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South M o rro w Co. welcomes new teachers
Heppner and lone schools have
eight new teachers to welcome
this fall. Heppner and lone
schools will share an art teacher
and a special education teacher.
Heppner High School also has a
new vo-ag teacher, math teacher,
science teacher and Spanish
teacher. Heppner Elementary
School has two new fifth and
sixth-grade teachers.
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VOL. 116
NO. 36
6 Pages
Wednesday, September 3,1997
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
lone VB players kick off season on Thursday
By Kara Miller
Down in numbers this year, the
21 member lone Lady Cardinal
volleyball team is not lacking in
hustle and the "want to win” atti
tude.
Last year, lone lost many play
ers to the graduating class. Re
turning to set for lone are Brenda
Burright and Kara Miller, both
seniors with varsity experience
and leadership qualities.
Rising up for the team at the
net are 5’8” sophomore Camie
Burright, 6’ junior Niki Sullivan
and 5’10” senior Jenny Sullivan.
Back row play is nothing new to
junior Katie Tworek, who will be
the main player there for the
Cards.
New faces to the Cardinal
bench are: M olly B arrow ,
Adrienne Swanson, Katie Bacon,
Allison Halvorsen, Jennifer Th
ompson, Shelby Krebs, Jeanette
Brantley, Charissa Gates, Nonnee
Walters, Brandi Brantley, Erin
Crowell, Miranda M cElligott,
Nikki McElligott, Lela Gribskov
and Jessica Krebs. Managing is
Abby Key.
Coaches Charity McElligott
and Cathy McCabe are coming
back for their fourth year in a row.
“I feel we have stronger commu
nication amongst players this year
which will hopefully translate
into strong team play,” said coach
McElligott.
Mustang volleyball begins season against lone
Heppner High School varsity volleyball player, Annie Hisler, warms up during daily doubles last week.
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There will be plenty of
volleyball action for Heppner
High School sports fans in the
next two months with 24 outings
scheduled between now and tne
district tournament on October
25 in Umatilla. With a wealth of
returning varsity players the
Mustang team looks to be a top
contender for the district title this
year.
"These girls work hard and
understand the game," said coach
Terri Gentry.
"With that
combination we are looking
forward to a great season." This
is Gentry 's 12th season as varsity
volleyball coach at Heppner
High. Susan Hisler will again
coach the junior varsity and Dana
Reid is returning to coach the C
team.
This Thursday, September 4,
the Heppner Mustangs will kick
off the 1997 season with a non
league match up against the lone
Cardinals. The C team “best of
three” match will begin at 5 p.m.
with JV and varsity action
following.
On Saturday, September 6, the
varsity team is scheduled to
participate in the Riverside
Tournament in Boardman while
the junior varsity team travels to
John Day to play in the Grant
Union JV Tourney. Tuesday,
September 9, both the varsity
and JV teams will play in a
Pendleton Bucks tournament.
This year's varsity players
include: seniors Lexi Matteson,
Annie Hisler, Linsey Ropp,
Jayme
Hansen,
Jessica
Van Winkle, Mindy Binschus and
new transfer to HHS from Nyssa,
Petra Elguezabal; juniors Brooke
Boyer, Amber Peck, Kathleen
Greenup, Jaci Hughes, Jill Barber
and
Janelle
Healy;
and
sophomore Casey Ingraham.
Ingraham, Boyer and Greenup
will also play for the JV team,
along with junior Jamie Perez;
and sophomores Abby Kahl,
Trisha Adams, Leah Denton,
Kim Pointer, Stephanie Clough,
Amy Drake, Amy Papineau,
Macy Rhea, Ashley Ropp and
Allison Sykes.
C-team players are junior Maja
Dietiker, exchange student from
Switzerland; sophomores Tracey
Rankin and Laurie Michael; and
freshmen Lindsey Ward, Krista
Adams, Manssa McCabe, Juanita
Elguezabal, transfer from Nyssa,
Beth Baker, Mindy Smith,
Amanda Sneddon and Jenni
Patton.
Kaya (pronounced Kay-uh)
McLaren, 28, will teach art at
Heppner Elementary in the
morning and at lone in the
afternoon. Plans are for an art
class at Heppner High School
beginning second semester,
! around January 20.
McLaren not only has an art
background, but also spent
several years working as an
archaeologist.
McLaren grew up in
Enumclaw, WA. She was able to
attend college classes while still
in high school. She first attended
Green River Community College
at Aubum and then transferred to
the University of Washington. At
UW
she
first
studied
anthropology, then medical
anthropology
and
finally
changed
her
major
to
archaeology
because
she
discovered she didn't enjoy living
in the city.
After attending an archaeology
field school and graduating with
a degree in archaeology, she got
a job as an archaeologist. As a
part of her job, she worked in
Arizona, Utah, Colorado, South
' Dakota, Wyoming, Washington,
Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii.
While in Hawaii, working at a
construction site, she decided to
return to school. She first went to
massage therapy school, which
supported her while she obtained
her teaching certificate.
For the past two years,
McLaren has taught on the
Quinault Reservation in the rain
forest of the Olympic Peninsula.
According to McLaren, the area
gets more rain than any other
place in the continental U.S.,
which is an important factor in
her selecting a position in
Morrow County. "I'm excited to
live in a place with four seasons
and lots of sunshine," she said.
"Growing up in a small town I
have an appreciation for it. You
can tell that the families here are
cohesive and are doing a good
job," she added.
McLaren is very close to her
half-Rottweiler,
half-Siberian
Husky dog named, Good Dog,
which lives up to his name and
"doesn't chase cows," she says.
McLaren had to give up a horse
when she was 13 and says she is
determined to have a horse
again.
She also likes to pamt, quilt,
play guitar, and enjoys all kinds
of music and outdoor recreation,
including cross country skiing.
In addition to her parents,
McLaren has a brother who lives
in Seattle. Also a graduate of
UW, he works in construction
management.
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Tanya Scanlon
Tanya Scanlon, new special
education teacher for south
Morrow County Schools, also
divides her time between
Heppner and lone and has also
seen quite a bit of country.
Scanlon, 26, is originally from
Okotoks
(Oak-uh-tokes),
Alberta, Canada, and graduated
from Foothills Composite (high
school)
in Okotoks.
She
graduated from Rick's College in
Idaho, obtaining an associate
degree in general education, and
then attended Utah State in
Logan, Utah, for a year and a
half. She transferred to Brigham
Young University, Hawaii, were
she received a degree in special
education this June.
After Scanlon's first year at
Utah State she served a mission
in The Philippines through the
Church of Jesus Chnst of Latter-
day
Saints
(LDS/Mormon
Church).
While in the
Philippines, she worked as a
missionary, traveling around to
different areas representing the
LDS church. She went door-to-
door, worked with church
members and invited people to
hear about her church. "I loved
it," said Scanlon about her
experience in The Philippines. "I
would live there in a second. The
people were great. It opens your
eyes to acceptance about a lot of
things, because they are so
accepting. They teach you a lot.”
While in The Philippines,
Scanlon learned the language,
Tagalog (Tuh-gah-log). Her
knowledge of the language was a
factor in her selecting BYU
Hawaii as her college. Because
there are many Filipino people in
Hawaii, she felt it would give her
an opportunity to continue
speaking Tagalog. "There are
over 60 countries represented in
the schools in Hawaii," she said.
The special ed position in
Morrow County is Scanlon's
first experience teaching. "It's
exciting because I work in both
Heppner and lone," she said. "I'm
excited to get things going."
While growing up in Okotoks,
Scanlon's family owned a pizza-
steak house restaurant, where the
children also helped out. Her
parents now work for a bed and
breakfast in Mountain View,
Alberta, where her mother is the
pastry chef and her father is the
night chef. Scanlon has two
brothers, one 23 and one in
junior high school, and an older
sister who has a young son.
Lynn Harmonson
Harmonson says that region is
a big dairy area and also
produces stone fruit, table grapes
and raisins.
After a year as assistant
manager at Salinas, Harmonson
returned to Cal Poly for one year
to obtain his teaching credentials.
He then taught one year at
Liberty
High
School
at
Brentwood, which has around
900 students; a year at Exeter
High School, which is about the
same size, in Exeter, CA; four
years at Gustine High School,
which has around 300 students;
and then at Hanford High School,
CA, which has around one
thousand students. In his eight
years of teaching, Harmonson
taught vo-ag six years and earth
science/ecology two years.
In his off time, Harmonson's
hobby is "vanning". He is
chairman of the National Truck-
in Board (because vans are built
on a truck chassis) supervising
the national meeting where van
owners from all over get together
for camp-outs and other events.
Harmonson, who is single, has a
white 1973 Chevy van decorated
with flames.
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New Heppner High School
math teacher David Connor is
returning to his birthplace in
accepting a position in Heppner.
Connor, 37, grew up in Pilot
Rock and graduated from high
school there. But, he was bom at
the hospital in Heppner and his
grandparents, Gladys and Frank
Connor both worked at Pioneer
Memorial years ago. His aunt,
Lil Boyce still lives in Heppner
and an uncle. Bob Hubbard, lives
in lone.
After high school Connor
enrolled at Corpus Christi State
University at Corpus Christi,
Texas, and received his bachelor
of science degree in secondary
education, with a minor in
chemistry.
After graduation he spend six
months in California before
moving to Stanfield, where his
parents were living at the time.
He
worked as a quality
assurance manager at Hermiston
Foods, a subsidiary of Norpac,
and was also a substitute teacher
for two years during the winter
when the plant wasn't in
operation. He was then offered a
full time job at Norpac in Salem,
where he worked for four years.
Last year he returned to school
at Western Oregon State College
at Monmouth to work on his
master's degree in secondary
education and integrated science
This is Connor's first full time
teaching experience. He will
teach physics, eighth grade
science and physical science.
"It's going to be an exciting
school year," said Connor. "I see
lots of challenges ahead of me,
but I'm used to the small school
atmosphere. I think I can relate
to the students in the community.
I"m going to be in the same
frame of mind as the students—
I'll grow from learning."
After hours, Connor, who is
single, enjoys hunting, fishing
and golf.
New HHS vo-ag teacher and
FFA advisor Lynn Harmonson
say s he enjoyed FFA as a high
school student and encourages
students at Heppner High School
to participate. "It was a great
experience," says Harmonson.
"I'm looking forward to a
building year in FFA and looking
forward to meeting the students
in FFA and vo-ag. My hope is to
improve
the
department."
Harmonson says that he hopes
there will be a lot o f activities
that vo-ag and FFA students can
participate in.
Harmonson grew up on his
family's farm in Visalia, CA,
where they grew cotton and
barley. He raised sheep and hogs
and was his FFA chapter's vice
president at Redwood High
School in Visalia. After high
school Harmonson attended the
College
of the
Sequoias
community college there. He
then transferred to Cal Poly
(California Polytechnic State
University) at San Luis Obispo
where he received a bachelor of
science degree in ornamental
horticulture
(plants
for
landscaping).
After graduating from college,
he moved to Salmas where he
was assistant manager of over
one half million square feet
(about 11 acres) of glass houses
for growing long-stemmed roses,
most of which were shipped to
Juan Elguezabal
the eastern U.S. Harmonson says
New Spanish teacher at
that the Tulare area, which is
Heppner High School, Juan
near Visalia, is the second
biggest ag producer in the world
and Fresno is number one in
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