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n J V r r N e a 'S 1 ' J NO. 41 v • * * a r t U G L N c. VOL. 114 Trisha Sweeney buys Country Rose Oh R :. i : & 7 -i 3 6 Pages Wednesday, September 27, 1995, Morrow County Heppner, Oregon Tom Springer to retire Heppner TV, Inc. board members front l-r: Dean Gilman, Tom Rawlins, Tom Springer, Riley Munkers; back Bob Ployhar, Greg Sweek, Linda Shaw. Tom Springer, who will retire Oct. 31 after 28 years with Heppner T.V., was honored by the Heppner TV board before the monthly meeting Tuesday, Sept. 19. Board members, their spouses and past board member Ed Dick enjoyed refreshments and wished Tom well on his retirement. Thomas Rawlins will replace Springer, who has been a resi dent of Morrow County for 38 years. Springer plans on stay ing in the area for hunting and fishing in his retirement. He is also remodeling his home on Aiken St. in his spare time. “ Knowing Tom and his wife, Vi, they will no doubt be busier in retirement than they ever were working in the television business," said Heppner T.V. manager Judie Laughlin. The board presented Springer with a recognition plaque for his years of service with the cooperative. Tom Rawlins began working full time Sept. 1. He had been employed by Heppner T.V. Inc. as a part time technician for around five years previously, and has knowledge of the operational aspects of the com pany. Rawlins graduated from Heppner High School and Oregon State University. He also owns his own Dahlia Garden business, dealing in small international nursery mail orders. The Heppner T.V. Board of Directors includes president Greg Sweek, Dean Gilman, Linda Shaw, Bob Ployhar and Riley Munkers. Judie Laughlin is secretary-treasurer. Fair and rodeo court tryouts set The 1995-96 Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Queen and Princess try outs will be held Oct. 8, starting at 10 a.m. at the Morrow Coun ty Fairgrounds. Applications are available at area high schools and the fair office. All applications must be returned to the fair office by Oct. 6. For further information, contact the fair office, 676-9474. lone Boosters plan steak barbecue The lone Booster Club will hold a steak barbecue Friday, Sept. 29, in the lone High School cafeteria from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The dinner will include steak, baked potato, salad and roll for $6. The lone Cardinals football team will play Echo at 7:30 p.m.; the volleyball team will play at 5 p.m. M a rily n G arcia resigns from First Interstate Marilyn Garcia, manager of the Heppner, Condon and Fossil branches of First In terstate Bank has resigned as of Sept. 1. Garcia resigned to take over as adminstrator of Summit Springs Village Retirement and Assisted Living Facility in Condon. Garcia began working for the bank in 1965. In 1984 she was named manager of the Fossil branch and in 1989 selected of both the Condon and Fossil Deadline to order Jr. High annuals Parents and students are reminded that the deadline to order Heppner Junior High School annuals is Friday, Sept. 29. Annuals will be presold at $16 each. Orders and payments will be taken at the high school office or contact publications teacher Linda Dutcher. Booster club plans auction branches. In 1994 she was also named manager of the Hepp The Heppner Booster Club's ner branch. annual steak feed and auction Jim Armstrong was selected will be Saturday, Oct. 14, at the to oversee operations at Hepp Heppner Elks Lodge. The din ner, Fossil, Condon, LaGrande ner will be held from 6-8 p.m. and Union branches. Arm and the auction will begin at strong has been with First In 8:15 p.m. terstate for 31 years, starting Dinner tickets may be pur wih the Nyssa branch. He chased for $7.50 at the Bank of spent 17 years at Oakridge and Eastern Oregon and Murray seven years in the Medford are. Drugs in Heppner and at Mor He has been at First Interstate row County Grain Growers in at LaGrande and Union for one Lexington. year. By April Hilton-Sykes New owner of the Country Rose women's clothing store and flower shop in Heppner, Trish Sweeney, said that she couldn't think of a better name for the store than it already had. The name, she says, is a perfect fit. Sweeney too seems to be a perfect fit for her new enter prise. For many years she has provided her expertise in decorating and catering for various church and communi ty events. She is a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church. She has also assisted her hus band, Tat, in the operation of their business, Sweeney Mor tuary in Heppner and Condon. She enjoys working with peo ple as well as flowers and fashion. Sweeney, 43, was born in Heppner to Helen and Everett Keithley. Helen is now deceas ed. Besides Trish, the Keithley family included daughters Sharon (Harrison), now Lex ington, and Janet (Kloeppel), now Vernal, Utah, and son, Vem, Heppner. Everett work ed as the shop foreman for Rosewall Ford Auto Sales and then he became an automobile salesman when Earl Ayers bought the business. The fami ly then moved to Condon, where Everett operated the Texaco Station in addition to selling cars for Ayers. The Keithleys lived in Condon while Trish was in the fifth through ninth grade and mov ed back to Heppner for her high school years. After Everett retired, he worked as a crop ad juster, for the county maintain ing Cutsforth Park and helping his son-in-law Bob Harrison during harvest. Helen Keithley, a homemaker, also helped keep the books at the Texaco Station. Both Trish and Pat attended Lane Community College at Eugene and he got his associate degree before they got married in 1972. After they married they lived in Corvallis where he did his apprenticeship at McHenry Funeral Home. Their first son, Corey, was bom in Corvallis in 1973. The family then moved to San Francisco where Pat at tended San Francisco College of Mortuary Science for a year. Trish worked for B & D In dustries, which was a vacuum sales company. From there, the Sweeneys moved to Oregon City and Pat worked for Holman, Hankins and Waud Funeral Home. In 1976 they moved to Milwaukie, where Pat managed the Peake Memorial Chapel. Their Trisha Sweeney (r), buys Country Rose from Cindy Schmidt daughter Nicole was born at Portland that year. The couple was anxious to get back to the Heppner- Condon area, so when the Condon Mortuary came up for sale, they bought it from owner Marvin Albey. Their third and fourth children, Cameron, now 16, and Brooke, now 14, were bom in Heppner while they were living in Condon. In 1981 the family moved to Heppner and managed Sweeney Mor tuary for Pat's dad, Jerry. They bought the mortuary in 1982. After years of taking care of their home and children, and helping out at the mortuary, Trish began working at Coun try Rose in Oct. of 1994. A year later, she and Pat decided to buy the business. Trish says that Pat has been “really sup portive and helpful and willing to help out." Trish says that she plans to keep the “ same good line of flowers and plants and delivery service at the store." She adds that she hopes to try some new lines of clothing and get a se cond line of jeans. The store also includes dried flowers and silk flowers and craft items Hours will remain the same, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. "I'm look ing forward to serving the public and hope everyone will stop in and say hi," adds Trish. She plans a grand opening in the near future. In addition to store employee, Kathy Jones, Trish says she plans to train daughter Brooke, who is a freshman at Heppner High School. Daugh ter Nicole, 19, who was em ployed at the Bank of Eastern Oregon, will attend Blue Mountain Community College this fall in a dental assisting program, but will also help out at the store during school breaks. Cameron is a soph omore at HHS and Corey, 21, is security supervisor at Kinzua. Former owner Cindy Schmidt, 43, bought the store almost 12 years ago from Carolyn Cole. She made some changes in the shop over the years, discontinuing the children's clothing line and ad ding balloon bouquets around nine years ago and craft sup plies about four years ago. Cindy has lived in Heppner for 21, years, coming from North Carolina to be near her parents, Seth and Vojean For- quer. She says she worked for Carolyn for about a year before just "fell into" ownership of the shop. Cindy's daughter, Lana, 23, a fixture in the store off and on over the years, is nearing graduation at the University of Oregon with a degree in biol ogy. Lana is also working at a flower shop in Eugene. Other fixtures of the store that are being retired are the antique stoves used for decora tion and, at one time, to pro vide heat for the shop. One of the stoves came to Heppner on the first train into town. Accor ding to Cindy, Gerald Berg strom's father used to fill the coal stove when it was at the Rock Saloon many years ago. Gerald had apparently retriev ed the stove from the basement at Murray Drugs and gave it to Cindy's husband, Sam, who refurbished it. Cindy says that she especially enjoyed visiting with all the people who came into the shop over the years and she also lik ed working with the flowers. She says she plans to stay at home and just be a homemaker for awhile, but also considers the possibility of taking some computer classes. BEO employees join Race for the Cure Fran Barnett, Shelli Britt, Jeanneine Pettyjohn and Linda LaRue of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, Heppner Branch, were among over 18,000 women who participated in The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure held Sunday, Sept. 24 in Portland. The Portland race, reportedly the third largest, is one of 56 held during 1995 across the country to generate funds to find a cure for the disease. This year was LaRue's fourth year as a participant and L-R: Fran Barnett, Shelli Britt, Jeannine Pettyjohn, Linda LaRue Barnett's and Pettyjohn's se cancer at age 36. The Portland cond time to walk the five breast cancer in 1989 and has Race for the Cure raises funds kilometer competition. Britt been cancer free since then. "I to provide positive awareness, joined the women this year, come away feeling good by the education and early detection which marked the second year number of pink visors. It is a of breast cancer for women that women from the bank reinforcement of Michelle's throughout Oregon and south health for me to see the number have gone as a group. west Washington. Many of the The event holds a special of survivors," LaRue said. participants take part to honor The Susan G. Komen Breast significance for LaRue and her loved ones or friends who have daughter, Michelle Buczynski, Cancer Foundation was found had breast cancer. Survivors of ed in 1982 by Nancy Brinker in who also made her fourth ap the disease wear pink visors memory of her sister Susan G. pearance in this year's race. and numbered about 700 in this Buczynski was diagnosed with Komen, who died of breast race. DANNER Boot Sale 90 % O off by and check our super pricing on BANNER Work and Sporting boots. »rrow County Grain Growers I -----»------* -----A Ô A 0 0 0 4
