EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, February 18, 1998
St. Patrick's Senior Center
Bulletin Board
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There were 61 people over the age of 60 present tor the senior
dinner Feb. 11 and six under 60 and 17 meals were home
delivered. Members of the Lutheran Church served. The tables
and room were beautifully decorated for Valentine's Day. I he
Senior Board met briefly afterwards, but there were not enough
members present for a quorum. Bingo was played at 1 p.m.
The menu for the Ash Wednesday meal will be salmon puffs,
oven potatoes, peas/carrots, rolls and apple crisp. Members ot the
United Methodist Church will serve.
There were 22 people over 60, three under 60 and seven home-
delivered meals for the breakfast Fri., Feb. 13.
The menu for breakfast Feb. 20 will be wattles and bacon, fruit,
hot and cold cereal, orange juice, milk and coffee.
One table of pinochle was in play Friday afternoon.
Several volunteers signed up for work shifts for the soup, roll, pie
and coffee luncheon during the St. Patrick's celebration. More
volunteers are needed. Pies are being made at the center this year
instead of being made in the homes. Donations in lieu of pies are
being accepted to pay for the ingredients. Anyone wishing to sign
up for a work shift or make a donation tor pies may do so at the
Senior Center office.
At least three volunteers are needed tor the ottice statt. One
doesn't have to be a senior to volunteer, although anyone over 55
can belong to the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).
Eleven volunteers folded newsletters for the Extension Service
Thursday morning.
Legion and Auxiliary to hold meeting
The American Legion and
Auxiliary will meet Monday, Feb.
23 at the United M ethodist
Church basement in Heppner be
ginning with a potluck at 6:30
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p.m.
New members will be initiated
into the Auxiliary and the “Unit
Member” of the year will be se
lected.
Everyone is invited to attend.
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Boardman's daughters.
Betty's mother, Leita Barlow
was bom at Gooseberry and went
to high school in the current
Heppner Middle School building.
Her parents were originally from
Ireland. Lena's brother, Charlie
Barlow, was Morrow County
Clerk for many years. Back then
the clerk’s job also included
mowing the courthouse lawn and
climbing up to change the
courthouse clock. Charlie was
seriously injured on the job,
breaking his leg. Betty says that
when he broke his leg, the bone
marrow got into his blood
stream, went to his brain and he
never walked or talked again.
Sadie Parrish then became
county clerk
In 1954, Betty married Carl
Miller Marquardt. He passed
away in 1981. The family has
Betty Marquardt
A fixture at the Morrow County another Carl Miller, however.
Health Department, a woman Betty's daughter Debbie married
who has been with the a Miller and they have a 12-year-
department for over 20 years and old Carl
Besides watching games, Betty
the first one to greet you when
you bring your little one in for enjoys music and plays piano and
hts shots or stop by to get your organ at the First Christian
blood pressure checked, has Church in Heppner. She also
loves to crochet and would like
announced her retirement.
Betty Marquardt, who started at to do some ceramic painting that
MCHD in 1976, will say she just hasn't had time for.
Betty's replacements at MCHD
goodbye when new office help is
joke that it will take two of them
trained.
You might say her career to do her job. Shelly Rietmann
started when she was in grade and Marilyn Allison have both
school. Betty and Pat Wright, been hired as part-time office
former MCHD director, went to workers.
elementary school together and
became best friends. The two
friends worked at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital together, Pat
as a nurse and Betty as an aide.
So, when Pat went to the health
department, so did Betty,
although a little later. Betty was
hired after Alma Green resigned
to take a job at the courthouse.
In the earlier days, Betty often
accompanied Pat on trips to visit
clients in the North end. When
she first started, the department
gave immunizations, checked
blood pressures, monitored
communicable diseases and
tuberculosis patients. Then, they
often went to homes to provide
those services.
Now, says Betty, the services at
MCHD have expanded greatly
and, consequently, so has the Shelly Rietmann
Shelly started part-time office
paperwork. Now the department
work
at MCHD the first of the
not only offers those services,
year.
but also does family planning,
She has been a dental assistant
breast and cervical cancer
screening, home visits for high and medical assistant for a total
risk infants, maternity case of about 15 years. Most recently
management and also conducts she has been at home in lone
primary review to determine if taking care of her two sons.
children are up to date on their Tanner, four, and Evan, three.
immunizations or must be Shelly and her husband, Greg,
excluded from school, in addition have a farm in lone.
Shelly, the daughter of Ken and
to providing information on a
Jean Ann Swanson Turner, grew
myriad of topics and referrals.
When Betty started with the up in Heppner and graduated
department, there was only one from Heppner High School. She
nurse. Now there are two full attended medical college in
time nurses, three part-time and Portland in a medical assisting
two part-time translators, and, of •program. She lived in Pendleton
course, the ubiquitous computer. and Portland before returning to
"The
computer
that
was the area around seven years ago.
Shelly, 39, is active in the
supposed to lessen my work
Morrow
County Arts Council
didn't," laughs Betty. "We still
and
serves
on the Morrow
have to keep handwritten cards
County
Behavioral
Health Board.
for people."
Betty said that over the years
she has really enjoyed the kids
who come in for their
immunizations.
Betty, 62, says that when she
retires she plans do a little more
visiting and watch all her
grandkids' games. That might
take up a little of her time, since
she has eight children and 18
grandchildren. Betty’s children
are:
Carlita
Bloodsworth,
Hermiston, a beautician; Jim, a
policeman in Athena; Lolita
Grace, who works in Portland;
Joyce Hughes, Heppner, an
office manager for a doctor's
office in Pendleton; Sheree
Smith, Lexington, a MCHD
nurse;
Debbie
Miller,
a
homemaker who lives in Idaho
Falls; Pam Piper, Heppner, who
works for the Morrow County
School District; and Jana Julian, Marilyn Allison
Marilyn Allison is a recent
who is a homemaker in Portland.
Betty's father, Truman immigrant from Paulina, which is
Messenger,
was
bom
in southeast of Pnneville. She
Oklahoma and raised in Kansas. retired Jan. 3 after 21 years in the
His parents, originally from U.S. Forest Service as a forestry
England, came to Morrow technician, working in timber
County in 1917. Betty says that sales contracts and appraisals.
Marilyn, 59, who is originally
Truman, who graduated from
Waldport,
became
Roardman high school, knew from
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acquainted with Heppner when
she worked at the Forest Service
office here from 1983-84. She
liked the area, made good friends
here and decided that she’d
eventually move back.
Marilyn's son, Cash, who
works at a service station in the
Portland area, recently bought a
house in Heppner; son, Tim, who
lives in Walnut Creek, CA,
recently returned to school to get
his master's degree in counseling.
Another son, John, died in a car
accident.
In addition to the two new part-
time office employees, MCHD
also has hired two new nurses,
Jamie Bailey and Carolyn Wood.
branches,
specializing
in
agricultural loans.
The Woods have six children:
Bret, 31, is a physician's assistant
in pathology in Salt Lake City;
Jamie Jones, 30, who has a
degree in marketing, is now a
homemaker in Forest Grove;
Lance, 27, works for a computer
company in Salt Lake City;
Shana Jensen, 25, is a
homemaker in Gardnerville,
Nevada; Tucker, 21, attends
Rick's College in Rexburg,
Idaho; and Justin, 14, is a
freshman at Heppner High
School. They also have two
grandchildren.
Carolyn enjoys painting,
exercising and reading.
Carolyn, who works three
days a week at MCHD, is a home
visit nurse with the Babies First
Program,
which
provides
checkups on babies' health and
helps promote good parenting.
The program is funded through a
Children's Trust Grant.
Morrow County
skills center open
Jamie Bailey
Jamie Bailey, 40, was bom in
Hermiston and grew up in
Umatilla,
graduating
from
Umatilla High School in 1975.
She has lived in Umatilla for
most of her life, except from
1981-86, when she lived in
Seattle, raising her children.
Jamie graduated from Blue
Mountain Community College
with an associate degree in
nursing in 1990. She then worked
for six years at Good Shepherd
Community Hospital. The past
year she has worked at an urgent
care center in the Tri-Cities.
Jamie says that she is looking
forward to her job with MCHD,
but adds, "It will be a learning
experience because everything
has changed since my kids were
little."
Jamie has two sons, Scott and
Joseph Nordquist. Scott 22, who
is disabled, lives in a group home
in Hermiston. Joseph, 21, attends
Blue Mountain Community
College.
Jamie's parents, James and
Imogene
Bailey,
live
in
Hermiston, as do her two
brothers and two sisters.
Jamie enjoys fishing, reading
and going to the mountains.
Morrow County Skill Centers,
located in Irrigon and Boardman,
are open. The centers combine
skill center workplace basics
with GED preparation and adult
basic skill development. The
mission is to provide services to
the unemployed, underemployed
and injured workers.
Workplace Basics include
workshops on communication in
the work force, resume writing,
interview
tips and stress
management. Basic Skills offers
the opportunity to work toward a
GED or high school diploma, and
English as a second language
classes. All services are offered
free of charge.
In Irrigon classes are held at the
Irrigon Learning Center at 240
West South Main. Workplace
Basics and Basic Skills will be
offered Tuesday and Thursday,
from 9 a.m. to noon. ESL classes
will be offered Tuesday and
Thursday, from 6 to 8 p.m.
A grand opening and open
house will be held at the Irrigon
Center on Friday, February 27,
from 10 a.m. to noon. The public
is invited to visit the new facility.
Class registration can also be
done at that time.
Boardman classes will be held
in the Learning Center at 114
Boardman
Avenue,
NW.
Workplace Basics and Basic
Skills will be offered on Friday,
from 9 a.m. to noon. ESL classes
will be offered Monday and
Wednesday, from 7 to 9 p.m.
The centers are provided as a
collaborative effort between
Blue Mountain Community
College,
Morrow
Umatilla
(Region
12) Work
force
Committee, Adult and Family
Services,
CAPECO,
the
Employment Department, Senior
and Disabled Services Division
and Vocational Rehabilitation
Division.
For more information contact
Anne Morter, BMCC South
Morrow County coordinator at
422-7040.
4-H News
Kool Kitchen Kids
By Blair Keithley
Carolyn Wood
Carolyn Wood, also relatively
new to the department, started
work for MCHD in September.
Originally from Preston, Idaho,
Carolyn was raised in Castro
Valley in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
Carolyn attended Brigham
Young University at Provo, Utah,
from 1962-65, where she met her
husband Richard. She returned to
Brigham Young after raising her
children and obtained her
associate degree in nursing in
1983.
The Woods came to Heppner
four years ago when Richard
was hired by the Bank of Eastern
Oregon. He is now a vice-
president and divides his time
between the Heppner and lone
The Kool Kitchen Kids had
their second meeting of the year
at the home o f leader Tami
Rietmann, on Jan. 22.
The meeting was called to or
der by Madison Bailey. Kyle
Carlson was welcomed as a new
member at the beginner level.
The members learned about
quick breads and made baking
powder biscuits.
The next meeting will be in
February.
Scratch
Pads
50c
lb .
Gazette-Times
All Saints Episcopal Church will hold its
annual Shrove Tuesday pancake supper on
Feb. 24 from 5-7 p.m. in the parish hall.
The supper includes pancakes, ham, fruit
and a drink. Cost is $4 for adults,
$2 for students and $12 for a family.
Everyone is invited to attend the supper.