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4>Corners snowmobile club has play day
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Park prohibited driving, so riders
parked and unloaded at Cutsforth
and rode to Kelly Prairie. A large
fire provided warmth between
trail rides and poker runs. Four
new families joined the club,
bringing ciub membership to 26
families, representing 68 family
members and 72 machines.
Membership dues are $25 with
$20 paid to the state snowmobile
association and $5 for local dues.
Membership provides families
with information on statewide
events, club activities from all
over the state, funding for groom
ing of trails, and receipt of the
state and local newsletters.
Anyone interested in joining
the 4-Comers Snowmobile Club
may send their name, address,
number of family members and
machines, along with $25 to
Della Heideman, secretary,
4-Comers Snowmobile Club,
22948 Fairview Lane, lone, OR
97843.
Lexington News
By Delpha Jones
-:-Cecil Jones visited with his
cousin, Hilda McComber at Mt.
Veron during the grange meeting
there on Saturday.
-:-Holly Rebekah Lodge met
on Thursday for the regular
meeting with the NG Leila
Palmer in the chair. Reports to
the state had been made and
reported. Plans were discussed
for the next card party in
February starting with a chili sup-
per at 5:30 p.m. followed by the
card party with prizes and
refreshments. The chili supper
will be $5 with cards extra.
-¡-Friends were sorry to hear of
the death of Lyle Allen. He was
taken to Portland by ambulance
one day last week suffering from
a heart attack and underwent ma
jo r surgery there. His wife Lois
had been staying with him in
Portland.
Survey of health providers
reveal labor shortages
A survey of health providers in
Northeast Oregon revealed labor
shortages in many allied health
professions and difficulties in ob
taining continuing education.
Eight allied health professions
were surveyed: dentists, dental
hygienists and assistants, medical
laboratory tehcnologists, medical
records technicians, nurses,
physical therapists, radiologic
technologists and respiratory
therapists.
The professions interviewed
identified their main concerns as:
the difficulty in recruiting allied
health professionals; the lack of
a qualified labor pool within the
community; and the difficulty in
accessing continuing education.
Most health providers reported
it was hard to get away for con
tinuing education because of a
lack of back-up. All except den
tists expressed a need for part-
time and ‘’casual” labor to cover
sick and vacation days and to
allow employees to be away from
the job for continuing education.
Dentists were the only profes
sionals reporting little problem in
getting away.
Employer-provided funds are
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By Delpha Jones
Dale Morris, Oregon State
Grange master from Portland has
been visiting in the area en
couraging the grangers in their
work. Although the grange
started as a farmer’s organization,
it now embraces all walks of in
dustry, as all are connected in
some way or another in the work
ings of the grange Where would
people get the fruit, vegetables
and other staples they eat and use
without the farmer? The grange
is a family organization where all
members may attend and children
are welcome.
The first meeting was held on
Wednesday at the Greenfield
Grange Hall in Boardman. Some
of the points of interest brought
forward were scholarships given
through the G.W.A. (Grange
and winter palaces.
Fennessy’s slides also showed
the cities, housing, ballet, motion
picture production and statuary
depicting the impact of World
War II.
Fennessy also described the
program activity that took her
from Libby to St. Petersburg,
which is located on the Gulf of
Finland.
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Club members, friends and
snowmobile enthusiasts from all
over the region joined in the fun
and food at the 4-Corners
Snowmobile Club Play Day Sun
day, Jan. 2. Good snowfall on
Friday and Saturday provided a
good base along with a fresh
coating of powder snow for the
snowmobilers. More than 60 per
sons attended from Heppner,
Lexington, lone, Hermiston,
Echo, Pilot Rock, Ukiah, Arl
ington and Pendleton.
Gene Orwick, club president,
cooked hot dogs and chili and
kept the coffee pot full. Riders
participated in a “ poker run”
trail ride which covered 7.6 miles
around the Kelly Prairie area.
Todd Hamby of Pilot Rock took
first place and won $25 in the
poker run. Joe Taylor of Lex
ington came in second winning
$15 and Donna Dougherty took
third for $10.
The conditions past Cutsforth
State Grange master visits Grange
slide show on Russia
Deacon and Nathan Heideman enjoy a lundi break of hotdogs
and chili
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Heppner native presents
limited and often dedicated to
employees requiring continuing
education for re-licensing. Most
of the continuing education pro
grams are offered in Boise,
Spokane or Portland, adding to
the expense and time away.
Many records technicians are
on-the-job trained from within the
community and do not have for
mal training or a medical
background. Though they desire
additional training, they are
unable to leave the region to ob
tain it because o f family
obligations.
Almost all allied health train
ing programs are located outside
the Northeast Oregon area,
primarily in Portland or Boise.
Offering training in this area
would enable people trained on
the job to provide needed back
up for the more skilled providers.
Northeast Oregon AHEC plans
to use information from the
assessment to prioritize their con
tinuing education offerings. The
agency serves health profes
sionals in Baker, Gilliam. Grant,
M alheur, M orrow , Union,
Umatilla. Wallowa and Wheeler
counties.
The assessment was conducted
by Carole Smith, education coor
dinator for Northeast Oregon
Area Health Education Center.
The Area Health Education
Centers Program is a joint effort
between Oregon Health Sciences
University and communities
around the state.
For a copy of the study, con
tact the Northeat Oregon AHEC
Office at 503 962-3801.
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Sandy Matheny Fennessy
Sandy Matheny Fennessy, who
grew up on the Matheny wheat
ranch out of Heppner and now
lives in Libby Montana, recent
ly provided a glimpse of Russia
with a slide presentation at the
Libby Public Library.
Fennessy, who provides pro
fessional facilitation and media
tion through her business,
Matheny Associates, traveled to
Russia in 1992. During her two-
week stint in Russia with a Na
tional Center Associates team,
she “helped prepare an en
vironm ental mediation cu r
riculum for Russians learning
public policy planning.
The environmental mediation
curriculum is one of several pro
grams entitled the “ Russian-
American program of conflic-
tology” aimed at assisting Rus
sians in the transition to open
governmental process.
The slide presentation featured
scenes of old Russia, cathedrals,
icons, gold leaf accents, mosaics
Barley stripe rust
on its way
to Oregon
Pat Hayes, OSU barley
breeder, announced at a recent
STEEP meeting in Richland that
barley stripe rust Race 24 was
found in Idaho in 1993 and it will
likely reach Oregon this year. A
workshop has been planned in
lone on January 27 to learn more
about barley stripe rust and other
diseases.
Barley stripe rust is a fungal
plant disease that has reduced
barley yield by as much as 70
percent in Texas, Mexico and
Columbia as it has moved nor
thward over the past few years.
All spring barley varieties are
susceptible. Wheat is not
susceptible.
Breakthroughs in understan
ding the genetic makeup of the
barley chromosome will allow
Hayes to genetically alter a cur
rent spring variety, giving it
barley stripe resistance, for possi
ble release in 1996. Barley has
fewer chromosomes than wheat,
making it easier to understand
and manipulate.
Hayes has recently released a
barley strip rust resistant winter
variety called Kold. Other winter
barley varieties are susceptible to
this disease.
According to Texas A&M
University research, treatments of
the fungicides Tilt or Bayleton +
Maneb reduced stripe rust severi
ty and increased yield in Steptoe
barley, a susceptible winter varie
ty. Kold showed no affect from
the barley stripe rust and conse
quently showed no response to
fungicides Kold yielded about 40
percent more than Steptoe in the
Texas trial.
Kold was named after Mat
Kolding, recently retired Oregon
State University plant breeder at
the H erm iston Experim ent
Station.
Barley stripe rust and other
diseases will be discussed at the
wheat seminar ion Pendleton on
January 26 at the Pendleton Elks
Lodge at 9 a.m. or at the disease
workshop in lone on January 27
at the Willows Grange at 1 p.m.
Dryland and irrigated growers are
encouraged to attend. There is a
$20 charge for the Pendleton
workshop, which will be an all
day session. Lunch and materials
are included.
For more information regar
ding these two workshops contact
the Morrow County Extension
office, 676-9642.
Although Fennessy didn’t
speak Russian before the trip, by
the end of her visit she had pick
ed up necessary words and
phrases. She also communicated
by drawing pictures.
Before she left for home, she
“ could get in and out of a Rus
sian computer. I even down load
ed an American program into one
of their computers,” she said.
While in St. Petersburg, Fen
nessy stayed at the home of a
senior Russian naval officer and
his wife.
The Russians determined the
type of training provided by Fen
nessy and her center associates.
“ They have a growing awareness
of environmental matters, since
the Chernobyl nuclear accident in
April 1986,” she said.
Fennessy and the team plan to
return to Russia to continue their
training early this year.
Fennessy is a graduate of the
University of Oregon. She was a
public affairs staff officer with the
Kootenai National Forest before
earning certification as a
mediator.
Fennessy’s program was ar
ranged by the Friends of the Lin
coln County Public Library and
Cabinet Books and Music in the
Libby Shopping Plaza.
BMCC offers
aerobic class
By Anne Morter
Blue Mountain Community
College is offering an aerobics
with weights class this term in
Heppner. This is a nine week
class designed as a fat-burning
workout using light weights.
Students should bring three, five
or 10 pound weights to class. Kay
Fow ler, H eppner, is the
instructor.
The class has been moved from
Monday night to Tuesday from 7
to 8 p.m. at the multipurpose
room of the Heppner Elementary
School.
Interested students should con
tact BMCC coordinator Anne
Morter 422-7429 for registration
information.
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Women’s Association), the many
contests with prizes, such as
cooking, arts and crafts, quilts
and others. The insuiance pro
grams o f Grange are most
beneficial to the members and all
granges have an insurance per
son, who will answer any ques
tions and give assistance with
grange problems. The Grange
also has a man at the legislature
all the time, and through the
many resolutions to the county,
state and national government and
senators and representatives,
many bills are passed and much
is accomplished.
Those attending at Boardman
were state master Morris, coun
ty deputy Delpha Jones, in
surance agent Kathleen Clark and
Barton Clark, past Wheatland
Pomona master and Cecil Jones.
On Saturday, Mt. Vernon
Grange in Grant County was
hostess to an officers’ conference
at their hall with Master Morris,
his wife and about 35 other
members present. Membership
was discussed along with many
services the Grange can offer
such as hearing service, dogs for
the deaf, the Ron McDonald
House, eye glasses for the needy,
credit union, college scholarships
and many other things of interest.
Meetings and programs are
presented at each meeting with
potluck dinners and friendship
and fellowship with other
members and the community ser
vice that each does.
Attending from Wheatland
were master Mike Medlock and
his wife. Aloha, Spray Master
Hammick and county deputy
Delpha Jones and husband Cecil.
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Does $5 per bushel for wheat
in 1993 and 1994 sound in
teresting to wheat growers? Ac
cording to Mike Stoltz, Umatilla
County Extension agent that is
what some growers of canola are
saying their returns equal on their
farms.
“ Because of substantial interest
in canola we have had requests
for another canola meeting,” said
Stoltz. The meeting has been
scheduled for January 17, 7:30
a.m. at the Sizzler restaurant in
Pendleton. Breakfast is com
pliments of SeedTec Interna
tional, a prime canola contractor
in the area.
Growers are asked to call the
extension office at 276-7111 ext.
235 for reservations by January
14. Reservations are important
because the group needs to let the
Sizzler know how many there
will be for breakfast. “ It is a real
problem when 20 extra show
up,” said Stoltz.
Topics will include an
economic comparison of wheat
and canola on both irrigated and
dryland soils, 1993 research
results, herbicide update and
sulfonylurea problems, increasing
insect problems and strategies and
a grower panel. “ We knew when
the canola acreage reached a cer
tain point that we would have
more insect problems, particular
ly cabbage seed pod weavil. In
1993 we seemed to have reached
that point.” said Stoltz. “ Conse
quently we have asked Joe
McCaffery, entomologist from
Idaho and a canola expert to join
us for this session. I think his in
sights should be invaluable for
this year,” continued Stoltz.
The dryland growers on the
panel are Brian Jones and Jerry
Terjeson. Irrigated growers are
Rick Hale. Sam Meyers and Tom
Branstetter. “ Their wide range of
experience and farming areas
ought to make this the highlight
of the meeting,” according to
Stoltz.
Kevin Jordan of the Umatilla
ASCS office will explain how to
fit canola into your farm pro
gram. In the right situation a per-
con can receive wheat deficien
cy payments or take a marketing
loan on their canola. “ It will
often pay to understand how this
works,” Stoltz said.
To finish up the meeting Kris
Powers, canola buyer for Mit
subishi will give some price
outlook data and PGG and
SeedTec will talk about contracts
and pricing.
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4-H News
Members held their first 4-H
cooking meeting for the year
recently. The club name is The
Junior Cookers. Members also
voted for president, treasurer,
vice president and reporter. Jesse
G utierrez, president; Paula
Spicerkuhn, treasurer; Kelsey
Greenup, vice president and
Heidi Kurts reporter. The club
made fruit kabobs. They also did
a fruit experiment. It was called
On Darkening of Fruit. It was
good. It was not very hard at all.
First they had pineapple juice,
lemon juice, and salt water. The
salt water was the worst. The
pineapple was the best. The
lemon was OK but it sure was
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A postponement of New Year’s resolutions is one way to avoid
abandoning those noble thoughts and deeds. After all, it’s difficult
to really pursue slimming exercises when the nose requires so much
attention.
Maybe this mild winter weather can erase all the flu bugs that have
been passed around. Few families escaped having their holiday season
marred by incidents of flu or other health problems.
This week. I’ve been inspired to do some yard cleanup. Surpris
ingly, I found some pansies in bloom. But I don’t have any inten
tions of gardening just yet, because no telling what kind of weather
February will bring.
Our surrounding green pasture has attracted a large herd of deer
that come in nightly for a piece de resistance or maybe just dessert.
I don’t know if they are just inspecting the strawberry plants, but
they certainly leave plenty of tracks and their calling cards should
help fertilize that area. I did hang some garbage bags over small tender
trees. It seems they like to use small sumacs as toothpicks, from the
looks of the ends of these small fuzzy trees.
A dose of sunshine makes things look a whole lot brighter. And
one can’t overlook some major happenings as we reflect on 1993.
The new city fire hall is completed—giving that area an uptown look
that will facilitate the department. Firemen who so diligently check
out their equipment can look forward to a new fire truck this year,
the results of the past year’s efforts.
With the sewer plant renovation underway, that’s a big step in
upgrading city services that has been on the drawing board for several
years. And the sheriff s department and emergency management of
fices in the renovated former Forest Service building certainly puts
them on top of the hill instead of in the basement. Also the medical
clinic addition that allows for more health services is a major
improvement.
Volunteers are the heart of any community. And this week’s Town
and Country affair will acknowledge the 1993 first citizens. Many
people donate their time to worthwhile causes. The implementation
of a new rodeo arena and the PRCA first-class show have been the
results of the hard working rodeo committee, who never gave up
even when they were up against a deadline.
The community benefits from events like Fair and Rodeo, the St.
Patrick’s celebration and other events like Town and Country. And
the county would not be the same without all the people who tirelessly
dedicate their time to serving on various boards. Community sup
port gives a positive feeling when helping the needy such as supply
ing holiday baskets and helping in times of disaster.
It’s appropriate to take time to smell the roses, or in this case, pan
sies, as we launch into a new year. We truly have to be thankful
for the opportunity to live where crime is not a major problem and
children can freely walk the streets. And now that I’ve run out of
excuses. I’ve got to carry on with a resolve to dedicate more time
to some self-help plans-a stab at reducing flab.
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