TEN - Heppner Gazette-Tim es, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Janice Skaggs to retire as
Neighborhood Center director
Janice Skaggs
Janice Skaggs of Heppner has
announced her retirement after
eight years as director of the
Heppner Neighborhood Center,
although, in her case, the word
"retirement" should be used
loosely.
Skaggs has plenty planned to do
after she leaves the center,
including yard work, cleaning
offices for the county and
enjoying her nine grandkids.
"There's no way I could just
quit," says Jan. "I'm always on
the go. I'm a people person. 1 like
to be with people."
Skaggs was bom and raised in
Joseph, graduating from Joseph
High School. After high school,
she went to work at Wallowa
Lake Lodge and met her
husband, Frank, there.
Frank was from West Virginia,
but his stster lived there and he
came to visit her. Frank and
Janice met at the local roller rink.
They married and started a
family and. by the time they left
Joseph, they had two children,
Kim, three, and Donna, six
months.
They then moved to Sunnyside,
WA, where Jan's older sister and
her husband lived. Frank went to
work with his brother-in-law who
was a mechanic. Two more
children, Rob and Brian, were
bom while the Skaggs lived in
Sunnyside. Frank also worked
for the Ford garage in Sunnyside
before getting a job at Hall's
Chevrolet in Prosser.
The Skaggs then moved to
Boardman where he got a job
with Sabre Farms before they
made their final move—to
Heppner, "the good town,"
laughs Jan.
When they moved to Heppner
Jan started cleaning houses,
worked for CAPECO and then
began working for the school
district before being hired as the
Neighborhood Center director in
1992. Frank retired from his
auto repair business in 1997.
The Skaggs will have lots of
family around as all of their four
children and five of their nine
grandchildren live in Heppner.
Spring sports calendar
Saturday April 15-Track at
Heppner High School
Heppner High School lists its Condon, 11 a.m.; Softball at Nyssa,
activities calendar for the month of 1 p.m.;
Monday April 17- Budget
Apnl:
Saturday April 1-Softball at Committee meets;
Tuesday April 18- Track at Pilot
Wahtonka, 1 p.m.;
Monday
April
3-Budget Rock, 4 p.m.; Softball, Weston-
Committee meets, parent-teacher McEwen at Heppner, 4 p.m., Girls
Golf at LaGrande, 1 p.m.;
conferences, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.;
Wednesday April 19-Matrix
Tuesday April 4-Baseball,
Sherman County at HHS, 4:30 Group meets at HHS, 7 p.m.;
Thursday April 20- Skills
p.m.; Softball, Riverside at
Heppner, 4 p.m.; Track at Contest at BMCC in Pendleton;
Hermiston, 4 p.m.;
Golf at Heppner, 4 p.m.;
Thursday April 6-Golf at
Friday April 21-Track at
Boardman, 4 p.m.;
Umatilla, 2 p.m.; Boys Golf at
Friday April 7-Golf at Pendleton, 1 p.m.; Junior High
Boardman, 1 p.m.; Baseball, Dufur Track at Pendleton, 2 p.m.;
at HHS, 3:30 p.m.; Junior High
Saturday April 22-Baseball,
Track at Umatilla, 1 p.m.;
Stanfield at HHS, 11 a.m. (two
Saturday April 8- Softball, Pilot games); Softball, MacHi at
Rock, 1 p.m.; Track at Umatilla, 11 Heppner, 1 p.m.; Centennial
a.m.;
Exchange;
Monday April 10- School Board Tuesday April 25-Baseball at
meeting, lone High School, 7:30 Pilot Rock, 4:30 p.m., Centennial
p.m.; April 10-14, State Levels Exchange;
Tests 7 and 9;
Wednesday April 26- Tn-County
Tuesday April 11-Baseball, Junior High at Columbia Middle
Wahtonka at HHS, 4:30 p.m.; School, Centennial Exchange;
Track at Umatilla, 4 p.m., State
Thursday April 27- Golf at
Levels Tests 7 and 9;
Heppner, 2 p.m.; Centennial
Wednesday April 12-Site Exchange;
Council meets at HHS, Spring Friday April 28-Boys Golf at
Sports Pictures, Apnl 12-May 2 LaGrande, 1 p.m.; Track at
State Tests-Science/Social Studies- Goldendale, 4 p.m., Centennial
8 & 10 ;
Exchange;
Thursday April 13-District Saturday April 29- Baseball at
Math, Riverside High, 6:30 p.m.; Athena, 11 a.m. (two games);
Friday April 14- Golf at Echo, Softball at Athena at 1 p.m.; lone
10 a.m.; Junior High Track at Prom.
Umatilla, 2 p.m.;
Kids’ Club God Squad season end nears
The Kids Club, God Squad,
will wind down for the year on
April 12. The club's original
plans were to go until April 25,
but due to family conflicts, the
club will stop earlier.
Average attendance at the non-
denommational children's group
has been 15 members. They have
met since January 5 on
Wednesdays after school until
4:45 p.m. at the Heppner Church
of the Nazarene.
In addition to pitching in to
clean up the Heppner mini-park
(pictured above), the club’s
activities have included: musical
cheers (instead of chairs), Bible
lessons, scripture memory, skits,
singing and a pizza party. A
skating party is scheduled in
Pendleton on April 1.
Children pictured above
working at the mini park include
Rachel and Zach Alford, Dane
and Luke Basil, Braden and
Mikel Britt, Bailee Keithley, Ben
McCarl, Trent Miles, Jordan
Shepherd, Kendra Rayburn and
Destiny George. Adults assisting
were Pastor Duane Jones, Shelli
Britt, Connne Miles, Kan Keown
an Peggy Connor.
Local cowboys compete in Dodge finals
Some local cowboys and
cowgirls are represented in the
2000 Dodge National Circuit
Finals Rodeo that kicked off
Mustang Scramble golf tourney
benefits youth golf
Twenty-seven
three-
person golf teams took on the
challenge of Willow Creek
Country Club and the elements
of Mother Nature to kick off the
first annual Mustang Scramble
Golf Tournament on Sunday,
March 19.
With steady winds
blowing between 10 and 20 mph,
and the temperature in the mid-
40's, the 81 golfers teed off at 9
a.m. to contribute to the Heppner
youth golf program. "With the
conditions being as they were,
some great rounds were played,"
said organizer Ron Bowman.
Winning trophies and wind
shirts for shooting low gross of
54 were the team of Craig
Holland, Jeff Cutsforth and
Rodney Ehrmantraut.
Shooting low net with a score
of 49.34 and also getting trophies
and wind shirts were Ron
Bowman, Chris Bowman and
Brad Bowman.
Coming in second gross with a
score of 55 and winning pitching
wedges was the team of Jeff
Huggins, Arden Olson and Jim
Doherty.
Receiving wedges on the net
side for second with a score of
49.84 was the team of Greg
Grant, Virginia Grant and John
McCabe.
Third low gross of 58 went to
the team of Don Hayworth, John
Holland and Vem Logosz.
Third low net with a 52.5 went
to Stub Lewis, Don Eaves and
Leon Ball. All six golfers won
putters.
Numerous businesses and
individuals contributed money
and merchandise for tee prizes.
March 15 at the Idaho State
University's Holt Arena. Only the
top circuit cowboys in the nation
will compete in the rodeo, which
features a tournament style,
sudden-death format.
This year 16 contestants from
the Columbia River Circuit vied
for shares of approximately
$415,000 in prize money as well
as
national
circuit
championships. The DNCFR is
the crowning event for cowboys
involved in the Professional
Rodeo Cowboys Association's
circuit system. The system
divides the country into 12
geographic areas or circuits,
which allow cowboys to compete
part-time while staying close to
home to take care of family and
job responsibilities.
At the Columbia River Circuit
Finals
Rodeo,
the
event
champions, as well as the
circuit's year-end event champs,
qualified for the lucrative
DNCFR.
DNCFR rodeo performances
were March 15-18.
Area contestants included team
roper Bret McDowell, Heppner;
barrel racers Katie McCoin,
Condon, and Randy Rae Britt,
Echo; and Jeff Coelho, Long
Creek.
Arts and Crafts Club workshops
Two workshops are being
Everyone is invited to join
planned by Morrow County them.
Creative Arts and Crafts Club in
April.
The first, in oils, will be with
Betty Crosswhite April 7-8. Call
Betty Mills, 676-5546, for more
information.
The next class, in watercolor
with Sally Bourgeois instructing,
will be April 15-16. Call Sharon
Harrison, 989-8496, to find out
more.
Morrow County Arts and
Crafts Club members will meet
Ream • Carton
Thursday, March 23, at Cal's at 1
p.m. for lunch and a short
Gazette-Times
meeting.
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Barnyarders 4-H Club
By Amy Jepsen
The Barnyarders 4-H Swine
Club held their fifth meeting of
the club year on Tuesday, March
7, at 7 p.m. There were 25
members present. The club
welcomed new members, Sloan
Keithley and Teonna Vandever
into the club.
• Club members then discussed
where they were going to buy
their 4-H pigs.
Club members signed up to
work at the club’s main fund
raiser, the sheep dog trials on
March 18-19. Then Meagan and
Emily Unruh did a presentation
on the different breeds of swine.
The meeting was adjourned.
The next meeting will be at a 4-H
swine showmanship workshop in
Hermiston on Saturday, March
25.
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