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Chloe Delaney, two years old, stops to exam ine her goodies following the annual Heppner Elk's Club Easter
Egg Hunt held S aturday, M arch 29, in Heppner.
Chloe is the daughter of N atalie D elaney of Heppner.
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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
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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.
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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. The St. Pats committee made the donation last w eek
towards the new Willow Creek Water Park fund raising effort.
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Left to right: Pastors D an W om ack, Alfred W om ack, Tim V an C leave
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