TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 22,1998
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o f the City o f Heppner and the County of Morrow
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Oregon's Best awards to be presented
Twelve Oregon growers and
producers will enrich the awards
at the Morrow County Fair,
opening August 19 as part of the
annual Oregon's Best celebration
in foods competitions.
Special awards include cash,
clothing and kitchen ware for the
fifth annual series which also
includes
a
county-wide
Hermiston Watermelon Seed
Spitting contest for the entire
family.
New to this year's events is the
1998 Judge's Choice category,
rewarding excellence in major
divisions. For baked goods,
Gold.n.Soft Stick Margarine has
cast a special Gold.n.Soft Gold
Medal; the Oregon Hazelnut
Marketing Board offers a custom
crafted wood and steel nut
cracker for any recipe using
hazelnuts,
and
Stemfeld's
Products will give a premium
product package for the best jar
of pickles and $25 from The Best
From Oregon Inc. for the best jar
of preserves in the county.
Other awards include: $25 for
the best loaf of bread made from
Bob's Red Mill grains and flours,
a custom sweatshirt for a stuffed
mushroom recipe from Pictsweet
Mushrooms, cobalt blue coffee
mugs from Hurst's Berry Farm
for blueberry bread, a set of four
custom Oregon Fruit coffee mugs
and a commemorative cap from
Oregon Fruit Products for a
quick bread using Oregon Fruit
Products; a kitchen cutting board,
1998 T-shirt and Santiam sports
bottle for a combread recipe
using Santiam com, a butter
yellow fleece cardigan and free
two-pound
baby
loaf of
Tillamook Cheese for the best
muffin
produced
for the
Tillamook Cheese private recipe
muffin contest.
Oregon's new Schoolbus Milk
and Honey Bread will give a
frisbee and new GR8 Bread cap
for a decorated brown bag lunch
made by children, 15 and
younger.
For competitipn rules and
dates, as well as a complete list
o f prizes, contact the Morrow
County Fair office.
For 32 years, the Agri-Business
Council o f Oregon and its 600
members o f agriculture-related
members have been promoting
the state's agriculture industry
through education, marketing and
public relations. The Oregon's
Best program brings this on­
going effort to the county and
state fair.
Heppner student wins writing contest
Thirteen-year-old Daniel Jepsen
received the good news last week
that he'd won first prize in the
six-eighth-grade division of the
Kay Snow Writing Contest.
The contest is sponsored by
Willamette
Writers, -
an
organization for both published
and -aspiring writers. Winners
wage honored at a banquet at the
Sheraton Hotel near Portland
Saturday night and also received
a $50 cash award.
Daniel learned about the contest
through an article in the East
Oregonian. He entered because
he enjoys writing stones and
already had one he was working
on- Heppner Junior High English
teachers Sally Walker and Linda
Dutcher helped him with the
final editing of his 2500-word,
10-page science fiction entry..
The suspenseful story, entitled
"The Opening", tells how a group
of scientists on an expedition to
Antarctica find their way through
an opening and discover a lost
civilization.
Daniel was also invited to
attend another gathering of the
Willamette Writers in Portland in
December. He will be an eighth-
grader at Heppner Junior High
this fall and is the son of Bill and
Nancy Jepsen of Heppner.
4-H News
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“ Sew ”ers A re W e
S e n d o r R e c e iv e
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By Jen n y Atkins
“Sew”ers Are We had their
second 4-H meeting on July 2 at
the parish hall. Krystal Naims,
Kelsie M cKinney and Jenny
The descendants o f Champ
Atkins were there for the whole Connor Yeager held a family re­
meeting. Michelle Ho^gdon ar­ union on July 11 at the Morrow
rived later. The meeting lasted County Fairgrounds, with a pot-
from 1-4 p.m.
luck beginning at 1 p.m.
At the meeting, members de­
A highlight o f the day was
cided first to practice their mod­ drawings for 37 laptefghans cro­
eling skills. Everyone was given a cheted by Beatrice Underwood,
book on how to model and par­ and family history books.
ticipated in actually modeling.
Family members attending
Next, everyone made a needle from Washington were: Doug,
book. Michelle came while every­ Shelly and Molly Sweyn and
body was making a needle book. Laune Yeager from Seattle; Jim
She quickly caught up to every­ and Phyllis Bell, Lakewood; Vince
body else.
and Dorothy Yeager, Kent; Bev
When they were done, the Nolan M iles, C larkston; and
members decided to put Michelle Jamie, Karah and Krystalynne
in charge of the scrapbook. After Hoskins, Puyallup.
that was over with, Kelsie, Krystal
Mr. and M rs. W illiam
and Michelle set up their sewing Atterberry from Anderson, CA.,
machines to practice straight lines. and Andrew Hooke, Santa Cruz,
While they were doing that, Jenny CA. attended, as did Pat Huff, Van
cut out a jumper pattern. When Buren, AR., and Barbara Huff,
everyone was done doing those Sallison, OK.
things, the meeting was over.
Members from Grand Rapids,
Hands on Science Progress m ade on new ag. museum
classes scheduled
“All About Me” is the title and
theme of the summer Hands On
Science classes for younger chil­
dren to be held at three sites in
the county this summer.
The classes will meet Monday
through Friday for 2'/a hours each
day for two weeks. Heppner Day
Care will hold classes Aug. 3-14
from 8:30-11 a.m. Classes will be
held at lone at the lone Fire Hall
meeting room on Aug. 3-14 from
9-11:30 a.m. Boardman Child
Development Center will hold
classes Aug. 10-21 from 8:30-11
a.m.
Any child who is four years old
as of Dec. 31, 97, any five year
old or any six year old who is en­
tering first grade this fall is eligible
to register. The Morrow County
Commission on Children and
Families is partially funding this
program; because of the grant
dollars from the commission, the
registration fee is $8.
According to a Hands on Sci­
ence news release, in the class,
children will make life-size skel­
etons of themselves. They will
experience through movement,
games, music and specific science
activities how the parts and sys­
tems of their body “machines”
work together. The students will
locate and name major body parts
and describe their ftinctions. They
will identify and use their five
senses in obtaining information
about their environment.
These Hands On Science
classes are an excellent way for
the preK-1 child to experience the
excitement and fun o f science,
said area coordinator Sarah
Carlson. Science concepts and
skills will be introduced as the chil­
dren actively participate through
inquiry. Observing, measuring,
classifying, predicting and hypoth­
esizing will be emphasized in each
of the 10 classes. Materials and
products of the lessons will be sent
home with the participants so that
the science experiments and ac­
tivities can be done agam at home.
The program is being made
available through the Umatilla-
Morrow ESD. Enrollment is lim­
ited to 15 children at each site.
Those interested may obtain reg­
istration forms at the community
day care facilities in Heppner and
Boardman and at the public librar­
ies and post offices in Boardman,
Heppner and lone.
For more information, contact
Lisa Smith at the Boardman Child
«Development Center, 481-7559,
Sue Norton at the Heppner Day
Care, 676-5429, or Carlson, 422-
7245.
Yeager fam ily holds reunion
MI. were: Ralph and Sherley
Yeager, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Yeager and Rena Yeager.
From Oregon, those attending
were: B eatrice and Judy
Underwood, Eagle Point; Patricia
Hardy, Salem; Keith and Teresa
Perkins, Jackie and Leanne
Thurmond, Pendleton; and from
Heppner, Henry and Josie Peck,
Harold and Edna Peck, John and
Marge Church, Shirley Palmer and
Lyle and Virginia Peck.
On Sunday, July 12, family
members held a barbecue potluck
at Lyle Peck’s ranch.
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B usiness C ards
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photo by Andy Sykes
Ag museum building near Green Feed in Heppner
Progress is being made on the
elevator and grounds which will
house the Morrow County
Museum's agricultural collection.
The collection, featuring Harold
and Edna Peck's "Shorty's
Museum"
collection
and
donations from many others, has
been moved into the former
MCGG elevator on Riverside.
This past spring the roof was
repaired, doors, windows and
screens were replaced and the
building was painted. This work
was financed by a grant from the
U.S. Forest Service, Regional
Strategies and a donation from
Jean Nelson.
Morrow County Grain Growers
has donated trees and a watering
system to extend the trees along
the old railroad right-of-way.
Dan Brosnan, chairman of the
Morrow
County
Museum
Commission, reports that a
"planting party" is planned for
September, the next appropriate
time to plant trees.
In the meantime, Brosnan says
the commission is organizing
work parties to clean up the
concrete and gravel around the
elevator in hopes of doing some
preparation work on the site for
future outdoor displays of farm
equipment.
The FARM Foundation, a fund­
raising support organization for
the museum, was inaugurated by
BM CC releases spring honor roll
Blue Mountain Community
College has announced its spring
term 1998 president’s list (grade
point average (GPA) 3.85 or
higher), dean’s list (GPA 3.4-3.84)
and honor roll (GPA 3.-3.39).
Following are local students
who qualified for the president’s
list:: Penny Silver, 4., lone; Jose
Monge, 4., Boardman; Chung-
Chin Lui and Danielle Stefani, both
4, both Pendleton.
Dean’s list: Chung-Wren Liu
and Ruth Norton, both Heppner;
Trent H ughes and Dawn
Sheirbon, both Lexington; Ryon
Johnson and Amanda Miller, both
Irrigon;
M arie
Tw orek,
Hermiston; Melissa Hedman, Pi­
lot Rock.
Honor roll: Joseph Lindsay and
Phillip Tellechea, both Lexington;
Lori Bulow and Andre Gonzales,
both Im g o n ; Jose M artinez,
Cameron Sponseller and Alfred
Tison, all Boardman; Caroline
Zumwalt, Hermiston; Cimmie
Huth, Pendleton; Shane Fritz, La
Grande.
Mrs. Nelson's "generous gift".
The foundation has completed
application for its 501C3 IRS
status and, according to Larry
Mills, will soon begin fund­
raising efforts for short and long-
range projects.
The foundation also anticipates
establishing
a membership
organization and an endowment
for future support of the
museum.
Anyone interested in learning
more about or becoming
involved in the present activities
and future development of the
Morrow
County
Museum,
including
the
agricultural
collection
project, should
contact Dan Brosnan, Larry Mills
or Marsha Sweek, museum
director.
Apart from the large objects in
the elevator, the museum's
collection is housed in the
Heppner Main Street park site
and is open 1-5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday. The museum
also
has
a
website
at
ourworld.compuserve.com/hom
epages/memuseum. Visits, both
real and virtual, are free.
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W ELC O M E!
Gazette-Times
Special
Fair
Kids invited to
celebration
Edition
Children will want to join the
celebration downtown on Friday,
July 31. At 4 p.m., games for
young people will begin in the
Shamrock intersection area.
Organizers are working on final
touches, but presently they are
expecting to hold three events: A
coin toss into a pile of hay should
give one-three and four-six year-
olds a reason to go searching in a
hurry.
Tricycle races in the
intersection will be held for one-
six year-olds. Participants will
have to provide their own
tricycles. The committee hopes
to arrange for chalk drawing on
the sidewalks for ages one
through 12.
More information will be
available in next week's paper.
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