Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Orego i Wednesday, May 26,1999 - FIVE
Locals complete child safety
seat course
Rangers end Mustang season
Recent training tripled the num
ber of people certified in Oregon
to conduct training and child safety
seat inspections.
Thirty people, including Hector
Pacheco-Morales of the Board-
man Rural Fire Protection District
and Sheree Sm ith, M orrow
County Health Dept., completed
the child passenger safety techni
cian certification course. The four
day course included information
on crash dynamics, vehicle occu
pant protection systems, identifi
cation of appropnate seats, proper
use of infant, toddler and booster
seats and installing child safety
seats securely and compatibly in
vehicles.
Candidates passed a written
test, a hands-on test and partici
pated in two child safety seat
check-up clinics. ACTS Oregon’s
Child Safety Seat Resource Cen
ter, in cooperation with the ODOT
Transportation Safety Division,
sponsored the course.
For more information on up
coming child safety seat clinics
throughout Oregon, training or
answers to questions, contact the
center at 1-800-772-1315.
The center provides the follow
ing advice for placing children in
any restraint system, shoulder belts
should be adjusted to fit across the
child’s collarbone; lap belts should
fit across the child’s thighs, not
across the abdomen; and children
12 years old and under should al
ways ride in the back seat.
SWCD board to meet
A regular board meeting of the
Morrow SWCD/Weed Advisory
Board will be held Tuesday.
June 1, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Pettyjohn Office Building in
Heppner.
Agenda items include: current
Left to right: Back row - coach Tony Pupo, Tim Dickenson, Bias Elguezabal, Patrick Davidson, Mark
McElligott, Allan Gribskov, Coach Robin Graff, (middle row) Shane Matheny, Derek Gunderson, Michael
McCabe, Nick Anthony, Dylan Pettyjohn, Cory Bennetto, Kelly Paullus (front row) Josh Hill, Zac Fabian,
Travis Bellamy, Stefan Matheny, Cody Bellamy, and David Bates.
Ty Rick Paullus
The Dufur Rangers ended the
Heppner Mustangs baseball sea
son with a 10-5 win at the Colum
bia Basin Conference District
Tournament in Pendleton on May
14-15. The Mustangs ended their
season w ith a 14-11 overall
record. It also marked the end of
the high school careers for seniors
David Bates, Tim Dickenson,
Bias Elguezabal, Derek Gunder
son and Shane Matheny.
The Rangers got a two-out hit
in the top of the first to take a 2-0
lead. In the bottom half, Shane
Matheny struck out on a ball in
the dirt but made it to first as the
ball got by the catcher. Michael
McCabe then doubled over the
c e n te rfield e r’s head to score
Matheny.
The Rangers added three more
in the top of the second to take a
5-1 lead.
The Mustangs got things going
in the bottom of the fourth as Allan
Gribskov had a lead-off single and
Dickenson doubled down the third
baseline to score him. Zac Fabian
reached on an error, sending
Dickenson to third. Elguezabal
then beat out a bunt to score
Dickenson and an alert Fabian
went to third. Fabian later scored
on a passed ball to cut the lead to
5-4.
In the fifth, Cory Bennetto
singled and stole second.
Dickenson then reached first on
an error and Bennetto went home
on the wild throw to tie the game
at 5-5.
The Rangers wasted no time
in retaking the lead in the top of
the sixth, scoring two runs on an
other two-out double. It would
have been worse, but Matheny
made a nice running catch in the
left field comer with two out and
runners on second and third to end
the Ranger rally.
Dufur put the game away with
three more in the top of the sev-
enth as the Mustangs couldn’t get
anything going.
The Mustangs had nine hits led
by freshman Michael McCabe,
going 2-2 with a double and a RBI.
Bias Elguezabal had two singles
and a RBI. Cory Bennetto also
had two singles. Tim Dickenson
had a double and a RBI.
Wheeler County plans
centennial celebration
Statistics:
Dufur- 2 3 0 0 0 2 3 10 8 3
Heppner- 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 5 9 2
DePriest, Anthony (5) and Anthony,
B e a c h a m p (5 ): D avid B a te s . D ylan
Pettyjohn (3) and Bias Elguezabal (7) and
Allan Gribskov. W-Anthony. L-Pettyjohn.
2 B -la n c e Lindell, Luke Lindell. DePriest
and Beachamp (D); Michael McCabe. Tim
Dickenson, Zac Fabian (H) 3B-none HR-
none.
HHS baseball players named to all star team
Six Heppner High School
baseball team members, from
lone and Heppner, have been
selected as CBC all stars and
another three were named to the
honorable mention list.
First team picks include: Tim
Dickenson, senior first baseman,
Heppner High School; Michael
McCabe, freshman infielder,
Heppner; Derek Gunderson,
senior outfielder, Heppner; Shane
Matheny, senior outfielder,
Heppner; Dylan Pettyjohn, junior
pitcher,
lone;
and
Bias
Elguezabal, senior designated
hitter, Heppner.
Receiving honorable mention
are: David Bates, senior pitcher,
Heppner; Allan Gribskov, junior
catcher, lone; and Zac Fabian,
sophomore utility, lone.
Complete CBC selections are
as follows:
-First Team: first base-
Tim Dickenson
Dickenson, Andy Stelk, senior
Pilot Rock; infield-McCabe.
Ryan Delph, senior, Weston-
McEwen, Tim Alderman, junior.
Pilot Rock; outfield-Gunderson,
Matheny,
Jeff
Pollick,
sophomore, Stanfield; pitcher-
Pettyjohn, Jared LaBrousse,
junior Pilot Rock; catcher-Bobby
Humphreys, junior Pilot Rock;
designated
hitter-Elguezabal;
utility-Aaron Yunker, junior,
Stanfield
-Honorable Mention: infield-
Mitch Pace, senior, Pilot Rock,
Wilo Graham, junior, Stanfield;
outfield-Dustin Erickson, junior,
Pilot
Rock;
pitcher-Bates;
catcher-Gribskov;
designated
hitter-Arthur VanPelt, junior,
Pilot Rock; utility-Fabian, Evan
Wagner,
junior,
Weston-
McEwen.
Heppner coaches are Robin
Graff, lone, and Tony Pupo,
Heppner.
Allan Gribskov
j
Dylan Pettyjohn
Births
Derek Gunderson
David Bates
Zac Fabian
Prostate cancer group to meet
Michael McCabe
The Pendleton Prostate Cancer
Support Group will meet on
Monday, June 7, at 7 p.m. at the
American Cancer Society office,
342 SW 1st, Pendleton.
The topic will be "Diet in
Relationship
to
Prostate
Cancer." The speaker will be
Edith Thompson, dietician
The meeting is free and open to
the public.
For more information, contact
June Miller, (541)443-6171.
Kassadie Mae Harrison-a
daughter Kassadie Mae was bom
to Anastasia Jones o f Boardman
on May 4, 1999, at Good
Shepherd Community Hospital
in Hermiston. The baby weighed
7 lbs. 3'/ j oz.
Christopher Michael
Klinger-a son Christopher
Michael was bom to Joni and
Kenneth Klinger of Pendleton on
May 5, 1999, at Pendleton. The
baby weighed 6 lbs. 6'/ j oz. and
was 19'/i" long.
Grandparents are Darroll
Chowning of Salem, Diane Ellis
of Moses Lake, WA, and Gary
George of Beaverton. Great-
grandparents are Rita Turner of
McGill,
Nevada,
Helen
Crawford of lone, and Bill and
Annetta Padberg of Lexington.
Bryan Altamirano Soto-a son
Bryan Altamirano was bom to
Maria
Soto
and
Edgar
Altamirano Pena of Boardman
on May 11, 1999, at Good
Shepherd Community Hospital
in Hermiston. The baby weighed
6 lbs. 6 oz.
status on Conservation Reserve
Program, Environmental Quality
Incentive
Program
update,
manager report, weed report,
agency reports and other
business.
The meeting is open to the
public.
A gala Wheeler County
Centennial Celebration is set for
June 11, 12 and 13 at the county
seat in Fossil as this rural county
(pop. 1600) celebrates its first
100 years.
Festivities kick off Friday,
June 11, at the high school in
Fossil with a 7:30 p.m. old time
"meller-drammer"
entitled,
"Foiled By an Innocent Maid."
The play will feature local
performers and has been adapted
to touch on actual places in
Wheeler County.
On Saturday, June 12, a 2 p.m.
parade through Fossil will honor
state and local officials as well
as the many homestead families
that still reside in Wheeler
County. Well-known western
author Rick Steber serves as the
celebrationis keynote speaker at
festivitfts to be held on the
Wheeler County Courthouse
lawn immediately following the
parade.
A new county flag will be
unveiled at the ceremonies, a
new county song will be
dedicated, cowboy and other
held throughout the historic
downtown, including an art
show, a quilt show, a barbecue,
and street vendors. A parade
will be held at 2 p.m. on Sept. 4
through the downtown, and a
street dance will be held that
evening at 7 p.m.
Wheeler County was formed in
1899 from part of Wasco
County, a huge territory that
originally extended from the
Cascades to the Rockies. The
historic county courthouse in
Fossil is one of only two original
still-operating courthouses in
Oregon. The historic building
will be open for tours during the
Centennial Celebration at Fossil.
The John Day Fossil Beds
National Monument has two of
its three units in Wheeler
County. The National Parks
Service will present exhibits at
all three Centennial Celebration
weekends. Day touring loops
link all three units o f the Fossil
Beds National Monument. At
the Clamo unit, 13 miles west of
Fossil, petrified mudslides offer
easy hiking. The Painted Hills
unit lies just west of Mitchell,
featuring colorful badlands m a
secluded area.
The visitors
center lies a few miles into
Grant County on Highway 19,
and features fossilized flora and
fauna from the region. Actual
fossil digging beds at Fossil are
easily accessible at no charge to
the public.
Fossil, Spray and Mitchell each
boast
historic
downtowns.
Stepping into each community's
still-operating mercantiles is like
stepping back in time. Self-
guided walking tours take one
past
turn-of-the-century
residences, quaint shops and
pioneer
museums.
Local
brochures guide visitors to the
former stage stop of Service
Creek and to the ghost town of
Richmond.
The county features friendly
folks, the wild and scenic John
Day River and picture-perfect
poets will read their works, and
old-time fiddlers will perform.
Exhibits at the courthouse will
feature the Ochoco and Umatilla
National Forests, the Bureau of
Land Management and the John
Day Fossil Beds and National
Monument.
Other events throughout Fossil
that day will include vintage
automobile tours, a quilt show at
the Fossil Mercantile, an art
show and pit barbecue at the
Methodist Church on Hwy. 19,
and walking tours of the
community's histone buildings,
The Fossil Museum and old time
Pine Creek Schoolhouse will be
open for visitors. At 7:30 p.m.
another performance of the play
will be held.
Billy's Brass Band, a well-
known Pacific NW jazz group,
will perform from 10:30 a.m. -3
p.m. on Sunday, June 13, at Julia
Henderson Pioneer Park, located
on Hwy. 19 eight miles south of
Fossil.
An 11 a.m. non- backroads in a widely-diverse
denominational service at the terrain of colorful palisades,
park by all ministers in the river canyons, big-timbered
county will honor the Wheeler woods and historic ranchlands
Local eateries feature homestyle
County churches.
The city of Spray (pop. 165), 33 cooking and lodging options
miles south of Fossil, will feature small motels to historic
celebrate the county centennial bed and breakfast places.
For information on the Wheeler
the weekend of June 19 and 20.
County
Centennial or its events
Events in the city park for both
Fossil,
contact
event
days include arts and crafis, at
coordinator
Lyn
Craig
at
541 -
musical performances and live
763-2355.
At
Spray
contact
animal exhibits by 4-H students.
A non-boat boat race on the John Candy Humphreys at 541-468-
and
for
Mitchell
Day River will be held Saturday 2069
information
contact
Mary
and a fishing contest will be held
Fitzgerald
at
541-462-3682.
For
both days. Saturday night will
general
visitor
information,
feature an old-fashioned box
social picnic in the park, contact the Wheeler County
followed by a street dance. Courthouse at 541-763-2400 or
Sunday's highlights will be a Fossil City Hall at 541-763-
Chautauqua cultural event all 2698.
afternoon at the Spray Museum
and a barbecue in the park.
Mitchell (pop. 150) will
celebrate the Wheeler County
Centennial as part of its annual
Painted Hills Festival, set for
September 3, 4 and 5. Ongoing
Ream or Carton
festivities for both days will be
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