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I - • . • - ■ - • * 'V ' Y ■ . ‘ vT. r 'r> i , 1 ’. r'V/" V* • / » • \ • — . Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 11, 1998 - FIVE classes from lone and Heppner schools. The first place winners will receive a $100 savings bond; second, a $75 savings bond; and third a $50 savings bond. The posters are judged by theme, art work and neatness. The first place posters from each school will go to the Milton- Freewater Elks Lodge for the district contest on Saturday, March 14. The high score winners from the 10 lodges in the North East District will advance to the state contest to be held at the Elks Children's Eye Clinic in Portland. Fair building banners available There is still time to purchase a banner, plaque or brand board (or a name plate/board if you don't have a brand) to help support the new multipurpose building to be built at the Morrow County Fairgrounds. The banners, plaques, brand boards and name plates/boards will be on sale in downtown Heppner on Saturday, March 14., during the St. Patrick’s Celebration. People may purchase a banner for a donation of $2,500, . plaque for $500 and a brand board for $ 100. All donations are tax deductible. Anyone who can't make it downtown on Saturday, but who wishes to donate or for more information may call the Fair Office at 676-9474. Candidates to speak at Grange Dan Brosnan, Leann Rea and Patti Wehrli, candidates for Mor row County Commissioner, will be speakers at the Lexington Grange meeting on M onday, March 16. The meeting will begin with a potluck at 6:30 p.m., with the pro gram to follow. Drama Club to present play Scott Jacobson Morrow County Health Dis trict announces the addition of Scott Jacobson as their new direc tor of human resources. Jacobson has been employed the past six years with Cooley/ Associates, a vocational and per sonnel consulting firm located in Pendleton, where he was a state certified vocational consultant. His background includes human resource management in the tim ber products industry as well as employment training services with the former East Central Or egon Association of Counties. He bnngs over 10 years of human resource and personnel manage ment experience to the district. Morrow County Health Dis trict includes Pioneer Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home; medical and dental clinics in Heppner and Boardman; Home Health Services for Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler counties; and ambulance services county wide. A medical clinic will come on line in Irrigon in July. St. Patrick's Senior Center __________ Bulletin Board .________ There were 83 present for the senior dinner March 4 and 12 meals were home delivered. Members of the Catholic Church served. The Nutrition Site Committee met and bingo was played at 1 p.m. Hearing aid assistance was given and blood pressures taken before the meal. The menu for March 18 will be oven fried chicken, augratin potatoes, green beans, rolls and pie. Members of the Christian Life Center will serve. There were 39 present for the Friday breakfast. The Area Agency on Aging Board met after breakfast. Representatives from the Nutrition Sites of Morrow and Umatilla counties were present. There will be no breakfast Mar. 13. The menu for Friday breakfast Mar. 20 is pancakes, bacon, hot and cold cereal, fruit, juice, milk and coffee. Pinochle was played Tuesday and Friday afternoons, with two tables playing Friday. It's still not too late to volunteer to help your Senior Center's soup, roll, pie and coffee luncheon Saturday, March 14. The Methodist Church's "Mrs. O'Leary's Stew Feed" will be at the Senior Center Friday evening, March 13. The Senior Center breakfast will be at the fairgrounds Saturday, March 14, from 6-10 a.m. The Soup, Roll, & Pie luncheon will be at the Senior Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Quilt raffle drawing will be Sunday at the auction at the fair grounds. lone Site Council holds meeting Jake Roy (left) and Jeff Currin get in character for “Squad Room” The Heppner High School Drajna Club with student directors Miles Hill and Travis Wilhehn as well as drama advisor Sally Walker will present the play, "Squad Room", by Tim Kelly in the high school cafetonum on Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m. and Friday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. This play is a chaotic comedy that takes place in a police squad room. The detectives are busy trying to clean up a problem with purse snatching in city park while they are tracking a mad bomber who is on the loose. The action in the squad room is quite hectic at times with purse snatching reports being taken while the mad bomber does his dirty work right under the detectives' noses. The public is invited to come and enjoy some laughs as a cast of many try to sort things out. The cost will be $2 for adults, $ 1 for students, and children five and under are admitted free. H A PPY WM B IR T H D A Y STA N LEY! ^ ----------- A Informative Messages M a rc h 26-27 * Inspiring Music ALL SEATS Thursday thru Friday N igh tly 7 :0 0 PM Sponsored h> a number o f area Churches IMWIIMI / ' . *’ ' ‘ I» T ------ — . • * . ■ ' " T V / ' “* J I * ■ . • ' ' ‘T " creative writing to grades K-six from February 2-12. She stayed at the Dot Halvorsen home. The council recognized student and teacher achievements for the month. Jessica Krebs placed first at the district FBLA competition in LaGrande and will represent the district at the state competition in Portland in April. The middle school students were complimented on their good sportsmanship. Jake McElligott and Kara Miller placed first in the local Elks Scholarship contest. Jenny Sullivan won the Soroptim ist C itizenship Scholarship. Sullivan was also recognized for helping coach the middle school girls' basketball team. The fifth and sixth grade band, under the direction of Ron Neighom, was complimented for the "fine job" they did playing at some home games. Jessica Krebs, Erin Crowell, and Adrienne Swanson made signs for the gym during basketball. Crowell and Swanson, along with Katie Garrett, directed an elementary dance team that performed at several events. Jake McElligott, Marc Orem, Mark McElligott, and Korey Morgan supervised the boys' peewee basketball program. Barb Peterson was chosen educator/citizen of the year in South Morrow County. The next meeting of the lone Site Council will be Wednesday, March 11, at 5 p.m. and for research to find the cause of and cure for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling disease that randomly attaches the nervous system. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of the disease cannot be predicted; symptoms may range from numbness to paralysis and blindness. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40. IM >i I f ■ ' f l - • t . :* ■ *. ' . . * /.* ' t ‘ . . * I •.. - » I. *. . - *. * ■ - ~ f* ' •• .T .V ;‘V è*. • > -if .; V- j ' - *•:«/■ ' j • ' • ' ' ' 'V. Ç; • • t 9 • _ . » ^ ,i - *< #7 « ¿ * ^ V .H “■ .*:.i t - • • •* '• . A--V, ( V , V _ •- . •• \ V...Î. ••• « - « y V] V G E O D C elects officers Port of Morrow. GEODC, a private non-profit corporation, promotes and assists the economic growth and development of communities and businesses in Gilliam, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla and Wheeler counties. GEODC offers a portfolio of loan products to small businesses; serves as administrator of the federal Economic Development District that includes the named counties; and provides staff support for the North Central Region in the Oregon Regional Strategies Program. GEODC may be contacted at (541)276-6745. George Koffler, president of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, has been re-elected to serve as president of the Greater Eastern O re g o n D e v e lo p m e n t Corporation (GEODC). Bruce Peet, Umatilla County budget officer and economic development director, will serve as vice president. Larry Dalrymple, Eastern Oregon Regional Airport manager, will serve as secretary treasurer. Completing the GEODC Executive Committee roster are the following: Bonnie Parker, Umatilla City manager; Judge Laura Pryor and Alan Anderson, Gilliam County; and Greg Smith, NO FEE ROTH IRA - : >* . S u m m it S e c u r it ie s , I n c . 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Principal Dick Allen reported on the parent volunteer group that will help at the elementary school. He will have a form for them to fill out so their interests in helping can be pinpointed. He has talked to five interested parents. The middle school Positive School Action Committee selected Salli McElligott and Adam Neiffer as students of the month for January. Marc Orem and Allison Halvorsen were chosen students of the month at the high school. The committees planned a barbecue lunch for all middle and high school students who made the A and B honor rolls for the semester. Inland Empire Bank is sponsoring ads for students of the month and other positive student activities. Allen reported that the open ended math assessment tests have been completed. As an incentive to work hard, the 10th grade students were given a longer lunch period and a study hall. The third, fifth, and eighth- grade students were also given the test. Grades four, six and nine will take the Stanford Achievement Test, and grades three-10 took the Otis Lennon test during the week of February 23. Council members volunteered to organize snacks for the testing students. Between March 30 and April 17 students in grades three, five, eight and 10 will take the state multiple choice test, covering reading, language arts, math, and science. Levels testing will be done in grades two-10 the week of April 13. Teachers Dale Holland and Gary Hunt and Principal Allen will attend the Northwest Computer Conference March 11 - 14 in Portland. The council approved requests from coaches Chanty McElligott and Cathy McCabe to attend a Nike volleyball coaching clinic in Portland; coaches Dale Holland, Steve Schaber, and Robin Graff to attend a sports medicine clinic in LaGrande March 6 and 7, and athletic director Dean Robinson to attend a training clinic to certify coaches, a new OSAA requirement, at Sunriver Apnl 17-21. Students in Grades six-eight received student planners. They are to be used to keep track of class assignments and school activities. Students who keep them up and get weekly parent signatures get tickets for drawings for prizes. Betty Rietmann reported on the artist-in-residence program this year. Writer Ellie Belew of Rosland, Washington, taught locations, and sending it to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Oregon Chapter, 1650 NW Front Ave., Portland, Ore. 97209 or faxing it to (503) 223- 2912. Participants also can register by telephone at 1-800- 995-0030 or online at www.orc.nmss.org. Kathy Smith, anchor of Oregon's News 12 at Six, is this year's honorary chairperson. Proceeds from the Oregon Chapter's MS Walk go for services for the 5,200 people in Pre-registration has begun for the MS Walk & Roll, Rain or Shine, scheduled for Saturday, April 18, at 9 a.m., beginning at All Saints Episcopal Church. The event will also be held April 18 or 19 at 15 other Oregon locations and in Vancouver, WA. The MS Walk is a nationwide fund-raising event for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, involving more than 600 communities and raising more than $19 million each year. The society’s Oregon Chapter expects 3,000 participants to raise more than $265,000 in the 1998 walk. The goal for each walker is $150. Walkers raise funds by obtaining and collecting pledges. Those turning in $75 or more will receive an MS Walk T-shirt and can earn other prizes by raising additional money. Pre-registration is available by completing the form in walk brochures, available in many - . /tv. ; Y ,\ Elks announces poster winners M C H D hires resource director MS Walk & Roll registration starts The Heppner Elks have announced the winners of the local Eye Injury Prevention Poster Contest. The winners from lone Middle School are: first, Kayleen Vosbert, fifth grade; second, Emily Key; and third place, Cyd Tullis, both sixth grade. The winners from Heppner Elementary .School are; first, Lilly Calvert, fifth grade; second, Sheena Shank; and third place, Stef Hanson, both sixth grade. A total of 103 students participated this year from the fourth, fifth and sixth grade A 1 *. ■ :•*- !■. « * . • : y. • ' ■ • ' r - ll :-s '•Y