Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 22, 1992 - THREE
St. Pat’s committee meeting set
March 13, 14 and IS is just
around the comer and the city of
Heppner St. Patrick’s celebration
committee is hoping for many
more leprechauns this year dur
ing the “ Wee Bit O’lreland in
Heppner, Oregon” celebration.
All chairpersons of events and
activities should plan on attending
the committee meeting, Tuesday.
Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Colum
bia Basin Electric Coop con
ference room. It’s time to finalize
location and times for the
schedule of events, soon to be
printed. People and organizations
wishing to have concessions need
to contact Rene Devin at Hepp
ner City Hall.
New events this year will be the
Irish pageant on Saturday, “ Erin
Came to Morrow,” the “ Pot
O’Gold” button drawing, and the
Irish O ’G olfers g olf cart
challenge. There will also be a
mini-carnival for the youth. Auc
tion items are needed. Call Bob
Kahl or Steve Rhea for pick-up.
“ Think green and encourage
visitors to bring their RV’s,” say
co-chairpersons Claudia Hughes
and Diana Ball. “ This tenth an
niversary celebration should be
bigger and better than e*er.”
Cake decorating class offered
will start on February 3 and run
through March 9. It will be held
on Mondays from 7-10 p.m. The
cost of the class is $28. For more
information contact instructor
Maryan McElligott, 422-J567.
By Anne Morter
Openings are still available for
a basic cake decorating class at
lone High School. The six-week
class, offered through Blue
Mountain Community College
St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
Bulletin Board
Ruth Bergstrom was honored with a surprise birthday party while
she was on duty in the Senior Center office Monday afternoon Jan.
13. Around 30 friends stopped by to wish her well and share cake
and ice cream.
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 121 people were present for the senior din
ner. Four meals were taken out. Ernie McCabe won the meal ticket,
Yvonne Connor the door prize and Phylis Halstead of Mitchell won
the guest prize. Members of the Baptist Church served. A meal site
committee meeting was held following the dinner.
The men for January 29 will be scalloped potatoes with ham, tossed
salad, harvard beets, whole wheat bread, ice cream and cake. The
members of the Episcopal Church will serve.
Saturday evening Jan. 18, 16 people enjoyed the dance in Her-
miston. The bus will be going over to Hermiston again Monday, Feb.
3. The Old Time Fiddlers will be playing. Those wishing to sign
up should call Irene Schroeder, 676-9132.
The dollaride car is available to take seniors for appointments
around town, and also to Hermiston and Pendleton. Call Jane Rawlias,
676-9435 or the senior center office 676-9030.
Dates to remember; Jan. 27, 7 p.m. Housing authority; Jan. 28
10:30 a.m.-focus group; Morrow County Special Transportation com
mittee meeting, 11 a.m. The public is encouraged to attend; Mon
days, 1-4 p.m. quilting; Tues & Thurs. 10-10:30 a.m. exercise; Wed.
Senior dinner; Fri. 10:30 a.m.-Bible study.
Free income tax assistance for the elderly will be available on Feb.
5. Call the Neighborhood Center 676-5024 for appointment.
lone elementary classes
reading program winners
Between O ctober 7 and
November 15, first through sixth-
grade classrooms in Oregon and
Southwest Washington were
challenged to see who could log
the most time leisure reading in
the Blazer/AVIA Scholastic Im
provement Concepts (BASIC)
program 'Reading Fitness’ com
petition. More than 17,700
students participated, according
to Wally Scales, BASIC program
coordinator. Total leisure reading
hours logged exceeded 370,300
hours, an average of 20.9 hours
per student.
Three classes at lone Elemen
tary School were regional win
ners in the reading program. Six
teen students in Mrs. Colins third
grade participated, for a total of
159 hours and an average of 9.9
hours per student. Seventeen
fourth graders in Mrs Kincaids
class read 211 hours for an
average of 12.4 hour each. Thir
teen fifth graders in Mrs. Pointers
class read 233 hours for an
average of 17.9 per student.
The main objective was to help
encourage an increased interest in
reading. Students could read
whatever they liked. ‘We just
want them to get in the habit of
spending some of their leisure
time reading,’ says Scales, and
it’s apparent by the number of
hours logged that a lot of students
tuned to reading instead of TV .’
Participating schools were
divided into 35 regional groups.
Top regional classrooms were
selected at each grade level ba ,-
ed on the average number of
hours each student spent leisure
reading. Students could earn
bonus hours by visiting their
community library or complete-
ing a special reading assignment
from 'The Oregonian.’ Regional
winners were then matched
against one another to determine
the ‘overall’ winners at each
grade level. The top classrooms
each received a check for $500.
All participants receive a special
certificate of recognition.
ASCS to administer disaster program
The BASIC program was
created seven years ago to help
curb the high student drop out
rate. The ‘Reading Fitness’ com
petition is one of three segments
included in the program. Schools
also have the opportuntiy to
recognize students for academic
or behavioral achievem ent
through the four phase ‘improve
ment’ segment. An essay com
petition for grades one through 12
will kick off in January.
To date, more than 368,000
students have participated in one
or more segments of the BASIC
program .
AVIA A thletic
Footwear Company is a co
sponsor of the BASIC program
which is presented by Bank of
America in association with
Portland Council International
Reading Association, The Orego
nian, the Oregon Department of
Education and W ashington
Education Service District 112.
Gun club lists
winners
Twenty one trapshooters tested
their skills against the clay targets
last Sunday, Jan. 19, inspite of
the cold north wind.
Winning the 16 yard event
were Loren Woodside and Kel-
wayne Haguewood, both with
perfect scores of 25. A three-way
tie, Curtis C utsforth, Jeff
Cutsforth and Sherron Woodside
all made 23 out of 25 scores.
The gun club will open at 10
a.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, due to the
superbowl.
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The dull gray days of winter are here. And if you’re tired of grop
ing for the light switch, take heart, each day is one step closer to
spring, sunshine and warmer weather.
With today’s sophisticated types of illumination, flashlight batteries
often corrode rather than wear out from use. A recent Roger Pond
column brought to mind those earlier ranching days when people
gravitated towards a lamp, like moths dancing around a porch light.
Room lighting in by-gone days meant a Coleman lantern or a smok
ing lamp with a sooty chimney. There were no sensor lights that pop
on when the cat jumps up on the window ledge or the dog coughs.
And how we kept from setting a tinder-dry old house on fire still
amazes me.
It’s no wonder that today people have to be taught not to be careless
with matches. Back then, those scarlet-tipped wooden sticks were
highly regarded as salvation from darkness. Once they were used,
a pocket knife made those small sticks into workable toothpicks.
It’s too bad that someone in our family didn’t possess a stop watch
back then. I might have been credited with setting a world record
for short distance dashes. After dark that necessary trip to the old
two-holer out back led to lots of fast-tracking.
And that was just one struggle with the scary black of night. Without
television there was plenty of evening time story telling. Everyone
sat around our 50-gallon barrel stove swapping yams while men
ding clothes, braiding leather or patching harnesses.
Now 1 realize that those tales, particularly the ghost stories, were
aimed at getting the appropriate response from two bug-eyed girls.
So if the boogey man didn’t get us on that terrorizing trip into the
pitch black night it took a lot or courage to tackle the old, creaking
wooden stairs leading to upstairs bedrooms.
Even though we tried to pretend we weren’t cowardly, I remember
counting those 13 steps. With my heart pounding, sometimes a
prankster would be hiding in the dark hallway just waiting for a
scream.
Upon reaching the bedroom door it took two long strides and a
mighty leap to reach the safety of the bed. Since it was too dark to
check for monsters under the bed. I lulled myself to sleep preten
ding the covers meant safety. And it took raw courage to bare one’s
head to blow out the kerosene lamp.
Unlike today’s lightweight electric blankets, winter nights then
meant flannel sheets and enough heavy quilts to smother a dinosaur.
If zero weather air-conditioned the room, the old stove-heated flat
irons wrapped in towels kept toes from becoming icicles. But because
flannel sheets tend to pill, in the mornings one’s hair often looked
like it had been in a snowstorm.
Modernization of our ranch home began with a gas stove to sup
plement the old Monarch. It made summertime cooking more liveable.
But without firing up the wood stove, there was no hot running water.
Two gas lights were added in the kitchen and living room/dining area
so that the lantern could take a breather. But the addition of a gas
refrigerator that was installed was questionable, since we’d always
gotten by with a sawdust cellar and icebox.
The pristine claw-footed bathtub was fine in the summer, since
it was closeted in a very small unheated room. But cold winter days
meant that baths required filling the old washtub carried in by the
living room stove. Kids must have been skinnier then; they seemed
to fit in the washtub even when they got bigger. Maybe it was all
that outside running that kept them trim.
Before rural electrification the installation of a delco plant meant
we’d really come up in the world. However, each week the gas motor
chugged away for a day to recharge the batteries. But there was still
plenty of stomping to do on the old washing machine and the well
water gas engines.
Fortunately those were daylight activities. But lanterns still prevailed
for use after dark in the bams. However my philosophy still tended
to agree with that of any self-respecting chicken-evening-time darkness
meant it was time to stop clucking and head for the roost.
So for those souls with a pioneering spirit who long for “ the good
old days” . I’ll stick to modem appliances and the ability to flick on
a light as I head for the roost.
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Matthews said producers who
intend to file should begin to
assemble their records now, so
they will be ready when the pro
gram opens. He said that farmers
will receive a special mailing with
specific information on the pro
gram this month. “ If a producer
does not receive the disaster pro
gram information in the mail by
February 3, he or she should call
the county ASCS office.”
Matthew explained that a pro
ducer may not file on one crop on
a farm for one year and a dif
ferent crop on the same farm for
the other. “ However, the pro
ducer may request benefits for
1990 on one farm and for 1991
on another farm.”
The ASCS official said disaster
payments would be computed ac
cording to the 1990 Farm Bill,
and expects to begin issuing
payments to farmers by April 16.
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ment program may be obtained
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The Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service will ad
minister a crop disaster assistance
program to compensate eligible
producers for crop losses caused
by drought, flood, and other
natural disasters in either 1990 or
1991.
“ To be eligible, producers with
crop insurance must have had
losses greater than 35 percent, ”
said county ASCS official Skip
Matthews. “ Producers without
crop insurance must have had
losses greater than 40 percent.”
Program applications may be
filed from February 3 through
March 13.
The 1990-91 crop disaster pro
gram provides cash payments for
production losses on participating
program crops of wheat and feed
grains; non participating program
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sunflowers, sugar beets, sugar
cane and tobacco; and all com
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