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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - FIVE Booster Club scholarships Resume class scheduled A free resume wnting workshop, sponsored by Blue Mountain Community College and the Skills C enters o f Eastern Oregon, is scheduled for this Friday, March 9 from 9 a.m. to noon at Heppner Elementary School. The Heppner Booster Club is offering four $300 scholarships to any Heppner High School senior desiring to further their education past high school. The graduating senior must attend an institution o f higher education the fall o f this year. The cluh invites all seniors to apply for these scholarships. Applications for the scholarship are on file with Heppner High School. The filing deadline is Fnday, April 27. Pre-registration is required and may be completed by calling Anne Food handler's class slated the contestant list for the 2001 Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo to be held at Pocatello, ID., on March 14-17. A Food Handler's Class will be offered by Blue Mountain Community College and the State Health Division on Thursday, March 15, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Heppner High School cafeteria. A Food Handler's card is required by the State o f Oregon for all employees who handle or prepared food in food service facilities in Oregon. This includes dishwashers, waiters, staff and business people. Additionally, the card is also now required o f all day care workers. The cost o f the class is a $10 licensing fee, payable to the State Health Department after successful com pletion o f the written test. Registration will be completed at class. For further information, contact Anne Morter, BMCC South Morrow County coordinator, at 422-7040. Weather Report By the City of Heppner F or the m onth o f F eb ru a ry Low Precip. High .00 34 2/1 53 .00 41 2/2 55 34 T 53 2/3 39 .05 2/4 52 34 T 59 2/5 29 T 43 2/6 .00 16 2/7 36 .00 37 22 2/8 .08 41 26 2/9 .01 26 32 2/10 .00 32 25 2/11 .00 27 33 2/12 24 .00 37 2/13 .00 44 2/14 23 .00 34 55 2/15 .00 44 29 2/16 .00 2/17 27 33 .00 23 2/18 31 28 T 2/19 50 24 T 2/20 37 .00 47 31 2/21 .54 50 32 2/22 .01 41 33 2/23 .00 28 2/24 43 .00 54 27 2/25 24 .00 52 2/26 .00 49 22 2/27 .00 46 22 2/28 Make today som eone’s lucky day! Give Teleflora's Lucky Shamrock Bouquet It’s the time of year when everyone's a wee hit Irish, and Teleflora's Lucky Shamrock Bouquet is the perfect way to celebrate. To share this tun and unique bouquet WCWP looking for lifeguards Morter, BMCC coordinator tor South Morrow County, at 422-7040 The resume writing class will offer techniques and strategies for creating a resume that markets skills and expenence and gets interviews. Students should bring a past resume or a job history. Heppner cowboys to perform Two Heppner cowboys, steer wrestler Steve C urnn and saddle bronc rider Chance Dixon, are on The rodeo will feature nearly 200 o f rodeo's top athletes competing for $450,000 in prize money. Rodeo performances will be held at 7 p.m., March 14-16 and at noon and 7 p.m. on March 17. Motorcycle safety program planned The Willow Creek Water Park in Heppner is looking for lifeguards and is currently taking applications for lifeguards, swim instructors and managers. Anyone in the com m unity interested interested in applying, should call the Willow Creek Water Park at 676-5752, pnor to Saturday, March 31. Leave a message including your address and an application will be mailed. Anyone 15 years or older interested in becoming a lifeguard should also contact the water park. If there is enough interest a LGT class will be offered. Troedson scholarships offered Neighborhood The Morrow County School District is accepting applications from high school seniors for the Troedson Grant Scholarship and former Troedson Grant Scholarship recipients. Applications are available for high school seniors through the counselors at Heppner High School, lone High School and Riverside High School. Applications for former Troedson Grant Scholarship recipients are available through the school district office in Lexington. Deadline for application materials to be returned is Friday, April 13. Contact the above listed schools for the scholarship information. Forest Service recruits YCC youth Four young people between the ages o f 15 and 18 are being recruited by the Forest Service, Heppner Ranger District, for summer em ploym ent in the Youth Conservation Corps. The work will include tube removal from tree seedlings, wildlife habitat improvement, and campground and trail maintenance. The duration o f the program will be eight weeks from June 18-August 10 and will pay the Oregon minimum wage rate o f $6.50 per hour. Applications will be accepted until 4 p.m. on Monday, April 16. Participants will be selected on a random basis on April 16 at approxim ately 4:15 p.m. No previous experience is required. Applicants must be 15 years old and m ust not reach age 19 during the term o f employment in the program. They must have a social security number or have made application to obtain one. Applicants must also obtain parental or legal guardian consent to enroll in the program. Applications may be obtained from the Forest Service in Heppner, local high schools or the Heppner Ranger District's website at h ttp ://w w w .fs.fe d .u s/r6 /u m a / heppner. For more information, call the Heppner Ranger District at 676- 9187. The South Morrow County Neighborhood Center in Heppner will hold a rum m age sale on Saturday, March 17, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. A "bag sale" on all clothing and shoes will be offered all day at $3.50 per bag. All other items will be at prices marked. Raffle items include a handmade 72x90 denim quilt or pearl earrings valued at $30. Tickets may be purchased at the center for $1 each or six for $5. The "Vendors Square" will be busy this year during the St. Patrick's weekend, with several craft and food items offered. Ewe-do-Bingo back again Ewe-do-Bingo is back again this year at the St. Patrick's Day Celebration in Heppner. "A donation o f $5 per numbered square, will offer the chance o f winning $300 if the little lamb cooperates and 'selects' your square to ewe-do on," said chair Kay Proctor. This event will be officially line judged by Janme Allen in the event o f a 'liner'. Ewe-do-Bingo takes place on Willow Street after the St. Patrick's Parade on Saturday, March 17. Tickets will be sold at that location throughout the day or may be purchased Friday night at the Elks Club during the St. Patrick's Auction. The Heppner High School Cheerleaders are organizing the event this year with proceeds helping them in their 2001/2002 season. For more information, call the Proctors. 676-9827, or the Sneddons. 676-9046. Local Angus breeders recognized Kathryn Healy o f Heppner and Sam Bellamy o f Lexington each own one bull listed in the 2001 Spring Sire Evaluation Report published by the American Angus Association which is headquartered in St. Joseph, MO. Issued in both the spring and fall, the new report features the latest performance information available on 4,916 sires. "The American Angus Association has the most complete and com prehensive b eef cattle database in the world," says John Crouch, American Angus Association director o f performance program s. "O f the sires listed in the main report, 65 percent have expected progeny differences (EPDs) for carcass traits, which should assist cattlemen in choosing Center plans St. Pat's events genetics that will produce a more consistent, higher quality beef product." Additionally, 66 percent o f the sires posted an ultrasound body composition EPD. EPDs are generated from performance data submitted by breeders through the Angus Herd Improvement Records (AHIR) program. Traits in which EPDs are available include birth weight, weaning weight, milk, yearling weight and height, mature daughter weight and height and scrotal circumference, as well as carcass traits including carcass weight, marbling, rib eye area, external fat thickness and percent retail product. The analysis for the sire evaluation report is done in cooperation with Iowa State University, by Doyle E. Wilson and Dr. Abebe Hassen. The Team Oregon Motorcycle Safety Program is sponsoring a m otorcycle rider training course in Pendleton on March 16-18. This 16-hour course includes both classroom and on-cycle instruction and will be conducted over a three-day period. Enrollment is limited and pre-registration is required. Motorcycles and helmets are provided for students use during the course. Tuition is $65. Motorcycle riders under the age o f 21 must successfully complete Port of Morrow meeting The Port o f Morrow regular commission meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 21, instead o f W ednesday, March 14. The meeting will be held at the administrative offices at the Port o f Morrow at 1:30 p.m. this course to become eligible tor a motorcycle endorsement on their Oregon operator's license. DMV will waive motorcycle examinations for course graduates. For registration information, go to the Team Oregon website at teamoregon.orst.edu or call toll-free, 1-800-545-9944. ext. 0. In the Service M arin e C o rp s Pvt. C aleb Sheldon, son o f Dale Sheldon of Imgon and Dawneen Sheldon of Ridgefield. WA., recently completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA. Sheldon successfully completed 12 weeks o f training designed to challenge new Marine recruits both physically and mentally. Sheldon is a 2000 graduate o f Battle Ground High School of Battle Ground, WA. Scholarship offered to challenged students The Red and Gena Leonard Foundation will award scholarships to students who have graduated or obtained a GED from Arlington, Boardman, Condon, Echo, Fossil, Heppner, Hermiston, lone. Monument, Pendleton. Pilot Rock, Spray, Stanfield, Ukiah or Umatilla high schools. Students must attend an accredited college, university, community college, vocational, trade or technical program based in Oregon. It is the intent o f the Red and Gena Leonard Foundation to benefit average students o f good character with poor financial circumstances who have a desire to seek further educational opportunities, but due to their lack o f scholastic performance, their ability to receive scholarships may be limited. In the selection process, priority will be given to students who are not at the top academically; have limited financial resources: show the ability to be or become upstanding citizens: and have an interest in a blue-collar trade. Applications may be obtained from school counselors. Deadline to submit applications is Sunday, April 1. For more information contact Tracy Gammell, Executive Director. P.O. Box 1024. Hermiston. OR. 97838 or 564-9177. McManus comedy planned at RHS "Potts' Luck" a com edy from best-selling author Patrick F. McManus will come to Riverside High School Auditorium, Saturday. March 31 at 7:30 p.m. '"Potts' Luck' brings a new dimension to Pat's wonderful, w acky world. Along with the standard brand o f McManus humor are moments that tug at the heart aVwell as the funny bone."'said » news’ release. O f course, a M cManus show wouldn't be complete without the "regulars," such as Crazy Eddie, Mr. Muldoon, old Ed. Rancid Crabtree and Mrs. Swisher. Also along for the ride are "slightly irregulars": an alien, a pig and a ghost. The show contains all new' material adapted for the stage by McManus. Tickets are on sale at the Boardman , Library, Boardman Pharmacy and Boardman Chamber o f Commerce. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Ill ‘Dr. ‘Dona id J. Car [son jT JÜ fi III foot Spedatisi will be a t the Pioneer Memorial Clinic on March 14th for the diagnosis and treatm ent of all foot problems Heppner Hermiston 676-5504 567-8750 AGLOW plans spring retreat The Eastern Oregon Leadership Team o f Aglow International announces their Spring Retreat to be held March 30-April 1, at the Red Lion Hotel in Pendleton. The theme o f this year's retreat is "Friendship... God loving you through another." Special emphasis is to draw all women who have been impacted in their faith and made friends in Aglow to join the group to renew old friendships and make new friends as well. June Evans from Gadsden, AL., is the featured speaker. She and her husband have ajoint ministry known as Meet the Believers, Inc., which is dedicated to "helping God's people to mature through sound, basic Bible teaching." They pastor the church in Douglasville, GA. The retreat begins Fnday, March 30, at 7 p.m. with registration starting at 4 p.m. The registration fee for the weekend retreat is $75 if paid by Monday, March 19. After March 19, it will be $85. Registration fee includes all m eetings and three meals. Teen registration is $65. Per session charge without any meals is $15. Saturday evening session is free. Call Claudia at (208)549-1579 or Jan Wheelhouse (541) 567-3949 for further information. Motel reservations must be made on your own. A fO< VOTE Morrow County School Board Zone #2 (Currently held by Dwayne Carroll) Former Elected Member Oregon City School Board Great View Of Heppner! Former Elected Sheriff, Clackamas County with a lucky person anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, just call or visit our shop. St. Patrick's Day is Saturday, March 17. mo C o u n try Roso 233 N. 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