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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 15, 1990 Pennant bearers end exciting rodeo season The Morrow County Fair and Rodeo this week ends an exciting and busy season for the six pennant bearers for the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Queen and Court. This year's pennant bearers are Shelly Ashbeck, Jenni Ashbeck, Angie Partlow, Jodi Vandeventer, Dawn Boor and Brenda Holtz. pie and aspires to becoming a veterinarian. She started 4-H in the sixth grade and belongs to a 4-H beef club. She was also an FFA member her freshman year. Jodi’s horse, a paint, is named Iski. Jodi says the highlight of her year as pennant bearer will be the grand entry at the Morrow County Rodeo. club the past two years. Besides volleyball, basketball and tennis, Angie enjoys horseback riding, and deer and elk hunting. Angie also helps work with cattle on her uncle’s ranch. She hopes to follow in the footsteps of her aunt Pat, who was a court princess and her cousin, Susan Partlow, a former queen. She hopes to be selected for a position on the court her junior year. Angie, who will be riding her quarterhorse, Roho, says that she has enjoyed the excitement of traveling and meeting people as a Morrow County pennant bearer. She also hopes to become a veterinarian. Colleen Kilkenny Greenup was queen in 1945; cousins Bridgett Greenup and Lottie Laughlin were queens of the court; her mom. Tag, was a princess, as were cousins, Jodee Ashbeck and Amy Greenup, and her aunt Susie Walton; her sister, Angie, was also a pennant bearer. Shelly hopes to carry on the family tradition by serving on the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Court. 3 ^ . n / Jodi Vandeventer Jodi, 16, is the daughter of Don and Debbie Vandeventer of Board- man. A junior at Riverside High School, Jodi is involved in basket ball. volleyball and tennis. A hard worker, Jodi also loves meeting peo- Pennant bearer Angie Partlow will turn 15 on Aug. 15, the first day of fair. Angie is the daughter of Jim and Pam Partlow. Boardman. Six years in 4-H in dairy-beef clubs. Angie has also been a member of a 4-H horse Brenda Holtz Jenni Ashbeck Jenni Ashbeck, another aspiring vet, is a sophomore at Heppner High School, where she plays basketball and volleyball and is a member of FFA. The daughter of Alvin and Julie Ashbeck, Echo, Jenni, 15, also belongs to 4-H. Her hobbies include tole painting and riding in the moun tains. This summer Jenni has work ed at the grain elevator for the Wagon Trail Farms. Happy 65th MOM With All Our Love Your youngest daughter and HER family The Morrow County Road Crew will be work ing on the following county roads during the months of August and September. 1. Blade patching and chip sealing 7 miles of west Baseline 2. Blade patching and chip sealing Social Ridge Rd. 3. Paving Meadow Brook Co. Road 4. Blade patching and chip sealing the Cutsforth- Baseline Co. Road. 5. Preparation & paving of Basey-Sanford Co. road. 6. Dressing and chip sealing the Pointer Co. road Your patience with the inconvenience which may occur will be greatly a p p r e c ia te d .^ ^ The Morrow County i Road Department r I *.\ ■ - * '» Brenda Holtz, 11, has been a member of 4-H for the past four years. The daughter of Elmer and Sandy Holtz of lone, Brenda belongs to two 4-H horse clubs. Besides riding horses, Brenda likes to cook. She has been a member of a 4-H cooking club the past two years and won reserve champion at the fair with her cookies. She also enjoys playing volleyball and basketball. The highlight of Brenda’s year as pennant bearer was their trip to Joseph. Brenda’s cousin, Tammy Holtz, was also a pennant bearer for the court. Brenda’s mount’s name is Jazz, an Arabian. Dawn Boor Dawn Boor, 10, started riding at the age of five. Dawn is the daughter of Jim and Marie Boor, lone. She is Shelly Ashbeck, 14, the now a member of two horse 4-H daughter of Tag and Mitch Ashbeck groups, one in Heppner, one in lone. of Pine City, started riding when she She is also involved in a 4-H cook was two years old. Shelly is active ing class. She loves to swim and in the Wranglers Riding Club and has been a member of 4-H. She . plans to play basketball and volleyball this year as a sixth grader loves riding for cows in the moun at lone Middle School. She also tains and going to rodeos. A played baseball on the lone major freshman this coming year. Shelly league teams. She is riding Ivan, the enjoys a rich heritage of royalty on thoroughbred horse she has been the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo riding for the past two years. Dawn Court-in 1925 Mae Kilkenny, a says the highlight of her year will be relative, was Morrow County Fair the grand entry at the rodeo this and Rodeo queen; her grandmother weekend. Shelly Ashbeck Weddings Eubanks — Cutsforth V W Z ^ W A W .W A W .V A W A V A V A W \W W V W A W , Plans are underway for the 1990 Morrow County Fair & Rodeo Parade to be held on August 18 at 10 a.m. This year’s theme is "Blue Jeans and C ountry S cen es.” Registration for parade entries started last week and we’ve heard from a lot of our favorite parade par ticipants. If you decide at the last minute to join in the fun, drop by the table in front of Green Feed between 9 and 9:30 a.m.. on August 18 and a number will be assigned to you there. Ribbons and prize money will be awarded in several categories in cluding cars, floats, riding groups, fair courts, bands and several others. Some divisions will be judged before the parade starts, so if you would like a chance at an award, be sure to get there before 9:30 a.m. If you are planning on riding a horse in the parade, a special unloading area has been designated. Riverside Street will be open and is a great place to unload and ready your horse for the parade, and there will be parking for rigs and trailers until the parade is over. Entry forms are available at the Van Marter & Kahl Insurance office located at 187 N. Main Street in Heppner. If you have any questions or need any special arrangements please contact Bob Kahl at 676-9113 or 676-5422. Court takes first at Umatilla Co. Fair Parade «V Angie Partlow Late entries accepted for parade Missy Eubanks and Jeff Cutsforth were married in a July 20 ceremony at Reno, Nevada. Missy is the daughter of Noel and Patty Harshman of Echo and Don Eubanks of Boring. She is a 1986 graduate of Heppner High School and is employed with the U.S. Forest Service. She is also a student at George Fox College at Newberg. Jeff is the son of Karen Cutsforth, Pendleton and Pat Cutsforth, Lex ington. He is self-employed at the Cutsforth ranch. Enter stick horse race Everyone four years old and and under is invited to saddle up that old stick horse for a special entry in the Morrow County Rodeo this Friday, Aug. 17, at 7 p.m. Kids planning on entering the stick horse race should register at the rodeo office that evening. Registra tion is $1. By Anne Morter The Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Court took first place in the Queen and Court Division at the Umatilla County Fair Parade Aug. 4. Queen Judy Jepsen and her court brought home a beautiful plaque for their efforts. The plaque will be on display at the court’s fair booth dur ing this week’s Morrow County Fair and Rodeo. The court was busy last week pro- moting the fair and rodeo. Last Thursday, they appeared on a radio talk show on station KOHU in Her- miston. In addition they were inter viewed by station KUMA of Pendleton at the Umatilla County Fair on Saturday. They capped their busy week by returning home to Heppner to hand out awards at the Wranglers Open Class Horse Show held last Sunday. WW W — » Life* Auto* Hornet Farm ★ Log Trucks* Medicare Supps WELCOME TO THE 1990 FAIR & RODEO Stop in and say hi. Bob & Cheryl Morrow County Search & Rescue ¡Dunk Tank Saturday, August 18 at the Fairgrounds r«Bfl 3 Balls — $1.00 |w Dick Reid, Kinzua 11 A M -11:30 11:30-12 noon Lisa Williams, USFS > 12 noon-12:30 Pat Sweeney, Mortician (Merle Cowett, Heppner PD-alternate) 12:30-1 PM Renee Devin, City Hall Clerk 1PM-1:30 Cara Costa, Heppner Mayor 1:30-2PM David Archer, MCSO Chaplain 2PM-2:30 Terry Harper, MCSO Deputy 2:30-3PM Paul Sumner, Kinzua > 3PM-3:30 Billy Joe McMinn, Kinzua > 3:30-4PM Marsha Kemp, USFS > 4PM-4:30 Steven Rhea, Insurance Agent > 4:30-5PM Ron Bowman, NAPA 5PM-5:30 Louis Carlson, Morrow County Judge 5:30-6PM Jett Wallace, Morrow Co. District Attorney 6PM-6:30 Bill Kuhn, Heppner City Attorney 6:30-7PM Carl Martin, Oregon State Police Any other volunteers contact Terri Denton 3:30-4PM Drawing for Black Hills gold ring to be announced at the rodeo To purchase tickets for drawing call 676-5226 or 676-5253 < WCCC barbecue planned There will be a family barbecue and play day at Willow Creek Coun try Club on Sunday, August 19 at 4 p.m. Hosts for the afternoon are: chairman-Dave and Patty Allstott, •a-J • 1 yjji IlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllUS illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllli VItiliVllllllll111llllllllllvlfilIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRIIIIIiflllllllllf ! MEETING NOTICE 1 m ¡TOPICS: New Product Tempo j v 1 v Seed Treatments § MANUFACTURER: Gustafson | ir-i& 'R li ' DATE: Monday, August 20 V ¡§:i Mike and Lori Smith, Dave and Trish Gunderson and John and Kel ly Boyer. Each family will bring their own meat to barbecue. Those whose names begin with A through I bring salad; J through Z bring dessert. TIME: 7 P.M. PLACE: Willows Grange, lone | MEETING NOTICE TOPICS: Cheat Stop ACA Phorate System at planting Insecticide DATE: Thursday, August 23 TIME: 7 P.M. PLACE: Willows Grange, lone (sponsored by Morrow County Grain Growers) Sponsored by Morrow County Search & Rescue Proceeds to be used for equipment.
