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TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppoer, Oregon Wednesday, April 28,1999 F orm er resident would The Official Newspaper of the City o f Heppner and the County o f Morrow appreciate letters H ep p n er G A Z E T T E -T I M E S U S P S 240-420 M orrow C o u n ty 's Hom e-Owned W eekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3 , 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 147 W Willow Street Telephone (541 >676-9228. Fax ($41)676-9211 E-mail gt@hcppncr net or gt@rapidscrvc net. Web site www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times. P O Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscnptions: S22 in Morrow County, SI6 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $29 else where David Sykes............................................................................................................. Publisher April Hilton-Sykes....................................................................................................... Editor Letters to the Editor C huck Starr speaks to Editor's note Letters to the Editor must be signed The Cazette-Times will not publish unsigned letters Please include your address and phone number on all letters for use by the C -T office The C-T reserves the right to edit. I t 's o u r w o r l d To the Editor: at the same time leading NATO in dropping bombs and missiles An Oregon rain fell over on Yugoslavia • doesn't this too Littleton Colorado. It is a storm send a message. we have seen before, an acid That we have a society where rain. It fell in Springfield. It, weapons, many with die sole too, came down in Jonesboro, Ark., West Paducah, Ky, and purpose to kill people and kill quickly, are pervasive and easily Moses Lake, Washington. When conditions are right, it accessible to just about anybody will fall again. You can count • doesn't this in itself teach a on it. The clouds form as we lesson. And how many of our speak. d is e n fra n c h is e d and What happened at a Littleton marginalized kids watching high school just outside of sensational 24-hour news Denver, we now know it is not a coverage of this event day in and freak storm, an aberration o f our day out will think to themselves, cultural climate. It is the result "So this is how I get noticed." o f the changing weather patterns Yes distinctions can be made, in our conscious environment, and we can argue the fíne points changes that have been building and repeat the same phrases, the slowly for years to a point where same concerns after every we are beginning to see its shooting. All the while our kids degrading effects. Like global are growing up, maturing into warming, it is becoming obvious young adults in our junior high that these changes are due to the and high schools, blending all many choices we as a society this and more into who they are make. We see it in rising and how they think. It becomes suicide rates among the young, part of the unstated, accepted high rates of drug and alcohol construct of their world, o f our abuse and mental illness, broken world in which they will base and dysfunctional families, their choices, their decisions. overflowing prisons, the We should not fool ourselves. pervasiveness of pornography. For every kid that pulls a trigger, We see it too in an increase in hundreds probably think about the levels of violence both real doing it. Many kids don't make and imagined. the fine distinctions between all It is amazing to see the this input that comes into their problems our culture can foster. lives. It accumulates to an It is a culture we have made. A effect... sometimes a horrible storm we have brewed. We seem to have the freedom to do effect. everything but say, "No I won’t Maybe we don't want to think accept this." about the hair's breadth that may It goes to point out that the exist between those that pull the lessons our kids learn can not be trigger and those that don't in separated into neat packages: what maybe becoming the high home, school, church, society, school version o f road rage - but media, each lesson marked maybe we should. appropriate and inappropriate, Maybe, too, we should think real and fantasy where levels of about how many Bruce Willis- reality and humane behavior are Die-Hard-Last-Man-Standing- separate and distinct to all. double-fisted-gun-pum ping- It is what we teach ourselves. b lazin g -fu ry -m ak e-m y -d ay - You can't just mouth the words glory films we let our kids watch "shall not kill" or "love and where the hero good guy/bad respect yourself and each other." guy distinctions are lost in the In our games, our entertainment, primal satisfaction, adrenaline our government, business and pumping, excitement o f blowing family life, this is not the away all the jocks that ever put message we often send. you down. How many of these When tobacco companies trade films does it take to drive home lives for profit and their CEOs a certain thought pattern. lie before Congress and we as a Our culture has created a society accept this . . . doesn't violent, frustrated sensibility that send a message about then has provided the means, the integrity and the sanctity of life. weaponry to do something about That we accept violence and it. As the saying goes, "We saw mayhem as a form of the enemy, and the enemy is us." To think that it is just this or entertainment; a social, accepted that problem is naive. It is a high taken on a daily basis from multitude o f problems, a television and film, doesn't this multitude of choices, a failure of teach a lesson. When computer personal responsibility, growing and video games our children play are based on violent body cynicism, and undermined faith. counts where blood and gore are It is ways o f thinking and part of the game's attraction - are behaving that we have come to accept as "our world". And what not we in fact teaching. Even when the President of the do we say to the students of one United States comes before the high school in Littleton, American people to comment on Colorado, "Welcome to it?" (s)Richard Haskell national TV about this crisis at Heppner the Littleton high school and says, "We have to teach our children that violence isn't a solution to our problems,” while Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Tamasky cordially invite you to share their joy as their daug hter A lecia Coll leen I joins Mr. C raig Kelly Angell son oi Mrs. Bohhie Angell l 1 Mr. Larry Angell in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony on Saturday, May 1st, 1999 at 2:00 in the afternoon St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Heppner ^ Racaption im m aJiatJy fcMomng at t l f H tpym tr E lu Lodge hearing from some of you old- time Heppner residents. Anyone who may remember me please wnte or send a card—it would mean so much to me. Sincerely, (s) Lucille Lindblad 1459 Mallard Lane College Place Wa 99324 (While living in Heppner, I was a member of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Rebekah Lodge (San Souci) and the Degree of Honor Lodge.) To the Editor: My name is Lucille Lindblad My parents were Walter and Ella Farrens. I grew up in Hardman and lived most of my younger adult years in Heppner, before moving to Seattle in 1970 Previous maimed name, Parrish We are living in a mobile home retirement community in College Place, WA. Since last December I have been very ill and homebound. I would very much appreciate ^ ÇgQ lo n e Site C ouncil The lone Site Council met for their April meeting on April 14 to discuss several topics. Morrow County School Superintendent Chuck Starr was on hand to explain how staff development money was accounted for in the budget and detailed some guidelines for using it properly. He explained that each licensed employee in the district is guaranteed up to $250 for professional development and the amount could be spent on coaching clinics if the employee coaches a sport. After the first request, the Site Council is free to set more rigorous standards and deny requests that don't meet goals set by the council. A question and answer session provided some information for future use of the council. The council approved the guidelines for awarding an academic letter award at lone High School, beginning next year. To qualify, students must take a minimum of five graded classes and achieve a 3.80 grade point average for the semester. Nominations are due by May 12 for expiring Site Council positions. Two parent positions, currently held by Arlynda Gates and John Collin, expire this spring. Notices have been posted around town to notify the public. At the school, terms will expire for Betty Rietmann and Steve Schaber. They will each notify certified staff for nominations. All nominations will be voted on next September and each position is for a two-year term. Principal Dick Allen reported that the School Improvement Plan must be revised to fit state standards. By May 1, 1999, a goal-setting guide and self evaluation model must be turned into the district office. Next fall, action plans will be prepared and implemented. In honors and recognition, it was noted that a number of lone students did well in the district math contest. Billy Gates was first place in the seventh grade. Also placing were Stephanie Holland, Brent Parks, Kasie Peterson, Tyler Raible, Taylor McElligott, Natalie McElligott, Johnny Collin and Caitlin Orem. Caitlin traveled to Salem to complete in the state geography bee. Allen reported that preliminary results from the state writing assessment and math problem solving tests show lone students doing well. Charity McElligott reported that the elementary students and staff are celebrating "National Library" by decorating classroom doors and reading for prizes from a treasure box. Members attending were Dale Holland, Dick Allen, Jim Swanson, Arlynda Gates, Linda Jones, Anne Morter, Becky Hunt, Betty Rietmann, Charity McElligott, Dean Robinson, Steve Schaber and Anita Orem. Guests included Chuck Starr and Sarah Davis. The final Site Council meeting of this academic year will be May 12 at 5 p.m. The public is welcome to attend. M u s ta n g s s p lit d o u b le h e a d e r By Rick Paullus The Heppner Mustangs split a doubleheader at Pilot Rock on Friday, April 23, in a key Colum bia Basin Conference east divi sion matchup. The Mustangs won the first game, 12-7, and lost the second game, 9-3. The Mustangs are now 2-1 in CBC play, just behind the Rock ets 3-1 record. The Rockets had taken a 1-0 lead in the first before the Mus tangs got going in the second as Shane Matheny led off with a double and M ichael M cCabe walked. Allan Gribskov sacrificed both runners over and C ory Bennetto doubled to right center, followed by three consecutive Rocket errors as the Mustangs went up 7-1. Matheny led off the fourth in ning with another double and moved to third on a deep sacri fice fly by McCabe. Gribskov singled home Matheny and took second on a Bennetto single. Tim Dickenson then doubled down the third base line to increase the lead to 10-1. The Rockets scored a run in the bottom half o f the inning, but the Mustangs scored single runs in the sixth and seventh innings, one on a home run by Derek Gunderson, to take a 12-2 lead into the bottom of the seventh. The Rockets rallied with five runs, but it was not enough as the Mustangs held on for the first win in a number of years in Pilot Rock. Bennetto and Matheny each had two doubles and a single and Dickenson had two doubles as the Mustangs pounded the ball against the Rockets’ starting pitcher Jared Labrousse. David Bates picked up the win for the Mustangs with relief from Dylan Pettyjohn. The Mustangs jumped out in the first inning of the second game as Gunderson led off the game, hit ting his third home run of the year. G ribskov later scored on a Bennetto double to give Heppner a 2-0 lead. The Mustangs built their lead to 3-0 as Gunderson scored on a one-out double by McCabe. That was it for the Mustangs as the Rockets came back with five runs in the bottom of the third and built their lead to 9-3 to get the split. The Mustangs host Condon on Saturday, May 1 in another CBC doubleheader beginning at 11 a.m. Statistics: Game one- Heppner 1 1 5 3 0 1 1 12 12 3 Pilot Rock: 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 7 7 4 David Bates. Dylan Pettyjohn (6) and Alan Gribskov: labrousse, Jobes (4) and Humphreys. W-Bates, l-la b rou sse 2B-Tim Dickenson (2). Shane Matheny (2), Cory Bennetto 2(H); Aider- man, S M k (PR), 38-none. HR-Oerek Gunderson (H), Humphreys (PR). Game two- Heppner 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 Pilot Rode 0 0 5 2 0 2 x 9 10 1 Dickenson, Bennetto (6) and Gribskov; Al derm an and Hum phreys. W -Alderm an, l - Dickenson. 2B-Bennetto (H); Pace 2, Humphreys (PR). 3B-labrousse (PR). HR-Gundetson (H); Alderman. Stalk (PR). G un C lub holds special shoot A special shoot of the Morrow County Gun Club (MCGC) was held Sunday, April 25, at the TKO shooting range in Ruggs. There were seven stations to shoot from with 10 shots at each station. Best shot from station one was a tie between Jeff Cutsforth and Bill Schlichting; station two, a tie between Curt Day and Mark Schlichting. Station three was won by Kasey Childers; station four was a tie between C. Day and B. Schlichting, with perfect 10s. Sta tion five was won by Harvey Childers, also with a perfect 10. Station six was won by Bob Krein and station seven by K. Childers. The best score overall for the day, out o f a field of 20 shooters, was shot by Curt Day and Bill Schlichting, with a total of 40 each. Second w ent to Mark Schlichting and Kasey Childers with a 39. Travis Greenup took third with a 37; fourth went to Jeff Cutsforth with 33; fifth to Harvey Childers with 32, sixth to Deona Hodges with 31; and seventh to Mike Gorman with a 30. The MCGC will be shooting once a month throughout the sum mer and fall until the season be gins again in December. The May shoot will be held on Sunday, May 23, at noon. FAX SERVICE S en d o r R eceive Heppner Gazette-Times 676-9211 4-H L eaders C ouncil elects scholarship w inners The Morrow County 4-H Leaders Council has selected their 1999 scholarship winners. The 4-H Leaders Council awarded three scholarships this year based on the leadership, citizenship and scholarship of the three individuals selected. "Each o f these individuals has also given back a tremendous amount to the 4-H program," says Bill Broderick Morrow County Extension agent. Jessica Krebs was awarded $500. Her projects are home economics and livestock. A major accomplishment of Jessica's was being selected to represent the Oregon 4-H program at the National 4-H Congress. Kevin Baker was awarded $200. Kevin's projects are horse and home economics. " Kevin has been a tremendous asset to the Morrow C6unty camping program," said Broderick. He has been a camp counselor for four years, including serving as camp counselor coordinator. ICristi Worden was awarded $200. Kristi is involved in home economics and livestock. "Kristi did a great job last year as style review superintendent at the Morrow County Fair," said Broderick. Kristi has also been working in the Extension office in the "Structured Work-Based •Learning Plan." "These three individuals are an excellent example of young people joining an organization and developing into leaders," Broderick added. 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