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heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 12, 2000 - THREE Thompson St. brought up to city specs Engagements Bracher - Coe McCoin - Garthwaite Photo by Allison Sykes Thompson Street has brought up to city specs with the addition of curbs, gutters, catch basins and storm drains and is ready for new home construction. Jerry Gentry, David Allstott and Tom Wolff developed the lots which are located on Thompson Street near the heli-pad below Rock Street. One new home was constructed by Allstott and Gentry Construction with two lots purchased. Four lots are for still sale. Heppner High School lists honor roll Heppner High/Junior High School has announced its third quarter honor roll. Following are the students who qualify: Seventh grade honor roll: Shanna Rietmann and Jessica Wainwright, both 4., Madison Bailey, Cara Kennedy, Terra Wil son; honorable mention-Chelsea Britt, Jode Coil, Kylee Disque, Kyle Huddleston, Blair Keithley, Joshua Lankford, Linsey Mitchell, Elizabeth Orwick. Eighth grade honor roll: Blake Alstott and Luke Murray, both 4., Stefanie Hanson, Courtney Nelson, Brooke Rust, Sheena Shank, Jessica Westberg, Jessie Woodward; honorable mention- Justin Botefuhr, Lindsey Clough, Brian Haguewbtrd, Tasha Hlavinka, Danielle Looslie, Tiffany Piper, Matt Young. Freshmen honor roll: Lacey Matteson, 4., Sally Calvert, Daniel Jepsen, Marcy M iller, Doug Orwick, Ashley Ward; honorable mention-Brad Adams, Tracy Baker, Dawn DeBoer, Cindy Gall, Aleshia Geer, Megan Healy, Tyler Henderson, Whitney Sherritt, Nicole Wilson. Sophomore honor roll: Brad Bowman, Shelley Rietmann and Sam Van Liew, all 4., Meghan Bailey, Jon Bennett, Jessica Gutierrez, Brian Rust, Tammy Smith, Paula Spicerkuhn; honor able mention-Claire Anderson, Brett Barber, Jodie Carlson, Kevin Drake, Daniel Fortner, Kelsey Greenup, Stefan Matheny, Julie Proctor, Leland Rill, Molly Turrell. Junior honor roll. Amber Flaiz, 4., Krista Adams, Kelli Bates, Ryan M atteson, M arissa McCabe, Kyle M cDaniel, Danielle McDowell, Craig Scott, Melinda Smith, Amanda Sneddon, Scott Van Winkle; honorable men- tion-San Juanita Elguezabal, Blake Knowles, Jennifer Patton, David Piper, Maria Saenz, Lindsey Ward, Brandon Young. Senior honor roll: Trisha Adams, Amy Drake, Casey Ingraham, Tracy Rankin, Ashley Ropp, Matt Van Liew, all 4., Clint Bellamy, Cody Bellamy, Stephanie Clough, Jeff Currin, Leah Denton, Abby Kahl, Kristen Marshall, Mitch Mathews, Laurie Michael, Kim Pointer, Macy Rhea, Michael Schonbachler, Katie Sherritt, Jeff Sneddon, Heidi Turrell; honorable mention-Joey Bourne, Miff Devin, Levi Geer, Corey Miller, Justin Nelson, Amy Papineau, Aleea Strouse, Allison Sykes, Alan Woodward. Paint techniques class to be held Blue Mountain Community College has scheduled a Home Decorating Paint Techniques class on Saturday, April 29, at Heppner High School. "Spring is the perfect time to spruce up the house and this class offers students a chance to try their hand at some of the new trends in home decor," said Anne Morter, BMCC coordinator for south Morrow County. The class will cover sponge painting, rag rolling and color washing and students will also see a demonstration of stippling, tissue paper painting and more. Becky Lloyd, a licensed painting contractor from Hermiston, is the instructor. Lloyd has done commercial and residential painting and has taught seminars. Cost of the class is $25 plus a $15 lab fee. Pre-registration is required. To register, contact Morter, 422-7040. SAVE 25% on All Silver Replating Final Week! We’ll Make Your Old Silver Beautiful Again! Take advantage of these sale prices and have your old. damaged silverware, antiques and family heirlooms restored. Bring your silver in for a FREE estimate. Full 25-Year Warranty On All Silver Replating FREE Dent Removal and Straightening on most items we silverplato. And only $34.95 for all soldering repairs on any piece we sitverplate; including soldering broken handles, legs. * * * SA LE E N D S A P R IL 30! Peterson’: Nappaar m -p J O O Bring Your Silver In TODAY! Katie McCoin and Mike Garthwaite Randy Bracher and Charene Coe Ned and Patti Kayser of Condon and Bill McCoin of Pendleton announce the engagement of their daughter, Katie, to Mike Garthwaite of Merritt, British Columbia. The bride-elect is a 1997 graduate of Condon High School. She is self employed. The bridegroom-elect is the son of Gordon and Debbie Garthwaite of Merritt, B.C., and Robert and Erica Carfra of Victoria!1, B.C. He is a 1994 graduate of Merritt High School in Merritt and a 1997 graduate of Blue Mountain Community College at Pendleton. He is employed by his family ranch at Merritt. A May 12 wedding is planned at the United Church of Christ in Condon. The parents of Charene Coe and Randy Bracher announce the forthcoming marriage of their children. Char is the daughter of Jan Coe of Heppner and Tim Coe of Fossil. She is the graduate of Blue Mountain Community College, and is currently employed at World Wide Travel Service in Walla Walla, WA. Randy is the son of Cliff and Judy Bracher of Hermiston. He is the graduate of Oregon State University, and is currently employed at Pendleton Gram Growers in Hermiston. Their wedding date has been set for July 8 at Cold Springs Ranches. Morrow, Umatilla telecom groups plan joint meeting Willow Creek Valley meeting planned April 20 All lone, Lexington, and Heppner residents concerned about economic development are invited to a Willow Creek Valley meeting at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 at the Bank of Eastern Oregon conference room in Heppner to participate in two action items: -the Willow Creek Valley Action Group. Members of the Willow Creek Valley Technical Advisory Committee, members of HEDC, HCC, ICABO and all other interested community groups and individuals are invited to convene the Willow Creek Valley Action Group. Greater Eastern Oregon Development Corporation (GEODC) will provide staffing assistance to the group through an Economic Development Administration grant to help timber-distressed communities. The agenda will include agreement on Action Group priorities, structure, members, meeting times and locations. According to a GEODC news release, GEODC will propose that the central charge of the Action Group be implementation of the Business Retention Program recommended in the Elesco study. GEODC staff are prepared to initiate this program in cooperation with an Action Group that represents all communities in the Willow Creek Valley. A "kick-off' training and presentation on business retention programs is tentatively scheduled for May 4 or 5. -Morrow County Partnership Priorities. The Morrow-Baker Partnership is developing a regional investment plan to direct investments of the Regional Investment Fund, successor to the Regional Strategies Program. According to the release. Baker County has already completed an inventory of top community projects as a preliminary step. "GEODC's charge is to develop a similar inventory of Morrow County concerns," according to the release. "The goal is to meld the two counties' concerns into a single plan." Two meetings will be held in the next three weeks, one in north county and one in south county. At each meeting, top priorities from existing strategic plans will be reviewed, and the public will be invited to make comments or to add priorities. The south county meeting will Morrow and Umatilla County be held in conjunction with the telecommunication action groups Willow Creek Valley Action will hold a joint meeting on Group on April 20. Thursday, April 20, at 10 a.m. at The north county meeting date the Employment Department, and location will be set at a later 950 SE Columbiq,pijve Suite B., date. in Hermiston. For more information or to . The meeting is part of a RSVP, contact Martin Davis or continuing series of meetings Lisa Breckenridge at GEODC, each county is holding to (541)276-6745. document community telecommunications usage and needs. Invited presenters include representatives from Portland General Electric, Hale Farms, Sykes Enterprises, the Oregon Wheat Growers League and IRZ Consulting. Anyone interested in learning more about telecommunications usage is welcome to attend. Call Lisa Breckenridge at 541 - 276-6745 for more information. Heppner Garden Club holds meeting BMCC t0 ho,d two com puter classes The Heppner Garden Club held their meeting at the St. Patrick's Senior Center with District 10 director Marjorie Hahn as vistor. Bebe Munkers gave a lesson on fire proofing yards. A potluck was enjoyed with Jane Rawlins and Joann Burlisos as hostess. Marjorie Hahn talked about the District 10 meeting which will be held at Heppner April 29. Two computer classes have also helpful to Windows 98 been added to the South Morrow users. The class will provide County selection of Blue beginners with a background in Mountain Community College the Windows operating system as classes in the near future. well as how to manipulate and Microsoft's Powerpoint will be manage files and folders. the subject of the first class on Both classes will be taught by Saturday, April 29, from 9 a.m.-4 Jan Hood from BMCC's main p.m. Powerpoint is a popular campus and cost $37. For more information, contact program used mainly for presentations and computer Anne Morter, BMCC coordinator for South Morrow County, at generated slide shows. On Saturday, May 13, Windows 422-7040. 95 will be offered. This class is I t ’ s G ood T o L ive I n O regon Reason # 77: There’s a bank here that would happily answer all your questions about IRAs. (Even the really silly ones.) 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