SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Sheriffs Dept, promotes
bicycle safety
Darrel Raver, on behalf of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, presents a
$200 check to Morrow County Sheriffs Deputies Karen Zeiler and
Randy Rayburn. The donation will benefit the department's bicycle
safety campaign headed up by Zeiler and Rayburn.
The M orrow County
Sheriff s Department is planning
a bicycle safety campaign to be
held in May.
"Our goal is to reach
every prim ary education age
child in M orrow County," said
M orrow
C ounty Sheriffs
Deputies Karen Zeiler and Randy
Raybum. "Our highest goal is to
provide a helm et for each child
in the prim ary education area.
We realize that M orrow County
consists o f many families that do
not have the finances to purchase
helmets for each o f the children."
W hile m any families
with more than one child
purchase only one helmet, a
proper
fit
is
important,
necessitating one helmet for each
child, said the deputies.
According
to
the
department,
around
800
Americans die each year in
bicyle crashes and half o f those
dbaths are children. They
estimate that o f the 800 fatalities,
around 680 could have been
saved if they had been wearing a
helmet.
The deputies stress that
only about five percent o f all
serious bicycling injuries involve
cars and most o f the accidents
occur on quiet neighborhood
streets. "M erely falling o ff a
bicycle onto a hard surface such
as asphalt or concrete can cause
a serious head injury," they said.
"Bicycle helm ets can prevent
these injuries."
The departm ent plans to
hold bicycle safety rodeos in
Heppner, lone, Boardman and
Irrigon and hopes to raffle o ff a
bicycle at each o f the rodeos.
Working in conjunction with the
M orrow County schools, they
also plan to hold a poster contest
in the schools and award prizes.
The
M CSO
bicycle
safety
program
includes
education, increased availability
o f helmets and law enforcement.
W arnings and citations will be
issued to riders without helmets.
The departm ent would also like
to reward riders wearing helm ets
with gift certificates donated by
local establishm ents.
The
deputies
have
located a com pany which will
provide helmets for $5 each, but
with over 1,100 children in
prim ary education in Morrow
County donations are greatly
needed. Helmets must be ordered
in April and the program will
begin M ay 1.
Anyone
wishing
to
donate or for more information,
contact Deputy Karen Zeiler or
Deputy Randy Raybum in care o f
the M orrow County Bicycle
Safety Program, Morrow County
S heriffs Office, P.O. Box 159,
Heppner, OR 97836, 541-676-
5317.
Scholarship applications sought
The Red and Gena Leonard
Foundation will award scholarships
to students who have graduated or
obtained a GED from Heppner, lone,
Boardman, A rlington, Condon,
Echo,
Fossil,
Herm iston,
Monument, Pendleton, Pilot Rock
Spray, Stanfield, Ukiah or Umatilla
high schools.
Students m ust 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 m aybe 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.
Commission to award grants
The Morrow County Commission
on Children and Families is seeking
Community Development proposals
for the A pnl-June 2001 quarter.
The commission is seeking new
proposals for the upcoming quarter.
There is approxim ately $1,580
available. The maximum per grant
is $500.
Fund requests, for example, could
include requests for seasonal
program needs; small capital
expenditures (except for private
property); service program staff
training; one time events and pilot
projects.
The deadline for next quarter's
Lindsays win
Ewe-do Bingo
The winners o f the St. Patrick's
Celebration Day Ewe-Do Bingo's
were Bruce and Patti Lindsay o f
Heppner. Lindsay, who works at
Red Apple Central Market, selected
Square #125.
Tickets were sold by die Heppner
High School cheerleaders this year
to raise funds for next year's
activities.
proposals is Thursday, April 5.
Proposals must be in the commission
office by noon o f that day. The
requests will be reviewed during
the monthly commission meeting
on Tuesday, April 10.
Applications are available at the
com m ission office at 120 South
Main in Heppner or by calling 676-
9675.
The Community Development
Fund
was established
for
community needs and to leverage
other funds and resources into
services, advocacy and unique
application projects for the children,
youth and families o f Morrow
County.
Justice Court
Report
The Justice Court office at the
courthouse annex building in
Heppner reports handling the
following business:
Robert William Campbell, 79,
Lexington-Unlawful Stop, $192
fine;
Jam es Taylor, 31, Heppner-
Cnm inal Trespass, $631 fine, 180
days in jail, $300 and jail sentence
suspended with two years probation
with no further violation o f law.
JVs beat TigerScots
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner M ustang JV
baseball team opened their season
with a 6-2 win over the visiting
W eston-McEwen TigerScots on
Monday, March 19. Four Mustang
pitchers combined for a three-hitter
while striking out seven.
The Mustangs got on the board
in the second when Adam Bergstrom
singled, stole second, took third on
a throwing error and scored on a
passed ball. Brian Gutierrez and
Conor Kilkenny walked and moved
over to second and third on stolen
bases. Ben Turrell squeezed home
Gutierrez and Trevor Rhea singled
home Kilkenny to make it 3-0.
In the third, Kiel Naims reached
on a fielder’s choice, then Bergstrom
and Kyler Lovgren singled to load
the bases. Gutierrez singled home
Naims and Kilkenny singled to bring
home Bergstrom to make the score
5-0.
Koby Rea led off the fourth with
a single, stole second and third and
went hom e on a suicide squeeze
by Luke Murray.
The TigerScots scored two runs
in the sixth and had runners on in
the seventh, but Koby Rea made
a diving catch in centerfield and
Robert Whalen caught a deep fly
ball in left field to end the game.
Bergstrom led the way at the
plate, going two for three with two
runs scored. M urray, Gutierrez,
Kilkenny and Trevor Rhea each
were one for two with an RBI.
Murray picked up the win, striking
out three in two innings pitched.
The JV's next gam e is a home
game against Wah tonka on Monday,
April 2, at 4:30 p.m.
Statistics
W eston-M cEw en: 0 0 0 00 2 0-2 3 2
Heppner: 032 100 x-6 8 4
Stemple, Johnson (5) and Foster; Conor
Kilkenny, Luke Murray (3), Zach Skaggs
(5), Brian Gutierrez (7) and Kyler Lovgren.
W -M u rray. L-Stem ple. 2B- none, 3B- none.
H R - none.
Local girl performs at state
piano recital
Amy Jepsen
Amy Jepsen o f Heppner recently
received one o f the highest honors
a piano student in Oregon can earn
when she was selected to play at
the Oregon Junior Bach Recital.
582 students from around the
state entered the 17th annual Bach
competition this year and only 22
were chosen to play at the final event
recital. Each o f the performers also
received a golden Bach medallion.
The recital, which was sponsored
by the Oregon Music Teachers
Association, was held Sunday,
March 4, in Corvallis at the First
Congregational Church.
Jepsen played J.S. Bach's Prelude
and Fugue in C M inor for the
competition and recital. She earned
the right to play at state by first
winning at the district level in
Pendleton in January. She was one
o f two winners from 12 contestants
to be chosen to go on to regional
competition.
.
inoiiqi;
The regional contest was held
at Eastern Oregon University in
February. Jepsen placed first o f 18
contestants there and thus earned
the right to go to the state recital.
Jepsen, 13, is the daughter o f
Bill and Nancy Jepsen o f Heppner.
She has been playing piano for seven
years and currently takes lessons
from Dr. Walter Saul, professor o f
piano at W arner Pacific College
in Portland.
Mustangs open with loss
to Bulldogs
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang baseball
team opened their 2001 season with
a loss to the Hermiston Bulldog JV
team, 14-9, on Friday, M arch 16,
in Hermiston.
Brad Adams scored Stefan
M atheny with a suicide squeeze
bunt in the top o f the first, but the
Bulldogs came back to take a 2-1
lead after one.
The Mustangs regained the lead
in the top of the second as Matheny
hit a bases-loaded triple and came
home on a Michael McCabe single.
The Bulldogs closed the gap to
5-4 in the third, then scored five
runs after a two-out error to take
a 9-5 lead. Hermiston extended their
lead to 14-5 before the M ustangs
staged a rally in the seventh, scoring
four runs, but it wasn't enough.
Matheny led the Mustangs, going
four for four, with four RBIs on a
single, two doubles and a triple.
Statistics
Heppner: 140 0 0 0 4 -9 10 4
Hermiston: 211 5 5 0 x-14 9 4
Stefan Matheny, Josh Winters (2), Chuy
Eiguezabal (4). Adam Bergstrom (5). Michael
McCabe (6) and Brad Adams, Kelly Paullus
(4); Baravett, Carallow (4 ) and Henderson
W -C arallo w L -E lg u e za b a l. 2B-M atheny
2, Donald Adams, Billy Gates. Falconer,
Henderson. 3B -M atheny. H R - none.
Golf tourney to benefit scholarship
The South M orrow County
Scholarship Trust Committee will
hold its first annual four-person golf
scramble on Saturday, April 21,
at the W illow Creek g o lf course
at 9 a.m.
This is the only fund raiser for
the trust this year and all proceeds
will go to the South Morrow County
Scholarship Fund.
The cost o f the scramble is $50
per person with lunch included in
the fee. There will be unlimited
mulligans for $5 each. There also
will be a putting contest.
Entry forms are available at the
golf course and the offices o f Kuhn,
and Spicer in Heppner. Forms are
also available at the post office in
lone or cal! Del LaRue at 422-7468
to register.
The com m ittee is working to
build a scholarship fund that will
replace the Carl Troedson Fund
when it expires and hopes they can
make this their annual fund raiser.
"Come support scholarships for
Heppner and lone graduates, and
have a good time golfing in the
process," said a com m ittee
spokesperson.
Montana State rep to visit school
Jennifer Dunn from New Student
Services at Montana State
University-Bozeman, will visit high
school students in the Heppner area
on Friday, M arch 23.
Dunn will be at the Heppner High
School from 1:15-2 p.m. lone High
School students are also invited to
attend.
Dunn will present information
about
academ ic
programs,
extracurricular activities, cost and
other inform ation about MSU-
Bozeman.
For more information, contact
high school counselor Mona
Hardman at 676-9138, extension
2512.
Mustangs sweep Huskies
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang baseball
team ruined the hom e opener for
the Sherman County Huskies at their
new baseball field by sweeping a
doubleheader, 8-1 and 15-3, on
Saturday, March 17. The Mustangs
got good pitching, getting 25
strikeouts and only six walks in the
two gam es to im prove to 2-1 on
the year.
The Mustangs got on the board
in the third inning for the first game
as Stefan M atheny and M ichael
McCabe singled and Kelly Paullus
tripled to score two. Brad Adams
singled to score Paullus, Billy Gates
singled and Donald Adams doubled
hom e two m ore to m ake it 5-0.
Brad Adams doubled o ff the left
field fence, m oved to third on a
G ates ground-out and scored on
a Josh W inters ground-out in the
fifth to m ake it 6-0.
Paullus doubled to lead o ff the
seventh and scored on a double by
Brad Adams. Donald Adams singled
to score Brad Adams to make it 8-0
going into the bottom o f the seventh.
The Huskies scored their lone
run in the seventh on two walks and
an infield single, their only hit, but
it wasn't near enough as the
M ustangs’ pitching dominated the
game.
M cCabe struck out eight and
walked one in three innings o f work
and Brad Adams picked up the win,
striking out five while walking two
in his three innings pitched. Adam
Bergstrom pitched the seventh,
getting two strikeouts and walking
two.
Brad Adams went three for four
with two doubles and two RBIs.
Donald Adams went three for four
with a double and two RBIs. Paullus
went two for three with a double,
triple and two RBIs, while McCabe
went two for four with a double.
The M ustangs scored a run in
the first inning o f game two as
M atheny walked, m oved around
to third on two balks and scored
on a M cCabe ground-out.
O ff
Brad Adams, Gates and Winters
led off the second inning by walking
and Donald Adams doubled to score
two. M atheny also doubled with
two outs to score two more and
make it 5-0.
In the fourth, Nick Anthony
singled, Chuy Eiguezabal singled,
M atheny reached on an error to
score one and M cCabe doubled to
score two more and make it 8-2.
The Mustangs broke the game
open in the sixth as Matheny walked
and McCabe singled. Both runners
moved around on passed balls, with
M atheny scoring and M cCabe
getting to third. Paullus sacrificed
McCabe home, Brad Adams reached
on an error and Gates singled with
Adams coming around to score on
a passed ball.
W inters and Donald Adams
walked to load the bases and Luke
Murray was hit by a pitch to force
in Gates. Eiguezabal singled to score
two while Matheny singled to score
M urray, m aking the score 15-3.
Eiguezabal struck out the side
to end the game after six and give
the M ustangs the sweep.
Matheny struck out five in three
innings to get the win, with Gates
pitching two solid innings in relief.
M atheny helped him self at the
plate, going two for three with a
double and three RBIs. M cCabe
and Eiguezabal each went two for
five with three RBIs. Donald Adams
had a double and two RBIs. Brad
Adams had a double and an RBI.
The M ustangs will next be at
Dufur on Saturday, March 23, for
gam es against Dufur and Alsea.
Statistics
First G am e
Heppner: 0 0 5 010 2 -8 14 1
Sherm an Co.: 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 1 1
Michael McCabe. Brad Adams (4), Adam
Bergstrom (7) and Kelly Paullus; Cheyenne
Langston. Hall (4) and Ruitan. W -B . Adams.
L-Langstcm. 2B-8. Adams 2, Donald Adams,
M cCabe, Paullus. 3B-Paullus. H R - none.
Second G am e
Heppner: 140 307 0 -1 5 11 0
Sherm an Co.: 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 -3 4 0
Stefan Matheny. Billy Gates (4), Chuy
Eiguezabal (6) and B. Adams; Kaseburg,
Rhodes (3), Pinhering (5 ) and Ketchum.
W -M a th e n y. L-K aseburg. 2B-B. Adams,
D Adams, Matheny. 3B- none. HR- none.
The
f i l A/Xerlyn R o b i n s o n
Unlike the phrase, "Only your hairdresser knows for sure," it's obvious
that my agricultural roots are prominently exposed. It only takes a few
erroneous statem ents about agricultural issues to make my gray hairs
sizzle.
First let me explain that I seldom pick up a magazine o ff the newsstand
since tons o f reading material contribute to our mail carrier's strong muscles.
But while waiting in line at the check-out stand, the cover page o f Family
Circle leaped out at me. Besides the usual tempting recipes therein; the
cover held a promise o f an easy weight loss plan while also prom oting
a fast-food diet. (At our house, fast food means anything that can be thrown
together in less than 15 minutes offering a minimum o f 15,000 calories
per serving.) That front cover also highlighted an article on shortcut supper
recipes. For a change there are excellent recipes without using some weird
ingredients dream ed up by chemists.
Also designed to catch one’s eye was the title o f an article on how
to cut housework in half. M ost o f us know that the easiest way to cut
housework in h alf is to leave what you don't want to do today for some
future tomorrow. Besides I've already accomplished my M arch madness
spring house cleaning by painting over what wasn't easy to scrub off.
Afterward, it took me several days to again hang shelves, pictures and
memorabilia. So their suggestion to share that wealth and get nd o f the
clutter by having a yard sale, made good sense. In my case, I'd have to
pay som eone to haul o ff that which I don't hoard.
A nother subject that got my attention was are article entitled, "No
more trash- -the amazing garbage-free family." Yeah, sure. Practically
every day, I haul out enough garbage to cam ouflage a w recking yard.
Yet their good suggestions about recycling are some o f m y "been there,
done that" chores. Though I'd already written to have m y nam e taken
o ff mailing lists to reduce junk mail, they must have got the impression
that I wanted to receive m ore valuable reference m aterial.
W hile reading further into this article, I began feeling very upbeat
about m y conservative ways. Grocery bags are used to hold recyclable
paper and cans, and we seldom run the dishwasher or clothes washer
until we run out o f dishes or clothes, whichever comes first or is the most
urgently needed.
Now for a dandruff disturbing, hair-raising statement in this feature
article. Included with other energy-saving tips, it says, "Eat less meat.
It takes 16 pounds o f gram to produce one pound o f beef." With no further
explanation for this remark I wondered just whose energy she was talking
about. M aybe she got some tough meat that took lots o f chewing energy
or perhaps she doesn't want beef animals to expend so much energy eating.
If it's the com farmer’s energy she's referring to, he probably hopes that
his field com will bring enough money to pay for his sweaty efforts. For
all that this city gal may know, a com farmer may use mules or fuel his
tractor with ethanol, made from a renewable resource, to plant and harvest
his crop.
The author, a New Yorker, doesn't know squat about how or where
her food comes from. A vegetarian may argue that eating less meat reduces
food costs and is safer, even though the appearance o f E-coli has become
more prevalent since the importation o f more vegetables and fruit. American
beef is the safest, cleanest and best in the world. Even pooches can be
confident that their American beef bones aren't from mad cows or from
ones with hoof and mouth disease. The media would like people to believe
that whatever food product is a hot topic; it m ay m ake som eone sick.
Consequently there is an urgent need for proof-of-ongin on meat products,
blended or otherwise, for consumer confidence. However, this proposed
ruling is being defeated by major meat packers for obvious reasons. Yet
it's okay to label clothing or other products that we don't ingest.
My so-polite letter to the editor was that many consumers don't comprehend
our food isn't grown on grocery store shelves even though supermarkets
stock everything from fertilizer to bug juice. So I gave this m agazine
guru the whole nine rows about below-production-cost agricultural sales
for American produce partially due to free, not fair, trade whereby cheaper
foreign imports undercut U. S. food com m odities. Too, the few cents
worth o f grain in that expensive box o f prepared breakfast cereal doesn't
come from field com grown for animal consumption. O f course, I don't
want her to choke on her com flakes; I'd just like her to have to eat her
words ju st as I often have to eat mine.