Cross overlooking Heppner
marks fifth anniversary
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Cross placed on March 26,1994
Friday, March 26, marked the
fifth anniversary of the placing of
a new cross on Cross Hill
overlooking Heppner. The cross
was first erected on March 26,
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Wednesday, March 31,1999______ Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Fire breaks out at Heppner residence
Fir« breaks out in roof at a Heppner residence
The Heppner Fire Department
responded to a report of a fire at
a residence at 61245 Highway
207 near Heppner the morning of
March 29. The house sustained
fire damage to the roof.
BEO to award scholarship
Easter egg
hunts set
The Bank of Eastern Oregon
will award $3,000 to deserving
high school seniors this spring in
an ongoing scholarship program
sponsored and funded by the
bank.
Graduating seniors from high
schools in Heppner, lone,
Arlington, Condon, Spray, Fossil
and Boardman are eligible to
apply for six $500 scholarships
this spring.
Students should contact their
guidance counselor at their high
school to access scholarship
applications.
Criteria for the scholarship
include the requirement that the
student must be planning to
enroll in programs in either
agriculture or business. Judging
will be done on the basis of
scholarship, leadership and
citizenship.
Application deadline is April
Easter egg hunts have been
planned for children in lone and
Heppner on Saturday, April 3.
Both of the hunts begin promptly
at 10 a.m.
In lone, kids through
kindergarten age will hunt on the
St. William Church lawn Kids in
first through fourth grade will
hunt at the city park.
"Prizes and lots of eggs will be
available for everyone," said a
spokesperson.
The lone egg hunt is sponsored
by the lone Extension group.
In Heppner preschool and
kindergartners will hunt at the
Heppner City Park; first and
second graders at the Heppner
Middle School lower field; and
third and fourth graders at Hager
park.
The Easter Bunny will make
his annual visit to the Heppner
City Park.
Baseball
Tryouts this
Saturday
Baseball, softball and T-ball
tryouts will be held in Heppner
this Saturday.
Baseball minor league tryouts
will be held at 11 a.m. at Shad
Hisler field, and T-ball tryouts
will be held at 12 noon at the
same field.
Minor league softball tryouts
will be held at 11 a.m. at the
Softball field.
Anyone with further questions
can contact Rick Paullus.
23.
The students will furnish a list
of their awards and affiliation in
community groups, a copy of
their high school transcript, and
a narrative of their future college
and career plans. The final
information required is a 300
word, or less, essay on "What is
the major problem facing
agriculture in the 1990's?" or
"What is the major problem
facing the United States
economy in the 1990's?".
This is the sixth year that the
Bank of Eastern Oregon has
sponsored scholarships and
$3,000 is the most ever awarded
for this program, said a bank
news release.
Beginning golf
class set
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A beginning golf class will be
offered by Blue Mountain
Community College, beginning
Thursday, April 1, at Willow
Creek Countiy Club.
The class is set for Thursday
evenings from 6-8 p.m. for eight
weeks and will cover the basics
of the rules, play and etiquette
of the game.
Tom Shear, a former Heppner
High School golf coach, is the
instructor
Cost is $36 per
person with a $20 temporary
membership payable to WCCC
for all non-members.
To register or for more
information, contact Anne
Morter, BMCC coordinator, at
422-7040.
Resume class
scheduled
A free resume workshop is
scheduled for Friday, April 9, at
Heppner High School from 1-4
p.m. The class is designed for
people wishing to write a resume
for the first time or those
wanting to update an older
version. Participants should
bring a written work and/or
volunteer history to class
Space for the class is limited
so prcregistration is required. To
register or for more information,
contact Anne Morter, BMCC
Coordinator, at 422-7040.
Welding of the cross, which
was comprised of "truck reaches"
was donated by Joe Miller of
Miller and Sons Welding. Bill
McDowell, with the use of heavy
equipment donated by Columbia
Basin Electric, erected the cross
and
Kinzua
Corporation,
Pettyjohn's' Builders, Columbia
Basin
Electric,
Horseshoe
Hereford Ranch, Jay Coil, John
Britt and Guy Van Arsdale
donated materials. Bob Jepsen
and Bob DeSpain had been
working on the idea for about a
year and on the project itself for
the last several weeks. George
Jeffries and John Edmundson
also helped with installation
When the current cross was
erected, it had been a year since a
cross "watched over" Heppner.
Mention of a cross was
discovered by Marsha Sweek in a
1931 Gazette-Times, but it was
not known if the cross was at the
same site. That cross was placed
by youth from the Episcopal,
Methodist and Church of Christ
churches. Bob Kelly (Kay
Robinson's brother), Bill Ulrich,
Herb Schunk, Dick Ferguson, Sid
VanSchoiack and Jack Aiken
were members of a Boy Scout
troop that put a cross on the hill
in 1939. Scoutmaster Martin
Clark was also minister of the
Christian Church at that time.
The current cross, which is
painted white, is 25 feet tall and
weighs over a ton. It was set five
feet underground in a three-foot
cement square. Lighting for the
cross was originally provided by
a generator, but is now
permanent.
SWCD, Weed
Board to meet
A regular board meeting of the
Morrow SWCD/Weed Advisory
Board will be held Thursday,
April 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Umatilla Electric Conference
room, 203 E. Boardman Ave. in
Boardman.
Agenda items include:
Conservation Reserve Program
assistance,
Environmental
Quality Incentive Program,
manager's report, weed report,
agency reports and other
business.
The meeting is open to the
public.
Parent/teacher
conference
Parent-teacher conferences
will be held at Heppner High
School on Monday, April 5, from
11 a.m.-8 p.m. There will be an
hour dinner break from 4-5 p.m.
Parents may pick up report cards
during conferences.
Left to right: Bob and Aloha DeSpain, Bill and Merilee McDowell and Bob
and Suzanne Jepsen
Irish sister city sought
As Heppner celebrates its
Irish-ness each spring, a missing
component is a current strong
connection to Ireland. So, a
search for a "Ga Baile" (Gaelic,
pronounced approximately, "ga
vay-la"), twin city, on the
Emerald Isle is underway.
Whoever first submits the
name of the community that
Heppner City Council selects as
an Irish twin city will win $75.
If that community chooses not
to reciprocate with Heppner,
contacts will be made with other
entries until a community
accepts the offer, and whoever
submitted that community's
name will win $50.
The hunt is on. "Let's find a
community:
-That has citizens who want to
be involved person-to-person
with Heppner's citizens-students,
city officials, business owners
and employees, retired, senior
citizens,
school officials,
organizational leaders.... The
young, the old, the in-between,"
said Chamber of Commerce
director Claudia Hughes.
"-That will want to exchange
educational, cultural, business,
professional
and technical
information and experiences.
"-That has a common desire
for friendship, goodwill and
cooperation.
"-That will be able to identify
with Heppner in some important
ways. (We probably want a town
about our size, probably
agriculturally based, located
geographically in a similar
setting?) Seems that the more
the communities have in
common,
the
more
the
individuals
will
enjoy
communicating
with
one
another."
"By next spring, we all could
have increased the number of
people we know and the
know ledge we have of another
culture," continued Hughes. "We
could invite our new' friends, a
delegation, to join us for our St.
Pat's Weekend celebration. We
could form a delegation to
represent Heppner over there in
the future."
Following, according to
Hughes, are the easy-to-follow
steps:
1. Find an Irish town that
seems a twin to Heppner.
2. Submit the selection with
all the reasons for choosing it.
3. Have your selection to the
book store by city hall by June
17.
4. The city council will select
the winning Irish community.
(The city council, might,
depending on number of entries
and the difficulty in making a
final choice, ask entrants to
present their choices to the
council at a meeting.)
5. The winner will receive $75.
6. The city council will contact
the Irish community. (If
Heppner's offer is not accepted,
the search, using the submitted
selections, will continue. When
a relationship is established with
a community, the persoagroup
w ho chose that community will
receive $50.)
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