EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 17, 1995
New managers at NW Motel Heritage garden
has appeal
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Bonnie and Noel Bunch
The new managers of the
Northwestern Motel in Hepp
ner, Noel and Bonnie Bunch,
have over 50 years of business
experience between the two of
them.
Noel Bunch, 52, has around
28 years of experience in hotel-
motel and restaurant manage
ment, operating businesses in
Portland, VVhidbey Island,
Astoria and Salt Lake City.
Bonnie Bunch, 55, has had
around 30 years experience in
retail, public relations, food ser
vice and apartment manage
ment. The couple is from the
Portland area, but has spent the
last seven years in Salt Lake,
where they ran an apartment
complex.
The pair decided to come to
Heppner when they realized
they had had enough of city
life. "We were tired of city liv
ing," said Noel. "The city is
not what it used to be 20 years
ago." The Bunches said that
they had looked at other small
towns, but decided on Hepp
ner because of its hospital and
other services, such as the
Department of Motor Vehicles
office. They saw an ad in "The
Oregonian" as they were
preparing to leave Salt Lake Ci
ty. "It was perfect timing,"
they said. Noel had been hun
ting and fishing in the area
previously.
The move to Heppner also
brings them closer to their
mothers. His lives in Van
couver and hers is in Camas,
Wash. Noel's daughter will
graduate this spring from Gon-
zaga University at Spokane,
Wash'. His son is an associate
professor at Loyola University
at Chicago, Illinois.
Moving to Heppner with the
Bunches is their mixed-breed
dog, Bonehead, who likes play
ing Frisbee.
Former managers of the
motel, Bill and Becky Morris,
will be staying in the area and,
says Noel, will pinch hit at the
motel occasionally when the
Bunches are out of town. Bill
Morris has been hired on the
Kinzua Resources security crew
and he and his wife are buying
a home in Lexington, says
Bunch.
The motel is owned by Tom
LaRusso and Dolores Cooper.
Come Worship With Us
at
Willow Creek Baptist Church
Sundays at 3 p.m.
Meeting in the
7th Day Adventist Church
560 North Minor
Morrow County Parks will
open May 13, 1995
Both parks (Anson Wright and Cutsforth)
have full hook-ups for trailers, and tent sites
for camping. The fishing ponds are handi
capped accessible. There is also play
ground equipment for children.
Volunteer park hosts are on site at all times
to greet and assist vistors.
Anson Wright pond will not be stocked with
trout this year due to work being done at
the park, but the area has other excellent
fishing spots just a short drive from the park.
For more information,
call 503-676-9061 ext. 17
For the gardening enthusiast
who happens to be a history
buff, the heritage garden has
fascinating appeal. The
featured plants in a heritage
garden are botanical treasures
from years gone by, shrubs and
flowers that our great-
grandparents might have
known well.
"H eritage gardens are
established for the same reason
that historic places are preserv
ed and restored, a general
desire to remember our past,"
said Bill Rogers, Oregon State
University Extension agent in
Lincoln County.
"In several cities and towns
throughout the country where
historic buildings are restored
and opened to the public,
heritage gardens are establish
ed in the surrounding land
scape to show visitors the types
of plants commonly grown and
nurtured by our forebears,"
Rogers added.
Heritage gardens are also
established for more practical
reasons. "There is value in
preserving old plant varieties,"
said Rogers. "Modern seed
catalogs frequently focus on
newer hybrids. Older varieties
may be lost if they aren't
planted. In addition, there are
situations where older varieties
may be better adapted to
regional growing conditions
than the more commonly
available plant materials.
Heritage gardens show off
these lesser known varieties to
home gardeners who otherwise
wouldn't know about them."
The gardens also provide a
way to educate others about the
uses of older plants such as
vegetable varieties that were
once common, Rogers said.
He stressed that heritage
gardening is not just for
gardeners connected with
historical associations. Anyone
can stock the garden with
heirloom plant varieties.
"Any specific period of time
could be the basis for a heritage
garden. If you, in cooperation
with other gardeners, want to
begin a heritage garden at a
public site, consider the time
period that would be most ap
propriate. For example, if the
location is a historical home
from the last 1800s, plants from
that time period would pro
bably be best," Rogers said.
"One additional tip: fre
quently older gardens mixed
herbs with flowers in their
borders. Most herbs are
therefore appropriate for
heritage gardens from the ear
ly 1900s or before."
In some cases, older varieties
have special cultural re
quirements, Rogers added.
These techniques can be
demonstrated in heritage
gardens, he said.
John Murray will be available
to help with questions at the
Master Gardener clinic at the
Morrow County Extension of
fice from 1-4 p.m., Monday,
May 22. For more information,
call Murray at 676-9642.
Morrow County Health District
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Grandview couple buys Office Cafe in lone
photo by April Sykes
Back row l-r: Gene Drake, owner Archie McArthur, Teresa Phelps; middle-Dannelle Whitaker,
Heather Drake, owner Lita McArthur; front-Richard Trevino, Samarra Silva.
by April Sykes
If lots of experience and a
supportive family can
guarantee success, then Lita
and Archie McArthur will suc
ceed at their new endeavor as
owners of the Office Cafe and
Tavern in lone.
The McArthurs, with 50
years restaurant experience bet
ween the two of them, bought
the restaurant on May 1.
Lita was born and raised in
Grandview, where they own
ed and operated the Fireside, a
family restaurant and lounge,
for 10 years. She has also work
ed in restaurants and lounges
in Boardman and Irrigon.
In addition to restaurant ex
perience, Archie is retired from
the Kitsap County Sheriff's Of
fice, where he worked as a
deputy for 12 years.
WCCC Golf
Ladies Play, May 16
Low gross of the field was Pat
Edmundson.
Flight A: low gross Jan Paus-
tian; low net a tie between Lin
da Schultz and Neoma Bailey;
least putts a tie between Luvilla
Sonstegard and Lois Hunt.
Flight B: low gross Karen
Wildman; low net a tie between
Lynnea Sargent and Karen
Thompson; least putts a tie bet
ween Joyce Dinkins and Nor
ma French.
Flight C: low gross Dorris
Graves; low net Lorrene Mont
Coming to lone to help the
McArthurs get started were
their daughter and son-in-law,
Heather and Gene Drake, niece
Dannelle Whitaker, nephew
Rich Trevino and Lita's sister,
Teresa Phelps, also from
Grandview. The McArthurs
have three daughters, two from
the Yakima Valley and one in
Bremerton, WA, a son, just out
of the service in Connecticut,
three granddaughters and one
grandson.
The McArthurs have special
plans for the Office, with a dif
ferent buffet served from 5 to
8:30 p.m. Monday through
Thursday. Mondays they will
serve a taco buffet; Tuesdays,
burgers; Wednesdays, pizza
and spaghetti; and Thursdays,
fried chicken. Cost for the buf
fet is $6.50 for all you can eat.
Lita bakes her own bread and
pies and makes her own soups
and chicken fried steak.
The restaurant will be open
from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. A license
is pending for the bar which
will be open from 7 a.m. to 2
a.m. The McArthurs will also
have a karaoke bar on Friday
and Saturday nights beginning
at 9 p.m. They hope to have
video and pinball this week. A
grand opening is planned for
Memorial weekend.
Archie has been working on
remodeling the restaurant and
their nephew, Richard Trevino,
is putting in a cement patio out
side, so patrons can sit outside
during the summer months.
Office employees are Angie
Drummond and Samarra Silva.
The McArthurs are happy to
be living in lone. "We wanted
a small community," they said.
"We like a small town."
gomery; least putts Cam
Wishart.
K.P.: #4 Karen Wildman,
and #7 Carol Norris.
shot #1 Bob and Suzanne
Jepsen; #7 Les and Jan Paus
tian; men #4 Earl Fishbum and
women Pat Edmundson, long
putt #3 Earl Fishburn.
Gross: first John and Pat Ed
mundson 31; second Mike and
Cindi Doherty 35, third Les and
Jan Paustian 37, fourth Bob and
Suzanne Jepsen 38.
Low net: first Earl and Peggy
Fishburn 24Vi, second Jim and
Cam Wishart 25, third Earl and
Carol Norris 253/«, fourth Frank
and Neoma Bailey 26l/i.
Jack & Jill Tournament
May 12
Lap prizes (low score in each
type of play): Scramble holes 1,
2, 3 and chapman holes 4, 5
and 6 John and Pat Edmund
son 9; Scotch ball holes 7, 8 and
9 a tie between Les and Jan
Paustian and Mike and Cindi
Doherty, both 11.
Special Events: KP second
Show displays feats of strength
Pharmacy &
Your Health
Boardman Pharmacy
& Hardware
202 1st. N. W. P.O. Box 170
Boardman, Oregon 97818
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Heart Attack Risk and
Certain High Blood
Pressure Medicines
Concerns about the risk of
heart attacks from calcium chan
nel blockers were widely pub
lished in the media earlier this
year following the presentation
of a scientific paper at the Ameri
can Heart Association’s Annual
Meeting. News reports indicated
that researchers had discovered
a 60 percent increased risk of
heart attacks in persons who took
these medicines.
Statistics indicated that if
1.000
took a calcium
Team Destiny, a team of May 19, beginning at 7 p.m. at blocker, persons
16
persons
in the group
athletes who perform unusual Heppner High School. There is might have a heart attack.
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public performance on Friday, school students.
actual increased risk is quite
small regardless of which drug
was used. And there are poten
tial problems with the study. It is
possible, for example, that those
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who received calcium channel
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