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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1985)
Rodeo committee works to give you g<xxl show s p n i a l h a i r A I t o d r o I di l l i xi Kids! Come show off your favorite jx»t Bark row from left Jim Hayes, co-chairperson, Ron Cecil, races. Burke QBnen, secretary, director; and Joe Yocom, chairperson Not piclured Dick Turrell, grounds director and Cbn ChnUenson, dance director. Tills photo pictures nine out o( the 11 people on the 19H5 linden ( 'om m ittee who are responsible for the or|(uniza lion am i presentation of our 1986 Heppner Kodeo No one knows better than each one of these m em fiers. how m any hours of planning, work and effort it took to try to put on the best rodeo ever Many hours of meetings phone calls, and paper work are necessary to present the type of rodeo that Morrow County is used to We all hope that everyone attends and enjoys what we have worked toward, and we hope to see you there t 7. I W V S F V F N Fair committee comprises w illing workers T h r F a ir C o m m itter is a group of irutu*tnous citizens * h o w illingly devote m a in hours fix’ the purjw»se* of putting on the annual M o rr o * County h a ir This com m ittee Cris Marston, concessions, Arme McQure, barns, and Gail Hopmeau, publicity director Front row: Ginger Q B n en, court chaperone, Micky Madison, awarcfc, Cbn Ftapineau, stock \u k Children up to Jg r 12 w ill have the opportunity to show off pets of a ll kinds at the Fet Show on W'edne* dav August 14 al I p m on the lawn area al the F a ir (¿round* Fach children with a pel w ill receive a rihls n and a silver dollar lin e pet per child m ay be shown, the child must lie able to conlroll the pet I logs mast he on a leash Kastly frightened sm all anim als should lie brought in cages Highlighting this annual event w ill lie additional aw ards in the following categories Most t nusual. Best I >t small» ' Must Talented at * \ t »>-.t Oolorftil Fach » hild w ill tie asked to give his or her nam e the pet's nam e, and to show off any talents or trieks that the indis idual |>et can perform Super intcmfent K aren Thompson urges all | m -I losers under 12 to particip ate No pre registration is required All [surtieipanls should tie there prom p tly to lie Judged headed by J.inu lta w lin *. consists of Mill Broderick Tun ( o r . Ken J F . an* I „ ilia c K indle, t e r r a i n . I ad d , Kuth McCabe. Kllcn Kennedy, k lm e r I a d d Ami Kcnn K Kvana W illing w o rke r* a ll. m any long hour* of planning an<1 w orking have gone inlo (h i* y e a r'* preparation Be*i»le* meetings anil individual contribution* tin * group and other* (m a liie plan* by having a com bined w»irk dav prio r lo fa ir each year to m ake sure ev erything t* in readl* ness Without this group. Ihe fa ir would mil have Ihe high qu ality and continued im provem ent each year The n|>en d a * * exhibits, except an im a l* have this year hern opened to neighboring county residents W ith increased exhibit »pace, a mobile tra ile ra ll departm ents w ill have am ple room W ith the addl tional tim e for ex h ib it* to rem a in in place much credit should go to F a ir Com m ittee m em b er* and S uprrin tendrnts. who are the m ainstay of M orrow County's F a ir Preparing booth to laud county ’s l(K)th Leonnig family once again to provide rodeo dance music In 1959 Hon and Aggie I .running moved to Heppner and bought the Wagon Wheel Cafe and laiunge from H arry O'Donnell They cam e with six kids which m ade up Ihe l.eonnig F a m ily hand Before they moved Ihe hand had played all over Ihe s la te in c lu d in g th e IV n d le to n Hound up M ain Street Show for It consecutive years The hand also now played their music in Ihe Wagon Wheel In I960 the hand which consisted of Hon Sr on Ihe gu itar, Hon J r on fiddle tasmore on Ihe accordian, Lo rrain e on piano Huger on the drum s, I.inday on the m arro ecus, and Cindy singing played for Heppner rodeo dances A seventh m em aer of the fa m ily was born in I9M l.al>awna As years went by. landay and Koger and Hon Sr played in Ihe Wagon Wheel unhl Huger helped form a rock and roll hand called Ihe Henchmen They also played for Heppner Kodeo dances in I9MÍ and 1967 In I96H the lasmnig fa m ily moved to M c M in n ville Hon Sr , landay and Huger played al some of the clubs around the a rea for a few Wranglers again serve Sun. breakfast F a ir arid Kodeo K‘**rs lar#«* ami sm all won’t want to miss this year's W rangler s Cowboy B reakfast The riding club has promised to serve tem pting plates of ham . eggs, pan cakes, and hashhrowns Steaming coffee and eold m ilk w ill also availab le at the Sunday morning meal The breakfast w ill ttegin at 7 a m August IH and w ill end at 10 a rn Cost of the all you can eat m eal is $.t for adults anti $2 for children 10 and under The Cowboy B reakfast has been the m a in fu nd r a is e r fo r the W ranglers for 0» years years As the kids grew up and rn o \ed a w .i\ on th eir own only one chose musu as a career la n d y . w ho has m ade several recordings is now living and perform ing tier music in the San Francisco Bay area Koger and U k r a in e team ed up m BJ73 and have m ade m usic their hobby This past year Koger s son Andy who is 1 2 is starting to perform with the band as the dru m m er and plays a few songs on the bass guitar (gorraine s son M ichael, who is 15 also plays the drum s and w ill be playing with the Iwmd at the rodeo dance Koger w ill perform a song hr has w ritten called Keep Heppner Coin Loans. Nobody does it belter. I rum uuUt loans to vacation loans. at first lntcrst.it«' Kink you II find tiH iip rtitivr rail's 4ikl highly flexible trims And well loan sou money for am worthwhile purjvtsr Mith tlx right inskt informa turn we iart approve vour loan application the v m same dav vnu apptv ñus you tan en|ft> thr lonvmieui c of our automatic payment vvstrm Save ( him * and mofM*v on poMigr Visit or iall a first Interstatr loan offg'tt todas V iki II wi » h u n t «ornes lo loam l_a i F irs t Interstate ir * V isit our 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 t l 4 Harold Peck Harold ( "Shorty") F eck is pre paring a special centennial booth " for this year * M orrow County F a ir which he w ill take to the Oregon S ta te F a i r , A ug ust 23 th ro u g h Septem ber 2 H ighlighting the county * history with pictures and antiques Feck w ill Id le Ihe Isioth "Alive in US for the M orrow County k .n r.in ii The Big One at Ihe state fa ir in order to keep the different them e* Feck's efforts have taken him through m any photograph* while searching for Ihose which w ill lie*l represent each facet of Morrow County laith " then and now ” H r prom ise* photos of old B oardm an to contrast with the new "c irc le irri gated furm s as well as pictures of the developm ent of the lum ber industry He has plans for photos of Ihe counly's representative crops, schools, soil conservation m ethod* and forest service p rac tice * Antique* and Centennial m em orahtlia w ill round out th r display A collector and restorer of antiques, Feck was responsible for rem odel mg and en largin g an old barn al Ihe fa ir grounds which now houses old fa rm im p lem en t* out dated m aeh in ery, equipment and vehicles " Shorty's Museum " a * it's called is another place lo lie sure lo see al this year's F a ir and Kodeo " A great worker for fa ir.' Feck has contri huled m any volunteer hours at Ihe fa ir grounds Check the d aily schedule for lim e and location of his rope m aking dem onstration T h a i's a skill you won I want to miss learning I
