EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 12, 1997
CRP sign-up to continue until Mar. 28 John Doherty to perform at celebration
Photo by Gina Kerzman. Natural Resources Conservation Service
Jack Engle, a new Heppner resident, works with Connie Holmquist,
NRCS, and Skip Matthews, FSA, to sign-up for CRP. The sign-up con
tinues through Friday, ’ March 28. reducing
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The USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service is busy
shuffling papers for the latest
Conservation Reserve Program
(CRP) sign-up that began March
3 and continues through Friday,
March 28.
The CRP program was created
through the 1985 Farm Bill.
Landowners signed a contract
agreeing to take highly erodible
land out of production and
setting it aside for 10 years.
Many of those contracts expired
in 1995 and 1996, but received
extensions. Now, they are ex
pired again, and landowners are
either re-enrolling the land or
enrolling new land. However,
land must meet the new criteria
where erosion, water quality and
wildlife benefits are equally
weighted.
CRP has been credited for
improving wildlife habitat, re
ducing sediment in streams, and
topsoil on cropland.
"Not only has CRP helped
reduce soil erosion in Morrow
County, but there have been
significant improvements in
wildlife habitat," says Loren
Unruh, NRCS, Heppner.
In Oregon, about 484,000
acres were enrolled in CRP prior
to this sign-up. Of those acres,
104,939 acres are in Morrow
County.
The NRCS and Farm Services
Agency in Heppner held a
meeting at the Catholic Parish
hall March 4 to discuss the CRP
program and the criteria for
qualifying. About 200 people
attended the meeting.
NRCS is working closely with
the Farm Services Agency and
taking joint appointments. Sign
ups are by appointment only, and
the time slots are filling up fast.
Eligible landowners need to get
in to see FSA and NRCS as soon
as possible.
St. Patrick's Senior Center
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John Doherty and the Irish
Players will perform genuine
Irish music at the KUMA Coffee
Hour, live from the Heppner
Elk's Lodge on Saturday, March
15, beginning at 10 a.m.
Doherty, who is in his 12th
year performing at the coffee
hour, speaks and sings with a
natural brogue and boots life into
his music with a unique and
genuinely Irish style.
Touring Ireland in 1984,
Doherty learned first-hand what
folk (read 'pub') music is like for
the Irish. In 1986 Doherty first
sang a couple Irish tunes during
Heppner's KUMA Coffee Hour
(on a dare), accompanied by
guitanst/singer Scott Sager, a
Pendleton businessman who lives
in Pilot Rock. Leo Doherty,
John’s brother, joined them in
1987. In 1988 John, Scott, and
Leo teamed up with Mike Duffy,
then a student in David Miller's
BMCC Music Department.
Along with Paul Ellis, fiddler,
Andy
Emert,
keyboardist, '
Marilyn Muller, Randy Stode,
the Sager girls and a BMCC
Quartet, the BMCC St. Patick's
Day Players were bom for an
enjoyable two years together in
Irish style.
In 1991, Paul Green of Pilot
Rock, currently construction su
perintendent on the Hailey Place
Apartments Project in Pendleton,
made his debut singing with John
and Leo at the St. Mary's fellow
ship hall for a St. Patrick's dinner
event. John's son-in-law. Jack
McGuire, sings bass now and
friend, Ivan Meads, electrician
and Hermiston farmer, is a
regular too. Many musicians
have sat in with the playful Irish
group over the years since John
and Scott began in 1986. This
year's bunch includes the
following line-up:
John Doherty, Walla Walla,
lead; Leo Doherty, Vinson,
vocals; Scott Sager, Pilot Rock,
guitar, vocals/politics; Paul
Green. Pilot Rock; guitar/voc-
als/music library; Mike Duffy,
Athena,
guitar/vocals/sound;
Andy Emert,Tigard,string bass/
fiddle; Dan Emert, Pendle-ton,
tenor guitar/ fiddle; Jack Mc
Guire, Pendleton, vocals; Ivan
Meade, Pendleton, guitar/vocals;
Kelly
Sager,
Eugene,
flute/vocals; Kreg Hawkins,
Pendleton,
mandolin/vocals/
sound; Dick Kaiser, Pendleton,
wash tub bass; Vicki Brenner,
Pomeroy, vocals; Rod Bonifer,
Athena, guitar/ vocals.
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Don’t miss our
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Umpire’s Seminar
March 20th
An umpire's seminar for all
people who are interested in j
umpiring or coaching during the
coming
baseball and softball
There were 117 present for the sentor meal and 11 meals were home
season, will be held March 20 at
delivered March 5. Members of the First Christian Church served.
7p m at the Heppner High School
Winnefred Cox won the free meal ticket. Members from all the other library.
senior centers in Umatilla and Morrow counties were present for the
meal and the AAA meeting that followed.
A meeting was held of senior board members and others involved in
the St. Patrick Center fund raisers for the weekend. Hearing aid Business Cards
assistance was given and blood pressures taken before the meal.
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The menu for Wednesday, March 19 will be chicken nuggets, oven
fries, tossed salad with spinach, toast, pears and pudding. Members of
the Christian Missionary Fellowship will serve.
Those selling quilt tickets at the Bank of Eastern Oregon Friday
were Velma Wight, Doll Campbell, Alberta Johannes, and Eleanor and
Tom Gonty. Tickets are still available at the center office.
Two tables of pinochle were in play Friday afternoon. The movie
"Alaska" was shown in Sylvia McDaniel's apartment as the VCR in the
sitting room didn't work.
Mildred Wright has moved from her apartment at St. Pat's to the
Summit Springs Retirement Center in Condon. She would appreciate
hearing from her friends here. Other tenants from the apartments, Ruth
Nutting and Elma Scott, are presently in the hospital. We wish them
a speedy recovery.
Dates to remember are: Tuesday and Thursday exercise, 10 a.m.;
Wednesday blood pressures checks, 11 a.m., senior meal, noon; Friday
cards, 2 p.m.; Sunday movie, 7 pm.
Also remember the Methodist stew feed will be held Friday, March
14, from 5-7 p.m. ; the Senior Center breakfast at the fairgrounds
Saturday, March 15, from 6-10 a.m.; soup, pie and coffee at the Senior
Center 11 a.m. to ?
Free tax service is still available at the senior center, Monday and
Friday, from 9 a.m. until noon, and 1-5 p.m. Appointments may be
made by calling the senior center.
Enjoy Traditional Senior Living
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COFFEE
HOUR
10 A.M
Live from the Heppner Elks
Sat. March 15th
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