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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.
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