EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Heppner teen
Heppner link brings friends together
Jenny Krein and Ai Heppner
It must be Kismet. A girl from
Heppner meets a guy named
Heppner in a place that is far, far
away from home for both of
them.
Jenny Krein, who is from
Heppner, was an intern at the
Olympic Training Center at
Chula Vista, CA, last summer at
the same time Al Heppner, from
Columbia, MD, was an athlete
training at the center. (Columbia
is a city of around 100,000
between
Baltimore
and
Washington, D.C.)
Jenny first heard about Al
through her roommate at the
center. Likewise, Al was told
about an intern there from
Heppner, OR. The two met,
discovered that not only is Al's
name Heppner, but he also has a
link to the town of Heppner,
something that he wasn't really
aware of before. They found that
among other things, they shared
a love of track and became good
friends.
Al, who is named after his
grandfather, Albert, is the great,
great, grand-nephew of Henry
Heppner, Heppner's founder, and
Al's dad, Max, had visited
Heppner some 30 years earlier.
Last summer during her
internship, Jenny said that she
would go to Eugene this summer
to watch Al compete in the 20k
race walk event at the U.S. Track
and Field Championships. This
summer she made good her
promise and also brought Al
home to Heppner to visit. Other
Heppnentes in Eugene for the
competition were brothers and
sports enthusiasts, Larry and
Lance Tibbies.
It all started for Al in high
school at a Junior Olympics
event. Al was at the meet,
competing in a running event,
and he and his friends were
laughing at how funny the race
walkers looked. One of his
friends bet him a dollar that he
wouldn't do it. O f course he took
him up on the bet. The next
week, at the age of 15, Al
competed in his first race walk
event and won it, unknowingly
starting a course that has a good
chance of taking him to the
Olympics.
Al earned a race walking
scholarship for the University of
Wisconsin and in 1997 earned a
bachelor's degree in English,
with an emphasis on writing and
a
double
m inor-in
communications and coaching.
After graduation he took a little
time off from school before his
selection for the Olympic
Training Center.
In addition to his rigorous
training schedule at the center, Al
has been busy working for Planet
Hollywood as a waiter, writing
for the local Chula Vista
newspaper, the Star News, and
working as a sports information
director for the North American
Racewalking Institute.
He will start graduate school
this fall, but in the meantime will
leave this Saturday for in the
World University Games in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and
return to Spain in August for the
World Championships in Seville.
He will compete in the 50k (31
miles) Olympic race walk trials
in February and the 20K trials
next July.
"It has been a great experience.
Even if I don't make the team, it
will help me out in life," says Al
of the discipline, responsibility
and motivation required at the
center. "I get to compete for the
dream of making the Olympic
team. "It's a pretty big honor to
be at the center," said Jenny. "It's
pretty motivating to be selected."
Al says the same of Jenny's
selection as an intern there.
"Thousands of people apply for
internships. It takes a special
person and Jenny is no
exception," adds Al.
Jenny, who was an outstanding
student and athlete at Heppner
High School, graduated from
HHS in 1995 with numerous
academic scholarships. While at
HHS, she and her dad, Bob, tried
to establish a cross-country team.
The team was finally sanctioned
this year by the Morrow County
School District. Jenny graduated
from OSU this year with a
bachelor of science degree in
exercise and sports science with
a
minor
in
business
administration. Jenny, who ran in
the Portland marathon in
October, plans a trip to Europe
this September.
An additional irony to the
chance meeting of Al and Jenny,
says Joy Krem, Jenny's mother,
charged
is that Henry Heppner made the
trip to Heppner this same week
127 years ago. (Since Al's arrival
in
Heppner
Joy
has
communicated with Al's mother
Evelyn in Columbia and has
received much
information
about the Heppner family history
through Marsha Sweek and the
Morrow County Museum.)
Henry Heppner's journey to
the Willow Creek Valley was a
circuitous one. He came to the
U.S. from Prussia (present day
north Germany and Poland), first
immigrating to New York, then
San Francisco, Shasta, CA,
Corvallis, Portland and then to
The Dalles, before venturing to
what is now Heppner on July 4,
1872.
Heppner, who was involved in
transporting goods, had a mule
team between The Dalles and
LaGrande when he met up with
J.L.Morrow,
the
county's
namesake. Together they traveled
up Willow Creek and established
a store at what was called
Stansbury Flats, now Heppner.
Morrow put up the money and
Heppner put up the goods for the
store. Henry later became
somewhat of a philanthropist,
putting up the funds to establish
a fort at Heppner against hostile
encounters with local Indians,
one room school houses and even
the Gazette-Times. His youngest
brother, Elias, Al's great, great
grandfather, never came to the
U.S.
Local students
make OSU
honor roll
Caleb McDaniel, 19, was
charged with two counts of first
degree manslaughter and two
counts of criminally negligent
homicide
following
an
automobile accident that resulted
in the death of two Heppner
youth June 16, according to
Morrow County District Attorney
David C. Allen.
McDaniel's arraignment has
been scheduled for this Thursday,
July 1, at the Morrow County
Courthouse in Heppner.
According to Allen, a
conviction for manslaughter in
the first degree requires proof of
recklessness with "extreme
indifference to the value of
human life," while second degree
manslaughter requires proof of
recklessness. The minimum
sentence for manslaughter I is
120 months of incarceration; the
minimum for manslaughter II is
75 months.
The first conviction for
criminally negligent homicide,
defined as criminal negligence
resulting in death, could be
probation and a treatment
program, if applicable; the
second conviction would draw a
sentence of 27-28 months.
According to both the DA and
the Morrow County Sheriffs
Office, McDaniel blew a .00 in a
breathalyzer test taken at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital after the
accident. Results of blood and
urine tests on McDaniel and a
blood alcohol test on Elizabeth
Baker, 16, a passenger in
McDaniel's vehicle who was
killed in the accident, were sent
to a crime lab and are not yet
available. A test done at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital on John
Blake, 21, another passenger in
the vehicle who died at PMH
after the wreck, indicated a blood
alcohol level of .07, according to
Allen.
Allen said McDaniel's vehicle
was believed to have been
traveling around 70 miles an hour
around a curve up Clark's
Canyon Road which was posted
at 35 miles an hour. McDaniel's
vehicle was passing another
vehicle, driven by a juvenile,
when it failed to negotiate the
curve and rolled several times.
Chamber Chatter
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Remember the hoola hoops?
Pull them out of the closet for
the hoola hoop contest during
the July 30 "Celebrate Heppner”
sidewalk sale event to include
music, raffles. Chamber dunk
tank, the Irish contest winner
and much more.
The HH contest will take place
on the shamrock and will be
open to all ages. It's time to have
fun, everyone.
Have you ever taken the Wee
Bit O'lreland volkswalk? Stop
by
Central
Market
for
information on following the
trail of the wee shamrocks,
maintained by John Edmundson
and "friends".
Although the sanctioned walk
must be dropped at the end of
the year due to not having a
sanctioned club, the walk will
continue as a community
attraction.
One
visiting
volkswalker commented, "It's a
pity the Heppner walk is to be
dropped. Heppner is a slice of
small town America, too often
not seen anymore. It is the way
it used to be early in the 20th
century ... a nice walk, a clean
town, and friendly people."
On the Chamber agenda for
July: July 6 - Business meeting
where all entities report and an
opportunity to meet the
superintendent of schools; 8
a.m., July 6, merchants’ meeting
to plan "Celebrate Heppner" at
Klamath First Federal; July 7 -
Chamber Board of Directors
meet at 11:30 a.m. at Klamath
First; July 13 - noon program
will be CenturyTel answering
internet and fiberoptic questions;
July 20 - finish the community
evaluation and discussion; July
27 - Jill Miles, Oregon Econonic
Development regional director.
Come visit, noon every Tuesday
at Kate's.
Thought for the week: Rule of
Life - chuckle or you buckle.
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Ruth Brandenburg
Ruth Brandenburg, 86, of
Heppner, died Wednesday, June
23,1999, at Good Shepherd Com
munity Hospital in Hermiston.
Graveside service for Mrs.
Brandenburg was held at the
Heppner Masonic Cemetery on
Saturday, June 26, 1999.
She was bom April 28, 1913,
at New Meadows, Idaho, to John
and Ora Lowe Hughes. She grew
up at New Meadows and at
tended school there, graduating
from high school in 1931.
On March 1, 1933, she mar
ried Edwin G. Brandenburg at
Klamath Falls. They lived at Kla
math Falls for several years and
lived at the Peterson-Johnson Log
Camp at Modoc Point, in Klamath
County. They lived at Gold Beach
for a short time, then moved to
California, where they resided at
Redding, Red Bluff, San Bernar
dino, Bemie, Cottonwood and
Arcada before moving to Hepp
ner in 1961.
Mrs. Brandenburg was a mem
ber of the Royal Neighbors Lodge
and enjoyed playing cards, espe
cially pinochle.
Survivors include a son, John
Brandenburg of Heppner. She
was preceded in death by her hus
band, Edwin, in 1989, and a sister,
Dorothy Lowry.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the Pioneer Humane So
ciety, P.O. Box 361, Hermiston,
Oregon 97838.
Sweeney Mortuary of Hepp
ner was in charge of arrange
ments.
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