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Kevin Gutierrez of Heppner got
his high school music scholarship a
little bit la te-16 years late
Gutierrez was awarded a $50
music scholarship at his bac
calaureate ceremony at lone High
School in 1974, but never received
the money.
He got it in the mail last week
from his high school music teacher.
"Through the last 16 years she’d
contacted me several times to ask if
I’d gotten it. I told her not to worry
about it,” said Gutierrez. "The last
time she contacted me was in 1985.
She was living in Utah. She was still
worried about it.”
"Then this letter showed up in the Kevin Gutierrez presents scholarship check to Geneva '
mail and I couldn’t believe it. She Mathews.
sent a self-addressed, stamped didn't keep it.
the lone school music program for
envelope and a piece of paper to
Gutierrez, who is employed with a scholarship. lone schools music
report to her what I did with the the U S. Forest Service, is still in teacher Geneva Mathews says she’ll
money.”
volved in music. For two years he
it in the bank as a scholarship for
The teacher, Sherrie Bahr, who worked booking bands with a talent put
"some
music major.” But
taught two years at lone High agency. Now he plays drums in the at least deserving
Sherrie
Bahr
must have got
School, asked Gutierrez to give the community band and the jazz band. ten a load off her mind.
money to someone deserving it if he
Gutierrez donated the money to
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The Heppner
azette
VOL 108 NO. 15
Wednesday, April II, 1090
imes
Heppner 25c
Woman struck by train Family Science
festival April 16
in critical condition
An lone woman was critically in
jured when the car she was driving
was struck by a train on April 6.
According to the Morrow County
8 Pages
Sheriffs Dept., the woman, Myrna
E. Johnson, 50, was driving east on
‘H’ Street in lone when the train,
traveling from Lexington to lone,
struck her car broadside around 9:40
p.m.
A sheriff s department spokesper
son said that Johnson was believed
to be driving to her job at Lamb
Weston in Boardman when the ac
cident occurred. The train was
unable to stop.
Johnson was taken to Pioneer
Memorial Hospital in Heppner and
then transported by air to Walla
Walla where she remains in critical
condition.
lone students hold tree planting ceremony
l
Local students to stage
“Jack and the Beanstalk”
The Missoula Children’s Theater
will put on a musical version of
"Jack and the Beanstalk” including
area children and will conduct
workshops in the schools on various
aspects of theater.
Museum director and project
coordinator Marsha Sweek says that
they will need housing for the two-
person team that conducts the
workshops, parents to supervise and
help during rehearsals, a pianist ac
companist, and additional financial
support.
The two-person team from the
tJteater will come to Heppner May
14 through May 19. Auditions for
children and teens, grades
kindergarten through 12, will be
held Monday, May 14 and a partial
cast rehearsal will follow that day.
Rehearsals will be held Tuesday
The lone Elementary School held
a tree planting ceremony at the city
park on Friday, April 6. to celebrate
Arbor Week. Students sang ‘ This
Land Is My Land" and "America
The Beautiful.” Teacher Diana Kin
caid gave a history of Arbor Day.
Students planted a European white
birch tree and buried a container
with a message about caring for our
earth with the date and signatures of
all the students in the elementary
school
Forest Ranger Tonya Bowers talk
ed to students about how trees help
us. Artist in the schools, Carol
Groobman, led the students in sing
ing “ Trees,” a song which she
taught them. Smokey the Bear was
an honored guest for the activity.
Jim Rudisill, city custodian,
prepared the tree site and assisted
with the planting. Rudisill has been
doing extensive work on the city
park the last two years. He planted
pin oak, red oak, filberts and English
walnut trees to provide food for the
English fox squirrels he brought to
the park last year. In addition to the
nut trees, Rudisill planted cut leaf,
weeping birch, red maples and
snowfountain flowering cherry trees.
"His efforts have made the lone ci
ty park one of the beauty spots in the
area," said lone elementary school
teacher Betty Rietmann.
through Friday, after school and
evenings. The performance is
scheduled for Saturday evening.
Sweek says that more than 30
children will appear in the play. She
says that while not all children audi
tioning may be chosen, those
children not selected to perform in
the play may be involved in
workshops at the schools. Six to 10
older kids not performing will be
needed as assistant directors and will
be responsible for some of the
technical parts of the production.
Sweek says that around half of the
$1.350 needed to fund the program
has been raised through organization
and private donations, but additional
financial support is needed.
For more information, donations,
or help in hosting the theater team,
call Sweek. 676-5121 or 676-5524.
rounded the Volkswagen Rabbit.
"W e're originally from the
Portland area." said Smith. "You’d
expect something like that to happen
in the bigger cities, but not here. We
just moved here. We don’t know
anybody here, so it wouldn’t be
revenge or anything like that." The
Smiths moved to Lexington from
Monument in December. "This was
not an isolated incident," continued
Smith. Ours was the second vehicle
this happened to." Smith said that
an estimate from Lexington Auto
Body calculated $755.80 for repairs
to the vehicle. A similar incident in
volving a United Parcel Service
(UPS) truck, occurred prior to the
Smith’s encounter, according to a
UPS spokesperson.
Program earns computer
software for school
Heppner Elementary School
teachers, children and members of
the community saved a total of
$6,551.49 in Fred Meyer receipts.
"Even though this was not enough
for a new computer. Heppner
Elementary was able to obtain some
computer software for their
classes." said Karen Beck, teacher
and project coordinator. The school
has ordered computer program
"Math Blaster Plus" says Beck.
The ladies of St. Patrick's Catholic
Church are searching for articles
missing from the Parish Hall in
Heppner, most importantly tables
and chairs.
The tables are eight-foot banquet
tables and the chairs are the metal
folding type
If the leprechauns have left some
of these items (or something else
belonging to the parish hall) in your
basement, garage, or store-room,
please call Janet Greenup. 676-5452
or 676-5822 for pickup.
St. Pat’s ladies search for tables
Sewing
seminar
May 5
There will be a meeting of the
Morrow County Weed Advisory
Board on April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in
the conference room at the Pettyjohn
Building in Heppner. The main item
of discussion will be this year's weed
tour. The public is invited.
Twenty-three seventh and eighth
grade chorus students, directed by
Kitty Bredemeier, will present the
musical "Tumbleweeds,” Wednes
day, April 18. Showtime is at 7 p.m.
in the Heppner Elementary multi
purpose room.
In the musical. Tumbleweeds
returns to Grimey Gulch to find the
citizens anxiously awaiting the ar
rival of school girls from back East.
"From bank robbery, Indian attacks
and trials to love and weddings,
there's never a dull moment," says
Bredemeier
Major
characters
are:
Tum bleweeds-Len
Brittner;
Hildegard
Hamhocker-Sara
Greenup; Deputy Knuckles-Ryan
Munkers; Judge Frump-Sam
Sumner; Snake Eye McFoul-Travis
Wilson; and Prudence Lovely-
Gretchen Berretta.
Tickets are $2 for adults, $1 for
senior citizens and students and $5
for families (includes immediate
family only).
Saturday
The annual Elks Easter egg hunt
will be held in Heppner this Satur
day, April 14 beginning at 10 a.m.
Pre-schoolers will hunt at the city
park, next to the museum; children
in grades one and two will hunt at
the lower field and third and fourth
graders will hunt on the Hager Park.
The Easter Bunny will also be on
hand again this year at the city park.
Weed board
meeting set
Musical play ‘Tumbleweeds’ April 18
Man says students beat on car Egg hunt
A group of Heppner High School
students surrounded a vehicle,
pounded on it. causing over $750 in
damages, and cursed at the driver.
Carmen Smith. 25, of Lexington,
according to her husband, Don.
Heppner Police Chief Doug
Rathbun, Morrow County DA Jeff
Wallace, and Heppner High School
Principal Steve Dickenson confirm
ed that an incident did occur with a
group of Heppner High students, but
were not able to elaborate until after
a grand jury which was scheduled
for 9:30 a.m. April 11.
Smith said that his wife had been
traveling from the post office in
Heppner around 1:15 p.m. on April
5 when the HHS students, thought
to be a senior PE class on an aerobic
walk, blocked the road, and sur
A family science festival for the
whole family will be held on Tues
day, April 17 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
at the Heppner Elementary multi
purpose room.
Science teacher Sarah Carlson
says the seventh and eighth grade
students are doing “ make and take”
projects for each grade level -
kindergarten through first grade: se
cond and third grade; and fourth,
fifth and sixth grades. Children
visiting the festival will be able to get
involved and actually make
something of their own to take
home.
The seventh and eighth graders
will be doing the projects in lieu of
their usual annual science project.
Other grades will exhibit their pro
jects at the same time at the festival.
The festival is free to the public.
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‘Tumbleweed’ cast L-R Holly Eckmans, Chris Cookston, Len
Brittner and Ryan Munkers.
Parents to plan
Jr-Sr banquet
Was your schedule too full for you
to attend the Pendleton Needlemania
There will be a short meeting on
‘90 Sewing Festival on April 7? You Thursday,
12. at 6 p.m. in the
have another chance for a sewing up high school April
cafeteria
to form com
date on Saturday, May 5 in The mittees for the junior/senior
banquet
Dafles.
which
will
be
held
Friday.
April
27.
"Spring Into Fashion," a one-day
All
parents
of
Heppner
High
seminar, luncheon and style show juniors are invited to attend. For
will be presented by Washington more information call Susan
State University and Oregon State Johnston at 676-5562 or Janet
University Cooperative Extension. Greenup at 676-5822
One-hour workshop topics in
clude: "Choosing Serging Beyond
the Basic Seam” ; "Building Blue
Ribbon Kinds Out of White Ribbon
Projects” ; “ Lovely Lingerie";
"Color and You"; "Counted Cross
Stitch"; and more.
The cost for the seminar is $10.
Pre-registration is important. For
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detailed information and a registra
tion form, contact Carol Bennett,
Morrow County Extension Agent at
676-9642. PO Box 397, Heppner.
OR 97836.
Weather Report
by City of Heppner
April 3 - 9, 1990
High LOW Prec
Tues. 72 37 .0
Weds. 71 39 .0
Thurs. 71 41 .0
71 39 .0
PH.
73 32 .0
Sat._
AO 31 .0
Sun.
Mon. 67 •37 .0
Market Report
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