Heppner Gazette-Times Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 16, 2000 - FIVE
Junior golf tourney held
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Story "feller" Tom McCormack entertains a rapt audience at the Heppner City Park August II.
It's Fair time in Morrow County
Junior golf tourney participants
The 2000 Junior Golf program
was concluded on Saturday,
August 12, with a tournament,
awards and a barbecue.
Winners are as follows:
Boys six-seven years: first-
Justin
Gutierrez,
second-
Cameron
Day,
third-Justin
Pranger.
Girls six years: first-Cassi Day,
second-Mackenna Ramos.
Boys eight years: first-Chance
Day, second-R.J. Ramos, third-
Brent Eckman, fourth-Bryan
Holland.
Boys nine-10: first-Luke
Young, second-Joe Pranger,
third-Matt McCabe.
Girls nine-10: first-Jenna
Bowman, second-Kelsey Meyer,
third-Sara Johnson.
Boys 11-12: first-Jeff Towers,
second-Quinn Peck, third-Roy
Proctor, fourth-J.C. Sherritt.
Girls 11-13: first-Charlene
Houweling,
second-Kylie
Disque, third-Mirranda Hunt.
Boys 13-15: first-fcyle Brown,
second-Tyler
Boyer, third-
Tanner Britt.
Other players include: Ryan
Campbell, Rory Kilkenny, Logan
Anthony, Jeff Hunt, Whitney
Sherritt,
Jason
Houweling,
Mathew Holland, Mark McCabe,
Tyler Robinson, Curtis Harper,
Taylor Disque, Drew Johnson,
Julie Proctor, Seth Morgan and
Cole Morgan.
Local educators complete
space discovery course
Heppner Elementary School
teachers, Mary Haguewood and
Cara Osmin, completed the
"Advanced Space Technology"
Space Discovery graduate course
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Aug. 4, at U.S. Space Command
at Peterson AFB in Colorado
Springs.
Space
discovery
graduate
courses
prepare
kindergarten-grade 12 education
professionals of all disciplines to
"launch learning excitement" in
their classrooms by incorporating
aerospace education across the
curriculum to motivate students
and improve learning.
Nearly 50 educators from
around the country took part in
the
"Advanced
Space
Technology" course. Course
participants
studied
Earth
satellites; learned about the
history of rocketry; investigated
Global Positioning Satellites;
explored robotics; and examined
facts and fiction about Mars.
Andre Bormanis, science
advisor to Star Trek, was the
special presenter during the
course. Dr. Ron Sega, dean of the
College of Engineering and
Applied
Sciences
at
the
University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs and former
astronaut, spoke at the graduation
lunch.
Other instructors and speakers
included1 Jim Dean,-1 Spaci
Foundation lead instructor; arid
Lt. Col. Mike Filler, Chief, Space
Operations,
U.S.
Space
Command.
Two
additional Space
Discovery
courses
were
conducted by the foundation in
Colorado Springs this summer.
"Space Basics and Earth Studies"
was held in June at Glen Eyrie
Conference Center, and "Living
in Space and Basic Rocketry"
was held three consecutive weeks
in July at the United States Air
Force Academy.
The foundation has conducted
Space
Discovery
graduate
courses
since
1986.
All
foundation courses meet state
and
national
educational
standards, with optional graduate
credit available. For more
information on the Space
Foundation and its programs,
visit www.spacefoundation.org
or call 1-800-691-4000.
Local student earns scholarship
The Oregon Society of CPAs
Educational Foundation has
announced that Brent Gunderson,
Heppner, is the recipient of the
Randell C. Guyer, Jr. $1,000
Scholarship, as well as a $ 1,000
OSCPA Educational Foundation
Scholarship.
Gunderson will be a senior this
fall at Eastern Oregon University
where he is majoring in
accounting. He plans to become
a CPA after graduation.
Since 1985, The OSCPA
Educational Foundation has
sponsored a scholarship program
designed to attract "talented
accounting students" and reward
their efforts with financial
support.
The initial requirement for high
school seniors is a minimum 3.75
GPA and attendance at an
accredited
Oregon
college/university. To date, the
foundation has provided financial
aid in excess of $231,000 to
more than 225 students. This
year alone, $77,000 was awarded
to 57 qualified candidates.
Through this scholarship
program,
the
foundation
encourages Oregon's best and
brightest to bring their skills and
talents to the accounting
profession, according to a news
release.
For more information about the
OSCPA
Educational
Foundation's
scholarship
program, visit www.orcpa.org or
contact Tonna Elliott at (503)
641-7200 / Oregon 1-800-255-
1470, ext. 29.
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Win OTPR
tickets
The Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo is
again offering two free OTPR
tickets to people who are up on
their local rodeo facts.
The first contestant to stop by
the Heppner Gazette-Times with
the correct answer to a question
will win two free tickets to one
performance of the OTPR
August 18 at 7 p.m., August 19 at
1:15 p.m. or the Morrow County
Rodeo on August 20 at 1:15 p.m..
Questions are as follows:
1. When was the first Morrow
County Jackpot saddle given and
what company sponsored the
hand-crafted saddle?
2. Name the Morrow County
Amateur Calf Roping saddle
winners from 1950-55.
3. Why was the Morrow County
Amateur saddle started in the
1950s?
4. How many committee
members does it take to put on
the PRCA rodeos and the
Morrow County Jackpot Rodeo.
Nam? them.
photo by Camille Sykes
Displays are made ready Tuesday in anticipation of the opening of the 2000 Morrow County Fair in
Heppner. The Fair runs through Sunday with entertainment, food and other activities.
PGE employees
donate
Portland General Electric has
announced that $36,720 in grants
were awarded to 90 non-profit
organizations and schools during
the second quarter of 2000
through the Employee Volunteer
Grant program—a program
designed
to
incorporate
employee volunteer interests into
PGE's philanthropic tradition.
"Our employees have such an
amazing sense of pride in the
community," said Peggy Fowler,
CEO and president of PGE. "The
EVG program is a wonderful
way to show them that the
company
values
their
involvement and is behind them
100 percent."
Grants awarded in the Heppner
area include:
-$250 donated by Randy Curtis
to Boy Scouts of America Troop
667;
-$250 donated by Kathy Rauch
tQ North Lexington 4-H Club
Morrow County 4-H;
-$250 donated by to Lee
Archer to North Lexington 4-H
Club Morrow County 4-H.
"PGE embraces the opportunity
to be actively involved in issues
affecting the quality of life in the
communities where we operate
and where our employees live.
Through the EVG program and
other charitable activities, PGE
focuses on preserving and
enhancing
our
natural
environment; educating and
supporting a healthy, stable
workforce;
creating
and
maintaining
safe,
involved
neighborhoods; and supporting
programs
that
promote
diversity," said a spokesperson.
Concert slated
The "Hope for African
Children's Concert" will be held
Sunday, August 27, beginning at
7 p.m. at the Pendleton
Convention Center.
Entertainment will include
Nicol Smith and "The Waiting.”
Tickets, available at Christian
book stores and Good Samaritan
Ministries offices, will be $12
each or $10 for group tickets.
Free leadership program offered
Morrow Leadership 2000 is
inviting people with leadership
potential to participate in a free
leadership training program. The
program is modeled after the
popular "Rural Futures Forum"
of Rural Development Initiatives.
Participants learn how to develop
strategies for community change,
identify
leadership
styles,
conduct negotiations, improve
communications,
increase
effectiveness in working with
meetings, and more.
The conference consists of six
evening
sessions
rotating
between Boardman, Imgon,
Heppner, lone and Lexington.
The program starts Wednesday,
September 6 and will run every
other Wednesday.
After the sessions, participants
will have experience in core
leadership skills such as working
with volunteers and boards; fund
raising; project management; and
how to develop and implement a
strategic community plan.
According to Heppner City
Manager and project organizer
Jerry Breazeale, "We are hoping
for a mix of experienced
community leaders as well as
people who haven't been very
active yet. This would be perfect
for some younger people who are
looking for an opportunity to get
involved. We are also hoping to
get a mix of people from the
different communities in both
north and south county, including
the Hispanic community. We are
very
excited
about
the
possibilities
for
building
relationships between all of the
participants. I took part in a
similar program last year and
was very impressed with the
quality of the trainers and with
the things I learned that I have
put to work immediately."
"Communities believe so
strongly in the potential of this
program that we've already
gotten meals for the participants
donated," commented Breazeale:
"Morrow cities are really
stepping up to the plate to
support this."
Application packages are
available at local cities, or call
676-5618 to request one. The
deadline for applications to this
free program is Monday, August
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Pendleton teens
home after
accident
Three Pendleton teenagers
are home after treatment for
injuries sustained in an early
morning automobile accident at
the Upper Rhea Creek/Sandford
Intersection on August 6.
According to the Morrow
County Sheriffs Department, the
MCSO, Heppner Ambulance and
Heppner Fire Department were
called to the scene of the
accident at 1:16 a m.
Michael Cox, 19. and Brandon
Campbell, 18, were transported
to Walla Walla and then flown to
Bend. They were treated for
broken bones and released. Jerry
Foster, 18, was life-flighted to
Oregon
Health
Sciences
University where he was treated
for a spinal fracture He was
released Saturday.
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