• # 4 p f ~ ■ . *•* ' V O i - «- ’ It's full steam ahead for Corral-A-1000 imes VOL. 116 NO. 14 6 Pages Wednesday, April 2, 1997 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Visiting pastor brings back memories circus and beer garden and A meeting of the Corrall-a-1000 Morrow County Rodeo and many entertainment center in town," exhibits of the fair, as well as 4- committee w>ill be held this said Yaw. He also suggested that Friday, April 4, at Yaw's H and FFA animals, projects and the town might be open to Restaurant in Heppner at 2 p.m. auction, said Yaw. Invitations gunfights, bank holdups, hay in the banquet room. Organizer were handed out to RV visitors rides, w agon rides, square dances Steve Yaw says that the meeting during the St. Patrick's Day and, if enough people sign up, is a "vital" one and that everyone Celebration. A ten percent discount will be given to those tours to wheat ranches, is invited to attend. harvesting, haying and cattle Yaw says that the Corrall-a- with paid registrations prior to ranches. 1000 committee is moving full June 1. Tickets wall be available Free park and ride steam ahead, with farmers and for local people w ishing to attend transportation will be offered ranchers committing over 100 the cowboy barbecue up to one from the edge of the city as well parking locations for RVs, camp week prior to the barbecue. New activities will be added to as transportation from the city to trailers and campers, in the fairgrounds on a continuous . preparation for the 1997 Morrow the list of events this year, he said. But he stresses that the new basis, said Yaw, since Heppner's County Fair and Oregon Trail Main Street will be tom up for activities will not conflict with Pro Rodeo. Lodging will be the Main Street Renovation any of the regularly scheduled coordinated by the Housing Project, scheduled to get activities. "One of the hottest and Committee, which will match underway soon. Yaw' said that new this year is the pig races, the and locate earners to campsites the Morrow County Court has that will fit both the criteria of beef chili cook-off. sponsored by granted permission for use of the the campers as w ell as that of the the fair board with prizes Senior Cltizens' Bus for park and landowners. A check-in spot will furnished by the Morrow County ride serv ice during the fair and Livestock Growers, the food be located in the lone area. rodeo. The Corrall-a-1000 committee seeks to draw- at least a thousand people from metropolitan areas to attend fair and rodeo activities. Little League and major and already on a team on Friday, April According to a Ccrrall-a-1000 senior softball tryouts have been 4 at 5 p.m. and Saturday. April 5 newsletter, the group has scheduled. at 2 p.m. at the Heppner High obtained approval from the city Little League major tryouts for School baseball field. of Heppner for stage shows and those not already on a major team These dates w ill also be the last dances on the two parking lots will be held Friday. April 4 at 5 time that signup registrations can behind Yaw's, Kate's Pizza and p.m., and Saturday, April 5 at 9 be accepted. Anyone who w ishes Bucknum's Tavern. In addition a.m. at the Little League field by to sign up their child for t-ball property behind the Elk's Lodge the dam. through senior softball should con­ will be available for a beer Girls' major and senior softball tact Rollie Marshall. 676-9125. garden, food booths, arts and will hold tryouts for those girls not immediately to get the signup crafts displays and sales, said the forms. newsletter. The committee will be direct mailing to a "selected group of Teacher Linda Dutcher is in The annual Morrow County RV owners" an "invitation to join charge of local arrangements at District the excitement". They will be S c h o o l the high school. Elementary/Middle School math invited to taste life on a ranch, Refreshments w ill be served at contest will be held on Thursday, enter the beef chili cook off, April 10. at Heppner High the end of the competition. The attend an outdoor invitational School at 6:30 p.m. public is invited to observe the cowboy barbecue, a rodeo competition. demonstration by the high school rodeo association, the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeo? the Little League tryouts slated ;• - . f i . X ;■* •■ ~.. * - * • * * * ' * . , S tV ^ £_■ It has been 43 years since he first arrived, but Alfred R. Womack remembers Heppner well. Womack came to Heppner in February of 1934 with his wife, Jean, and young son, David, then eight months old. to pastor Heppner’s first Assembly of God church. Now 88, he was on hand once again March 23 at the Christian Life Center in Heppner to deliver the Palm Sunday sermon. When Pastor Womack came to Heppner in 1934 he was only the second pastor to serve at the church, which was then called the Pentecostal Tabernacle and nicknamed "The Glory Bam". It became affiliated with the Assembly of God that year. His service at the church in Heppner was his first real pastorate. He and his family lived in the parsonage, which has since been tom down, located near Heppner Elementary School. Current pastor Tim Van Cleave said that this year the church had planned a special offering and decided to invite Pastor Womack because of his special interest in Heppner. Pastor Womack's son, Dan, also a minister, had planned to be in the area, so, the two teamed up to share the pulpit for the first time ever on Palm Sunday, March 23. Alfred delivered the sermon on Sunday morning and Dan took over the pulpit on Sunday evening. Alfred attended high school at Emmett, Idaho, and Bible college at the Glad Tidings Bible Institute at San Francisco. His first ministry was at Wilcox, AZ. He then moved to Trail, Oregon, and then to Heppner. The Womacks' arrival in Heppner was noted with a story in the Gazette. During his time in Heppner, he remembers experiencing a flood. He put his son on his shoulders, climbed up on a hill and watched the flood below. But, then he got to worrying about his friends in lone. "So, I out-ran the flood with the old Model T Ford," said Alfred. Fortunately, the flood had spread out quite a bit by the time it reached lone and didn't do much damage there. The Womacks were in Heppner four years, before moving on to Temno for a year and a half, then to Bellingham, WA, and Eureka, MT. The family then returned to the Northwest and Alfred took on a Gospel mission in Spokane. After that, he left the ministry for a while. The only job he was able to get at the time was milking a herd of goats on "shares". He actually ended up with a small herd of goats himself. He then returned to the ministry as pastor of the North Hill Assembly of God in Spokane for around 10 years. He retired in 1972 and moved to Everett, WA, where he did odd jobs until moving into the Sunrise View Villa retirement center in Everett. Alfred still preaches quite often at the retirement center for those who can't get to their places of worship. "It gives me a ministry," adds Alfred. He is also president of the resident council there. Both of Alfred's sons have followed in his footsteps. Dan is an evangelist who travels full time in the ministry. He attended Northwest College of Assemblies of God and pastored at his first assignment at Republic, WA, for 14 years. He has had a traveling ministry for 19 years, mostly this side of the Mississippi. He and his wife, Marty, travel most often in a Greyhound bus which has been converted into a mobile home. They have two grown children. Their son, Scott, who is a youth minister in Minnesota, is the third generation Assembly of God pastor in the family. Alfred's son, David, also a minister, recently retired from the Assembly of God headquarters. Alfred has seven grandchildren and four great­ grandchildren. His wife passed away in 1993. Heppner was also current pastor Tim Van Cleave's first ministry. He came to Heppner in 1988 as a youth minister and the following year assumed the pastorate. He had served several other places as a youth minister prior to coming to Heppner. Pastor Van Cleave and his wife, Myma, have five children. "I learned a lot," said Tim of Alfred's visit. "Hearing part of our history first hand is much different than reading it from a book. I thought it would be neat to bring back a former pastor who kind of blazed the trail." The prospect of coming back to Heppner also gave Alfred a"shot in the arm", so to speak. Alfred, who has mild diabetes, said that his blood sugar went up when Tim called him with the invitation. Spring ahead It’s that time again—time to spring ahead and turn clocks ahead one hour. Daylight saving's time begins in the wee hours this Sunday, April 6. News Deadline: Mon. 5 p.m. -- *v il '■•' f > ?■. '»• • _■ • > -r *-.r - V » .’- w \ - ... *••*.: V. -■ - ^ ' V - : % ■ ■ /- '■* ■ - . ' - V . > ■ . » V >•-. , v > s < Irrigation Sprinklers 4 Caskets & Dam Material n o w a v a ila b le a t S I MORROW C 00N TY GRAIN GROWERS Lexington 989-8221 1 -800-452-7396 ; » - ♦ - ••' Debra Gutierrez, member o f the People for the Pool committee, accepts a check for $3,000 from a leprechaun o f the St. Patrick's Day committee. 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