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A regular board meeting o f the
Morrow SWCDAVeed Advisory
Board will be held Monday, Jan.
12 at 3 p.m. at the co-generation
plant in Boardman. Agenda items
include Natural Resource Conser
vation Service report, manager
report, election o f officers, plan
annual- meeting, agency reports
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aftcfothor business
The public is invited to attend.
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Wednesday, January 7,1998
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
MC Tourism meeting slated for Jan. 21
The quarterly Morrow County
Tourism committee meeting will
be Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 4 p.m.
at the Morrow County Museum
in Heppner. Agenda items in
clude: sharing county submis
sions to Oregon Tourism Com
mission Small Grants Program;
an overview o f Heppner web site/
tourism benefits by Dave Sykes;
distribution o f the 1998 County
Community Event Calendar; de
veloping a distribution plan for
the newly revised and printed
Town and
Country Banquet,
Jan. 15
H eppner
Cham ber
of
Comm erce’s annual Town and
Country Banquet will be held
Thursday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. at the
Heppner Elks Club and will in
clude a dinner serenade by “Ab
solutely Nobody,” a vocal quar
tet. Members Joe Lindsay, Jer
emy Miller, Tom Phelan and Rick
Pullen w ill perform doo-wop,
pop, country and classic tunes.
Social hour begins at 6 p.m.
Following dinner, more enter
tainment w ill be provided by
“The Slob Sisters," the crowning
o f the Morrow County Oregon
Trail Pro-Rodeo Court and the
an n ou n cem en t o f the M an,
Woman, Educator and Business
o f the Year.
Tickets are $15 each and are
being pre-sold at the Chamber o f
Commerce office. Bank o f East
ern Oregon, Murray Drugs, Kla
math First Federal and the Mor
row County Grain Growers.
Chamber annual
And the snow came. Kiel Johnson, 9, o f Heppner took advantage o f the snowfall this week to
contstruct, with the help o f his sister Ariel, 11, a snow dragon on Gale street.
HCC meeting slated for Jan. 20 ASSE seeks host families/students
Heppner Coordinating Council
will hold its January meeting on
Tuesday, Jan. 20 from 7:30-9:30
a m. at the Forest Service build
ing.
The council will be discussing
the Heppner Strategic Plan and
reviewing with the major partici
pants the g o a ls and p rojects
within the plan.
The public is invited to attend.
MCCBW Seminar to be held Jan. 29
The Morrow County Columbia
Basin Wheat Seminar will be held
Thursday, Jan. 29, 8:30 a.m.-3:30
p.m. at the lone Grange.
The morning program will be
the taped presentation o f the Co
lumbia Basin telecon feren ce.
Lunch will be served by the la
dies o f the Grange and will re
quire pre-registration.
The afternoon program w ill
include presentations from repre
sentatives o f DEQ, OSU Colum
bia Basin Research Center and
OSU Extension faculty.
Pesticide credits will be avail
able for the afternoon session.
Cost is $10 for the entire day
(including lunch), or $5 for the
afternoon session. For the lunch,
RSVP by Friday, Jan. 23 to the
Morrow County Extension office
at 676-9642 or 1-800-342-3664.
Lindsay baby first of 1998
Kaelyn Rose Lindsay was
the first baby bom in 1998 at the
Good Shepherd Community Hos
pital in Hermiston. Kaelyn was
bom on Friday, January 2 at 5:22
a m. She weighed 7 pounds, 6
ounces, and was 21 inches long.
Kaelyn is the daughter o f
Barney and Kim Lindsay o f
Lexington.
As the first baby o f the new
year, Kaelyn will receive many
donated gifts and gif) certificates
from area merchants.
The ASSE International Stu
dent Exchange Programs (ASSE)
is seeking local host families for
boys and girls from Scandinavia,
West and Eastern Europe, Asia,
South America. Mexico, Canada,
Australia, and New Zealand, 15-
18 years o f age, for the upcom
ing high school year.
The selected exchange students
speak English, and want to leam
about this country through living
as part o f a family, attending high
school and sharing their own cul
ture and language with their host
family, said an ASSE news re
lease.
The students are sponsored by
ASSE. a nonprofit, public benefit
organization, founded by the
Swedish Ministry o f Education.
The students are screened and
qualified by ASSE.
ASSE is also seek in g high
school students to live abroad.
Those persons interested in ob
taining more information about
becoming a host family or becom
ing an exchange student should
contact ASSE’s local representa
tive Cathy H alvorsen at 4 2 2 -
7107, or call 1-800-733-2773.
luncheon, Jan. 13
The H eppner C ham ber o f
Commerce annual luncheon will
be held Tuesday, Jan. 13 at the
All Saints’ Episcopal Church Par
ish at noon. This year’s theme is
“Celebrate Heppner.”
An Italian luncheon buffet will
be catered by Kate’s, and will be
$6 each.
It will be an opportunity to
meet the new board o f directors,
and enjoy the sound o f “Flute Q
The winners o f the Hat’s Off.
Lifetime Achievement and luxury
vacation drawing will be an
nounced.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Attendees are asked to RSVP by
Friday, Jan. 9, to the Chamber at
676-5536.
CALIONS PARTS
Q uerns
SALE
T H R O U G H JAN UARY 3 1 s t
MORROW COUNTY GRAIN GROWERS
Lexington 989-8221 1-800-452-7396
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Morrow County Tourism Bro
chure, and other items.
Future meeting dates o f the
tourism committee for 1998 are
April 15, July 15 and September
16. Community representatives,
visitor-related businesses and
interested individuals are invited
to participate. For information
about the Morrow County Tour
ism Committee, contact Carol
Michael, 1998 committee chair,
at 481-9457.
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Regional Strategies
to hear many grant
requests
The North Central Oregon
Regional Strategies will hold a
board meeting Thursday, Jan. 15
at 10a,m, at the Gilliam County
Fairgrounds in Condon.
Included on the agenda are
grant requests for the following
projects:
Western Juniper
Industry, North Gilliam County
industrial park, Gilliam County
lease to own program, Grant
County fire radio communication
enhancement, Grant County
fairgrounds
improvements,
Boardman
Park and
Rec.
development projects. Morrow
County
Fair
multi-purpose
building,
Sherman County
economic development program,
The Dalles
airport, Wasco
County public transportation,
Haven house retirement center,
and
the
Wheeler County
community tourism.
Softball clinic
slated Jan. 24&25
A softball clinic for girls will
be held in Hermiston on Jan. 24
and 25.
Cost for the clinic is $50 with
advanced registration and $60 the
day o f the clinic. During the
clinic the girls will be instructed
in throwing, defense, infield,
outfield & catching, base
running, bunting , slapping and
hitting.
Called the Elite
softball clinic,
one o f the
instructors, Tom Bequette, has an
impressive history o f softball
instruction.
Bequette, who lives in
Hermiston, managed the 1997
Oregon State ASA 14 and under
championship team. His teams
are the winners o f seven 14 and
under tournaments including the
regional ASA championships,
and he also took the Hermiston
Hornets to the National World
Series. Bequette is currently the
co-head coach o f the Tri-City
Ace's which last year finished
seventh in the National World
Series. In 1996-97 he worked
with the 1996 Olympic coach
and he was recently asked to
apply for the National Advartced
Hitting Clinic to be held in
Atlanta, GA in 1998.
The Hermiston clinic will be
• held at the Sandstone Middle
School, and will run from noon
to 5p.m. on Jan. 24, and from
10a.m. to 4p.m. on Jan. 25. The
Saturday
session
will
be
throwing and defense, and the
Sunday session will be hitting.
(The first quarter o f the
SuperBowl will be shown dunng
this session for parents interested
in watching.)
Anyone wishing to register, or
for more information, can contact
Bequette at 567-2939.
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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden made clear his support o f environmental issues Sunday, when he visited
Heppner on one stop o f his swing through Eastern Oregon.
Wyden, seen here visiting with Meg Murray o f Heppner, said everyone is going to have to give up
something in order to boost salmon runs on the Columbia River. And also said the best way to fight
global warming is to plant more trees.
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