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
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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.
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