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Left to right: Raymond French, Bridie Hickey, Norma French and Jim Hickey.
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VOL 119_______NO. 12
10 Pages
Wednesday, March 22,2000
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Coast to Coast now Heppner Hardware
The Raymond and Norma
French family and the Heppner
community had some special
visitors from Ireland during the
St. Patrick's Celebration over the
weekend.
Visiting from Ireland were
Raymond's second cousin, Bridie
Hickey and her husband, Jim.
Following is a brief family
history.
Patrick (Wee Paddy) Doherty),
Raymond's great grandfather,
was bom about 1838 in
Ballyloskey, Camdonah, Count)
Donegal, Ireland. He died about
1920 in Camdonah. He married
Mary Canny and to this union
was bom one daughter, Susan, in
1870, who later married Dillard
French. Dillard and Susan are
Raymond's grandparents.
Susan's mother died sometime
before 1886 and Paddy married
Hannah McLaughlin. After the
birth of Jimmy, Hannah also died
in 1886. Shortly after Hannah's
death, Paddy took his sixteen
year old daughter, Susan, and
baby son, Jimmy and immigrated
to America. Paddy took up a
homestead in the Butter Creek
area. The East fork of Butter
Creek is also known as Paddy
Creek and was named after
Paddy Doherty.
After spending nine years in
America, Wee Paddy returned to
Ireland with his son, now nine
years old. Susan, in the
meantime, had married Dillard
French and now had a child of
her own. Susan remained in
America and apparently never
her saw her father or brother
again.
Bridie Hickey is the
granddaughter of Jimmy and is a
second cousin to Raymond. Wee
Paddy is the great grandfather of
both Raymond and Bridie, but
they have different great
grandmothers.
Bridie was also bom and raised
in Camdonah, Co. Donegal.
After her marriage to Jim Hickey
she moved to his home at the
village of Ballagh in County
Tipperary where they still live.
Ballagh is around the size of
Heppner.
Jim has been a "guarda" (Irish
police officer) for 28 years and
Bridie operates a pub, Bridie's
Bar. The Hickeys have three
children, a girl in college and a
boy and a girl still at home.
Jim Hickey's website is
jgmh@gofree.indigo.ie.
Lewis and Clark program
entertains, educates students
Jo Olsen (left) and Mildred Baker.
Heppner Hardware staff Bev Harris (left) and Kay Proctor, along with owner Cliff Green, show off new
sign.
Heppner Hardware has become
a member of the True Value
retail network, with more than
8,000 independent retailers
nationwide.
Heppner Hardware is one of
nearly
2,500
independent
hardware stores that will be
changing to the True Value retail
identity from ServiStar and Coast
to Coast over the next six to eight
months as part of a massive retail
brand consolidation.
Cliff Green, owner of Heppner
Hardware, says, "As a long-time
member of Heppner's retail
houseware items as well as
painting and decorating supplies
for a diverse range of home
projects. The 5,000-square foot
store also specializes in sporting
goods.
Heppner Hardware, located at
106 May Street, is open from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through
Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday. The phone number is
676-9961.
Heppner Hardware is a
member
of Chicago-based
TruServ Coiporation, a Fortune
500 company and wholesaler to
the world's largest member-
owned cooperative. The TruServ
cooperative includes nearly
10,000 independent retailers in
the U.S. and around the world.
Retail sales exceeded $14.5
billion for 1999.
business community, we have
always offered great service,
product selection and advice for
a wide range of home repair and
improvement projects. We're still
the same great store with the
same great people. And now
we've got a new name that
coincides remarkably well with
our business philosophy."
Coast to Coast in Heppner was
purchased by Cliff Green in
1984. Since that time, Coast to
Coast has served the community
with a full line of hardware,
plumbing,
electrical
and
Date set for Bike-a-thon
St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital has announced plans for
the lone "Wheels For Life" Bike-
A-Thon to be held on Tuesday,
April 25.
Coordinator for this year's
event is Anne Morter who
encourages all residents and
businesses to support this
community effort.
St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital, founded in 1962 by the
late entertainer Danny Thomas,
is the largest childhood cancer
research center in America in
terms of the number of patients
treated and treatment success
Treatment is provided at no
cost to the family and all findings
are shared freely with doctors
and hospitals all over the world.
Thanks to St. Jude Hospital,
children who have leukemia,
pediatnc
AIDS,
sickle-cell
anemia and other life-threatening
diseases now have a better
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chance to live.
Three year-old Macarena
Ottogalli represents all of the
patients who have received the
benefits of St. Jude's research.
Macarena was only three months
old when she was diagnosed with
neuroblastoma. Since the tumor
was discovered early, Macarena's
chances of survival are good. She
has been in remission for two
years and has returned home to
Argentina.
According to St. Jude
Children's Hospital reports, she is
a very bright child. She loves to
draw with markers and play with
wooden blocks. Doctors report
that she comes to the hospital
every six months for checkups
and is doing extremely well.
"Thanks to all who support
events like the "Wheels for Life”,
St. Jude Hospital will always be
available for children like
Macarena," said a release.
Principals
reassigned
within district
The resignation of Don Holes
as principal of Columbia Middle
School in Irrigon created a sort
of "Domino effect" in schools
within the Morrow County
School District.
Ron Anthony, principal at
Heppner High School, will take
the head position at CMS starting
this fall and Dick Allen, principal
at lone Schools, will move to the
principal’s position at Heppner
High School, also at the
beginning of the 2000-2001
school year.
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Teachers and students sample "Lumpy Dick" pudding Teachers include Diana Kincaid, Linda Jones,
and student teacher Alison Sullivan. Students are Tlana Camarillo and Brenna Rietmann.
Students at lone Elementary
School enjoyed a program
presented recently by Mildred
Baker and Jo Olsen, retired
teachers from Boardman.
The women came dressed as
pioneers and talked to the classes
about Lewis and Clark's Corps of
Discovery. They explained how
President Thomas Jefferson
asked them to explore the
continent which reached beyond
the existing 17 states. They were
asked to explore the western
rivers which might provide a
water route across the land to the
Pacific Ocean.
The nation had recently
purchased a large parcel of land
from the French for four cents an
acre. They explained how Lewis
and Clark started the expedition
on May 18, 1804, near St. Louis.
They explained the hardships of
the trip and the important part the
young Native American woman,
Sacajawea. played in the journey
and that our country will
celebrate the 200th anniversary'
of the expedition in 2005.
The women also explained the
lifestyle of people in our country
during those years. They gave the
children horehound candy, which
was one of the few sw eets people
had at that time, and cooked a
pudding dessert called "Lumpy
Dick,” which was prepared
w ithout sugar or salt but did have
cinnamon or nutmeg added as a
treat.
Students had mixed reactions to
the food which they sampled but
agreed that our country was an
interesting place 200 years ago.
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