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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 20, 1993 BMCC Knitting Jonas Healy wins geography bee Heppner High School Drama club to present ‘18 Nervous Gumshoes’ Cast members for the play ‘18 Nervous Gumshoes’ “ 18 Nervous Gumshoes” w ill be performed by the Heppner High School Drama Club on Jan. 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school cafetorium. The play, written by Tim Kel ly, is about the story of a “ Crook ed House” , a seedy hotel where the guests pay outrageous rent for shoddy service. Actually, what they're playing is blackmail. Ar riving on the scene is that famous Hoboken detective Hercules Por ridge. He’s inept but funny. A corpse is discovered in the sitting room and a beautiful secretary is done in by deadly orchid juice. The guest list includes a mystery writer Anguish Crispie. an eccen tric young man who dresses like a jungle explorer and a strange actress who always dresses in black. Colonel Chutney, a crazy neighbor, thinks the year is 1880 and he's in India. Jeeves, the butler, has a wandering mind. Thrills and chills collide with sidesplitting laughter as the case is surprisingly solved by Detec tive Porridge. The actors for “ 18 Nervous Gumshoes" are: Missy Wallace. Aleida G oodyear. Laurel Webber-Gray, Monaca Hall, Jeanine M ichael, Alissa Brownfield. Danie Sunday, class scheduled A Blue Mountain Community College knitting class taught by Sandra Van Liew will begin January 25 at the St. Patrick Senior Center. Classes will be held Monday nights from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Students will receive instruc tion for the project of their choice for beginners through experienc ed knitters. Those attending should bring needles, yarn and a pattern. For more information contact Van Liew at 676-5050. Photo by Joyce Hughes Chrisy Schultz, Candice Mar shall, Patty Anderson, Kathy Anderson. Dani Hill, Dan Beck, Joe Lindsay, Jeremy Clark, Ryan Heath, Ryan Munkers, Kevin Scott. Tony Beckett and Shelly Huth. The backstage crew con sists of Shawn Cutsforth and Bryce Tucker. Student directors are Sherry Bingham and Jeremy Maddem. Nancy Swarat is the drama club advisor. Refreshments will be provided by the National Honor Society. Admission is $1 for students and $2 for adults. Chamber installs new officers Slides shown at Garden Club Janet Lacy presented a slide program to the Heppner Garden Club recently. Lacey was in the Peace Corps in the Philippines from 1988 to 1989. She spoke about the different kinds of fruits and vegetables raised in the Philippines. She also told the group that the Philippines culture is much dif ferent than ours and they have quite a misconception of our culture. Daisy Collins and Mary Goheen were the hostesses for the evening. The next meeting will be Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and will feature a video on rose culture. Bishop Kimsey to visit All Saints The Rt. Rev Rustin Kimsey, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon will make his annual visitation to All Saints Episcopal Church in Heppner on Sunday, Jan. 24. Bishop Kimsey will celebrate Holy Communion at the 10:30 a.m. worship service. A potluck dinner in the parish hall will follow. Everyone is invited to attend. George Koffler (r) recently installed new officers for the Heppner Chamber of Com merce. 1993 officers are (from left) Steve Dickenson, first vice president; Delanne Ferguson; Rollie Marshall, president and Sharon Harrison, secretary. Outgoing chamber president LoRayne Bowman presents John Edmundson with the chamber ‘Hats O ff award for 1992. John has volunteered many hours of time and labor for the chamber during the past year including spending hours in the rain putting up the Christmas tree and lights. Henderson hired Photo by Joyce Hughes Delta D Cindee Henderson, Hermiston, former Heppner resident, has been hired as the Morrow Coun ty accountant. She will begin March 1. Henderson held the county ac countant position four years ago. Since then she has been employed as an auditor for SAIF and as com ptroller for Campbell Motors. She and her husband Kim. have two sons. Justin and Steven. Jonas Healy and Brian Koffler Jonas Healy, a seventh grader at Heppner Middle School, mov ed one step closer to winning a $25,000 scholarship when he won the school-level Geography Bee January' 12. Brian Koffler, eighth grade, was runner-up. The school-level bee, at which students answered oral and writ ten questions on geography, was the first round in the fifth annual National Geography Bee, which is sponsored by National Geographic “ World," the Socie ty’s magazine for children, and Amtrak. A written qualify ing test was given before Christmas to most students in grades four through eight. Thirteen students were selected for the local Bee: Craig Scott, fourth grade; Ben Goodyear and Eric Rollis, fifth; Phillip Traylor, sixth; Adam Doherty, Jonas Healy and Deana Hendricks, seventh; and Shannon Benjamin, Josh Coiner, Brent G underson, Brian K offler, Amber Rollis, and Eric Skroch, eighth grade. Surviving the preliminary round of five questions with the highest scores were Benjamin, Goodyear, Gunderson, Healy, Koffler, Scott, and Skroch. Healy and Koffler remained after the double elimination round and were asked to write answers to the same five questions. Healy won, four - two. He will take a written test to qualify for the state Bee April 2. The 100 top scores in the state will be invited. The National Geographic Society, with its co-sponsors, will provide an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., for state champions and their teacher escorts to participate in the Na tional Geography Bee on May 25 and 26. The first-place winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship; the second-place winner, a $15,000 scholarship; and the third-place winner, a $10,000 scholarship. Alex Trebek, host of “ Jeopardy," will moderate the national finals, which will air as a prime-time special on the Public Broad casting Service at 8 p.m. May 26. For winning the local Bee, Healy received the National Geographic Geography game. Koffler received an inflatable globe. A1 Beck, seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher, asked questions and judged answers; Linda Shaw, TAG coordinator, tabulated results. Woodside first in trapshoot Loren Woodside took first with a perfect 25 in the singles event at the trapshoot held last Sunday at the Morrow County Gun Club. Curt Day was second with a 24. Jay Coil shot 23 of 25 for first place in the handicap event wit Stacey Lovgren and Harve Childers sharing second with 21 The next shoot will be Januar 24 starting at noon. . Frosty the snow volcano Cameron Sweeney, 14, Hepp ner, used mounds of white stuff to build something a little more creative than the usual snowman. Cameron’s snow sculpture of a volcano features an explosion of icicles out of the top of the volcano and ketchup “ lava” run ning down the sides. He said that sculpture took around two hours to make. The weather has seen little change the past several weeks, and more than a foot of snow has fallen since Dec. 28, according to the city of Heppner weather statistics. Area schoolchildren have miss ed two days of school and school was delayed two additional days because of snow and slick roads. Temperatures are seeing a war ming trend this week, after highs in the teens and 20’s and lows hovering around two to four degrees January 5 through 11. Cameron Sweeney with his snow volcano LfCnuint St. Pat’s pageant meeting scheduled There will be a meeting for anyone wishing to have a part in the St. Patrick’s pageant, “ Erin Came to County M orrow", on Sunday. Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. at the St. Patrick Senior Center. The skit, showing the family life on the county sheep ranches, has some openings for children aged five through 12 and for talent, musical, vocal, dancing and others, to be shown in the “ Hooley” portion of the skit. For more information call 676-9435. B LA C K H ILLS G O LD JE W E LR Y Heppner Elks #358 Members and Guests Your Source For Delta Boxes Got A New Cook! Dinners Friday and Saturday oday for your storage needs. 6 to 9 p.m. Dance Lessons Start Wed. Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. M o r ro w C o u n t y G r a in G r o w e rs Phon« JW I2 2 I l 800 45? 7396 LEXINGTON OREGON 97839 PO Boi 367 Member Jewelers of America. Inc Heppner Elks 358 676-9181 err Fnends Meet N. Main Peterson's Heppner Jewelers
