lone UCC
Heppner kids help Kosovo kids
celebrates
Souper Sunday
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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.