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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. June 19, 1996 w.c.c.c. q«i« Ladies' 18 Hole Invitation Low gross of the field: tie Casey Frederickson and Bar bara Hinkle, 74. Condon: first low gross June Kamerrer 88, second low gross Roberta Dyer 109; first low net |an Crawford 66, second low net Juanita Hartley 69. Kinzua: first low gross Linda Dunn 92, second low gross Helen Ostrander 102; first low net Arlene Schroeder 74, se cond low net Georgia Loomis 80. Umatilla: first low gross Bar bara Lynch 81, second low gross Anna Carpenter 85; first low net Cindy Griffith 65, se cond low net Rae Taylor 68. Pendleton: first low gross June Rosenburg 75, second low gross Bernice Bingham 76, third low gross Dolores Cahill 84; tie first low net Mary Lou Mc Laughlin and Virginia Roberts 59, second low net Carolyn Hendricks 62, third low net Janet Taylor 64. W.C.C.C.: first low gross Pat Edmundson 78, second low gross Karen Wildman 80, third low gross Linda Schultz 82, fourth low gross Chrisy Schultz 84, fifth low gross Suzanne Jepsen 91; first low net Betty Christman 48, second low net Susan Atkins 52, third Alene Rucker 54, tie fourth low net Karen Thompson and Eileen Padburg 58, fifth low net Carol Norris 61. Long drive: visitor Casey Frederickson; home Betty Christman. K.P.: visitor Barbara Lynch 6'; home Dorris Graves 4 '5 ". Chip ins: Barbara Hinkle, Cindy Griffith, Mary Deutz, Pat Edmundson, Karen Wild man, Susan Atkins, Betty Christman, Doll Campbell, Alene Rucker, Chrisy Schultz, Flora Bell. Birdies: Barbara Lynch, Pat Edmundson, Dorris Graves, Chrisy Schultz, Dorla Hodge. Heppner city budget down Phone outage The Heppner City Council, after a public hearing on the ci ty's 1996-97 budget, adopted budget appropriations for the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1. The appropria tions are 6.5 percent lower than the current budget, said city manager Gary Marks. Budget savings were made in appro priations for materials, services, and for capital outlays, said Marks. The council approved a re solution accepting a plan to restructure the city's 1993 sewer system improvement loans from the Oregon Econo mic Development Department (OEDD). Marks proposed the restructuring plan to OEDD in December, 1995. The plan will save the city $100,4% in interest costs over the term of the loans, he said. OEDD agreed to accept the city's plan in May. The council also approved a series of resolutions designed to satisfy federal program re quirements of the city's recent ly awarded $300,000 Communi ty Development Block Grant. The grant will allow the city to administer a housing rehabilita tion loan program for low and moderate income homeowners within the city. Loans made through the program will be interest-free and do not require repayment until the house is sold or the last surviving home- owner dies. In an ongoing effort to im prove city streets, the council approved a resolution clearing the way for a $25,000 grant ap plication to the Oregon Depart ment of Transportation (ODOT). The grant is being Meeting set on foundation The Heppner Coordinating Council (E1CC) has planned an organizational meeting Wed nesday, June 26, at 7 p.m. in the basement of Hope Luther- Come Share With Us at Willow Creek Baptist Church Bible Study for all ages 2 p.m. Worship Service 3 p.m. Meeting in the 7th Day Adventist Church 560 North Minor uùtAyou/i Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Queen Brenda Holtz and her court placed second in the mounted courts division of the Sisters Rodeo Parade recently. Many rodeo courts from around the state provided some healthy competition, the queen noted. The Chief Joseph Days court took the first place trophy. The queen and princesses Beth Hermanns, Stormy Howard and Dawn Boor par ticipated in the grand entries for the afternoon and evening performances of the Sisters Rodeo. The girls agreed it was fun and exciting to be in the same run-in as Miss Rodeo Oregon and some of the more famous rodeo courts. Pennant bearer Katie Bacon accompanied the royals at the weekend's parade and lun cheon hosted by the Sisters Rodeo queen. Parents acted as chaperones, and talked about how exciting it was to watch Morrow County's grand entry need: r Rou)eAA cßal(oon6 Çjijjt cBa&leet& ‘DeCioeùeó r Srl/wy fo fie W & pfiet % ftarina/ott an Church concerning the establishment of a non-profit Willow Creek Foundation to obtain and distribute funds for projects for the communities of lone, Lexington and Heppner. "The Coordinating Council believes that a south Morrow . County non-profit foundation has the potential to provide assistance for a wide variety of worthwhile projects for the communities of lone, Lexing ton and Heppner," said the Reverend Stan Hoobing, HCC chairman. Interested persons are invited to attend. scheduled June 26 A telephone outage schedul ed for May 15 has been rescheduled for Wednesday, June 26, according to the Mor row County Sheriff's office. All telephone lines on the Heppner-676, Lexington-989, and Ione-422 exchanges will be out of service on Wednesday, June 26, beginning at midnight, 12:01 a.m. PTI estimates that the outage could range from 30 minutes to one hour. There will be no dial tone during this time. The purpose of the telephone outage is to enable PTI to move its lines from a U.S. West switch in Pendleton to a PTI switch in Heppner, according to a news release from the Mor row County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). All telephone service, in cluding cellular phones and 9-1-1 lines into the Morrow County 9-1-1 center at the Sheriff's office, will be affected. PTI customers in Heppner, Lexington and lone will need to seek help on their own during this time, said the MCSO. Persons with special medical requirements may need to have someone with them or go where there will be someone able to go for help or take them to the hospital emergency room. Fire, police and medical radio communications wll not be af fected. Emergency personnel will be able to radio to the 9-1-1 Center where the dispatcher can radio or page the appro priate emergency service pro vider in the usual manner. Sheriff Roy L. Drago has an nounced that emergency help will be available at the follow ing locations: Heppner 676: Fire-go to Fire Hall; Police-go to City Hall, Police Dept.; Medical-go to Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Lexington 989: Fire, Police and Medical-go to Fire Hall. lone 422: Fire, Police and Medical-go to Fire Hall. Telephone service for Board- man 481 and exchanges in Gilliam and Wheeler counties will not be affected. Irrigon 9-1-1 calls will be answered and dispatched by the Hermiston Police Dept. Fair/OTPR court second at Sisters uò fiefy) you I sought through ODOT's Special Cities Allotment (SCA) program. If successful, grant funds will be used to pave a two block stretch of Gale Street between Church and Center streets. The city recently com pleted a similar paving project on Gale Street between " A " and Church streets. That pro ject was funded with a $25,000 SCA grant. The council gave their ap proval to financing plans for a new public works pole garage to be constructed on property located directly behind city hall. Construction of the new build ing is planned for late summer, and will meet a 19% goal set by the council to shelter public works equipment from harsh winter weather. "Most of the city's heavy equipment is cur rently stored outside," said Marks. "The new pole garage will allow us to park equipment inside, thereby prolonging its useful life and reducing re placement and repair costs.” The council also heard a pro posal from Police Chief Doug Rathbun for a vehicle impound ment ordinance. Rathbun said such an ordinance would help the police keep uninsured and suspended drivers off the streets. Rathbun reported Mor row County and the city of Boardman had recently adopt ed such ordinances. Council members expressed a desire for an impoundment ordinance that is narrowly written to assure the rights of law- abiding citizens. The council agreed to hold a public hearing on the ordinance at the July council meeting. Country Rose 233 N M ain Heppner Blue Mountain MASTER GARDENER DIGGINGS Gardening questions? Call the Extension Office at 676-9642 to be refered to a master gardener. Remove Small Fruits fo r H igher Quality Apples To get larger, higher quality apples, remove immature ap ples in early June. Getting rid of some of the fruits also helps avoid tree damage from heavy fruit load later in the sum mer, according to Tom Darnell, horticulture agent with the Oregon State University (OSU) Extension Service. Apples naturally shed small, cherry-sized fruit in late May and early June. But this natural thinning often is not enough. For larger and higher quality fruit, more young apples need to he removed by hand. “Take off the smaller apples and the apples damaged by disease or insects in each cluster,” recommends Darnell. “Leave only the largest undamaged fruit in each cluster. Each remaining fruit should be about one hand apart. This way, you'll also be thinning the fruit load and will help avoid break ing any tree branches. For more information about home orchards, order the OSU Extension Service publication, PNW 400. “Training and Prun ing Your Home Orchard,” available by sending your request and a check or money order for $1 per copy to: Publications Orders, Extension and Experiment Station Communications, OSU, 422 Administrative Services. Corvallis, OR 97331-2119. from above the bucking chutes in the contestant section of the grandstands, Queen Brenda noted. The court had several oppor- tunties to distribute brochures advertising Morrow County's fair and rodeo, and to invite courts, cowboys and cowgirls to come to Heppner in August for the Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo, said a spokesperson for the court. Market Report Compliments of the Morrow County Grain Growers Tuesday, June 18 Soft White June July August September October November December January *5.40 *5.16/*5.05 *5.00 *5.02/*5.04 *5.07/*5.09 *5.13/*5.15 *5.19/*5.21 *5.23/*5.25 Barley June July-August *150 *145 Beecita'a W IL L B E C L O S E D Saturday June 22 at 3 p.m. The lounge will be open serving cold sandwiches and pizza Plan to celebrate the 4th of July in lone |'Beedt0i'ft ReiUuuuud & £omge 3 5 0 Hwy 74 • lone, OR I Making mountains out of molehills 4 2 2 -7 0 3 8 JC - A § » $ 1 tt t i *• * W i jk I *#f If Stephanie Lemieux fir * *4 the nature all the time. 1 can't stand to be without nature. I am an outdoor person.” Stephanie agrees with many of the exchange students who come to the U.S., that school work is easier here. "The teachers (in Canada) don't push you so much. There if you don't do the work, you fail. Here they really push you. It's easier to skip school (in Cana da). You're more on your own. They really treat you like a kid here. Here 18 years old is nothing. When you're in Ger many or Canada, you're an adult." Stephanie took five years of English classes in Canada, but adds that she still had some dif ficulty speaking English when she came to the U.S. "They (English classes at home) are not that good, mostly vocabu lary. I could understand a lot more than I could speak." Stephanie now speaks English very fluently, which, she says will help her at the English col lege she plans to attend in the fall. "You need to be bilingual in Canada," she adds. Stephanie joined the track team at lone High School, the first time she had ever turned out for the sport. She was able to go to the state tournament and won the pole vault cham pionship. She also competed in the 400 relay and earned se cond place. Other activities at lone High School included playing bass in the pep band. At home, Stephanie goes with her friends to clubs, camps, climbs and works as a lifeguard during the summer. One summer she and her father spent three weeks backpacking in France, travel ing around two thousand kilo meters by bicycle. Stephanie says that she didn't really get homesick in the U .S., but missed her friends and the "action". One of the biggest drawbacks, she says, was not having her car and not being able to drive around. She did, however, bring her bike, which she us ed to ride into lone from the Padberg ranch. Stephanie met another foreign exchange student dur ing her stay at lone, Steffi Kohler from Germany. The two became good friends, but Stef fi left for her home in Germany in March. "It was sad that she left," said Stephanie. "I miss her, but after she left, I made more friends with lone peo ple." The two girls write and call each other and plan a trip together to New Zealand some day. In addition to her trips with the Outdoor Club, track team and pep band, Stephanie traveled to the coast with the Childers and has been to Portland "plenty of times to go shopping". Before Stephanie returns home, she plans a trip with her brother to British Col umbia, where he has a summer job planting trees. Before they leave Oregon June 22, she wants to take him to Central Oregon to show him Smith Rock near Bend, and also to the Columbia River Gorge and Portland. Some day, she says, she hopes to return to the U.S. Some people have the knack of making mountains out of mole hills. For Stephanie Lemieux, this is not a bad thing. When the 18-year-old Cana dian student applied with the ASSE exhange program to be come an exchange student in the U.S., she asked to be sent somewhere with mountains. She was active at home in Sher brooke, Quebec, camping, bicycling and mountain climbing. But, as fate would have it, she was assigned to the lone area, with lots of beautiful wheat fields, lots of rolling hills, but no mountains. " I tried to change to an area with mountains, like Colorado or Montana," said Stephanie. But, her ASSE coordinator in lone, Cathy Halvorsen, per suaded her to stick it out until after Christmas, at least. And Stephanie is glad she did. "You have to accept things if you want to be happy. It was just a year, so why not?" said Stephanie. " I like the people here. People are so generous here. You feel welcome wherever you go." She admits that at first, she was a little taken aback. "I looked out of the plane," says Stephanie, "and it was flat. I walked all over the hills, trying to find some mountains. It was so brown. I'm used to a place that is green all the time." Her search wasn't entirely in vain. During her stay in lone, she joined the Outdoor Club and was able to go skiing at Mt. Hood, Mt. Bachelor and An thony Lakes. She also took a geology trip to Christmas Valley and the Bend area and explored the caves. Stephanie stayed with the Marilyn and Cleo Childers family until December and then moved in with the Marvin Padberg family, which includes grown children, Darcy, who works and attends school in Pendleton, and Darren and Dustin, who work on the Pad berg ranch. At Sherbrooke, Stephanie lives with her mother, Silvie, a dental assistant, father, Jac ques, who has his own real estate company and works in the home, and brother, Jean- Raphael, who is studying to become a P.E. teacher. Steph anie, her father and brother are also ski instructors. Stephanie says she has a "hu ge" extend ed family, many of whom live in a little town somewhat like lone. "I knew a little bit of what it would be like," she says. "It's still different, though." She says that family life is much the same in lone and The Morrow County Fair and Canada. The difference in the Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo court sizes of lone and Sherbrooke, has planned a car wash at Les however, is vast, with Sher Schwab in Heppner for Satur brooke having a population of day, June 29. "W e will wash 100,(XX). Sherbrooke is about an the outside of your rig," said hour from Montreal, which has Queen Brenda Holtz, "so you a population of two million. won't have to worry about it Stephanie has been a senior and will have more time to get twice, once in Canada and ready for the Fourth of July." again in lone. " I didn't know what I wanted to do in college, so I decided to go with ASSE," said Stephanie. She learned of An outdoor Bible club, spon the program through her best sored by Willow Creek Baptist friend who went to California Church, will be held Monday through ASSE. through Friday, July 24-28, at After returning to Canada, the Heppner City Park from Stephanie will enroll in college 3-4:30 p.m. for two years of general study All ages of children are in and will then spend three years vited to participate in Bible ac at, a university, probably tivities and games. Snacks will specializing in geography. be provided. "Maybe I will teach college,” For more information call she says. " But, I have to he in Kelly Sager, 989-8323. MC Fair/OTPR plan car wash Bible school