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Volkswalkers to
have grand tour
A 'grand tour" of the Irish
capital of Oregon during
Heppner's "Wee Bit O'lreland
Celebration" is in store for
volkswalkers from near and far
this Saturday, March 14.
Registration takes place at
Heppner High School from 8
a.m. to 1 p.m.
The route goes through
Heppner's downtown, past the
courthouse, up the nearby rolling
hills of the residential areas, by
the roller compacted dam and
through the Heppner Masonic
Cemetery where many victims of
the infamous 1903 flood are
buried.
Volunteers John Edmundson and
JimWishart made the walk easy
to follow by tracking the
shamrocks.
The walk is brought to the
community
by
the
Blue
Mountain Trekkers and the
Heppner Chamber of Commerce.
Visitor and locals are encouraged
to "walk the walk". Those not
having the opportunity St.
Patrick's weekend are invited to
do so at a later date. Central Red
Apple Market in Heppner also
signs up walkers at other times.
"It's an opportunity to get in
shape for the MS Walkathon on
April 18," commented one "out
of shape" prospective walker.
Let's all do
Ewe do Bingo
Last year, the fastest ewe ever
in "Ewe-Do-Bingo" produced a
winning number in just five
minutes. One year, the ewe had
obviously not eaten its "Irish
Lamb feed" and did not produce
a winning number. That year,
after a long, cold wait, a drawing
determined a winner.
The only thing that the People
for the Pool will guarantee this
year is that once again a grid will
be marked off on Willow Street
between Murray's Drug Store and
Gardner's Men's Wear and a
freshly fed ewe will be escorted
into the fenced area to the delight
and anticipation of the crowd that
is sure to form for the 2:30 p.m.
event.
Only 200 tickets will be sold.
Tickets will be on sale at
Murray's this week and at the site
on Saturday beginning at 9:30
a.m. Each ticket costs $5. The
person who buys the ticket with
the grid number on which the
ewe does "do" will win $300.
People for the Pool will use
’Ewe-Do-Bingo" to raise funds
for payment on the indoor spa at
The Willow Creek Water Park in
Heppner.
People for the Pool have
prepared for possible line
disputes by enlisting the aid of
line judge Rollie Marshall.
Arts & Crafts
show set Sat.
An arts and crafts show by the
Morrow County Arts and Crafts
Club will be held Saturday,
March 14, in the Les Schwab
showroom.
Members are asked to donate
cookies. Set up will begin at 8:30
a.m. that Saturday. The show will
last until 3 p.m.
17th annual sheep dog trials
March 14-15
How many Irishmen does
it take for a race?
How many Irishmen does it
take to have a successful motor
cross race? The answer to that
question will be found at the
Morrow County Rodeo Arena in
Heppner on Saturday, March 14.
This second such St. Patrick's
weekend event will begin at 2
p.m. and last until the last race
has exhilarated the crowd, even
under the lights, if need be.
The youngest entry last year
was a preschool youngster and
the oldest was the 50-something
gentleman from Portland.
Entries are again expected from
Washington, Eastern Oregon,
and western Oregon and
individuals may continue to sign
up for races until 1:30 p.m.
Fees are $10 for riders 12 years
of age and younger and $25 for
those 13 and older.
Gift certificates from Lexington
Auto, Lexington Polaris, Honda-
Yamaha Cycle Town and Power
City Polaris will be given to first
and second place winners in the
several events, along with the
entry fee of each winner. The
winners who are 12 and under
will also win trophies and the
jackpot payouts.
Seventeen classes of events will
involve women and men,
entrants 12 and under and 13 and
over, two-wheel and four-wheel
vehicles. All participants must,
of course, wear helmets.
Barrel racing and heat racing
were the two categories last year.
This year, drag racing will be
added to the roster.
"Come early, stay late,"
encourages
the committee.
There is no admission charge for
spectators and concessions will
be available.
The 17th annual St. Patrick's
Day Sheep Dog Trial will be held
this weekend, March 14 and 15
at the Thompson Ranch, three
miles north of Heppner. Forty-
two handlers from five western
states with 70 dogs will compete
in this year's event, which will
start at 7a.m. each morning. As
always, the wiley Krebs Ranch
yearling Ramboullet ewes will
challenge the dogs and handlers
around the course laid out on the
30-acre field.
Three classes will be held this
year, nursery, pro-novice and
open. The tnal is sanctioned by
the U. S. Border Collie Handlers
Association,
the
American
Border Collie Association, and
Oregon Sheep Dog Society.
Winners in the open and nursery
classes will qualify to participate
in the USBCHA/ABCA national
Finals Tnal to be held in El
Reno, Oklahoma, in October.
Winners in all classes earn points
toward Oregon Sheep Dog
Society year end awards.
This year's judge is Scott Glenn
from Pincher Creek, Alberta,
Canada. Glenn was the 1997 St.
Pat's Day open class winner, and
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placed fourth in the 1997
Handler's Finals Trial with his
dog, Dan.
Many other top rated handlers
will be at this year's trial.
Everyone is invited to come out
and see the dogs work and visit
with some of the best sheep dogs
and their handlers in the US.
Concessions will be available on
the grounds.
St. Pat’s buttons
take honorable
mention
Parade entries for the St.
Patrick's Day Parade are coming
in and the parade is starting to
taking shape. "But not to worry,"
says parade director Bob Kahl.
"There's still time to get entered."
Parade categories include Irish
floats,
characters',
groups,
musical groups, cars and bikes. If
socializing at O'Farley's, the St. it's "Irish", there's a place in the
Patrick's ham dinner or the Elks parade.
One special entry planned this
brunch later.
year
will be an auto club from
Ceili music, Mountain Aire
entertainment
and
dancing
should result in the need for the
"Wee Hours of the Morning
Breakfast" by the Heppner
The event that started it all, the
Volunteer Fire Department KUMA coffee hour, will be held
before turning in.
once again this Saturday at the
Sunday, make sure you're out Elk's Club in Heppner.
and about for the O'Golfers
Beginning at 10 a.m. the coffee
breakfast at the fairgrounds hour will feature some of the best
before church, followed by Irish music, jokes and singing
musical
entertainment
by you will find anywhere.
In addition to the regulars, like
"Absolutely Nobody". The taste
tantalizing barbecue by the South John Doherty and the Irish
Morrow
Scholarship
Trust singers, the coffee hour will also
volunteers will get one and all feature the local singing group
energized for the annual St. the Sentamentalists, Insh jokes
Patrick's auction and the end of and banter between Pendleton
the 16th annual Wee Bit ex-mayor Joe McLaughlin and
master of ceremonies Gregg
O'lreland celebration.
Smith and a special surprise this
year (you will have to be there or
listen on the radio to find out).
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How thick is your brogue? How high can the Brogue O ’ Meter go? Find
out by entering the new Irish brogue contest at the KlIMA Coffee Hour
this Saturday.
Water Park plans open house Saturday
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The Heppner Chamber has
received
notification
that
Heppner's St. Patrick's button
logos submitted were one of 13
Hermiston with 18 vehicles.
communities
to
receive
The lucky winners in each honorable mention in a "Best
category will win ribbons and Festival Logo/Button contest.
cash prizes.
Contest entries were recently
The parade will take place sought from Chambers of
Saturday, March 14, at 1 p.m. on Commerce in the U.S. and
Main Street starting at Green Canada for the Chamber
Feed Store and ending almost at
Executive Network newsletter.
Court Street Market.
Local Executive director Claudia
For entry forms or more
Hughes
submitted
several
information about the parade,
designs from previous years by
call Kahl, 676-9113 days or 676- Judie Laughlin.
5422 evenings or stop in at Van
Cities recognized in addition to
Matter & Kahl Insurance.
Heppner were: Yazoo City,
Mississippi; Frankfort, Illinois:
Lebanon, Kentucky; Kodiak,
Alaska; Effingham, Illinois;
Also added to the show this Hutchinson, Minnesota; Algoma,
year is the Irish Brogue contest.
Wisconsin; Augusta, Kansas;
Local contestants, of which there Port Canaveral, Florida; Boulder
are already several entered, will Junction, Wisconsin; Rehoboth
read a short joke or limenck and Beach, Delaware; and Downey,
receive prize money of $50 for California.
Tarpon Springs,
first place, $30 for second and Florida was the overall winner.
$20 for third.
Hughes says honorable mention
Anyone wishing to try their meant recognition in over 1000
luck at the Brogue Contest Chamber executive network
should contact David Sykes at locations in the U.S. and Canada,
the Heppner Gazette, 676-9228, as well as promotion of the
to enter. A limited number of Heppner St. Pat's Celebration
entries will to be accepted.
across the United States.
The show will be held upstairs
Laughlin has been instrumental
at the Elks Club, or you can time in creating a dozen designs used
in and listen on the radio at 1290 over the years. " This year's
a.m. KUMA.
button will admit one and all to
the Ceili at the Elks and is a real
collector's item with a leprechaun
hanging from the new street
light," said Hughes.
Buttons will be available at the
information booth next to the
reports, "and we have fun doing post office and may
be
it." The group is "building" their purchased at businesses around
Irish repertoire.
town.
On March 28, "Absolutely
Nobody" will travel to Hawaii
for a Collegiate International
Music Festival, so Heppner is
fortunate to be able to book them
for the Sunday of the St. Pat's
celebration, said
spokesperson.
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season passes and register for
classes.
Call 676-2752 to make spa
appointments.
Straight from the Pendleton's
Kiwanis Talent Show, this
Sunday "Absolutely Nobody"
will entertain the crowd at the
fairgrounds for the lamb
barbecue and the auction.
"Absolutely Nobody" will
begin their show at 11:30 a.m.
The cost of attending will be a
St. Pat's Button or $1. The group
will
entertain
at
two
intermissions during the auction.
These four Blue Mountain
Community College students
walked away with the grand
prize last Saturday in Pendleton,
surely because of the refreshing
twists their arrangements place
on their a Capella sounds.
Jeremy Miller, Tom Phelan
from Ireland, Joe Lindsay from
Heppner and Rick Pullen have
worked together for only four or
five months, but they are already
growing increasingly popular in
the Pendleton-Umatilla county
area, in demand for parties and
college functions. "We do a little
of everything," Joe Lindsay
Stew feed set for Friday, March 13
The Mrs. O’Leary's Stew Feed,
sponsored by the Heppner United
Methodist Church, will be held
this Friday, March 13, from 5-7
p.m. at the St. Patrick's Senior
Center on Main Street in
Heppner.
The menu will include beef
stew, coleslaw, fresh rolls,
dessert and beverages.
Cost will be $5 for adults; $2
for children six-12; and children
five and under will be admitted
free.
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How thick is your brogue?
The Willow Creek Water Park
will hold an open house from 9
a.m. to noon this Saturday,
March 13.
Visitors may tour the facility,
view the inscribed bricks, buy
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Scads of food this weekend
Kick off the weekend this
Friday night, March 13, with
Mrs. O'Leary’s Stew prepared by
the Heppner United Methodist
Church members, or a buffet
dinner at the Elks Club before
attending 'Squad Room", a play
at Heppner High School.
Begin Saturday morning with
O'Senior Center breakfast at the
Morrow County Fairgrounds,
Volkswalk your way to the
coffee hour which will put you in
the mood for brunch at the Elks,
O'Senior Center homemade soup
and bread or barbecued chicken
at the park.
Snack all day around town
while you visit the business
establishments, race in the
O'Shanty, Bartender, or O' Hanky
Planky events, and watch the
parade.
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