FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. October 7.1998
The Official Newspaper
o f the City of Heppner and the County o f Morrow
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Hospital situation is sad
To the Editor
These are my opinions only as
a taxpayer o f Morrow County.
Since deer season has begun,
Pioneer Memorial Hospital has
been very busy with all sorts of
injuries. One o f these hunters
from the west side was waiting
for his ride to come and get him
to return home; he told me how
much he and his wife loved this
area and planned to move to
Heppner in two years when they
retired. His mother has early
signs of Alzheimer disease and
was so impressed with our
facility and happy that our
nursing home was in with our
hospital. In listening to this
hunter my heart just broke
because the hospital and nursing
home will be all gone by the
time they get here.
What upsets me even more is
the attitude everyone has taken
toward each other and what is
happening at the hospital, such
as jobs being created for certain
people. We don't have the fun-
loving hospital that people
enjoyed going to. This situation
is really sad.
(s) Maryetta Baker
Lexington
Staff needed at PMH, nursing home
To the Editor:
Dear Citizens o f Heppner:
As you may be aware from the
recent board meeting o f the
Morrow County Health District,
we are in need of direct care staff
at the hospital and nursing home.
Recently, several individuals
have gone back to school, and
other staff members have gone to
part-time work while they attend
Blue Mountain Community
College.
The hospital and
nursing home have an immediate
•need far {j^vg înj^idygds.. W«r
run three eight hour shifts which
are: 7:00am to 3:00pm, 3:00pm
to 11:00pm, and 11:00pm to
7:00am. As you can imagine, we
have openings on all three shifts,
with a greater need on the
evening 3-11 shift.
I have placed advertisements in
the local newspapers, and hand
flyers around town. If you are
interested, I would love to speak
with you. You can call me at the
hospital at: 541-676-2932
(s) Scot Jacobson
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World bluegrass champions
plan concert in Heppner
Nolan Murray and his
bluegrass band, String 'Em Up,
the 1998 world champion
bluegrass band, will perform in
Heppner on Saturday, October
10,
from 7-9 p.m. at the
Heppner Elementary School
auditorium.
A portion o f the proceeds of
the family show will benefit
the Heppner schools' music
program.
Tickets are available at
Murray Drugs in Heppner and
Murray's Condon Pharmacy and
at the door. Tickets are $7 for
students and seniors and $10 for
adults.
String 'Em Up won the 1998
World Champion Bluegrass
award
in
Waterbury,
Connecticut.
String 'Em Up consists of a
four-piece "powerhouse" band.
Leading the group's vocals is
Jim Walker from Big Lake
Ranch, British Columbia. He
also plays banjo, rhythm guitar
and bass.
Nolan Murray of LaGrande
enjoys playing a wide variety of
instruments and writing music.
He toured and recorded with
several Canadian artists before
moving to Branson, Missouri,
where he worked with David
Frizzell, Loretta Lynn and
Brenda Lee. He plays fiddle,
mandolin, banjo and rhythm
and lead guitar.
The two others in the band are
Curtis Jones, who is from
Georgia, guitar and vocals, and
Del Cox, base and vocals.
String 'Em Up repertoire
includes a nice variety of music,
including old time fiddle,
gospel, Irish music and even
some old Bob Wills Texas
swing.
The band is also
promoting their new CD,
"Contagious Bluegrass”, which
was produced by James Bailey,
a former member of the
Country Gentlemen.
lone Site council
Help needed for former Morrow C. resident
To the Editor;
Enclosed is a write up about
Jovita Rdyes, whose mother,
Cassandra Chapel Reyes grew up
in lone and Heppner. Cassie is
the daughter of Blaine and Delsie
Chapel who were life-time
residents of the area.
June Crowell and I are
collecting money to be sent to
the Jovita Reyes foundation in
Woodbum.
The foundation
hopes to be able to get enough
money from friends to be able to
purchase a van with a lift for
Jovita. I am sure it would mean
a lot to Cassie to know that
friends from her home in
Morrow County care and want to
help. We are setting a deadline
of November 15. Anyone
wishing to know more about the
Reyes are welcome to call June
Crowell or Jean Jepsen. You
may mail checks to June Crowell
at Box 101 in lone, or Jean
Jepsen at PO Box 7 lone, OR
97843.
Let's all get behind this project
and help Jovita.
(s) Jean Jepsen & June Crowell,
family friends.
A year ago Jovita Reyes was
the star of a party at her family's
Woodbum farm to celebrate the
six-month anniversary of a
marrow transplant that gave her a
second chance at life.
The party was held, in part, to
say thanks to people who
supported Jovita and her family
during a five-year struggle with
leukemia. Jovita was thrilled
that she would return to school
with her friends.
But this year, the 13-year-old
honor-roll student can't join her
eight-grade classmates.
Instead, Jovita was recently
released from Doembecher
Children's's Hospital, where she
endured months of steroid
treatments and was haunted by
side effects that left painful and
permanent scars. She faces a
long and arduous recovery period
restricted to a hospital bed at
home.
Jovita was diagnosed with
kcufe lymphocytic leukemia in
1992, and chemotherapy brought
the disease into remission. But
when she had a relapse in August
1996, doctors though her best
hope for a cure would be a
morrow transplant.
She didn't have a matching
donor within her family, so she
had to find an unrelated donor
through the National Marrow
Donor Program Registry.
Jovita triumphed in her
repeated battles against leukemia
and with the marrow transplant,
said her physician, Dr. Ted
Moore, director of Doembecher's
P ediatric
B one-M arrow
Transplant Program. But she
won't be able to enjoy her
victories for quite a while.
When it was learned that
Jovita's body couldn't tolerate
major transplant anti-rejection
nedicines, Moore said, she
received heavy dose o f a special
steroid medicine.
"The transplant is working—we
see no signs of the leukemia," he
said. But as a side effect of the
steroids, Jovita has developed
avascular neucrosis • a painful
and debilitating destruction of
her joints.
"She will be wheelchair-bound
for the near foreseeable future,"
he said. "It’ll be over a year or
two before she's able to have an
opportunity for hip replacement
surgery."
Jovita is taking large doses of
medicines and must come to
Portland often for exams. The
trips are extremely costly, said
her
parents,
Miguel
and
Cassandra Reyes.
Jovita's escalating medical
costs are wracking the family
budget, said Cassandra Reyes,
who must drop to a part-time
schedule as a special-education
teacher at Myers Elementary
School in West Salem. Miguel
manages residential activities at
Chemawa Indian School in
Salem.
Cassandra Reyes said she has to
reduce her work hours to spend
more time nursing Jovita. "Right
now, she's completely bedridden
- and she's fed intravenously.
...She can't move her left leg at
all. Someone has to lift it for
her."
Jovita must be transported to
Portland by a stretcher-van
service that costs from $200 to
$265 each way, Cassandra Reyes
said. Lates, when she can sit up,
the trip will cost from $160 to
$180 round trip via a wheelchair
-van service.
But the family's health
insurance does not cover such
non emergency transportation
costs, Cassandra Reyes said.
Prescriptions also are
expensive, she said.
"One
medication Jovita uses for pain
costs about $1,000 a month.
Another prescription costs from
$365 to $390. That's just one
drug. She takes 10 different
TV to focus on
rodeo stock
Athletic and powerful bucking
horses and steers are in high
demand on the championship
rodeo circuit and the breeding of
these exceptional animals is the
focus of an Oregon Field Guide
program
airing
Thursday,
October 15, at 8:30 p.m. on
Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Animals distinguished for their
bucking ability are an essential
part of every rodeo and a report
by Oregon Field Guide reporter
Jeff Douglas introduces viewers
to the stock contractors who
breed these valuable horses and
steers.
At the center of this report is
the Beard family ranch of
Northeastern Oregon, one o f the
Northwest's most prominent
rodeo animal breeders, and a
training facility for teenage
rodeo competitors.
The high-tech Beard operation
is designed to breed the most
athletic horses and steers
possible and they accomplish
this with great success (they
provide rodeo bucking animals
to every major rodeo in the
state) and at great expense. One
Beard Ranch steer, for example,
is valued at $15,000.
medicines."
The Reyeses says they want to
buy a van with a wheelchair lift
that will allow them to transport
Jovita more frequently and
comfortably,
and
less
expensively.
But they can't
afford it.
To help pay medical and
regular family bills, Cassandra
Reyes said, the family has played
host to pancake breakfasts and
other benefit events, sold its
small herd of 10 cows and leased
half o f its 10-acre farm.
Now, at the advice of family
friends, she is establishing the
Jovita Reyes Foundation to help
cover the costs. The account will
be managed by officials at the
Key Bank branch in Woodbum,
said Yolanda Cantu, a bank
spokeswoman.
But the clouds have silver
linings, Miguel Reyes said. "I'm
just happy to have Jovita at
home," he said.
True, he said, "it's been really
rough over the last month. She
was in such pain that she was
screaming: 'I can't take it
anymore. Daddy. I can't take it
anymore!’ That was a tough one
for all o f us."
Osker Spicer
W.C.C.C. Golf
W CCC Ladies’ Play
Tuesday, Sept. 22
Low gross o f the field: Pat
Edmundson.
Low net of the field: Luvilla
Sonstegard.
Least putts of the field: Betty
Christman, Carol Norris, Lynnea
Sargent, Karen Wildman.
Flight A: low gross-Lois Hunt;
low net-Susan Atkins; least putts-
Karen Thomspon; long drive: Pat
Edmundson.
Flight B: low gross-Bernice
Lott; low net-Joyce Dinkins; least
putts-Bunnie Lindsay.
Flight C: low gross-Cheri
Lovgren; low net-Jackie Allstott;
least putts-Cam Wishart.
KP: Lynnea Sargent.
Birdie: Pat Edmundson, #1.
W CCC Ladies’ Play
Tuesday, Sept. 29
Low gross of the field: Pat
Edmundson.
Low net of the field: Karen
Thompson.
Least putts of the field: Bernice
Lott.
F light A: low gross-Jan
Paustian, Lois Hunt; low net-
Carol Norris; least putts-Susan
Atkins, Luvilla Sonstegard.
Flight B: low gross-Suzanne
Jepsen; low net-Lynnea Sargent.
F light C: low gross-D ella
Heideman; low net-Cam Wishart;
least putts-Jenny Reynolds.
Long drive: Jan Paustian #15.
KP second shot: Lois Hunt
#13.
Chip in: Susan Atkins #11.
Birdie: Susan Atkins #11
holds first
meeting
The lone Site Council met on
September 16 for their first
meeting of the year.
Four new members, Becky
Hunt, Anne Morter, Jim
Swanson and Dale Holland,
were welcomed to the council by
outgoing chair, Maureen Krebs.
A committee was formed to
research possible criteria for
earning an academic letter.
Committee
members
are
Arlynda Gates, Betty Rietmann,
Dale
Holland,
the
class
presidents and the president of
the Honor Society. They will
report back at the next meeting.
Dick Allen reported on the
results
of
the
statewide
assessment tests, given to third,
fifth, eighth and 10th graders
last spring. He also informed the
committee that "levels" testing
was scheduled for the week of
September 21 for grades 3-10.
Levels tests are given in the fall
and spring so that the school and
the students can track their
progress in meeting state
benchmarks.
Officers were elected for the
1998-99 school year. Steve
Schaber will serve as chair, John
Collin as vice-chair, Charity
McEUigott as secretary and
Anne Morter as reporter.
Betty Rietmann was recognized
at the district in-service meeting
for receiving an award for
teaching in Morrow County for
30 years.
Jim Swanson reported on the
state of the Morrow County
Unified Recreation District’s
advisory vote, set for November
3. Duane Neiffer is lone’s
representative on the political
action committee that has been
formed to pass the measure.
The next scheduled meeting of
the lone Site Council is
Wednesday, October 14, at 5
p.m. in Room One at lone High
School.
Funeral services
held for 2 1/2
month old
Funeral services for the two
and one half month old son of
John and Nancy Maine of
Corvallis were held October 2,
1998 in Corvallis. He died
September 28, 1998, at home.
His grandparents are Elmore
and Jackie Maine, Corvallis, and
Carl and Geri Martin, Heppner.
Memorial contributions in his
name may be made to SIDS
Foundation, in care of McHenry
Funeral Home, 206 NW Fifth St.
Corvallis, OR 97330.
All Silver Replating Reduced 25°»
During October Only!
MCCCF to meet
The next meeting o f the
Morrow County Commission on
Children A Families will be held
Tuesday, October 13 at 7 pm at
the A.C. Houghton Elementary
School Library in Irrigon.
The main topic of discusssion
will be the approval of
community
development
proposals.
This is a public meeting and any
interested party is invited to
attend and participate in the
discussions.
For
more
information call 676-9675.
The Oregon Wheat
Commission, in conjunction
with
the
Idaho
Wheat
Commission
and
the
Washington Wheat Commission,
will hold a regular meeting on
Tuesday, October 20,
and
Wednesday, October 21, at the
Sheraton Hotel (206/621-9000)
at 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle,
WA, at 8 a.m.
The commission meeting is
open to the public everyone is
invited to attend.
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