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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 .
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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
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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
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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
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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.