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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.
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MCGG Customer APPRECIATION DAY
Grower’s meeting
A diver Toby Hall, was called in to help with the recovery.
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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.
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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
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Free Pancake Breakfast
8 a.m. - noon
D oor
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F actory
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Carnations to the first 300 Ladies
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