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11 •» TEN - Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. December 2, 1992 Lighting contest set Dec. 17-20 Contest winners announced Dick Sargent, hardware and farm supply store manager for Morrow County Grain Growers, draws this weeks winning tickets. The first week’s winners of the Heppner Merchants’ Christmas Punch Card contest have been an nounced. Winners are LoRayne Bowman-Green Feed; Dan Calvert-Country Rose; Kim Borst-Morrow County Grain G row ers; Robert Perry- Peterson's Jewelers; Marvin W ay-M urray’s D urg; and Florene Robinson-Pettyjohn's Farm and Builder’s Supply. Each won a $25 gift certificate. Everyone who enters the con ■ test is eligible for the Dec. 22 grand prize drawing of $550 in gift certificates from local merchants. Participating stores are Green Feed and Seed. Country Rose. Morrow County Grain Growers. Peterson s Jewelers, Murray’s Drug, the Shoe Box. Gardner’s Men’s Wear. Central Market, Coast to Coast. Les Schwab and Pettyjohn’s Farm and Builders Supply. The perfect gift for the man in your life. Once he puts his feet into Pecos boots, he’ll rave about the wonderful feeling of comfort and support. We have just been notified that the RED WINGS are going up December 14. To help you out we're putting them on sale, for one day only. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. ALL RED WINGS will be 20% off. A good Christmas present for anyone. Limited to stock on hand & excluding Lay-a-way REMEMBER OUR CHRISTMAS PUNCH CARDS drawing every week! G I F T C E R T I F IC A T E S A V A IL A B L E . SHOE BO! 676-5241 p . M3 I. Main Heppner, OH Heppner Chamber of Com merce will be sponsoring the Christmas lighting contest. Judg ing will occur December 17 through 20 during the evening hours. Three outdoor awards and two indoor gift certificates for use at chamber-member business will be presented to the winners. Special recognition will include the most festive business lighting display. The indoor awards will be judged as viewed from outside homes. Columbia Basin, the city of Heppner, and Chamber lighting chairman Bill Kuhn were in strumental in seeing that Main Street decorations were in place this year. The intersection light bulbs need to be replaced annual ly and a decision to replace those decorations has been put on hold until the completion of the Main Street refurbishment project. The Christmas tree will be erected soon. In future years, citizens who wish to donate a tree from their yard are asked to call the Chamber office. Buy a brick for a gift and support pool People for the Pool, a group formed to raise funds to build a swimming pool in Heppner, is encouraging the community to “ do the brick stroke” . The group is selling inscribed bricks as a fund raiser. The bricks will be installed at the new pool when it is built. A brick with a one-line inscription is $30 and a brick with a two-line inscription is $45. A star or a heart may be added for $10 more. “ Bricks make great gifts for birthdays, holidays, engagem ents and graduation and make lasting m em orials,” said a group spokesperson. Order forms will be available at local merchants in Heppner and Lexington and at Artifactory this Saturday, Dec. 5. Visa and Mastercard payments will be accepted. For more information or to place an order by phone call 676-5024, 676-9827, 676-9252 or 676-9822 or 676-9422 (Green Feed). The pool was shut down after the summer of 1991 because of structural problems. Facing Ballot Measure 5 cuts, the city eliminated funds for operation of the pool from its budget. The third grade class of Hepp ner Elementary' first stepped for ward with a bake sale to raise funds to build a pool. This in spired a group of citizens to form a fund raising booster club. Peo ple for the Pool. People for the Pool is coordinating fund raising monetary donations, pledges and donations of services, supplies and land. The group has applied for non-profit organization status. jj0me care As America focuses attention on ways to harness the spiraling cost of health care, the option of home health care is destined to play a key role. During Home Care W eek, proclaim ed November 29 through December 5, Pioneer Memorial Home Health will pay tribute to an “ old” solution that is well on its way to being the wave of the future. Personalized care, family in volvement, improved quality of life as well as the reduction in the risk of infection are a few of the issues that providers point out when recommending home care services. Not many medical pro fessionals will dispute the therapeutic value of recovering from surgery or a medical con dition while living in one’s own home. For all the lifesaving values people find in hospitals, the at mosphere in many facilities is not conducive to the recovery pro cess. Some people respond bet ter to peace and quiet, with care given mainly by loved ones who may have been principal caregivers prior to the patient’s hospitalization, said a press release from the Home Health of fice in Heppner. Perhaps all that is needed is a little intermittent help in the home from those with medical training; just enough to supplement the care given by close relatives liv ing at home with the patient. Some caregivers simply need a little instruction in how to assist To Get You Through! KINZ-i 'INE Photo by Joyce Hughes Earl Garrett (I) stud mill supervisor and Paul Sumner (r), per sonnel supervisor present Jack Ball with retirement gift. In August of 1952 Jack Ball went to Kinzua looking for a steady job. “ I think it found it,” commented Ball, who retired Nov. 30, after 40 years with the company. Ball started on the bull gang maintenance crew at Kinzua Pine, which was owned by the Col eman family at the town of Kin zua. Ball is the last of the Col eman employees who moved to Heppner from Kinzua. After a short stint on the bull gang. Ball worked on the green chain. He piled and pulled green lumber for over 26 years. In the ‘60’s he says the company was automated with the Moore thchmns 1 4 0 M o n th I 3495 the patient’s recovery. And if there is a condition in recovery which requires profes sional medical personnel to ad minister prescribed medicine or procedures, a simple solution is to send a registered nurse to the patient’s home. Does all of this sound like it is a thing of the past? Not so. It’s called home health care, and it’s right here in Eastern Oregon. In fact, home health care has been working quietly in the counties of Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler for over 15 years. Now known as Pioneer Memorial Home Health, it includes a staff of 16, most of whom work part time. The pro gram is administered by Molly Rhea, program director and registered nurse. Now becoming a more com mon method of recovery, home health care is essentially an ex tension of the patient’s physician into the home. It isn’t just for the very frail, the terminally ill, the home bound or the handicapped. Home health care is for everyone who has the desire and need to go through the recovery process at home and who has conditions which require care beyond the abilities of themselves or their family. Pioneer M emorial Home Health averages about 300 visits each month to patients under the supervision of their physicians, throughout Morrow, Gilliam and northern Wheeler counties. In cluded in its services is care from a registered nurse, physical Steady job turns into 40-years EVERYTHING i—BATTERIES a health care option lumber stacker. The stacker took the place of nine men piling lumber by hand. He says that the stacker was one of the “ biggest improvements’’ the lumber in dustry has seen. After coming to Heppner Ball worked at the veneer plant for a short while until he moved to the planer where he worked until the company opened the stud mill. He has driven a hyster for the last six years. Ball says he is very ap preciative of Kinzua and has writ ten them a letter, thanking them for his employment. Ball says that he looks forward to doing “ whatever turns my fan cy” during his retirement and plans to do a little traveling with Margie, his wife of 41 years. The Balls have three sons, Michael, who works at Clear Pine Moiding at Prineville, Dennis, who works on a ranch at Clamo. and Steven, who falls lumber for VanArsdale in Heppner. therapist and home health aide. But home health care does not always follow hospitalizaiton. In some cases it can be used as a preventive to hospitalization. “ People need to be aware of the availability of home health care even before they need it,” Rhea said, “ so that they know their health care options." To be eligible for home health care, the care must meet the qualification of the particular in surance company or Medicare which is covering the health care of the patient. “ We sometimes go out to the home to teach family members to be self sufficient in administering therapy to the pa tient,” said Rhea. And the good news is that the intermittent visits of home health care are covered 100 percent by Medicare. The majority of services are provided by a registered nurse, according to Rhea, and include cardiopulmonary assessment, wound care, blood drawing, determination of oxygen content in blood, management of incon- tinency, management of diabetes, pain management and intravenous therapy. Also offered is rehabilitation therapy which helps patients increase range of motion and strength, improve walking and reduce pain. Use of home health care by local patients is increasing, Rhea said, because more physicians are becoming aware of its value. But many more people should be receiving its services. For more information, contact Molly Rhea at Pioneer Memorial Home Health, 676-9133. Bake sale to help pool People for the Pool will have a bake sale at the Artifactory on December 5. Baked goods are needed and may be left at the Neighborhood Center Friday or brought to the Artifactory at the Morrow Coun ty Fairgrounds between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. A Montana Silversmith jewelry set donated by Green Feed and Seed is being raffled at $1 per chance and will be on display at the Artifactory. For more infor m ation call 676-9422 o r 676-9795. New signs placed at grade school People passing by Heppner Elementary School may have noticed some new biue and white signs proclaiming the school an Alcohol and Drug Free Zone” . The 18” x 24” signs purchas ed by a grant from the state Oregon Together organization, were installed by the local Oregon Together group. In addition to the signs the local chapter of Oregon Together spon sored a drug and alcohol free dance Sept. 27 at the Elks and plans another dance in January with Dan Bums’ 3-D Produc tions. Other activities include Heppner Elementary School’s Red Ribbon Week in October. Old fireball burning scheduled From: 350 Cranking Amps 15 0 M o n th ! [ x h d ] 3 5 6 4 5 0 Cranking Amps fê O M o n th l 5995 The new firehall will look similar to this building. ★ FREE ★ 5 5 6 6 5 0 Cranking Amps 4 5 6 5 8 5 Cranking Amps FR E E INSTALLATION $5.M If M I Heppner 676-9481 CHAIN RETURN POLICY Ask us about it! G el Your Card Punched Here!! The Heppner Fire Department will bum down a portion of the firehall Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6 in preparation for construction of an addition to the hall. The department will bum only the older portion of the building, the former Assembly of God Church, which is located on the comer of Gale and Willow Streets The current hays will re main standing. In addition to the Heppner Fii Departm ent, the lone Fir Department and possibly other will be on hand for the bumin; which is scheduled to start bet ween 8 and 9 a.m. according t< city administrator Gary Marks Construction on the nev firehall is expected to start th first of the year. The addition wil house two bays, a meeting room office, restrooms and showers.
