Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 17, 1993 - FIVE
Country Club wins Leprechaun’s Choice
The Willow Creek Country
Club ran away with the
Leprechaun’s Choice award in
the annual St. Patrick’s Day
Parade in Heppner on Saturday,
March 13. They won a $25 prize.
First place in the Irish group
category went to the leprechauns
from the St. Patrick’s pageant,
“ Erin Came to County
Morrow” .
Dusty Rhodes was the Irish in
dividual character entry winner.
The antique auto pre-1945 en
try winner was the Pendleton
Shrine Club. Second in that
category was Darrell Vinson. The
post-1945 first place award went
to Craig Thompson. Second place
was Kent Bowers.
The Camp Fire boys and girls
won first place in the float
category. Second place went to
the Hardman Community Center.
The Dessert Shrine Club, Her-
miston, won first place in the cars
category. The U.S. Forest Ser
vice entry was second.
Kayla Sweeney and Chelsey
Hedman were first in the bike
category and Sandra Van
Liew/Windy Acres was first in
the animal division.
Howard Gilliam took first
place in the golf cart entries and
Raymond Reid was second.
The teams and wagons division
was won by Joe Yocom, Morrow
County Oregon Trail Committee.
First place winners took home
a $15 prize and second place
finishers received $10 each.
Clockwise-Jeff, Angela, Jon and Marcia DeBo
Sandra Van Liew brings her ‘‘Windy Acres” down the street
during the parade
Jon DeBo of Grants Pass has
been hired as the new manager at
the Heppner Les Schwab store.
He replaces Chuck Short who
took a management position with
Les Schwab at Enterprise.
DeBo, who was born and rais
ed in Grants Pass, has worked for
Les Schwab for 10 years, most
recently as assistant manager
there.
Jon and his wife, Marcia, have
two children, Angela, 14, who
will be a freshman at Heppner
High School and Jeff, nine who
will be a fourth grader at Hepp
ner Elementary. Marcia was bom
in Montana and raised at Rogue
River.
“ The short time I have been in
Heppner I have found to be a real
pleasure,” commented Jon. “ The
people are so friendly and accep
ting. Please feel free to stop by
and say hello. I am here to serve
you the best I can. My family and
I are excited to be here,” he
added.
Film shown to lone Garden Club
Leprechauns choice award, Willow Creek Country Club
and effort needed for garden
work.
Some plants she recommended
for turf areas were fescues or
ground covers; for shrubs,
barberry, sumac, firethorn and
yucca. Trees recommended were
Russian olive and honey locust.
Among flowers mentioned were
alyssum, black-eyed Susan, cor
eopsis, shasta daisy, delphinium,
sedums, yarrow and native
wildflowers.
Pastor Stan Hoobing explain
ed the South Morrow Scholarship
Fund and the group voted that
$250 be used toward a match of
$2,000 now available to the fund.
Nella Britt was welcomed as a
new member. Plans were made
for shamrocks to decorate Main
Street planters for St. Patrick's
weekend.
Hostesses for the potluck
meeting were Cathy Dowrey and
Ida Farra.
The April 5 meeting will study
“ The World of Creativity” , a
study of creative floral designs.
Women’s Aglow interest asked
Women interested in starting a
Women's Aglow Fellowship, a
C hristian w om en’s group,
By Claudia Hughes. Chamber Manager
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Xeriscaping topic of meeting
“ Xeriscaping not only con
serves water but also saves much
time and energy used in caring
for our yards and gardens,” Eva
Lou Greiner told Heppner
Garden Club members at their
March 1 meeting at the St.
Patrick’s Senior Center.
Greiner, director of District 10
of the Oregon State Federation of
Garden Clubs, presented the ma
jor principles of xeriscaping,
which is landscaping to conserve
water. When planning landscapes
or refrofitting them, Greiner
recommended
adding
soil amendments to achieve
greater water-holding capacity of
the soil, choosing plants that are
relatively drought-resistant,
limiting turf areas, mulching to
retain water, and using irrigation
practices that apply water directly
to the roots of plants, such as drip
systems to replace sprinklers.
These practices can reduce water
consumption by up to 80 percent
and significantly reduce the time
New manager for Les Schwab hired Chamber Chatter
meeting in the Heppner area
should contact Valerie Goodwin
collect, 987-2713 at Dayville.
W E’VE GOT
THE DEALS
IN STOCK & READY FOR
DELIVERY
3-1993 Chevrolet S10 Blazers
4/Dr. 4X 4’s
$1000 Factory Rebate
1-1993 Chevrolet K20 4X4
8600 G V W 6.5 Turbo Diesel,
5 speed, AIR
wins O’Ducky race
Marilyn Gardner, Hermiston,
won first place and $100 in the
St. Patrick’s O’Ducky Race held
Saturday during the St. Patrick’s
weekend. Gardner’s plastic duck
was the first to cross the finish
line on Willow Creek.
Second place was Gene Or-
wick, Lexington, who won $75
and third went to Sonya Lawson,
Heppner, who won $50.
O’Ducky T-shirts went to
fourth through eighth place
finishers: Travis Mosley, Steve
Ball, Mahaley Huddleston, Arlet
Campbell and Kristina Sweeney.
Fire does extensive damage
A fire that broke out at the
home of Fred and Nadine
Toombs, 162 Rock Street in
Heppner, did “ extensive smoke
and heat damage,” according to
a Heppner volunteer Fire Depart
ment spokesperson.
The fire, which started from a
woodstove around 10 a.m. Sun
day, March 14, resulted in
damage to the contents of the
home and some damage to the
walls.
Seventeen firemen with three
pumpers responded to the scene.
According to the spokesperson,
the fire was under control within
20 minutes, with another hour
and a half mop up.
Elementary School children in
kindergarten through fifth grade
entered 79 posters in the en
vironmental contest with 18
receiving awards. The winners
entries were sent on to the district
contest.
Discussion was held on the
need to clean up lone before the
summer events. The members
agreed to help redo the planters
on Main Street with more plan
ting soil and plants if the
businesses would maintain them.
It was the consensus of the group
that a clean-up day should be held
soon.
Other dates in the future are the
plant sale on April 27 at the
Legion Hall and helping with
preparation of the dinner for the
Cycle Oregon group Sept. 14.
Joyce Buchanan served a bir
thday cake for Birdine Tullis to
the members and their guest,
Beulah Dunham of Brightwood,
sister of Pat Pettyjohn.
New At M.C.G.G.
Engine Machine Shop
Myrtle McMillan wins leprechaun
Myrtle McMillan of Lexington
was the winner of the 3 foot tall
wooden leprechaun raffled by
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High game: Harry Hartley 196 and Alvina
Padberg 173.
High series: Harry Hartley 510 and Alvina
Padberg 488.
High team game: 0 8, 750.
High team series: 0 8. 2088.
Splits converted: Gerald Hoeft 5-7; Moni-
que Devin 5-tt); John Breidenhach 3-10; Alvina
Padberg 5-6 and 3-10; Nicki Hartley 3-K>. Ray
Bank.i 5-7.
People for the Pool.
The leprechaun was crafted and
donated by Marty Mitchell.
People for the Pool now has
“ Support Our Pool” T-shirts for
sale at Sears in Heppner. The T-
shirts are available in adult and
childrens’ sizes.
Marriage Licenses
The Clerk’s office at the cour
thouse in Heppner reports issu
ing the following marriage
licenses during the past week:
March 15: Stephen Jay
Brownfield. 45, Heppner; and
Luanne Marie Marshall, 38.
Hermiston.
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Marilyn Gardner
A film “ Perennial Gardens”
by Kelley G. Heublein was
presented at the lone Garden Club
meeting on March 10 at the home
of Joyce Buchanan.
A complete overview of fleshy
stem perennials (flowers that
return every year) was shown.
The material included planning
garden design, soils, watering
and fertilizing, planning fot con
tinuous color, buying plants and
pests and diseases.
During the business meeting
Jean Nelson and Helen Martin
reported on the spring District
#10 board meeting held at Her
miston Feb. 26. They said that
the spring meeting of the district
will be in Milton-Freewater April
8. The Pacific Regional meeting
will be in Bend. April 15-17. A
bus will take anyone wishing to
go-
Pat Pettyjohn, junior contest
chairman, reported that lone
Heppner has many exhausted
"leprechauns” this week. Many,
many thanks to one and all. For
you, I share “ The Legend of the
L eprechaun”
from
Irish
Blessings:
If you should be walking along
a wooded path some moonlit
night in spring and hear the faint
tap-tapping of a tiny hammer, you
might be lucky enough to catch
a glimpse of an Irish leprechaun,
the elfin shoemaker, whose
roguish tricks are the delight of
Irish story-telling.
According to legend, the
leprechaun has a pot of gold hid
den somewhere, and he must give
up his treasure to the one who cat
ches him. You’ll have to step
lively and think quickly to cap
ture a leprechaun’s gold though,
because this sly little fellow will
fool you into looking away for an
instant while he escapes into the
forest.
A story is told of the man who
compelled a leprechaun to take
him to the very bush where the
gold was buried. The man tied a
red handkerchief to the bush in
order to recognize the spot again
and ran home for a spade. He was
gone only three minutes, but
when he returned to dig, there
was a red handkerchief on every
bush in the field.
As long as there are Irishmen
to believe in the “ little folk”
there will be leprechauns to
reflect the wonderful Irish sense
of fun and many a new story of
leprechaun shenanigans will be
added to Irish folklore each year.
The St. Patrick’s Committee
“ wrap-up” meeting will be
March 31. Anyone else who has
information and suggestions to
share for 1994 please come by
and visit. And a happy St.
Patrick’s Day to one and all.
Next week at Chamber: Carol
Michael Bennett will be doing a
program entitled “ Your Privacy
(or lack of it) in the Electronic
Age.” “ Privacy is the right to in
dividuals to decide what informa
tion about themselves will be
communicated to others.” This
program promises to be very
enlightening and will give some
ways to protect our privacy.
Chamber meets at noon at the
Elks.
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763-4175
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High game: Doug Gunderson 210 and Judy
Rickcrt 205.
High series: Gerald HOeft 544 and Nola
Binschus 536.
High ream game #8. 802
High team series #8, 2247.
Splits converted: F.llis McRoherts 5-6. Duck
Lusher 6-7-K); Tom Wilson 5-8-10. Darlene
Scroggins 3-10 and 5-6; Gerald Hoeft 5-7 and
3-10. Rhonda Garrett 3-10; Earl Garrett 6-7
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High senes: Kathy Cutsfbrth 505.
Splits converted Duma Hoeft 5-7; Kathy
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