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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oreflon Wednesday, September 25, 1996
Maxine Cox retires from Post Office
Students attend Round-Up
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Back row (l-r): Lindsey Hodges, Dawn DeBoer, Trampus Jeffreys, Grady Penturf, Scott Steinbruck; front
(l-r)-Amanda Davis, Chris Rayburn, Jamie Westburg, Eva Steinbruck, Bradie Davis. Not pictured are
Darin Skaggs, Brian Smith and Marvin Steinbruck.
Some very special
Morrow County students were
treated to a special time at the
Pendleton Round-Up.
Bradie Davis. Scott
Steinbruck and Grady Penturf
o f Heppner Elementary School
(HI S) were contestants at the
Round-Up's exceptional rodeo
held Wednesday o f Round-Up
week.
Bradie, Scott and
Grad> were each assigned
their very own cowboy, who
taught them how to rope. The
kids went home with their
rope, a photo taken of them on
a hay bale with their cowboy
and a new bandana.
Their teacher. Kay
Chinen. said this was the first
time
Heppner
students
participated in the rodeo. The
event was sponsored by the
Pendleton Educational Service
District.
Besides
the
three
contestants, others attending
the rodeo from the HES
educational resource center
were students Marvin and Eva
Steinbruck, Trampus Jeffreys,
Vmanda Davis. Dawn DeBoer,
I indsey
Hodges,
Jesse
barrens, Chris Rayburn, Jamie
Westburg. Darin Skaggs and
Brian Smith, along with
Chinen.
aides
Karla
Waterlaftd. Cindy Sumner and
Donna Roy, parents, Helen
Jeffreys
and
Debbie
Steinbruck and bus drivers Jan
Coe and Pat Dougherty.
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cross country
A total of 23 golfers partici
pated in the annual men's
Cross Country Tournament at
Willow Creek Country Club. A
modified par 69 layout was us
ed with water hazards on near
ly every hole.
Results are as follows: low
gross-Ron Gray, 72; second
Barry Munkers, 85; third Gary
Watkins, 87. Low net-Ray-
mond Reid, 73; second Mike
Jones, 75; third a tie between
Dave Gunderson, Jason Hanna
and Jay Straley, each with 77.
Special event winners-long
drive, Ron Bowman; KP #1
Dave Pranger; KP #10, Jason
Hanna; KP#13 Stub Lewis;
least putts, Jay Straley.
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Maxine
Cox
of
Lexington retired June 30 after
36 years with the Heppner
Post Office. Cox has served
under four postmasters, Jim
Driscoll, Herbert Wilson, Ken
Naims and currently, Mike
McGuire.
Cox
first
started
working for the Post Office
when her husband, Lyle,
retired
following
heart
surgery. She has delivered the
same route. Route 1, during
her whole career. When she
started the route, she drove 98
miles a day. She now drives
112 miles a day, six days a
week. McGuire says that Cox
hasn't missed a day o f work in
four years. She received an
ornate clock as a retirement
gift, inscribed. ”36 years of
excellent serv ice-Heppner Post
Office".
Cox was bom in
Hillsboro, but came to Morrow
County with her parents in
1945, at the age of 13. Her
husband, who has since passed
away, worked for Orval
Cutsforth for many years, then
got a job working with the old
Lexington
co-op.
After
Morrow
County
Grain
Growers bought them out, he
worked for MCGG for 21
years.
Cox has lived in
Lexington in the same house
for 39 years. She has three
grown
children,
seven
grandchildren and five great
grandchildren.
Mike Stahl, 36, of
Heppner has taken over Route
One,
effective
July
1,
following Cox's retirement.
Stahl, who was also
born in Hillsboro, has lived
here for the past three and a
half years. He graduated from
Maxine Cox
Pendleton High School in
1979. He has a two-year
degree in engineering and has
designed hydraulic valves in
Hillsboro for the past eight
years. In addition to the bus
route, Stahl has his own
business,
S&M
Racing,
working
on
motorcycle
suspensions. His wife, Shari,
was bom and raised in
Pendleton, graduating from
Pendleton High School in
1984. She is employed as a
school bus driver with Mid-
Columbia Bus Company. The
Stahls both race motocycles
and
havefour
chocolate
labrador dogs.
Garden Club has flower show, tea
Exceptional rodeo contestants (l-r): Grady Penturf, Bradie Davis and
Scott Steinbruck.
Odd Fellows Lodge holds meeting
By Delpha Jones
The Heppner Odd Fellow'
Lodge welcomed Robert K.
Lunn, the grand master of the
state Odd Fellow Lodge at their
hall on Thursday, Sept. 19,
starting with a steak dinner at
6:30 p.m. Also present were the
grand master's wife, Joyce, am
bassador of good will; Bill
Howes, grand marshal; district
deputy president Bob Goble
from the McNary District; and
Dick Steward of Milton-Free-
water.
The theme for the year is
"Membership” and the dif
ferent programs sponsored by
the order. The grand master
spoke of the UJsL trip for the
youth, scholarships and the
foreign youth exchange. Other
projects which the Odd Fellows
have sponsored for some time
include the World Eye Bank,
Friendship Fund and the bus
recently purchased for the
Holegate Center. Since coming
into use, the bus has taken
members of the center to Mt.
St. Helens, Seaside, and many
local places of interest. The
Jessie Jones State Park at Flo
rence had some building pro
jects and much work to make
the park a real vacation site.
The District meeting of the
McNary District wil be for both
the Rebekahs and Odd Fellows
at Milton-Freewater, Saturday,
Oct. 12, starting at 9 a.m. All
Rebekahs and Odd Fellow’s are
urged to attend.
Those from Lexington going
to Heppner were: Kathy Clark,
Bob and Luella Taylor, Dorothy
and Wilbur Jackson, Clarence
Buchanan, Cecil and Delpha
Jones, and Lyle Peck.
Watershed Council plans meeting
The Umatilla Basin Watersh
ed Council will hold its regular
monthly meeting on Thursday,
Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Pen
dleton Convention Center. This
program is a continuation of
the series on areas of the Uma
tilla River watershed and will
cover rangeland of the basin.
Watershed council meetings
are open to the public and all
interested parties are invited to
attend. For more information,
contact Luise Langheinrich,
276-3836.
Alberta Johannes (I) and Julia Hill admire flowers exhibited at the Heppner Garden Club's first show
and tea, held Sept. 21-22 at the St. Patrick’s Senior Center.
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