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____ Jm m m it^ÊÊÊÊ^ÊÊtifÊtttlttÊllÊÊÊÊÊÊÊKtlÊÊÊ a P ti SIX- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 23, 1994 Student council donated banner St. Pat’s hoop shoot Dance brings cultural experience to lone winners announced By Anne Morter Student council members L-R: Gretchen Berretta, president; Erin Fishburn, treasurer; Chris Dickenson, vice president; Theo Greenup and Kay Proctor, People for the Pool, Tony Becket, publicity director; Jenny Krein, secretary and Sara Greenup, business manager, donate Blazer banner to People for the Pool to raffle. A Portland Trailblazcr banner signed by team members will be raffled to benefit People for the Pool. The banner, which was donated by the Heppner High School student council is displayed at the Shoe Box in Heppner. Chances for the banner will be sold for 25 cents or five for S I. The high school received the ban ner by signing a pledge to have a d ru g -free, alcohol free graduation. DMV may be phased out in Heppner Driver’s tests could be a thing of the past in Heppner as soon as next month, if a new Motor Vehicles Department regional supervisor has his way. According to Patty Issel at the Heppner DMV office, a new regional director from California, Pat Smith, has proposed that driver's tests be eliminated and office hours reduced at the Hepp ner DMV office. Smith also pro posed shutting down the Condon office entirely. The DMV office closest to Heppner that provide driver’s tests would be Hermiston or Pendleton. Smith said, in a letter, that it would be easy for people in the Condon area to go elsewhere for tests. But, in reali ty. people in Fossil and Spray, for example, who now go to the DMV office in Condon, would have to travel an enormous distance to take a driver’s test. Smith said that the change in hours would cut down on the overtime that the department would have to pay. He also said that neither Heppner nor Condon are adequate places to conduct tests, because the towns have no street lights and “ only one in tersection.” If the department eliminates driver’s tests it can put a lower ranking employee with less ex perience in the Heppner office, thereby reducing payroll costs. Issel also travels to the Condon DMV office once a month. Anyone with complaints or concerns about the proposed changes may call Smith at the Baker City office, 1-503 523- 7347, or write: Pat Smith, Region Supervisor. 1050 Si Bridge St., P.O. Box 751, Baker. OR 97814. Hoop shoot winners over the St. Patrick’s weekend were: Five and under: first-Matt McCabe, seeond-Lane Bailey, third-Kody Lovgren. 6-7 year olds: girls, first- Krystal Naims. seeond-Shanna Rietmann, third-Madison Bailey; boys. first-Kiel Nairns. second- Lance Lott. third-Craig Adams. 8-9 year olds: girls, first-Jodie Carlson. second-Kory Waterland, third-Marcy Miller: boys, first- Trent Lowe, second-K yle Waterland. third-Brad Adams. 10-11 year olds: girls, first- Lisa Ford. second-M arissa McCabe, third-Shelly Rietmann; boys first-Travis Lowe, second- Shad Hisler, third-Craig Scott. 12 year olds: girls, first- Elizabeth Allen, second-Cheri Jones; boys first-Kevin Baker, second-Cody Bellamy. Daylight Savings time April 3 Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday April 3. Everyone is reminded to “ spring forward” and set their clocks ahead one hour. community development and up dating the Heppner Action Plan. The Council will hold another special meeting on Tuesday, April 5 to tie the development strategy and action plan into pro ject proposals for the Regional Econom ic D evelopm ent Strategies program. Student essays to be judged nationally Heppner High School juniors Bryce Tucker, Mark Moeller. Dani Hill and Jenny Krein’s essays for The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America have been selected at the state level to be sent on for na tional judging. All the students in Linda Dut- cher's honors language arts III class entered the competition in which students were instructed to write a 500 word essay on the topic “ Should Congressional Terms Be Limited?” National winners will be notified in early April. The na tional winners are awarded a week long congressional seminar in Washington. D.C., June 25 through July 1. Students are awarded $695 to pay applica tion fees, tuition, dormitory rooms, meals at Mary mount Col lege. seminar materials and local tran sp o rtatio n for sem inar activities. The Oregon Hunter Education gold award has been given to Randy Rayburn and Mycal Osmin, both Heppner and Greg Barron and Tim Beatty, both Ir- rigon, by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for service to the state’s hunter education program. They are among 900 volunteer instructors throughout Oregon who conduct hunter education classes for young hunters. The classes are required of all hunters under age 18 before they can hunt wildlife in Oregon and are designed to teach young hunters to be ethical, responsible and safe in the field. “ Hunter Education is a success prim arily because o f our volunteer instructors.” says Mike Bickler, hunter education coor- Heppner • 676-9481 dinator for the Oregon Depart ment of Fish and Wildlife. “ 1 always marvel at the level of commitment by all types of volunteers. They are the kind of people who care enough to get in volved. The hard work of the Oregon hunter education instruc tor pays off not only in reduced hunting accidents but improved behavior and better attitudes about hunting. Without our volunteers, there wouldn’t be a hunter education program.” Instructors receive award points for the classes and students they teach and can earn the bronze, silver, gold and the highest award; the platinum, for their service. The gold award will be presented to those selected Saturday, May 7 at the Hunter Education C onference in Medford. Methodist plan Holy week services A Maundy Thursday service March 31, will be held at the United Methodist church in Heppner at 6:30 p.m. The service will include a light meal of Biblical foods, a communion ser vice traditionally known as The Lord's Supper and a Tenebrae service. Tenebrae are scripture readings which follow the Lord's Supper and precede Jesus’ resurrection. Easter Sunday service will be held April 3 at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is cordially invited to attend any of the services. Medical terminology class offered A five-week teleconference series on Medical Terminology is being broadcast over ED-NET I to eight N ortheast Oregon hospitals, including Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner. The class will meet April 1,8, 15, 22 and 29 from noon to 1 p.m. The series is for medical transcriptionists, medical office secretaries, CNA’s, clinic staff, lab assistants and those who lack formal training in medical terminology. The class will be presentd by Sherri Manner, an accredited records technician with 10 years experience in medical records. Manner works as the admitting PBX manager and utilization review coordinator at Grande Pot O ’ Gold winners March 31! home base a stone’s throw from school, Newman found her home stay convenient and enjoyable. She said they visited Heppner, took in the sports awards dessert and showed slides at a Grange meeting. “ It was extremely generous of Dot to take me in,” she said. The Artist in Education Pro gram is a grant administered by Eastern Oregon State College for which the schools must apply each year. Betty Rietmann. the in-school coordinator says that it is a way to expose rural children to experiences they wouldn’t have otherwise. “ It’s a great deal for us,” she says. Hunters education teachers honored Coordinating Council plans meetings The Heppner Coordinating Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday, March 29 at the GEODC office. The meeting will begin at 7:30 a.m. The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the council’s mis sion statement, strategies for The students o f lone Elemen tary School were treated to a myriad of cultural experiences these last two weeks, without go ing any further than their gym nasium. A look at Asia. Africa, Eastern Europe, Lapland, the Mediterra nean and Latin America, came to them in the form of Carol Newman and the Artist in Educa tion program. Hailing from Brownsmead, near Astoria, Newman’s specialty is folk dance, but as the students can attest, she did much more than show them dance steps. Each day, she wore clothing and jewelry from a different part of the world. With each costume, she discussed the culture and taught the local greeting. The students were introduced to alphabets like Cyrillic, Arabic, Tibetan and Hebrew. Newman also showed slides of her travels and displayed her mementos col lected while traveling the world. Completing the artist’s two week stay, which was slightly in terrupted by basketball and chicken pox, the students presented a program to the school and community, demonstrating traditional folk dances as well as their original dances. Dot Halvorsen was Newman's hostess for her stay in lone. With Three winners were drawn for the Pot of Gold during the St. Patrick's Day celebration. Each person whose lucky number was drawn won $100. Numbers were on the back of buttons which were purchased for $3. Winner at the auction was A1 Aragon from Richland. WA.; Bull Bustin winner was Claudia Huston Smythe: and Sunday at the barbecue Queen Staci O'Brien drew Shirley McNary’s name for the $100 prize. Checks will be mailed to the winners from the St. Patrick's Celebration committee. Ronde Hospital in LaGrande. In addition to PMH the teleconference will be offered at H erm iston, Pendleton, La Grande, John Day, Ontario, Baker City and Enterprise. Cost of the teleconference is $10. Pre-registration is required and must be received by March 16. For more information, contact Northeast Oregon AHEC at 962-3801. Now that Newman has packed her bags and returned home, she hopes that the children feel like they got more from the program than two weeks of folk dance lessons. “ One of the lessons we learned is how different we are and yet how much the same we are,” she said, stressing that when people come from another country they need support and understanding. Newman says that dance and movement are an in ternational language with lots of life lessons. She teaches that peo ple can express themselves through dance and movement. And “ hopefully a little bit rubs off,” she says. HHS students to attend workshop Heppner High School students Patty Anderson and Matthew Hoobing have been selected to at tend the 10th annual State Writing Festival, a day-long workshop conference held at the Portland State University in Portland on Saturday, May 7. Tracy Blodgett and Jessica Sumner were selected alternates. Students from all over the state in grades one through 12 were selected locally for their outstan ding piece of writing to share with fellow students at the festival. Students and teachers will also participate in workshops con ducted by professional writers and outstanding teachers from across the state. The Oregon Writing Festival, which is sponsored by the Oregon Council of Teachers of English with assistance from the Oregon Department of Education and Portland State University, is organized to recognize Oregon students and teachers for their ef forts to improve writing, as well as to encourage their continued enthusiastic respect for the writing process. Extension plans 4-H golf day Volunteers for a Morrow County 4-H and Extension Ser vice District petition and election project are sponsoring a golf tour nament at the Willow Creek Country Club in Heppner April 22 . The purpose of the tournament is to have fun and to raise money to pay for advertising and other costs associated with the effort to form an Extension service district, said an Extension spokesperson. Golf activities will begin at 10 a.m. and end around 3 p.m. Lunch and snacks will be provided by Extension volunteers. The cost for the “ Fun G o lf’ Day is $12 per person for Willow Creek County Club Members and $20 for non-club members. Golfers will play as skill balanc ed four-person teams. Team groups will be formed by the tournament committee. John Ed- mundson. Bob Jepsen and Harold Kerr. R egistration form s are available at Columbia Basin golf pro shops. OSU Extension and experiment stations, or by calling 1-800-342-3664. Over the years some things never change at a quality dealership HONES TY-INTEGRITY-RESPONSIBILITY-SER VICE Doing business for over 45 years in the same old fashioned way SHERRELL CHEVROLET Hermiston, Oregon Phone 567-6487
