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It wk Elks announce scholarship winners BOXHOLDER HEPPNER imes VOL. 113 NO. 6 8 Pages Wednesday, February 9, 1994 Morrow County Heppner, Oregon lone man dies in Willow Creek Lake Heidi Orem Tony Becket Leaders of America and the lone Youth Group, Orem spent last year as an exchange student in Germany. Orem intends to major in special education with plans to be a special education teacher for the hearing im paired. National Honor Society. He was a member of the varsity football team and the Wild Horse Club. Becket was selected for the Knowledge Master Open and is the vice president of the Out- d(x>r Club. He has also been nam ed to “ Who’s Who Among A m erican High School Students.” Becket says he hopes to attend Stanford University with majors in marketing and drama to pur sue a career in acting, start a business or become an executive. Greenup, the 17 year-old daughter of Greg and Janet Greenup of Heppner has played on junior varsity and varsity volleyball and basketbal teams and varsity golf at Heppner High School. She is a member of the Wild Horse Club, the Outdoor Club, the National Honor Socie ty, and the student council. Greenup has been active in the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church youth group, 4-H and FFA. She has received the American Citizen ship Award and has been includ ed in “ Who’s Who Among American High School Students” all four years of high school. Greenup says she plans to enroll at Oregon State Universi ty, majoring in veterinary medicine. Rick Koffler Eighteen year-old Rick Koffler is the son of George and Debbie Koffler of Heppner. He is the president of the Wild Horse Club and the treasurer of the National Honor Society. He was a member of the Outdoor Club, and lettered in football, basketball and baseball all four years of high school. Koffler was a student council class representative and has volunteered as an assistant coach for the Col'. Basketball teams. Koffler plans to major in sports medicine at Western Oregon State College or Linfield to become a college team therapist. Joe Lindsay were not effective, so a diver who had been called from Boardman suited up and dove into the frigid water. The diver, 17 year-old Toby Hall, who was assisted by his brother, Ty, from the shore, was able to snag the pickup. Toby Hall, who is a senior at Riverside High School, a certified diver and a First Responder, was called back into the water first to shut the door of the vehicle, which was open about a foot and then again to reattach the pickup, which was pulled out of the water by Lexington Auto Body. Hall said that this was his first rescue dive, although he had many prac tice dives and had gone on 50 to 60 ambulance runs. After the vehicle began to em erge from the w ater, authorities were able to determine the correct license plate of the blue Dodge and the owner of the vehicle. Police are unsure as to why the pickup had gone off the bank, but District Attorney Earl Woods said that observers had previously seen Buschke park ex tremely close to the bank to fish. The cause of death is under in vestigation pending an autopsy. Morrow County Sheriff Roy Drago said that Buschke’s death was the first at Willow Creek Lake. Lindsay, 17, is the son of Larry and Corrine Lindsay, Lexington. A senior at Heppner High School this year, Lindsay is the FFA Chapter president and was vice- president his junior year. He played on on the varsity football, basketball and track teams. He is a three-year member of the HHS Drama Club and received first place in a Blue Mountain Com munity College radio broad casting skills contest. Lindsay was one of the St. Patrick Catholic Church youth to attend World Youth Day at Denver in 1993. Lindsay plans to major in agricultural education first at Blue Mountain Community College and then at the University of Idaho. He says he hopes to return to Eastern Oregon to teach voca tional education at the high school level. Heidi Orem, the 17 year-old daughter of Joe and Anita Orem of lone, has been a member of Honor Society for the past three years. She is a member of the lone High School tennis and volleyball teams and is a manager for the IHS girls basketball team. A member of the Future Business Erin Fishburn Erin Fishburn. 17, is the daughter of Earl and Peggy Fishburn of Heppner. She is the vice president of the National Honor Society and has been a member of student council all four years of high school. She has been selected for “ Who’s Who Among High School Students.” Fishbum is a member of the dance team and has been both a Sunday school teacher and a Bi ble school teacher. She was a member of the Knowledge Master Team and is on the Oregon Together Coordinating Council. She has also won several speech, essay and skills contests. Fishbum plans to attend a small university, majoring in accoun ting or business administration. She says she hopes to become a certified public accountant. MCGG plans appreciation day Dick Sargent shows the many door prizes to be given away Saturday at the MCGG appreciation breakfast The Morrow County Grain Growers will hold their annual Customer Appreciation Day this Saturday. Feb. 12 from 8 a.m. to noon. In addition to the traditional free pancake breakfast, the co-op w ill also offer many door prizes, factory representatives, and other special events Saturday. There will be 300 carnations handed out to the first 300 ladies, and everyone is invited to attend Friday, Feb. 11 Willows Grange lone Starts 9 a.m. » . **'**! ■ Don't miss Morrow County Grain Growers MCGG Customer APPRECIATION DAY Grower’s meeting A diver Toby Hall, was called in to help with the recovery. • Sara Greenup Seventeen year-old Tony Becket is the son of Ronald Becket of Heppner and Dianna Becket. A member of the Drama Club, Becket was selected to at tend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival summer seminar for juniors. He has been the student council secretary and publicity director and the secretary for the Other fishermen at the lake became suspicious when they found fishing pole and cooler unattended. ' ** v. • * Sara Greenup and Joe Lindsay have been named the first place Elks Scholarship winners. Both Greenup and Lindsay went on to the district contest where Greenup took third place. Accor ding to Dean Robinson, contest coordinator, the third-place finish at district will give Greenup at least an additional $650, with a maximum of $1,000 a year for four years.. Second-place winners at the local level were Heidi Orem and Rick Koffler and third-place win ners were Erin Fishbum and Tony Becket. Buschke’s pickup is pulled from Willow Creek Lake Louis ‘B arney’ Buschke, believed to be 82 or 83, of lone, was discovered dead when his pickup was pulled from Willow Creek Lake near Heppner around 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8. According to Norm Zeller of the Oregon State Police, he deceived a call around 9a.m . that a pickup had been spotted in Willow Creek. Zeller said that he searched the creek and discovered nothing. Two fishermen, Eddie Gunderson and Everett Keck, had also arrived on the scene and call ed Heppner Police Chief Doug Rathbun after they saw an unat tended fishing pole and cooler and tire tracks going off the bank on the east side of the lake near the handicapped access area and became suspicious. Zeller, in the meantime had received another call that a pickup had been seen in Willow Creek Lake. He then discovered the vehicle. Rathbun then arrived and the Morrow County Sheriffs Department was also alerted to the situation. The accident is believed to have occurred between 8 a.m ., when Rathbun last saw the deceased and around 9 a.m. when the ac cident was first reported. Lyle Verrall of the Army Corps of Engineers was also call ed to the scene and drove a boat around to the submerged vehicle, which had been spotted by an oil slick in the water. He determin ed that a body was in the cab of the pickup. Because of murky water and distortion, authorities, using binoculars from the bank at first believed that the vehicle was owned by a 31 -year old man from Hermiston. Because of mechanical dif ficulties and extremely cold tem peratures, the wrecking crew’s arrival was delayed. Efforts by Zeller and Vcrall to hook the vehicle from the boat with a cable from the wrecker / --m i I - ■ ■ .VH, Free Pancake Breakfast 8 a.m. - noon D oor P rizes F actory R eps S p ecial E v en ts Carnations to the first 300 Ladies •.'’V X v :; r it? ■ ; »•*..'
