Darlene Lovgren wins Vegas trip in
Central Market grand opening
Darlene Lovgren won a nip to Las
Vegas at the Central Red Apple
Market grand opening in Heppner
Aug. 29 through Sept. 8.
Lee Winters and Rita Hill each
won a gift certificate for $100 of
groceries during the store giveaway.
Osmin resigns
By Anne Morter
Judy Osmin resigned as the mayor
of lone at the last town council
meeting, leaving the position vacant.
Anyone who is interested in running
for the position must organize a
write-in campaign since the filing
deadline has passed.
The town council is also encourag
ing interested parties to organize
write-in campaigns for the three
council positions that will be voted
on in the fall.
The Heppner
Winning $25 gift certificates were:
Merle Cowett, David Allstott, Ilene
Laughlin, Jenny Bingham, Bill
Nichols, Lorena Shuman, Marj
Gardner and Florence Holt.
G eorgia VanW inkle won a
barbecue; Ruth Nutting a TV; Cyde
Estes a bike; Shawna Wilson a
Nintendo; Pam Minster a squirt
truck; Randy Lott and Rose Marie
Buschke each a 34-quart cooler;
Molly Rhea a Nintendo Game Boy;
Karen Thompson and Mike Proctor
each a Magic Johnson basketball.
Heppner Day Care enjoys
end-of-summer picnic
Vets service officer
attends workshop
Morrow/Gilliam Co. Veterans
service officer Rita Hedman will not
be in Heppner office Sept. 20. She
will be attending training workshops
in Salem and Portland Sept. 18-20.
Grange to honor
members
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VOL 108 NO. 37
Wednesday. September 12, 1990
Heppner 25c______ 6 Pages
Lexington Grange has planned a
reception on Sept. 17 to honor all 60.
55, 50 and 25-year members, begin
ning at 6:30 p.m. with a potluck.
Speaker for the evening will be the
State Grange Treasurer John
Cameron.
care kids celebrate with picnic.
On August 30 the staff and
children of Heppner Day Care had
an end-of-summer vacation picnic at
Hager Park.
Town bands together to welcome Cycle III bicyclists
“ 1 think they’re going to be on
Main Street again,” said Hughes.
“ So many said they were coming
back.”
“ 1 thought it was a good experience.
Someone said something about ask
ing them back again, but I think it’s
a little too soon,” said Marianne
Kahl of VanMarter & Kahl In
surance.”
Heppner Mayor and co-organizer
of the event, Cara Costa, said that
after being up for 36 hours and just
settling down for a nap around 3
p.m. Monday, she got a knock on
her door from someone inquiring
about scheduling a three-day bike
race in Heppner.
Costa and Hughes, in addition to
organizing the whole event locally,
also sat up all night at the Heppner
Elementary school so that bicyclists
could use the showers and restrooms
at the school. Some bicyclists
camped at the school grounds and
others were situated at the
fairgrounds. Dinner was also serv
Bicyclists look through mountains of bags at fairgrounds.
It was a whirlwind weekend
romance-but what a romance it was-
-when nearly two thousand bicyclists
swept into Heppner Sept. 9 on the
first leg of their journey with Cycle
III, a bicycle tour across Oregon.
And “ seldon was heard a discourag
ing word,” to quote an old cowboy
song, from either bicyclists or
townspeople.
Geoff Kronick
The first cyclist to arrive in Hepp
ner was Geoff (pronounced Jeff)
Kronick of Lake Oswego, who ad
mitted to leaving Pendleton, the star
ting point of the tour, before the Cy
cle III opening ceremonies. Kronick,
who left Pendleton at 6 a.m. Sunday,
Sept. 9, and arrived in Heppner at
10:15 a.m. (yes, the same day), said
that he received a T-shirt, a button
and “ lots of applause" for his ef
forts. Kronick, 35 and single, said
that he also participated in Cycle II
and has had “ a great time" on this
tour.
Judie L aughlin.
H eppner.
homestay organizer for Cycle III,
said that around 108 were schedul
ed to stay in local homes. Laughlin
said that everything went well, “ ex
cept for the fact that the ones that
didn’t show up didn't call their
hosts.”
Duffy Nabholtz of Dallas, Texas,
stayed with Steve and Molly Rhea
and family in Heppner. Nabholtz.
42, a real estate investor with a wife
and two children, nine and six years
old, at home, said that the tour was
“ good, except the third hill kind of
wore me down. ’' Nabholtz said that
he averaged around 13.7 miles an
hour, while a friend of his had a 15.7
mile-an-hour average. Although it
was Nabholtz' first time on Cycle
Oregon, he had been to Oregon
before, back-packing on the Pacific
Crest Trail in the Three Sisters
Wilderness. He also has relatives in
the Eugene area. Nabholtz said that
he runs around 600 miles a year and
plays raquetball to keep in shape. “ If
you’re not in good shape, you’re
hurting. A lot of people were strug
gling on that last hill.” While the
temperature was around 90 degrees
on Sunday, Nabholtz said that, com
ing from Texas, the heat didn’t
bother him as much as the hills.
C laudia H ughes, H eppner
Chamber of Commerce manager and
ramrod for Cycle III arrangements
in Heppner, spoke to a chamber
meeting Tuesday, saying “ I’m so
proud of this community. The
organizations that volunteered work
ed so hard.. you were all in there pit
c h in g .” Enthused about the
bicyclists and the response of the
townspeople, Hughes
was
however, disappointed in the state’s
role in the bicycle tour. “ The state
(Oregon Tourism Division) was no
help at all,” she said. “ It was a
tough job. If we did some things
wrong.' we're sorry." Hughes went
on to thank Cara Costa, Heppner
mayor and co-organizer along with
Hughes. Marlene Currin, committee
chairperson in charge of food, Ter-
rie Cutsforth. who arranged enter
tainment. and Judie Laughlin who
shares Heppner TV office space with
the Chamber and was also home stay
coordinator.
Many of the townspeople were im
pressed with the friendliness and
cleanliness of the bicyclists.
Jerry Hollomon of the Shoe Box
shoe store in Heppner said, “ I had
a gal (cyclist) come in and say good
bye to me and my wife. She said ‘If
we get to vote on this next year
we're going to vote to come back to
Heppner ” ’ “ They’re really a clean
bunch,” he added. “ They really left
the town pretty clean."
Meg Murray of Murray Drug said
“ We had lots of people in the store,
everyone who came into the store
was really pleased at the reception,
and not one negative comment." It
turns out that one of the cyclists was
her husband Rod’s second cousin
The Murrays also hosted several
people at their home.
Jenny Bingham, Murray Drug
employee, said “ Wonderful. I
thought it was great. Everybody was
very friendly. I didn't see anybody
who was obnoxious.”
Heppner Police Chief Doug
Rathbun said the weekend went
“ real good,” with "no problems”
during Cycle Ill’s visit to Heppner.
a town with a population smaller (at
1,485) than the number of cyclists
on the tour (1,900 at the last count.)
Rathbun said that all three Heppner
Police worked over the weekend,
compared to the two usually
scheduled.
Chamber of Commerce President
Cliff Green said “ It’s (Cycle III) a
positive experience for the town. It
showed once again what we can do
when we work together.” But he
also added, “ I think Cycle III
management people have something
to learn when dealing with small
towns.”
Renee Devin, office manager at
Heppner City Hall, said that 240
people swam at the Heppner swim
ming pool Sunday. The pool was
open from 3 to 9 p.m. at a cost of
$2 per person. In charge of the local
booths. Devin said "Some did okay.
Some didn’t.”
Some of the local stores and
restaurants, anticipating iarge
crowds, weie disappointed in the
numbers of cyclists patronizing their
stores. “ They (the cyclists) were
very nice people," said Ruth
Maben. owner of Court Street
Market in Heppner. “ They didn't
buy as much as expected I'm glad
we didn't stock a lot.”
The bieydists seemed as pleased
with the townspeople with many in
dicating that they would like to come
back.
“ A lot of them asked me, ’What
other events go on here? ” said
Doug Dubuque, Kinzua Corp. pro
duction manager.
American Legion-watermelon; and
Central Market-frozen yogurt.
Handling breakfast Monday mor
ning were: the Heppner Masonic
Lodge-French toast; Willow Creek
C ountry
Club-condim ents;
Episcopal and Lutheran churches-
bran muffins; Methodist Church-
cantaloupe; Nazarene C hurch
dispensing cold drinks; and
Neighborhood Center-hot drinks.
Many other groups supplied ser
vices, food and support.
Hughes said that the funniest situa
tion they encountered was w hen they
ordered a quantity o f large
institutional-size cans of vegetarian
beans for vegetarian cyclists and
received only smalt cans “ Gwen
Healy. Cara Costa and I hit Central
Market and started throwing cans of
beans into carts-anything with no
meat in it,” said Hughes. "The fun
ny thing was. we had cyclists at the
table asking for the recipe. There
was no recipe.”
Costa and Hughes wouldn't reveal
Cara Costa (I) and Claudia Hughes ‘alright, good job Heppner’
ed at the school grounds and
breakfast at the city park.
In charge of the dinner Sunday
evening were: Cattlemen and
C attleW om en-steak;
Senior
Citizens-baked potatoes; Heppner
High sophomore class-cleaning and
sorting potatoes; Elks club-
marinated salad; lone United Church
of Christ-condiments; St. Patrick s
Altar Society-vegetarian beans and
dinner rolls; Nazarene Church
dispensing cold drinks; Heppner
Day C are-m onster cookies;
their worst situation but said anotner
funny experience in addition to
babysitting the school building all
night, was "crawling around the
steep road that climbs up to Condon
at midnight, putting up signs with
the Irish blessing-to greet the
bicyclists Monday morning. ‘May
the road rise up to meet you. the
wind be always at your back. May
the sunshine warm your face, the
rain fall softly on your fields. Until
we meet again, may God hold you
in the palm of his hand."
Cross-country tournament
Sunday Men’s play at Willow
Creek Golf course Sept. 16 will be
the annual cross-country tourna
ment. The course design is changed
and par now becomes 68. Some plans
have been changed due to the ex-
pected power outage, but organizers
still hope for a good turnout.
Trophies and prizes will be award
ed for gross and net The cost is $3
and the shotgun start will begin at
8:30 a.m.
Children and care-givers walked
through town to the park carrying
balloons with the names of the
children who attend day care. Over
50 balloons were released.
Anyone finding a balloon with the
children’s names in it is asked to
please write and let day care know.
Twenty-six children and three
staff members enjoyed the picnic
lunch and the fresh summer air. The
older children spent the aftemon
playing at the park.
Grain growers
take prizes at
state fair
Eric Anderson and Kenneth
Smouse. both of lone, and Chuck
Nelson of Lexington each won first
place at the 1990 Oregon state Fair
for their grain exhibits.
Anderson took first and an OSU
Foundation project award for his soft
white wheat seed grain. Nelson’s
first pla>.c soft white wheat commer
cial grain entry also won a Harvest
States award. Ken Smouse took first
place for his six-row barley and also
received the Pendleton Grain
Growers award.
Columbia Basin
announces
planned power
outages
Columbia Basin Electric Company
has announced that Heppner, Lex
ington,
H ardm an,
Ruggs,
Blackhorse, Parkers Mill, Upper
Willow Creek, Hinton Creek and
Blakes Ranch will be without power
Sunday Sept 16 from 6 to 10 a.m.
On the same day, lone, Olex,
Rock Creek, Mikkalo. Clem. 8
Mile, Shutter Flats and Lower
Willow Creek will be without power
from 6 a.m to 2 p.m.
According to Columbia Basin, this
outage should be the last needed this
year in order to make connections to
the new line, unless something un-
forseen occurs.
Justin Nelson
reading program
winner
Justin Nelson has been announc
ed the winner of the Heppner City
Library summer reading program.
Justin is the son of Chuck and Lisa
Nelson. Lexington.
Story hour will get underway at
the city library on Monday. Sept. 17,
from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. All pre
schoolers and their parents are in
vited to attend
Regular library hours are 1:30 to
5 p.m. Monday. Tuesday. Thursday
and Saturday and 1:30 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday.
CONGRATULATIONS CYCLE III HELPERS!
Your complete and untiring efforts to make the CYCLE
OREGON III riders welcome and comfortable was great and
well noted by many bikers
K of
G.H. Pierson
Pres.. Bank Of E.O.
FO.I.C.
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