SIX- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 15, 1995
Josh Winters is honorary Globetrotter
Heppner fourth grader Josh
Winters went to a Globetrotters
exhibition at the Tri-Cities for
a little entertainment. Little did
he know he would end up the
center of attention.
Josh went to the game Tues
day, Feb. 21, with his family,
who were able to get seats right
on the floor for what was to be
a sell-out crowd.
During the fourth quarter of
the game, one of the players,
named 'Showtime', came up to
Josh, grabbed him by the hand
and lead him out on the floor.
First Showtime had Josh
stand behind him and wrap his
arms around his waist. They
threw the ball to Josh and Josh
threw up the ball and made a
basket. The members of the
team gave Josh high fives and
then some started arguing that
there was no basket.
After that Showtime said that
the team was going to make
Josh an honorary Globetrotter.
According to Josh's mother,
Rhonda, the team members all
stood around him and then "all
of a sudden, out pops his
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shirt." The Globetrotters told
him that to be an honorary
member, he had to show his
muscles to the crowd and walk
like a Globetrotter. Rhonda
says that Josh was a good sport
and had a lot of fun. Josh was
presented a Globetrotter shirt
and wrist bands. He was also
featured on the Tri-Cities televi
sion station. Rhonda says that
the whole family had a great
time and Josh's brother, Travis,
was able to get Showtime's
autograph.
Meeting slated
on Main St. design
The Oregon Department of
Transportation street designers
will hold a meeting Tuesday,
March 28 at the Columbia Basin
Board room beginning at
10 a.m. to take public input
related to the design of Hepp-
ner's new Main and May
Streets.
Heppner's Main and May
Streets and sidewalks are
scheduled for reconstruction
for fiscal year 1997. All in
terested Main and May Street
business owners/operators,
property owners and interested
citizens are invited to attend.
"This meeting will be the
place to help ODOT develop a
design concept for our new
downtown," said city manager
Gary Marks. "People with
questions, concerns or ideas
about the new streets and
sidewalks should plan to attend
and participate."
7-12 configuration
meeting tonight
A meeting concerning the
grades 7-12 configuration at
Heppner High School this fall
has been scheduled for
Wednesday, March 15, begin
ning at 7:30 p.m. at the Hepp
ner Junior High School gym.
The agenda will include the
formation of the transition com
mittee and outlining committee
tasks.
VOTE
Have you ever paid your
dues to the National Pest Con
trol Association and wondered
whether you've gotten your
dollars worth from it each year?
Do you think that NPCA only
works for the big companies?
My husband, John Jepsen,
and I are part owners of a small
family pest control company in
Oregon. We recently found
that NPCA will go the extra
mile regardless of the size of
your company. Our company,
Dobyns Pest Control, lone,
provides fumigation as well as
other pest control services. As
any pest control operator
knows, if you transport
fumigants, then your vehicle
must be placarded. Plus,
anyone driving that vehicle
must hold a commercial
driver's license (CLD) with a
hazmat endorsement.
When John, who is deaf and
wears a cochlear implant, went
to get his CLD three years ago,
he was told by several state
Department of Motor Vehicles
(DMV) personnel that there
was no point in even going to
have the physical because, as
they put it, "you can't hear a
doctor whisper-a requirement
of the physical."
When John came home and
relayed this to me, he was a lit
tle discouraged to say the least.
I told him, "They can't do that.
It's discrimination." So began
the long battle with the DMV
and Public Utilities Commis
sion (PUC). If you have ever
been in a similar position, you
can understand our frustration
of being referred from one of
fice to another with no one
wanting to make a decision
concerning our problem.
After having new hearing
tests run, making innumerable
phone calls, writing and filling
out seemingly hundreds of
forms, and finding that we had
to deal with a special handicap
ped section at the agency, John
was granted a CLD with a
waiver for intrastate driving in
Oregon. This means that John
could never drive to service ac
counts in Oregon or to even
pick up his supplies in Wash
ington. He would have to hire
someone to drive the vehicle
whenever he wanted to trans-
Local girls place in rodeo
Heppner and Lexington girls
placed in the Roseburg High
School Rodeo held March 3-6.
Lexi Matteson of Heppner
took fourth in barrel racing and
seventh in breakaway. Tiffanie
Munkers, Lexington, took
third-fourth in cutting, third in
goat tying and ninth in
breakaway.
Other area statistics are as
follows: barrels, Katie McCoin,
Condon, third.
Cutting: Tiffanie Munkers,
third/fourth; Mandy Duby,
Pendleton eighth-10th.
Goat tying: Munkers, third;
Duby, fifth, and McCoin, 10th.
Poles: McCoin, seventh and
Munkers, ninth.
Breakaway:
M atteson,
seventh.
Munkers is second in the
Oregon High School Rodeo
state standings for all around,
12th in barrels, first in cow cut
ting and goat tying, fifth in
breakaway and 11th in poles.
Matteson is third in the state
standings for all around and
barrels, sixth in goat tying, first
in breakaway, ninth in poles
and second in girls' rookie.
McCoin is ninth in all
around, fifth in barrels, fourth
in goat tying and seventh in
poles.
Other area state standings
are as follows: all around-
Duby, 22nd, Amber Evans,
27th, and Billy Jo Swanson,
34th, all Pendleton; barrels-
Evans, seventh; girls' cow
cutting-Duby, 10th; goat tying-
Duby, third, Evans, 12th;
breakaway-Swanson, 11th;
poles McCoin seventh; girls'
rookie-Evans, eighth.
Museum seeks W W II material
The Morrow County Mu
seum has been chosen by the
Oregon Council for the
Humanities to host one of five
showings in Oregon of the
Smithsonian Institution travel
ing exhibition "Produce for
Victory: Posters on the Amer
ican Home Front, 1941-1945."
The exhibition, which focuses
on posters circulated in the
U.S. during WWII to promote
patriotism and to increase in
dustrial output, will be on view
beginning May 13 and continue
through July 12.
"W e are very pleased to be
able to bring 'Produce for Vic
tory' to our a r e a ," said
museum director Marsha
Sweek. "W e were involved in
the very early planning stages
for the new scaled down travel
ing exhibits with the Smithso
nian and we are very proud of
the result."
In addition to the reproduc
tions of posters and homefront
artifacts from the Smithsonian,
Sweek is hoping for locally lent
materials to augment the ex
hibit. "If you have any WWII
homefront things, ration cards,
victory garden cookbooks,
blackout curtains, wartime
toys, etc., which you would be
willing to lend to the museum,
" Sweek said, "w e would like
to have as many different items
as we have room for in the ex
hibit area. You could loan items
for the duration of the show or
items could be considered for
regular loan or donation."
Sweek said that if anyone had
WWII homefront items that
they would like to have con
sidered for inclusion in the local
exhibit, they should contact her
at the Morrow County Mu
seum, 676-5524 during mu
seum open hours.
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port fumigants to our business
in Oregon.
When we inquired about an
interstate CDL (since two of our
suppliers are located in
Washington state), we were
told that all diabetics, epilep
tics, and hearing-impaired
drivers were included in one
class, and the U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT)
wouldn't allow anyone with
those handicaps to have a CDL
for interstate driving. Realizing
there was a new Americans
with Disabilities Act, 1 began
the process of challenging the
law.
About this time, NPCA tech
nical manager Greg Baumann
and education manager Roger
Doucette were in Portland as
part of a nationwide hazmat
seminar tour. We attended the
seminar to ensure that we were
in complete compliance with
DOT regulations. While there,
I discussed our problem with
Greg, and he immediately said
he thought Oregon was in er
ror. "O ne thing was very ap
parent: John Jepsen was not a
threat to highway safety in any
fashion when using his coch
lear implant," Greg said. Greg
offered to discuss John's pro
blem with the federal DOT.
Upon researching the regula
tions covering the waiver por
tion of the law, Greg suspected
that the regulations were writ
ten prior to the widespread use
of implants.
After several visits to DOT in
Washington state and discus
sions with the Oregon PUC, all
were in agreement that John
Jepsen qualified for an unre
stricted CDL.
According to Greg, "The
most difficult part was getting
DOT and PUC to agree that a
mistake had been made with
out causing either agency any
embarrassment, in spite of this
concern, both agencies were
cooperative in solving John's
CDL problem."
Within three months, the
federal DOT ruled that John
didn't even require a waiver for
Oregon. The Oregon PUC of
fice had been wrong.
The expendient way our pro
blem was resolved just goes to
show what NPCA personnel
are willing to do for you if you
just take advantage of their ex
pertise. If you have a problem
or question, pick up the phone
and call, they're there for each
of you.
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Your Health
Boardman Pharmacy
& Hardware
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P.O. Box 170
Boardman. Oregon 97818
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Good News About
Antibiotic Allergies
The good news about allergic
reactions to antibiotics is that
such occurrences are not com
mon. According to Dr. Thomas
Kanyok and his associates in a
recent article in Patient Care, up
to 20 percent of persons report
beingallergic to penicillin. How
ever, 15 percent of those report
ing penicillin allergy and only
about 2 percent of the general
population have had a true aller
gic reaction to this antibiotic.
The incidence of allergic reac
tions to other antibiotics is usu
ally lower than that reported for
penicillin. Some persons who are
allergic to penicillin also are al
lergic to other antibiotics such
as the cephalosporins. Skin tests
to determine if one has an al
lergy are available for some an
tibiotics.
There is more good news
about antibiotic allergies. Ac
cording to the article, most
people with an antibiotic allergy
probably lose that allergy over
time. They indicate “about 10
years after an allergic reaction,
approximately 85% of penicil
lin-allergic patients, for example,
no longer have positive skin tests
to penicillin." In instances where
penicillin is the drug of choice,
some physicians may decide to
treat the infection with penicil
lin or penicillin-like antibiotics
in a person with a true allergy. If
a reaction does occur, the patient
will be monitored closely and
treated with antihistamines and
oral steroids, if necessary.