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« Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, • • » -----/ » August —W'T*" 13,1997 ' w I ' WWI - I FIVE lo n e Y o u th G ro u p aids fu n d raising e v e n t in P o rtla n d Artist-in-residence |ce cream social held at PMNH to lead music festival lone Youth Group holds plaque awarded Outreach Ministry for their first place finish in collecting pledges. Left to right: 'Human Race' clown, Jannie Allen, Caitlin Orem, Natalie McElligott, Dorothy Jensen of Outreach Ministry, Tori Odinet, Elizabeth Allen, Charissa Gates, Allison Halvorsen, Laurel Cannon, Cathy Halvorsen, Jeri McElligott, Bill Rietmann. The lone Youth Group pushed Outreach Ministry of Burnside to the top in groups collecting pledges for the Human Race, a walk-run fund raising event. The walk took place July 26 at Waterworks Park in Vancouver, Washington. There were 94 non-profit agencies and 852 registered walkers in this year's event, earning over $31,000 for the registered organizations. Outreach Ministry's first place prize was a TV and VCR. All together they collected over $4,280 in pledges, $2,038 of which was donated by lone Youth Group. This is the fourth year that the lone Youth Group has participated in the Human Race on behalf of Outreach Ministry. They were inspired to walk in memory of high school student Jason Halvorsen, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1994. The money collected helps the Outreach Ministry staff to care for the chronically ill, and to provide a family support system by caring for the personal needs of the homeless people in the Burnside area of Portland. Fifteen individuals represented lone Youth Group in this year's walk. Walkers were Laurel Cannon, Bill Rietmann, Jannie Allen, Bonnie Ball, Jen Paavola, Judy Davidson, Brandi Orem, Jen McElligott, Cathy Halvorsen, Ton Odinet, Elizabeth Allen, Charissa Gates, Allison Halvorsen, Natalie McElligott, and Caitlin Orem. Cathy Halvorsen was awarded two airline tickets from Southwest Airlines for having collected the most money of all participants. Left to right: Caitlin Orem, Natalie McElligott, Brandi Orem walk in 'The Human Race'. Past queens invited to parade former queens and their courts In celebration of the 75th year of the Morrow County Rodeo in are asked not to bring their Heppner, all former fair and horses, said Bonnie Grant, Rodeo rodeo queens and their courts are Oregon Trail Pro promotional director.. The Rodeo invited to participate in the Main Street parade on Saturday, Committee will have flatbed August 16, beginning at 10 a.m., trailers pulled by pickups and and will be guests at a luncheon decorated with hay bales as the immediately following at the St. former royalty's transportation Patrick Catholic Church Parish down the parade route. Grant asks anyone who would Hall. A no-host get-together to give like to donate the use of a pickup former court members a chance and flatbed to call her, 676-9667, to visit and reminisce has been by Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The scheduled for Saturday at 6 p.m. committee is also seeking people to help decorate the flatbeds. at the Heppner Elks Lodge. Those participating in the Queens and courts are invited to parade should be at Green Feed wear as much of their original and Seed by 9:30 a.m. court outfits as possible. Lisa Robertson, former artist- in-residence for the lone and Condon public schools, will lead the annual Wallowa Lake Chamber Music Festival Aug. 14-17. The festival, which attracts teacher-musicians from as far away as Germany, will perform two evening concerts. The opening concert will be held at McKenzie Theatre in La Grande at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14. A second concert will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, at the Odd Fellows Hall in Enterprise. Admission is $5. Highlighting the performances will be an original composition, "Harmonia Mundi," a suite for harmonica and chamber ensemble. Howard Levy, jazz harmonica stylist and composer of the suite, will perform with the chamber music ensemble. Levy, winner of a Grammy for best pop instrumental, will also conduct a jazz workshop Saturday, Aug. 16. Levy is accepting students for the jazz workshop. For information about registration and fees, call Paula Bender- Baird, 541-426-3892. Begun by Robertson in 1996, the festival-workshop draws musicians from throughout Eastern Oregon. Gloria Bainter, a violinist with the Oregon East Symphony in Pendleton, will participate and play second violin during the final concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, on the lawn at the Wallowa County Courthouse in Enterprise. Workshop participants gather at the Methodist Camp at Wallowa Lake on Aug. 14 for three days of learning from professional musicians. In addition to Robertson, a violinist, the professional teachers are: violinist Fox Fehling of the Chicago Symphony, violinist Leonie Hartmann of Mainz, Germany; viola performer Erich Lear, music professor at Washington State University; and cellist Pavel Ulanicki of Cologne, Germany. Robertson, who has performed internationally, was artist-m- residence for the lone and Condon schools during the winter and spring of this year. She performed several concerts and recitals in the region. She will teach violin and viola at Eastern Oregon University in the fall. For information about the workshops and the concerts, contact Robertson at 541-426- 6502. NEWS DEADLINE M onday......... 5 p.m . neighborhood kids played in the pool at PMNH and enjoyed homemade ice cream with the residents. An ice cream social was held at the Pioneer Memonal Nursing Home (PMNH) in Heppner. 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