Page 12-Special Edition Morrow County Fair & Rodeo • Heppner Gazette-Times. Wednesday, August 8. 2001
perform at fair
Kids have fun “ going to the dogs” Eclectic duo to
Front row (left to right): Ashley Black with BooBoo, Tiera McCool
with Scooby D, Mahaley Huddleston with ON, Sarah Stillman with
Boz and Whitney McNary with Delani. Back row (left to right):
Patti McNary with Teddy, William McNary, Kristal Temple with
Sheila and Sassy, and Mindy Wenberg with Cisco. Not pictured:
Kim Morris, Codi Rosecrans and Isaac Stillman.
By Debbie Harper
Everyone is invited to spend some
time with the dogs on Wednesday
afternoon, August 15. That's when
the open and 4-H dog classes are
judged at the Morrow County Fair.
Tina Edwards, Heppner, has been
the leader o f the 4-H club "Puppy
Power" for three years, "with lots
o f help from Patti McNary, lone."
Club members are Tiera McCool,
Mahaley Huddleston, Sarah Stillman,
Whitney McNary, William McNary.
Kristal Temple. M indy Wenberg,
Kim M om s, Codi Rosecrans and
Isaac Stillman.
Starting in January, the club meets
every other week until July, when
they start meeting weekly. They learn
about grooming, breeds, confirmation
and parasites. And they spend lots
o f time handling their dogs for
exhibition They also attend practice
shows, where they leam about
judging and what will be required
o f them
during a show.
Judges can ask anything about
dogs. "One judge asked the kids how
much the registration fee was m their
town." said Edwards.
4-H club members show according
to school levels just completed.
Children who have just completed
grades four or five and in their first
year o f showing a project are
beginners. Juniors have just
completed grades four, five or six;
intermediates are in grades seven,
eight or nine: and seniors are in 1 Oth.
11th or 12th.
The dogs are exhibited according
to their training level. All the club
members have dogs at the subnovice
level. They can show in obedience
and or showmanship classes. Dogs
can be pure or mixed breeds and
don’t even have to be owned by the
children themselves.The children
may show a friend's or neighbor's
dog if they like.
Hus is Kristal Temple's 4th year
in dog 4-H. Kristal, who lives in
Lexington, will be showing her dog
Sheila in the novice class. Last year
she got a new dog. Sassy, which
she'll show in subnovice this year.
Having a new dog has kept Knstal's
interest and given her new
challenges, she said.
There is also an open class
division, with obedience and
showmanship classes. In the open
division adults and children compete
against each other at each level.
Exhibitors who show in the 4-H
division cannot show the same dog
in the open division
Mahaley Huddleston o f Heppner
has only been with the club a short
time, and is only showing her dog.
Oh, in the open classes this year.
"The biggest thing I've learned is
there's a lot o f different things to
learn," said Mahaley. She and her
best friend. Tiera McCool, joined
4-H because they "love dogs."
For more information or to enter
the open division, contact LaRae
Kindle, 541-676-9474.
Between the two o f them, Mike
Mallory and Jerry Smith have played
a lot o f music, in a lot o f bands and
in a lot of towns. With an "impressive
number o f gigs and influences"
behind them, Mallory and Smith
have joined forces to make "original
music that is definitely their own".
Asked about the "kind o f music"
he plays, Mallory recalls listening
to the radio. "When I was a kid
listening to the radio you could hear
a cut by Cream, followed by Buck
Owens, followed by Little Richard,"
he said. "The stations were not so
genre-oriented. There weren't such
clear distinctions. You could hear
almost anything on almost any
station."
Eclectic, then would be the right
word to describe the music of
Mallory' and Smith. That is. it would
be the right word if it weren't "way
too fancy".
Mallory and Smith play some
blues and some rock'n roll and some
folksy tunes and some country and
then some other stuff.
"I like to say that we play all
original, folk-rock-blues," Mallory
says. Mallory and Smith perform
a "wholly original" show.
Mallory does the large part of
the writing but says that rehearsals
and fine-tuning always change the
tunes. "It's a very good experience
to build songs from the ground up."
Mallory is the force behind a
recent CD, "Things 1 Remember,"
produced by Will Kenworthy
Productions. The CD features seven
o f Mallory's compositions and
includes both acoustic and electric
versions o f the song "These Days".
A long-time collaborator. A1
Macleod, plays on the CD and helped
write "Thread o f Truth".
Mallory's music is as "flexible
and wide-ranging" as Smith's
"virtuoso" guitar playing. Smith's
guitar is "wonderfully agile"; his
leads are complete thoughts
expressing the "essence o f finesse
and taste," according to a news
release.
Smith started his guitar days as
a rock'n roller and learned that he
could make money playing country.
He toured as bass player and put
in some time in various show bands
in the Las Vegas and Reno areas.
But it is the lead guitar that he was
bom to play. He says he is musically
very happy with the duo, and enjoys
the acoustic gigs he plays with
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Smith's "got the chops". In 1997
he won the Columbia Gorge flat
picking championship, held at
Stevenson, WA.
Smith and Mallory came together
several years ago when Smith sat
in a time or two with "Mike Mallory
and the Liars". "As soon as I heard
him play," Mallory says, "I knew
we should have him in a band."
Morrow County fairgoers can
enjoy listening to this duo on
Thursday afternoon from 2-3p.m.
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There’s just nothing like the
County Fair
And there's nothing like the people young & old
who take the opportunity to show off their efforts
at the Morrow County Fair.
Whether i t ’s a 4-H project, an FFA project
or the work o f those entering in open classes,
we like your spirit & support your many fine efforts.
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