TEN - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Heppner Four-Year-Old Preschool Class of 2001
celebrates ’graduation’
District spelling contest held
The Heppner Preschool Four-Year-Old Class of 2001 celebrated its "graduation" at a ceremony for
parents and friends at the Heppner Daycare Center Tuesday, May 22. Included in the class of 2001 are:
Maggie Brooks, Deatley Britt, Ryan Dougherty, Tate Gentry, Maddie George, Andrew Hatfield,Colby
Hedman, Keenan Helfrecht, Micha Hintz, Mekayla Kindle, Lucas Lindsay, Ali Lovgren, Treston Maben,
Jaden Orr, Kaid Peck, J.C. Putman, Courtnie Taylor, Tyrel Walker and Johnny Wilson. Preschool
director and teacher is Merrv Brannon.
Division I winners
Sheriffs office sponsors special Olympics run
By Debbie Harper
The Morrow County Sheriffs
Office is sponsoring the Oregon
Law Enforcement Special Olympics
Torch Run between Heppner and
lone on Saturday, June 2, with
check-in beginning at 9 a.m.
Runners will start from the Heppner
city park.
Entrance fee is $10. Runners will
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receive a t-shirt. If they collect $50
or more in pledges, the entrance
fee is waived and they still receive
a shirt. Sponsors who pledge $10
or more will also receive a t-shirt.
Pledges are tax-deductible.
Runners generally run relay style.
Two or three runners, one of whom
will carry the torch, will run as long
as they can. Then they will be picked
up by a bus, supplied by Hermiston
Police Department and other runners
will take their place.
Runners don't have to be in law Undersherill Larry Sample and Reserve Officer Tina Edwards
enforcement. "If the track team
wants to come out and run, it would
be great," said Morrow County
Oregon State University's 132nd Paul G. Risser will preside over the
Undersheriff Larry Sample.
Last year reserve officer Tina annual commencement ceremony ceremony, which will include
Edwards ran the entire distance of for undergraduates will be held on representatives from the Oregon
Sunday, June 17, at 2 p.m. in Reser University System and Oregon
18 miles in about 2 1/2 hours.
Any one wanting to register, Stadium, Corvallis. The ceremony State's student body.
become a sponsor, or needing more will be televised live by Oregon
information, may call the Morrow Public Broadcasting. OSU's graduate
County Sheriffs Office at 676-5317. students will have their own
UndershenfT Sample said he would ceremony beginning at 9 a.m. in
like to know the number of runners LaSells Stewart Center.
Local undergraduate degree
by May 31 to ensure there's enough
recipients
are: Daniel Burnside,
Morrow County Public Works
water to provide to the runners.
bachelor
of
science,
housing
studies;
will
be chip sealing in the Heppner
The Morrow County Sheriffs
Benjamin
Ewing,
bachelor
of
area
on June 4-7. Drivers are to
Office also sponsors a golf
tournament for Special Olympics science, biology; Phillip Spicerkuhn, expect delays in the following areas:
bachelor of science, general science, Willow Creek Road. Willow Creek
in August.
all of Heppner; and Leticia Flores Park and Boat Ramp, High School
of Irrigon, bachelor of arts, liberal
Road and Dee Cox Road.
studies.
For more information, contact
Overall, more than 3,000 students Morrow County Public Works at
will receive diplomas from Oregon
989-9500.
The Port of Morrow will hold
State University. OSU President
a commission workshop on
Wednesday, May 30, at 10 a.m.
Included on the agenda will be the
strategic plan update.
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Local students graduate from OSU
Division II winners
Division III not pictured.
By Debbie Harper
Kate Kendrick spent her birthday
taking a test. But it didn't bother
the Heppner Elementary School
fifth grader. She tied for first place
in Division 1 of the district's spelling
contest, held May 17 at Columbia
Middle School in Irrigon.
District students competed in
three divisions. Each division's 30
word written test was given by a
teacher, then graded by a group of
correctors. The students and their
families had punch and cinnamon
rolls while they waited for the
results.
Recognitions were given through
sixth place, but there were numerous
ties for places within each division.
Division I : Grades 3-5- 1. Kate
Kendrick (HES) and Emily
Rietmann (lone); 2. Seth Morgan
(HES); 3. Courtney Kemp (Sam
Boardman); 4. Tiana Camarillo
(lone) and Justin Archer (lone); 5.
Juan Ruiz (Sam Boardman); 6. Josh
Kramer (A.C. Houghton) and Buddy
Kennedy (A.C. Houghton); 7. David
Yecha (A.C. Houghton); 8. Maggie
Armato (HES); 9. Keshia Richmond
Building codes forum topic
The Oregon Building Codes
Division will host a public meeting
on Tuesday. June 5, at 6 p.m. in the
first floor conference room in the
state offices, 700 SE Emigrant,
Pendleton, to discuss issues related
to statewide building codes
programs and to answer any
questions contractors, homeowners,
local officials, manufacturers and
others may have about BCD services
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or the building codes system.
The meeting is part of an ongoing
outreach effort intended to give
Oregonians with an interest in
building-related
issues
an
opportunity for direct access to top
BCD staff. This can be both an
opportunity to ask staff about the
state’s building codes program and
to educate the division on public
issues or concerns.
Topics covered may include code
compliance; boilers; elevators;
recreational vehicles; parks; and
manufactured homes.
Everyone is invited to attend and
participate.
(Sam Boardman).
Divison I I : Grades 6-8- 1. Ryan
Campbell (Heppner); 2. Anita
Garcilazo (Columbia Middle School)
and Blair Keithley (Heppner); 3.
Laurie Murray (Heppner); 4. Kim
Morris (lone); 5. Kristin Baldwin
(Columbia); 6. Kayla LaRue (lone);
7. Kasie Peterson (lone).
Division III - High School: 1.
Jamie Moore (Riverside); 2. Jesse
Gutierrez (Heppner); 3. Jennifer
Thompson (lone); 4. Darcy
McCormick(Riverside); 5. Til Tullis
(lone); 6. Jodie Carlson (Heppner).
Local student
earns academic
award
Luke Swanson o f lone,
Eastern Oregon University's
men's basketball player, has been
named to the NAIA Academic
All-American team.
Swanson,
a
senior
business major, has an overall
grade point average o f 3.5. He
started 17 games last season as a
shooting guard and averaged 8.6
points, 2.8 rebounds and one
assist per game.
Road work
scheduled
Port of Morrow
plans workshop
READY, SET IT ONCLGO!
Marriage Licenses
The Morrow County Clerk's
office at the courthouse in Heppner
reports issuing the following
marriage license:
May 9-Aaron Lowe Yount, 21,
Othello, Wash.; and
Amber Leigh Eppich, 19, Mesa,
Wash.
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