TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 18, 1994
Fun at Outdoor School....
Tupper Outdoor School is like
the camp songs that run through
the hearts and minds of youthful
campers. It just won’t die.
Despite the slings and arrows
of Ballot Measure 5, teachers and
parents, some of whom attended
Outdoor School themselves, are
determined to keep the ex
perience alive for future
sixth-graders.
Outdoor School could have
been a casualty of Ballot Measure
5 budget cuts. This will be the last
year that the week-long camping
experience and many other school
programs will receive school
district funding. Outdoor School
has been partially funded through
5th and 6th-grade fund raisers,
such as ticket sales for a televi
sion in Heppner and bake sales,
bottle drives, free throw contests
and other money-makers for
schools. This year Heppner rais
ed around $2,900. “ We usually
make more than we spend,” said
Heppner Elementary School
sixth-grade teacher and Tupper
veteran Dave Gunderson.
Gunderson, alias “ Hoosier” ,
his camp nickname, is a strong
proponent of the program. “ It
gets better every year,” he said.
Gunderson says that the real Heppner and lone sixth graders learn to make tracks Wednes
benefit of the program is the day as part of the Outdoor school at the Tupper Guard Station.
responsibility, cam araderie,
cooperation and teamwork that
the camp instills in the children,
in addition to a great deal of
knowledge about the outdoors.
The Outdoor School has been
in existence over 20 years. The
staff is a real melding of the
Heppner and lone communities.
Gunderson is in his 8th year. Jan-
nie “ Cricket” Allen, lone, also
a sixth-grade teacher at Heppner
Elementary, has been a camp
teacher for six years and Dean
“ Rowdy” Robinson, Heppner,
language arts teacher at lone
Schools, has been a Tupper
teacher seven years. Fifth-grade
HMS teacher Bill “ Honker” Ew
ing has taught at the camp four
years and sixth-grade HMS
teacher Vicky “ Bro” Broden is
on her second year. Greg
“ Woody” (short for wood duck,
his favorite bird) Likens, lone Students enjoy free time during a break in the day.
science teacher, is a three-year
veteran. Gunderson, Allen and tend camp this year during the to waive their normal cam
Robinson were full time Tupper daytime. Boardman and Irrigon pground fee next year. The last
teachers, while Ewing, Broden students attended Outdoor School two years the Tupper teachers
and Likens taught part time. Bob- the previous week.
received extra duty pay, but, says
This year the district budgeted Gunderson, “ We have done it for
bi Angell has been camp cook for
$4,111 for the camp, which will years without extra pay.”
the past five years.
have
to be raised by other means
This year during the Heppner-
The Heppner Parents Club has
next
year.
Costs include wages already planned a car wash to
Ione week, the camp housed 52
Heppner kids, 15 lone kids and for substitutes to replace the raise funds for Tupper, this Satur
15 high school counselors in ad teachers who are at Tupper, bus day, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 3
dition to the cook, staff members transportation and food, which is p.m., behind Les Schwab. The
and assorted parents who come around $30 per student for the car wash will also feature hot
up during the day to help out in week. The Forest Service has dogs, popcorn, pop and baked
the kitchen. A handicapped stu discussed the rental of the Tup goods for sale.
dent, Eric Rollis. was able to at- per Guard Station and may agree
Lexington News
By Delpha Jones
from Yakima Valley, WA.,
visited in Lexington one day last
week.
-:-M r. and Mrs. Franklin
-:-Alice Majeske has returned
home after a stay in the hospital
in Walla Walla, WA.
-:-Mr. and Mrs. Ken Marshall
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Messenger are spending some
time in Lexington to be near his
father Truman E. Messenger,
Sr., who was a patient at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital.
-:-Graveside services were held
Saturday in Illwacu for Myrtle J.
Miller. Mrs. Miller was the
mother of Earl Miller, former
Heppner resident and a sister of
Cecil Jones. Kenneth Jones at
tended the service on Saturday.
-:-The last of the series of card
parties held at the Oddfellow Hall
was Saturday evening. Winning
prizes were: women’s high-Carol
Norris, second-Kathy Tellechea;
m en 's high-V ern K eithley,
second-Bob Taylor; traveling-Sue
Vinson and Delpha Jones.
Refreshments were served by the
host and hostess Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Taylor.
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Approximately 35 kids and five adults pulled rye for seven hours Saturday at the Ken Turner
ranch outside of Heppner. Money earned from rye pulling will be applied toward the students
pay-to-participate job bank program. Extra money earned will be donated to the Wildhorse
Club, which in the past has been used to build a weight room at HHS, buy a VCR and much
needed extra equipment used for the students that has not been budgeted for. Along with
Turner students and parents have pulled for Tommy Martin, Jerry Doherty and Irv Rauch.
Students have two more weeks to pull rye. The program was started by Greg Grant about
three years ago.
Flood awareness
week set
The Morrow County Emergen
cy Management Center, in con
junction with the National
Weather Service and the Army
Corps of Engineers, has schedul
ed Flash Flood Awareness Week
from May 31 to June 3, Casey
Beard, Emergency Management
Center director, has announced.
June 3 is the 91st anniversary of
the catastrophic 1903 Heppner
flood.
Beard says that the Army
Corps of Engineers has planned
tours of the Willow Creek Dam
May 31 and June 1 and 2, at 10
a.m ., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. For
group tours, call 676-5161.
Those interested in taking the
tours should meet at the base of
the dam on the side opposite the
baseball field.
R epresentatives from the
weather service and Corps will
tell how flash floods occur and
explain why H eppner is
vulnerable.
On June 3, a practice flash
flood drill will be held in the mor
ning to test the current flood plan.
A critique of the drill has been
planned for the afternoon.
To schedule a speaker for
groups or meetings on the flash
flood awareness program, call
Beard, 676-5161.
Bike-a-thon May 22
By Anne Morter
The lone St. Jude Bike-a-thon
has been rescheduled for Sunday,
May 22. The event was postpon
ed due to rain last Sunday.
Registration begins at noon
near the lone Fire Hall. Two
courses are available: a 22 mile
ride from Ruggs to lone and a one
mile circuit route within the lone
City limits. Rides to Ruggs will
leave at 12:30 p.m. for anyone
needing transportation. Bicyclists
may also register at Ruggs. Both
rides will begin at 1 p.m.
The lone St. Jude Bike-a-thon
raises funds for the St. Jude
Children’s Hospital in Memphis,
TN ., the leading childhood
cancer research center in the
country.
Anyone needing further infor
mation should contact coor
d inators, Anne M orter at
422-7429 or Janet Thompson,
422-7549.
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Flight A: low gross-Pat Ed-
mundson; low net-Anita Boyer;
least putts-Luvilla Sonstegard;
K.P. tt\ Anita Boyer; K.P. #8 Pat
Edmundson.
Flight B: low gross-Linda
Schultz; low net-Carol Norris;^
least putts-Karen Thompson.
Flight C: low gross-Joyce
Dinkins; low net-Dorris Graves;
least putts-Doll Campbell, Betty
Christman, Dorothy Hawkins.
St. Patrick’s
Senior Center
Bulletin Board_ _
There were 106 people present for the senior dinner May 11. Eight
dinners were taken out. Elsie Huston won the meal ticket. Bill Cox
the door prize and Shirley Currier received the guest gift. Members
of the Christian Life Center served. The senior board met following
the dinner. Eva Mabbot and Carol Mitchell of CAPECO were pre
sent for the meeting.
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The menu for the birthday dinner May 25 will be baked ham, com,
potato rounds, carrot raisin salad, rolls, gingerbread and ice cream.
Members from the Seventh-Day Adventist and Nazarene churches
will serve.
There will be a Health Choices meeting on May 24 from 6 to 9
p.m. These meetings are held to explain the Oregon State Health
Insurance program. There are many changes that everyone should
know about. Only one person attended the meeting in April.
The Health Fair “ Wellness Through the Ages” will be held at the
senior center Thursday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All ages
are invited to attend.
One table of pinochle was played Friday afternoon. Eight seniors
were present for the movie Sunday, “ A Cry in the Wild” .
Dates to remember: Monday, Bible study, 10:30 a.m.; Tues. and
Thurs., exercise, 10 a.m .; Friday, cards, 2 p.m.; Sunday, movie,
7 p.m.
Bedding Plants
Flowers
Vegetables
Herbs
Corinne’s Greenhouse
Fuller Canyon Road
8-6, Mon.-Sat.
Phone 676-5016