TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, Apnl 4, 2001
Bond measure ignores students' needs
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Understanding of peace misguided
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Missionaries to speak at Lexington
Missionaries Victor and Carmel
Madsen will be speaking about their
ministry at Lexington Baptist
Church on Sunday, Apnl 8, at 9:45
a.m. and 11 a.m. The public is
invited to attend.
The Madsens look forward to
serving as missionaries to Uganda
under
the
auspices
of
CBIntemational. They will be
training and equipping national
pastors and church leaders in
Uganda. Few pastors, particularly
those in rural areas, can afford to
leave their village and families to
get needed Bible training. Victor
and Carmel will be working in
cooperation with the church
associations of the Baptist Union
o f Uganda to provide training for
these pastors through the local Bible
School programs.
As a mother of four young
children, Carmel will also serve
in women’s and family ministries.
The Madsens are well acquainted
with Africa. As children of CB1
missionary parents, both grew up
in Africa-Victor in Congo, Central
Africa, and Carmel in Cote d'Ivoire,
West Africa. Additionally, Victor
attended high school in Kenya, East
Africa, and Carmel taught reading
in Mali, also West Africa.
The Madsens earned their
undergraduate degrees in the United
States. Victor is now pursuing a
master's degree at Western
Seminary, Portland, in preparation
for lull-time ministry. The Madsens
were married in 1993 and appointed
by CBI in 1999.
Correction
Isabelle
Davis
of
Pendleton, a cousin of Ellen
O'Brien Moroney from Ireland,
was incorrectly identified in the
March 21 issue o f the Gazette-
Times as Isabelle Campbell of
Condon, according to another
cousin, Bill Mitchell, Daly City,
CA. Ellen Moroney and her
husband Brendan were visitors
to Heppner during the St.
Patrick's celebration. Mitchell
makes an annual trek from
California
to
enjoy
the
festivities.
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To the Editor,
Jane Rawlins' portrayal of
America, "Can peace continue with
military boost" March 28, 2001,
misses the essential reason why
America has peace. Heinrich
Wurmbrand, the Lutheran pastor
that spent over a decade in
communist prisons in Eastern
Europe because he refused to
compromise his faith in God wrote,
"Every freedom loving man has two
fatherlands; his own and America.
Today, Amenca is the hope of every
enslaved man, because it is the last
bastion of freedom in the world.
Only America has the power and
spiritual resources to stand as a
tamer between militant communism
and the people o f the world."
America enjoys our present
freedom and peace because of the
price in shed blood sacrificed in
two world wars, Korea, Vietnam
and other conflicts in the past
century. Militant communism,
militant Islam, militant dictatorships
and militant Nazism destroy
individual freedom and the very
liberty that allows Jane Rawlins
and all citizens of America to
express themselves. Can America's
political leaders abuse the military
power required to protect liberty?
Absolutely. Vietnam, Desert Storm,
and Clinton’s Yugoslavia bombing
campaign achieved negl igible results
because each failed to develop a
moral imperative of protecting
America's and the world's liberty.
Does that mean our soldiers died
in vain serving America? Absolutely
not. Lord Action the English
historian wrote, "That great political
idea, sanctifying freedom and
consecrating it to God, teaching men
to treasure the liberties of others
as their own and to defend them
for the love of justice and chanty
more than as a right, has been the
soul o f what is great and good in
the progress of the last two hundred
years." (1877)
Amenca has been the last bastion
o f freedom and liberty because
Americans have been willing to
defend the right of all men to sustain
liberty from oppressive communist,
Islamic,
and
totalitarian
dictatorships. In a Muslim
fundamentalist nation a woman is
not allowed to be seen in public
without a head to foot covering with
a screen over her face and must be
accompanied by a male relative.
Islam is the fastest growing
totalitarian government in the world
today. Military might in an
dangerous world is a necessary evil
if we are to remain free and wish
to continue to live in peace. If you
know someone that served Amenca
whether in peace or war never forget
to honor the pnee they paid for our
liberty.
Jane Rawlins' understanding of
peace is misguided. We must return
to the values o f the Bible and
support the current bill in the Oregon
legislature to return the Ten
Commandments to the classroom.
The American people have been
deceived to believe the problem
is the military. There is no greater
threat to the liberty of America, than
the violent slaughter waged against
the most vulnerable human beings
on earth, a baby in a mother’s womb.
If America is to remain the last
bastion of freedom the unborn child
in a mother's womb must be
sanctified and we must honor those
dedicated to protecting our liberty.
(s)Stuart Dick
Meacham
Support Oregon Project Independence
services'and the State of Oregon
To the Editor:
I am writing to ask for help in picks up the balance. Without this
lobbying the Oregon State program, some seniors would be
Legislature's Speaker's Task Force forced into adult foster homes in
on Funding for Senior and Disabled order to get the kind of care and
Services as they consider the Oregon services they require. Should this
Project Independence program. This occur, the senior or the state would
program, which provides seniors pick up a significantly higher tab.
Why has this program been cut?
with a variety of basic services, has
By
eliminating funding for OPI,
been cut froth the Governor's budget.
more
seniors would be forced into
Oregon Project Independence
spending
their own money to the
is a' state-funded program intended
to assist seniors in staying in their point of qualifying for Medicaid.
own homes by providing needed Once they qualify for Medicaid,
services on a sliding fee scale. The they are less of a financial burden
program is intended for those who on the State. To be blunt, cutting
do not qualify for Medicaid. Seniors this program will hurry more seniors
contribute to the cost of their to the poverty level where they
become a federal tax burden, not
a state tax burden.
You can help by contacting
Representative Jackie Wintei o, Chair
o f the Speaker's Task Force on
Funding for Senior and Disabled
Services at 900 Court St. NE H-291,
Salem OR 97301 or e-mail at
winters.rep@state.or.us. Urge Ms.
Winters to restore funding for
Oregon Project Independence.
(s) Loa McElligott
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To the Editor:
To the Morrow County School
Board:
It honestly seems impossible that
our school board could realize the
depth of scheduling difficulties in
South Morrow County and still
submit to voters a bond measure
that would spread our teaching staff
even more thinly.
The students in South Morrow
following the college-bound format
have great difficulty getting the
classes they want and need. The
students not planning on college
are offered even less; in fact,
nothing. An example of the seniors'
dilemma is the lone senior who took
two required classes, was a teacher's
assistant for two periods, had lunch,
and went home. The South Morrow
seniors who did not seek college
placement last year were poorly
served by our school system; an
ineffective system that cries out to
be addressed.
Student numbers have declined
countywide this school year, rather
than growing as expected.
Superintendent Anderson reported
to the school board that, countywide,
classroom size is 16 to 18 students.
The bond measure proposed is not
the answer to our problems.
Stretching our teaching staff even
further will only spread the problems
that exist in the South End o f the
county to the North End as well.
Another reason to proceed slowly
lies in House Bill 2637. This bill
directs that federal forest reserve
revenues, the funds allocated by
the U.S. Congress last session to
compensate for lost federal timber-
receipt revenue, should go directly
to the intended school districts. If
this bill passes, recipient school
districts must use the federal forest
reserve revenues for maintenance,
capital
construction
and
transportation. We do not need 22
million local dollars spent hastily
at this moment.
Please reexamine the results of
breaking up our county-wide high
school system into small units. As
experienced in South Morrow, the
result is a disastrously limited
curriculum. It is not the four walls
of a separate high school that matters
but how well the students are taught
therein. The bond measure
emphasizing only infrastructure
totally ignores the students' real
needs.
(s) Meg Murray
lone
Everyone pitches in to help
To the Editor:
lot (and restroom) during
To the Willow Creek Valle> registration; Jerry Breazeale and
community:
the City o f Heppner Maintenance
Another St. Patrick's Celebration Crew set out cones and kept things
has come and gone and what fun clean and ship-shape; Sharon
we had. Many people worked hard Harrison and her crew of judges
to host and entertain our out-of town walked the whole length of the
guests as well as fellow residents parade to find entrants Karen and
of the Willow Creek Valley.
Lindsay Wolff, Karen and Steve
The following people and Woodward, Joyce Shepherd, Tncia
businesses assisted in various ways Coe, Tiffany McCurry, Travis
with the parade on Saturday: Claudia Harrison, Becky Hunt and Gary
Hughes collected entries and assisted Hunt; Kevin Chick of Miller
with a variety o f questions; Cara Manufacturing provided the flatbed
Osmin
provided
guidance, truck for the announcing stand; and
encouragement, assistance with Monika Hunter did a wonderful job
registration and help with a variety announcing.
o f questions and information about
So you see, if you enjoyed the
past parades; Ann Spicer helped parade, it is because it was the work
register; Bob Kahl provided of many hands. Likewise, the
information about what had been following people helped with the
done in the past; Janet McDowell John Doan concert on Sunday: Cara
distributed and received Parade Osmin and Claudia Hughes for
Entry Forms; Jerry and JoyceKay contract arrangements; Cara Osmin
Holloman of the Shoe Box stored opened the building and prepared
the P.C. system and jackets; Cliff
it for a concert in the daytime; Rick
Green of Heppner Hardware stored
Drake provided the sound system;
the sawhorses for the parade signs;
and Phyllis Danielson helped with
Steve Rhea provided his pick-up
physical arrangements.
and assistance with moving '
In a small community such as
equipment; Rhonda and Jamie
ours, things happen because we
Helfrecht of Green Feed and Seed
make them happen.
provided the use of their parking
(s) Craig Strobel
Heppner
Seeks Heppner connection
To the Editor:
My name is Gemot Heppner.
I live in Frankfurt and my family
lives in Munich. My father
originates from a little town called
Feudingen in North Rhme-
Westfalica, Germany.
Well, my brother and my sister
told me about heppner.net and now
I ask myself where the name comes
from.
Maybe some o f our ancestry
emigrated to Amenca and grounded
this nice little town. Unfortunately
I could not find any historical data
at heppner.net and the Heppner
family is too big to get details about
every ancestor.
Therefore I would like to ask
you to give me some more
information about the origin of
Heppner city.
I appreciate your efforts, in
advance.
Best regards.
Gemot Heppner
gem ot. heppner@mtbc. de
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