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VOL. 116
NO 8_______ 8 Pages Wednesday, February 19, 1997,_______ Morrow County Heppner, Oregon
Mustang varsity basketball teams head to district
Both of the Mustang varsity
basketball teams will compete in
the District 7 2 A basketball tourna
ment this weekend, Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 21-22, at the Pen
dleton Convention Center.
The girls are seeded number one
in the tourney as a result of
Find The Hidden Shamrock
Win A Silver Eagle
The popular St. Patrick's Day treasure h u n t is back again.
Each w eek until M arch 12 a clue for the treasure h u n t will
be printed in the Gazette-Times. If followed, these clues will
guide treasure h u n ters to a green sham rock h id d en som e
w here in th e city lim its of H eppner.
The first person to find the hid d en sham rock will win a
.25 oun ce silver A m erican Eagle coin w orth $90. The coin
is d o n ated by the Bank of E astern O regon and is on display
there.
FIND THE SHAMROCK
and win the coin!
RULES:
1. A new set of clues to guide you to the hidden
shamrock will appear in each edition of the Hepp
ner Gazette-Times.
2. A total of four clues will be given up to March 12.
3. The hidden shamrock is not on private proper
ty and no digging or moving of objects, dirt or other
material is necessary to find the shamrock.
4. The first person to find the shamrock should
bring it to the Heppner Gazette-Times office to claim
the silver American Eagle.
CLUE NUMBER ONE
Maybe a costermonger, factotum or drudge,
from each you’ll obtain information to judge
where you will look in our fair ville
and claim a silver coin to get your thrill.
Beware the dissembler,
you know how they lie.
They’ll steer you wrong,
and your trail will die.
But the genuine person has something for you.
Find out who they are to get your clue.
So with these words, go find your non-man,
and Good Luck to you; get that prize jf you can.
No once, not thrice,
but how many times?
Literally-not a lender,
this person of mine.
Seek them out now,
for they have your first clue,
and prove to us all
just how smart are you?
Follow the clues, and may the Luck O ' The Irish be with you.
This contest is sponsored by the Bank of Eastern Oregon
and the H eppner Gazette-Times.
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finishing their regular season atop
the Columbia Basin Conference
standings with an 11-1 record, 18-
3 overall. Heppner will open the
tournament Friday at 1:30 p.m.
against the fourth place Umatilla
Vikings.
The boys, third place finishers in
the CBC at 8-4 and 15-6 overall,
will meet the Weston-McEwen
TigerScots in an evening contest at
approximately 8:30 p.m.
Rounding out the tournament
will be the Umatilla boys against
Wahtonka and Weston-McEwen
versus Sherman County in girls’
action.
Friday winners will meet Satur
day afternoon to determine the
conference champions and the
number-one seed to the first round
regional tournament of the Oregon
School Activities Association state
playoffs. That tournament will be
held in the Quinn Coliseum on the
Eastern Oregon State College
campus in La Grande, February 28
and March 1.
Ticket prices for the district
tournament are: per session, $5 for
adults and $3 for students; two-
session pass, $8 and $5; and three-
session pass, $12 and $7.
Class of 1957
plans reunion
The Heppner High School class
of 1957 is planning their 40th
reunion on July 19 in Heppner.
Organizers
are seeking
information on classmates Dick
Applegate. Viola Duran, Christine
Swaggart. Robert Parker, Alice
Faye, Mary Jo Stewart, Jesse
Smallwood, Marilvn Monagle and
Phyllis Beddle
Anyone wishing more
information
or
who
has
information
about
missing
classmates
may contact E.V.
Blevins, 427-3842, of Jav Dee
Hudson, 676-9774
Local genealogy
group forming
People interested in forming a
Morrow County genealogical soci
ety are invited to attend an organi
zational meeting at the Morrow
County Museum on Tuesday,
February 25, at 4 p.m.
Beginners, as well as expen-
enced researchers, are invited to
attend.
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Lexington 989-8221 1 -800-452-7396
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Left to right back row-Eugene Liu, Nola Kang, Jim Kang, front-Alvin Liu, Darrel Kang
Faith brought the Kang and Liu
families to the U S and faith
supports them and their extended
family as they begin their new life
in Heppner-a world away from
their life in Taiwan
Jim (Ting-Ling) Kang was in
high school in Taiwan when his
mother came to him and said that
the family, which includes his
brother, Darrel (Ching-Ling),
would move to Belize, a country in
Central
America
on
the
Caribbean . "We were bom in a
Christian family," said Jim, "and
my mother said that God wanted
us to move there."
His mother, Nola (Miao-Hsiang)
Huang, had met another family in
Taiwan, the Lius, who also
planned to relocate to Belize. Jim
anticipated
meeting
Alvin
(Chung-Wen) and Eugene (Chung-
Chin) Liu, the sons in the Liu
family during a visit in Taiwan
Eugene, however, had other plans-
-sleep He had been playing
basketball and was so tired, he
slept through Jim's visit and on
into the next morning. The boys in
the two families didn't meet until
they were all in the airport in
Taiwan en route to Belize in July
of 1994.
"A group of Taiw anese in Belize
had the same vision that God had
called them to Belize," said
Eugene "We had only read about
it We were not certain what was
going to happen, but when we
mov ed to Belize, we saw part of
the purpose of God's plan "
In Belize they met Lynda Crane,
pastor of the Heppner Christian
Missionary
Fellowship
in
Heppner. who had traveled there
on a crusade, along with her
daughter, Kimberly Navarro of
Texas, and Joan McDaniel,
Catherine Sims, Mary Ella
Johnson and Vie Oliver, all of
Heppner. who invited them to visit
Heppner At the time, however,
Heppner was only a vision for the
Taiwanese families The Kang and
Liu families lived in Belize for a
year and a half before the Kangs
moved to Costa Rica
After six months. Nola, Jim and
Darrel went back to Belize It w as
then that Eugene and Alvin's
mother, Lucy (Li-Chao) Tsai
suggested that the boys apply for a
U S. Visa After applying, the
Kangs went back to Costa Rica to
get their belongings and prepare
for the trip to LA
Jim. Darrel and Nola then
traveled to LA to visit the boy s'
aunt. Once in Los Angeles, the
Kangs took an excursion to
Disneyland and later, the two
families decided to go on a
sightseeing tour of LA. They
walked downtown to buy some
clothes and shoes and got lost,
spending about a half a day
walking Finally , hungry , thirsty
and tired, they ended up in
Chinatown where they asked for
and got directions to a bus in
Chinese They found that they
didn't like the pollution or ev en the
water in LA.
By that time, they had decided to
move to Heppner And once they
arrived in Oregon, they knew they
were home
"After we were picked up from
Portland, my mom saw a deer."
said Jim. "She almost jumped out
the window "
The boys had never seen snow
before coming to this U S , so this
year, the weather obliged, bringing
lots of the white stuff On
Christmas morning the first thing
the boy s did, after devotion, was
build a snowman (perhaps the
most peculiar snowman you've
ever seen) and have a snowball
fight Since it was the first snow
that they had seen, it just wasn't
enough So they rounded up a
wheelbarrow and gathered some
more together While they like the
snow, they discovered that they arc
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not too crazy about freezing rain
and Nola. unfortunately, took a fall
on the ice
While the families arc happy
here, they do miss Taiwan, and
especially their fathers, who
remained there. Jim and Darrel’s
father, Sui-Ming Kang, is the
manager of a company with offices
in Taiwan and China and Eugene
and Alvin's father, Hsien-Chi Liu.
is a dentist Hsien-Chi wants to
visit the U S eventually . Eugene
and Alvin's family is even more
separated, since their mother,
Lucy, remained in Belize
Jim,
who hopes to go back to Taiwan
some day. says that one thing he
misses is the Taiwanese food
Lynda, on the other hand says that
she has enjoy ed being treated to
Taiwanese cooking since their
arrival They all agree that Alvin
and Nola arc the cooks and joke
that Eugene can cook-eggs,
scrambled eggs, fried eggs, hot
w ater and hot chocolate
A K in and Eugene, w ho now
have their driver's licenses, drive
back and forth to Pendleton,
accompanied by Nola, to attend
Blue
Mountain
Community
College
Alvin, 19, and a
freshman, is taking art classes.
Eugene. 20. is a sophomore
studying business; and Nola is
studying English Jim. 17, is a
sophomore at Heppner High
School and Darrel, 16, is a
freshman Although Jim and
Darrel
should
actually
be
upperclassmen,
their mother
advised them that this way they
would have a better opportunity to
learn English It was difficult
fitting in school in Heppner, says
Jim But. he adds that he spent a
lot of time talking to people,
working hard to get acquainted
In their spare time, Jim enjoys
playing badminton, tennis and
basketball and was on the HHS JV
team He also plays guitar, drums
and piano Darrel likes basketball,
tennis and skateboarding He
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played on the HHS C-team
Eugene and Alvin also enjoy
basketball and tennis. Eugene
plays piano and guitar. Alvin plays
drums and is learning to play the
autoharp And they all have a good
time visiting with their extended
church family
and living in
Lynda's home Besides Lynda, the
Kang and Liu families, the
household also includes Vie,
Catherine and Bill and Becky
Moms and their son. Timmy The
Morrises
are
living
there
temporarily since they were burned
out of their home in Heppner
"Every night we are so noisy ,"
says Darrel "They are great
houseguests," counters Lynda
"And great Bible students They 've
been a tremendous blessing "
The boys aren't worried about
their future, trusting in God to give
them direction "I will see what
God wants me to be," say s Darrel
"We will have careers." adds
Eugene "But if our purpose was
only to pursue our education. God
wouldn't have put us here "
"When I was in Taiwan. I
planned." said Alvin "But guess
what, we moved Like Eugene
says, God will know what to do."
Jim say s that if he goes to college,
he will major in either computer
science or electronics, with music
or Spanish (which he also speaks
in addition to Chinese and
Taiwanese, a Chinese dialect) as
his second major Darrel says, "I
think I will be a businessman like
my father"
And their social life17 That too,
will work itself out In Taiwan
boy s and girls don't date like they
do in the U S "It's not so much
accepted." says Eugene, who
laughingly answers "no comment"
to queries about his love life
"(Taiwanese) Society as a whole
doesn't support boyfriends and
girlfriends, but it's changing," he
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