TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 2, 1992
Hope, Valby to recognize vocations
Researcher seeks flood info, finds relatives
tion” , has turned out to be pro
phetic, foreshadowing the fall of
the USSR. The game came out in
November 1991, the week the
first real auction was held in
Moscow. The object of the board
gam e, which features a
geographically correct layout of
Moscow, is to privatize owner
ship of property by auctioning off
the city piece by piece, and
beating the KGB to the commis
sion. Porter has been to the Soviet
Union twice, once in 1990 with
a group of students and again in
June. Porter has incorporated the
name of his 12-year-old son,
Izach, into the game, but players
must look very carefully to find
it.
Porter says that the game is as
popular with junior high school
and college students as it is with
high school kids. The game was
selected as one of the top
geography games of the National
Geographic Alliance this year,
was featured in the May ‘92 edi
tion of Auction World and will be
featured in Kiplinger’s Personal
Finance as a financial game.
Plans are to market the game
under the name
“ Absolut.”
Already involved in marketing
the game. Porter and his wife.
Jovana, attended a toy and game
show in Las Vegas Aug. 16-21.
They traveled by car from
Pennsylvania to Las Vegas and
then to Sacramento where his
wife flew back home. He con
tinued on to Heppner via
Prineville and Spray.
The game may be purchased
for $28.50 plus $3 shipping by
direct mail: Planet-3 Games,
P.O. Box 773, Smethport, PA
16749.
Ross Porter and Cork Norene,
Russ Porter of Smethport.
Pennsylvania, population around
1,800, came to Heppner looking
for information about the 1903
Heppner flood. He found the in
formation all right, but he also
found something else.
Porter, a 20-year teaching
veteran who is on sabbatical, ar
rived in Heppner Aug. 27,
“ strictly to do research.” He
called his parents, who told him
that he had relatives here. “ In
Oregon?” he asked. “ No, in
Heppner,” they replied. It turn
ed out that Porter’s father and Jim
Norene, local veterinarian, are
cousins. Porter then contacted the
Norenes, who persuaded him in
to staying an extra night and ar
ranged for a mini-reunion with
Jim and his wife. Cork, and their
daughter and family Tracie and
Mike Bunch and daughter Audra.
A high school teacher with a
bachelor of arts degree in political
science and history. Porter is
researching floods all over the
world. Besides Heppner, he plans
to research a flood in the San
Fran Quito Canyon, CA. in 1928;
the Teton River dam collapse in
1976; a Massachesetts dam col
lapse in 1876; a South Dakota
flood in 1963; a Kentucky flood
around 1968; the Johnstown PA
flood in 1889; an Autin, PA dam
collapse in 1911; two floods in
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England; a flood in the south of
France and one on the west coast
of Spain. Porter said that the
Johnstown flood, attibuted to An
drew Carnegie, was the result of
a dam, which was created to
enclose fish for a hunting and
fishing club. That flood left 2,200
dead. Porter said.
Porter says that all of the floods
have several things in common.
In every town so far, he says, an
attempt was made to notify peo
ple down stream from the floods
In most of the dam bursts, the
people were assured by the Ar
my Corps of Engineers, that the
dams were safe. However, he
added, in most cases, the dams
were not built to bedrock and
were eroded from underneath.
He said that a dam near his
home is very similar in structure
to the one now in Heppner, but
the Smethport area dam has 126
miles of shoreline, compared to
only around two in Heppner. At
this point, Porter is not sure of the
outcome of his research, but says
he may write a magazine article.
Something of an entrepreneur.
Porter is also an auctioneer, and
has devised an auction game
about the former Soviet Union.
Designed as a way to help his
high school students learn
geography. Porter’s game, cur
rently called “ Moscow, Auc-
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Cherry W eb ber has
kindergarten kids.
Morrow County students went
back to school on Monday,
August 31. Total Morrow County
School enrollment is up by 85
students, from 1,897 last year to
1,982 this year, mostly due to in
creases in enrollment in North
Morrow Schools according to
figures released by the Morrow
County School District.
Heppner Elementary registra
tion on the first day of school was
337, down 12 from 349 last year;
Heppner High School registration
was 155, up two from 153 last
year; lone registration is 183 up
nine from last year’s 174; Sam
Boardman Elementary at 362, is
up 28 students from last year’s
334; A.C. Houghton Elementary
is at 375, up 21 from last year’s
354; Colubia Junior High is at
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New Movies Now In:
Rush
Bugsy
My Girl
Prince of Tides
Wayne’s World
Wild Orchid 2
Medicine Man
Buffalo Jump
Fern Gully
Fried Green
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Kates Pizza
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Rent a movie tonight!
A Garden Club meeting has
been scheduled for Monday,
Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Senior
Center.
Sign up deadline for the Sept.
22 bus trip to the Oregon Trail In
terpretive Center in Baker is Sept.
16. There is room for 18 people
on the bus. Call Pat Brindle
676-9684 or Bebe Munkers
676-9677 to sign up.
We Will Be
Closed Labor Day
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which was reflected to give the sky its blue
color. It is also the symbol of truth and
constancy.
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and Riverside High School is at
365, up 19 from last year’s 346.
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Garden Club
meeting Sept. 7
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By A nne M orter
The September 26 registration
deadline for the District 7 “ Make
It Yourself With Wool” contest
is approaching fast reminds
district director, Maureen Krebs.
The contest will be held on Oc
tober 10 in lone. Contestants
must have their completed
registration forms returned to
Krebs no later than the September
26 deadline.
The District 7 contest is open
to residents of Gilliam, Morrow,
Umatilla, Wasco, Sherman and
Hood River Counties. Con
testants may enter in one of the
following categories: Pre-teen ( 12
& under), Junior (13-16), Senior
(17-24), and Adult (over 24)).
The category is determined by the
contestant’s age on December 31,
1992. Winners in the junior and
senior divisions will advance to
state-level competition.
Garments are judged initially
on the entrant with appropriate
accessories. Judges look for cur
rent fashion, appropriateness of
fabric and style to the entrant, fit,
poise and presentation, and con
struction. After m odeling,
garments will be judged on inner
construction and durability.
Entry forms are available from
local county extension agents,
many local fabric stores or from
Maureen Krebs, Cecil Star
Route, lone, OR 97843. Addi
tional contest details may be ob
tained from Krebs at 422-7548.
ship. Worshipers are encouraged
to wear the clothes of their voca
tion. Pastor Stan Hoobing will
preach on the theme ot ‘ ‘O Lord,
Why Did You Do This To Me?”
based on the assigned lesson from
the letter to the Hebrews 12:
. 1-13.
Service of Holy Communion at
Valby Lutheran church will be at
9 a.m. Valby is located on the
Ione-Gooseberry Road. Service
of Holy Communion at Hope,
located near Willow Creek Dam,
will be at 11 a.m.
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Wool contest
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School enrollment
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
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GRIEB
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Sunday, Sept. 6, the congrega
tions of Hope and Valby Lutheran
Church will recognize the various
chosen vocations of the member-
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