EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 5, 2000
Saddle captures memories for Heppner alum
Donation funds new
baseball storage shed
N ew b a s e b a ll shed
Ken Eckman Construction do
nated the labor of building the shed
which butts up against a new bat
ting cage. A hole is being cut out
of the shed so the pitching ma
chine can be inside and set up so
anyone who needs to use it can.
The front of the shed has
double doors and will house the
new lawn tractor, baseball equip
ment and field equipment.
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner High School
baseball field got a much-needed
addition last week as a new stor
age shed sprang up where the old
one was.
A “very generous donation”
from Pat Kilkenny provided two-
thirds of the money needed with
the rest coming from fund raisers
by Heppner baseball players.
Mustang softball team
splits with Wahtonka
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang
softball team got a clutch two-out
double by Shelley Rietmann to
score SanJuanita Elguezabal in
the bottom of the seventh in the
second game to give the
Mustangs an 8-7 win and a split
against the always tough
Wahtonka Eagles. The games
were the first in league play.
The Eagles won the first
game, 8-1, with the lone Mustang
run coming from a homerrun by
Jesse Gutierrez in the first
inning.
Trailing 2-0 in the
bottom of the first in game two,
Gutierrez doubled, then scored as
Elguezabal bounced one over the
fence for a ground rule double.
Leah Denton singled but
Elguezabal was thrown out at
home to end the inning.
The Eagles led 4-1 in the
bottom of the third wfien Alecia
Geer singled, Gutierrez reached
on an error and Marissa McCabe
walked. Elguezabal then singled
sharply to left field with the ball
rolling between the legs of the
left fielder to the fence to clear
the bases and give the Mustangs
a 5-4 lead.
The Eagles tied it in the
fifth but the Mustangs came back
to take a 7-5 lead on back-to-
back doubles by Gutierrez and
McCabe and a single by
Elguezabal.
The Eagles tied the game
at 7-7 in the sixth but the
Mustangs came back for the
dramatic win in the seventh.
Rietmann went the
distance on the mound to get the
win.
Elguezabal went three
for three with a double and two
RBI's and Gutierrez went two for
four with tow doubles and scored
three runs. Geer went two for
three and made some nice plays
in left field.
First Game
Wahtonka 060 101 0-8 0
Heppner 100 00 0-1 4 6
Kuafman and Thompson; Shelley Rietmann
and Jesse Gutierrez 2B-Ziegler (W). 3B-
none
HR- Gutierrez (H)
Second Game
Wahtonka 220 012 0-7 11 2
Heppner 104 020 1-8 10 2
Smith, Kaufman (5) and Thompson; Rietman
and Gutierrez.
2B-Krol, Smith (W);
Gutierrez 2. San Juanita Elguezabal,
Rietmann (H). 3B-none. HR-none
Mustangs pound Pirates
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustangs
pounded out 11 hits, including
three home runs, in beating the
visiting Riverside Pirates, 18-2,
on Friday, March 31.
The
Mustangs evened their recored to
four and four in the pre-season in
their first game of the year.
The Mustangs got going
early as Michael McCabe led off
with a walk, followed by walks
to Stefan Matheny, Stanley
Cutsforth and Allan Gnbskov
forcing in a run. Josh Hill scored
two more with a single off the
fence in right-center before
Dylan Pettyjohn hit a long
homerun to left field to give the
Mustangs a 6-0 lead after one.
The Pirates scored a run
in the top of the second but the
Mustangs came back with three
more as Matheny walked,
Cutsforth reached on an error and
Kelly Paullus hit a home run to
make it 9-1.
In the bottom of the
third, Hill led off with a walk.
McCabe singled with two outs,
Nick Anthony singled to scored
Hill and Matheny walked to load
the bases. Cutsforth then crushed
a long home run for his second
grand slam of the season.
The Pirates scored a run
in the top of the fourth, but the
Mustangs came back with four
more in the bottom half. Hill
doubled Chris Bndgmon walked
and McCabe singled to score
Hill. Anthony singled to load the
bases and Matheny singled to
score Bndgmon and McCabe.
Cutsforth walked and Paullus
beat out an infield single to score
Anthony for the final run.
Pettyjohn pitched an
effective game, allowing five
hits, just one earned run while
striking out seven and no walks.
Hill wen two for two
with two RBI's, Paullus went two
for four with four RBI's and
Matheny had two RBI's and
scored three runs. McCabe went
two for three and scored three
runs and Cutsforth scored three
runs to go with his four RBI's.
Pettyjohn had three RBI's and
Anthony went two for four
Riverside 010 10-2 5 1
Heppner 635 4X-18 11 2
Cody Gordanier, Chris Camine (2), Jake
Graff (4) and Shane Slover; Dylan
Pettyjohn and Stefan Matheny W-
Pettyjohn (2-1). L-Gordanier 2B-Josh
Hill (H). 3B-none. HR-Pettyjohn,
Cutsforth. Paullus (H).
When Tom Green and his wife,
Annette, came to Heppner on
March 18, they had not visited
the town since 1992, (he year he
came to
reminisce
with
classmates about their years at
HHS before
their
1961
graduation.
When he and Annette came to
Heppner this year, he came again
to capture some memories, this
time family memories. And this
time, Tom took home a symbol
of an important segment of his
family's history and heritage, a
saddle.
Tom's father, Ken Green, had
an affinity for horses. As a young
man, he worked as a trainer and
traveled from track to track with
his parents' thoroughbreds. His
marriage, followed by a growing
family, influenced Ken to settle
down in one place as a provider.
In Union, he learned shoe
repair from an experienced
cobbler,
from
whom
he
eventually
purchased
the
business. While in Union,
Green's interest in horses
remained strong, and he learned,
also, to make saddles.
From Union, he, his wife,
Verle, and his family of four
children moved to Elgin, but in
1954 they moved on to Heppner,
where Ken planned to continue
his saddle making.
In Heppner at that time, Joe
Snyder was an established saddle
maker. Business was good
enough for a very busy Snyder
that when Kay Anderson asked
him to build her a saddle, he
recommended she go to a new
Pastors invited
to submit Easter
message
The Gazette-Times will
feature a special section with
Easter messages from local
ministers in the April 19 issue of
the newspaper. Easter is April
23.
Pastors who wish to participate
should have their message at the
Gazette office by 5 p.m. Monday,
April 17.
Messages may be typed or
hand written as long as they are
legible and double spaced.
For more information, call
April Sykes, 676-9228.
Lex Baptist to host signspiration
The Lexington Baptist Church
will be the host of this month's
smgspiration on Sunday, April 9,
at 7 p.m.
The South Morrow County
M ininsterial
Association
sponsors this event with various
churches hosting it each month.
People are invited to come to
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sing, listen, and share in the
music.
Special music is provided by
volunteers from area churches
and the Easter choir will share a
preview of what they have in
store for Easter.
Refreshments will be served
following the Singspiration to
provide "a time of sharing and
enjoying each other's company."
Colleges release honor rolls
Bl ue
Mountain
Community College has released
its honor roll for winter term.
Following are the students who
qualify:
President's List, 4.0-Sharon
Norick,
Boardman;
Nola
Binschus,
Heppner; Mane
Tworek,
Hermiston; Debora
Parks, lone; Dulcie Peterson,
Irrigon.
Dean’s List: Boardman-
Brooke Barton, Jason Calloway,
Michele Cowan, Lee Dawson,
Elizabeth Martinez, Charles Van
Gorder; Heppner- David Bates,
Timothy
Davidson, Rollie
Marshall, Bobbie
Rankin,
Raymond Rhode, Daniel Sharp-
Petit, Virginia Sweeney and Hud
Wilkins; Irrigon-
Gregory
Henderson, Jennifer Samson.
Pendleton- Kathryn Tworek and
Lindsey Waterland.
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man in town, Ken Green. Mrs.
Anderson says that Green did not
wait for her to come to him. He
drove to her country home and
asked if he could make her a
saddle. Kay agreed.
This saddle would be the first
of those made by Green while in
Heppner, where he stayed until
1959. It was the first saddle
hand-tooled by his wife. Though
Verle was a beautician, she also
"was the artistic one of the two,"
Tom reports, and her creativity
grew from the floral design on
the Anderson saddle to the
depiction of horses and horse
heads on later saddles.
Anderson says that the saddle
afforded her a comfortable ride,
but she had difficulty getting it
on a horse because of its weight.
Recently, Mrs. Anderson
decided to sell the saddle, for
which she no longer had a use,
and placed it on consignment at
Green's Feed and Seed. A
seeming lack of interest in the
pleasure saddle led Anderson to
contact Diana Ball in March to
arrange donating it to the St.
Patrick's Auction. Ball relayed
the history of the saddle to fellow
committee
member
Doris
Brosnan.
As Brosnan began an auction-
promotion article for the
Heppner Gazette Times, to
accompany a picture of the
saddle, she thought of her
classmate Tom Green and
wondered if a saddle made by his
father would be of special
interest to him. She contacted
Shirley
George,
another
classmate "who has everyone's
address," told her the story, and
suggested a call to Tom.
Green telephoned Brosnan that
evening to say, "Yes, I am
definitely interested in getting
one of the saddles my parents
made." He explained that he had
kept his eye open for a Green
saddle for about 10 years. As the
two discussed methods of
bidding on the saddle. Green
suggested that he and his wife
might make the trip from Los
Gatos, California, to bid in
person.
On March 17, the two began
their 14-hour drive in a recently
purchased company pickup, for
Green was confident of returning
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Honor Roll: Boardman-Maria
Aguiar, Valerie Bradley, Jorge
Cuevas
Rodgriquez,
Joan
Ratchford and Jessica Rencken;
Heppner-William DeBoer, Jeni
Miller, Shelly Sieler; Ione-
Brenda Burright, Johnny Collpi,
Amanda Gutierrez; Irrigon-
Gloria Brasure, Ilene Osborne,
Matthew Schilling; Lexington-
Phillip Tellechea; Pendleton-
Maci Childers and Katie Riney.
Jacob McElligott, a sophomore
from lone was among the 427
students named to the Gonzaga
University president's list for fall
semester.
Students must earn a 3.7 or
better grade-point average to be
listed.
Founded in 1887, Gonzaga is
an independent, comprehensive
university with a student
enrollment of approximately
4,500.
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home with the saddle, and they horsewoman since a young age.
For 14 years, "until she
arrived in Heppner in time for
replaced her interest in horses
the parade on Saturday.
The Greens used their time in with interest in boys," her dad
Heppner before the Sunday says, she competed in vaulting on
auction for visiting with their horseback. Shelly traveled to
hosts, the Georges, and taking Holland and Germany and
drives around country that holds competed in her home state and
Texas.
many memories for Tom.
Today, Shelly owns several
The fourth item on the auction
block on Sunday was the saddle. horses and teach riding to
True to his intention, Tom Green handicapped children, as well as
placed the winning bid, of $950, to her own daughters. Tom says
carried the saddle out on his that the saddle will surely be
shoulder after time for a more important as a keepsake but
photograph, and headed back will also be Shelly's preference
home to a daughter who was for some special events.
eagerly awaiting its arrival.
Tom reports that his father did
Tom and Annette have a son, not continue his saddle making
John, and a daughter, Shelly. after leaving Heppner but he did
Shelly seems to have inherited continue his association with
her grandfather's interest in horses. Today Ken Green, now
horses. Now the mother of three 84 years old, lives near a
young daughters who show signs daughter in Amegard, North
of following in their mother's Dakota.
footsteps. Shelly has been a
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Area residents help fight against MD
To the Editor:
My Irish eyes are smiling
because Heppner has done it
again. Thousands of area
residents - when they patronized
their favorite convenience stores,
supermarkets, restaurants and
other retail businesses brought
the luck of the Irish to families
affected by muscle-wasting
diseases. By purchasing and
signing the Shamrocks Against
Dystrophy mobiles, they turned
these high-traffic venues green
with good fortune for St.
Patrick's Day.
Thanks to these caring
customers, and all the service
personnel
who
added
humanitarian value to cash
register transactions by asking
patrons, "Would you like to buy
a Shamrock to help families
served
by
the
Muscular
Dystrophy
Association,"
Heppner made an incredible
contribution to the 17th annual
Shamrocks Against Dystrophy
campaign.
I'm sure that St. Patrick is as
grateful as are the million
Americans served by MDA for
the nine million dollars that
Shamrocks raised nationally this
year. This sharing of the green
has helped speed MDA-funded
research at the Oregon Health
Sciences University in Portland
and around the globe.
Moreover, this pot-o-gold is
helping maintain the national
network of 230 MDA clinics.
The services of these hospital-
affiliated clinics, along with *
MDA research, resulted in MDA
becoming the first organization
honored by the American -
Medical Association with a
lifetime achievement award "for
significant
and
lasting
contributions to the health and
welfare of humanity."
In Oregon, MDA has three
clinics, including the MDA clinic
at Oregon Health Sciences
University in Portland.
By taking part in Shamrocks
and other local MDA events, by
calling in pledges to the Jerry
Lewis MDA Telethon broadcast
on KAPP-TV, Channel 35,
Heppner Gazette-Times readers
continue to make a huge
difference
for
families
throughout Oregon and across
the nation.
(s) Maureen McGovern
National Vice President &
Shamrocks Chairperson
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Commission
plans meeting
The Oregon Wheat
Commission will hold a Regular
Meeting on Tuesday, April 11, in
the O'Callahan's Restaurant,
located in the Shilo Inn, 3223
Brett Clodfelter Way, The
Dalles, with executive session at
8:30 a.m. and the regular meeting
at 9:30 a m.
Dress is business casual.
The meeting is open to the
public.
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will be at the Pioneer Memorial Clinic
on April 12th for the diagnosis
and treatment of all foot problems
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