Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 16, 1992 - THREE
St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
Bulletin Board
EMT members receive
continuing ed grants
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The Senior Transportation Budget Committee met before the Senior
dinner on Dec. 9, with the Senior Board meeting after dinner. One
hundred ten people were present for dinner with five meals taken
out. Members of the Mormon Church did the serving. Paul Warren
won the meal ticket and Ed Hunt won the door prize. Bill and Wjn-
nifred Cox are the host and hostess December. The high school band
entertained.
Ernie McCabe, Sharon Harrison and Travis and Kirsten Harrison
decorated the dining room for Christmas, Monday evening Dec,'7.
Their throughtfulness is much appreciated.
Ralph Walker brought a beautiful big pine tree for the Rec. room
Dec. 10. it has been decorated by tenants of the apartments, with
the help of Ray and Norma French.
The menu for December 23 is chicken rice casserole, green beans
and apple raisin salad, rolls and pudding. Members of the Seventh
Day Adventist and Nazarine Churches will serve.
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Two weeks ago a pair of prescription glasses were found at the
Center following the AAA meeting and Senior dinner. They are at
the desk in the office.
Dates to remember: Monday 10:30 a.m .-l 1:30 a.m. Bible study;
Tuesday and Thursday 10-10:30 a.m. exercise; Wednesday noon
Senior dinner.
Give the gift of life and donate blood Thursday, Dec. 17, from
1 to 6 p.m. at the Senior Center dining room.
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If that well-worn calendar slides into the waste basket with some
missed appointments this year, don’t worry. There’s a complete new
year ahead with plenty of time for mistakes and many days to ac
complish things not finished in 1992.
December is always a flurry with good intentions such as baked
goods that I hoped to have stored for the holidays. Ah shucks, my
good excuse is that people like me don’t need all those calories.
It’s difficult to determine priorities anymore, not only mine but
the good intentions of others. Heppner has met major funding
challenges this past year under good leadership. While the city sewer
system continues to be a happy ‘Hair puller’ the fire-happy volunteer
firemen enjoyed burning their happy home while assured of getting
a new roof over their heads.
A big buck item is a new swimming pool. Fond wishes are that
it could be a year-around facility. Body soakers like me would en
joy a heated spa boiling in one comer of that proposed complex.
School athletes could pamper bruised muscles, aquatics would lend
to year-around conditioning and maybe the road runners could ease
up on tired arches and acing bunions.
But the town fathers seem to think that highest priority is for school
sports costing about $80.000. Compared to the use of the pool, football
field lights are only used about six times a year for evening games.
It seems that the fair and rodeo ‘gave away the farm’ with field
lights only used one night per year. The present set-up will shove
the rodeo and stock pens farther into the back comer, although the
original plan said that the two north-side light poles would be set
at the edge of the grass area.
For lack of money, the rodeo people will probably have to drag
many panels to town once the livestock corrals are tom down. And
will older folks that are used to sitting in a covered grandstand go
ing to want to sit on bleachers in the sun or rain?
Traffic congestion during fair at the main gate has always been
a problem. Add to that the trucking-in and unloading of rodeo
livestock. Now it’s said that there can be no major road access to
the lower end of the grounds. How come the needs of the rodeo are
the last consideration when the grounds were deeded for the conti
nuance of a rodeo?
Volunteers had already laid out a master plan that was much like
the $25.000 spent on a professional analysis. Hovever those plans
do not include any improved fair livestock facilities. Perhaps that
need will be met when the wind brings to the ground the old pole-
constructed livestock buildings.
In terms of dollars per use, a larger indoor fairgrounds arena would
not only accommodate fair livestock needs, but it would provide a
year-around activity and income source.
Getting back to personal priorities, somehow the tangle of Christmas
lights isn’t high on that list. After getting cards addressed and mail
ed, I’m tempted to buy a few goodies and hang up my Christmas
stocking that seems to have developed a hole in the toe.
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The South Morrow County
EMT Association is making use
of training and continuing educa
tion grants they received from the
LaG rande based N ortheast
Oregon Health Education Center.
Nine area residents received
grants that paid for a portion of
their EMT ¿certification instruc
tion. They are all volunteers with
the South i M orrow EMT
Association.
Those receiving EMT I cer
tification were: Rachel Norton,
certified nurses aide. Pioneer
Memorial ( nufsing home; Kim
Borst, dispatcher. Morrow Co.
Sheriff s Office; Judith Durkee,
nurses aide; Pioneer Memorial
Hospital; Dawn Garrett, CNA,
Pioneer Memorial Hospital; John
Collin, mill worker, Kinzua
Corp.; Diane Grant, Pioneer
M emorial H ospital; Tick
M oulton,
C N A,
Pioneer
Memorial Hospital; Barbara
Judd, CNA, Basic life Support in
structor, Pioneer Memorial
Hospital; and Harvey Childers,
mechanic, lone.
The association also received a
$1,000 grant from NEOAHEC
that will be used for pediatric
emergency care training for EMT
providers from the Heppner,
Lexington, lone and Boardman
areas.
NEOAHEC is a private, non
profit organization that was form
ed in 1991 to attract new, and re
tain current health professionals
in Northeast Oregon, and to
educate the public on consumer
health issues. In its first year,
NEOAHEC’s board of directors
placed a priority on training and
recruitment of physicians, nurses
and EMT’s.
The EMT grant program was
developed in response to pro
blems that were identified by
NEOAHEC in interviews with
key emergency medical service
contacts in the region.
The interviews revealed that
the primary barriers to obtaining
EMTs in rural areas included ex
pense and time commitment for
training, and a lack of qualified
instructors, training equipment
and educational materials. Once
trained, EMTs experience
frustration with maintaining their
skills and meeting recertification
training requirements.
Other facets of NEOAHEC’s
efforts to assist EMTs include ob
taining grants for the purchase of
training equipment and financial
support for volunteer EMTs who
participate in instructor develop
ment courses proveded by
Oregon State Health Division’s
Emergency Medical Section.
NEOAHEC, whose offices are
located at Eastern Oregon State
College, works in partnership
with Oregon Health Sciences
University to provide education
and training through residencies
and continuing education pro
grams in Baker, Gilliam, Grant.
Malheur, Morrow, Umatilla,
Union, Wallowa and Wheeler
counties. The AHEC program,
which will eventually cover each
region of the state, has been a
university priority since Dr. Peter
Kohler became OHSU’s presi
dent in 1988.
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