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Heppner FFA holds annual banquet
L-R: Heidi Turrell, Maci Childers,
Scott VanWinkle
Chapter Farmers L-R: back row-
Stanley Cutsforth, Corey Miller,
Josh Hill, Jeff Curtin; front-Josie
The Heppner High School FFA
Chapter held its annual banquet
May 17 at the high school.
HHS counselor Barbara Hayes
and HHS secretary Darcy
Robinson were honored by the
chapter members who presented
them Honorary Chapter Farmer
awards.
Maci Childers, Rachel Faber,
Heidi
Turrell
and Scott
VanWinkle received Greenhands
awards.
The following members were
named Chapter Farmers: Jeff
Currin, Stanley Cutsforth, Josh
Proctor,
Worden.
Tracy
Rankin,
Kristi
Hill, Corey Miller, Josie Proctor,
Tracy
Rankin and Kristi
Worden.
Worden delivered the
invocation and conducted the
closing ceremonies. Cumn gave
the welcome address, chapter
report and presented the
Honorary Chapter Farmers
awards.
Rankin
introduced
guests. Heidi Turrell was in
charge of Creed Speaking.
Advisor Lynn Harmonson and
Proctor
presented
the
Greenhands and chapter awards
and Proctor installed the new
officers.
Lynn Harmonson
Robinson
Choir, symphony to hold concert
Lynn Harmonson and Barbara
Hayes
The Willow Creek Symphony
The South Morrow Community
Choir and the Willow Creek
Symphony will hold a joint
spring concert on Sunday
afternoon, June 7, at 3 p.m. at the
Heppner Middle School Gym.
A variety of music will be
performed-from religious songs
and classical music to popular
movie themes and a big band
number.
A few of the choir's featured
songs include: "Let Beauty
Awake", by Sheme Porterfield
(words of this piece were written
by poet Robert Louis Stevenson);
"Dry Your Tears, Africa" from
the recent movie, "Amistad"; and
" Pie Jesu” by Greg Gilpin. " Pie
Jesu" is part of the "Sequence" of
the Requiem Mass celebrated
upon the death or burial o f a
Christian.
The community choir is directed
by
Deborah
Wryn
and
accompanied by Debbie Basile
on the piano.
The Willow Creek Symphony
will perform part o f "The New
World Symphony" by Antonin
Dvorak; "Finlandia", the theme
song from the movie "Star
Wars"; and Duke Ellington's hit
song, " It Don't Mean A Thing."
The symphony group is directed
by local music teacher, Ron
Neighom, and includes some 30
local musicians.
The choir and symphony will
rrform one song together,
ach's "Jesu, Joy o f Man's
Desiring."
The concert is free and
everyone is invited to attend.
Refreshments will be served after
the concert.
Both the South Morrow
Community Choir and the
Willow Creek Symphony are
sponsored by the Morrow County
Arts Council and funded by the
g
Morrow
County
Recreation District.
Unified
Klamath First
finishes stock
repurchase
Marshall Alexander, vice presi
dent and chief financial officer of
Klamath First Bancorp Inc. has
announced the completion of its
recently announced stock repur
chase program. Earlier the com
pany announced its intention to
repurchase five percent of its com
mon stock.
The company is the holding
company for Klamath First Fed
eral Saving and Loan Association,
which has a local branch in
Heppner.
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Wheat Growers League asks for
no sanctions
unilateral export sanctions. The
The Oregon Wheat Growers
League have asked President
Clinton to forego food-related
sanctions on Pakistan.
The Pakistani government has
conducted nuclear tests.
The request was prompted by
unilateral sanctions proposed las*,.
week against India following
their nuclear test. OWGL
President Mac Kerns, Haines,
pointed out in a May 22 letter to
Clinton that, while India is only a
sporadic customer for US wheat,
Pakistan is a leading buyer of the
northwest white wheat.
As of May 7, Pakistan had
purchased more than 2.2 million
metric tons of US white wheat in
the current marketing year,
representing 43 percent of all US
exports
of
white
wheat,
according to the OWGL.
Kems advised the president that
the American wheat grower
"simply cannot forfeit this
market to sanctions when wheat
prices are below production cost,
and when our political allies and
export competitors refuse to
participate in the sanctions."
Russia, France, and Britain have
refused to join the US-led
sanctions against India's nuclear
detonation.
Kems pointed out, 11 percent
of the world's wheat market is
currently closed to US wheat
exports through government-
imposed sanctions, according to
OWGL.
"If India were a wheat importer
this year, our competitors would
happily sell India wheat while
the US punishes no one but its
own producers and exporters by
imposing sanctions," wrote
Kems. He contended that such
conduct by a private sector
marketing representative would
get the representative "fired on
the spot."
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The letter acknowledged that
US law provides for mandatory
sanctions against countries who
test nuclear devices, but pointed
out that the law also provides for
some implementation flexibility.
It asked that President Clinton
"use maximum discretion, up to
m d including waiver authority, if
possible, in selecting and
imposing sanctions on this vital
market for US wheat."
Kems said, "The United States
must get out of the business of
only parties harmed by such
sanctions are US producers and
exporters."
He
urged
participation only in multilateral
sanctions, saying the government
"must not punish US farmers for
the nuclear escalation on the
Indian subcontinent."
Unilateral sanctions, Shch those
in effect against India and Cuba,
Kems said, are "no way to win
international friends, grow the
US economy, or expand US
exports."
‘Dr. ‘D onald J. Carison
foot Spedatisi
will be at the Pioneer Memorial Clinic
on June 10th for the diagnosis and
treatment of all foot problems
Heppner
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