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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 6, 1996 - FIVE Hope, Valby plan services, activities McElligott, Tworek receive awards 1964, 1996 flooding- how it compares A parish-based program on elderly care, scheduled for Wednesday, March 10, will be postponed until the weekend of April 13-14. John K. Meyer, president of Care Trust, Inc. of Corvallis, was scheduled to come and talk with members of Hope and Valby parishes about the pro gram, but because of a schedul ing conflict was forced to post pone. The Valby congregation will gather Wednesday evening, March 6, at 7 p.m., at the home of Don and Martha Peterson for the third mid-week Lenten ser vice based on the presentations of "The Parents of the Pas sion". On Thursday evening, March 7, at 6:30 p.m., the con gregation of Hope Lutheran Health Dept« Church, Heppner, will have a mid-week Lenten Soup Sup per, followed by worship ser vice at 7:30 p.m. The father of Simon Peter will be the presen tation at both Lenten services. Sunday worship service at Valby Lutheran Church will be at 9 a.m. Pastor Stan Hoobing will deliver "Words, Words, Words", based on scripture reading of the Gospel of John 4:5-42. Sunday worship and Sunday School at Hope is at 11 a.m. Debbie Basile will accompany the congregation in the singing of the hymns. Visitors and friends are welcome to attend the services and events of the Lutheran parish of south Morrow Coun ty- Weather Report __________ By City of Heppner_________ The Morrow County Health For the month of February Dept, lists the following mon Low Precip. High thly schedule for blood pres .00 -8 11 2/1 sures and immunizations: .00 -7 2/2 10 Thursday, March 7-blood .00 -11 18 2/3 pressures and immunizations, .02 1 17 2/4 Heppner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 .04 21 7 2/5 p.m.; .42 24 53 2/6 Monday, March 11-blood .25 45 2/7 60 pressures and immunizations, .24 60 38 2/8 Irrigon annex, 1-4 p.m.; .22 44 64 Tuesday, March 12-blood 2/9 .00 24 52 pressures and immunizations, 2/10 .00 25 41 2/11 Boardman, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; .00 26 47 Thursday, March 14-blood 2/12 .00 27 49 pressures and immunizations, 2/13 .00 28 55 ( Heppner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 2/14 .00 28 53 2/15 p.m.; .00 31 55 Monday, March 18-blood 2/16 .06 54 33 pressures and immunizations, 2/17 T 42 62 2/18 lone City Hall, 2-4 p.m.; 39 T 60 Tuesday, March 19-blood 2/19 .02 37 58 pressures and immunizations, 2/20 .49 33 60 2/21 Boardman, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; .03 48 27 Thursday, March 21-blood 2/22 .07 44 33 pressures and immunizations, 2/23 T 26 40 Heppner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 2/24 .14 28 39 2/25 p.m.; .15 9 31 Tuesday, March 26-blood 2/26 .00 11 35 pressures and immunizations, 2/27 .00 15 34 2/28 Boardman, 9:30 a.m.-4 p-m.; .00 14 36 . Thursday, March 28-blood 2/29 pressures and immunizations, Heppner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jepsen competes in music contest Births Omar Barrera-a son Omar was bom to Maria and Sixto Barrera of Boardman on February 9, 1996 at Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston. The baby weigh ed 7 lbs. 0 oz. Ryan Leo Sands-a son Ryan Leo was born to Barbara Thomas and Dick Sands of Ir- I rigon on February 16, 1996 at Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 10 lbs. 14 oz. Ryan Rochelle Dougherty-a daughter Ryan Rochelle was born to Dawna and Cliff Dougherty of Heppner on February 16, 1996 at St. An thony Hospital in Pendleton. The baby weighed 5 lbs. 13 oz. She joins a sister, Taighler, three years, at home. Grand parents are Maureen and Ken neth Howard, Pat and Gerry Dougherty and Oliver and Monique Devin, all Heppner. Great-grandparents are Marie Steagall, Lexington and Mau- rice Groves, Heppner. Sarahi Hemandez-a daught er Sarahi was bom to Leticia Mendoza and Luis Hernandez of Irrigon on February 17, 1996 at Good Shepherd Communi ty Hospital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 10 lbs. 0 oz. Development grants topic of meeting The monthly meeting of the Morrow County Commission on Children and Families will be held on Tuesday, March 12 at the Morrow County School District building in Lexington from 7-9 p.m. The main topic of discussion will be the ap proval of the Community De velopment Grants. The public is invited to attend and participate in the discus sions. Matthew Jepsen, of Hepp ner, was one of over 150 junior and senior high school students who competed at the Northeast Oregon District 6 Solo and Ensemble Contest. The com petition was held in La Grande on Saturday, March 2, at the Eastern Oregon State College campus. Matthew, the son of Bill and Nancy Jepsen, and an eighth grader at Heppner Junior High, received a one rating on this trumpet solo entitled Sonata in B Flat by composer Henry Pur cell. He was accompanied on the piano by Deborah Wryn of lone. He is a music student of Ralph Werner of Hermiston. Competitors were rated on a scale of one to five, with one being the best rating, for their performance in one of six areas: brass, woodwinds, piano, per cussion, vocal and strings. The top high school students were chosen to participate in the state band. Editor's note: Many people in the Pacific Northwest are comparing the flooding of December 1964 with this year's deluge. How similiar are the conditions? Loren Unruh, resource con servationist with the USDA Natural Resources Conserva tion Service, has provided the following answers: When comparing these two flood events, the difficulty is in trying to determine the amount of rain that fell and the amount of snow that was on the ground in the mountains in 1964. There were only four mountain sta M elissa McElligott (I) and M arie Tworek Melissa McElligott and Marie Tworek are the recipients of the Outstanding Service Award given by the lone Ecumenical Youth Group. McElligott and Tworek, both lone, have been active mem bers of the group for four years. They have regularly attended meetings, sold and delivered Christmas trees to make money for service trips and shoveled snow for senior citizens. This past fall, they helped paint the lone Elementary School play ground equipment and assisted Jannie Allen and Cathy Hal- vorsen with the Jason Halvor- sen Scholarship Bazaar. Both girls have participated in the Human Race, a fund rais- St. William's Catholic Church last May. Youth group members given Footstep Awards for outstan ding participation and Chris tian spirit were freshmen Katie Tworek, Jessie Krebs and Niki Sullivan; sophomores Jake Mc Elligott, Jenny Sullivan and Marc Orem; and juniors Kelly Morgan, Luke Swanson and Steve Allen. BM CC computer seminars slated Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC) will offer two one-day computer seminars in Morrow County in the near future. Interested students should contact BMCC coor dinator Anne Morter, 422-7040, for more information or to pre register. Intro to the Internet is sched uled for Saturday, March 9, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at Heppner High School. This class will give students a chance to see what is available to them on the information superhighway and just how to get there. The class is non-computer specific. Cost is $45 per person. On Saturday, March 16, Computer Maintenance will be offered beginning at 8 a.m. at Riverside High School in Boardman. Computers need periodic attention to keep operating properly and effi ciently. The class will demon strate how to clean and main tain your computer, both physically and "electronically". Students should plan to bring their own computers for op timal results. Cost is $45 and preregistration is required. Local students in college "Who's Who" April Taylor of lone and Celeste Owen of Lexington, were among 20 students from Blue Mountain Community College who have been includ ed in the 1996 edition of Who's Who Among American Junior Colleges. Campus nominating commit tees and editors of the annual directory included the names of the students based on their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success. Federal flood aid approved for county The federal government made Morrow County flood victims eligible for disaster assistance Monday, Feb. 26. County residents who have not already done so must report flood damage to be eligible for assistance. To report, call FEMA's National Teleregistra tion Center at 1-800-462-9029. Flood damage reported to Morrow County Emergency Management includes damage to roads, pastures, livestock and fields. Willow Creek flow- over its banks above Willow Creek dam at Heppner. Hinton Pierce new chairman^ Members of the Community College Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences recently elected Greg Pierce, head of the Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC) Criminal Justice Dept., as their new chairperson. Pierce noted the section has three initial areas of interest: designing a national transfer program which would articu late criminal justice curriculum between community colleges and four-year colleges and uni versities; developing and delivering state-of-the-art cur ricula and developing teaching strategies to promote indepen dent thinking and self-esteem in criminal justice students. Pierce, whose program at tracts many students to the BMCC campus, has received national recognition for his in sight into the unique concerns affecting rural community col lege criminal justice programs. ing walk to benefit the Burnside community. The seniors made their first service trip to the Burnside area in 1990 as sixth graders. Tworek has traveled to Portland to aid the homeless four times, and McElligott has made seven trips to Burnside. They were both confirmed at and Rhea creeks were at flood stage for several days. The dam and quick action by the emergency responders prevented extensive flooding in Heppner, lone and Lexington. Without the dam, an estimated six feet of water would have flooded those towns on Tues day, Feb. 6. Ice jams and debris threatened to flood areas below the dam that day and night, but Hepp ner firefighters and public works crews from Heppner and Morrow County worked around the clock to prevent flooding. Outhouse race set for March 16 An outhouse by any other name smells as sweet. But how fast can it travel? St. Patrick's weekend Cele brators will find out during the O'Shanty race on Saturday, March 16, at 1 p.m. on Main Street in Heppner. Entrants in the race will decorate refrigerator boxes to look like outhouses and then will race them down Main Street with five person teams- four to run and one to guide. Anyone may enter the race- a family, business or group. Those interested should enter at Twice Upon a Time, the bookstore on Willow Street. There is a $10 entry fee. Prizes will be based on the number of entries. First and se cond prizes will be awarded for the most creative O'Shanty. For more information, call Peggy Johnson, 676-9815. Country Rose joins AFS Country Rose, located at 233 South Main in Heppner, recently joined American Floral Services, Inc. (AFS), an inter national flowers-by-wire ser vice located in Oklahoma City, OK. Trish Sweeney is the manager of the new AFS shop. As an AFS Florist, Country Rose can arrange for delivery of fresh flowers and plants to almost anywhere in the world. tions in Oregon and Washing ton with good precipitation and snowpack records in 1964 (compared to 116 Snow Tele metered (SNOTEL) sites oper ating today). However, there will not be February 19% data for these stations until next month, since these sites are not automated like the SNOTEL system. Therefore, some esti mating was done in determin ing the current precipitation and snow amounts. At this time it appears that the 1964 floods were much more widespread, affecting northern California, Oregon, Idaho and southern Washing ton. The 1996 area affected was mainly northern Oregon, southern Washington and the Panhandle of Idaho. There was much heavier precipitation during the 1964 flood south of Corvallis; how ever, there was more precipita tion north of Corvallis during the 1996 event. Snowpack in the Cascades appears to be higher in 19% from some of the preliminary and estimated numbers. There was limited snow in the coast range in 1964 but 200 percent to 300 percent in 19%. This is most likely why some of the coastal mountain tributaries experienced record flooding. The Willamette River likely did not reach 1964 levels be cause of the additional dams built in the 1960s and better reservoir management due to better data sources such as SNOTEL. October and November 1964 started out very wet and warm and flooding did occur on many of the streams and rivers in Washington and Oregon. This flooding saturated the soil, allowing further precipitation events in December to go straight into the rivers. Much of December was cold and bet ween December 18-20, there were very cold temperatures and snow fell. This event caus ed much of the soil to freeze. On Dec. 21, the "Pineapple Express" kicked in. This event was quite large and heavy rain fell from central California east through Nevada and Idaho and then north to Washington. When the heavy rains hit, the soil moisture was either satu rated or frozen; therefore, all the precipitation that fell went into the streams. Snow levels were also as high as 10,000 feet and snow melt occurred below 4,000 feet in Oregon and Washington. This event lasted until Dec. 25, when colder temperatures but continued precipitation engulfed the re gion. November and December 1995 were very wet months and flooding occurred throughout Oregon and Washington. This brought the soil moisture to the saturation point, especially west of the Cascades. In Janu ary 1996, a combination of ar- tic air to the north and sub tropical moisture to the south caused heavy snow over the Cascades. This brought the snowpack up from 50 percent to 70 percent across Oregon. Late January and early Febru ary brought bitterly cold temp eratures across the Northwest. This froze the already saturated ground. On Feb. 5, the "Pineapple Express" kicked in. This event concentrated very heavy rain over northwest Oregon. This heavy rain fell on snowpacks in the Coast Range and the lower elevation Cascades that were 200-300 percent of average. The freezing level was an high as 10.000 feet and snow was melting substantially below 3.000 feet and moderately bet ween 3,000-5,000 feet. East of the Cascades, less precipitation fell; however, high snowpacks and high temperatures caused widespread flooding here also. When one compares stream- flow amounts, it appears that coastal tributaries were affected much worse in the 1996 floods when compared to the 1964 floods. This is primarily due to the high amount of snow that was on the coast range. Willa mette tributaries did have more snow in the basins; however, better management of the reservoirs likely contributed to lesser flooding in the Willa mette Basin. Start thinking about financial aid It's time for the college- bound to start thinking about financial aid for 1996-97. Staff from the Blue Mountain Com munity College (BMCC) Finan cial Aid office note that students who filed for Federal Financial Aid for the current (1995-%) year should receive a renewal application by mail. Student information will need to be updated or corrected and returned to the Federal pro cessor to determine eligibility for the 1996-97 academic year. Students who have not yet received a renewal application are urged to pick up a 1996-97 application at the BMCC Finan cial Aid Office in Morrow Hall. The financial aid staff stresses the importance of early applica tion for both new and return ing students. A number of financial aid opportunities have specific deadlines. Students should definately have the forms sent in before Monday, April 1 to ensure they will be considered for all available financial aid. Many four-year colleges have a March 1 dead line for applications. Even students who think they may not qualify for finan cial aid should submit an ap plication for federal student aid; they may be surprised at the types of available funding. Students do not have to know if or where they are going to school; if college is a possibili ty, they should go ahead and file. College-bound students are also encouraged to check into scholarship information. Stu dents should keep in mind that not all scholarships are tied to grade point average and academic performance. The Oregon State Scholarship Commissions (OSSC) offer a number of scholarships to stu dents throughout the state; the OSSC scholarship application contains all information, in cluding eligibility require ments, that students need to apply for any OSSC scholar ships. Students can apply for up to eight scholarships on one form. Applications for federal stu dent aid and scholarship infor mation are available through high school counseling offices as well as the BMCC Financial Aid office. In The Heppner Gazette Your Ads Are Read Call 676-9228 to place your ad
