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VOL. 119
NO. 14
8 Pages
Wednesday, April 5,2000
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
lone Youth Group honored for charity work
Heppner City crew members and city manager Jerry Breazeale (center) position tree for planting at the
Heppner City Park.
The Heppner Garden Club
donated $40 toward the purchase
of a new tree for the Heppner
City Park tum-around.
The tree, a red scarlet oak, was
planted Monday in the spot
where the former trees had been.
The old trees, which had been
damaged by Dutch Elm Disease,
lived for 67 years, before their
removal in November. At their
planting, they were dedicated to
George Washington, who also
lived for 67 years.
On hand for the dedication
ceremony April 3 were Mayor
Bob Jepsen, city manager Jerry
Breazeale, Garden Club members
and city crew.
During the planting a bird's
nest was found in the tree's
branches.
The fountain that was in the
turnaround has been relocated to
the mini-park.
New ranger starts work at Heppner District
Back row L to R: Aaron Tworek, Adam McCabe, Adam Neiffer, Diana McElligott, Natalie McElligott, Salli
' McElligott, Jeremy Rietmann, Caitlin Orem. Middle row: Amelia Peck, Adrienne Swanson, Nikki
McElligott, Allison Halvorsen, Shelby Krebs, Andrew Rietmann, Jacob Neiffer. Front row: Bill Gates, Karl
Morgan, Mark McElligott, Korey Morgan, David Mansfield.
The work lone Youth Group
has done for the poor of the
Burnside area of Portland caught
the attention of the Portland Trail
Blazer organization.
Youth group leader Cathy
Halvorsen and her daughter,
Allison, attended a kick off
breakfast for the Human Race, a
benefit walk for non-profit
agencies in July. The event,
sponsored by the Portland Trail
Blazers, gave Halvorsen the
opportunity to share the lone
youths' participation in the
Human Race and the other
charitable work the group has
done. The publicity agent for
Rasheed Wallace was so
impressed, she offered to give
the lone group tickets to a Blazer
game.
Halvorsen received 25 tickets
to the Utah-Blazer game in the
"Sheed’s Squad" section of the
Rose Garden. Adults transporting
the youth to the game were Frank
and Cathy Halvorsen, Jim
Swanson, Virgil Morgan, and
Jen McElligott.
Radio station project unable to get off the ground
After a year of trying to get a
local community radio station off
the ground, organizers have
decided to drop the project.
"It was a difficult decision,"
says Monika Hunter, coordinator
for the project. Hunter cites
inability to raise sufficient funds
and inability to get enough
committed adults to form a Board
as reasons for dropping the
project. "Now just isn't the
time," said Hunter.
"It was a fun idea and
particularly the young people
were really motivated to see it
happen," added Hunter. "We're
all really disappointed. But this
won't be the last project I help
out with to beneft the
community. I've been able to get
to know lots of people I
otherwise wouldn't have and
have grown to love the
community even more."
Hunter said that those who
donated time and effort to the
project will be thanked in the
local paper and the money raised
will be refunded or donated to
the Heppner High School Drama
Program, which will perform the
Shakespeare play, "Midsummer
Night's Dream,” on Mother's
Day, May 14, at Heppner High
School.
Motorcross race rescheduled April 16
The Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo
Committee has scheduled the
Oregon Trail Motorcross Race
for Sunday, April 16, at the
Morrow County Fairgrounds in
Heppner.
Races for four-wheelers, three-
wheelers and motorcycles will be
offered for riders, both young
and old. Special children's races,
both heat and barrel, for 15 years
and under will be awarded
trophies for first place. Races for
women will be held also.
The even will be a jackpot
motorcross race. The participants
will be allowed two runs on the
barrel race with the best time
recorded for awards.
Helmets are required.
The OTPR committee will
charge a $1 gate admission.
Sponsors include Lexington
Auto Body, United Rentals,
Lexington Polaris, Oregon Power
S ports,
HondaYamaha
Cycletown and Power City
Polaris.
Pre-entnes will be taken by
telephone on Saturday, April 15,
from 4-9 p.m. for participants to
avoid congestion on Sunday. Call
Marlene Cumn at 676-9711. The
office will open on Sunday, April
16, at 8 a m. Entries will be taken
at that time. A racer's meeting
will be held at 9:30 a m. Races
will begin at 10 a m.
"The OTPR committee is
looking forward to entertaining
motorcross races in Heppner
again this year," said a
spokesperson. "Everyone is
invited to watch and enjoy the
day at the races."
Senior Center to
revive dinner
The Senior Center is reviving
the Memorial Day dinner
tradition and has planned a
dinner on Sunday, May 28, at the
center at 1 p.m.
For more information call the
center, 676-9030.
Andrei Rykoff
Heppner Ranger District’s new
ranger, Andrei Rykoff, will be
experiencing a change of pace
and a change of scenery with his
new appointment.
Rykoff, who began his new job
on March 13, was most recently
the acting district ranger for the
South Fork Management Unit on
the Shasta-Trinity National
Forest in northern California.
Rykoff, 42, was bom and
raised in San Francisco in a
close-knit Russian community.
Russian is his first language and
he attended Russian schools,
learning to speak, read and write
Russian.
Rykoffs mother, Lillian, and
father, Victor, were both of
Russian descent and both were
bom in China. His mother,
whose family was from Estonia,
lived in Shanghai, and his father.
whose
family
was
from
Vladivostok in far eastern
Russia, lived in Harbin. Lillian
moved to the United States with
her mother around 1933-34 when
she was five or six years old.
Victor came to the U.S. with his
mother and grandmother after
graduating from high school.
Both families ended up in San
Francisco, because it had a large
Russian population.
Rykoff attended the University
of California at Berkeley,
receiving a bachelor of science
degree in forest management in
1980.
Following graduation,
he worked for Diamond
International, a private timber
company near Chico. CA, as a
forester laying out timber sales.
From there he was employed as
an inventory forester by Southern
Pacific Land Company at
Weaverville, CA. In 1983, he
was hired by the Forest Service
as a tree improvement forester on
the Weaverville Ranger District,
Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
In 1988 Rykoff began working
for the Winema National Forest
where
he
served
as
environmental coordinator and
logging systems engineer on the
Klamath Ranger District.
In 1995, because of his
experience and fluency in
Russian, Rykoff answered a call
from Washington. D.C.,
to
manage all Forest Service
programs for Russia, Europe and
the former Soviet Union.
In 1998, he returned to Shasta-
Trinity, as Hayfork Adaptive
Management Area coordinator.
He was responsible for coming
up with "new and innovative"
forestry techniques.
As acting district ranger of the
South Fork Management Unit on
the Shasta-Tnnity, he oversaw
the management of 650,000 acres
of forest land. The Heppner
Ranger
District
is
approximately 250,000 acres.
"This is a great place for me to
learn the challenges of becoming
a district ranger," says Rykoff.
"It's something I wanted to do
since I was first with the Forest
Service."
Rykoff will also be closer to his
daughter, Marina, 10, who lives
in Eugene.
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