Heppner G azette-Tim es, Heppner, Oregon W ednesday, July 14, 1993 - FIVE
Fund raisers planned to help
Boardman boy with leukemia Pre-school
A Boardman boy, Javier Her Dalles. The family also includes
nandez, 14, has undergone more
in his young life than many have
had to endure over a lifetime.
Javier, who is a student at Col
umbia Junior High School has
been striken with leukemia for the
third time.
Javier is undergoing treatment
in order to bring the disease into
remission so that he may undergo
a bone marrow transplant. But the
family is without medical in
surance and they need money not
only for the skyrocketing medical
costs, and the bone marrow
transplant, but for family ex
penses as well.
Javier's father, Chico, said that
the last time Javier had leukemia
medical bills amounted to over
$100,000. Javier was first
diagnosed with leukemia when he
was just three years old.
Chico says Javier's illness has
taken a toll on the family mental
ly, physically and financially.
And now C hico, who is
employed by Riekkola Farms,
has suffered a serious injury to his
leg and will be unable to work for
m onths. J a v ie r's m other,
Ramona, who is employed at the
Boardman Health Care Clinic,
has had to take time away from
her job to take Javier, and now
Chico to medical appointments at
Portland, Walla Walla and The
daughter Betsy, who attends
Riverside High School.
The Boardman community has
banded together to organize fund
raisers to help the Hernandez
family. On Saturday, August 7,
a bake sale, car wash and yard
sale will be held at various places
around Boardman and a ham
burger cookout will be held at
Sentry Market. On Sunday,
August 8, there will be a horse
shoe tournament and organizers
have tentatively scheduled a
volleyball tournament and Bingo.
An auction and barbecue will be
held at the marina that day.
Organizer Chris Creason says
that they are seeking cash dona
tions as well as donations for the
auction and yard sale. "They are
a really nice family,” added
Creason. "They are highly
thought of in the community and
are hard working. Javier is a
member of 4-H .”
Anyone wishing to donate
money or other items for the auc
tion and yard sale should call
Diana Copenhaver, 481-5235 or
481-5211 or Trina Lankford,
formerly of Heppner, 481-2026.
Times of the weekend events
will be announced at a later date.
Oregon Trail
Corrections made to fair book
inspires bicyclist The Morrow County Fair vegetables and flow ers;
15-Im agination, a creative
Committee announces a correc
to take trip
design; 16-Resourceful, anything
tion in the fair premium book in
registration
being taken
Registration for pre-school is
underway for three and four year-
olds for the 1993-94 school year
at the Heppner Day Care. Space
is limited on a first come first
serve basis, so sign up as soon as
possible, said a spokesperson for
the
H eppner Day C are
pre-school.
Classes for the four year-olds
will be held on Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. Registration fee is $10
with a monthly fee of $50. School
starts on Sept. 7.
Classes for the three year-olds
will be held every Wednesday
from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Registration fee is $7.50 with a
$25 monthly fee. Their first day
is Sept. 8.
Five full scholarships and five
half scholarships are available
based on need. Those interested
should apply at the Day Care
Center.
Pre-schoolers need to bring a
paint shirt, scissors and a box of
tissues. For more information call
Sue at the Heppner Day Care,
676-5429.
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The Oregon Trail. The path to
the West. The 150-year anniver
sary of that famous trail that
brought so many o f our
forefathers to the West, inspires
many people in many ways.
For Dave Cameron, a 33 year-
old engineer from McMinnville,
it inspired him to pick up a
bicycle.
" I ’ve wanted to do this for a
long time. I wanted to see the trip
as the emigrants might have seen
it,” Cameron said while stopping
in Heppner on a bicycle trip he’s
making along the entire Oregon
Trail route.
Cameron says he had some
vacation time coming from his
job at Hewlett Packard, so he
packed up his bike and headed for
the floral department on page 57.
The Artistic Arrangement Divi
sion schedule should be as
follows:
Novice classes (limited to ex
hibitors who have not won a blue
ribbon in a flower show):
1- ‘Along the Trail’ on the fair
theme ‘Wagons Ho to Morrow
County' dried material permitted;
2- Arranger’s Choice.
Amateur classes (frames and
back drapes may be used)
3- ‘Along the Trail’ on the fair
theme ‘Wagons Ho to Morrow
County’ dried material permitted;
4- All Together, a mass design;
5- Tall and Strong, a line design;
6- Young’uns, under eight inches;
7- Green Valleys, all green;
8- Indian Friends, in warm colors;
9- Gold Rush, yellow and gold
tones; 10-Dusty Days, all dried
materials; 11-Prairie Moon, cres
cent shape design; 12-Through
the Blue M ountains, using
evergreen foliages; 13-My Faith
Looks Up, a religious theme;
14-Looking Toward the Harvest,
using grains, fruits and/or
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Heppner
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676-9481
N O IX C H A N O i
“ Thank You For Caring”
Morrow County Medical Services wishes to thank the following
people for their commitment in providing quality health care
to the residents of Morrow County:
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if
New priest to
serve
All Saints
Follow up 4th of
July meeting slated
A follow-up meeting of the
lone Fourth of July committee
will be held this Thursday night
at Beechers Restaurant, co-
chairman Jim Swanson has
announced.
The meeting will begin at 8
p.m. and everyone is invited to
attend with suggestions and
thoughts about the Fourth of Ju
ly celebration.
Chamber Chatter
By Claudia Hughes, C ham ber M anager
More and more visitors are
Independence, Missouri, the
coming
to Heppner and one of the
beginning of the Oregon Trail.
‘perks'
of this job is the oppor
"Actually I started at Westport
tunity
to
meet and visit with some
Landing, a little northwest of In
dependence,” says Cameron. of them. Yesterday it was a
"That’s where boats used to pleasure to visit with Dave
unload emigrants for the beginn Cameron, the cyclist following
the Oregon Trail and to send him
ing of the trip.”
Cameron started June 17, and to the Gazette for an interview.
by the time he reached Heppner While we were visiting, Marcy
Monday, had traveled 1900 miles Bacon came to purchase "Voices
From the Oregon Trail” tickets
of a 2300 mile trip.
and
said she had the horseback
Packing all his own gear, he
riders
from Independence,
stays in motels when he can, and
Missouri
as house guests. They
camps out when he has to. Head
had
missed
the trail by one county
wind is his biggest enemy along
M ounting W Hh Pure H a s«
road.
Still
other
adventurers were
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the way, and the toughest travel
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Heppner
graduates,
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ing many friendly people along reasons and more our motel was
the way, and not having much full Monday night.
Heppner Cycle Oregon VI
bike trouble. “ I’ve had one flat
tire is all. I put on a set of new committee met with the pre-ride
tires when I left, and those will group at the city park. They will
probably be worn out by the time be here for lunch Tuesday,
September 14. and we hope to
I’m done.”
And that’s probably better luck keep them around for awhile.
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There will be a ’’By My Hand”
than most emigrants had.
exhibit at the museum, tours of
the dam and the opportunity to
swim, plus a variety of entertain
ment in the park. Please contact
the chamber office or Cara Osmin
if you know of people willing to
entertain...fiddlers, singers, com
edians, etc. We’d like to have
ongoing activity for the cyclists
and our community from 10 a.m
to 3 p.m. The cyclists will be
handed sack lunches off a reefer
truck this year, giving Heppner
the opportunity to assist lone,
entertain, and work on creative
hospitality ideas.
MARJORIE KENNY, RN~
SHERIDAN TARNASKY,
Cecil lamb barbecue tickets are
A
SCL
certified,
Marj
has
been
D N S -S h e rid a n began her
now available on Tuesdays and
a
s
s
o
c
ia
te
d
w
ith
P
io
n
e
e
r
career as an RN at Pioneer
Wednesdays at the Chamber of
M em o rial H ospital/N ursing
M em orial Hospital over 23
Hom e for 22 years. She is cur
Com m erce office (GEODC
years ago. She is ACLS cer
rently the R esid ent C are
building across from the Bank of
tified and has served as Direc
M
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r
for
the
nursing
Eastern Oregon). Adult tickets
.
tor of Tri-County Home Health
hom e. Marj finds it very satis
are
$10; children six and under
Agency and is currently Direc
fying
to
be
part
of
a
much
needed
service
in
the
community
and
takes
are
$5;
and family tickets for two
tor of Nursing Services at
pride in the fact that doctors, administration and staff provide the
PM H . She finds her work rewarding due to the variety of health care
plus children are $30. The
best care possible. She and her husband William have seven children
that a small rural facility must provide and especially appreciates the
barbecue will be Thursday,
and
10 grandchildren.
caring environment in which she works. Sheridan and her husband
August 19, in conjunction with
Ed have two children, A.J. and Alecia, both in college.
the Oregon Trail Wagon Train.
"Circle the wagons".
R IK K A TE W S , R N -R ikk a has
Welcome to new chamber
worked at Pioneer Memorial
S A N D I H A N N A , R N -S a n d i
Hospital since 1967 and has
m em bers: Pat Sweeney of
has w o rked at P io n e e r
worked on and off parttime.
Sweeney M ortuary, Mike
M e m o ria l H o s p ita l as a
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Rikka, ACLS certified, enjoys
McGuire, postmaster. Willow
Registered Nurse for 19 Vi
the family atm osphere at the
t
years and is currently a
Creek Park District and Verne
hospital. She works in a varie
charge nurse. She is ACLS
I
Bell of Bell’s Barber Shop. We
ty of in-patient care. Rikka en
certified. She likes working in
look forward to having you ‘on
joys working with her fellow
a community where she can
board’.
staff m em bers who all take care to look out for one another. Rikka
experience the wide range of patient care from traum a to caring for
Thought for the week: “ My in
and
her
husband
Paul
have
three
children,
Rhondi,
married
and
liv
the community’s elderly in the nursing home. Sandi enjoys the family
terest
is in the future because I'm
ing
in
Pendleton;
Natalie,
living
in
Seattle.
W
A.
and
Bill
who
lives
type atmosphere of the hospital and nursing home. She and her hus-
on
the
ranch.
going
to spend the rest of my life
, band David have two children, Jason, 18 and Jon, 16.
there ...Charles Kettering.
clWHWftup
goes.
A lfre d M iller
The Rev. Alfred F. Miller will
join the congregations of All
Saints' Episcopal Church in
Heppner and St. Johns' Episcopal
Church in Hermiston. He will
serve both churches as their priest
and pastor beginning July 15. He
will be available on Thursday, Ju
ly 15. Call or drop by the office
in Heppner, 676-9970.
Father Miller is a native of
Oregon and comes to eastern
Oregon after having served as a
priest in the Diocese of Western
New York. He received his
masters of divinity degree at Yale
Divinity School in New Haven,
Connecticut, in 1990. Formerly,
Father Miller taught school in
Pilot Rock from 1983 to 1987 and
was a member of the Redeemer
Church in Pendleton.
Father Miller is joined by his
wife, Michelle and their two
chilren, Andrew and Laura.
Father Miller is the grandson of
long time Hermiston resident and
reitred teacher Mrs. Edith Cable.
The Millers are eager to return to
this area.
‘‘Both churches welcome
Father Miller and his family as
they begin a new ministry in this
a r e a ,"
said
a
church
spokesperson.
P harm acy &
Your H ealth
Boardman Pharmacy
& Hardware
202 1st N.W .
P.O. Box 170
Boardman. Oregon 97818
481-9474
481-7351
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