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lone UCC Heppner kids help Kosovo kids celebrates Souper Sunday B033Ì0 lïctacll U o f 0 N s.vap ap or L ib r a r ;/ Eugene, VOL 120 NO. 6_______ 8 Pages L'tt 9 74 3 3 Wednesday, February 7,2001 Morrow County, Heppner. Oregon St. Patrick’s Senior apartments to sport new windows The lone United Church of Christ celebrated "Souper Sunday"at the 11 a.m. church hour on Jan. 28, with a number o f various activities. Ann Rietmann, daughter of Jerry and Lisa Rietmann. was baptized during the worship service. Following a potluck dinner, the annual meeting of the church was held with committee reports and the election of 2001 officers held with Betty Gray, moderator, as the leader. Debbie Coppenger from the Salvation .Army Cireenhouse visited the church and the lone Ecumenical Youth Group collected donations of money for Greenhouse and soup for the Neighborhood Center. Coppenger told the congregation (including over a dozen Youth Group members) about the work done in the Portland area by Greenhouse with homeless youth. Her message was very powerful with a mix of statistics and personal stones. She explained the first goal of Greenhouse is to be sure kids live to see the next day and the second goal is to give them the skills to get off the streets. Those skills come through all the services pro\ ided by Greenhouse - food four times a day, clothing, laundry, showers, medical attention, drug and alcohol support, adult education, counselors and spiritual guidance. A volunteer chaplain has about 75 homeless youth in the congregation on any given Sunday. Greenhouse is open 365 days a year and sees 150-175 young people in a day. This isn’t surprising as there are over 2000 homeless youth in downtown Portland. Sixty percent of Greenhouse's funding is by donations with the other 40 percent from Multomah County. The lone Church helped by donating $537.50 to Greenhouse. OTPR earns ’best footing’ Workmen improve the St. Parick's Senior Center By Doris Brosnan The ground floor o f the St. Patrick's Senior Apartment building will soon sport new windows that will complement the building's extenor which was spruced up with new paint a few years ago. New windows are one more step in the makeover o f the building's intenor, enjoying its first updating since the retirement apartments were started over 11 years ago. Already, several apartments have new carpeting and linoleum, as well as newly painted walls. As apartments become available, they will be renovated in this manner. Though similar to the original selections, the new colors tend to lighten and brighten the apartments. The apartment doors will be updated with new door openers. The sitting room and the entry area of the building were newly painted and carpeted last fall. Now the dining room, halls and stairways are being painted as well. They will be lighter, with the trim color coordinating more closely with the new carpet, which will extend up the stairs and through the halls. The dining room floor will be repaired and newly covered with linoleum. Passersby can see that the front door of the St. Pat's building has been replaced. This door and the inner door will have power door openers, to enable easier access. Ten Seven Ranch in MCGG Local girl heads up Customer program Neighborhood Center donation angus By w eighing calves at 205 days Appreciation Paul and Carolyn Wright of Ten of age and again at a year o f age. Seven Ranch, lone, have recently breeders not only identify the cattle Day Saturday been enrolled in the Angus Herd that grow the fastest and most Fair & Rodeo Court okayed The Morrow County Fair Board has announced that there will be a Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Court this year Fair and rodeo officials thought that due to necessary budget cuts it would be impossible to have a court this year but changes have made it possible, said l,aRae Kindle, fair secretary. Tryouts will be held on Sunday. Feb. 25, starting at 1 p.m. All girls interested in representing the fair and rodeo should contact the fair office at 676-9474, Monday through Thursday from 8-11 a.m. and Friday from 8-10 a.m. All applications must be returned to the fair office by Thursday. Feb 22, at 11 a.m. New tile will soon greet visitors to the entry area, which is now lighted with new light fixtures. The Housing Authority invites "sidewalk supervising” as the work on the building progresses. In fact, some o f the sidewalk, at the back o f the building, and the parking area, is included in the eventual new look at St. Patnck's Apartments. Landscaping will create an inviting space for residents and visitors. Best Grounds Award By Sue Gibbs Each year the Justin Boot Company and the Women's Professional Rodeo Association sponsor the "Justin Best Footing Program." This program is designed to recognize committees that put forth an extra effort to ensure that their professional rodeo has safe, consistent ground conditions. The Oregon Frail Rodeo (OTPR) program has placed in this incentive program for the third year in a row. Each circuit has three possible placings. If chosen for this award, the tractor driver is given a cash aw ard. Barry Munkers of the OTPR was again commended and honored for this awfcrd. He received a $200 check for placing third in the program during the 2000 National Finals Rodeo. "The Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo committee has worked hard to improve the rodeo grounds and is proud to know that Heppner has one of the best horse facilities and quality around in the Columbia Circuit," said a committee member. Phil Arnold (center) presented a program on Kosovo at Heppner Elementary School Tuesday. Pictured along with Arnold are Mary West (right) originator of the "Kids for Kosovo" project. Sherry Matteson (left). HES first grade teacher and project coordinator, and first grade students. West and several students are displaying art work by Kosovo students thanking Heppner students for their donation of school supplies. Heppner Elementary School the Heppner children the video, students have not only learned spoke about conditions in the three "Rs", they have also Kosovo and answered a great many questions from a curious learned a lesson in giving. crowd of Heppner younsters. The students donated their Phil Arnold, who spent 25 labor to local businesses and individuals to raise money for years in Umatilla County as a their project. "Kids for Kosovo." State Trooper, said he decided he They then used the money to buy wanted some adventure in his life supplies for school children in after his retirement in 1998. He accepted a job in Kosovo Kosovo. Tuesday the Heppner overseeing traffic enforcement children were able to see the joy for the region, somewhat similar that they were able to give to the to the highway patrol. As traffic students half way around the commander in Kosovo, Arnold has 95 officers working for him- world. The program started when 35 international police and 60 local resident and mom. Mary Kosovar police trainees. Arnold, who has lived in West, heard about a family friend who traveled to Kosovo Kosovo the last year and a half, and sent home-photos about the told of the extreme poverty of the conditions there West’s daughter area. Many of the Kosovar Katie, a First grader at HES, saw citizens are homeless and the photos of Kosovar children outages of electricity and water and wished out loud that she are common-almost a daily could send them her school occurrence. Schools have extreme supplies. West made contact with shortages o f supplies and her friend in Kosovo, Phil something as disposible as a Arnold, and with that, the "Kids for Kosovo" project got piece o f chalk in the U.S. is rationed and each tiny piece underway. The children used their locked up after use. Arnold elbow grease and ended up remarked that maps in the raising about $800. They had classrooms are scarce and enough money to send five boxes terribly outdated and computers virtually unheard of. He also o f school supplies to Kosovo. In Kosovo, Arnold was the commented that schools in guest o f a classroom that had Kosovoa are so overcrowded, received the supplies and he also the children attend in shifts. But, made a video for the kids back he stressed, kids in Kosovo are just like kids in the U.S. home in Heppner. "It kind o f makes me feel Tuesday, Arnold, who had good we can put people earlier traveled 22 hours from together that from the ocean," Kosovo, came to Heppner to Arnold told the across Heppner "I show the kids exactly what good w ant all o f you to be very kids. proud they had done. Arnold showed of what you have done." Lindsay Ward with donated items A drive to raise funds to buy toiletries and other necessities for distribution by the Neighborhood Center of South Morrow County has raised $290. Heppner High School senior Lindsey Ward, in her second year of heading up the drive, made the initial $100 donation and then challenged students and faculty at HHS to contribute Items purchased with the donations included laundry detergent, dish soap, toilet paper. Improvement Records program of the American Angus Association, reports Richard L. "Dick" Spader, executive vice-president of the national breed registry organization in St. Joseph. Missouri. Angus Herd Improvement Records (AHIR) is a comprehensive evaluation program used by registered Angus breeders to help them keep records of reproduction, and growth rate on individual animals. "Each year hundreds of Angus breeders use AHIR records to produce more profitable, efficient toothbrushes, toothpaste, Angus seedstock,” said an deoderant, razors, shaving cream, association news release paper towels, diapers, baby wipes, cotton swabs, feminine products and baby powder. Sinspiration scheduled An ecumenical Singspiration will be held Sunday, Feb. 11. at 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Heppner. Everyone is invited to attend. efficiently, they also identify cows that regularly produce above average calves and bulls that sire outstanding calves. The Amencan Angus Association in 1957 was the first beef breed organization to offer its members a production records program, according to the release. Since that date, the AHIR program has grown to the point that breeders report more than a half million birth, w eaning and yearling weights each year ITiis information is processed by the Association's computerized data processing systems. The Morrow County Grain Growers will hold their annual Customer Appreciation Day this Saturday. Feb. 10 at the co-op's headquarters in Lexington. The day kicks off with the popular free pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Everyone is invited to attend. There will be many door prizes, free coffee and cookies at the convenience store, free knife sharpening, free carnations to the first 300 ladies and as usual lots and lots of factory representatives on hand with product displays and to answer questions.
