Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner. Oregon Wednesday, February 1, 1995 - THREE
Creative Care preschool taking New traffic signs Rodeo Court crow ned
orders for Valentine's bouquets to be installed
Creative Care Preschool of
lone will be delivering Valen
tine's Day Sweetheart Specials
in the lone, Lexington and
Heppner areas again this year.
Three varieties of balloon
bouquets, accompanied by
Valentines candy, will be
available with free delivery
within the city limits of lone,
Lexington and Heppner.
Delivery within a 15-mile
radius will be an additional
$2.50 charge. Bouquets range
from $3 to $6.95 and should be
ordered by February 8. For
order information contact Joyce
Graff, 422-7191 or Anne
Morter, 422-7429.
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Excuse me, would the public relations writer from First In
terstate Bank please step forward. It's time folks like this were
indoctrinated to wintertime ranch recreation to fully appreciate
"a mid-winter lull in agricultural activity" as stated in last week's
newspaper article.
Like some growers, Oregon's number one agricultural pro
ducers in the nursery business might be taking it easier now that
the Christmas season is over and the ground is either frozen or
muddy. However greenhouse attendants are more likely to be
found on their knees praying for more sunshine to produce regal
roses for Valentine's Day while also breathing life into sprouting
plants.
Perhaps local cattle ranchers, a small segments of Oregon's top
ag industry, visited this bank during their recent open house.
According to the article this affair was in part to give recogni
tion to the importance of agricluture in Oregon's economy. A
more likely scenario is that of rancher wearing battered hat and
boots crawling into the bank on his knees hoping that the bank
might approve an operating loan in the face of a depressed cat
tle market.
Now on with this wintertime lull stuff. Ranchers should enter
tain guests during calving season, especially urban writers. They
should wear old clothing and abolish mental pictures of cattle
drivers flooded with sunshine. Nor should they anticipate a
Christmas card scene depicting teams of horses pulling wagon
loads of hay across snowy meadows.
Undoubtedly some visitors would choose to forgo the fun of
rolling around in the mud to put on tire chains in order to feed
hungry, bawling cows a pickup load of hay. But surely
newcomers can agree that slithering about in the mud and boun
cing over rocks and badger holes can be as exhilarating as a
pristine snowmobile ride.
* It's all part of the fun when wind and rain drives hay particles
down the neck and into eyes. Just as some cattle behave like a
football team that blocks forward movements while the quarter
back make end runs to jerk hay bales off the back of the load.
Now if urban dwellers don't care to get up early enough to
participate in these kind of morning activities they can take part
in other fun chores. These include breaking ice on watering
troughs, pitching cow patties out of bams and repairing fences
that have given way to pressure.
More meaningful would be an actual hands-on experience of
assisting with a birthing that sometimes requires baring one arms
during inclement weather. Or how about helping catch and doc
tor a sick calf? If outsiders prefer they could join the night stalkers
who routinely crawl out of a warm bed to check the maternity
ward.
There are places that guests would be sure to not miss any ac
tion. Take the Krebs Ranches at Cecil where at this time of year
around-the-clock assistance is given to a continual avalanche of
new bom lambs that are dropping like snowflakes during a
blizzard.
Ranching income could be supplemented by catering to guests,
But with many ranch wives already working in town to supple
ment ranch incomes, it would behoove guests to be self-sufficient
with cozy RVs. Many ranchers eat on the run at this time of year
and dinner forks can be as hazardous as pitchforks if someone
gets in the line of fire.
It's said that urbanites are willing to pay just to get their hands
dirty while experiencing a western atmosphere. But like the
definition of clean water, ranchers don't have a clue as to what
other folks might define as 'dirty'.
Yet during this calving lull, ranchers are just gearing up so that
they can really get things done during the longer days ahead.
Along with spring time branding, there's the irrigating, haying
and the rotation of pastures and keeping cows from stepping
in creeks.
At fall weaning time, cows are put through chutes, treated and
pregnancy checked. She may have been a 'good ole hide' but
if she's not carrying another calf it's unlikely that she will receive
another winter's hay rations. After selling a calf crop, it's time
to determine if there's enough left over to pay back the bank and
meet tax payments as ranchers take a familiar grip on the pitch
fork routine during another calving season. Volunteers for this
seven day a week business could be an asset providing they're
willing to forgo a football game on TV and that they carry their
own insurance.
In an effort to improve
vehicular traffic safety at the
new South Court St. bridge,
safety specialists with the
Oregon Department of Trans
portation have, after analyzing
the new traffic configuration,
provided the city of Heppner
with new traffic signs, says
Gary Marks, city manager.
A new stop sign will be in
stalled on South Court Street,
at the intersection of Court and
Matlock Street. The sign will
control traffic approaching from
the south. The sign will require
all traffic to stop prior to enter
ing the new bridge. The effect
of the new stop sign will be to
slow traffic speeds approaching
the new intersection with the
bridge and the South Court
Street curve.
In addition, a new reflective
directional arrow sign will be
installed on the north side of
the South Court street curve
immediately across from the in
tersection with the new bridge.
This sign will act to notify
drivers that the intersection is
a " T " intersection.
Rondi Robinson, Heppner (I) was crowned queen of the Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail
Pro Rodeo during Town and Country days Wednesday, January 11. Princess are Stephanie Skultety,
Hermiston (center) and Michelle Meakins, Boardman (right).
Engagements
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There were 109 people present for the senior birthday dinner
Jan. 25. Nine meals were taken out. John Hanna received the
birthday gift and Bebe Munkers the meal ticket. Members of the
Christian Life Center served.
The menu for Feb. 8 will be turkey burger on a bun, oven fries,
raisin/carrot salad, pear and cottage cheese salad and fig bar
cookie. Members of the Seventhday Adventist and Nazarene
Churches will serve. The Senior Center Board will meet follow
ing the meal.
The family of Ruth Bently has extended an invitation to all her
friends to join her at a potluck dinner Feb.4 at Stokes landing
Senior Center, Irrigon. Ruth will be 90 years young. For more
information call the Heppner Senior Center, 676-9030.
Darrel Vinson is doing very well at home. He can now get out
side for some exercise, which is happy news for all his friends
at the senior center.
Four ladies played cards Friday afternoon, Jan 27. There were
10 present for the movie Fudge Amania Sunday evening.
Dates to remember: Tues. and Thurs. exercise 10 a.m.; Wed.
senior meal, noon, quilting 1 p.m.; Friday cards 2 p.m.; Sunday
movie 7 p.m.
Saturday Feb. 4 Ruth Bently's 90th birthday party, Irrigon;
Saturday Feb. 18, bus trip to ice show. Tuesday Feb. 14, RSVP tea.
Remember to sign up to work shifts during the St. Patrick
clebration. Many volunteers are needed to make the Senior pro
jects successful.
D alos — Stack
Sean Paul Stack and Tara Lynn Dalos have announced their
engagement and upcoming marriage.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Jim and Karen Dalos of Eagle,
Idaho. She is a graduate of Oregon State University and is cur
rently attending Boise State University. She is employed by Bogus
Basin Ski Resort near Boise, ID.
The groom-elect is the son of Francis and Karen Stack of
Chester, Montana, former Heppner residents. He is a graduate
of Big Sandy High School in Montana and the University of Idaho
in mechanical engineering. He is currently employed by Trus-
Joist Mac Millan Company in Boise as an engineer in wood pro
ducts. His grandparents are Raymond and Charlotte Lundell of
Eugene.
The couple plan a February 18 wedding in Boise.
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