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Theater group to present AIDS program in Boardman
Baking contest Environmental priority cost
enters 42nd
year
Teatro Milagro, the Portland-
based bilingual touring theater
group, working with the Oregon
State Health Department and
Morrow
County
Health
Department, will present its all-
Spanish
AIDS
awareness
production, "En Este Valle de
Lagnmas" on Saturday, June 28,
at 7:30 p.m. at the Boardman
Grange Hall.
After the performance, health
officers will discuss in more
detail the issues surrounding the
syndrome, the virus, and answer
questions from the audience.
The play is free to the public.
Presented in the format of the
novela, o r Spanish soap-opera,
and written completely in
colloquial Spanish, the play uses
the story of a migrant worker and
his family to illustrate the
different possible modes of
infection. He encounters some
corrupt characters, bringing peril
to himself and his family.
The play was written by the
theatre
group's
resident
playwright, who also acts in the
production, along with Hal
Barton, Rebecca Martinez, and
Pablo Vidal, and the direction is
by Alima Zepeda-Olsen.
These performances have been
made possible by The Oregon
State and the Morrow County
Health and Human Services. For
more information, call 541/481-
4200 or 503/236-7253.
M inster-Eilers
Stokes Landing, Irrigon, plans dinner reception slated
Game night and dinner has
been planned for Friday, June 27,
at Stokes Landing Senior Center
in Irrigon .
Dinner, at $3 each, will be held
from 5-7 pYn. Card and scrabble
games at $1 each will begin at 7
p.m.
The dinner menu includes fried
chicken, potato salad, cake and
ice cream.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Area students learn about watersheds
Area students have been
learning about stream dynamics,
riparian restoration, computer
technology, and other topics
during this initial year of the
Natural Resource Consortium
Watershed Education Program.
A natural resources consortium,
comprised of the Umatilla Basin
Watershed Council, Umatilla-
Morrow
Education Service
District, Morrow County Soil
and Water Conserv ation District,
and Columbia-Blue Mountain
Resource Conservation and
Development,
has
been
sponsoring the program with
funding from several sources.
Grantors include Public Power
Council, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Oregon
Department of Environmental
Quality,
Bonneville
Power
Administration and Oregon
Department of Education. A
variety of partners has also been
supporting individual projects,
including the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife, J.R.
Simplot, The Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
Teachers in local schools
throughout Umatilla and Morrow
counties have been receiving
assistance to further develop or
establish
natural
resource
education projects as part of their
curriculum. The Umatilla Basin
Watershed Council has provided
funding for teacher training,
equipment, and logistical costs.
Luise Langheinnch, the council's
coordinator has been actively
involved with this program.
Columbia-Blue
Mountain
Resource Conservation and
Development has provided Brian
Wolcott, a "RARE" intern from
the University of Oregon, as a
part-time project staff person.
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Student selected for governors' school
Wolcott and Langheinrich have
been
locating
materials,
equipment, guest speakers and
training opportunities for the
teachers'
projects.
Sam
Pambrun,
director
of
professional
and
technical
education for Umatilla-Morrow
Education Service District, has
received a technology grant to
provide Internet access, software
and training for the participating
schools.
Teachers have been using this
support to develop career related
projects for their students, said a
NRCWEP
news
release.
Teachers have also been making
use of the agency contacts,
materials, equipment and training
opportunities for their projects.
Examples of projects include
surface and groundwater studies,
riparian restoration, native plant
nurseries,
aquatic
macro
invertebrate studies and resource
mapping. The types of classes
involved range from grade school
to high school math, science,
agriculture, English and social
studies classes.
The classes are reporting on
their projects using an Internet
home Page, which is being
developed as part of the grant
received
by
ESD
at
http://bbs.nclack.kl2.or.us/pamb
runs/nrshome. htm
Planning is underway for next
school year and a continuation of
existing projects and several new
ones is expected. For more
information
contact
Langheinrich,
541/278-8022;
Brian Wolcott, 541/ 278-3831 or
Pambrun 541/276-6616.
Teachers currently involved in
the program include Glenn
Zollner at Heppner High School
and Dale Holland at lone High
School.
POTATO GIVEAWAY
Friday, June 27th
1 p.m.
neighborhood
Center
Parking Lot
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The community is invited to a
wedding reception on Saturday,
July 12, at 4 p.m. at the lone
Legion Hall in celebration of the
marriage of Crystal Leigh
Minster, lone, and Eric Branson
Eilers.
Crystal is the daughter of Pam
and Rick Minster, lone. Eric is
the son of Branson and Sharon
Eilers, Coeur d'Alene.
The Oregon Wheat Growers
League cake baking contest
began in 1956 at the Gilliam
County Fair, where contestants
brought their favorite cake to be
judged.
The contest was
expanded to other county fairs
the following year. In 1964, the
rules changed, and all contestants
now prepare the same recipe.
Last year, all but two of
Oregon's county fairs were
participating in the contest,
which is also held at the Oregon
State Fair in Salem.
The county fair season opens in
Oregon on July 10, the opening
of the Manon County Fair, and
that means it's also time for the
cake baking contest sponsored by
the Oregon Wheat Growers
League.
The "Oregon Potato Cake" was
recently named the official cake
for the 1997 OWGL state cake
baking contest. Potatoes and
walnuts join the list of recipes
featuring
"Oregon-grown"
ingredients used in other OWGL
contest cakes. Oregon soft white
wheat cake flour is one constant
ingredient featured in all of the
cake recipes.
The cake baking contest,
sponsored by the Oregon Wheat
Growers League, is hold to
increase public awareness of the
wheat industry in Oregon and
will be conducted of all of the
state's 36 county fairs, as well as
the Oregon State Fair.
Contest
entry
information is available at all
OSU Extension offices and fair
offices in each county. At each
participating fair, the fop three
winners receive ribbons, and the
first-place winner will receive a
silver cake server.
In Oregon and the Pacific
Northwest farmers grow mostly
soft white wheat. Flour from soft
white wheat is used to make
cookies, crackers, pancakes,
pizza dough, muffins, noodles
and, of course, cakes.
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The Oregon Governors' School
(OGS) announced the high school
students selected to participate in
its 1997-98 program, which be
gan June 22.
Local student Hilary Peck,
sponsored by the Morrow County
Commission on Children and
Families, was chosen to attend the
school. Peck, from Irrigon, is a
senior at Riverside High School
in Boardman.
OGS’ two-part, year long pro-
gram “challenges youth to
achieve their innate leadership
potential through measurable ser
vice to their communities” said a
OGS press release. Students be
gin the leadership and community
service program at a three week
residential summer institute held
at Willamette University in Sa
lem, and then participate in
monthly “youth initiatives” in
w hich they perform service
projects while receiving ongoing
leadership training.
share sign-up to begin
The 1996 Farm Bill has
consolidated four conservation
programs into the Environmental
Quality Incentives Program
(EQIP), creating a new approach
to help private landowners solve
natural resource priorities on
their farm or ranch, says Janet
Greenup, Morrow County Soil
and Water Conservation District
manager.
EQIP combines the former
Agricultural
Conservation
Program (ACP), Great Plains
Conservation Program (GPCP),
Water
Quality
Incentives
Program (WQIP), and Colorado
River Basin Salinity Control
Program to streamline and
improve federal conservation
programs.
EQIP will provide a single,
voluntary program to use to
address serious soil, water, and
related natural resource concerns,
because program funds will be
targeted primarily to identified
priority areas, says Greenup.
USDA's Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS)
leads this now program while
working with the Farm Service
Agency (FSA) to set the
program's policies, priorities, and
guidelines.
The
local
conservation districts have also
been very involved in the
process, she said.
EQIP focuses on priority
environm ental
concerns
identified through a locally led
conservation process.
It is
designed to utilize environmental
benefits per dollar spent. It
reflects the Department of
Agriculture's commitment to
flexible, effective, and voluntary
conservation
programs
on
privately owned lands.
EQIP is the department's largest
conservation program on land in
production
ag ricu ltu re,
expending an annual budget of
Ju n e 26th
Lodge at 8 p.m.
Ju n e 28th
Men’s Golf Tournament Banquet.
Ju ly 4th
GREA T TO BE AMERICAN DA Y!
July 5th
Alumni Golf Tournament.
New Bingo session starting at 7 p.m. (n ew tim e )
every Wednesday night.
Fine Dining, Reasonable Prices,
Friday and Saturday 6-9 p.m.
H eppner Elks 358
676-9181
"W here Friends M e e t"
Commission to meet
The
Oregon
Grains
Commission will hold a regular
commission meeting on Friday,
June 27, at 8:30 a.m.
The annual commission budget
hearing will also take place on
this same date and location,
beginning at 10 a.m.. All Oregon
producers of barley, triticale or
rye are welcome to provide input
at this hearing.
Commission meetings are open
to the public, and anyone wishing
to participate is invited to attend.
The
Oregon
Grains
Commission complies with the
Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA). The ADA prohibits
discrimination against persons
with disabilities. Anyone who
would like to attend the meeting
but
who
needs
special
accommodations, or would like
to participate in a conference call
meeting, contact the commission
office 48 hours in advance at
(541)276-4609, FAX (541)276-
5753, or TDD (503)986-4762.
$200 million nationwide. EQIP
is authorized through 2002, and
nationally, one-half of the funds
are targeted to livestock-related
natural resource needs while the
remainder
goes
to
other
significant
conservation
priorities. At least 65 percent of
the funds will be used in priority
areas and up to 35 percent can be
used for other significant
statewide
natural
resource
concerns in fiscal year 1997,
Greenup said.
Farmers and ranchers who
agree to address the primary
concerns in the priority areas will
be given preference for an EQIP
contract. The program is limited
to persons who are engaged in
livestock
or
agricultural
production. The contracts can
run from 5 to 10 years. Total
cost-share
and
incentive,
payments are limited to $10,000
per person per year and $50,000
for the length of the contract.
A sign-up period for EQIP will
begin June 30, 1997. Local
EQIP priority areas are the
Lower Umatilla Basin in Morrow
and Umatilla counties, Mission
Creek in Umatilla County, and
Bridge Creek in Wheeler County.
Sign-ups for these local
programs will begin June 30 and
run through July 3. State-wide
priority areas available for
Eastern Oregon are the Mid-
Columbia Plateau and Salmon
Habitat. The sign-up period for
these areas begins June 30 and
end on July 18, 1997.
The program is administered
by NRCS and the Farm Service
Agency with local guidance from
conservation districts. For more
information producers may
contact their local USDA Service
Center. Additional information is
also available on the NRCS
home page on the Web at
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov.
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