EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 24, 1993
St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
Bulletin Board
lone Elementary celebrates
Children’s Book week
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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steward-Loretta Lands, A.S.-Lee
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GWA met recently for their
regular meeting at the grange
hall. Elected to new offices were:
chairman-Dot Halvorsen, vice
chairm an-H elen C raw ford,
secretary-G eneva
Palm er,
treasurer-Lucile Rietamnn.
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.
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$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:
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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
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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.
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