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•. # 1 I j m y 4 - • \»> . •• V s riv . Â .•■ • b TEN - Heppner Gazette-Tim es, Heppner, Oregon » t J s i L . W ednesday, March 11, 1998 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow lone players named to state All-Stars Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S P S 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper V K Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner. Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street Telephone (541)676-9228. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $18 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant Coun ties; $25 elsewhere. April Hilton-Sykes............................ .................................................News Editor Stephanie Jensen .................................................................................Typesetting Monique Devin................................................... Advertising Layout & Graphics Bonnie B e n n e tt.................... Distribution Penni K eersem aker........................ Printer T I David Sykes, Publisher • tftLFMGI *. • Jake McElligott ,'V ' » V. - • . j .* « *' t r - 1 * « • • • . / ' • . * # ' » ■ ' « L • ■ V **->. . ; <- ; ' : . v .-* ■ . [ Ì .• • 4 i ■ lï::. i / ■ • -, >• - |> V v '.T. ; ’ -i . . • ;> • ¿r • . * ! , ■. v ' ; »» ' * '* *• i » • ï- .• 1 . ■ ‘..y. • y -j * > * , h ' t ' - •• ' . ■ •. • ‘. i * - i . r ■r ' •? •• : * 5 • • • i ‘J . ‘i ■¿■■'i 4 : ■ • • 5 ,/. ........ Friday, March 13......... •HEPPNER PUBLIC LIBRARY - Open 10AM-6PM, 444 N Main Street •MORROW COUNTY MUSEUM - Open 1-5 PM. 444 N Main Street. •MRS. O’LEARY’S STEW FEEQ -5 - 7 PM at St. Patrick’s Senior Center, 190 N Main Street, prepared by the Heppner United Methodist Church members Adults $5/ages 6-12 $2/5 and under, free. 'BUFFET DINNER - 5:30 PM at the Elks Club, 142 N Main Street, $8.50 per person. ‘ LADS & LASSIES TEEN DANCE -9 PM - midnight, sponsored by Oregon Together at Heppner High School, ..........Saturday, March 14.......... •BREAKFAST - 6 -10:30 AM at Morrow County Fairgrounds, prepared by O’Senior Center. $3.75 per person. 'SHEEP DOG TRIALS - starting at 8:30 AM (all day) at Thompson's Ranch, 3 miles northwest of Heppner on Bunker Hill Road off of Highway 207, between mileposts #41 and #42. •VOLKSWALK - 8 AM - 4 PM. Make a “grand tour” of the Irish Capital of Oregon. The event starts at the High School on Morgan Street and tours the town on a 6.2 mile/10 kilometer route. •WILLOW CREEK WATER PARK-9 AM-Noon. Tour the new facility, view the inscribed bricks, register for classes, purchase season passes. Call 676-2752 to make spa ap pointments or register for classes. •SCOTCH DOUBLES - Willow Lanes, 180 NE Chase Street. (Weekend before and after, also.) •MORROW COUNTY MUSEUM -1 0 AM - 5 PM, 444 N Main Street. Spinners and weavers will exhibit their skills throughout the day. Young people from the community will make history come ALIVE after the parade. •MORROW COUNTY CREATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS - 9 AM - 3 PM, show and sale at Les Schwab Building at 124 N Main Street. *KUMA COFFEE HOUR -10 AM at the Elks Club, 142 N Main Street, introducing and honoring the Hirl Family Come hear family histories, music, stories and blarney! Enter the IRISH BROGUE CONTEST and try to win $100 for the best brogue. •IRISH HOOP SHOOT - starting at 10:00 AM on E Willow Street. •BRUNCH - 11:15 AM - 1:30 PM at the Elks Club, 142 N Main Street, $6.50 per per son. •O’SENiOR CENTER -11 AM - 1 :30 PM. Have a taste of Irish homemade soup and bread; pie and coffee 3 - 4:30 PM. Videos of Ireland for your relaxation. Lunch is $3.75 per person. •O'BARBECUE chicken and ribs -11 AM - 4 PM by Kessler’s Katering at the City Park on Main Street. •O’GRAYBEAL’S BARTENDER’S RACE - at noon on E Willow Street. Fourth An nual event sponsored by Graybeal Distributing. Local lads & lassies challenging bar tenders from near and far. •O’SHANTY RACE - immediately following the O'Bartender's Race on E Willow Street. A wee bit O’fun with porta-potties on the run! •O’HANKY-PLANKY RACE - immediately following the O-Shanty Race on E Willow Street. ‘ IRISH PARADE -1 PM on Main Street, to include O-Golfer Irish Golf Cart Challenge and Band Competition. Drawing for $100 Pot O’Gold. •HEPPNER PUBLIC LIBRARY - Open 1 - 5 PM, 444 N Main Street. THREE-PERSON BASKETBALL CHALLENGE - 2 - 7 PM, Heppner High School for grades 7 and up—A drug and alcohol free event sponsored by Morrow County Behavioral Health. •CEILI (pronounced K-Lee) - 2 - 5:30 PM, upstairs at the Elks Club, 142 N Main Street. Come enjoy Irish music, dancing and stories at your leisure. Cost is a St. Pat's Button. (2-2:45 p.m.- John Doherty and the Irish Singers; 3-3:20 p.m.-South Morrow County Choir; 3:40-4 p.m.-Pick ’n’ Bow Company; 4-4:10 p.m.-The Sentamentalists; 4:15- 4:45 p.m.-Riversong; 4:45-5 p.m.-Flute Q; 5-5:30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m.-Mountain Aire Sponsored by the St. Patrick's Committee and the Morrow County Arts Council.) *ST. PADDY’S MOTORCROSS BARREL RACE - 2:30 PM at the Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Arena at the fairgrounds. Concessions available. Free spectator admission. *EWE-DO BINGO - 2:30 PM. Live sheep activity on NW Willow Street. Sponsored by People for the Pool. T O U R S -2 :3 0 -4 PM. Morrow County Courthouse. Historical structure built of blue basalt in 1902 at 100 S Court Street. •O’DUCKY RACE - 3 PM, starts at bridge in front of Courthouse. Adopt a duck to win a prize of $10 to $100. Sponsored by the Eighth Grade Boys' Basketball Program. •O’FARLEY SOCIAL HOUR - 4 - 5 PM at the Senior Center Bus Shed on E May Street. Reminisce with old and new acquaintances. Drawing for $100 Pot O'Gold. •ST. PATRICK’S HAM DINNER - 4 - 7 PM at Catholic Church parish Hall at 560 NW Jones Street. Adults $6.50/ages 4-12 $3/age 3 and under free/family ticket is $20. •BUFFET DINNER - Eat, visit and dance a jig to music at the Elks Club, 142 N Main Street, $8.50 per person. •ENTERTAINMENT BY MOUNTAIN AIRE -7 - 8 PM, at the Elks, 142 N Main Street Cost is a St. Pat’s Button. Sponsored by the Arts Council of Morrow County. •WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING BREAKFAST 11 PM - 3 AM by Heppner Volun teer Fire Department at 190 NW Willow Street. . . . • • . - . Sunday. March 15‘.......... ‘BREAKFAST - 6:30-10AM at the Morrow County Fairgrounds Prepared by the O'Golfers of the Willow Creek Country Club. Adults $4/ages 10 and under $2 •CHURCH - your choice Visitors welcomed •SHEEP DOG TRIALS - all day at Thompson’s Ranch, 3 miles northwest of Heppner on Bunker Hill Road off of Highway 207, between mileposts #41 and #42. •SCOTCH DOUBLES - Willow Lanes, 180 NE Chase Street (Weekend before and after 3 iso j •MUSIC - 11 30 AM - 1 PM at the Morrow County Fairgrounds. Come and be enter tained by “Absolutely Nobody." Cost is $1, or a St. Pat's Button. •LAMB BARBECUE - Noon - 3 PM by South Morrow Scholarship Trust Board of Directors and Friends at the Morrow County Fairgrounds $6 50 per person or $20 per family. * •ST. PATRICK’S ANNUAL AUCTION • 1 PM indoors at Morrow County Fairgrounds Preview items at 11 AM Exciting changes this year include a Country Store, Silent Auction, Drawings and Music. Drawing for $100 Pot O'Gold. Jake McElligott and Kiel Grabenhorst were named to the first-team Big Sky East All Conference selections along with Echo's Travis Fisher and Nathan James and Condon's Brad Carmne. Bowl-a-thon planned April 4 A “Strike Out for Kids” bowl- a-thon will be held Saturday, April 4, at Heppner’s W illow Lanes bowling alley. The bowl- a-thon will be sponsored by the Heppner Elks Lodge in coopera tion with the Oregon State Elks Association. Held for the first time, this non competitive bowling event is a means of helping support the Elks Children’s Eye Clinic at Casey Eye Institute in Portland and the Meadowood Springs Speech and Hearing Camp near Pendleton. “This bowl-a-thon provides an opportunity for people o f all ages to support this worthy cause,” said a spokesperson. Participants may ask family, friends and oth ers for pledges that are to be col lected and brought to the bowl ing alley on April 4. A $6 entry fee may be paid by a participat ing bowler or deducted from that person’s total pledges. Bowling equipment and shoes will not be provided. The amount o f pledged dollars qualifies each person for prize drawings at three levels. Level one is for those with pledges rang ing from $1-100; level two, $101- 250; and level three, $250 or more. Merchants and others are donating a wide range o f prizes and each participant will receive a free bowling towel. Bowlers will take part in thrpe games of bowling, while teaming up with others on different lanes. Pledge cards may be obtained at the bowling alley or at the Elks Lodge. Everyone is invited to partici pate. V/ Brenda Burright Little League tryouts slated Little League tryouts have been scheduled for the next several weeks. Tryouts for the Majors only for both boys and girls will be held Thursday, March 19, at 4 p.m. Tryouts for the girls will be held at the Kilkenny Field and tryouts for the boys will be held at the George Waterland Field near the dam. Boys and girls' majors, t-ball and minors tryouts will be held on Saturday, March 28. Tryouts for the boys' majors will be at the George Waterland Field from 10 a m.-noon; girls' tryouts will be held at the softball field from 10 a.m. to noon; and tryouts for T-ball and minor league will be held at the new fields starting at noon. Senior girls' and whiffle ball tryouts will be announced at a later date. Applications will be accepted until the date of tryouts. We Print Business Cards RICK’S MARCH SPECIALS NH 2450 SP Windrower w/14’ auger header. 1371 hrs Rebuilt header, great shape. Cab/air/radio $31,900“ NH 1495 SP Haybine w/12’ Rolareel header. Three to choose from. _____________ $7,200“ -$13,300“ NH 1112 SP Windrower w/12’ auger header. $10,500“ Several pull-type mower conditioners, rakes and 16x18 balers to choose from. IH 454, good rake tractor, 40 hp, 2 wd, 3 pt. PTO. $7,250“__________ JD 2840, 80 hp 2 wd, 3 pt. PTO. $11,900“ Ford TW 30, 163 hp, 4260 hours, 3 pt. PTO, 2 wd, duals; nice $17,500“ Ford 555D Backhoe, rental return, 900 hrs. Like new, great shape. $42,900“ W f can put a loader on a variety o f tractors! L et’s turn your tractor into a loader tractor! Be sure to see our new Genesis Farm Tractor in the St. Patrick’s Celebration Parade on Saturday! P le ase call me. I w ould be glad to help! LaGrande Ford New Holland ® l-84 Exit 265 LaGrande, OR kEW HOLLAND Call Rick Osmin ~ 1-800-872-0773 Gazette-Times 6 7 6 - 9 2 2 8 mobile 541-377-0188 home 541-534-6023 {S>I\EW HOLLAN3 V # C r e d i t C om pany TO WATER USERS Winter packing may now be removed from meters. Also, a reminder that the custom er is liable for any Correction damages to the equipment, and that is is a violation to A story in the March 4 Gazette- Times was incorrect. The article, entitled Medical district, community meet in emotional exchange", incorrectly stated that a new dentist will come on board with the Morrow County Health District in March. A dentist is only coming to the visit the area this March. operate the meter stop that controls the flow of water to the meter unless there is a shut-off on the property side of the meter. Please contact the Water Superintendent at Lii) Hall if there is a problem with your water service. David Winters, Public Works Director Phone: 676-9618 .•«U c. We Print Business Cards G a z e tte -T im e s 676-9228 ’l i t v 'i Catherine Carol Moore, 75, of Imgon, died Friday, March 6, 1998, at Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston. At her request no funeral services will be held. Disposition was by cremation. Private family memorial services will be held later. Catherine Carol Curtis was bom Dec. 11, 1922, at Givens Springs, Idaho, to Charlie and Katherine Baker Curtis. She married Dean Moore on Sept. 16, 1946, at Winnemucca, Nev. They lived at Ephrata, Wash., for 35 years, at Homedale, Idaho, for 10 years, and came to Imgon in 1994. Mrs. Moore enjoyed fishing, sewing and swimming, and loved dogs. Survivors included her husband o f 51 years, Dean Moore o f Irrigon; daughter, Caroline Moore Hill of Tacoma, Wash,; and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Charlie and Kathenne Curtis; and brothers, Alfred Curtis, Leroy Curtis and Elton Curtis. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, directly or through Bums Mortuary o f Hermiston, P.O. Box 289, Hermiston, OR 97838. Five lone High School basketball players have been named to the 1A State All Stars team. Jake McElligott, Kiel Grabenhorst and Nikki McElligott were selected to the first team. Nikki also received the Jason Halvorsen Spirit of Basketball Award. Brenda Burright and Camie Bumght both received honorable mention honors. lone was awarded the Big Sky District Girls' Sportsmanship Award. •« v y V i v * l • • î Obituaries Nikki McElligott Kiel Grabenhorst St. Patrick's Celebration Schedule ’V tl • I Camie Burright Keith E. Lewis J "Most hunkers don V know siccnin ’ about cuttle. ij Jess io s ie r and llill W right at In la n d Em pire Hank fq do. F o r a hank that knows agriculture, you can V m get any better than In la n d Em pire Hank. " s Dedicated to the Needs o f AH M orrow County Citizens" Ron ( Turin C attic Rancher Hank ( nstomci Since • Fair and impartial 1*7 < '* ; V -3 ' * • * - r . .1 ■ • - V w S t tf » : •- ■> w -■ Aftv, : Ï 'Æ /< 3 • -..4 . « fr® ? I • Solid Background in Law Enforcement • Experienced in Budget Finance and Public Administration • Life-long Resident of Eastern Oregon ELECT Established in 1948 Keith Lewis INLAND EMPIRE BANK M orrow County Judge “Committed to People and Community ” P«id for by CommfctM to Elect Kdth L*wh, P.O. Box 5 § f , Heppner, OR 97S36 Hermiston ♦ Umatilla ♦ Stanfield ♦ Boardman ♦ Pendleton Member FDIC g r p w a 4*» g J y - •w - i
