Eckman wins state high jump 2nd year
in a row; girls 1600 relay captures first
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HEPPNER
L-R: Coach Steve Brownfield, Abby Kahl, Amy Papineau, Amber Peck, Trisha Adams. Casey Ingraham,
Brooke Boyer, coach Dale Conklin.
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VOL. 118
NO. 21
1 0 Pages
Wednesday, May 26,1999
School district achieves
agreement with teachers
The Morrow County School
District
reached
tentative
agreement May 24 with the
Morrow County Education
Association for a new four-year
contract.
A 1-1/2 year negotiation
process came to a conclusion
when the Morrow County
School Board and the Morrow
County Education Association
collaboratively discussed both
party's concerns.
The new contract provides an
increase in salary and benefits
for Morrow County teachers.
Board chairman John
Rietmann said, "The new
contract will be great for kids in
Morrow County as teachers
should feel well treated by the
new contract and the board's
willingness to listen to their
concerns."
Details of this contract will
become available after both
parties have ratified the contract.
Health district in
contract negotiations
Morrow County Health
Dahlman also said that she and
District Administrator Sheila the board are also in the process
Dahlman has announced that the
district is in the process of of interviewing doctors to work
working out a contract with for the district. She said by the
end of June, the district will have
physician Ken Wenberg.
Dahlman said that Wenberg interviewed six physicians.
Until a permanent physician can
has taken some personal leave
be
hired, she said that the district
time, but, after his return, he will
has
"excellent locum tenens"
work for the district part-time
until they can
negotiate a (temporary physicians) coverage,
including a doctor who is a
contract.
professor at Oregon Health
Sciences University.
New manager on the job
at Les Schwab
T
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Glen Bridgmon
New manager at the Les
Schwab store in Heppner, Glen
Bridgmon, says that he and his
family are glad to be back in
Eastern Oregon.
"It's always been our goal to
get back to this part of the state,"
said Bridgmon, who, along with
his wife, Tami, grew up in
Lakeview.
Bridgmon, 42, has been with
Les Schwab for 11 years, the last
six years at Hood River. For two
years prior to that he worked at
the John Day store.
Tami is employed in computer
bookkeeping and computer
graphics.
The couple have a 17-year-old
son, Chris, who will be a senior
at Heppner High School this fall.
Chris plays high school football
and baseball.
Glen likes hunting, fishing and
golf and Tami enjoys camping.
Glen says the family is looking
for a home in Heppner, hopefully
with a little land.
WCC plans family barbecue
The Willow Creek Country
Club will have a family barbecue
on Monday, May 31 at 4 p.m.
Each family is asked to bring
their own meat to the barbecue.
Those whose last names begin
with “L” through “Z” are asked
to bring a salad and “A" through
“K’\ dessert.
Hosts will be John and Pat
Edmundson, Bob and Suzanne
Jepsen, Jim and Cam Wishart and
Louis and Alene Rucker.
G-T closed Monday
The Heppner Gazette-Times
will be closed Monday, May 31,
for the Memorial Day holiday.
Deadline for next week's paper
will be Friday at 5 p.m. tor news
and the regular deadline for ads-
Tuesday at noon.
Have a safe and happy holiday.
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Spray Rodeo
this weekend
The 52nd Annual Spray Rodeo
will be held May 29-30. The
weekend starts at 8 a.m.
Saturday when the 24th Eastern
Oregon Half-Marathon begins at
Service Creek and ends in
downtown Spray with all the
runners back in time for the
parade which begins at 11 a.m.
The Buckeroo breakfast will be
held at the Spray School
cafeteria early Saturday and
Sunday morning until 11 a.m..
and will be run by the Wheeler
County Fair Board.
Presiding over the parade will
be Queen Kira Glithero from
Redmond and Tom Campbell,
grand marshal from Kimberly.
At 1 p.m. the rodeo begins with
rodeo stock furnished by B Bar
D rodeos.
The rodeo is
approved by the Northwest
Professional Rodeo Association,
the Idaho Cowboys Association
and the Washington Professional
Rodeo Association and will be
announced by Scott Allen from
Klamath Falls.
Rodeo bull
fighter will be Bill Hamiltoi
from Caldwell, Idaho.
Saturday evening the rodeo
dance will be held at the school
gym beginning at 9 p.m. with
music by Thunder Road from
Salem.
Sunday morning a cowboy
church service will be held at 9
a.m. in the grandstand and the
final performance of the rodeo
begins at 1 p.m.
For more information call
(541)468-2442
Gun Club plans
public shoot
The Morrow County Gun Club
(MCGC) held their monthly shoot
on Sunday, May 23, in Lexington.
“The beautiful weather brought
the shooters out for a great day
of fun, food and shooting,” said
member Sandi Day.
The winners of the 16 yard
event were: first Mark
Schlichting, 22 of 25; and a tie for
second between Jeff Cutsforth
and Roger Mortimore, 20 of 25.
Twenty yard handicap winners
were, first Jeff Cutsforth, second
Mark Schlichting, and a tie for
third between Curt Day and Troy
Walker.
Jack and Jill shoot was held with
the following winners: first Curt
Day and Lorn (Day) Branstetter;
second Mark Schlichting and
Sandi Day; third Shane Laughlin
and Deona Hodges; fourth Troy
Walker and Tina Walker.
Troy Walker won two Annie
Oakleys and Mark Schlichting
won one.
MCGC invites the public to join
them on Sunday, June 13 to shoot
at the shooting range at TKO in
Ruggs. For more information or
to preregister, call 676-5275 or
676-5042.
Heppner High School senior
Jared Eckman captured the first
place title in the state 2A high
jump competition for the second
year in a row.
Eckman soared to 6'6" to end
his high school high jumping
career as a three-peat district and
state champion.
Eckman started high jumping
in the seventh grade where he
competed in the junior high track
, program He started off by
, winning the seventh grade
championship title with a jump
of 4'10". He repeated as
champion his eighth-grade year
and also captured a new junior
high jump record. The record
was formerly held by Len
Brittner.
Eckman sat out his freshman
year of track and came back to
• win his sophomore year at
district and took second at state,
jumping 6'2", followed by state
titles at 6'3" his junior year and
6'6" this year.
Eckman also competed as a
member of the 4x100 relay, 100
meter and tripe jump.
The Heppner High School
1600 meter relay team also went
home with the state title. The
team, consisting of Trisha
Adams, Abby Kahl, Brooke
Boyer and Amber Peck, took first
with a time of 4.11.02, a new
school record.
The same team ended up fifth
in state competition last year.
Senior Amber Peck came
home from state competition
with two third place trophies-in
the 100 meter dash a t : 13.16, and
the 300 meter hurdles with .47.3.
Eckman clears the pole
Junior Casey Ingraham was
fifth in the triple jump, with a
jump of 34'9", a new school
record. She was seventh last year
in the same event.
Junior Abby Kahl ended up
sixth in the 800 meter run with a
time of 2:32.25.
The team of Peck, Boyer.
Ingraham and Adams was
seventh in the 400 meter relay.
They ran 52.61
in the
preliminaries, the second fastest
time ever at Heppner High
School.
The HHS girls’ team took
home the third place state trophy.
Coaches are Dale Conklin and
Steve Brownfield.
Jared Eckman
McEHigott wins three events at state; leads
lone girls to fourth
Nikki McEHigott, lone High
School junior, w as high point girl
at the 1A state track meet held
May 21-22 at Monmouth, setting
two state records and tying
another and leading the lone
girls’ team to a tie for fourth
place overall.
The boys team "I was very
pleased." said lone track Coach
Del l.aRue.
McEHigott took first in three
events, the high jump. 100 meter
hurdles and 300 meter hurdles
and was second in the triple
jump, missing first place by only
3 4 of an inch.
McEHigott tied the state record
in the high jump at 5’3": set a
new state record in the 100 meter
hurdles at 15.53; and set a new-
state record in the 300 meter
hurdles with a 45.64. breaking
her last year’s first place state
finish by almost three seconds.
Last year she was sixth in the
IHS, HHS plan graduation
The Heppner and lone Saturday, May 29, at 7 p.m., in
baccalaureate services will both the gym
be held next Wednesday, Mayt
26, at 7 p.m lone’s will be held
at St. Williams Catholic Church
and Heppner’s will be at St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church.
Commencement for lone will
be Friday, May 28, at 7 p.m. at
the high school gym Heppner’s
graduation ceremony will be
News deadline
Friday 5p.m.
Memorial Day schedule
Nikki McEHigott
high jump w ith a jump of 4’10”.
As high point girl. McEHigott
will go to Eugene Sunday to
receive an award at the
Prefontame Classic this Sunday.
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