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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.
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