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• TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 2 8,1999 Local woman spends year in England MC Chronicals now available Vision support group For anyone with low vision problems, there will be a Vision Northwest Support Group starting in Hermiston. The group will meet the first Wednesday of every month from 1:30-3 p.m. at the First Christian Church fellowship hall (in the back of the building). The church is located at West Highland and 7th Place. The group will meet Wednesday, Aug. 4. For more information, contact Ema Hugel at 567-0550. W.C.C.C. GoiT Nova Rietmann vacations—only a month in the summer, but a week to two weeks between terms and almost a month for Christmas. She left the U.S. in September Christmas and New Year's are 1998, a teenager from a tiny town much like in the U.S. (her family in rural eastern Oregon. She threw a '70s New Year's party), returned almost a year later as a but Easter is more of a church cosmopolitan young woman with holiday, although they do have a British accent and a penchant the Easter Bunny. for salt and vinegar-on Sports aren’t emphasized in everything. school, in fact, there are no Almost two years ago Nova Rietmann made the decision to organized sports at all in the get her high school diploma a schools. Instead, students who year early and spend her senior want to participate in sports join year as an exchange student in clubs set up after school. In England. In addition to attending addition to football (which would the regular required classes at be soccer in the U.S.), rugby and lone High School her junior year, cricket, there are also horse she attended night school in riding, dancing, music, drama Hermiston to complete her and other types of clubs. Clubs, graduation requirements. On which students must pay for, are May 28, 1999, although she was sometimes held in community a continent away, she was centers. Many families go together to awarded a diploma along with the English pubs and teens 14 the other seven members of the lone High School Class of 1999. and over are allowed in the pubs Nova left lone for Seattle on by themselves. British teens and September 1, 1998. The next day, young adults 18-25 often go to with two other American clubs to listen to music and teenagers and three more from dance. The drinking age is 18, Canada as traveling companions, but it is not strictly enforced. she flew out of Seattle to "They grow up with it," says England. After a layover in Nova, "so it's not as big a deal (as Newark, New Jersey, she arrived in the U.S.). They don't usually at Gatwick, outside of London, go out and get 'trashed'. And no and then took the train to the one drives if they've been town of York. There, after 24 drinking." "The public transportation hours of traveling, she was system is really good," adds picked up by her host family, "There are buses Paul and Bev Greenwood of Nova. Castleford, West Yorkshire, and everywhere. A lot of families their children, Ben, six, and have one car, but they don't really need to drive." Teens can Leanne, five. Nova says that Paul, a manager get their driving licenses at age for an industrial door company, 17, but they are required to take and Bev, who worked for a gas driving lessons prior to that. company, lived in an average Nova says that usually if a sized three bedroom house for British teenager wants a car he or England-which would be quite she has to buy it and insure it small by American standards. themselves. Of all her English Nova shared a bedroom with the friends, only one drove, and the Greenwood's five-year-old rest took the bus, she says. Besides going dancing at clubs daughter. The Greenwoods had with her friends, Nova, 18, what would be called a luxury enjoyed going into Leeds to go car in Great Britain, but here shopping. Oftentimes, her host would be considered a compact. family went to rugby matches on Their town, Castleford, which is Sundays and then came home to around the size of Hermiston, a big dinner. "Sunday dinner was was about three hours from a big thing," says Nova. Sunday London and 20 minutes from dinner was usually either chicken Leeds, a city the size of Seattle. or roast beef, mashed or roast While the English homes and potatoes and several kinds of cars are considered small by vegetables. "1 thought the food American standards, the school was good," said Nova. "You just that Nova attended was "huge." get the food, not a lot of spices. She attended St. Wilfred's Fish and chips was really good, Catholic High School and Six much better than in the U.S. Form College, along with around They make it fresh-they bread it 1,000 other students 10-18 years and everything nght there at the old. In England, says Nova, fish and chips shop." Besides the students attend high school until fish and chips. Nova especially age 16 and then either go to work or continue on with school. If liked the Indian food. Britain was home to many Indian and they plan to go to a university, Pakistani immigrants, she said. A they go to an additional two typical lunch was sandwiches years (six form) of school. and crisps (potato chips) with salt While at St. Wilfred’s Nova and vinegar, which she learned to attended three classes each term and now puts on (students can take up to four a love term) and classes meet four times "everything." While Nova wasn't able to do a week. There are two teachers for each class, with students much traveling, since she was meeting half the time with each attending school, she did travel teacher. Class sizes range some when her parents, Harold dramatically-one of Nova's and Sharon, came to visit her for 10 days in February. She also classes had only three students, took a trip with her school class but another had over 30. Nova's to Lourdes, France. classes included Spanish, While in Great Britain, Nova performing arts and theology. The teachers, she says, were became best friends with Mirelle pretty much like the teachers in Noronha from Brazil. Mirelle, 19, who was Portuguese, was the U.S. and the classes were not especially harder or easier than staying as an exchange student the classes in American schools- with Paul's parents, who also just different. The school year lived in Castleford. Nova also has six terms, but classes don’t became friends with quite a few change from term to term. English teens. "The English are English students have more more laid back," says Nova. "They don't worry as much about Nova and her mother, Sharon, at the Pontefract train station in England things. They have a wonderful sense of humor-they make fun of anything and everything and they're not afraid to make fun of themselves." They were hard to understand at first, says Nova, and it took a while longer to understand the British slang. For example, a car trunk is the boot, the car hood, a bonnet, and they English have a front garden and a back garden, rather than the front yard and back yard. The English were taken aback at the prevalence of guns in the U.S., says Nova, and especially amazed that many American families own guns. Now that Nova is back in the U.S., her experience in England has a dreamlike quality. "It seems like it was so long ago," she says. "Everything's a blur now. It's like a dream, a different world." She hopes someday to go back to England and also dreams of a trip to Brazil to visit Mirelle, but for now she's decided to stick pretty close to home and plans to enroll full-time this fall at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton. Internet classes offered Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC) is providing Umatilla and Morrow county residents with an opportunity to take the mystery out of the Internet by taking the Internet on the road. BMCC "Widening Our World" (WOW) II free Internet courses are planned to coincide with the Umatilla County Fair in Hermiston, the Morrow County Fair in Heppner and Muddy Frogwater in Milton-Freewater. Participants will learn how to harness the Internet information explosion in short courses focused on specific topic areas. In Hermiston, BMCC WOW II, sponsored by the Umatilla County Fair and United Rentals of Hermiston, will be held Aug. 4-6 from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. In Heppner, BMCC WOW, sponsored by the Morrow County Fair, will be held Wednesday, Aug. 18. In Milton-Freewater, BMCC WOW, sponsored by Norman Saager, DMD, will be held on Saturday, Aug. 21. These courses are similar in content to the BMCC WOW classes offered last year in Pendleton. Training is provided by the BMCC staff and volunteers. Classes may include: Internet for Small Businesses, Internet for Non-Profit and Community Service Groups, Internet for Families: Surfing Side by Side, Internet for Agriculture, Using the Internet for Research, Communicating with the Web, Stock Trading on the Web, Internet for Hispanic Culture/Arts, Internet for Genealogy, Internet for Arts and Entertainment, Internet for Shopping, Internet for Sports, and Internet for Travel. Course registration will be held at each location. Class size is limited and classes will be filled on a first-come, first- served basis. For more information, call Blue Mountain Community College at (541) 278-5762 for class registration information. WCCC Ladies’ Play Tuesday, July 20 Low gross of the field: Pat Edmundson. Low net of the field: Joyce Dinkins. Least putts of the field: Della Heideman. Flight A: low gross-Deborah Kendrick; low net-L uvilla Sonstegard; least putts-Beverly Gunderson. Flight B: low gross-Carol Norris; low net-Betty Rietmann; least putts-Suzanne Jepsen. Flight C: low gross-Francie Morris; low net-Floss Watkins; least putts-Lorrene Montgomery. Chip ins: Suzanne Jepsen, #8; Carol Norris, #3; Della Heide man, #3. Special play: flag tournament- first place Joyce Dinkins, second place Deborah Kendrick, third place Betty Christman, fourth place Jean Ball. Perfect handicap in #9 hole- Floss Watkins, Carol Norris, Suzanne Jepsen, Della Heideman. First to plant flag-Beverly Gunderson. A string tournament will be held Tuesday, Aug. 10 at 8 a.m. WCCC Men’s Championship Tournament 1999 champion: John Ed mundson, 27 hole score of 96. Low net champion: Jason Hanna, 82. (Par 90.) First flight: gross-first Greg Grant, 97, second Slater Mitchell 99, third a tie between Duane Disque and Ken Eckman 101; net-first Tom Shear, second Gary Watkins, third Don Eaves, fourth Rob Waite. Least putts: John Edmundson. Second flight: gross-first Dave Hanna 112, second a tie between Dave Gunderson, Dave Mitchell and Ralph Walker 115; net-first Earl Norris, second Roy Martin, third Gene Sonstegard, fourth Tad M iller. Least putts: Ralph Walker. Third flight: gross-first Perry Adams 113, second Gene Orwick 125, third Stub Lewis 126, fourth Russ Rollis 132; net-first Steve Rollis, second Jim Hayes, third Rodney Erhm antrout, fourth Loren Heideman. Least putts: Perry Adams. Special events winners: Duane Disque, Jason Hanna, Loren Heideman, Ron Bowman, Tad M iller, Rodney Erhmantrout, Steve Rollis, John Edmundson, Earl Norris, Perry Adams, Brent Gunderson, Don Eaves and Jim Hayes. BUSINESS CARDS H eppner (ia*ette- Time» 6 7 6 -9 2 2 8 Copy • Copy • Copy • Copy • Copy • Copy • Copy g e t your copies made at the Çazette-Times Pioneer Memorial Clinic ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ “P erso n a lized In d iv id u a l Care ” Family Health Care Urgent Care for all ages Hypertension Disorders Women’s Health Services Diabetes Management for all ages Sports Physicals ¥ DOT Physicals Monday - Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please call for an appointment: (5 4 1 ) 6 7 6 -5 5 0 4 1-800-559-9133 x 2940 P.O. Box 9 • 130 Thompson Ave. • Heppner, Oregon Wedding ‘Tables Lynde Minster & Ezra Perkins Wedding-Saturday, August 7th Victoria Green & Steven Schaber Wedding-Saturday, August 7th Kathryn Cutsforth & Edward Fullmer Wedding-Saturday, August 28th Darcee Padberg & Slater Mitchell Wedding-Saturday, September 4th Ruth Norton & Dustin Smith Wedding-Saturday, September 4th Mary Jane McCarty & Aaron Heideman Wedding-Saturday, September 11th .INC. 2 1 7 N o rth M a in H ep p n er 6 7 6 -9 1 58 T IRRIGON WATERMELON FESTIVAL 16th Annual , Saturday July 31st at the Irrigon Marina Park BREAKFAST 6 :3 0 -9 :0 0 a.m. SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT 7:00 a.m. (call Rick EUiaon to enter: 922-2357) PARADE 10:00 a.m. (call Karen Cooley to enter: 922-3137) ju c r 3i STREET DANCE & SPECTACULAR LIGHT SHOW with Dan Bums & 3-D Productions 9 :0 0 p.m.-midnight CONTINUOUS ENTERTAINMENT THROUGHOUT THE DAY Arts and Crafts Booths * Bingo * D unk Tank • Food Booths * K id s’ G am es * Giant Raffle LOTS OFFREE, FUN FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT! Chris Lee Loid (Music from the 40s-50s & Country) • BMCC Quartet: Absolutely Nobody Steve Blum We Print The 1999 Morrow County The Historical Society hopes Chronicles are now available for that readers will be able to place purchase from the Morrow names with the unidentified County Historical Society. This persons in these two photos. year's collection of historically- Still only $4 each this year, oriented information features copies of this eighteenth volume articles about the Morrow of the Chronicles are available in County judges; a memory of Heppner at Murray Drugs, Willow Creek; the Alstott, Baker Klamath First Federal Bank, and Notson families; Heppner Twice Upon a Time bookstore, pre-flood houses; the Lexington School and the Irrigon City and the Bank of Eastern Oregon. Hall/School; Peterson's They are available in lone at the Jewelers; and the West Exten Bank of Eastern Oregon. In Boardman, they can be sion Irrigation District. Complementing the purchased at Boardman Phar information on these topics are macy and at the Bank of Eastern thirty-eight related photographs, Oregon. In Irrigon, they are including two in which many available at the Bank of Eastern faces have not been identified. Oregon. Tony Madrigal (Country Western & O ld Fashioned Gospel) • Singer Kristy Lee (Entertainer Extraordinaire) • Tri-City Square Dancers (Swing Your Partner!) Craig Daniel and the Jukebox Cowboys * Hermiston Classic Car Chib (Vehicles on Display) Umatilla Chemical Depot Ammunition Demonstration Trailer will be on display Master Gardeners will do free water testing from 12-4 p.m. Containers available at City Hall For more information, call Donna Eppenbach, 922-3197, or LaVelle Partlow, 922-3386 Entertainment and advertiiing funded by the Morrow County Unified Recreation District
