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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 24, 1993 St. Patrick’s Senior Center Bulletin Board lone Elementary celebrates Children’s Book week K One hundred six people were present for the Thanksgiving dinner at the senior center Nov. 17. Six meals were taken out. Joan Ployhar won the free meal ticket, Alberta Johannes the door prize and Dallas Craber the guest gift. Members of the Seventh Day Adventist and Nazarene churches served. The menu for the senior dinner Dec. 1 will be spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread, relish tray, pears and cookies. Members of the Methodist church will serve. The Nutrition Site Committee will meet following the dinner. There will be hearing aid assistance, blood pressure and a foot clinic also. Twenty-seven seniors and driver Gene Cole made the trip to Golden^jple Thursday, Nov. 18, with nine seniors riding on the Stokes Landing bus. A delicious fried chicken dinner was enjoyed at the senior center. The seniors made everyone feel welcome with reserved tables and fiddle and piano music. Merri Reamer had arranged for an old mansion museum to be open. This is a lovely old building with many antiques. Both busses then went up to the observatory for the overview of the town. The astronomer in charge happened to be there and he open ed the building and showed the telescope, opened the dome and rotated it to demonstrate how they worked. He invited the group to come back, for an evening when they could observe the stars and planets. The seniors were saddened by the death of Clayton Ayers. Their thoughts and prayers go out to the family. There was one table of cards played Friday afternoon. The Sun day movie was shown in Irene Swanson’s apartment. The Red Cross will have a blood drawing Dec. 9 at the senior center. It will be sponsored by the Forest Service. The quitters will not meet until after New Year’s. Tickets are still being sold at the center office for the Christmas tree skirt. The drawing will be at the Artifactory Dec. 4. Remember: Mondays, Bible study, 10:30 a.m.; Tues. & Thurs., exercise 10 a.m .; Fri. cards, 2:30 p.m. Sun., movie 6 p.m. Congratulations to all the door prize winners during our Open House Saturday X Adult Wish List Children Wish List lst-Joy Krein lst-Kelsie Fox 2nd-Jean Bennett 2nd-Julie Proctor 3rd-Vie Oliver 3rd-Kylee Disque Door Prizes: Shirley Connor, Millie Hurt, Sue Jones, Roger Arntt, Elizabeth Allen, Gretchen Berretta, Linda' Dutcher, Mary Haguewood Star Trek-Karen Gavin Barbie-Laura Nesse Thanksgiving Basket-Celita Strouse Heppner 676-9158 f ' m . The lone Elementary School celebrated Children’s Book Week Nov. 15-19. Students spent extra time during the week on reading activities. Each student carried a favorite book during the day and when school librarian Betty Carlson, announced, “ Read Out’’ everyone stopped all ac tivities, including eating lunch, to read in their book. Each class decorated their classroom door to resemble a book. M rs. R ietm ann’s Kindergarten/first grade class door was “ Are You My Mother?” by P.D. Eastman; Miss Jones second grade “ The Brementown Musicians” ; Mrs. Collin’s third grade “ Aesop’s Fables” ; Mrs. Kincaid’s fourth grade “ The Boxcar Children” , books, by Gertrude Chandler Warner; Mrs. Pointer’s fifth grade “ Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. By Delpha Jones ■ * Vv ' jfc »- , •/' , 't !* ■il A f ^ 1 • T t T T |Y 1 Q Y ^ A ^ JJL L -L L X A L/A C A _ _ •« ■ reg. *5595 Our Price $ 4 9 » 9 Black dress oxford S p o r t s w e a r Company G a rd n e r’ s .\qr n Business Forms Many styles and colors to choose from Gazette-Times 676-9228 ♦ Mt. Hood : Free Wrap Candy Free Uitt Gift wrap ana and Ganay 193 N. Main St. W e Print f Help Dad have a happy holiday season ♦ ♦ Buy him 6 6 Street Cars” ♦ Plus Falconhead Sweatshirts and Wapato Sweaters to help keep the chill outside where it belongs '4P« t \ Buy a system. 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The GWA Christmas party will be held Friday, Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. with an exchange of gifts. Christmas dinner will be at 6:30 p.m . with a program. All grangers are invited to attend. D o n t buy a single parka. . • fö • -«• ' J $2.50 for children 6-12 years. The Grange is used for many community projects and is an im portant part of the community, said a spokesperson. The Grange held their election of officers at their last meeting with the following elected: m aster-W illard French, V Gardner’s Cure for the Common Cold! ■* Instructional aide, Cathy Halvorsen decorated the resource room door as “ The Polar Ex press’ by Chris Van Allburg, M rs. C arlson’s elem entary library door depicted “ Little House on The Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder and elementary aide Pam Minster decorated the elementary office door with Maurice Sendak’s “ Where the Wild Things Are” . Thursday was dress-up day and students and teachers dressed as a favorite character from a book. At an assembly for parents and friends, each person modeled his costume and told who they were with two plays by the third grade class titled, “ Six Foolish Fisher man” and “ Who Can Count to Ten?” Teachers said they felt the week was an entertaining way to raise student interest in reading. Grange planning activities Willows Grange is busy plan ning for the annual turkey dinner and bazaar to be held Sunday, Dec. 5 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. This is the annual money making project and proceeds are used for the up keep of the hall. Dinner is $5 for adults and Muxiuuj'j D mj 217 North Main Costume winners l-r: Daniel Nolan, Katie Vosberg, Mrs. Kin caid, Bud Drummon, Cyd Tullis and Molly Barrow (not pictured). It’s time to count our Thanksgiving blessings. If you can still read this, or something more interesting, that has to top the list of reasons to be thankful. My special thanks to a warm house and all its conveniences. One didn’t have to grow up in a drafty old house where your name could be written in the frost on the inside of windows—but it helps. Bathroom facilities were probably invented by someone who tarried too long out back when the thermometer was stuck below zero. For that I give special thanks, not just from the bottom of my heart but from other parts often subjected to southern exposure. Freedom of choice offers many blessings. A choice I enjoy is liv ing in the country where ‘grungy’ outfits and weird activities aren’t too closely observed. A garden can now be grown for pleasure without being dependent on the outcome for a food source. I remember hoe ing endless rows of potatoes that became a winter food supply and with the help of a milk cow provided gallons of potato soup. Families are another blessing even though regardless of age, sometimes you’d like to pull out their hair. I now understand my mother’s reasoning and her energy level when she would keep any one of the grandchildren, but only one at a time. Good health is a reason to be thankful, even if you wake up with aches and stiffness. Somehow the springs get rusty with age if you have been a “ hop out of bed and get bouncing” sort of person. Good friends are an asset who often gives you a pat on the back or lend a helping hand. Whether it’s for dining, sports or just chat ting, most people enjoy a get-together. Communication can be stimulating, especially a good old family argument. Remembrances of holidays past were when candles were clipped to Christmas trees before rural electrification. Though we never got to light those candles, a match-happy youngster could have caused quite a bonfire. But if the thought had of occured to me during some black night, 1 wouldn’t have risked chilblains by leaving a warm bed. Bountiful food is a blessing with grocery stores open every day of the week. Our food is the cheapest commodity of most any coun try in the world. However I still can’t break the habit of squirreling away from food stores resulting from the days when country roads became almost impassable during winter. At about age five, I remember falling off into a snow mound while riding with my father who used horses and a homemade V-drag to break out drifted-in roads. That was before insulated clothing which now enhances the fun of snowmobiling or skiing or the wintertime chore of feeding livestock. Convenience foods come in all types of packaging. And now one can order a complete Thanksgiving dinner pre-cooked. Colorful flowers are also available year around. However growing flowers is a definite pleasure for those who have time. Even though most of the tomatoes froze on the vine this year, one must be thankful for any type of growing season. Holiday packages wouldn’t be as festive without colorful wrapp ings, aided by scotch tape and ready-made bows. It beats dabbling paint on old paper sacks or using the Sunday comics to make color ful wrappings stuck together with paste made from flour and water. Though there are nostalgic thoughts about traveling by sleigh to go ‘over the river and through the woods to grandma’s house,” that mode of travel today could lead to an overcooked turkey. Yesteryear’s home-grown turkeys were more legged up and took a lot longer to cook, not to mention to chew. Although I should be doing something about our surplus goose population that holler about being fed, I don’t have to rush out to capture, pluck and dress a bird anymore. The thawing process is underway, though like the aging process, it seems to take longer now- a-days. But anyway spare a few moments to count all your bless ings, both big and small as we celebrate Thanksgiving. Men’s Wear reg. *69« Our Price ^ S Oiled leather casual shoes W " ¿Have a Happy Thanksgiving? ♦ SHOE BOX 143 N. Main Street 676-5241 Heppner, OR |
