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Irrigon sailor gives time, hope
23,1998
Heppner students gather for prayer
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Teens gather at HHS for prayer
Seventeen junior high and high
school students gathered around
the flagpole at Heppner High
School for prayer on Wednesday,
Sept. 17. The students were par
ticipating in the annual See You at
the Pole (SYATP)-National Day
of Student Prayer.
This was the first time Hepp
ner teens have been involved.
They were encouraged to partici
m
pate this year by a group of
Hermiston students who came
over and helped organize the lo
cal event. Hermiston has been in
volved with SYAPT for several
years and had 135 gathered
around their pole last week, said
a news release.
This year’s national student
organizers for SY ATP chose “For
Such a Time as This” as the
theme, which refers to the story
of the Jewish queen, Esther, who
interceded for her people before
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Commerce, The Commercial
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Call Jill Pursel at the BMCC
Small Business Development
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7232.
Ranger District plans Skookum fire
Fire management officials at
the Heppner Ranger District
planned to ignite the Skookum
prescribed fire on September 22.
A helicopter was to be used to
ignite 1,600 acres of Umatilla
National Forest land in the
Skookum Creek area, 20 miles
southeast of Heppner. The bum
is expected to last for three days.
"We're burning now, at a time
and under conditions that we
feel will meet our goals better
than trying to fight a wildland
fire later," said Deb Roy, fire
management officer in charge of
the burning operations. "Our
goals are to return the area to an
open ponderosa pine forest by
removing bug-killed trees and to
thin out competing small firs,"
she added.
Preparations for the bum
included analyzing conditions
and
environmental
effects,
‘developing a prescription, and
waiting for proper weather and
fuel conditions.
For questions or concerns
about the Skookum Prescribed
Fire, contact Roy at the Heppner
Ranger District, 676-2136.
Feves gallery
opens
The Betty Feves Memorial
Gallery opens the 1998-1999
season with the oil and wax
paintings of Laura Nugent. The
show begins Sunday, September
27, with a reception in Pioneer
Hall Room 148 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Nugent's works will be on
display through October 30.
Originally
from
the
Washington, D.C., area, Nugent
now hails from Portland. Her
most recent exhibits include: the
Central Oregon Arts Association
Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend;
"Summer Art", The Columbia
Arts Center at Grant House,
Vancouver, WA; Caffe Fresco,
Portland; Judith M. Gallery,
Gearhart; a juried art exhibition
for Cannon
Beach
Arts
Association, Cannon Beach;
Torrefazione Italia, Portland;
HIP
Designs,
permanent
installation, Portland.
Nygent
received the judge's choice
award at the Gresham City Hall
Visual Arts Gallery.
Nugent's
educational
background includes: a bachelor
in fine arts from Maryland
Institute, College of Art;
participation
in
an
independent painting program
at the Studio Art Centers
International in Florence,
Italy;
and
continuing
education via The New
School for Social Research in
New York.
The Betty Feves Memorial
Gallery is open Tuesday
through Friday, noon to 4
p.m.; and Sunday from 2 to 6
Rural health
forum slated
Seminar slated for businesses
A seminar entitled "Preparing
for International Trade" for the
businesses of Morrow and
Umatilla counties is planned for
this Friday, Sept. 25, from 9
a.m. to noon at the Blue
Mountain Community College
Small Business Center, 37 S.E.
Donon in Pendleton.
The seminar will discuss
opportunities exporting offers to
companies and the "how to" of
getting products into the global
marketplace.
The seminar is sponsored by
BMCC
Small
Business
the Persian king to save the Jews
from destruction in 473 B.C. Stu
dents prayed not only for their
schools, teachers and friends, but'
for their community and country,
continued the release.
Next year’s SYAPT has al
ready been set for Sept. 15. For
more inform ation, visit their
website at: www.syapt.com.
Medical practitioners,
health care administrators,
elected officials, political
candidates and others involved
in rural health issues are invited
to attend an open forum on
Wednesday,
September 30,
from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St.
Anthony Hospital auditorium,
1601 S.E. Court Ave. Pendleton.
This is the last of several
forums around the
state
sponsored by the Oregon Rural
Heal t h
Association.
Representatives
of
the
association will explain current
rural health issues such as tax
credits, hospital reimbursement,
new opportunities for health
insurance coverage and changes
in Medicare.
There will also be an open
forum during which participants
will be invited to discuss local
needs and legislative ideas that
can help meet those needs.
The Oregon Rural Health
Association is a nonprofit
membership organization whose
mission is to improve the health
and health care systems of rural
Oregonians and to provide
leadership on rural issues
through
advocacy,
communication, education and
research, said a news release.
daughter-in-law of Fred and
Dorothy Gilcrease of Irrigon,
was glad to help in a country
where the life expectancy is 46.
"This was a chance to go ashore
in Africa and help out people
who are less fortunate than we
are," said Gilcrease, who is
married to the Gilcrease's, son
Jason.
Sailors and Marines often
volunteer
for
community
w
relation projects in foreign ports.
Eritrea, which has the second
lowest GNP per capita in the
world, was one of many stops the
Tarawa made during its routine
six-month-long cruise.
Tarawa Sailors and Marines
Photo by Jim DeAngio
won't
soon forget Eritrea. The
Anne Gilcrease
country has struggled to rebuild
Story by Jason Emerson
its economy after a costly 3 0 -
Anne M. Gilcrease always knew year struggle for autonomy.
that as an American, she had it Although
it
gained
its
pretty good. Then she spent a independence from Ethiopia in
day among the poor and hungry 1993, today four out of five
of a nation where many children Eritreans rely on subsistence
die before their fifth birthday. farming to survive.
Now she understands that in
In the Eritrean cities of
some nations, survival is a daily Massawa and Asmara, U.S.
struggle.
military men and women
"We take our lives for granted, repaired
structures
and
and seeing how these people live distributed supplies donated by
makes me realize how good we an organization called Operation
have
it,"
said Gilcrease, Handclasp. Every Sailor and
describing a community relations Marine who nailed a board,
project she volunteered for in the painted a wall or gave a book to
African nation of Eritrea.
a child came away with a feeling
Gilcrease is deployed aboard the of accomplishment.
warship USS Tarawa, which
"It is a good feeling knowing
stopped in Eritrea on a scheduled that we did something positive
visit.
for these people. We have so
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class much technology and knowledge
Gilcrease,
the
33-year-old that these folks do not have. By
them watching what we were
doing and our explaining things,
hopefully they learned some
things that they can do on their
own in the future," said
Gilcrease, a 12-year Navy
veteran.
The donations by Project
Handclasp included medical
supplies, toys, building materials
and books. Gilcrease, who is a
hull maintenance technician, and
the other volunteers used their
skills to repair buildings and
equipment.
"Talking with a few of the staff
doctors gave you the impression
that they were really impressed
with what was accomplished,"
Gilcrease said
The Navy and Marine Corps
encourage their troops to
volunteer for projects like the
one in Eritrea. People, and most
importantly
children,
of
impoverished nations benefit
from these projects, and the U.S.
military is able to promote
goodwill and trust between
nations.
"On behalf of the Asmara
Home, I would really like to
extend a heartfelt 'thank you,'"
said Mike Junge, a Peace Corps
worker who escorted the
volunteers to the children's home.
Nearly 250 children live there.
"I can say thank you a hundred
times over, but the bottom line is
that what you all did was special,
and I could never thank you
enough,"
Junge
told the
volunteers.
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