Special Edition Morrow County Fair & Rodeo • Heppner Gazette-Times. Wednesday, August 11, 1999-Page 11
Growers, producers sweeten premium list for county cooks Show off your talent at the fair
years and younger), for a
needs to see, whatever the talent
decorated brown bag lunch, a
may be (all performances must
Last
year's
talent
show
had
a
Schoolbus Bread Frisbee and
be suitable for families), please
large
variety
of
talent,
including
GR8 Bread cap.
contact C.J. Johnson at 676-
1999 Judge’s Choice awards for everything from gymnastics to
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cowboy
poetry,
singing,
the over-all best in the county
The talent show will have three
instrumental performances and
include:
Oregon
Hazelnut
age categories: 12 and under, 13
even
a
mime.
It
was
a
lot
of
fun
Marketing Board, an English
to 18, and 19 and over. Cash
for the audience and contestants
china tea cup filled with
prizes will be awarded in each
alike.
chocolate covered hazelnuts for
area.
This year there is sure to be just
the best recipe using hazelnuts;
The talent show will be held
as much fun and competition. If
Gold.n.Soft Margarine, a gold you have a talent that the world
on Friday evening from 7-9 p.m.
medal for excellence in baking;
the Best From Oregon Inc., $25
cash for the best jar of jelly or
RECYCLE T O D A Y
preserves.
Hermiston Watermelon
M o rro w C o u n ty T ra n s fe r S tatio n Accepts: Aluminum,
Growers sponsor the county
Glass Bottles, Scrap Metal, Newspapers, Tin Cans, Tires.
wide watermelon seed spitting
Finley B uttes A ccepts: Aluminum, Batteries, Cardboard/
contest, offering 1999 winner's
Brown
Bags, Glass Bottles, Tires. Scrap Metal, Tin Cans, Used
T-shirts for men's, women’s,
Motor
Oil,
Newspaper.
and children.
Try a Tillamook recipe, win a T-shirt youth
Oregon's Best is a division of
lone: (at the Post Office) Newspaper.
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the Agri-Business Council of
From Morrow to Tillamook,
H ep p n er: (on Riverside) Newspaper.
part of the menu.
county kitchens are much the
For the Morrow County Fair, Oregon, a nonprofit group, for
B oardm an: (at Sentry Market) Newspaper,
same—pushed
for
time.
opening Aug. 18, try her family 33 years promoting the best of
(at Dodge City Inn) Cardboard.
Tillamook dairy wife, Ginger
recipe selected for the 1999 the state’s agricultural industry
Irrigon:
(at
Stokes Landing) Aluminum, Cardboard,
Slavens, busy with a herd of
Dairy Wives Cookbook to win a through education, marketing
Glass
Bottles,
Scrap Metal, Tin Cans, Newspaper.
and
public
relations.
Holsteins in Blaine, while
90th anniversary Tillamook
teaching aerobics and working at
For
additional
contest
commemorative t-shirt.
F o r M o re In fo rm a tio n , C all (5 4 1 ) 989 -9 50 0
the post office, also prepares
Choice Cheddar Quick Bread information, contact the Morrow
M
O R R O W C O U N T Y P U B L IC W O R K S
County Fair office.
Ginger Slavens, Moon
nightly dinners for four sons,
Meadow Dairy, Blaine
including her Quick Cheddar
1/3 cup Tillamook butter; 2-1/2
Bread as a healthy and practical
cups flour; 5 tsp. baking powder;
1 tsp. dill weed; 1/2 tsp. salt; 1-
1/2 cups Sharp Tillamook
E xtends our congratulations and best wishes to all participants in the
Cheddar; 1-1/2 cups rolled oats;
1-1/2 cups milk; 2 eggs.
Cut butter into next four
ingredients. Stir in cheese and
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ounty
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oats. Add milk and eggs. Mix
until moistened.
Put into
greased 9x5 loaf pan. Bake at
regon
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odeo
375 degrees for 1 hour. Cool 5
minutes. Remove from pan and
cool 40 minutes more. Cut and
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serve, good later as a treat.
Local singing sensation Lisa
Nix Lowary will be performing
at the upcoming Morrow County
Fair on Friday, Aug. 20, at 6
p.m.
This talented and beautiful
young lady, who resides in
Pendleton, is the daughter of
Walt and Charlene Nix, formerly
of Heppner, and now living in
Hermiston.
Lisa, having spent her
childhood growing up in
Heppner and singing to old 45
records, has now grown up to
become one of the hottest
sensations in local country
music performance.
"There are so many special
memories and friends that 1
haven’t seen... I am excited to go
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back and perform for all of them
and to say hello again," says
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Lisa.
Lisa has performed on
numerous occasions, including
local talent shows, rodeos, and
4th of July celebrations, not to
mention being one of the top
finishers in the Kiwanis Kapcrs
rv iO D iis n
competition in Pendleton last
March.
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"So let's all come on out to the
Morrow County Fair, have a
great time, and listen to the
talented and beautiful Lisa (Nix)
Lowary."
Oregon growers and producers
have sweetened the premium list
for Morrow County cooks this
year, offering special premiums
for contests at the Morrow
County Fair, opening Aug. 18.
Prizes from cash to clothing
and kitchen ware are waiting for
winners of events of the sixth-
annual Oregon's Best senes.
The 12 contests offer awards
for first, second and third place.
First-place prizes planned by
sponsors
are:
Pictsweet
Mushrooms, a custom Pictsweet
sweatshirt
for
the
best
mushroom appetizer; Hurst's
Berry Farm, a pair of cobalt blue
mugs for a blueberry pie; Bob's
Red Mill, $25 cash for bread
using Bob's Red Mill flours; Full
Sail Ale, a party for four at the
Hood River Brew Pub and a
"Best Baker In The County" T-
shirt for beer bread; Oregon
Fruit Products Co., set of four
mugs and an Oregon Fruit
Products cap for breakfast
pastries.
Norpac and Santiam offer
special awards for their 75th
celebration and a special muffin
recipe: a 75th anniversary apron,
T-shirt and commemorative mug
and
a
commemorative
collectible; Tillamook Cheese, a
90th
anniversary
T-shirt;
Schoolbus Bread (children 15
Columbia Basin Electric Co-op
Lisa Nix Lowary
to perform at fair
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