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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.
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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.
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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,
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Happy Birthday
from the gang
at the Center
Heppner High Gym
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The lone Site Council met
Wednesday, February 11, at lone
High School.
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
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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
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