Students get a taste of different culture
VOL. 114
NO. 18
8 Pages Wednesday, April 26, 1995,
Morrow County Heppner, Oregon
Doug Rathbun receives prestigious award
Chief Doug Rathbun
Heppner City Police Chief
Doug Rathbun received one of
the highest honors awarded by
the Oregon Association of
Chiefs of Police (OACP) at their
annual banquet in Baker City
on April 20.
Rathbun received the 'Max
Patterson Award' for his
"outstanding contributions to
OACP or the community in
to pattern myself after." Wright
said that the Max Patterson
Award is one of the highest
awards that a police chief can
earn and noted that the award
is not presented every year, on
ly when a person is worthy of
achieving it. The award was
last presented to Chief Terry
Thompson in 1992 and to Chief
Larry Laws in 1991.
Heppner City manager Gary
Marks commented, "It says
something good about Hepp
ner that the award would be
bestowed on our chief of police.
I'm happy for Doug. It's also an
indication that his peers chose
him for this award. To be a law
enforcement officer often times
is a thankless jo b ."
W right said that Chief
Rathbun was selected for his
community involvement as a
member of the tourism commit
tee and with Red Ribbon week,
the anti-drug campaign for
school children, and his con
tribution, along with his wife
Georgia, as a foster parent.
Chief Rathbun will be
honored at at open house on
Sunday, April 30, from 2 to 4
p.m. at the Church of the
Nazarene, 355 Gilmore in
Heppner. Everyone is welcome
to attend.
presenting programs of
outstanding benefit to young
people of all ages in their
community.
Ken W right, W oodburn
Chief of Police, OACP presi
dent and chairman of the
awards committee, said that
Chief Rathbun "is the kind of
chief of police that I would like
to be and one that I would like
Telemetry system failure results in water shortage
A section of Heppner was left
without water around 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 15, following a
failure of the city's telemetry
system. The telemetry system
is supposed to monitor the ci
ty's wells.
According to city manager
Gary Marks, the city has three
reservoirs, one main and two
subsidiaries that depend on the
main. The main shut down, but
two and three kept taking on
water from the main. The
telemetry system failed to
signal two and three to kick on
and the water in the main got
dangerously low. Marks said
that the people on the top of
Cemetery Hill and on Rock St.
had no water.
Once the situation was
discovered Marks said that the
police and firemen were dispat
ched throughout the town to
notify townspeople through
public address to turn off out
side irrigation and conserve
water. By dark the town was
back in water, said Marks.
He says that the system will
be corrected once the new
telemetry system is installed.
The project, to be implemented
in around two months, "will
provide a centralized electronic
means of automatically con
trolling the city's water wells,
pumps and reservoirs. Once in
home. If the system, which is
on a PC computer, fails to reach
the first official it will continue
dialing down the list until an
official is reached. "This is a
vast im p rov em ent," says
Marks. "It should bring to an
end these kinds of emergen
cies."
Bids for the system have been
awarded to El-Tek, Portland.
place, the new system is
designed to guarantee op
timum water supplies at all
times and provide early warn
ing of system failures, capa
bilities the city does not
presently possess."
Marks said that in the event
of system failure, the new
telemetry system will auto
matically call city officials at
Rolling Hills Run slated Saturday
The annual Rolling Hills Run
will be held this Saturday,
April 29, beginning at 9 a.m. at
Heppner Elementary School.
Breakfast will be served to the
public from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m.
and to the runners following
the race.
The run-walk is sponsored by
the EMT South Morrow Coun
ty Association. Proceeds from
the event will be used toward
the purchase of ambulance
lifesaving equipment for south
Morrow County response
teams.
The run will feature a 5K and
10K walk/run course over roll
ing hills and offers variety to
both novice and experienced
runners. The course will start
at Heppner Elementary School,
loop up and back along the
Heppner-Pilot Rock Highway
and finish at the Heppner Elk's
Club. There will be two aid sta
tions and time splits.
Registration deadline was to
have been April 16, however,
registration packets T-shirts
and late registration will be
available from 7 to 8:30 a.m. at
the school. Pre-run instructions
will be given at the starting line.
Plaques will be awarded to
the oldest male and female
finishers over all and first place
male and female 5K and 10K.
Ribbons will be awarded to the
first three finishers in all age
divisions in both distances. •
Awards and door prizes will be
given at the post race breakfast.
Door prize winners must be
present to win.
I
Chaperones Kelley and Nancy Swarat and Cathy Halvorsen accompanied 22 students to
Europe: Chris Dickenson, Rondi Robinson, Jon Hanna, Jossie Evans, Chris Sykes, Ben Ew
ing, Tina Kemp, Shawn Wilhelm, Phillip Spicerkuhn and Bryce Tucker, all Heppner High; John
Doherty, Gregg Holtz, Jeramy Ashbeck, Jerad Ashbeck, Allison Sullivan, Marie Tworek, Casey
Jones, Lynde Minster and Jessica Stefani, all lone High; Casey Betzold, former HHS student
now living in Idaho, Bill Daniels, Sandy High School, Sandy, and Nie Daniels, Riverside High
School, both relatives of the Swarats.
Students traditionally spend
-Jeremy Ashbeck, 17, IHS may include countries along
spring break at the beach, like junior-"! liked the castles, the Mediterranean, South
Seaside or Fort Lauderdale, Windsor Castle and Versailles. America, Italy, Germany or
Florida. Some Heppner and They're a lot more open in Spain.
lone students also spent part of Paris and France. They're more
Swarat is sold on the benefits
their spring break at the coast, comfortable with naked people of travel. In addition to his two
although the water was pro on posters and it's weird experiences with the Interna
bably a little colder and chop because you see kids going in tional Club, Swarat had also
pier than desired for the tradi to bars. People eat dinner in traveled to Mexico City in high
tional vacation.
them. The bars are more like school and Central America in
The students, members of restaurants. I tried snails. They college. "Travel provides an
the Ione-Heppner International were pretty good."
opportunity to look at different
Club, traveled to England and
-Cathy Halvorsen, chaper cultures," said Swarat. "It
France over spring break and one, Ione-"The people were gives you a chance to become
their tour included crossing the really friendly in London, more global in your perspec
English Channel.
friendlier than in Paris. Paris tive."
Most of the time was spent in was more elegant, but too
-John Doherty, 16, IHS-"I lik
London and Paris, where the crowded and polluted. The ed Versailles, all the paintings
students, all high school juniors food is better in Paris. The in the rooms and on the ceilings
and seniors, toured the palaces, desserts were really good. I and the gardens were really
museums, shops and other ci really enjoyed the Palace of nice. People in Paris weren't as
ty highlights.
Versailles and the cathedrals. I polite as here. People walking
Most of the group were got to go to Mass at Notre Dam. down the street don't move
especially impressed with the There were no tourists there. I aside. In Paris I opened a door
Palace at Versailles and the enjoyed meeting the Heppner for a woman and she went
'Tube', the London subway kids. It was a nice opportunity through the other door. I wish
system, which took them all for them (Heppner and lone I had more time, at least a week
over the city with relative ease. students) to get together. But it in either city."
Many students also remarked just went so quickly."
-Ben Ewing, 16, HHS-"Paris
on the expensive food, which
had
better monuments and
Lynde Minster, 17, IHS
was compounded by the bad junior-"I liked the Louvre and tourist attractions, but the peo
exchange rate for the American seeing all those things, like the ple were meaner there. As soon
dollar.
Mona Lisa. I also liked the as they found out you were
Following are some impres castles and all the decorations American, they shrugged you
sions of the travelers:
at Versailles and Windsor. The off. The worse part was going
-Allison Sullivan, 18, lone only bad experience was being to the Eiffel Tower and getting
High School sen io r-"T h e on the streets. They drive like my head shut in the subway.
palace at Versailles was so fan maniacs. I got more sick on the One of the things that stood out
cy. There was gold all over. The bus in London (than on the was how much construction
Tube in London was just amaz plane). They go really fast and there was. There was scaf
ing. It had maps all over. Paris stop really fast."
folding up on all the buildings.
was harder to find your way
-Kelley Swarat, IHS teacher The food was better in
around."
and chaperone-"This was our England. It was more like
-Marie Tworek, 16, IHS second International Club trip. American food.”
junior-"The drivers in Paris Two years ago eight students
-Jossie Evans, 17, HHS-"I lik
were crazy. There was an acci went on a five-day trip to Lon ed Notre Dam. The cathedral
dent with our tour bus and a don. After the trip two years was really nice. I didn't like the
car. The Louvre had a vast ago, I had many kids from food in either place. We ate in
amount of sculptures. We took Heppner wondering if it could the hotel or restaurant and then
forever in it. I learned a lot of be open to them. I had such an went out to a store, Burger
history, especially the English overwhelming response. This King, McDonald's or Kentucky
background, with the monar year we had 22 kids and three Fried Chicken and ate after
chy."
adults. We had a blast. We wards."
-Tina Kemp, 17, Heppner were on the go with a guided
-Shawn Wilhelm, 16, HHS-"I
High School junior-"In London tour, but we also had free time. liked the historical stuff. I lik
the houses were really close The food in England took a lit ed the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower,
together. There was garbage on tle getting used to. It was a lit Big Ben and Parliament. It was
the streets. Paris was cleaner tle bland. But we ate in the cool to see all that stuff that you
but there was more smog. It hotel in London. In Paris we read about in books. The hotels
was harder to breathe. There ate in restaurants. French food weren't that great. The one in
were so many old buildings.
was pretty good. The hotels Paris was in a bad place, like a
You could see things that date were middle class with private ghetto. They said you just had
back to the 1700s.
bathroom s. The sleeping to pay for lunch, but we had to
-Jerad Ashbeck, 18, IHS quarters were adequate, clean, go out every meal. A lot of
senior-"If you order a ham decent for the money. The things were different-the
burger, you just get meat, no buildings were not as new as in money value. You didn't know
bun. They give you your bread America. They had character. if you were getting ripped off
separate. Everybody, especial London seemed to be a bit or not. When we were coming
ly the guys were so hungry,
more clean and the people a lit back from Paris, there was a
they just die. But you got used tle more friendly, but I enjoyed bag sitting in the middle of
to it and survived and had a both cities. Versailles was fan nowhere and they made us
good time. The churches were tastic, very majestic. The kids move about 50 feet away from
just unbelievable. A couple loved Versailles and Windsor. it. It turned out to be just a bag
kids got to go to Mass at the The only negative experience is (and not a bomb)."
Notre Dame Cathedral."
-Rondi Robinson, 18, HHS-
that they closed the Eiffel
"The
free time was the best.
Tower early. We had been in
We
just
hung out with our
line a good half hour."
Signup for Babe
friends,
went
sightseeing and
Swarat says that their goal is
did
things
on
our own and
take students on an interna
Ruth by May 10 to
went
back
to
our
rooms and
tional experience every two
talked.
I
just
wish
Pepsi's
years. He says that they try to
wouldn't
have
cost
$5
to $8
Anyone between the ages of present the students, all juniors
American
dollars.
Over
there
15 interested in playing Babe and seniors who have taken
everything
was
so
much
more
th baseball this summer government or U.S. history
expensive
and
the
dollar
drop
mid contact Rick Johnston at classes, with several travel op
tions. For the next trip, options ped while we were there."
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