FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Tim es, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 7 ,1 9 9 9
'Last Supper' tableau presented
Rolling Hills Run planned for April 24
The annual Rolling Hills Run
will be held Saturday, April 24,
in Heppner. The 3.1 or 6.2 mile
fun run/walk will get underway
at Heppner Elementary School
beginning at 9 a.m. 10K walkers
may start at 8:30 a.m.
Participants are asked to pre
register by April 16, but late
registration is also available from
7-8:30 a.m at the school. The
entry fee is $10 each for the first
two family members; $8.50 for
each additional member; and $ 12
each for late registration for the
first two family members.
Breakfast is included in
registration and will also be
A tableau of the "Last Supper"
Three local churches with a
shared ministry, Hope Lutheran,
Valby Lutheran and All Saints
Episcopal, joined together at All
Saints church on Thursday, April
1, to present a Maundy Thursday
service, which included a
dramatic portrayal of a tableau of
the painting by Leonardo
Da Vinci, "The Last Supper."
The tableau featured men from
the three churches who portrayed
Jesus and His disciples. Chris
Rauch portrayed Simon Peter,
Dale Holland, II-John; Louis
Carlson-James; Duane Neiffer-
Andrew; Thomas Cumn-Phillip;
Steve Hill-Bartholomew; Rick
Peterson-Thomas;
Duane
Heppner, lone
school
activities
lone and Heppner schools havt
released the following school
schedules for April:
lone Schools
Wednesday, April 7-
Kindergarten through 12th grade
eye exams.
Thursday, April 8-Soroptimist
Senior Girls' Luncheon, noon,
All Saints Epsicopal Church,
Heppner; district math contest,
lone, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, April 12-Morrow
County School District Board
meeting, lone High School, 7:30
p.m.
Wednesday, April 14-Ione Site
Council meeting, 5 p.m.
Thursday, April 15-Blue
Mountain Community College
Skills Contest, grades nine-12,
Pendleton.
Wednesday, April 21-lone
Junior-Senior Banquet, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 28-Band
festival.
Saturday, May 1-Prom,
Legion Hall, 9 p.m.-l a.m.
Heppner High School
Wednesday, April 7-Advisory
Committee, Heppner Elementary
School.
Thursday, April 8-District math
contest, lone; Soroptimist Senior
Girls' Luncheon, All Saints
Episcopal Church, Heppner,
noon.
Monday, April 12- Morrow
County School District Board
meeting, lone High School, 7:30
p.m.; levels testing begins for
seventh-ninth grades, April 12-
lb.
Wednesday, April 14-Heppner
High School Site Council, 7
p.m.; Booster Club, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 15-BMCC
Skills Challenge, Pendleton.
Wednesday, April 21-
Knowledge Master.
Saturday, April 24-Prom,
Heppner Junior High School, 9
p.m.-l a.m., public viewing and
crowning of royalty, 10:30 p.m.;
Centennial-Heppner Junior High
School eighth grade exchange
begins, April 24-30.
Wednesday, April 28-Tn-Co
music, Heppner Junior High.
Friday, April 30-writing
festival at Portland.
Singspiration
planned April 11
The Community Singspiration
for April will be hosted by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
on Sunday, April 11, at 7 p.m.
"If you have an urge to sing or
play an instrument in public, this
is your opportunity," said a
Singspiration
spokesperson.
"Otherwise, just come and enjoy
the group singing.”
Refreshments will follow.
BUSINESS CARDS
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Disque-Matthew; David Phillips-
James
the
Less;
John
Edmundson-Thadeus;
Bob
Jepsen-Simon; Rick Minster-
Judas; and The Rev. Dick Metz,
pastor of the Hope-Valby Pansh-
Jesus.
Robanai Disque narrated the
program and Donna McCurdy,
George Naims and Shirley
Palmer were directors.
Costumes were provided by
Marcia
Anderson,
Donna
Bergstrom, Donna McCurdy,
Krystal Naims, Shirley Palmer,
Mary Phillips, Millie Rauch and
Judy Rickert. Betty Carlson,
Suzanne
Jepsen,
Pauline
Matheny, George Naims and
Jane Rawlins were in charge of
the props.
The All Saints Altar Guild
made the communion bread and
the set was constructed by Bob
DeSpain, Bill McDowell and
Bob Naims, who also did the
lighting.
Fran Barnett, Rick Britt and
Sonja
McCabe
did
the
videotaping and photography.
Gail Hughes was organist and
Mamie Anderson and Ned and
Kathy
Clark
assisted
in
communion. Pastor Metz led the
service.
4-H members named ambassadors
The Oregon 4-H Ambassador
program has selected 112
outstanding
Oregon
4-H
members from across the state to
participate in its activities during
the coming year. Those chosen
this year include Keith Baker
from Boardman and Shelby
Krebs from lone.
"This group represents 4-H
members from 25 counties in
this prestigious program and is a
reflection of an increase in 4-H
membership in recent years,"
said Duane Johnson, Oregon
State University Extension 4-H
youth development specialist.
In 1998, more than 57,000
youths took part in 4-H
programs, an increase of 7,000
over the previous year.
"Participation in the
Ambassador program is the
highest honor a 4-H member can
earn,” Johnson said. To become
an ambassador, 4-H members
must undergo a rigorous review
of their accomplishments in 4-H
and in community and school
activities. Ambassadors must be
at least in the 10th grade. The
ambassadors play an important
role in the OSU Extension 4-H
Youth Program. They promote
the 4-H program throughout the
state and provide leadership for
a variety of state, county and
local activities.
Included among those
activities are speaking ahput 4-H
to community groups, setting up
4-H displays in stores and
shopping centers, promoting 4-H
activities on radio and television
talk shows and recruiting new 4-
H members. In addition, the
ambassadors train 4-H leaders
and members and provide
leadership for 4-H educational
programs at the county and state
level.
The new ambassadors will
learn
more
about
their
responsibilities to help represent
and promote the 4-H program at
the 4-H Ambassador Weekend,
June 18-20 at Linfield College in
McMinnville. The weekend,
sponsored by the Oregon Farm
Credit System, will also include
classes on life skill development,
work force preparation, and
citizenship, Johnson said. The
focus of this year's training
includes
communications,
teamwork, resume development,
and youth
leadership in
community and state issues.
Some of the ambassadors will
be invited to participate in the
1999 National 4-H Youth
Congress in Memphis later this
year.
Preschool kids plan hop-a-thon
Children of the Heppner
Preschool will participate in the
Muscular
Dystrophy
association's annual "Hop-a-
Thon" program to benefit local
muscular dystrophy patients on
Tuesday and Wednesday, April
13-14, beginning at 10 a.m.
In this recreational group
activity, children have a
"hopping" good time while
helping youngsters who are
unable to hop or walk because of
muscular dystrophy.
MDA
provides free education materials
and staff support for the Hop-a-
Thon and related classroom
activities.
The Hop-a-Thon program is one
that involves the whole family as
parents help their children collect
donations from friends, family
members, neighbors and area
businesses.
MDA is a voluntary health
agency working to defeat 40
neuromuscular diseases through
Grange certificates
to be presented
By D«lpha Jonas
The Oregon State Grange mas
ter, Ed Luttrell, will be present at
the next Grange meeting to award
certificates to 25, 50 and 70 year
members at the Lexington Grange
Hall. Honorees and their families
are invited to attend.
programs of worldwide research,
comprehensive services and far-
reaching professional and public
health education. In addition to
funding groundbreaking research,
MDA maintains some 230 clinics
nation-wide, including one at
OHSU and Shnners Hospital,
both in the Portland area, and
other programs of support and
services for children and adults
affected by neuromuscular
diseases, according to an MDA
news release.
The event will include time
splits. Two aid stations are
planned along the way.
The Rolling Hills Run is
sponsored
by
the
EMT
Association of South Morrow
County. Proceeds will be used
toward
the
purchase
ot
ambulance live-saving equipment
for the South Morrow County
Response Teams.
Send registration forms to the
Morrow
County
EMT
Association, P.O. Box 562,
Lexington, OR 97839. For more
information, call 989-8526 or
989-8555.
House in Heppner sought for group
home for disabled youth
RISE, Inc., a not-for-profit
agency based out of Salt Lake
City, is seeking a house in
Heppner in which to locate a
group home for developmentally
disabled youth. RISE has
contracted with the state of
Oregon to open the home.The
home, which RISE hopes to lease
on a long-term basis, would
house three youth and six to nine
staff who would provide one-on-
one care 24-hours a day.
, According to Patti Pappas, case
manager with Morrow County
Behavioral Health, the three
youth who have been identified
as needing a home have
developmental disabilities, such
as mental retardation, deficits in
communication skills or learning
disabilities, and may also have
physical disabilities. She said
that the youth have reached a
crisis situation where they cannot
live at home because their
families can no longer take care
of them or the town in which
they live cannot provide the
support they need.
The home would house no
more than three adolescents,
either all girls or all boys, but not
boys and girls at the same time.
Pappas says that RISE wants to
find a home for the youth in a
smaller community, such as
Heppner, which
is more
grounded and stable, and perhaps
more welcoming of people with
disabilities, but near a larger
community, such as Hermiston,
which can provide additional
support services. The kids are
placed as close to their own
home as possible, within the
eastern region, which goes from
The Dalles to Ontario and all the
way south, with the exception of
Lake County.
According to Pappas, the goal
at the group home is to teach the
youth independent living skills,
such as hygiene, grooming,
shopping, cooking and cleaning,
or even just appropriate behavior
with the hope that they could
someday live on their own. She
adds that one-on-one care is ideal
for the young people. "I would
love to see everyone with a
developmental disability to have
one-on-one care, because these
people just flourish," said
Pappas. At the home, the trained
staff would provide one-on-one
care during the daytime hours
and one to two people would be
awake and on duty during the
evening hours. "RISE is very
conscientious
towards
the
community," she added. RISE
already has a group home
established in the Hermiston
area.
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While RISE operates the home,
Pappas and the Morrow County
Behavioral Health Office will
oversee services, with the
exception
of
educational
services, for any developmentally
disabled children in the home.
Pappas said that the plan is for
the kids to attend local schools
and become as involved as
possible in school activities.
While the program is designed
to help developmentally disabled
children and is not an economic
development issue, placement ot
such a home would benefit the
local economy. Pappas says that
RISE wants staff who already
live in Heppner and are
established in the community. In
addition to employing six to nine
people, the group home would
patronize the local health clinic,
dental office, hospital, pharmacy,
grocery and other retail stores
and recreational facilities such as
the bowling alley.
Pappas, who will oversee the
facility, has extensive experience
in
working
with
the
developmentally disabled. She
received an associate of arts
degree in liberal arts from Blue
Mountain Community College.
In 1982 she received a bachelor
of science degree in psychology
with a minor in special education
from Western Oregon University
at Monmouth. She held a
teaching certificate in special
education for six years and held a
teaching certificate in Idaho for
special
education,
early
childhood education and early
childhood special education. She
worked three years at Fairview
Training
Center,
a state
institution for mentally retarded
people, similar to the now-closed
Eastern Oregon Training Center
in Pendleton. In Boise she ran an
in-home living skill training
program for three years and then
for an additional three years,
before coming on board as a case
manager with MCBH, was
administrator at a 15-bed facility
for people with physical as well
as mental disabilities. She also
worked
at
a
vocational
rehabilitation recycling center in
Salem. A graduate of Heppner
High School, Pappas chose her
career path because of the
experiences she had working at a
day
camp
for
mentally
handicapped kids.
Legion Auxiliary donates to vets
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Jean Jepsen sews lab robes for veterans
The members of the lone
American Legion Auxiliary Unit
#95 recently made and donated
32 lap robes to the Veterans
Hospital in Walla Walla, Wa.
The lap robes will be used for
veterans who come to the
hospital to obtain medical help.
Members of the Auxiliary
working on this project were:
Phylis Dudley, Robin Dudley,
June Crowell, Vera Lou
Rietmann,
Helen Crawford,
Irene Holtz, Mildred Eubanks,
Eunice McElligott, Lois Allen
and Jean Jepsen.
Road Dept, plans project
The Morrow County Road
Department plans to start a
major road building project on
the north section of Valby Road,
beginning April 12.
The project, which encompass
2-1/2 miles of Valby Road from
its junction with Brenner Canyon
Road to its junction at
Gooseberry Road, will include
the removal and replacement of
Barlow Canyon Bridge.
A detour will be available from
Gooseberry and Olden roads to
the Brenner Canyon/Valby
Junction. The detour will be
clearly marked, according to a
news release from the Public
Works Department.
The project will be in progress
for approximately four weeks,
from April 12-May 7.
For more information, call 541-
989-9500.
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available to the public at a cost ot
$3.50 each from 6-10 a.m.
The race course will go from
Heppner Elementary School, up
and back along the Heppner-
Pilot Rock Highway, and finish
at the Heppner Elk's Club.
Plaques, door prizes and
ribbons will be awarded. Awards
will be given to 5K and 10K
runners for first, second and third
places overall, the oldest male
and female and youngest male
and female. Prizes will be
awarded
to
every
race
participant.
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