* EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 1 8, IWO
Mustangs prepare for hoop season
Varsity coach Lee Padberg
The Heppner Mustangs are
finishing up preseason practice for
the 1990-91 basketball season, ac
cording to varsity boys’ head coach
Lee Padberg. The first games of the
season will be the Morrow County
Invitational, hosted by the Riverside
Pirates in Boardman Friday and
Saturday, Nov. 30 and December 1.
Heppner girls and boys will play Fri
day afternoon, November 30, at 3
p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively,
against the lone Cardinals to open
the tournament. Other teams in the
tournament include the Pirates and
Joseph High School.
Padberg. a local farmer, is starting
his second season as the boys’ var
sity head coach. This is his sixth
season with the basketball program,
having coached JV girls and JV boys
before taking the varsity girls team
to the regional tournament two years
ago.
Padberg will welcome back seven
lettermen, including three starters,
from a team that last year went 18-5
and played in the regional tourna
ment in Pendleton before being
beaten by the Grant Union Prospec
tors. The Mustangs will try to fill the
gaps left by starters Russell Britt and
Slater Mitchell Britt is red shirting
at George Fox College and Mitchell
is playing basketball at Multnomah
School of the Bible.
The three returning starters, all
seniors, are Doug Devin, Brandon
Pedro and Bob Krein. Pedro, the
tallest Mustang at 6’3” , will occupy
the post position. Devin, one of the
team's best defense players will play
at both the wing and post spots and
plays much bigger than his 5’8”
stature. Krein is a 5’8" point guard
who appears to be the quickest of the
Mustangs.
Stokes Landing center to
hold dinner and games
There will be a dinner for the
public at Stokes Landing Senior
Center in Irrigon from 5 to 7 p.m.
on Friday, Nov. 30. The center is
located on the old highway at Opal
Place, West Irrigon. People may
have their choice of chili or potato
soup for $2.50 and pie at 75 cents.
Game night will follow the dinner
at 7 p.m. when cards and table
games are played by people of all
ages. A $1 fee is asked to help cover
expenses. Everyone is welcome.
The sales room, called the bouti
que, will be open from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. each Monday. The public is
invited to shop with the seniors at
these hours. The first Monday of
each month there will be a sack sale
at $1 a bag for good used clothing
and other items.
L exington G range plans activities
By Delpha Jones
Lexington Grange met for their
regular meeting with a potluck din
ner. Hosts for the evening were Lyle
and Virginia Peck and Jim and Bar
bara Bloodsworth.
Following dinner an interesting
and educational program was en
joyed with Molly Rhea, who spoke
on the home nursing program, how
it is financed, and how it is ad
m inistered
through
Pioneer
Memorial Hospital. It is a tri-county
program with nurses in the different
areas. Following this a short
drills
Greg Grant will coach JV
business meeting was held.
Plans were madé for the
Christmas meeting. The exchange of
gifts must be something that the per
son made. This has proven to be
most interesting and fun in the past
years. There will be a potluck
dinner.
It was announced that plans will
be made later in the year for the
Pomona degree to be given by Lex
ington Grange and first and second
degrees by Willows and third and
fourth by Greenfield.
Other returning lettermen are Rick
Osmin, a 5’9” wing who runs the
court well and junior Jason Britt, a
5’8” wing/off guard who penetrates
well and plays tough defense.
Charlie Rathbun. 5'10" and Richie
Pettyjohn, 5 ’9 ” , both juniors,
played both varsity and jv last year.
Pettyjohn will play at off guard and
Rathbun is a wing.
Seniors Scott Johnston, 5’8” and
Jacob Maben, 5’9” are both up from
the junior varsity team and will play
wing positions. Kevin Bond, a 6 ’2 ”
senior, is out this year after two
years out of basketball and will play
the post. Ryan Currin, a 5’10”
junior with jv experience will play
a wing.
Cory Grabeel, a 5’9” senior
transfer from Stanfield, will play at
wing and Rick Koffler, a 5 ’9”
freshman will be a point guard/off
guard.
Coach Padberg favors a fast break
offense and a fast tempo for the
hoopsters. He will use a full court
press much of the time and a very
tenacious defensive approach em
phasizing a man-to-man defense.
Padberg tabs his own Mustangs as
one of the favorites for the league
cham pionship along with the
Umatilla Vikings, Wasco County
Redsides and the Weston-McEwen
Tiger-Scots.
The Stanfield Tigers, Wahtonka
Eagles and Pilot Rock Rockets round
out the seven team Columbia Basin
Conference. Last year’s league
champ, the Riverside Pirates, have
moved to the 3A Greater Oregon
League.
The Junior Varsity coach is Greg
Grant who is a physical education
teacher in Heppner. Grant, in his
first year at Heppner, coached the
past five years at Alsea at the varsi-
ty level and won several league
championships and played for the
state championship against Condon
last year.
He is greeted by 13 enthusiastic
cagers including junior David
McCurry and sophomores Pete
Pearson, Mark Conklin. Kevin
Kilkenny, Scott Cere. T.R. Riehl,
Jeremy Clark, Jeremy Maddern,
Tony Burt and Shane Munkers.
Three freshmen playing on the JV
team include Kevin Payne, Da-
Wayne Dunaway and Len Brittner.
The JV schedule starts early in
December.
The largest turnout of basket-
bailers in recent history, 47 in all,
including 25 freshman, have made
it necessary to have two freshmen
teams.
One of the Frosh coaches, Bob
Ployhar, a local insurance agent, is
no stranger to Mustang basketball.
Holtz attend AAL convention
Harold and Irene Holtz were
among approximately 200 Aid
Association for Lutherans (AAL)
volunteers from O regon and
Washington who attended the annual
O regon/Southw est W ashington
Federation convention of AAL bran
ches. The meeting was held Sept. 29
at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Warm
Springs.
AAL members are organized into
local volunteer groups, called bran
ches. These branches are given the
organizational and financial
resources
to
accom plish
humanitarian, service, social and
educational projects to help others in
their communities. Federation con
vention participants generally are
branch officers who want to become
more effective volunteer leaders.
Several workshops were offered to
convention attendees. Workshop
subjects ranged from "Encouraging
Self Esteem Through Investing in
Others" to “ Networking Among
AAL Branches .”
There are more than 16,000 AAL
members in Oregon. Last year, these
volunteers conducted 271 fraternal
projects which raised more than
$238,971. College scholarships
worth $9,600 were distributed to 21
AAL members in the state, while 32
drug and alcohol prevention
seminars, called “ Get Involved
Before Your Kids Do,” were
conducted.
There are more than 32,000 AAL
members in Washington. Last year,
these volunteers conducted 331
fraternal projects which raised
$297,211. A total of 65 Washington
individuals received college scholar
ships totaling $54,292 and 20 "Get
Involved” seminars were conducted.
AAL, based in Appleton, Wiscon
sin, provides its 1.5 million
members in 7,600 nationwide bran
ches with fraternal benefits. AAL’s
affiliated companies offer members
other financial services. In addition,
AAL members are offered volunteer
opportunities to help others in their
own communities.
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There's a variety of inexpensive
and creative activities that are easy
to pull together at the last minute.
Many use items available at no cost,
such as egg cartons, foam packing
chips, cardboard rolls and old
magazines.
O ther common inexpensive
household items may also be used,
including toothpicks, marshmallows.
cereal, rice, salt, macaroni, plastic
dish pans, paper clips, straws, glue
and scissors.
By now you’re wondering what
your child will do with these
treasures, many of which most peo
ple toss out with yesterday’s
oatmeal. The best way to find out is
to put a few items on the table or
floor and see what happens, observes
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Ms. Bennett.
In order to encourage creativity in
children, it is important not to model
the “ right” way all the time. You
might want to give a few guidelines,
such as “ build something three feet
high” or “ keep the water in the
plastic dishpan,” adds Rebecca
Ward, OSU Extension acting child
development specialist.
Make the guidelines more com
plicated as your child masters each
activity. For example, a three-year-
old may be able to stack five egg car
tons or build a road. By age K). he
or she may be making castles com
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The following is a brief list of
ways children have used these and
other items in play:
Paper bags-make creature masks,
clown faces, costumes and puppets.
Collages-paste any or all of the
following on paper: leaves, seeds,
beans, macaroni (color it with food
coloring mixed with rubbing
alcohol), pictures cut from
magazines (give older children a
theme to create around such as
‘junk food’, ‘family,’ ‘Christmas
wish list’), egg shells, buttons, cot
ton balls, or yam.
Of course, on those ‘nothing to do'
days, you might also take the advice
of the grandmother who says her
grandchildren never dare to com
plain about the lack of entertaining
things to do because she hands them
the mop or the toilet brush and puts
them to work This idea had definite
possibilities. You might find that
your children like to clean
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Carol Bennett. Oregon State Univer
sity Extension agent in Morrow
County.
Bob was the JV coach in 1985-86
under Brent Eggers. Ployhar has
also been active as a coach in a varie
ty of youth programs in the
community.
Bob Sagely, a science teacher at
the high school, will be the other
freshman coach. He is coaching his
first high school team after some ex
perience with adult recreation
leagues.
The freshmen teams, the Blues
and the Golds, who haven’t been
separated yet, include Matt Hoob-
ing, Austin Coiner, Andy Ashbeck,
Sam Sumner, Joe Lindsay, Casey
O'Brien, Trampas Bergstrom, Chris
Cookston, Joseph Healy, Jim
Tellechea, Chad Dohety, Jerid
Wickland, Greg Murell, Ryan
Munkers. Ray Corwin, Kevin Scott,
Jake Bacon, Jeff Botefuhr, Truitt
Greenup and Brian Zumwalt.
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