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Fall into winter bazaar scheduled Oct. 24
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Cathy Halvorsen (left) and Jannie Allen with craft items
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VOL. 117
NO. 42
IQPages
Wednesday, October 21,1998
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Parents Club ’Spooktacular’ carnival
planned Oct. 29
The Heppner Parents Club is
once again hosting its annual
"Spooktacular Carnival" on
Thursday, October 29, at the old
Heppner Junior High building.
New this year will be a taco feed
which will be held from 5-7 p.m.
in the school cafeteria. The
dinner will include a drink and
dessert.
The carnival will begin at 6:30
and run until 8:30 p.m. As in the
past, the carnival will offer
something for the entire family.
The Parent's Club is also holding
a raffle for three stuffed
Halloween yard decorations. The
tickets for the raffle items may
be purchased from any fifth or
sixth grade student up until the
night of the carnival. Tickets are
25 cents each or five for SI. The
winners will be drawn at the
carnival. The raffle items are on
display in the showcase at the
grade school.
All of the "old favorite" games
such as cakewalk, bingo,
goldfish, hoop shoot, hole-in-
one golf, fortune telling, will be
featured, along with a few new
surprises.
The Parent's Club will not hold
their "Haunted House" this year,
as they decided to take a year off
and start planning for the
following year. Moving into a
new building will take a great
deal, of preparation and the
parents are looking forward to a
new and scarier haunted house
next year, said a spokesperson.
Parent's Club invites everyone
to put on their best costume and
come have a fun. safe Halloween
party. Ticket prices are 25 cents
each or five for $1. For more
information call 676-9442
676-5110.
This Saturday, October 24,
marks the fourth annual Fall Into
Winter Bazaar in lone. This
event has become a favorite
among area residents as there are
wonderful crafts, delicious
baked goods, a quilt raffle and
homemade
soup
luncheon
featured
Craft items concentrate on the
holidays of Halloween and
Christmas, but there are many
other items as well.
The Ione Legion Hall is the
site of the bazaar, which begins
at 11 a m. To ensure that
everyone gets a fair chance at
shopping, no one is allowed into
the hall before 11. At that time
they can search for that perfect
Christmas present or favorite
cookies from the works of over
100 artisans and bakers.
Everyone is welcome to sign up
for the six door prizes to be
given away during the sale.
For lunch, there is a choice of
two soups - chicken and wild
rice and beef noodle-bread and a
drink for $3.50. Shelly Rietmann
is preparing the soup. Pieces of
pie may be purchased for $1.
Lunch will be served from 11:30
a.m. to 2 p.m
Former lone resident, Kate
McF.lligott, has made and
donated a beautiful queen-size
quilt for this fund raiser. Tickets
will be sold during the bazaar,
with the drawing at 2 p.m.
Tickets are SI each or six for $5.
All proceeds from the Fall Into
Winter Bazaar are donated to the
Jason Halvorsen Memorial
Scholarship Fund. Since the
first scholarships was given in
1995, over $6000 have been
awarded
to
scholarship
recipients of Ione High School.
Dentistry group to operate dental clinics
Roy Drago to retire as MC Sheriff
Not many people who have
been in law enforcement for
almost 30 years can say that
they actually look forward to
going to work each day.
Suffering from bumout and
frustration, they often count the
days until retirement. Not so for
Roy Drago, who will retire with
mixed emotions at the end of
the month after 15 years as
Morrow County Sheriff.
"I look forward to every day,"
said Drago. "There hasn't been
a day I haven't enjoyed going to
work. I'm going to miss it
terribly."
Drago will hand over the reins
to undersheriff Verlin Denton
and will then
act as
undersheriff until Dec. 31.
Drago, whose youthful looks
belie his 68 years, will then
work part-time for the office
transporting prisoners.
Drago started his career in
law enforcement as a New
York City police officer
walking a beat in a precinct
between Spanish Harlem and
Black Harlem in the Bronx. "It
was not nice," says Drago in
understatement. Drago says that
Morrow County has also seen a
growth in gang activity and a
tremendous increase in the
sheer number of cases that pass
through the sheriffs office.
"Our crime rates have soared."
he says. "The first year I was
here, we had one hundred and
some cases. Now we see over
5,000 cases. Probably 85-90
percent of the activity is on the
north end of the county. There
is a lot of gang activity and the
gangs have a lot of impact on
every day police work. It's a lot
more dangerous." he added,
remarking that one of the early
county
sheriffs.
Sheriff
Bauman, didn't even carry a
gun.
While the increase in cases
can be partially attributed to the
increase in population, Drago
also is quick to praise his
department. "When I first
became sheriff, there was a lot
of animosity," said Drago. "No
one ever called the sheriffs
office because they didn't think
anyone would come. We do
Sheila Dahlman
Roy Drago
answer the calls. I'm proud of
the progress the sheriffs office
has made over the last 15 years.
We've become a service
oriented police department.
We're not supermen, we're not
magicians, but we do the best
we can."
"It wasn't me," he hastens to
add. "It was everyone working
together, everyone pulling
together."
The voters in the county have
also been happy with the
department under Drago's
direction. The four times he was
up for election no one ever ran
against him.
Drago's cases over the years
included two bank robberies in
Ione, both involving the same
man, who, says the affable
Drago, keeps in touch and has
been doing very well since then.
Drago was also head of the
department during a 1990
murder case. Morrow County
Sheriffs Office Deputies Larry
Sample and Jim Hankins and
Mike Wilson with the Oregon
State Police were instrumental
in solving the crime. Hankins
began investigation of the case,
found what looked like a grave
and then discovered the body of
a woman who had been
murdered. The murderer had, in
the meantime, fled to Mexico,
but the department successfully
presented the case to the
Mexican attorney general, the
man was found guilty and was
sentenced to prison in Mexico.
Drago became a member of
the Oregon State Sheriffs
Association Board of Directors
in 1987 and also served as
treasurer and vice president
before becoming president of
the association in 1990. He still
serves on the board.
Drago says that while he is
not quite sure he is ready to
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Doctors Hayden of the Hayden Family Dentistry Group, P.C.
Temporary
MCHD
administrator Sheila Dahlman
was on the job at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital in Heppner
as of Oct. 10. Dahlman, who
also acts as administrator at
hospitals in Pomeroy and
Mattawa,
specializes
in
providing
temporary
rr
administrative services
financially troubled small rural
hospitals.
Dahlman, who is expected to
work with MCHD around six
months, lives m Joseph. Her
husband is CEO of Wallowa
Hospital
in
Memorial
Enterprise, They have four
children.
MCGG annual meeting Nov. 2
The Morrow County Grain
Growers annual meeting is
scheduled
for
Monday,
November 2, at the Morrow
County Fairgrounds in Heppner.
Dinner will be served by the
Willows Grange from Ione at
6:30 p.m.
The meeting will include
reports from the officers and the
election of directors. The six
nominees for the four three-year
director's positions are Virginia
Grieb. John Luciani, Bamey
Lindsay. Robert Worden. Joe
Reitmann and Travis Harrison.
Nominees for the associate
director positions are Todd
Lindsay. Vem Frederickson,
Gary Rea and Harvey Childers.
The featured speaker will be
Brad Upton, a top comedian in
Seattle.
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Hayden Family Dentistry, a
dental group based in Eugene,
has announced that it will
assume operations of the
Heppner and Boardman dental
offices currently operated by
the Morrow County Health
District. The transfer will be
effective as of November 1.
Dr. Christopher Hayden,
senior dentist with the group,
said, "We are greatly pleased to
begin this service for the people
of Morrow, Gilliam and
Wheeler counties. We are
looking forward to a long and
cordial relationship."
Dr. Hayden practices in
association with his two
brothers, who are also dentists.
Dr. Ross Hayden and Dr. Matt
Hayden.
The Hayden family has a long
association
with
Eastern
Oregon. Many of the family
members attended nearby Walla
Walla College and have family
roots in Bums.
Interested individuals are
welcome to contact the nearest
office for an appointment. The
Heppner office phone number is
676-9118 and the Boardman
office number is 481-9311.
Morrow County Health
District
human
resources
director Scot Jacobson said that
the district is in the process of
finalizing the contract with
Hayden Family Dentistry. The
MCHD Board earlier voted to
explore the sale of the dental
practices in order to improve
the cash flow for the financially
ailing district.
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