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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 19, 2000 Holy O éé week,E aster services Holy Week events at area churches are as follows: St. Patrick Catholic Church, Heppner Morrow County Fairgrounds, 7 a m.; Easter worship service, United Methodist Church, 10:30 a.m. Holy Thursday, April 20- Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, 7 p.m. Good Friday, April 21- Stations of the Cross, 12:05 p.m.; Celebration of the Lord's Passion, 7 p.m., consisting of the Liturgy of the Word, Reading of the Passion, General Intercessions, Honoring the Cross and Holy Communion. Holy Saturday, April 22-Vigil of the Lord's Resurrection, 5 p.m., consisting of the Service of Light, Blessing of the Fire, Lighting of the Easter Candle, Liturgy of the Word and Mass. Easter Sunday, April 23- Easter Mass, 11 a m. St. William's Catholic Church, lone Good Friday, April 21- Stations of the Cross, 5:30 p.m. Easter Sunday, April 23- Easter Mass, 8:45 a.m. United Methodist Church, Heppner Maundy Thursday, April 20 -Communion Service, United Methodist Church basement, comer of Gale and Church streets, 8 p.m. Good Friday, April 21-joint Good Friday Tenebrae (service of darkness) with All Saints Episcopal, Hope Lutheran and Valby Lutheran churches at All Saints' Episcopal Church, comer of Gale and Church streets. Easter Sunday, April 23- Easter Sunrise Service at the Hope Lutheran Church, Heppner Valby Lutheran Church, lone All Saints' Episcopal Church, Heppner Maundy Thursday, April 20- service at Hope Lutheran Church, soup and sandwich supper, 6 p.m.; traditional Maundy Thursday worship, 7 p.m., including Holy Communion and concluding with the traditional stripping of the altar. Good Friday, April 21- Tenebrae Service at All Saints, 7 p.m. The Office of Tenebrae, meaning darkness or shadow, is a Holy Week devotion dating back to the seventh or eighth century and is characterized by Scripture readings and the successive extinguishing of candles as the service progresses. The service will be presented by the members of Hope and Valby Lutheran, the United Methodist and All Saints' Episcopal churches. Easter Sunday, April 23- -Valby Lutheran Church- festival service with Holy Communion, 8 a.m.; Easter breakfast immediately following worship. -Hope Lutheran Church- festival service with Holy Communion, 11 a.m. - All Saints Episcopal Church, festival service with Holy Communion with the Reverend Tish Croom presiding, 11 ,m. Karen's Korner Items of Health - Tobacco Prevention by Karen Masshoff Spring greetings. I hope everyone has been able to take advantage of this glorious weather we’ve been having, to be out in the clean fresh air. It has been a busy two weeks for this tobacco prevention person. This past weekend 1 was with OSSOM ("awesome" as in Oregon Student Safety On the Move) at their 15th Annual All-Night State Conference in Milwaukie at Rex Putnam High School. Thirty students from the three Morrow County ¡high- sd(ipols plus three other advisors attended, i ; These young people admirably represented our part of Oregon, nof jJnljrlfrferrtts o f their numbers, but in the responsible way in which they attended various learning sessions, interacted with each other, connected with other students and adults and, most importantly, had fun. The members of this student organization have committed themselves to following all traffic laws and to remaining free from alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. I appreciate being invited to attend, I had a great experience. On March 29-30,1 visited Sue Gibbs and Karen Smith-Griffith's fifth and sixth grade classrooms to talk about the physical effects of tobacco use. I was impressed at how well the students understood why kids smoke or chew, what addiction is, and how tobacco use affects our body. They had the opportunity to view photomicrographs of lung cancer cells, to look at pictures of diseased lungs, including emphysema, and to look through a medical laboratory microscope to view lung material that came from a person who smoked. I appreciated the students and teachers' questions and comments. Perhaps some of you have noticed the public service announcements on television and in magazines sponsored by a number of tobacco companies stating how they are supporting various programs to benefit the disadvantaged. Personally I have mixed emotions about these kinds of activities. How do you feel? — * WJjat do you believe about their motives? Let me know. Last week while I was attending a training in Eugene, I went to see the movie "The Insider" one evening. It is about Jeffrey Wigand, a scientist and former vice president at Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation who was approached by "60 Minutes" to go public in 1995 about what the tobacco industry knew regarding the addictive nature of nicotine. I believe this film reveals much about the deception and intimidation tactics of corporate America. If you missed seeing this film this past fall, I highly recommend you look for it as a video. It stars A1 Pacino as "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman, Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace and Russell Crowe as Wigand. Was it exciting? You bet. Eshjty A t % U c l t \ 4 fo ttA 4 * 4 * h t IfMH* 1 to 7 Featuring: Honey-Baked Ham Pork Loin with Pineapple Sauce Prime Rib • Baked Salmon Red Potatoes • Rolls • Relish Trays Potato Salad • Pasta Salad Fresh Fruit Salad • Green Pea Salad Rainbow Sherbet * C j JU if22-703$ ^M c U a . ' t 350 tOeou _________ By Merlyn Robinson__________ Are you also being bugged by repetitious calls pimping for a particular long-distance telephone service provider? These sales people are of as many different nationalities as there are foreign countries judging from weird dialects that are difficult to understand. Perhaps their mumbo-jumbo results from trying to also eat their dinner while at the same time talking on the phone. When first called, I tried to be polite. Then my manner changed to terse after the first few times. Lately my glasses fog over from the steam that my head begins to generate. This over-kill on solicitation could cause one to drown the phone in the bathtub. Or as is often the case with a cordless phone, perhaps it's just as well that the handset has run off and hidden. Sure as one sits down to a piping hot meal there goes that ding-a-lmg thing again. No wonder that Caller ID is popular, you can screen those calls and pretend you're not home. Most of these sales people begin with a non-stop pitch. But should they chance to draw a long breath, jump right in with some ready answers. Instead of just hanging up, try this: "Nobody home" or "I’m putting you on hold"- - - Yeah, like forever! Or say, "A tornado just struck our home and I can't find a phone so I must have landed in heaven" Then there's this funky line, "You'll have to excuse me. The fish are attacking the cat who just fell into the piranha tank that we keep by the front door to discourage door-to- door salespeople. Too, you could always say, "We left yesterday by sled dog for Siberia." Then there's this one, "I’m mentally challenged and sometimes unstable, but I'll be glad to switch to your company. For that privilege. I'll let you have the first option to buy my million dollar home site that has a solid rock foundation with the world's most endangered rocks." Another thing that gets to me is the salesman that opens with that "How are you" line. As if that person gives a tinker toy about a complete stranger. Or maybe that's the way they determine if a person if literate enough to understand the unpunctuated, monotone hype that follows. For kicks, grab that "How are you" opening and launch into your own version such as: "I'm glad that you asked. You know I've never been the same since my last*operation." Then be sure to describe in detail the events leading up to that operation, all the gory stuff of your hospital stay and the difficulties of recovery. Without pausing or taking a breath (if you exhaust that subject) do carry on as follows. "But I'm doing OK, considering that I'm 109, have arthritis, gout, can't walk, am going blind and losing most of my teeth so I have to sip my supper. But I do have my better days when I can hear lots of things that I don't understand, I remember to brush my teeth even though this hairy brush is quite large for my mouth. Sometimes I can distinguish between the doorbell and the telephone. My biggest complaint is that the television audio keeps getting weaker, except during commercials. Now you'll have to excuse as UPS is at the door with my new weight lifting machine and a 10-year supply of "Feelin' Good" vitamins, a bargain sold to me by that last handsome salesman, around 50 years old who also wants to marry me. He's been ever so nice, even helping me balance my checkbook. I'll be glad when he gets back, he's been gone to tend to some business since I loaned him my credit cards. Uh-oh, there goes that phone again!" St. Patrick's Senior Center Bulletin Board Ninety-seven people were present for the senior dinner April 12, including a bus load of seniors from Boardman. Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church served. The Senior Center Board met after the meal. There was no apartment tour. Blood pressures were taken before the meal. The menu for the birthday dinner April 28 is Parmesan chicken, wild rice, three-bean salad, fruity Jell-O, whole wheat roll and birthday cake. The United Methodist Church will serve. The bus did not go to Beecher's at lone Friday as several people had to cancel, leaving too few to take the bus. The bus is scheduled to go to the Wild Horse Museum and lunch April 21 at 8 am. and to the Monument Senior Center for lunch April 25 at 8:30 a.m. A minimum of six people are needed for bus trips. A sign up sheet is in the Senior Center office, or call 676- 0030. Remember Bingo on Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m.; exercise Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m.; cards Tuesday and Friday at 1 p.m.; and a movie on Thursday at 2 p.m. Local youth place at M-F rodeo Heppner's Ryan Matteson placed in two events at the high school rodeo in Milton Freewater, held April 15 and 16. A time of 12.71 in the calf roping and a 14.72 in the steer wrestling earned fifth place finishes in both events. Sister Lacey Matteson also placed in two events, taking sixth in barrel racing with a 17.319 and seventh in goat tying with a 10.29. Condon's Marne Wilkins kept up with the Mattesons by placing in two events with sixth in goat tying with a 10.22 and ninth in breakaway roping with a 4.91. The Irzyk brothers of Moro both placed in the steer wrestling. Joe Irzyk finished fourth with a 9.51, while Chris was seventh with a 17.54. ^ Other names familiar to the area include Roseburg's Tatone sisters. Nataly Tatone finished second in the barrels and poles with times of 16.975 and 21.010 respectively. She also placed fourth in the goat tying with a 10.04 and seventh in the girls cutting with a 64, which combined to earn her the girl's all around honors. Jessica Tatone placed fifth in barrels with a 17.215, eighth in poles with a 22.366, fifth in breakaway with a 4.34 and third in girls cutting with a 70. Jonie Nash of Pilot Rock finished eighth in barrel racing with a 17.535 and fifth in poles with a 21.644. Prineville's Elizabeth Bowerman competed in the girls' cutting with a broken ankle and took seventh place with a 64. On cz/l/lcmoxij of <zA/[a%joxLE J l, (W/xicjfit A graveside service for Marjorie L. Wright will be held Saturday, April 22 at 2 p.m. at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery in Heppner. Mrs. Wright passed away on December 9, 1999 in Everett, Washington. A+J. L ow htf ?if • U A reception will follow the ceremony at St. Patrick’s Parish Hall. 4 H J/SH and lone schools receive Satisfactory ratings Heppner Junior/Senior High School and lone Schools have each received overall satisfactory ratings from the Oregon Department of Education school report cards. Heppner High School, grades seven-12, received a rating of strong in student behavior; satisfactory marks in student performance and school characteristics; and an improved rating in improvement in student performance. lone School, grades seven-12, received an exceptional rating in student behavior; satisfactory ratings in student performance and school characteristics; and a rating of "about the same" in improvement in student performance. Schools were rated Unacceptable, Low, Satisfactory, Strong and Exceptional. The student performance category was based on the percentage of students meeting state testing standards. At Heppner, 46 percent of students in grades eight and 10 met state standards in reading, compared to 52 percent in comparison schools and 54 percent state-wide. In writing 86 percent of Heppner students met state standards, compared to 75 percent in comparison schools and 70 percent state-wide. In math multiple choice, 47 percent of Heppner students met state standards, compared to 36 percent in comparison schools and 44 percent state-wide. In math problem solving, 61 percent of Heppner students met the standards, compared to 51 percent in comparison schools and 53 percent state-wide. In lone in grades three, five, eight and 10, 60 percent of the students met the state standards in reading, compared to 56 percent in comparison schools and 64 percent state-wide. In writing 87 percent of the lone students met the state standards, compared to 75 percent in comparison schools and 67 percent state-wide. Itr math multiple choice, 62 percent of lone students met the standards, compared to 40 percent in comparison schools and 56 percent state-wide. In math problem solving 76 percent of lone students met the standards, compared to 54 percent in comparison schools and 55 percent state-wide. Student behavior ratings were based on student attendance. Heppner students' attendance has dropped somewhat over the past several years, but is still above the state percentages with 96.6 percent attendance in 1995- 96, compared to 92.6 for the state; 94 percent in 1996-97, compared to 92.6 for the state; 93 percent in 1997-98, compared to 92.7 state; and 93.4 in 1998-99, compared to 92.8. Heppner High School had a dropout rate of 3.8 percent in 1997-98, compared to a 6.9 percent rate for the state. In 1996- 97, Heppner’s dropout rate was 1.9 percent, compared to 6.7 for the state. lone Schools' attendance has maintained fairly steady over the years with 93.2 percent in 1995- 96, 93.4 in 1996-97 and 1997-98, and 93.6 for 1998-99. State averages ranged from 92.6 for 1995-96 and 1996-97, to 92.7 for 1997- 98 to 92.8 for 1998-99. lone had a zero dropout rate for 1997-98, compared to 6.9 prcent state-wide. In 1996-97 lone had a 1.6 percent dropout rate, compared to 6.7 percent state-wide School characteristics was based on the percent of students taking state tests. For Heppner 99 percent of the students took state tests, vs. 96 percent of students state-wide. For lone, 100 percent of the students took the state tests, compared to 97 percent state wide. In Heppner, SAT test scores are below the state and national averages with average verbal scores at 465, compared to 525 state-wide and 505 nationally; average math scores at 478, compared to 525 state-wide and 511 nationally. Seventy percent of HHS students (23 students) were tested, compared to 49 percent state-wide (16,897). HHS teachers are about par with the state, with 47 percent having master's degrees or higher, compared to a state average of 46 percent. Teachers at HHS and state-wide both had an average of 14 years experience with HHS teachers having nine years average in their district, compared to 10 years state-wide. In lone, students bested the state and nation in SAT scores. Average verbal scores at lone were 532, compared to 525 state wide and 505 nationally. In math, lone students averaged 527, compared to 525 state-wide and 5T1 nationally. Thirty-six percent of lone students (nine) were tested, compared to 49 percent (16,897) state-wide. Twenty percent of lone teachers have a master's degree or higher, compared to 46 percent state-wide. lone teachers have 15 years average experience, compared to 14 state wide, and an average of 12 years in the district, compared to 10 years state-wide. According to the Morrow County School District, the Oregon Department of Education delayed issuing the report cards to the two schools because of confusion over configuration of the schools, which may have changed over the years. Reports for lone, for example, have been submitted variously for lone Schools, lone High School, lone Junior High School, lone Middle School and lone Elementary School. Telecommunications meeting A regional telecom meeting will be held on Tuesday May 9, at 10 a.m. at the Baker City Library in Baker City. Representatives from all Eastern Oregon counties and industries are invited to attend. The agenda includes: Organizational structure and formation; Exploration of options to gain access to utility networks, including BPA, telephone and electrical companies;. Senate Bill 622 planning; Formation of regional work/action plan. Steve McClure will be the facilitator. 5 RSVP to Lisa Breckenridge at lbrecken@orednet.org. "This meeting will be setting up some structure so that we can address the issues that affect our entire region," said Breckenridge. "At the broadband meeting in Bend last week, it became clear that there are several different providers of wholesale broadband access who could potentially serve our region. We need to determine our own priorities and make sure that we chose the broadband provider that best meets the needs of our entire region rather than waiting for the providers to decide." Howl & ‘Plner NEW SPRING & SUMMER HOURS Sunday-Monday: CLOSED Tuesday-Friday: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-9 p.m. Saturday: 4-9 p.m. “Tkh Week . ' j special: Large thln-crust pepperoni pizza H 2 'Tty ou t now hom em ade p o cket iandw ichei!
