FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. June 19, 1996
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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