Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 22, 2002)
FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 22, 2002 Wranglers give awards Leadline: Jessy Wolford, Connor Green, Rylee kollman, fate Gentry, Laney Jenson, Macy Gibbs, Ali Lovgren 5 and under: Blake Greenup, Ryan Dougherty, Bobbie Correa, Makenzi Hughes Stick horse: (l-r) Joseph Pettibone, Makenzi Hughes, Laney Jenson. Rylee kollman, Coby Dougherty 6 and 7-year-olds: (back) Rebecca Jepsen, Mary Rietmann, Makenna Ramos, Colby Green, Hanna Lovgren, (front) Stacy Jo Halvorsen, Hannah Jones, Garrett Robinson, Garrett Gibbs The Wranglers Club held a M other’s Day barbecue and the fourth of its annual series o f play days on Sunday, May 12. The local riding club is open to anyone who wants to participate. This year they held play days on the afternoons o f April 21, 28, May 3 and 12. Each week there were three different events for the contestants. The first two events were always barrel racing and pole bending. The third event was different each week and included the Figure 8 Stakes Race, Put and Take, Scurry Race, and Ring Race. All o f the kids who participated in at least one week o f the four received a prize. Overall season w inners who accumulated the most points included the following: Stick horse: first place, Makenzi Hughes; second place, Laney Jenson; third place, Rylee Kollman; fourth place, Colby Dougherty; fifth place, Joseph Pettibone and sixth place, Chance Frederickson. Leadline; first place, Jessy Wolford; second place, Connor Green; third place, Rylee Kollman; fourth place, Tate Gentry. Five and under: first place, Blake Greenup; second place, Ryan Dougherty; third place, Bobbie Correa; fourth place, Makenzi Hughes. 6 and 7-year-olds: first place, Rebecca Jepsen; second place, Mary Rietmann; third place, Makenna Ramos; and fourth place, Colby Green. 8 -10-year-olds: first place, Jessica Hughes; second place, Taighler Dougherty; third place, Eric Jepsen; fourth place, Devin Robinson. 11-13-year-olds: first place was a tie between Che Green and Emily Rietmann; second place, Regi Seitz; third place, Kody Lovgren; and fourth place, Becky Schiller. 14-17-year-olds: first place, Kelsey Greenup; second place, Amy Jepsen; third place, Sibbea Jones; and fourth place, Lacy Davis. Each year, the Wranglers Club also gives a large traveling trophy to the family who has shown the most improvement in their riding skills. This year's winners were Pat and Bobbette Lovgren of Fleppner and their children, Kody, Tory, Hanna, and Ali. The W ranglers will be sponsoring a Jack Pot Rodeo on Saturday, June 8. Call Bill or Liz Green at 676-5425 for more information. Watching the light bulbs come on 14-17-year-olds: kelsey Greenup, Amy Jepsen, Lacy Davis 8 -10-year-olds: (back) Jessica Hughes, Taighler Doherty, Eric Jepsen, Devon Robinson, (front) Tory Lovgren, kylie Jensen, Willy Gentry- Karen Beck will “not miss the paperwork“ when she retires from teaching next month. Most Improved Riding Aw ard Trophy went to the Pat Lovgren family. Bobbette, Hanna, kody and Tory pictured Honor T h e C la ss O f 2 0 0 2 ! Graduation Is N early Here! We Have Hallmark Cards • Towels 11-13-year-olds: Emily Rietmann, Che Green, Regi Seitz, Ashley Zimmerman, krystal Temple, kody Lovgren, Becky Schiller and Ashley kinnard. Hair today...gone tomorrow Money Holders • Party Supplies Picture Frames • Gift Certificates Mustang Sweatshirts & Frames Free Gift Wrapping cfi Delivery o f Gifts ^ MuMj'i D mj 217 North Main • Heppner 676-9158 Serving Heppner, Lexington & lone W elcom e To The j j t h Annual SPRAY RODEO Champion book readers shaved teacher Dean Robinson's head and heard and Principal Mike Stuart's mustache. Saturday & Sunday, May 25-26 Saturday, May 25th: Once again, lone elementary and junior high students completed their goal in this year’s reading pro g ram , “ Read A cross America". Teachers, students and Cathy Halvorsen decorated the m ain hall in the elem en tary building, keeping w ith the theme o f red, white and blue, and the different states they would be visiting along the way. This year's program began on April 22 and ended on May 9. The students read a total of 16,210 miles all together, equivalent to tw o tim es around the U nited States. Students began in lone and made several stops along the way. First they stopped in Utah, then M in n eso ta, N ew York. Washington D C., Florida, Texas, California and back to lone. For each 25 books the students read, or with the older students. 500 pages, they completed a passport and brought it to the library for a prize and a star on the board. Each star represented 100 miles. “We were hoping to make it at least once around the U.S. but the students out did themselves, and we made it around tw ice” said Terri Palmateer, librarian. For rea c h in g th e ir g o al. Buckeroo Breakfast from 6 a.m.-12 noon Eastern Oregon Half-Marathon begins at 8 a m. Rodeo Parade starts at 11 a m. Rodeo Dance - 9 p.m. with the Tetherow Crossing Band Sunday, May 26th: Buckeroo Breakfast from 6 a.m.-12 noon Cowboy Church Service at 9 a m. (in the rodeo grandstands) RODEO STARTS AT I p.m. BOTH DAYS Thanh you To Our To flowing Sponsors: Sponsor Signs Gardner Enterprises. Inc. (John Day) • Columbia Power Co-op (Monument) CenturyTel Phone Company • Kimberly Center (Kimberly) • fossil General Mercantile les Schwab Tire Center (Heppner) • Jay Coil Fabricating (Heppner) fossil fuel • Morrow County Gram Growers (Lexington) • Bucknum's Tavern (Heppner) Service Creek Stage Stop • Eckman Construction. Inc. (Heppner) • Big K. Inc (Redmond) Pnneville Men's Wear • Trails End Farm Supplies (Condon) Roger Brttt Excavating (Heppner) • Woodpecker Truck (Pendleton) Blue Mountain Lumber Products (Pendleton) * Ted Brttt Logging (Heppner) Lazy WoH Resort (Spray) • Michaels of Oregon (Oregon City) • Bridge Creek flora Inn (Fossil) Sponsor Flags Pendleton Gram Growers • Wheeler County News (Spray) • Real Estate Outback (Spray) Jim Doherty Construction (Spray) * M & A Auto Parts (Condon) * Les Schwab (Heppner) Bank of Eastern Oregon (Heppner) * Michaels of Oregon (Oregon City) Buckle Sponsors Les Schwab (John Day) * Phil and Nancy Wilson (Fossil) * Earl Mortimore (Fossil) John Griffith Family (Heppner) * Michaels of Oregon (Oregon City) Wheeler County Fair and Rodeo * Coyote Cafe and Rim Rock Room (Spray) D R. Johnson Lumber Co. 14-J Ranch (Riddle) students were treated to a shaving party with Principal Mike Stuart and teacher Dean Robinson once again volunteering their facial hair as well as the hair on Robinson’s head. The students competed for the honor o f being able to go up and shave the two by reading as many books, and pages as they could. Winners this year, with four stars each , w ere N atash a Epperson, first grade; Jordan Peterson and Zac Orem, second grade; and Beth M orter, third grade. They were followed by Julianne C arlson, first grade; Emily Holland, kindergarten; Alex Carlson and Brianna Peterson, tied, fourth grade; and M ike Coleman, fifth grade. Junior high winners were: S hannon C lay, six th grade; Miranda Hunt, seventh grade; and Abby Key, eighth grade. “Everyone had a great time, yes. even Mr. Robinson and Mr. Stuart,” said Palmateer. Afterwards participants had chocolate sundaes to end the program. We P r i n t C o m p u t e r l o r m s H ep p n er G azette-T im e* Karen Beck, long-time H eppner m ath tea c h e r, is co u n tin g the days to her retirement. “ 1 have a c lo c k th at counts backw ard,” Beck said. “ I ’m down to 30-som ething.” Actually, she’s down to the teens now, as she will be running for the doors, just like the rest o f Heppner schools, on June 6. Beck w as b orn and raised in the Portland area and graduated from Clackamas High School in 1968. She then attended Oregon College o f Education, now Western Oregon University, and received her BS in education. There she also met her husband, Alan, who retired from Heppner High School three years ago. B e c k ’s firs t te a c h in g experience was in Sherw ood where she taught seventh and eighth grade math for one year. She then married Alan and moved to lone. From 1969-1971 she tau g h t fifth grade at lone Elementary School. In 1971, their first child, Michelle, was bom and Daniel, their second, followed in 1975. She went back to full-time teaching in 1976, spending two years at lone High School, and then going on to Heppner to teach fifth and eighth grade m ath. “That’s when I really fell in love with mathematics,” said Beck. In 1985, the fam ily m oved to Heppner and by 1986, Beck had assumed her current position as Junior High math teacher. “When kids go, ‘I get it!' the light bulb comes on," said Beck, “ I enjoy watching the light bulbs come on. I didn't always want to be a math teacher, I was tom between the nursing profession and teaching.” Beck has been involved in many school program s and activities throughout her teaching career. More recently, she has helped set up the Family Math N ight at the grade school; a program that has taken place the last two years for grades K-8. She also helped set up the Veterans Day service at the high sch o o l. “ T his w as rea lly dedicated in my heart to my dad." she said. “ T eaching is very different now than 20 years ago.” Beck stated. Beck described several changes at the state level that she was, “not happy with.” Beck thinks that the benchmarks that children have to reach are unreasonable, and that the state is wasting money on these tests. “ T he only p a rt o f the state benchm arks I like is w here a student has a work sample from their grade level and they explain how the mathematics was done. The writing o f the explanation is good.” Beck and her husband already have their future as a retired couple planned out. They " are planning to move to the coast, a place they alw ays w ent to when they were dating. They also plan on traveling and, K aren especially, pursuing their other “ p a s s io n s ” : g a rd e n in g , la n d sc a p in g , re a d in g , and collecting things featuring cats. The Beck’s ’ children are living in the Portland area and they now have a grandson, Travis, who was bom in January. When her children were growing up. Beck was a leader in C ub S c o u ts, B lu e b ird s and Campfire. She is now active in the Heppner Methodist Church as a tru s te e and in v o lv e d w ith Pastor-Parish Relationship. She has been on the Heppner Planning C om m ission and also enjoys running. “My husband and I are avid runners,” she said, “we run in races y e a r ro u n d , from m arath o n s to tra c k m eets to relays.” Though Beck will miss her long-time position, she is ready to retire. “When I retire, I w on’t miss teaching, but I will miss the contact with the kids and staff," she said and then added. “I will not miss the paperwork!” Lifeguard training offered Be trained as a lifeguard and work as a lifeguard during the summer, while attending college or at any year-round pool. A lifeguard training c o u rse w ill be held at the C on d o n sw im m in g pool beginning at 8 a.m., Saturday, June 1. Participants must be at least 15 years old. For more information or to pre-register, contact Sally Walker at 676-9112. Order Magnetic Door Signs HERE Heppner Gazette-Times
