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Holocaust survivor addresses large audience A rapt audience of around 200 women attended a salad supper at the St. Patrick's Parish Hall in Heppner Monday evening which featured Holocaust survivor Alice Kern as speaker. Kem told of her life growing up in a Jewish family in Romania prior to Nazi occupation and. related the horrors of the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps. Her mother and sister, many friends and relatives perished in the camps. Kem survived the ordeal but was left a "human skeleton." After liberation by Allied forces she was taken to Sweden for recuperation, where she met her future husband. After they married they moved to Portland where her husband's brother lived. Kem and her husband have four daughters and six grandchildren. E<ï 3 3 l a ’V s t - s î l U Of J . 3 ï klv : 2n s , Oil j " T. îi* r. I ’ :T 97 i J ? Holocaust sursivor Alice Kern (left) autographs a copy of her book for Aloha DeSpain following her presentation in Heppner Monday. JoAnne Burleson (center) assists. Kathv W all new Center director Teen seriously injured in rodeo VOL 120 NO. 17 IQ Pages Wednesday, April 25.2001________ Morrow County, Heppner. Oregon A Heppner teenager, Jerid Penturf, was injured at the high school rodeo held in Heppner this past weekend. Penturf was bucked off a bull at the rodeo. His fourth and fifth vertebrae were broken and part of his esophagus was crushed. He was transported to Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner and then transferred to St. Charles Medical Center at Bend. He is expected to have a full recovery. Account set up for Wenberg family Big crowd attends lone’s TV shoot Kathy Wall of Heppner has been hired as the new An account to receive director of the Heppner donations has been established at the Heppner Bank of Eastern Neighborhood Center. Wall, 49. will assume the Oregon for the Wenberg family. director's position as of May 1. Fourteen-month-old Wales Current director Debbie Bums, Wenberg died in an accident who is expecting a baby June 16, involving an automobile while is resigning. the family was camping in Wall was bom in Baker Washington state. and grew up in Sweet Home. Wales was the son of Erik and Cynthia Wenberg and Prior to moving to Heppner two the grandson of Dr. Kenneth and years ago, she owned a cafe in Haines. Alaska, for six years. Bonnie Wenberg, Heppner. "I have worked with the Contributions may be public all my life." said Wall made to the Wales Wenberg "That's the most enjoyable part " Memorial Fund c/o Bank of "We've always lived in Eastern Oregon. small communities." added Wall, "although Heppner is the nicest of them all. They're very welcoming of newcomers. It's a Roy Proctor, a student at wonderful community. I love the Heppner Junior High School, was East side and I like the small injured Saturday in a four- town atmosphere." wheeler accident near his home. Proctor, 13. the son of Mike and Kay Proctor of Heppner, suffered a fractured elbow and fractured facial bones. He was transported to North county schools are Pioneer Memorial Hospital in filling up. buildings are getting Heppner and then transported to older, and educational programs OHSU where he underwent could be hurt if a $22 million plastic surgery on his lip. school construction bond is not A family member says approved, officials are saying that he may be released about the upcoming May 15 Wednesday. election. A Centennial Middle "Sam Boardman is full up. and School eighth-grade exchange AC. Houghton is full', says student, Byron Randolph of the School Superintendent Bruce Portland area, was also injured in Anderson. And with new the accident. He was treated at businesses moving into north Pioneer Memorial Hospital for a county it is only going to get broken wrist and was released. worse, he adds. He is staying with the Diane and Since 1996 north county John Kilkenny home in Heppner schools have shown a 16 percent during the exhange. increase in enrollment. And with Mike Proctor's mother all the expected growth, and sister were also injured in a including the new cheese plant, separate accident in Washington dairies and fertilizer plant, a 27 State. percent increase is expected in His mother. Juanita the next five y ears. Proctor, and his sister, Theresa The levy includes money for Reese, were involved in a head- new elementary schools in both on collision in Moses Lake. WA. Boardman and Imgon. Part of Juanita Proctor broke plan includes a new high school her back and her wrist in the in Imgon. however, existing accident Reese broke both legs buildings would be used. Five and both arms and also fractured stipulations indicating growth her pelvis, according to the and protecting programs would family. also have to be met before the high school was established. In south Morrow County major construction would include replacement of the lone elementary school. and replacement of the Heppner A "spud feed" to benefit the Stahl family will be held this middle school gym There would also be Saturday. April 28. beginning at substantial maintenance work in 6 p.m. at the Heppner Elks the levy, including a new roof for Lodge Heppner high school, new The menu will include energy efficient windows at the baked potatoes with "all the high school and elementary, new fixings" for $5 for adults or $3 electrical work, replacing floor for children 12 and tile at both the elementary under. school, and high school, new Proceeds will go to Mike siding at high school, repair of and Shan Stahl to help with shower rooms and new heating, medical expenses. Shari Stahl ventilating and air conditioning was recently injured in a at the high school motorcycle accident Youth injured in 4-wheeler accident Approximately 80 people ventured out last Saturday to watch , shooters try to break a 27" TV tube at a 1,000 yards. The sun was out, the wind was calm, and yes, the second shooter, Enc Orem, hit dead center and broke the TV. Event coordinator Terry Mewhinney thought they would run out ofTVs at that rate However, 63 shooters later, the second to last shooter, Todd Eindsay, hit the TV. A shoot-otY for first place ended with Orem and Lindsay deciding to share the SI00 first place prize after about a half hour of shooting, two aching shoulders plus $50 w orth of bullets. The proceeds for the TV Shoot will go to prizes given to children at lone’s 4th of July celebration. Eric Orem and Todd l.indsav The Heppner High School track team will go to the Cascade Locks Invitational this Registration for Heppner, $31 for the first child and $28 for Friday, April 27, instead of Lexington and lone soccer and each additional child. Goldendale. Colt volleyball teams will be Scholarships will be available. The HHS softball game held May 8 at the Heppner Children must also bring a copy this Saturday, April 28, will Neighborhood Center from 6-8 of their birth certificate. Children begin at 11 a.m. instead of 1 p.m. p.m.. May 10 at the lone Fire must be 4-1/2 to 14 years old to The softball game on Hall from 6-8 p.m. and May 12 participate (birthdates between 1- Saturday, May 5, has been at the Neighborhood Center from 31-97 and 8-1-87). changed to Friday, May 4. at 1 For more information, 10 a m. to 2 p.m p.m. Registration fees are: call Tina Edwards or Darrell Raver. 676-8710. Soccer, volleyball registration set L a n d s c a p in g R a ilro a d T ie s 0]*T ÜAL.E! ■50 e a c h s,„ oooa thtoug„ M o rro w C o u n ty C r a in G r o w e r s May 5th Lexington 989-8221 » 1 - 800 - 452-7396 Wall has a daughter, Katie. 21. who has finished her first year at Eastern Oregon University, and a son. Zachary, 17, who lives in Alaska. She is active in the Heppner Christian Missionary Fellowship and has traveled to The Phillipmes through the church. Bums will remain active with the Neighborhood Center. She plans to volunteer and has accepted a place on the board of directors. New hours starting May 1 will be Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center will be closed from noon to 1 p.m. for the lunch hour and will also be closed Fridays. Bums reminds everyone of the potato giveaway planned for this Thursday. April 26. beginning at 1 p.m. in the center's parking lot. School officials urge passage of $22 million bond levy Participants in the TV shoot display their guns Sports schedules changed Kathy Wall (right) anil Debbie Burns > ,i„ tquipmtnl mil Mr mb un it a n meg n«t Potato feed to benefit Stahl family lone would also see renovation projects funded with the bond including remodeling restrooms, remodeling the kitchen, energy efficient windows, remodel showers and locker rooms, replace gym ventilation system updating or adding new office space as well as other projects. In addition to new grade schools at Boardman and Imgon there is also important maintenance projects included at both of those schools in the bond issue School officials stress that if the bond is not approved some of these renovation projects will have to be funded from general operating funds. This, they say. will hurt educational programs, which have already been cut back at some schools. "There is $3,517,369 included in the bond issue for major maintenance projects district- wide," Anderson points out. Officials also emphasize that constructions costs will only go up over the years, and that the district w ill get a good deal if the bond is issued now . With respect to the anticipated north end growth School Board Chairman Gary Frederickson says the time to act is now "If you wait until the need is there it's too late," he says. He pointed out that modular classrooms are quick, but in the end cost more in maintenance and upkeep than just going ahead and building real classrooms. "Look at what happened in llcrmiston." he says. Hermiston school district put up modular classroom to case ov ercrow ding, and then ended up keeping them for a long time. "It ended up continued page 2
