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Heppner Daycare worthy donation
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Heppner FFA holds party,
sales presentation
The Heppner FFA held a
bowling and pizza party at
Corbin's Bowl and Dmerat 1
p.m.t Tuesday.
Dan Jepsen, Tony Looney,
Stacy Delveux, Tracy Baker,
Dawn DeBoer, Travis Rhode
and Cory Miller showed up for
the fun. The group bowled four
or five games each while
enjoying pizza.
The next day, the FFA left
early for Milton Freewater for
the FFA Sales Presentation
competition. At this event, all
members were to do a sales
presentation, then either an
advertisement
or
customer
service project.
In the sales presentation,
members made a sales pitch to a
pair of judges, trying to sell
them a product of their choice.
Products sold ranged from game
birds
to
no-till
drills.
Contestants were graded on
their approach, demonstration,
response to objections and the
closure.
To the Editor:
The holidays are often
described as the season of giving.
In this light, I would like you to
consider a worthy recipient of
your generosity. The Heppner
Daycare has been serving our
community for years. The
daycare provides not only the
necessary service of caring for its
charges, but it also educates our
young children in preschool and
helps our children to learn to
adapt to social interaction. These
benefits to our community
cannot be over-appreciated.
The staff of Heppner Daycare is
dedicated to providing our
community's children with the
healthiest environment possible.
Please continue to help them
with your generous support.
Your contributions will help to
enhance the programs offered,
including providing the daycare's
services to the less advantaged
and special needs children of our
community.
Morrow County has shown that
children truly hold a dear place
in the hearts of its citizens. As a
parent, volunteer and member of
our community, I appreciate your
help. I assure you that your tax-
deductible gifts to Heppner
Daycare will be used to enhance
the daycare program's ability to
provide our children with the
compassionate care they so
richly deserve.
(s) Kim Cutsforth
Heppner
Volunteers make communities better
The advertisement projects
were simple. The contestants
made
a
new spaper
advertisement with the provided
materials. This year's ad was to
sell lawn and garden equipment.
They used scissors, glue, and
clip art of lawn equipment, and
a marker to make other
advertisements.
FFA members who did the
customer service project, Tracy
Baker, Dawn DeBoer, Stacy
Delveaux, Dan Jepsen, Travis
Thode, Ben Turrell and Sam
Van Liew, were given a
company policy to study
quickly and then answer
questions and objections from a
panel of judges, using the
information from the policy.
Heppner was one of six teams
competing in the beginning ag
sales category. Heppner placed
fifth overall. With this year’s
experiences the Heppner FFA
hopes to take one of the top
places
in
next
year's
competition.
Students donate over
800 items in food drive
To the Editor:
The following letter to the
editor from Darlene Starr of
Spray appeared in last week's
edition of the Condon Times-
Joumal. Because it expresses the
spirit of the Christmas season so
very well, I feel it is appropriate
to reprint it with Mrs. Starr's
permission in the Heppner
Gazette-Times.
To the Editor:
In the spirit o f the holiday
season, I want to thank everyone
who volunteers in this busy
world. For all persons who
volunteer with sometimes their
life deputies, firefighters, and
EMTs
to those no less
important board members, city
councilors,
sports
event
volunteers,
teacher
aides,
ambulance drivers, decoration
committees and the list can and
does go on, so please forgive me
if I left out any group. Everyone
who volunteers, whether it is to
sweep someone's porch or to
fight fire, is as deserving o f
appreciation as the other.
When people volunteer, they
devote countless hours away
from home and family. They do
not have to volunteer, but they
do. These people make every one
-
o f our communities a better
place to be. It's our volunteers
who create our community. We
should all be very proud and
grateful they serve. Surprise your
special volunteer with a
handshake, smile and a thank
you To my own special group,
thank you Spray Volunteer
Ambulance. Everyone is a delight
to be around in the first place,
much less under stress you guys
are the greatest.
May the joy o f the season bring
peace to everyone.
Sincerely,
Darlene Starr
EMT-1
Spray Volunteer Ambulance
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Spray
I think you will agree that Mrs.
Starr has described what gives
small,
eastern
Oregon
communities a very special
character. The willingness of
volunteers to pitch in and help is
the thing which creates the
quality of life which we treasure.
Let me commend all our
community volunteers
and
encourage all to keep up the good
work in the year 2000.
(s) John Edmundson
Heppner
Hands on science classes
planned for kids
The winter session of Hands
on Science is scheduled to begin
January 14 at Heppner and lone
elementary schools on non
school Fridays.
The Hands on Science
Program is a recreational
science program open to
children in grades K-6. This
winter session will feature
classes in architecture and
engineering at lone Elementary
and Mechanical Energy at
Heppner Elementary.
The lone Elementary classes
include "Shape Makers" (pre-
kindergarten-grade one) and
"Behind the Magic" (two-six).
The "Shape Makers" class will
have the students building the
strongest bridges and the tallest
towers. The students will
change circles to cylinders,
squares to cubes and triangles to
tetrahedrons.
Finger
traps,
"rapper snappers", ramps and
balancing acts will have center
stage in this class.
The "Behind the Magic"class
will have the students exploring
topology, geodesics, balance
and three-dimensional designs.
The activities are designed to
tickle the brain with teasers,
puzzles, tricks, and games.
Some may think this is magic,
but the students will be
unlocking the science secrets
behind these activities.
Both of these classes will be
held from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the
lone Elementary School.
The Heppner Elementary
classes include "Toymaker"
(kindergarten-grade two) and
"Bright Ideas" (three-six). The
"Toymaker" class will make use
of simple machines such as
wheels, levers, wedges, pulleys,
and screws to create toys.
The "Bright Ideas" class will
turn its participants into
inventors. Students will make
their own version of a flashlight,
a circuit game, a simple motor
and more. They will even try
their hands at copper plating.
"Toymaker" will meet from 3-4
p.m. and "Bright Ideas" will
meet from 2-3 p.m. at Heppner
Elementary
School's
small
cafeteria.
The Hands on Science program
is being made available through
the Umatilla/Morrow ESD.
There is a $45 registration fee.
"This fee enables the students to
come to class with nothing and
leave with lots of stuff so they
can repeat the experiments at
home," says Hands on Science
area coordinator, Sarah Carlson.
Scholarships are available. "We
don't want cost to be a
prohibitive
factor
to
participation in these classes."
says Carlson.
There are eight classes in the
session so the session will end
on March 17. Look for
registration forms to be coming
home from school with your
child, or forms will be available
at the public libraries and post
offices in Heppner and lone.
Register early.
The classes are limited to 10
participants.
For
more
information about the program
or
scholarship
information
contact Sarah Carlson 422-7245.
Correction
A story in the December 15
issue of the Gazette-Times
erroneously reported that just the
third grade classes at Heppner
Elementary School participated
in a food drive. All the classes
participated. The school gathered
over 505 pounds of food which
they donated to the Heppner
Neighborhood
Center
for
distribution.
Enjoyed children's letters to editor
To the Editor:
Really enjoyed all the letters to
the Editor from the Heppner fifth
and sixth grade classes. They
were well written and full of
meaning. Sounds like there are
some very nice youngsters in the
Heppner town.
(s) Arnold Braat
Boardman
P.S. I wish them a nice holiday
season.
Student letters to the editor
Editor’s note: following are
more letters to the editor from
students in Jannie Allen's fifth/
sixth grade class at Heppner El
ementary School.
To the Editor:
I would like it if you could help
people get rid of their cars. Cars
pollute and a person can’t breathe.
If we have cars that pollute, we
should get rid of cars or make so
lar-powered cars. Please help;
only you can make a difference.
Sincerely,
(s) Colton Hanson
Students at Heppner Junior/Senior High School donated over 800 cans
of food to the Heppner Neighborhood Center in the school's food drive
which ended this week. HHS Principal Ron Anthony said that the high
school was ahead in the food drive contest Monday, but the junior high
students met the challenge and surpassed the older students in the
number of items donated Tuesday. He said the high school students
subsequently had to treat the younger kids to ice cream. Pictured above
with the school's contributions are: (left to right) seventh grader Shanna
Rietmann, junior high school secretary; senior Casey Ingraham, high
school student body president; eighth grader Luke Murray, junior high
student body president; and senior Michael Schonbachler, senior class
secretary.
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To the Editor:
I want to make the world a
better place because there are so
many rude people in the world. I
want to improve the world by en
couraging others to help another
person out in whatever they’re
doing, especially an older person.
I’m going to do this by show
ing a good example to other
people. This way, they will hope
fully do it too. And if you’re read
ing this article, you should try it
too.
Sincerely,
(s) Dan Basile
To the Editor:
I think the world would be a
better place if our community was
cleaner and brighter. We can start
by picking up most of the trash
around the streets of our commu
nity.
We can put more trash cans out
and paint them in your town’s col
ors. Rake the leaves around your
yard or even shovel the snow on
the sidewalks. We can even vol
unteer for some of the town’s ac
tivities. That would make the ac
tivities go faster. I hope this will
encourage everyone to clean up
our community.
(s) Terrence Parret
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