Booster Club dinner and auction set for O ct. 18
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Ok, all you armchair
quarterbacks out there. This is
your big chance.
The first four plays (with
certain stipulations) of the
Mustangs in the Heppner-Pilot
Rock home football game
planned Friday, October 24, will
be auctioned off to the highest
bidder at the annual Heppner
High School Booster Club steak
feed and auction. The dinner and
auction will be held on Saturday,
Oct. 18, at the Heppner Elks
Club.
Greg Grant, HHS football
coach and auction chair, says that
the auction will provide "fast-
paced family fun for everyone."
Grant says that as of Tuesday,
the event has 80-plus items to
auction off. "We think there's
something for everyone," he
said. "We have everything from
a horse to a pickup to a puppy—
fishing trips, airplane flights,
buck hunting trips-lots of great
items. The community has been
r» u
0 h
lone festivities
scheduled
fantastic in their generosity of
donations."
In addition to the auction, the
evening will also include a silent
auction and a Ducks Unlimited-
style raffle table with over 30
items.
Raffle table tickets may be
purchased for $1 each, six for $5,
15 for $10 and 30 for $20.
Anyone purchasing a dinner
ticket will be eligible to win a
television set, which will be
given away as one of the door
prizes.
The dinner will be served from
6-8 p.m., with the auction to get
underway at 8 p.m. and expected
to conclude around 9:30 p.m.
The dinner menu includes
steak, potato, salads, beverage
and dessert for $7.50 each. Lee
Ansotegui and crew will be the
cooks.
Around 30 high school students
will be helping before, during
and after the dinner and auction.
Anyone who would like to
donate or assist at the dinner or
Brosnan to run for commissioner
By Nova Rietmann
V 0L.116
NO. 41
10 Pages
Wednesday, October 8,1997
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
HHS homecoming activities underway this week
Heppner High School students
are gearing up for homecoming
week, to be culminated in
volleyball and football games
Thursday, Oct. 9, and a dance
Friday, Oct. 10.
The activities got underway
last Thursday and Friday with
hall decorating at the high
school.
Monday's activities
included the noon-time "swamp
water challenge", a water
carrying contest, and a Tarzan
and Jane dress-up contest
Tuesday the dress-up theme was
"bandage day" with a "hunting
and gathering" bean shoot
contest.
Wednesday was "camo day",
with kids dressing up in
camouflage outfits, and a banana
eating contest. The HHS
cheerleaders
also
planned
"Bungle in the Jungle", which
includes a bonfire and pep rally
Wednesday from 7-8 p.m. at the
fairgrounds.
Thursday will feature a tug of
war and a Blue and Gold theme.
The
homecoming
parade,
through downtown Heppner, will
leave the high school at 2:30 p.m.
This year the parade route will
travel down Main Street, where
the students will hold their pep
rally at around 2:45 p.m., then
tum onto Willow Street and go
up Gale Street. This varies the
usual route by Coast to Coast
It looks like a hospital ward, but it's just the Heppner High School hall
as sophomores Michael Schonbachler (left) and Jake Roy (right) and
junior Tim Dickenson give their best performances for bandage day
as a part of HHS homecoming festivities.
because of the downtown
construction.
Volleyball games against
Wahtonka will include C-team,
JVs and varsity and will get
underway Thursday at 5 p.m.
A baked potato feed, sponsored
by the cheerleaders, will be held
on Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at the
fairgrounds
before
the
homecoming football game
against Stanfield. Prices are as
follows: baked potato with chili
meal, $4, and baked potato meal,
$3. Toppings will be available
and all meals include a drink and
dessert. The football game begins
at 7:30 p.m.
The Friday homecoming dance
will be held at the high school
from 9 p.m. to 1 a m. with music
by Dan Bums . A breakfast for
students attending the dance will
be held at the high school
following the dance. Both the
music and the breakfast are
sponsored by Oregon Together.
Joan McDaniel is in charge of
cooking the breakfast.
Bellamy purchases pump business from M C G G
auction may contact Grant,
Booster Club President Sonja
McCabe or dinner chairperson
Marcia Kemp.
McCabe added that the auction
is the main fund raiser for the
Booster Club, which supports
activities
at
Heppner
Jumor/Semor High School. She
said that the club recently
received a letter and a generous
donation from an alumnus who
wrote that the sports program at
Heppner made a difference in his
life. The alumnus said he started
school as a poor student but,
through his involvement with the
track program, was able to raise
his grades, get on the honor roll
and get through eight years of
college. He sent his donation
with a note that he wanted to
give something back to the
program. "When that happens,
you know you've made a
difference," said McCabe.
lone High School's
homecoming week is October
13-17.
Monday through
Thursday is spirit week and the
high school will be dressing up to
show off their school spirit.
On Thursday, October
16, there will be a powder puff
football game at 6:30 p.m., where
the Lady Cardinals will get a
chance to play football on the
field, freshman and juniors
versus sophomores and seniors.
After the football game, the boys
will play volleyball in the gym.
The junior class will have a
spaghetti feed in the cafeteria
from 5-7 p.m.. A bonfire will
start between 7:30 and 8 p.m..
On Friday, October 17, Dan Brosnan
Daniel Brosnan, Heppner, has
both the middle school and the
registered as a Republican
high school will play Condon. candidate for the Morrow County
The middle school will play Commissioner position one, now
volleyball and football at 2 p.m.. held by Raymond French.
The high school will play
Brosnan, 54, is the youngest of
volleyball at 5 p.m. and the four children of Jerry and Marian
football game will start at 7:30 Brosnan of Little Butter Creek, a
p.m.. The homecoming queen sixth-generation Morrow County
will be announced during half ranching family. He attended
time of the football game. A school in Heppner, where he was
active in 4-H, FFA and sports.
steak feed will be held in the He also worked on the Brosnan
cafeteria from 4:30-7 p.m., and cattle ranch until his graduation.
concessions will be available After high school, he entered the
during the games. After the U.S. Air Force in 1961, serving
football game the homecoming two years in Louisiana and two
dance will be held from 10 p.m.- years in Japan. Following an
honorable discharge, he returned
1 a.m..
to Heppner and married Dons A.
Morris in 1966.
Brosnan attended Blue
Slottee scholarship
applications open
Mountain Community College,
focusing on law enforcement
courses and joined the Oregon
State Police Department in May
1968. He worked for the OSP in
Newport, Gilchrist and Ontario
before becoming a sergeant and
transferring to the Salem District
!! office. He served as an interim
assistant commander of the
Portland
District
I
and
commander of the Bend District
V offices. He earned promotions
to lieutenant and then to captain
as assistant commander in charge
of operations of the Fish and
Wildlife Division in Salem state
headquarters. He retired in
October 1993 and returned to
Heppner in 1994.
Brosnan graduated from
Northwestern
University's
School of Police Staff and
Command. He served as
Oregon's
law
enforcement
representative on the Pacific
Fishery Management Council for
five
years
and
Oregon’s
representative on the Columbia
River
Law
Enforcement
Committee He graduated from
the U.S. Coast Guard Boat
Enforcement
School
in
Yorktown, Virginia.
He has served on the Heppner
Coordinating
Council,
the
Heppner Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors and the
Morrow County Jail Committee
He currently serves on the St.
Patrick Church Parish Council
and recently became chairman of
the Morrow County Museum
Commission.
The Brosnans have two grown
children, Damon and Darci.
Applications are now available
for the Elizabeth Slottee Memo
rial Scholarship. The scholarship
is awarded annually to a junior,
senior or graduate student at an
accredited four year college or
university.
“The award is given to recog
nize and remember the enthusi
asm, spirit and dedication that
Elizabeth inspired in her stu
dents,” said a spokesperson. “It
is also given to rem em ber
Elizabeth’s love of music and her
wish to share it with others.”
Slottee, a music teacher at lone
and Heppner, died in a car acci
dent.
The scholarship is given annu
ally, in order of priority to: first-
a student majoring or minonng in
music; second-a student who has
been accepted into a school of
education.
Applications may be picked up
from the South Morrow County
Scholarship Trust at the school
district office in Lexington. Ap
plications for the award, which is
$500 this year, will be accepted
until Friday, Oct. 31. The schol
arship will be awarded soon af
ter.
Criteria used in awarding the
scholarship include scholarship,
leadership, citizenship, financial
need, suitability o f course of Ha's baack. Morrow County District Attorney Earl R. Wood», Jr., wa*
study and probability of success back on the job October 1 at the courthouse in Heppner after nearly
eight months serving with his National Guard unit in Bosnia
in the student’s chosen field.
D A back on job after eight
month stint in Bosnia
F arm and H ardware S ale
Sam Bellamy of Lexington has purchased the domestic and small irrigation pump repair and
replacement business from the Morrow County Grain Growers.
Joe Yokum, who has been operating the business for the past 36 years for the Grain Growers, will be
helping Bellamy out for awhile then he will be retiring.
Bellamy's office will be located in the old co-op building in Lexington. His phone number is 989-8448,
and his home phone is 989-8567. He invites anyone with domestic or small irrigation pump repair or
replacement needs to contact him.
E nds S aturday , O ctober 1 1
SAVE NOW BEFORE IT'S OVER
MORROW COUNTY GRAIN GROWERS
Lexington 989-8221
1 -800-452-7396