TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 30,1997
Princess Kara Miller full of enthusiasm
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City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
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Round-Up tickets now on sale
Tickets are on sale now for the
world famous Pendleton Round-
Up, one of North America's
largest outdoor rodeos, and the
Happy Canyon Pageant which
reenacts the story o f the Western
frontier every evening during the
four days of rodeo.
Tickets are available for all
four days of the Round-Up and
Happy Canyon Pageant which
Obituary
Betty Jean Loy
Funeral services for Betty Jean
Loy, 69, Beaverton and formerly
of lone, were held Monday, July
28, at Sunset Family Church.
Mrs. Loy died July 22, 1997, in
Portland.
Mrs. Loy was bom to Lewis and
Anna Peterson Ball on November
27, 1929, in lone. She grew up
and attended school in lone and
went to work in Arlington a short
time before meeting her husband,
Steve. They were married in
Hermiston in 1952. They lived in
LaGrande and then moved to
Beaverton where she worked for
J.C. Penney and Wausau
Insurance. The Loys had been
married 45 years.
Mrs. Loy enjoyed spending
time in her garden and with her
grandchildren.
Survivors include her husband,
Steve, Beaverton; daughter,
Karen Cook, Clackamas; sons,
John, Beaverton, and Steven,
Hillsboro; her mother, Anna Ball,
lone; brothers, Donald, lone,
Wayne, Portland, and Ellis,
Panama City, Florida; and 10
grandchildren.
Contributions in her memory,
for those who wish, may be sent
to the Northwest Medical Team
International, P.O. Box 10,
Portland, OR 97207.
begin September 10 and run
through September 13.
"Tickets for some dates sell out
fast, so we encourage people to
call now for the best seats," says
Garry Zollman, a Pendleton
Round-Up director.
This year's Round-Up will
match top PRCA cowboys from
around the country, competing
for more than a quarter o f a
million dollars in cash and
prizes.
Every evening following the
rodeo audiences will enjoy the
Happy Canyon Pageant and
Dance.
The Happy Canyon
Pageant is a "larger than life"
reenactment of the settling of the
West. "Native Americans in
traditional tribal clothing and
trappings, real livestock and a
bona fide Western shootout make
the Happy Canyon Pageant
colorful and exciting," said a
news release. After the pageant
the audience is invited into the
Happy Canyon arena for a
country western dance and
gambling.
Two of country's biggest
names,
Collin
Raye and
Shenandoah, are scheduled to
perform
Monday
night,
September 8, and Tuesday night,
September 9, to kick off the
week of festivities surrounding
the Pendleton Round-Up and
Happy Canyon Pageant. Tickets
for both concerts are on sale
now, as well,
For tickets or information call
1 -800-45-RODEO or visit the
Pendleton Round-Up and Happy
C anyon
w ebsite
at
www.ucinet.com/-roundup/.
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How would you describe the
1997 Morrow County Fair and
Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Princess
Kara Miller? A ball of energy. In
fact, the high-spirited 17-year
old, blue-eyed blonde's is
practically bubbling over with
enthusiasm and an infectious
positive attitude.
Kara is not only involved in a
myriad of activities on the fair
and rodeo court, at school, at
work, in athletics and in 4-H, but
she also maintains a 3.84 grade
point average at lone High
School, where she will be a
senior this fall.
Kara lives with her parents,
George and Nancy, and 22-year-
old brother Justin, in Cecil,
where she has lived all of her
life. She also has an older sister,
Kristin, who lives in Portland.
Kara has a rich heritage in
horses and rodeo. Her mother
and aunts, Patti Kayser, Condon,
and Marianne Sharp, who lives in
the Dayton-McMinnville area,
grew up on the Circle W Ranch
near Arlington. They attended
Olex Grade School and the two
older girls attended Condon High
School. After the family moved
to lone, the younger daughter,
Marianne, went to lone High
School. Their mother, Patty
Emert Pettyjohn, was a princess
for the Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo in the 1940s. Their father,
Lee Pettyjohn, who has passed
away, had stock and race horses
and the family trained and sold
horses as a hobby. Back when
Arlington still had a big rodeo,
the three girls were queens on the
rodeo court. The Arlington court
at that time had a queen and four
girls on the court.
Marianne and Patti both still
barrel race. Marianne's son Jared
is involved in Pee Wee Rodeos;
son James and daughter Melissa
are active in high school rodeo;
and her husband, Joe, ropes as a
hobby. The family
is also
involved in 4-H horse and dog
clubs. Patti's daughter, Katie
McCoin, recently went to the
National High School Rodeo
Finals on the Intermountain
team; her son Trevor, a
horseshoer
and
horse
chiropractor, rodeos; and her
husband, Ned, who comes from a
big rodeo family, ropes. Kara
has ridden Patti's four-year-old
blue roan mare, Hancock Rillo
Bar, a futurity barrel racing
horse, in several parades and
grand entries.
Kara also loves riding her own
horse, a 16-year-old paint named
Sasy. "I've got a horse that knows
everything," laughs Kara."She
knows more than I do. She’s kind
of cranky when other people get
close, though." Her chaperon's
husband teases her, saying, "You
two are just alike.” To which
Kara replies, ""Yeah, if she
(Sasy) had two legs, I would take
her shopping." He then countered
with, "If you could pin your ears
back, you would."
Kara and Sasy won the high
point rider at the Morrow County
Open Horse Show held Sunday at
the fairgrounds in Heppner.
"Showmanship is my favorite,"
adds Kara. "And so far I've done
pretty good in it. Two years ago
I won the round robin and this
year I won the all-around at Tygh
Valley."
Kara says that this year
representing the court, she has
had the most fun at the Crooked
River Roundup in Prineville.
"My mom unhooked the trailer
mm
from the pickup and me and the
pennant bearers went cruising."
The Miss Rodeo Oregon pageant
is held during the Crooked River
Roundup
and Miss Rodeo
America and Miss Coors were
there. "It was really neat," adds
Kara, "But, I also loved Sisters."
Kara says that her mom put her
on a horse when she was little
and she competed in the open
horse show as a young child. But
for a while she decided that
horses weren’t for her. She got
back into it with a vengeance,
however, and now she has big
dreams—o f joining a paint circuit
and going to the nationals.
Kara says that she isn't nervous
competing until right before
running."Then I always seem to
have to go to the bathroom," she
laughs. "But then I tell myself,
I'm just nervous."
As a student at lone High
School Kara has earned a place
on the 'A' honor roll both
semesters all three years of high
school and has won the Big Sky
Scholar Athlete Award each
year. She has been on the varsity
basketball and track and field
teams for three years and the
varsity volleyball team the past
two years. Her freshman year she
was sixth place at the state track
meet in the javelin throw,
seventh in the 100 m hurdles and
8th in the 300m hurdles. She
placed fourth at the district meet
in javelin her junior and
sophomore years and third her
freshman year. As a freshman,
she also placed second at district
in 300m hurdles and first in
100m hurdles.
Last year, however, Kara
seriously injured her knee
playing volleyball and basketball
and had to have arthroscopic and
reconstructive surgery and was
forced to sit on the sidelines,
which was not at all easy for her.
But, she tried to compensate by
writing lone High School sports
stories for the Gazette-Times.
"When I was injured it (writing
for the Gazette) was the only
thing that kept me alive," says
Kara, who plans on getting right
back into athletics her senior
year. "I'm back to normal," she
says. "In fact, my bad leg feels
better than my good one. I enjoy
sports so much, I've got to be
doing something all the time."
She hopes for a career in sports
medicine after high school. "I
want to go to the University of
Arizona, but I don't know if I
want to be that far away from
home. That's just a dream, but
something to shoot for."
This past year, Kara was
National Honor Society treasurer,
Future Business Leaders of
America vice president, co-editor
of the annual, junior class
concessions chairman, a camp
counselor at Outdoor School, a
team leader o f the STARS
(Students Today Aren't Ready
For Sex) program which counsels
younger students,
assistant
director of lone High School
drama productions, a 4-H junior
leader, the North Lex Livestock
4-H Club President, was active in
4-H horse, swine, cooking and
sewing and set up a booth on
farm safety at the fair. Kara is
also a member of the lone United
Church of Christ and the lone
Youth G roup.
This summer Kara is working
for Ritz Ag driving the "bank-
out" wagon in the field from 5:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. "These guys
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Princess
Kara Miller
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Parents: George
and Nancy Miller
Age: 17 years old
Senior at IHS
Activities: Honor
Society, basket
ball, volleyball,
track, 4-H , drama
Kara Miller
(owners Jerry Rietmann and Tim
Holtz) have been really great,"
says Kara. "When I started
working for them, they started a
shift thing, so 1 could go to
parades and rodeos."
Kara says that her family has
been really supportive of her role
on the court, in spite of their own
busy careers. Her mom, who is
the accounting manager at
Cargill in Arlington, usually
drives her on court trips and her
dad, who is a wheat farmer,
accompanies her every chance he
gets. Enthusiastic about her
experience as a fair and rodeo
princess, Kara says she wishes
every girl could have the
experience and encourages as
many as possible to try out next
year. "This summer is really neat
because I've gotten to know the
other members of the court
(Queen Dawn Boor, Princess
Maci Childers and pennant
bearers, Bobbie and Tracey
Rankin and Katie Bacon) so
much better. We're really friends
now. It's a great experience. You
get to meet people, you get to
travel and you get to wear pretty
outfits.
If
there's
more
competition, you have a greater
feeling of accomplishment. I
know there are girls out there
who are confident and poised and
who can represent this county
well. I've enjoyed my summer so
much, I encourage every girl to
try out for the Morrow County
Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo
Court."
BMCC degrees
College degrees and
certificates, GED certificates and
high school diplomas were
awarded to 295 students for the
1996-1997 academic year at Blue
Mountain Community College.
BMCC offers a number of two-
year degrees, plus several
certificate
programs
which
typically take one year off
college study to complete. A
General Education Diploma and
high school diploma program is
offered through the college's
Basic Skills department.
Local 1997 BMCC graduates
include: Gregg Holtz, lone,
associate of applied science
degree in auto body repair
technology; Joseph Lindsay,
Lexington, associate of arts
"Oregon
Transfer"
degree;
Mildred Michael, Heppner,
associate of science degree in
human services, associate of arts
"Oregon
Transfer"
degree
Hermiston;
Tamar
Nolan,
Lexington, certificate in dental
assisting; Kimberly Bedortha,
lone, certificate in general
business -office receptionist; and
Tawny Miles, Heppner, associate
of applied science degree in
accounting.
Health Dept.
The Morrow County Health
Dept, lists the following monthly
schedule for blood pressures and
immunizations:
Tuesday, Aug. 5-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Board-
man office, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Thursday, Aug. 7-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Hepp
ner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, Aug. 12-blood pres
sures and immunizations. Board-
man office, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Thursday, Aug. 14-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Hepp
ner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, Aug. 19-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Board-
man office, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Thursday, Aug. 21-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Hepp
ner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, Aug. 26-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Board-
man office, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Thursday, Aug. 28-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Hepp
ner office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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