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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner,
Oregon Wednesday, July 1,1998
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
windows of opportunity
H eppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
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David Sykes ........................................................................................................Publisher
April Hilton-Sykes.............................................................................................. Editor
Lexington Class of 1943 holds reunion
The 55th reunion o f the Lex
ington graduating class of 1942-
43 was held Friday, June 12 at
Sorosis Park in The Dalles.
Class members who enjoyed
the day and an afternoon lunch at
Windseeker on the Port Restau
rant were Bill Nichols, who re
ceived the honor o f having trav
eled the farthest; Edwma “Bunny”
(Breshears) Richelderfer, who
received the honor of traveling the
least distance; Ann and Albert
Edwards, who was the class
m ember w ith the m ost class
memorabilia; Leona Harpster and
4-H News
“Sewers” Are We
By J«nny Atkins
On Wednesday, June 24, the
“Sewers” Are We 4-H club had
their first official 4-H meeting at
the Episcopal Church from 3-4
p.m. Jenny A tkins, K elsie
McKinney and Krystal Naims
were at the meeting. Michelle
Hodgdon, also a member, was not
present.
At the 4-H meeting, the mem
bers decided that their club name
would be “Sewers” Are We. The
members also decided that Kelsie
Leonard Munkers, who received
the honor of having a copy of the
1942-42 “Rabbit Tracks,” the high
school annual; Colleen (McMillan)
Kitch, by telephone, the class
member who came up with the
correct answer to the mystery
word “quonk;” and Joe Way, who
edged out all of his classmates as
being the oldest class member
present.
A short period of silence was
given in memory of their fallen
classmates: Carl Marquardt, Lela
(Marshall) Palmer and Barbara
(Ledbetter) Bergstrom.
McKinney would be the president,
Krystal Naims would be the trea
surer and secretary, and Jenny
Atkins would be the reporter.
After the club did the things
above, they talked about commu
nity service they could do and
ways they could raise money so
they could do things.
Rodeo looks
for pictures
The Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo is
looking for action photos of local
cowboys that can be used in this
year's rodeo program.
Anyone with photos of local
cowboys please contact Kathy
Cutsforth.
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City Park, Athena
Piping, Dancing, Toss the Caber
Food, Vendors
Tattoo: w/5 Pipe Bands on the Field:
$ 2.00
Hospital & nursing home get
new windows thanks to Aux.
End of long career opens up new
Pat Hentges
Pat Hentges o f Heppner has
ended a long career in education,
but her retirement from teaching
will open other windows of
opportunity. The multi-faceted
Hentges, who retired from
teaching at Heppner Elementary
School at the close of the school
year will move to a new home
and a new career.
Hentges and her husband. Jack,
will move to Juntura, Oregon,
which is a town of only 33
people around 80 miles this side
of Ontario. Although her new
town has no store and no gas
station, it does have a school and
a bookmobile and Hentges will
have her computer. With the
computer and the solitude
Juntura has to offer, she will be
able to pursue her writing and art
more fully.
"The nearest store is 60 miles
away. The more remote it is the
more we like it," said Hentges. "I
really like the outdoors and
animals and I have access to the
Internet. I'm going to write and
draw."
Hentges does pencil drawings
and paints with watercolors and
she hopes to write classroom
curriculum and children's stories.
She and her husband also enjoy
fishing, hunting, camping and
four-wheeling, which makes
Juntura ideal. And Pat loves to
travel, which will be easier now
that she has retired. She has been
to Mexico City, London, Paris,
Athens and the Greek Isles and
Rome and absolutely loves New
York. "I would go to New York
every year, if I Could," she
laughs.
Hentges was bom in Detroit and
her family came to Yakima,
WA, during World War II. The
trip was quite an adventure since
her mother drove the family all
the way out here in a 1934
Oldsmobile, trading sugar stamps
“I don’t really expect you to bank
with us just because we’re local!”
- Anita Orem, lone Branch
“We are staying up with
newer technologies such as
telephone banking, A T M
machines, and debit cards
so that when you get out
away from o u r little area
you can still have access to
y o u r accounts. So not only
arc we easy to do business with, our service charges fo r all o f
these services are less than the out o f town banks”
W ith Anita and over 50 o f your other friends and neighbors
w orking hard to earn your banking business, its easy to see why
Bank o f Eastern Oregon is the bank o f choice for the people o f our area.
There are other reasons that being a truly local bank makes a huge
difference for the residents o f M orrow and G illiam Counties. The
Bank o f Eastern Oregon has provided employment, paid property taxes,
paid employment taxes, and assisted in the funding o f countless local
projects and charities for well over 50 years.
D oes being local and committed to your community make a difference to
you when you shop for banking services? We hope it does. Does Anita’s
commitment to you as a customer make a difference? She hopes it does.
tor tires.
The family then moved to North
Bonneville so her mother could
get a job in the shipyards. They
lived there for two years before
moving to Washougal, WA. It
was in Washougal that Hentges
met her husband and both
graduated from high school
there. His family had a long
history
at
Washougal-his
grandfather was a horse and
buggy doctor there.
Oddly enough, there was
another doctor in the family with
a connection to Heppner. Dr. Ray
Rice and his wife Doris, who was
Jack's aunt, came to Heppner in
the 1940s as doctor and nurse.
Pat and Jack maimed right after
high school and for five years,
they had a bowling alley at
Camas,, Washington. She was
the cook and he worked at the
desk and gave bowling lessons.
The family moved around quite a
bit, but managed to stay in one
house while their kids were in
school. Pat says that the house in
Juntura will be their 16th home.
After they raised their two
children, Jacquelin, who now
works at a Vancouver neurology
clinic, and J.R., who lives in
Portland, Pat went back to
school.
She attended the
University of Portland, receiving
a master's degree in education in
1978.
Also in 1978, the Hentges had
their first experience of living in
Heppner. They bought Cal's Cafe
and she worked as a substitute
teacher. Jack knew Heppner well,
having come to the area to hunt
since he was a child. Owning a
restaurant proved to be extremely
demanding, so they returned to
the Portland area.
While at the university, Pat had
met Joan McElligott of lone. She
and Joan attended the same
education classes and Joan got
Pat her first teaching job at Holy
Cross elementary school. Joan
taught the seventh grade there
and Pat taught the fourth grade.
Pat laughs when she recalls her
friend telling her about growing
up in lone, with the school bus
full of McElligott kids. When
Joan left Hply Cross, Pat moved
up to take her position as
seventh-grade teacher.
After leaving Holy Cross, Pat
got a job at Boise Elliott in
Portland, and early childhood
school which was a feeder school
to Jefferson High school. There
she was a reading specialist and
also taught special education. Pat
says that the conditions at Boise
Elliott were excellent and she
really enjoyed working there.
The school had money for
special programs and generated a
lot of interest. Pat says that Clyde
Drexler was often at the school.
After teaching there for four
years, the Hentges moved to
Heppner and Pat got a job
teaching at Boardman. She
taught there a year before being
hired as a fourth-grade teacher at
Heppner Elementary School. "I
loved it from the day I got a job
here," says Pat. "I was not ready
to retire, but with PERS, I
decided to take advantage of it."
Jack is retired from a second
generation career as a contract
carrier for the Oregonian. He, as
his father before him, got the
newspaper off the docks,
distributing
it to various
locations. Jack owned a small
fleet o f trucks.
Hentges, 64, says that she
will definitely miss the children
as she ends her teaching career.
But, she adds, she will not miss
the pace or the paperwork. "It
(teaching) used to be so simple,"
said Hentges. "But now there is
so much paperwork and the third
graders are on a schedule that
would make a high school kid
run. You don't have time to stay
with them if they become
engrossed in something. We have
a time schedule and so many
more tests." Not quite ready to
give up contact with children,
Hentges says she is considering
helping out at the Juntura school.
Thanks to the efforts of the auxiliary workmen recently installed 54 new
windows at the Hospital and nursing home.
Thanks to the efforts of the Nursing home auxiliary, a new set of
windows has been installed in the Pioneer Memorial Hospital and
Nursing Home.
Over $14,500 was raise for the project, which saw 54 windows
replaced. Eckman construction of Heppner got the bid for the project.
The windows were all double pane and the money was raised
through yard sales, raffles and donated money, says Aux. member
Delia Robinson.
Adlards chosen Heppner Garden
Club yard of the month
The Dale and Marda Adlard residencewas selected the Heppner Garden
Club yard of the month for the month of June
Lexi Matteson wins
high school all-around
Lexi Matteson
Lexi Matteson of Heppner took
the girls' all-around title at the
Oregon High School Rodeo Finals
in Pnneville June 20-21.
Matteson, a member of the
Columbia Basin team, will go to
the National Finals Rodeo in
Gillette, Wyoming July 18-26,
along with Heppner High School
classmates Emmet Evans and
Annie Hisler, both members of the
Intermountain team.
Matteson was second in barrels,
fourth in breakaway roping, fifth
in pole bending eighth in goat
tying and 10th in team roping,
along with brother and partner
Ryan Matteson.
Hisler took second in poles and
fifth in barrels and Evans was
third in calf roping, third in saddle
bronc, ninth in steer wrestling and
second in team roping with
partner Vic Thompson of
Pendleton.
The top four contestants in each
event go to the national finals,
while those placing fifth through
eighth go to the Silver State
International Finals in Fallon
Nevada July 5-8.
Intermountain's Brian Knowles,
who will be a senior this fall at
was
Heppner High School,
July 3rd - Friday
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Annie Hisler
seventh in saddle bronc.
The Intermountain boys' team
won their second straight team
title at Pnneville.
Deer killed
illegally
Illegally killed deer
Four people have been cited for
killing a deer illegally on Little
Buttercreek in Morrow County.
According to Oregon State
Trooper Dave Rzewnicki, Fish
and Wildlife Division, Brandon
Joseph Smith,
18, Echo,
allegedly killed the buck deer
during closed season.
Rzewnicki said that Smith was
allegedly assisted in dragging or
butchering the deer by three
others, Deborah Sue Patrick, 37,
Heppner, Stacy Lee Launtsen,
19, Heppner, and a juvenile
male,.
Trooper Rzewnicki said that
the incident was called in by
local residents.
He said that Heppner Police
Officer Mike Sweek assisted in
the arrests.
In a separate incident,
investigation
is continuing
concerning a deer discovered
hanging in the shed of a home in
Heppner on June 1.