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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 26, 1995 Noxious w e e d seminar slated The Blue Mountains Natural Resources Institute will present a seminar series this spring that explores the topic "Noxious Weeds: Stemming the Tide". The series, presented by Blue Mountains Natural Resources Institute, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. May 10, 17 and 24 through Ed-Net at Pioneer Memorial Hospital Conference Room, 564 E., Pioneer Drive in Heppner. Those interested in attending should call Robin Furguson at the hospital, 676-9133, to register at least one day before each session. Seminar topics are as follows: Mary 10-"Explosion in Slow Motion: Impacts and Solu tions", Jerry Asher, Bureau of Land Management; May 17-"Is That New Plant Growing on My Property a Weed?", Gary Kiemnec, Oregon State Univer Stairway to Heaven was the theme for this years prom put on by the Heppner High sity, Eastern Oregon State Col School Junior Class. Decorations featured a stairway to the golden gates with little lights along lege Agricultural Program; May the way, a centerpiece with white pillars and balloons around the room. The queen and king 24-" Weed Control and Restora and court were announced during the evening by class president Tina Kemp. tion in the Blue Mountains", Pictured l-r: are Queen Jenny Krien, King Brent Wright; princess Char Coe, prince Chris weed control officers-Mary Dickenson, princess Rondi Robinson, prince Trent Hughes, prince Chad Skroch and princess Corp, Umatilla County, Gary Kelsie Evans. Dade, Union County, and Dave Pranger, Morrow Coun ty, and Berta Youtie, natural Fieldm an's Events planned for home schooled kids area manager with The Nature Conservancy. breakfast The CHEFS annual Home Two home schooling events, Field tours have been sponsored by Christian Home School Open House will be M a y 3 scheduled for Umatilla County held Saturday, May 13, from 10 Education Family Support on May 18, "W eeds and (CHEFS) of Umatilla and Mor a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Civic Crops” (contact Mary Corp, Recreation Center, located at row counties will be held May 503-276-2903); and for Grant 215 West Hermiston Avenue. 12-13, in Hermiston. County on June 3, "Biological Curriculum sets and home Dick Karman will speak on A Fieldman's Breakfast will Controls for Leafy Spurge", school textbooks will be on "How and Why of Home display. New and used text be held May 3, beginning at and "Partnerships: Noxious Schooling", May 12, at 7 p.m. books will be sold by vendors. 6:30 a.m. at Frasu's Restaurant, Weeds Know No Boundaries" at the First Christian Church, (contact Lave Langlund, ODA, Families representing CHEFS in Hermiston. located at 775 West Highland Marie Zuroske, of the 503-548-2241). will be on hand to answer ques Avenue. Karman is the founder For detailed information tions. Child care is available on Department of Environmental of the Oregon Christian Educa about the Bllue Mountain Quality in Pendleton, will site. tion Association Network Natural Resources Institute, The local support group of discuss the Pesticide Waste (OCEAN). He and his wife, seminar series or field tour, fers this open house each year Collection Program on June 2 Dorothy, have home educated contact: Lynn Starr, Outreach in May in hopes that families (applications due May 19). She their children for 12 years. coordinator, BMNRI, 1401 who are looking for educational will also discuss the DEQ's "O ur CHEFS support group Gekeler Lane, La Grande, OR alternatives will have the need Hazardous Waste Technical is honored to offer such a ed support and information. Assistance Program, which 97850. distinguished guest speaker for CHEFS families represent the helps businesses and farmers families in Eastern Oregon who broad spectrum of different better understand hazardous want to know more about economic, racial, and religious waste regulations without the home sch ool," said Dave backgrounds, who home threat of penalty. Barber, member of CHEFS. Bob Wolfe will speak about school successfully across the Heppner Community Birth "This is the first such event to nation, said spokesperson the OACFA's annual pesticide day calendars are on sale again. be offered for the public in our Margaret Rolen. container recycling program to Calendars may be purchased area. We hope to have a pack For more information, con be held in September at three for $6 from a Heppner High or ed auditorium at First Christian tact CHEFS representatives in locations in the area. Church. A free will offering will Heppner 676-5448, Stanfield, Cost for the breakfast is $5 in Middle School volleyball player, or call the Heppner be taken up for the speaker's 449-3476 and Pendleton, cluding a gratuity. High School, 676-9138, and expenses." 276-6261. leave a message for Terri Gentry. HHS calendars on sale Voters want to vote by mail less than 30 percent. When asked about the primary and general elections separately without knowledge of tax savings, 62 percent favored changing the primary to be by mail with only 31 per cent opposed; and 53 percent favored changing the general to a mail election while only 40 percent opposed. "T his clearly shows the voters of Oregon want to ex pand vote by mail to all elec tions and save the tax money now being spent on polling place elections," said Barbara Bloodsworth, Morrow County Clerk. "We hope our legislators will respond to this message by passing legislation to allow all elections to be conducted by mail." Three out of every four registered Oregon voters would prefer to vote by mail in the primary and general elec tions, according to a poll releas ed by the Oregon Association of County Clerks. The statewide poll, con ducted by DRC Opinion Research in Salem, showed that 75.3 percent of the registered voters favored con ducting elections by mail when they knew that it would save tax dollars. Less than 19 per cent of the voters opposed the change. Even without knowledge of tax savings, over half of the registered voters favored con ducting both primary and general elections by mail, while the change was opposed by Groundwater meeting May 9 A program to help rural hom eow ners protect the groundwater supplying their drinking water will be offered in Irrigon on Tuesday, May 9, from 7-9 p.m. at A.C. Hough ton School. The program will be held in the school cafeteria, at North Main Avenue, bet ween 10th and 12th streets. Rich Topielec, Oregon State University Extension agent, will conduct the program targeted to private well owners. The program will address how to evaluate a well site to preventing well water con tamination from fertilizers, pesticides, and animal and household wastes. Construc tion, operation and potential problems with home water wells will be covered, as well as when, why and how to test well water for contaminants. The Homestead Assessment System (H om e*A*Syst), a series of 11 worksheets and nine fact sheets designed to lead the homeowner through exercises to understand the present condition of their well, will be introducted and explained. There is no charge to attend the meeting. The cost of the Home*A*Syst material for those wishing to purchase them is $12. Registration is op tional, but will help to have suf ficient materials on hand. For additional information, or to register, contact the Morrow County Extension office, 1 800 342-3664, or 676-9642. Revival set at W .C . Baptist G en u in e C h e v r o l e t ™ Remember when your word was your Bond. - You sealed a deal with a handshake - That's still the way we do business today. COMFORTABLE • TRUSTFULL • HONEST • CARING A revival is planned at the Willow Creek Baptist Church, May 7-10 at 560 N. Minor (Seventh-day Adventist build ing). The revival will feature the Reverend Stanley Hughs of the Richland Baptist Church as guest evangelist. There will also be special music every night. The Sunday revival will begin at 3 p.m. Monday through W ednesday, the revival will begin at 7 p.m. Pesticide applicator's course offered Dame Sunday wins O S U literary prize Danie Sunday, a 1993 graduate of Heppner High School, was selected as a co winner of the Oregon State University's 1995 Provost's Literary Prize for her essay en titled, "G randpa's". Sunday is the granddaughter of Barton Clark, Heppner. Her parents are Nonda Harwick, Bend, and Hal Sunday, San Jose, and her uncle is Ned Clark, Heppner. Danie will receive a cash award of $150 and her work will be published in "Prism ", OSU's literary journal, and widely distributed on campus. The award will be presented to her at the annual student recognition and awards ban quet on Wednesday, May 17, at 6 p.m. at the university's MU Ballroom. Sunday is a sophomore at OSU, seeking a degree in education. Following is Sunday's essay: Apples and lilacs, once seedl ings, shade the windows and the fat Siamese prowls their branches by night. Toby, or Yoda, depending on the hand that pets him, keeps the house and garage free of mice. Once in a while the basement trap snares a little varmint and Yoda gets a freebie. "Nice kitty, too bad you're going blind. What shall become of the house when the wise are gone and the beasts are left to rule?" The house. Secluded on the back porch, the ancient machine whirrs and gurgles as it struggles to han dle its cotton charges. All runs smoothly in its timed pattern, as the moose looks on with cobwebbed contentment. The blue room listens to the machine's work. Its lace cur tains quiver in idle memory of eager young hands thrusting them back in the early morn ings and the walls silently echo youthful mirth. The striped room is always busy, watching and listening. It peers from behind the protec tive foliage of the lilac bushes, at the activities outside. At one wall it marks the silence of the blue room, while through another, come the muffled, til ed sounds of the bath. At the third, time is recorded by the passing of breakfast, dinner, and supper sounds. The striped room is busy monitor ing everything about it, careful not to create anything that might distract its vigil. The yellow room is bright and cheery and the days are created and pass, with different smells: pancakes and cream gravy, crusty, warm loaves, tart apples and berries, hearty roasts, and coarse combread. Nearly forgotten, the comer room is quiet in serene proprie ty. It keeps the distinguished table for holidays and special guests, and guards the china. Sagging on the wall, the spoon collection seems out of place, with its cheap variety and tar nished memories. The big green room is bright, with a fireplace that crackles at Christmas, but is quite sterile now. The chairs offer their well worn cushions, the green couch is indifferent, neither of fering not offending, while the new couch brightly calls to passer-bys, hoping to pull its deceptive prank of comfort. The comer window keeps one eye to the field, where it has reflected the light of rushing prairie fires, and one to the or chard, where the ground is still- rippled from the trodings of an eager young pony and its rider. The main bedroom is light and comforting. One window watches in anticipation for the beautiful blossoms of the lilac, while the other views the wind in the old crabapple, its sourness hidden by lush, green leaves. The bed sags in the middle and the pillows are fluffed, but the covers never get turned down. The faded walls show the strain of each day's sun, but resiliency, they hold onto their intended essence. The mountain goat watches the front door with cold disinterest, his once regal head now shaggy and gray with cobwebs. The varnish on the door is cracked and weathered, but unwarped; it still fits snugly into the wall, for now. The out side is white, and although it is not peeling, it is beginning to fade. The back porch, the kitchen, the striped bedroom, and the bath, are still warm with life, but biding time, the rest of the house has been lulled to sleep by the peaceful melodies of memories' shadows. What is to come, cold isolation and roving beasts or fresh paint and new memories.? Hedman attends conference Rita Hedman, veterans ser vice officer for Morrow Coun ty, attended the semiannual statewide Oregon County Veterans Service Officers Train ing Conference, held April 19-21 in Salem. The session, sponsored by the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs (ODVA), pro vided county veterans service officers with updated informa tion necessary to advocate for Oregon veterans, their families, and survivors in applying for state and federal veterans' benefits in such areas as U.S. Department of Veterans' Af fairs (VA) health care, new ad judication regulations, and compensation and pension, said an ODVA news release. Workshops were con ducted by Ronald B. Abrams, Esquire, National Veterans Legal Services Program train ing director, and editor of the "Veterans Advocate". These workshops covered advocate training, secondary service con- nection, recent U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals decisions, well grounded claims, errors in rating reductions, new regula tions for Persian Gulf veterans, post-traumatic stress disorder, individual unemploybility, and clear and unmistakable error on the part of the VA. VA employees presented in formation on long-term health care, VA nursing home unit, domiciliary care and outpatient clinic operations. Paper Gazette-Times 676-9228 ITALIAN DINNER Beecher’s Cafe, M on., May 1 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Adults $6, 12 yrs & under $4, preschool free Menu The Largest Volume Chevy Truck Dealer in Eastern Oregon SHERRELL CHEVROLET Hermiston, Oregon 1-800-567-6487 9ew Car Sales Used Car Center 567-6488 567-3919 A four hour private pesticide applicator's training course will be offered at the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Ex tension Center (HAREC) on Friday, April 28. The Oregon Department of Agriculture will give an exam following the meeting at 1:30 p.m. Space is limited to 45 par ticipants, so pre-registration is encouraged by calling HAREC, 567-8321. There will be no registration fee for the course, but par ticipants are encourage to study the "Oregon Pesticide Ap plicator Manual” prior to the training session. A limited number of copies are currently available for $14.50 each at the HAREC. Homemade lasagna or spaghetti, garlic bread, salad, spumoni ice cream, coffee or soft drink and a complimentary glass of wine Live music by Jeff Wallace dinner sponsored by lone Lions Club Tickets available at Beechers Cafe, Wheatland Insurance, Bristow's Market, Morrow County Grain Growers, Bank pf Eastern Oregon and lone Lions Club members M M AM M N AM M VM nM W W M W eM N W W M AM M M N W M M M M
