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Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 12, 2000
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Sunday school-a choice
y o u ’ll never regret
To the Editor:
As a Sunday School teacher, I
am writing this letter on behalf of
all children, teens, as well as adults.
It is the sincere desire o f my
heart to see everyone from all age
groups become involved in Sun
day School in the church of their
choice. There’s not a church in
this town that wouldn’t be thrilled
to have kids and teens and grown
ups pack out their classrooms.
As I’m on my way to church
on Sunday mornings, I see kids
playing and teens with their
friends and adults using Sundays
as their “play days”-I think to
myself, “Has anyone taken the
time to show an interest in these
people and invite them to Sunday
School?"
. I have taught Sunday School
for most of the 24 years I have
lived in Heppner and I have dis
covered a great benefit in the 45
minutes of class time. I’m a stu
dent within a teacher and I’m still
learning many awesome teachings
from the Bible, not to mention the
joy and satisfaction I get in return
from my students.
If you’ve never given Sunday
School much thought, or you
weren’t raised that way, or your
lifestyle is too busy, maybe you’ll
want to rethink what’s really im
portant and rethink your priorities
and maybe possibly fit Sunday
School into your life.
I hope this letter will move you
to choosing a church of your
choice and sending your child or
children or your teen or even your-
self to Sunday School. It’s a
choice you’ll never regret and if
you need me to pick up your kids,
call June Rollis at 676-5199. I’ll
even bring them back home.
(s) June Rollis
Heppner
Republican Party given a choice
To the Editor:
A Jan. 2 Sunday talk show fea
tured Robert Novak opining that
there is no credible alternative
Republican candidate other than
George W. Bush. One could ex
pect this from one who has spo
ken for some time for the right
wing of the Republican Party. But
I was surprised to hear David
Broder agree with everything
Novak said, and with no reason
given. It seems that neither party
wishes campaign finance reform.
Voters need to know the ex
treme right wing of the Republi
can Party does not like John
McCain because his reforms
would prohibit many things, one
being Pat Robertson’s own
voter’s pamphlet he sends to all
church and their related organi
zations.
I have viewed with alarm the
intolerance advocated by some in
the nght wing. Besides being a
deplorable attitude, it has cost the
Oregon Republican Party the gov
ernorship for the past 12 years.
President Clinton had a perfect
opportunity to take the Democratic
Party to the political center. But
he chose to personally blow his
chance to do so. If he had acted
differently, he possibly could have
forever won the hearts and minds
of a vast majority of the Ameri
can people.
Now the Republican Party has
been given a chance with John
McCain. Americans have a right
to expect a government that is not
extreme in any direction-right or
left.
Young people are turned off
and older people have lost patience
with a political system in which
one party is not fiscally respon
sible and the other party is intol
erant, and in which the general
public has no say.
We need to have a clearly
stated choice to express our
wishes in the primaries. But if the
media is effectively muzzled, ev
erybody loses.
(s) Meg Murray
lone
School board
continued from page I
Weikel, who has lived in
Boardman since 1992, previously
served on the Sam Boardman
Elementary Site Council and the
Boardman-lmgon
Advisory
Committee, of which she was
chairman. She is certified as a
secondary teacher in biology,
physical science and health.
Weikel is self employed with
Beef Profit Decisions and
performs contract veterinary
services for ag business accounts.
Mamed to Hans Magden,
Weikel has four children, one
employed in Portland, two
attending college in California
and one who is a student at
Riverside High School.
-discussed a proposal for
an alternative education program
that could increase the number of
students in alternative ed
programs and generate more
revenue for the district.
-discussed the Consolidated
District Improvement Plan and
individual school improvement
plans and the upcoming school
report card mandated by the
state. The district and school
improvement plans include data
based on test scores dropout
reports, discipline reports, at-risk
behavior reports and other
demographics, in addition to self
evaluation, goals and an action
plan to implement the goals.
According to
assistant
superintendent Mike Keown,
parents will receive a report card
rating their children’s school on
an ABCDF scale. Keown said
that the first report will be
available from the state on
February 1 and the district will
distribute the information to the
parents by the end of March.
He said that the consequences
of a below satisfactory rating are
not yet known, but added that it
was understood that a school
must improve from year to year.
-approved resignations for
Ruth Anderson, A.C. Houghton
Elementary School
special
ed/regular ed assistant; Cheryl
Hobbs, ACH head cook; Deena
Reid, Heppner High School
special ed assistant; Wendell
Kreder, Riverside High School
assistant football coach.
-approved employment for
Gloria Schmidt, who will be
reinstated as RHS English-as-a-
second-language ed assistant.
-approved an extra duty
contract for Carol Johnson,
Columbia
Middle
School
assistant girls' basketball coach.
-accepted a $50 donation to
the Sam Boardman Elementary
School Library from Mid-
Columbia Bus.
-approved second readings of
job descriptions for technology
coordinator, computer tech II,
food service director, computer
tech I and deputy clerk positions.
-heard the first reading of a
policy
revision
requiring
insurance to be provided by
groups wishing to use school
facilities.
-heard the first reading of a
policy revision on suspensions.
The board approved a change in
the suspension-expulsion rules
which would increase the
maximum time a student could
be suspended from "five days" to
"10 school days" for out-of-
school suspensions and from one
to three days for in-school
suspensions.
Another change would modify
the rules concerning the
expulsion of a student guilty of
bringing a weapon to school.
Previous policy specified that
expulsion in such a case would
not be less than one year; current
language adds "unless modified
by the superintendent."
-approved a proposed HHS
band trip to Coeur d' Alene,
providing the group pay all the
costs involved in the trip.
-announced the following
meetings: budget work session-
Jan. 13, RHS Library, 2 p.m.;
facility planning meeting-Jan. 18,
SBE, 7:30 p.m.; next board
meetmg-Feb. 14, SBE, 7:30 p.m.;
facility planning meeting-Feb.
15, lone School, 7:30 p.m.
-heard, in executive session,
the superintendent's performance
review for district principals and
the superintendent's personal
performance review.
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Obituaries
Adaline Fleets Horner
Adaline Fleeta Homer, 91, of
Imgon, died Friday, January 7,
2000, at Good Shepherd Commu
nity Hospital in Hermiston.
At her request, no service will
be held. Disposition was by cre
mation.
Mrs. Homer was bom April 1,
1908, in the Highland Glenn area
near Elgin, to Roy and Mary Hug
Flexer.
On June 17, 1934, she married
John Joseph Horner at Walla
Walla, Washington.
Mrs. Horner ran a produce
stand at Imgon for several years
and was involved in the activities
at Stokes Landing Senior Center.
She was a former member of
the Seventh-day Adventist Church
in Imgon.
In later years, as her health
failed, she enjoyed reading, cross
word puzzles, listening to music
and watching Three Angels
Broadcasting Network at her
home.
Survivors include a daughter,
Barbara Person, and a son, John
Horner, both o f Irrigon; five
grandchildren and 14 great-grand
children. Her husband, John
Homer, Sr., died in 1978.
Bums Mortuary of Hermiston
is in charge of arrangements.
Mary Ann Peck
Mary Ann Peck, 67, of
Pendleton passed away Jan. 6,
2000, at St. Mary's Medical
Center in Walla Walla from
complications of a stroke.
Disposition was by cremation.
A memorial service will be
held Saturday, January 15, at 2
p.m. at the Peace Lutheran
Church, located at 9th and
Carden
in
Pendleton.
Refreshments will be served by
the ladies of the church after the
service. Pastor Larry Nelson will
officiate.
Mary Ann Peck was bom June
5, 1932, to Earl and Mildred
Hunt of Heppner. She went
through school at Heppner.
On April 21, 1950 she married
George (Bud) Peck in Hermiston.
Mrs. Peck raised three children
and was a homemaker most of
her life. She worked two years
as an assistant cook for the
Pendleton School District and 10
years for Harris Pine Mills. She
had a variety of hobbies with a
life-long love for flowers, plants
and gardening. Other hobbies
included
ceramics,
sewing
crocheting and craft making.
In 1973 she and her family
moved to Pendleton, where her
husband was employed by Ford's
tire service.
She was preceded in death by
her parents, one older sister and
two younger brothers and a
daughter who died at four years
of age. Survivors include her
husband, Bud; sons, Terry Peck
of San Raphael, CA, and Bob
Peck of Darby Montana;
daughter, Frances Amos of
Puyallup,
WA.;
three
granddaughters
and
four
grandsons.
Donations may be made to the
Diabetes Association of Oregon,
Visions NW of Oregon or the
Peach
Lutheran
Church
Memorial fund.
Bishop Funeral Chapel of
Pendleton is in charge of
arrangements.
Scott Wayne Groshens
Scott W. Groshens, 38, of
Sumpter and a former resident of
Bend and Heppner, died January
8, 2000, near Sumpter.
A memorial service will be held
on Saturday, January 15, at 2
p.m. at the Elks Club in Heppner.
Mr. Groshens was bom January
20. 1961, in Heppner to Victor L.
and Judy Damielle Groshens. He
was a 1979 graduate of Heppner
High School. He also attended
Blue Mountain Community
College and Central Oregon
Community College in Bend.
Mr. Groshens struggled from
the age of 19 with a
hydrocephalic condition and
underwent a total of 40 surgeries
throughout the next 19 years. He
became a patient advocate at St.
Charles Medical Center in Bend,
working closely with Dr. Norwyn
Newby in a volunteer program
for several months to assist other
patients who suffered severe
brain trauma. He was especially
good with the younger patients.
He was featured in a March 1993
article. "Everyday Heroes", by
the Bend Bulletin. When his
health allowed, he had been
employed as a mill worker, as a
recreation leader at the Inn of the
Seventh Mountain in Bend; a
lifeguard and as a camp
counselor. He enjoyed kids,
snowmobiling, white water
rafting, cutting firewood and
spending time in the mountains
with his dog.
He was preceded in death by his
mother,
Judy;
paternal
grandfather, Vic Groshens; and
maternal grandparents, Burt and
Eunice Damielle.
He is survived by his son,
Daniel Caswell, Pendleton;
daughter, Ashley of Portland; a
grandson in Pendleton; father and
stepmother, Victor and Wanda
Groshens, Baker City; brothers,
Greg Groshens, Baker City,
Harry and Laura Groshens,
Pendleton;
niece,
Nicole
Groshens and nephew, Brandon
Groshens, both of Pendleton;
step-brothers, Steve and Lynne
Hawkins and Scott Hawkins of
Baker
City;
grandmother,
Virginia Groshens of Hermiston;
and numerous other relatives and
many special friends.
Disposition was by cremation.
The family suggests memorial
contributions to the Ronald
McDonald House in Bend
through Coles-Strommer Funeral
Home, 1950 Place Street, Baker
City, OR 97814 or to the charity
of one's choice.
Bernadine M. Nelson
Bemadine M. Nelson, a Spray
resident passed away on
Monday, January 3, 2000, at the
Central Oregon Health Care
center in Bend. She was 88 years
old.
Funeral services will be held for
Mrs. Nelson on Saturday,
January 8, 2000, at 11 a.m. at the
Assembly of God Church in
Spray. Pastor Steve Adams will
officiate. Vault interment will
follow at the Spray Cemetery.
Mrs. Nelson was bom on
December 9, 1911, in Richmond,
Oregon, the daughter of John and
Nancy (Howard) Britt. Mrs.
Nelson was one of 12 children.
She grew up and attended Cove
School near Alder Creek near
Spray and graduated from High
School in Montesano, WA.
From 1932 through 1933 she
attended nurse's training.
Mrs. Nelson worked as the
Spray city recorder for 25 years
and also worked as an EMT.
Mrs. Nelson met and married
Clarence Nelson on November
18, 1934, in Fossil. Her husband
ran the C.L. Nelson Lumber
Company.
Mrs. Nelson had continued to
live in Spray until a recent fall at
her home.
Mrs. Nelson was a member of
the Assembly Of God Church in
Spray and the Spray Grange. She
enjoyed gardening, canning,
going to the beach, quilting and
good chocolate chip cookies, but,
most importantly, she lived for
her grandchildren.
Mrs. Nelson is survived by her
daughter Connie Spivey of
Pnneville; sisters. Hazel McQuin
of Stanfield and Beulah Tilley of
Spray; two grandchildren, Brian
Spivey of Heppner, Penny
Hughes and numerous nieces and
nephews.
She was preceded in death by
her husband in 1978, her parents,
seven brothers and two sisters.
Funeral arrangements are under
the direction of the Prineville
Funeral Hone.
DA7$ Report
Morrow County District
Attorney David C. Allen has
released the following report:
December 23-Jason A.
Bathurst was found guilty of
Fleeing or Attempting to Elude
and Driving While Suspended,
both Class A misdemeanors, and
sentenced to: 90 days in jail, 18
months' bench probation, 80
hours
community
service,
successful completion of the
DUII
diversion
program,
prohibited from driving a motor
vehicle for 90 days and ordered
to pay fines and assessments of
$574;
December 23-Alex Rivera was
found guilty of Delivery of a
Controlled Substance within
1000 Feet of a School, a Class A
felony, and sentenced to:
optional 36 months of formal
probation
to the Oregon
Department of Corrections, 180
sanction units and 90 custody
units to be used by his probation
officer as he deems appropriate,
120 hours of community service,
ordered to be subject to a drug
package and ordered to pay a fine
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Price on
Lakeview lots
reduced
Lots at the Lakeview Heights
subdivision have been reduced in
price for the next 90 days in an
effort to sell them off. says Tom
Wolff of the Heppner Economic
Development Corp.
Wolff said Monday the lots,
which overlook Willow Creek
lake, will be selling for between
$13,500 and $17,500 with no
money down and 10 percent
interest over 10 years to
qualifying buyers.
There are 18 lots left in the
subdivision, which was recently
turned back over to the bank by
the developer.
HEDC has agreed to help the
bank market the lots, Wolff said.
Anyone interested in
purchasing the lots should
contact George Koffler at the
Bank of Eastern Oregon, said
Woff.
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