Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 29, 1993 - THREE
Shadows of
a year that’s past
While the world was fraught with public scandal, violence and unrest in 1993, things
looked pretty good on the home front, a place where we’re on a first name basis with
the mayor, the school superintendent and the bank president, a place where we’re proud
of our achievements and the achievements of our children. May 1994 be as good as 1993.
Happy New Year from Heppner Gazette-Times staff.
Following is a look back on the year 1993:
January -Jeri
Wight received Post Office achievement award; lone youth group assists
homeless; Bob Jepsen was sworn in as mayor; Jonas Healy wins geography bee; Heppner
Chamber of Commerce installs new officers-Steve Dickenson, Delanne Ferguson, Rollie M ar
shall and Sharon Harrison; Bank of Eastern Oregon business o f the year; Maryan McElligott,
George Koffler, first citizens, Linda Shaw educator and the Rev. Grace Drake, special award;
Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Queen Elizabeth Doherty and princesses Rondi Robinson and Donita
Sharp crowned at banquet; seven Mustangs, Len Brittner, Scott Coe, Ryan Pence, Kevin Kilken
ny, T.R. Riehl, Kevin Payne and Rick Koffler make all state football; Elks Hoop Shoot win
ners announced-Blake Knowles, Casey Ingraham, Jill Barber, Derek Gunderson, Sara Eckman
and Kiel Waterland; local Sears store to close; majority favors indoor swimming pool; new
Dollaride van purchased for seniors; bids let on sh eriffs office renovation.
¥ ebruary -County divides up landfill money; lone Cardinals girls’ and boys’ teams ad
vance to district tournament; Elks scholarship winners announced-Crystal Minster, Mark Conklin,
Laurel Webber-Gray, Ryan Halvorsen, Alecia Tarnasky and Pete Pearson; school board and
teachers reach agreement; lady Cards take first place in east division of Big Sky League; Kenn
Evans resigns from fair board; April Taylor and Aaron Heideman named to Big Sky first team;
Crystal Minster, Jamie Lovett, Melissa McElligott, David Wagenblast, second team; Deacon
Heideman, Jim Logan, Ryan Halvorsen, honorable mention; Fillies, Mustangs advance to Class
2A district tournament; Heppner High School students Danie Sunday, Ryan Pence and Tracy
Blodgett earn state art awards; Cardinal teams sweep district tournament.
M a r c h -C a rd in a ls head to state playoffs; school board hears growth recommendations;
Mollahan family to reign over St. Patrick’s Day festivities; Heppner Fillies take first place
at district; resolution passed to disburse landfill monies; Morrow County tax levy shows one
percent growth; Cards take fifth in 1A basketball tournament; sheep dog trials draw from all
over U .S., Canada; no money for Willow Creek RV park campground; medical fund levy
$526,316 outside base; luck of the Irish leads Cam Sweeney to treasure; Scott Coe, Ryan Pence
and Deacon Heideman named to Shriner’s team; T.R. Riehl alternate; Pat Shannahan wins
sheep dog trials for third year; school board interviews candidates for superintendent position;
Jim Boor takes first in lamb cook-off competition; Country Club wins Leprechaun’s Choice;
Jon DeBo hired as new Les Schwab manager; local pioneer wagon owned by Bob Harrison
to be in Oregon Trail; suit against Morrow County Judge Louis Carlson, budget officer LoRayne
Bowman and tax collector Margo Sherer filed; Gary Frederickson appointed to school board;
teachers sign contract with district; contract awarded to Knerr Construction o f Hermiston for
emergency center renovations; city adopts street replacement program; school district hired
Chuck Starr as superintendent; school district to lose $582,000 in cuts from Ballot Measure
5; Morrow County levy goes to defeat, 1064 yes to 1093 no; Jerry Anderson and Daniel Creamer
win Port o f Morrow positions; sheriff s office hires Mark Miller as deputy.
April -Ryan Halvorsen selected one of 10 finalists in Northwest School Sportswriters
Challenger; county trims $100 thousand from levy; the Rev. Grace Drake receives Blazer award;
Henry Krebs inducted into OSU agriculture hall o f fame; Heppner family tree reaches ‘round
the world with visit from Heppners; Traci Dickenson sets new Heppner Junior High high jump
record; two dead, four injured in collision outside Lexington; Centennial-Heppner exchange
program in 13th year; April Taylor chosen lone Girls State delegate; Grieb Farms win 1993
conservation farm of the year; school district cuts over $79,000 from budget; Carl Christman
receives no jail time for death; break-in at Bristow's Market; Pinewood Derby winners
announced-Justin Nelson, M iff Devin, Brandon Young, Kelly Paullus, David Norton, Sam
VanLiew, Adam Bergstrom, Douglas Orwick, Ben Turrell, Adam Wight, Matt Young, Kyler
Howell; Patrick Kenney, Brian Koffler, Tony Beckett win district spelling contest; budget com
mittee passes $14.5 million school budget; Dutch exchange student Rob van‘t Ent enjoys U.S.
visit.
May -Terrie Cutsforth winner o f best packaging award at the joint meeting of Oregon,
Washington and Idaho Gourmet food associations; Queen Staci O ’Brien, King Tony Burt, reign
over HHS prom, princesses were Danie Sunday, Jenni Ashbeck, princes Ryan Pence and Shane
Munkers; Aleida Goodyear honored for achievements in math, science, and computing; Star
Greenhand award presented to Tina Kemp; star chapter farmer awarded to Dwayne Dunaway;
district math contest winners announced-first Lara Fritz and Shannon Benjamin; Mike McGuire
named Heppner Postmaster; Pat Edmundson ends 21 year teaching career; Morrow County
Health Dept, expands services; Lori Moeller sets new record at track meet; district Pinewood
winners announced-first-Ben Turrell, second-Adam Wight, Douglas Orwick; third-Adam
Bergstron, Justin Nelson and Matt Young; Mark Moeller named U.S. National Achievement
Academy Award winner in mathematics; over 1,000 motorcyclists pass through town; turnout
lane at Kinzua completed; Jonas Healy, Brian Koffler and Shannon Benjamin selected for U
o f O TAG program; Ten HHS athletes qualify for state track meet-Jessica Sumner, Jossie Evans,
Char Coe, Kelsie Evans, Jenny Krein, T.R. Riehl, Len Brittner, Ryan Pence, John Qualls,
Shane Munkers; lone girls run away with district track championship; Linda LaRue promoted
to Bank of Eastern Oregon vice president; Oregon Trail kiosk dedicated; Mustangs win Col
umbia Basin Conference baseball league championship; county operating levy fails 1123 no
to 1029 yes; Mustangs dominate all star baseball team-Trent Hughes, Kevin Payne, Jered
Wicklund. Steve Wilson, Jim Tellechea, Chris Dickenson, Sam Sumner, Rick Koffler, Jason
Hanna, Scott Coe; district math contest winners announced first place-Tim Dickenson, Katie
Tworek, Eric Roll is, Joshua Reeve; American essay contest winners announced-first Erin
Crowell, Jessica Stefani; Gerald Pierson retires from the Bank o f Eastern Oregon; Mustangs
defeat Duftir Rangers for district 7 2A baseball championship; nine Heppner High students
named to honor team-Laurel Webber-Gray, Ethan Burnside, Ryan Pence, Lynn Setness, Mark
Conklin, Jenny Krein, Jered Wicklund, Shawn Cutsforth.
Ju n e -M u s ta n g s continue drive to state championship, beat Knappa; county cuts $37 thou
sand from budget; Del LaRue named 1A overall coach o f the year, track and field coach of
the year; tippage fee grants announced to Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Board, Heppner
baseball field Committee exploratory swimming pool commission, Heppner Parents’ Club,
Neighborhood Center, Heppner Day Care, Morrow County Coordinating Council; Laurel
Webber-Gray awarded $15,000 in scholarships; new video arcade opens in Heppner; Chuck
and Lisa Nelson host crowd for state conservation tour; county plans layoff if budget fails;
lone and Heppner classes of 1993 graduate; weather cooperates for annual lone United Church
o f Christ auction; Greg Grant named 2A state football coach o f the year; Sean Warren receives
WOSC student of the year award; Cecil store opens; county conservation tour held at Grieb
Farms; Martha Doherty files suit against council; Joe Yocom to ride in Sesquicentennial wagon
train; county employees receive pink slips; Rev. Grace Drake and Linda LaRue receive Sorop-
timist “ Women of Distinction’’ award; Laurel Webber-Gray named Oregon Scholar; Rietmann
family to preside over lone’s Fourth o f July celebration; groundbreaking ceremony held for
Heppner fire hall.
July -Heppner Fire Dept, gets new tanker truck; Dr. Ed and Jeanne Berretta honored at
appreciation dessert; new priest A! Miller to serve All Saints; fund raisers planned to help Board-
man boy, Javier Hernandez; little league all stars Danny Coiner, Jason and Jeff Sallee, Cody
Bellamy, Michael Schonbachler, Derek Gunderson, Travis and Brad Camine, Jeff Waterland,
Shane Matheny, Tim Dickenson, Jared Eckman, Seth Boyer, Cameron Stinchfield, to compete
in all star tournament; Soroptimist install new officers, Bettie Doherty, Barbara Bloodsworth,
Ann Spicer, Marlene Gray, Carol Michael Bennett, Vi W ilgers, Marianne Kahl, Nancy
Brownfield; Morrow County budget down $500,000; John Moffit named Bank of Eastern Oregon
Arlington branch manager; Mike Mills joins Spicer and Kuhn attorneys; area children experience
Native American tradition during summer recreation program; Sean Warren featured in Western
Oregon State College newspaper; Jossie Evans takes top awards at Morrow County Open Horse
Show; Heppner Elementary principal Bryan Traylor resigns; Tony Becket selected for Oregon
Shakespeare Festival Summer seminar; over $8,000 committed to pool; new loan officer Richard
Wood, hired at Bank of Eastern Oregon; Lisa Currin hired as Morrow County accountant;
Heidi Orem returns from year in Germany as exchange student; new rodeo arena to be ready
in time for rodeo Aug. 20-22; Cecil plans oasis for Sesquicentennial Wagon Train; Kelsie,
Jossie Evans take top 4-H horse honors; Carl Martin retires after 24 year career with the Oregon
State Police.
A u g U S t-P rin cess Sara Greenup continues family tradition; ethics complaint filed against
Morrow County Judge Louis Carlson; city o f Heppner receives $300 combined grant and loan
for sewer project; George Koffler named Bank of Eastern Oregon president; 72 kids participate
in south Morrow County football camp; riding way of life for fair and rodeo princess Rondi
Robinson; official wagon trains to stop at Cecil; William Karwacki hired as Heppner Elemen
tary School principal; city sewer bids way over budget; Kathy Cutsforth hired as new Heppner
Pre-school teacher; past fair and rodeo queens including 1923 rodeo queen Eva Padberg G rif
fith to be honored in the Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo parade; 1992
world champ Joe Beaver to compete at rodeo; Suzanna Heideman makes top 12 in Miss Teen
Oregon pageant; wheat crop one of best ever, but price falls to $3.40 a bushel; new school
lunch program instituted; city of Heppner purchases new fire truck; Queen Elizabeth Doherty
reigns in ‘93; rodeo parade largest in years; Joe Yocom leads wagon train into Cecil; Jim Ward
wins Kinzua calf roping saddle; Joe Beaver wins all around honors; Pat Cutsforth dies in auto
accident; Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo and Morrow County Rodeo post record sales.
S e p t e m b e r - E i g h t new teachers hired for Morrow County; school enrollment down from
last year; four RHS teenagers charged in school bus melee; Barbara Bloodsworth wins Wheat
League cake contest; new playground equipment installed at Heppner Elementary School; trek
to see Pope exhilarating for local teens Phillip SpicerKuhn, Joe Lindsay, Ryan Munkers, Cyn
thia and Stephanie Skultety, Tina Chinen, Chuck Bowman and chaperones Martha Munkers
and Bill Kuhn; lone to be featured on Channel 2; Trust scholarship winner announced: Carrie
Brownfield, J.J. Shaw, Lana Orr, Scott Johnston, Chisana Warren; lone man, Kenneth Jones,
inducted into trapshoot hall o f fame; 2,000 cycle Oregon bicyclists pass through Heppner for
lunch lone for dinner and overnight stay at the lone city park; new school lunch menu draws
complaints, praise; school board drops cheerleader/dance team issue; new street signs install
ed in Heppner; Ron Currin Jr., wins all-around honors at Pendleton Round-Up; career comes
full circle for local designer Kimberly Wright Trotter; Staci O'Brien selected rodeo queen;
Kimberly Bedortha, Jossie .Evans aijd Char Coe,,princesses; new gift shop Day’s Unique Boutique
jto open in Heppner; Frank Anderson honored at OSU; Richard Ladd resigns from Fair Board.
Octobcr-Mary Goheen visits Kenya, Africa; Columbia Basin Electric to raise electricity
rates; Boardman man arrested for rape of eight year-old; Historical Society honors Century
Farms, A1 and Donna Osmin family, Delpha and Charles Jones and Oregon Trail descendents
Kathryn Hoskins, Marlene Barnett, Lindsey Kincaid, Fred Martin, Frances Griffith, Jean Nelson,
Dorris Graves, Betty Carlson, Vern Batty, Edith Matthews and Jodee Carlson; massive street
reconstruction project to begin next year with no new taxes; LoRayne Bowman resigns from
city council; Fillies take second in Columbia Basin tournament; Sara Greenup crowned HHS
homecoming queen, Jodi Johnston. Holly Eckman, Char Coe and Jenny Krein princesses; coun
ty’s assessed value increases; sheriff s office moves to new facilities on Willow View Drive;
school board discusses high schools in Boardman and Irrigon, new Heppner Junior High building:
school board rejects HHS dance team request; Scott Johnston named to Western Oregon State
College homecoming court; lone Body Repair shop opens; new sign commemorates Heppner
flood; new deputy police dog, Dax, joins sheriff s department; vandalism at dam could en
danger town.
N o v e m b e r - W a lte r Jepsen celebrates 102nd birthday; TigerScots claim league champion
ship, end Mustang winning streak; lady Cardinals head to state; Heppner Fillies take second
in district playoffs, head to state; three Boardman area men arrested on rape o f 12 year-old
and kidnapping charges of 12, 14 and 17 year-olds; county hires new public works director
Paul Christensen; county medical fund to purchase dental offices in Boardman and Heppner;
city o f Heppner awards sewer contract; construction begins on new Heppner fire hall; county
court to investigate home rule charter: Heidi Orem crowned lone High School homecoming
queen; Marie Tworek, Mary Jane McCarty, April Taylor and LaRee Anderson princesses;
Heppner Junior High art class wins Portland Art Museum Northwest Film Center animation
award; Booster Club Reno Night raises over $3,000; Walter Jepsen honored for World War
I service; lady Cards advance to state; Mustangs to play Vale in first round of the state football
playoffs; county defeats state five percent tax measure; Greg Smith joins GEODC office; Gret-
chen Berretta awarded 1993 National Council of Teacher of English award in writing; HHS
players named to all conference football team-Rick Koffler, Joe Lindsay, Kevin Payne, Leonard
Brittner, Dwayne Dunaway, Ryan Munkers, Kevin Scott, Jeff Botefuhr; Make It With Wool
contest winners announced-Marianne Kahl. senior division runner-up, Mandi Gutierrez, junior
runner-up, Shelby Krebs, pre-teen winner; lady Cards defeated at state 1A tournament; Vik
ings end Mustang playoff hopes; First Interstate Bank files lawsuit against Miller and Sons
and Thomas and Ruby Shear in connection with gasoline leak; school bond estimates reach
over $19 million; medical fund hires dentist T. Blair Smith to serve entire county; incumbent
Earl Woods. Jr., files for election for DA’s position; city of Heppner recipient of 1993 Cities
Award for Excellence from League of Oregon Cities; Sam Bellamy appointed to fair board;
Fillies Jodi Johnston, Holly Eckman and Sara Greenup selected to CBC all star team; ethics
complaint dismissed against Judge Louis Carlson; city of Heppner receives $170 thousand grant
from Oregon Economic Development Department for wastewater improvements.
D e c e m b e r -S c h o o l district considers placing grades 7-12 together at all schools; local
firefighters, Mike Correa, Larry Aragon, Charlie Grabeel. Craig Gutierrez and Candy Amy
fight California fire; Christmas tree donated by Clyde and Jackie Allstott placed on Main Street;
construction to begin on new sewer system; Santa comes to town to Soroptimist artifactory;
three options presented for pool design; Bill Broderick receives Extension diversity award;
Mark Conklin competes in U of O college bowl; Canadian exchange student, Eric Fournier
fits in with host family, community; Morrow County Livestock Growers hold annual meeting;
Vernon R. Burke arrested in connection with shooting of Gerald J. Buckmaster, both Hepp
ner; vandals strike Willow Creek Park again; Heppner area advisory committee supports 7-12
school in Heppner; Mike McGuire appointed to city council; school board says yes to 7-12
configuration in Heppner; no for Boardman and Irrigon; Mike VanArsdale wins $600 in gift
certificates in Heppner merchants’ Christmas punch; Victor and Jane Yahr and Randy Samples
to operate Heppner Bowl; infant death attributed to unknown causes; McCabes. Petersons win
lighting contest; live nativities planned at Hope Lutheran and Willow Creek Baptist; county
students selected for W ho’s Who-Crystal Minster, April Taylor, Dani Hill, Donnie Pointer,
Missy Wallace, Troy Wilson, Ryan Munkers. Jim Tellechea. Laurel Webber-Gray, Patty Ander
son. Tony Beckett. Josh Clark. Kelsie Evans, Erin Fishburn, Aleida Goodyear. Jenny Krein,
April Rollis, Brent Wright. Kara Ansotegui, Jeremy Clark. Shawn Cutsforth. Ben Ewing, Shawn
Foster, Ryan Pence. Alecia Tarnasky.
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