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
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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.
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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
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