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 !
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11-13-year-olds: Emily Rietmann, Che Green, Regi Seitz,
Ashley Zimmerman, krystal Temple, kody Lovgren, Becky
Schiller and Ashley kinnard.
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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.
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