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Death Notice
Kenneth K. Marshall
Clifford E. Yarnell
Clifford E. Yarnell, 83, of New
port, died Fnday, February 4,2000,
at Eugene.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday, February 12, 2000 at 2
p.m. at Bateman Funeral Home
in Newport, with interment at
Chelane Abby Columbarium in
Newport.
Mr. Yarnell was bom July 17,
1916 at Roosevelt. Washington, to
Harry and Kathryn Walsh-
Yamell.
He married Jessie Marie on
June 23, 1940 at Newport.
Mr. Yarnell was a lifetime
member of the Elks Lodge #2017
in Madras and a charter member
of Lodge «144 tor 50 years. He
was a lifetime member of Theta
Alpha Delta at Oregon State Uni
versity. He enjoyed oil painting and
photography; he also enjoyed mu
sic and could play many instru
ments. He was an artist and a
writer.
Survivors include daughters.
Robbin Ferguison of lone, Amy
Reeve of Corvallis, and Marye
Davis of Gresham: one grandchild
and two great-grandchildren. His
wife, Jessie Mane, preceded him
in death in 1992.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the American Heart As
sociation.
Bateman Funeral Home of
Newport is in charge of arrange
ments.
Heppner needs more, not less, ag
Good times in Morrow County
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Ida Belle Jensen, 89, a resident
of lmgon since 1991, died Sun
day. January 30, 2000, at Good
Shepherd Community Hospital in
Hermiston.
Memorial services for Mrs.
Jensen were held Saturday, Feb
ruary 5. 2000 at the lmgon Sev
enth-day Adventist Church. Pri
vate burial was held Wednesday,
February 2, 2000.
She was bom September 15,
1910, at Gndley, California, to
William and Bertha Summers
Butterfield.
Formerly of California, she
came to lmgon nine years ago.
Mrs. Jensen was a member of
the Seventh-day A dventist
Church.
She loved to write poems and
loved sewing.
Her husband. Lester Jensen,
died in 1992. Survivors include
daughters. Shirley Jensen of Clear
Lake, California. Norma Stahl of
lmgon, Jeanne Drayton of Reno,
Nevada, and Maria Baumgartner
of I.aPine: eight grandchildren,
several great-grandchildren and
great-great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the lmgon Seventh-day
\dventist Community Service
Center.
Bums Mortuary of Hermiston
was in charge of arrangements.
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Obituaries
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Word has been received of the
death of Kenneth K. Marshall. 96,
of Zillah, Washington, formerly
of Lexington. Mr. Marshall died
Sunday, February 6. 2000 at
Zillah
Graveside service will be held
Friday. February 11. 2000 at 1
p.m. at the Lexington Cemetery
in Lexington.
Memorial contributions, for
those who wish, may be made to
the Pioneer Memorial Hospital
Fund, P.O. Box 9, Heppner, Ore
gon 97836.
Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner
is in charge of arrangements.
A complete obituary will be in
next week's Gazette-Times.
Chamber Chatter
By Claudia Hughaa, Chambar Managar
As the Heppner Chamber of
Commerce moves into the 21st
Century with President Sharon
Harrison at the helm, it is
important
that our rural
community keeps the lines of
communication open and works
together to build upon the quality
of life we have.
The Board of Directors spent a
day working on the Chamber of
Commerce plan of work and a
very ambitious one it is.
Additional input will be sought
from the membership and
visitors at the February 15
meeting, noon, at Kate's.
The Chamber encourages all
people interested in the workings
of the community,
from
agriculture
to
retail
to
government, to visit the noon
meetings with the option of
joining. Membership is not
limited to businesses. Individuals
and organizations are encouraged
to join.
Many issues are facing our
community. New industry and
jobs, agricultural challenges,
educational issues for our young
people and medical facilities are
just a few topics that are so
crucial to the well-being of
Heppner and the Willow Creek
Valley.
This year members will be
included on the Chamber web
page. Those who are members
and have their own web page will
be linked to the Chamber page
and will be given a $10 web page
discount by the Heppner Gazette-
Times.
The Chamber of Commerce
continues to be dedicated to
making this the place to live, to
work, to play and to do business.
Grow with us. Let your voice be
heard. Last year we were 72
strong and growing. Can we hit
100 for the year 2000?
Thought for the week: If you
realize you aren't as wise today
as you thought you were
yesterday, you're wiser today."
February 12th - Saturday
Valentine's Dinner: Prime Rib, BBQ
New York Steaks, Oysters, Prawns and
Crab with all the trimmings. Dinner
will start at 6 p.m. Members and out-
of-town guests only.
To the Editor:
In 1940, my husband,
Erling Thompson, and I resided
in lone. Erling was farming in
Gooseberry area and driving
school bus. I had taught first and
second grade and music in lone
school before marriage.
That year was census
time so I went to Pendleton to be
trained to take the census. My
area was lone City, south to Rhea
Creek, west to Weatherford
Ranch and north along Willow
Creek to Cecil.
In these days we went to
each home in lone, wrote down
the names and ages of the people
and asked a few questions for
statistics. However on the farms
we also recorded the livestock,
crop statistics such as yields of
grain and hay. At least one
farmer refused to tell me the
number of cattle he
Erlmg drove by the pasture and
counted them.
I got paid so much per
name of the people in the census.
I also got a citation for neatness
on my census forms.
Those were great days
for us in Morrow County. The
war took us to the valley when
tires were not available for the
school bus and children boarded
in town during the week.
I had also driven a four
door Plymouth as a school bus.
Together we transported children
from Valby-Gooseberry area-
Bumside, H. Peterson, Baker,
Carlson, Huston, McCabe and O.
Peterson families.
I cherish memories of all
these people and hear from some
at Christmas time.
(s)Kathenne Thompson Hanson
McMinnville
Elimination of Vo-i g disturbing
To the Editor:
The following article
from the John Day Blue
Mountain Eagle is provided for
reprinting in the Heppner
Gazette-Times.
I find it disturbing that
Morrow County, the ninth
leading producer of agriculture
products in Oregon, is proposing
to eliminate the vocational
agriculture program from its
school system.
Furthermore, with the
addition of the Tillamook cheese
factory and related feed and
heifer production the county's
economic mix, the importance of
agriculture in the county is going
to increase.
I'm fully aware of the
facts related to the school
district's financial problem, but I
think there must be some way to
maintain at least a minimum
vocational agriculture program
offering in our school system. ’
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From the Blue Mountain Eagle
By Garth Meyer, staff writer
JOHN DAY- Like farmland
bathed in the morning sunlight,
Grant Union High School is
basking in the dawn of a
vocational-agricultural program.
Beginning in the 2000-2001
school year. Grant Union High
School's metals and mechanics
program will be expanded into a
vocational/agricultural and FFA
program.
"With a retirement and a few
other things, it just worked out
that that was a good time to do
it," said Grant Union High
School principal Mark Witty.
Witty and the school are taking
applications until April 7 for a
teacher to head the program.
"We're advertising it wide and
far," Witty said.
Vo-Ag has come to mean a lot
of things, from soils, engines,
livestock production and ag
mechanics to agribusiness to
natural resource management and
public speaking.
"It's a great program," said
Witty, a former FFA chapter
president and recipient of the
state farmer degree. "It allows
students with the most varied
backgrounds apd interests to
succeed. The competitions put
tljem in real situations,, an<J the
kids really1 respond to that."
Grant Union High School will
compete in various FFA
competitions as part of the
program. Specific classes to be
offered
in Grant Union's
program are not decided yet.
"We'll look at the strengths of
who we hire and then decide
what courses will be offered, "
Witty said.
'Gifting clubs' are same scheme,
different name
From the East Oregonian
enterprise want you to think. It
As your district attorney, I
takes a lot of people to be lured
have watched with concern the by the false promise of easy
activities of these "gifting clubs" money in order for these con
that have been in the news artists to make their money.
recently. Let me add my voice to Sooner or later, the scheme falls
that of Pendleton Police Chief Ed through, and all of those people
Taber and the Attorney General: who gave their money trustingly
these schemes, hardly new or find themselves $2,000 poorer.
original, are illegal in Oregon.
I urge everyone in Umatilla
They continue to be illegal no county to avoid the lure of these
matter where the money is so-called "gifting clubs." Not
collected,
either here
in only could there be severe
Pendleton or
across the pecuniary penalties, but it could
Columbia in Washington state.
also put a person at risk of
Law enforcement officials in •criminal sanctions, including
our neighbor to the north, incarceration.
including the Benton and Walla
Be safe; keep you money safe.
Walla
County
prosecuting Invest in a bank account, not a
attorneys, are combining their sham.
efforts with Oregon
law
(s)C.R. Brauer
enforcement to put a stop to this
District Attorney
sharp practice.
Umatilla County
It sounds like a nice premise-
spend $2,000, then receive
$16,000 several weeks later.
Who wouldn’t jump at the chance
to make money like that? That,
$1.00 lb.
of course, is exactly what the
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of this
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program
that
incorporates
science, math, speaking and v
technology skills. This program
helps to fulfill the state's CIM
and CAM requirements of: <
public speaking skills, science
concepts such as biology, botany,
soils and animal husbandry
contained in earth and life
science courses.
I urge the Morrow County
School Board to consider
keeping
the
vocational
agriculture and FFA programs to
enrich the students educational
experience and goals at Heppner
and Riverside high schools.
(s) Tina Rene' Kemp
HHS class of 1996
Senior at Eastern Oregon
University
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So we bought her a girdle to help her soon-to-be-saggin’ hmney!
She should be glad to have friends like us.
W e'll make sure she had enough change to ride the seniors' bus.
W e'll stick by her side, we’ll never stray far.
HAPPY 30th SHERRI ARBOGAST!
Glifi HEPPNER ELKS 358
"Where Friend* M etí"
To the Editor:
I recognize that the Morrow
County School Board has a
difficult task of making budget
cuts in our schools. One of the
proposed cuts is the vocational
agriculture/FFA program at
Heppner and Riverside high
schools. I would like to take this
opportunity to tell everyone what
this program has done for me and
my fellow classmates.
1 was privileged enough to
have great agriculture instructors
such as Bill Umbarger and
Barney Lindsay for my four
years at Heppner High School.
The subjects we studied
included:
public
speaking,
various science contents, math
and computer skills and hands-on
technology skills. Through
classwork, contests and many
demonstrations,
I
gained,
leadership skills, good work
ethics and improved confidence
in my own abilities that have
helped me to further my
education.
Whether you are college bound
or are obtaining job skills,
vocational agriculture is the only
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Vo-ag FFA programs enrich education
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103rd Annual and Ladies Tea: Registration at 10
a.m. Ladies Tea at 1:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres, door
prizes, cards and bunco! (Reminder-ladles are not
allowed to bring guests.) Lodge starts at 2 p.m.
Dinner is at 6 p.m. with whole roasted pork, plus
music with two live bands from 9 p.m.-l a.m.
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status and talents. Besides project
training,
students
learn
teamwork,
diversity
and
problem-solving methods. No
other high school educational
program gives young people
more opportunities to learn and
attain an economic return.
In addition I feel that Heppner
High School has always been a
leader in the area of vocational
agriculture.
Heppner
High
School FFA has brought home
many top honors in various
competitions and is respected
state-wide. In addition, the
vocational agriculture program
has graduated many jndividuals
that are prominent career leaders
in various ag-related industries.
Some of those individuals were
in my high school class and often
stated that the only reason they
came to school was for the vo-ag
program.
It is true that everyone suffers
when budget short-falls occur,
however, it seems that HHS
students are being penalized the
most. Teachers are asked to dig
deeper in their pockets for
supplies, yet in a school district
the size of Morrow County it is
hard to understand why we need
three vice principals each
drawing a five-figure salary. If
the superintendent wants to
balance the budget, he shouldn't
look any farther than the offices
down the hall. Less waste at the
top end means better educational
opportunities for students.
Let's not forget that Heppner is
an agriculture-based community
and what is needed is more
support
and
training
in
agriculture, not less. I strongly
urge you to attend the next
school board meeting on
February 14 and give them a
realistic viewpoint of what the
young people of Heppner High
School really need.
(s) Krynn (Robinson) Parham
Heppner Class of 1978
Fresno, CA
She'll dean your house and pamper your nails to earn a buck.
February 19th - Saturday
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To the Editor:
If you give a man a fish he can
eat for one day but if you teach a
man to fish he can feed himself
for a lifetime. This proverb is just
one example of how important
education is to becoming a
productive,
self-reliant
individual.
I challenge anyone to find an
industry that teaches more self-
reliance and productiveness than
agriculture. Not only is it one of
the most important economic
industries in the Heppner area,
but it is deeply-rooted in decades
of historical tradition. That is
why is greatly distresses me to
learn that the Morrow County
School Board has proposed to cut
the
vocational
agriculture
program at Heppner High
School.
As a graduate of this program I
am saddened that this has
become a political issue based on
economic growth of the north
end of the county. People of this
community should stand behind
this program.
Vocational agriculture is more
than an animal shown at the
Morrow
County
Fair or
harvesting a crop. Young people
from all different backgrounds
are taught the skills and
leadership necessary for future
employment, whether in ag-
related careers or not.
It has been my personal
experience that employers regard
involvement
in
vocational
agriculture activities (FFA) as a
highly-touted training ground
and is just as important as your
grade point average or even if
you
graduated
college.
Involvement
in
vocational
agriculture has helped pave the
way for many students to follow
their dreams.
Unlike athletics or the arts,
there is a wider variety of
projects in vocational agriculture
that are suited to individual
students' interests, economic
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