TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 8, 1995
McMillan wins lamb
Myrtle McMillin, Lexington,
was the winner of a market
lamb cut and that was recently
raffled by People for the Pool,
Inc.
First Interstate hosts 'Buckle-Up' week
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We would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank
St. Williams Catholic Church o fjo n e and Family Bargain
Center of Hermiston fo r 125 coats fo r needy persons this
winter. The Church supplied the money and Family
Bargain made it possible to get these beautiful coats by
giving a nice discount. This is the second year the St.
Williams Church and Family Bargain Center have made
this possible. Thank you for your generosity.
Georgia Rathbun (I) receives a car seat from Florene Robinson
at First Interstate Bank. The car seats were donated
First Interstate Bank is
hosting a variety of transporta
tion safety activities the week
of Feb. 6 through 10. Buckle-Up
week will be hosted in 61 bran
ches throughout Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana in conjunction with state
departments of transportation.
Heppner branch will par
ticipate in children's car seat
give-a-ways; buckle-up impor
tance video, visits from Vince
and Larry the Crash Dummies,
free car seat safety inspections
and free refreshments.
The bank began its aware
ness progam when a teller in
the Hailey Idaho branch notic
ed a number of parents coming
through the drive-up window
with children in their arms. Her
efforts to develop buckle-up
week to raise awareness about
the need for child-safey seats
won her an award from the
Network of Employers for Traf
fic Safety (NETS) in 1994
Besides Heppner other bran
ches in Oregon participating in
clude Condon, Fossil, Her
miston, Pendleton, Pilot Rock,
Baker City, Bums, Enterprise,
John Day, LaGrande, Nyssa,
Ontario, Prairie City and
Union.
Sincerely,
Laura J. Burnside-McElligott, admin., R.N., Morrow County Health Dept.
Player of W eek
Feb. 6 -11
M u s ta n g s
F illie s
Toni Kemp
Trent Hughes
Players of the week are sponsored by
Mustang/Fillie 21
Kindergarten, first and second graders were treated to the Crash Test Dummies (back) Tuesday
at the Heppner Elementary grade school. The Crash Test Dummies were at the school promoting
‘Buckle Up’ week for First Interstate Bank. Pictured in the middle is police chief Doug Rathbun.
Coast to Coast
Les Schwab
First Interstate Bank
Ployhar Insurance
Murray Drugs
Bank of Eastern Oregon
Miller
& Son Welding
Roger Britt Pumping &
Green Feed & Seed
Dump Truck
Van Marter & Kahl
Cals BP Service
Insurance
Devin Oil Co.
Court
Street Market
D & L Repair
Kinzua Resources
R & W Drive In
MCGG
Pettyjohn Building Supply
Heppner Auto Parts
Kate's Pizza
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A rodeo meeting was held in
Spray recently to decide
whether or not to have a rodeo
this year due to the retirement
of rodeo stock contractor John
Rattray of Rattray Rodeos. Rat
tray has been the stock contrac
tor for the Spray Rodeo for 13
years.
A decision was made to have
the rodeo May 27 and 28. Craig
“ Bo" Pinz P9 rodeo company
from Parma, Idaho, was hired
as the stock contractor.
Ken Wright earns
national honor
Kenneth C. Wright, Oregon
electric cooperative director,
was honored by the National
Rural Electric Cooperative
Association during the associa-
tio n 's annual Region IX
meeting held in Portland last
fall.
Wright was first elected to the
board of directors of Columbia
Basin Electric Cooperative, Inc.,
in 1974 and served as secretary-
treasurer from 1981-85.
He was a member of the
ways and means committee of
the Oregon Rural Electric
Cooperative Association from
1979-81.
Wright, the Oregon state
representative on the NRECA
board of directors, received the
board's regional award for
outstanding achievements in
the Rural Electrification Pro
gram. Wright has served as the
Oregon director since 1983 and
plans to step down at the end
os his current term in February.
He has been chairman of the
board's retirement, safety, and
insurance committee.
A rancher, grower and truck
ing businessman, Wright at
tended Blue Mountain Com
munity College and Oregon
State University in Corvallis.
Active in the Masons and the
BPOE Elks Lodge, he is also a
member of the Oregon Cat
tlemen, Sheep Growers and
Hay Growers associations.
Wright received his award, as
well as an award from the
Oregon Rural Electric Cooper
ative Association, respectively,
at the annual meetings of the
two groups held last September
and December.
Great Decisions discussion begins
People interested in interna
tional events and foreign policy
issues can learn more by par
ticipating in Great Decisions,
which is scheduled to begin in
Heppner. The first meeting is
scheduled for Thursday, Feb.
16, at 7 p.m. at “ Twice Upon
a Time", the bookstore located
on Willow Street near city hall.
Great Decisions is sponsored
nationally by the Foreign Policy
Association, a nonpartisan,
nonprofit, independent or
ganization devoted to world af
fairs education for the general
public.
Participants in the program
educate themselves with a
briefing book before weekly
meetings to discuss and debate
one of eight foreign policy
topics. The briefing book,
available for $11, prepares par
ticipants with background and
current data, policy options for
the U .S ., recommended
readings, discussion questions,
photos and maps and opinion
ballots so that participants may
vote for their preferred foreign
policy option
Topic for the first week was
"Russia and Its Neighbors:
U.S. Policy Choices. Other
topics planned this year in
clude: "Nuclear Proliferation:
Can it be capped?"; "United
Nations at 50: Reaching out or
overreaching?"; Middle East:
Lasting steps to peace?";
Global Finance: Trade and
Capital in Flux"; "China.
Taiwan, Hong Kong: Greater
Chinese challenge”; "Immigr.i
tion: An end to open doors",
and Democratization: Defining
U.S. goals".
For more information, con
tact Doris Brosnan at the
bookstore.
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