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George Tucker’s pickup truck didn’t fare too well Tuesday, when high winds toppled a tree
across the hood, smashing the front end.“He only had it for four months,” commented a local
bystander about the damage.
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11 Pages Wednesday, August 7, 1991
Medical Board to sign PMH contract
The Morrow County Medical
Board has authorized a board sub
committee to sign a contract with
Western Health Resources, Inc., for
management services for Pioneer
Memorial Hospital in Heppner as
soon as “contingency issues are
resolved,” according to PMH ad
ministrator Ernest Wick and Medical
Board chairman Jackie Bergstrom.
Bergstrom said that under the con
tract, expected to be in effect Sept.
1, Wick will become an employee of
Western Health Resources, Inc., a
Seventh Day Adventist hospital
management firm. She added that
the contract still needs some “fine
tuning’’ before it is signed.
“I see some major changes,” said
Bergstrom. “Part of the services will
be to install a computer system and
get the billing taken care of.” The
Princess Elizabeth has Irish
roots in Morrow County
Photo by Joyc« Huybos
Princess Elizabeth Doherty takes time out of her busy schedule
to practice barrel racing.
Rock High School this fall. She has
Horses and livestock are part of
everyday life for Morrow County
Fair and Rodeo Princess Elizabeth
Doherty, who has grown up on their
ranch in upper Buttercreek. The
daughter of John and Doris Doher
ty, 16-year-old Elizabeth is an ex
perienced ranch hand when it comes
to working with sheep and cattle.
From the northeastern tip of the
county, this Irish lass has the support
of the large Doherty clan and many
other relatives living in Morrow and
Umatilla counties. Her immediate
family
includes
an
older
sister, Michelle Doherty Packard and
her younger brother Joe, who is one
of this year’s pennant bearers.
However, anytime the Doherty’s
gather for an occasion, it usually is
high lighted with plenty of foot
stomping Irish music and singing.
With roots in both Morrow and
Umatilla Counties. Elizabeth has
been a pennant bearer for the
Pendleton Round-Up. Each year she
also takes an active role in the Hap
py Canyon Pageant As a member of
Pendleton’s Mustanger riding club,
she says she enjoys barrels, poles,
and goat tying. At Heppner this
year, she plans to enter the barrel
racing during the Morrow County
Amateur Rodeo on Friday.
Elizabeth will be a junior at Pilot
lettered in track and she placed 11th
in the state in gymnastics in 1989.
She is also a member of the Pep Cub
and the Letterman's Cub and she
finds time to be a varsity
cheerleader.
After college, her career goal is
aimed at working for an airline agen
cy as a ticketing agent. And perhaps
she has overseas travel in mind as
she says she hopes to improve on her
ability to speak German.
Princess Elizabeth is riding “Dun-
ny”, a quarterhorse gelding, as her
court mount. He's more reliable, she
says, than a younger horse that she
is training.
Although she won’t be showing
sheep this year as she has for the past
several years, she says she thinks
that being involved in livestock is a
great way for kids to learn dis
cipline and responsibility. They
should also be grateful to the
generous support of Saturday even
ings' auction sale buyers, she says.
As to her involvement on the court
this year. Princess Elizabeth says it’s
been very rewarding. The court
members have become good friends,
she says, and with the parents that
have traveled together this summer,
they have become like a family,
hospital has had problems with its
billing system in the past because of
an inadequate computer system.
Bergstrom stressed that PMH
“will not be an Adventist hospital.
It will be an Adventist affilliate,"
and is “very hopeful’’ about the pro
posed agreement.
The board sub-committee includes
Lori Pruitte, Irrigon, Jackie
Bergstrom and Ernest Wick.
High winds, dust and ice balls
belted Ione Tuesday, causing lots of
broken windows, a smashed pickup
truck and numerous downed and
uprooted trees.
“It’s the worst storm I’ve seen in
the 30 years I’ve been here,” one
Ione resident commented while
surveying a pickup belonging to
George Tucker that was hit across
the hood by a fallen tree.
The storm began around 4:30
p.m. witnesses say, when high winds
kicked up dust so thick "you
couldn’t see across the street.” The
dust was followed by more wind and
the dropping of ice balls up to the
size of softballs. The ice apparently
caused some damage to vehicles.
The storm lasted only about 20
minutes, but it managed to break
numerous windows around town, in
cluding many in the church, the
grange hall and people’s homes
Several power lines also were down
ed, and a representative of Colum
bia Basin Electric was on the scene.
In addition to the wind damage,
flooding also caused problems as
water rushed across the highway
west of town, piling up mud and
• • ¡>ving rocks and debris in the road
way.
There were also reports of
flooding on surrounding farms, with
one farmer reportedly escaping just
in time from a flash flooded gully.
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Kacy Childers, 9, stands on trunk of tree that was standing
in his front yard before big wind storm brought it down
Tuesday.
Princess Jodi’s love of animals prompts court involvement
Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
Princess Jodi Vandeventer, the
17-year-old daughter of Don and
Deb Vandeventer, has her sights set
on becoming a veterinarian. Jodi’s
short-term goal of becoming a
member of the court has been a very
positive experience, she says, stress
ing the fun of going places and
meeting new people.
“I’m excited about our own fair
and rodeo,” Princess Jodi says.
“It’s been so much fun representing
our county at parades and other func
tions. And it’s so neat when the kids
along the parade routes wave back
at you,” she says.
Although her family, including
her younger sister Jaimie, and her
younger brother Josh, live inside the
town of Boardman, Jodi is getting
plenty of hands-on experience
towards her career goal.
Along with her Polled Hereford
cow that produced twin calves this
year, Jodi also has a place to keep
her horse. She spends tme com
muting, however, she admits that her
horse can sometimes be seen in the
back yard of their in-town home.
Princess Jodi is an active member
of the Umatilla Sageriders and the
Umatilla Barrel Club, where she en
joys "chasing tin cans.” And though
her parents aren’t "horsey folks”
she says they give her lots of sup
port in pursuing her horse activities.
This outdoor girl also found time
this summer to help weed a two-acre
garden for Bill Sharkey, even when
the temperatures reached melting
degrees. But she most enjoys work
ing with animals. However, this year
she will not show her cow at fair as
she has in the past, because of her
court involvement and lack of time.
Princess Jodie will be a busy
senior at Riverside High School this
fall. She rates basketball as a favorite
sport and she hopes to maintain a
"steady" varsity basketball position.
She is also an active member of the
Riverside FFA chapter in which she
held the office of Sentinel last year.
She enjoys participation in both
livestock and soil judging that takes
members to different locations. Last
year she placed second high in
dividual in overall livestock judging
at the Umatilla County Fair.
Along with her enthusiastic par
ticipation in court duties. Princess
Jodi says she is looking forward to
watching Sunday morning’s log
bucking contest, that has grown to
a major event. With her love of fast
moving horses, she will probably be
found cheering for participants in
Thursday evening’s team branding
event.
Boardman man arrested
on rape charges
A Boardman man, James Ray
Steelman, 36, was arrested Monday,
July 29, on charges of attempted
rape I, sexual abuse, and assault IV.
Special Fair and
Rodeo supplement
The Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo gets underway next week,
and a special Fair and Rodeo section
is included in the week’s Heppner
Gazette-Times.
Inside you will Find a schedule of
fair events, and many fun and in
teresting things to do during fair and
rodeo.
According to Heppner Police
Chief Doug Rathbun, Steelman was
arrested around 9 p.m at 168 W.
Willow in Heppner. He was lodged
in Benton County Jail. Rathbun said
that grand jury concerning the
charges was held Tuesday, Aug. 6.
Photo by Joyce Hughes
One of Princess Jodi Vandeventer’s obligations being on
the court is handing out awards which she enjoys
Electric storm causes outages
A brief electrical outage Wednes
day. July 31, caused a major Hepp
ner City water pump to break. The
malfunction was first noticed Thurs
day evening by Dave Winters, direc
tor of public works, who discovered
that the water level in the reservoir
was down to around four feet, accor
ding to city administrator Gary
Marks. Marks said the reservoir
level is usually around 25 feet. Fri
day morning city officials announc
ed an emergency and asked Hepp
ner residents to begin water con
servation. such as refraining from
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Extensive damage occurred on the
shaft on the number 3 pump at
Willow Creek, just past the lake,
during a power flicker. Marks said
that a pump was located in Spokane
and by Monay morning the water
level was up and emergency over.
According to Columbia Basin
manager Fred Toombs, power
outages on Wednesday. July 31 and
Thursday morning Aug. 1 were
caused by “many lightening
strikes. Toombs said that “various
parts of the service area were out (of
power) up to four or five hours.
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