total of 23 points He received a
silver |roph> belt buckle donated by
Morrow County Grain Growers for
hts efforts
Pat Schwarz again took a Severe
Bros saddle home with him In 19*3,
Schwarz was named Morrow County
All Around Cowboy and won a sad
dle donated by Morrow County
Grain Growers this year, for win
nmg the amateur calf roping event.
Harry Kcnmson, manager of Kinzua
Corp presented him with the Kin
rua donated saddle
The hardluck horseblanket award
donated b) Nears will be sent to
Pendleton Round Up Princess Cindy
Insko
Other results from the Morrow Co
Night Show have been submitted as
follows
Morrow Co Rodeo Results
Cow Milking
first-John Moyer
and Kirk Madder, second Tony Cur-
nn and Mike Curnn, and third-Sid
B ritt and M a rti B ritt
Steer
Wrestling
first Pat
Schwarz, second Tony Curnn, and
third-Cliff Dougherty
Cow Riding
first Jack Yocom,
second Steve Curnn, and third John
Moyer
Sr Barrel Racing
first-Joan
Eckman, second Maureen Healv
third Randy Britt, and fourth Tara
Mahoney
Jr Barrel Racing first Michelle
Papineau, second lain Cecil, third
Jennifer Currin. and fourth Heather
Eckman
Open Calf Roping
first Dick
Hoffman, second Tony Currin. third
Pat Schwarz, and fourth Don Papin
eau
25'
Tue» . Aug 21
Wed . Aug 22
Thurs , Aug 23
Fri . Aug 24
Sat . Aug 25
Sun . Aug 26
Mon . Aug 27
Weather
Amateur Calf Roping
first Pat
Schwarz, second Tony Currin, and
third-Steve Curnn
Team Roping first Dick Hoffman
and Howard Bryant, second Trisha
Mahoney and Tara Mahoney, third
Don Papineau and Dick Hoffman,
and fourth Tony Currin and Steve
Currin
NRA IRA rodeo had a sizable in
crease in the number of entries, said
rodeo com m ittee m em ber. Jim
Hayes
The gross gate receipts,
however were down from past
years 1984 »5.135 19*3 15,9U3. 1982
$5.895, 1981 $6 933
electrical transformer on the pole
Columbia Basin Electric Co-op
also had a pumper truck at the
scene According to C B E C man
ager Fred Toombs, the pole won t
need to be replaced
It was Just
"smoked up a bit
fr e e
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Combine rolls,
starts fire
Small fire brings big response
Monday, Aug 20 . three fire trucks
and 13 Heppner fireman responded
to a telephone pole on fire near
Linden Way and Quaid streets in
Heppner reported Heppner Fire
Chief Forrie Burkenbine The ap
parent cause of the fire was an
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l>\ the (.ity «if Heppner
F air <$ Rodeo list gate receipts
Paid attendance at the ISM Mor
row County Pair was 7S4 for the
three days with gate receipts total
ing $928 Family Night attendance
was 255 with receipts totaling 12,076
according to a spokesperson at the
Fair office
The Morrow County hosted WRA
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Dick Hoffman (left) and Howard Bryant (right) receive
team roping award from Princess Shelley and
Queen Sylvia
A fire which began when a co m
bine rolled over while harvesting
wheat on the steep side of a hill
burned about one and a hall acres of
wheat and many acres of rangeland
last Tuesday. Aug 21
The insured combine was owned
by Herman Blettell who was custom
cutting Al Ixn gren s wheat field
southwest of Heppner about two
miles lielow Kuggs Buz l.ogan of
Cecil who was operating the com
bine was taken to Pioneer Memorial
Hospital He was reportedly doing
well and was discharged from the
hospital on Friday . Aug 21
The fire began about 8 a in and
strong winds kept it blazing until
late afternoon A spokesperson for
the latvgrens said that Morrow-
County Grain G ruw ers pumper
truck, airplanes, and many neigh
bors cam e to help fight the fire
which more than once, after they
thought had been extinguished
would start up again in another
canyon, so that it wag necessary to
continue checking on the area into
the evening
Irrigon company awarded septic construction at lone schools
Bids for construction of a septic
system at lone schools came in
lower than expected however ad
ditional work may drive the total
cost back up near $19.out) the school
board was told Monday. Aug 2U
Low bid for replacement of the
septic system for lone grade school
and high school submitted by L
M an y attend Festival
Eighty-seven entries in the First annual Watermelon Festival held
aturday in Irrigon
Chairman Barbara Wadekamper said she was really pleased with the
urnout and will lie planning next year s festival starting in October She
aid she would eventually like to see a water float parade
Twenty six booths entertained, demonstrated and fed those that turned out
zr the festivities
Committee members are as follows Barbara Wadekamper. chairman,
ice chairman, Becky Breithreutz Recording Secretary Charolette Une
or responding Secretary, Becky Shafer Treasurer. Nancy Pearsall,
listorian, Virginia Phillips, Publicity. Valorie Morris Sergeant al arms,
>atty Rodriguez, Telephone, Carleana Britt, Parade Chairman, I)orma
lell, Advertise Chairman, Gracie Morrell Entertainment. Dick Broker,
aicy Burns, arts $ crafts, concessions. Barb Wadekamper and Bet ky
Ireitkreutz
Banner. Gracie Morrell
Cyole construction Co of Irrigon
was $12,273 50. much lower than the
en gin eers' e a rlier estim ate of
$ I 9 . i x j u . however, existing tanks in
the system may be cracked which
would require replacement for an
M.OM This coal along
with engineering fees of $I.Buo may
drive the final cost up
•'The tanks may be cracked, but
we won't know for sure until they are
pumped and Inspected." School Sup
erintendent Doyle McCaslin said
• We hope they're not,” he added
lone has been having problems
with the system for some time, but
conditions got worse last spring
when with the above average rain
fall the drainfield quit operating,
requiring the pumping of the two
septic tanks periodically
A representative of the Depart
ment of Environmental Quality told
the district it would need to correct
the systrm to meet DEQ standards,
and Monday said the proposed con
struction would remedy the situa
tion
The contract calls for installation
of a precast concrete septic tank.
PVC pip«', and pumps in the existing
tanks
The new tank would be
installed across the road from the
high school, and placed at a highe
elevation than existing tanks
The project, money for which will
com e from the district's contingencv
fund, will begin shortly and is
expected to take about 60 days,
McUaslin said
In other discussions, the board
talked with Superintendent McCas
tin. about hiring a professional
negotiator to handle contract nego
tuitions with teachers and other
employees
The district has been
handling its own negotiations, how
ever McCaslin said because of the
seriousn«-ss and complexity of con
tract n egotiations, the district
should investigate hiring a profes
sional
"It is a specialized business, and
additional
there are people who have degrees
in this." he pointed out
He said
lay men on the hoard are many times
busy with their personal lives and
do not have the time to handle
negotiations the way they should tx*
done He said the negotiator may
cost up to $ 11 , 1)00
McCaslin said both sides leach
ers and district i would com e out
belter with professionals
The
whole purpose of contract negotia
turns is labor peace, and that's what
we re all aiming for
In other business the board
discussed minor problems in cur
riculum requirements with speciul
’-calling classes, where students
miss other studies to upgrade their
reading skills No action was lasen
learned that a new cook's helper
was lured at Sam Hoardman and
A C Houghton
Shirley Donnovan
wil split her time between the two
schools
appointed Jerry Healy to a three
year term on the budget committee
There is still one more position to lie
lllhxl there
appointed a committee to look
into the districts assets and deter
mine if they are fully insured
appointed b oa rd m em b ers Bill
Doherty. Joe Stevens, Fat Wright,
and Riverside High School f’ rincipal
Dan Daltoso to the certified, or
teacher, contract negotiating team
And appointed B oardm em bers
Duane Carroll, Randy Hughes, Bob
Mahoney and lone Principal Chuck
Starr to the classified (Janitors,
rooks, etc ) negotiating team Both
groups have contracts expiring in
July of I9H5
accepted the resignation of Mary
Ellen Boynton, a language arts
teacher al Riverside, und that of
David Sune. music teacher at lone
heard that the state w ill help fund
"project Help," a program to try
and keep stud«>nls from dropping out
of school The state will pay $33.(kk)
and the district $17,000
Morrow County School District adds teachers
Teacher* new to Heppner and lone schools left to right:
Karen Clough, Sharon Morris, and Geneva Mathews
Debbie Christensen,
M any helpers build post office
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Teochers new to Boardman and Irrigon schools, left to right: Phil White, John
Hughes, Sheila Gilmartm Needham, Cathy Jurcich, Jay Harman, Gary Hendricks, and
Terry Starr
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Construction is progressing at the site of the new post
office on Main Strreet in Heppner Pictured above
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jerry Gentry gets an assist from construction workers
(? ) to m McElligott and (Jerald Pierson as they raise
one of the building s outside walls
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Teachers new to the Morrow
County school district received an
orientation tour of the county Mon
day. August 27
The tour began with a presents
tmn at Riverside High School in
Hoardman by representatives from
the PGE Coal Fired Plant
From
there, the teachers traveled by bus
to the Port of Morrow Industrial
development area They also visited
the Oregon Potato flaking plant.
Irrigon sch ools, and Boardm an
Farms
At the North Lexington
elevator, Bob Costa of the Morrow
County Extension Service, and a
representative froi.i Morrow County
Grain Growers met the tour and
presented information about dry
land farming
After a lunch stop and explanation
of payroll and insurance at the
District Office in l^xington, the
educators continued on their lour to
Kinzua Corp in Heppner where Bob
1-inkford and Kent Goodyear guided
them through the mill and cogener
ation plant The day's tour ended
with a drive through Heppner and
visit to the Heppner schools
Assistant to the Superintendent.
John Edmundson explains that the
reason for the orientation tour is our
"spread out school district The only
way to understand it is to visit the
schools and to get an overview of the
industry of the county "
Teachers attending the tour were
Debbie Christensen, grade two and
Karen Clough, grade one at Heppner
Elementary. ' Sharon Morris, grade
three and Geneva Mathews, music
at lone schools. Phil White, indust
rial arts and Gary Hendricks, math
at Columbia Junior High in Irrigon.
John Hughes, language arts and Jay
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Harman, industrial arts at River
side High School in Boardman.
Terry Starr, grade six at Sam
Boardman Elementary. Cathy Jur
rich vocal music at Sam Boardman
Elementary and Riverside High
School, and Sheila Gilmartin Ne«*d
ham. art al Sam Boardman and
A C Houghton elementary schools
Teachers new to the district, who
were unable to attend Monday's touj
are David I .arson grade five at A C
Houghton and Curt Weiss, Speech
therapist at the north county
schools
H H S sets
sijrning
A Yearbook Signing Party has
been set for Tuesday. Sept 1, 7 p m
at the Heppner High School cafeter
■a announced a spokesperson for the
school