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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.
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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,
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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
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