Local businesses and organizations fund "free swim days’
Bessie uebzeLL
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Sw immers enjoy a refreshing swim on a hot, summer day.
Local organizations and
businesses have teamed up to
fund free Monday swim days at
the Willow Creek Water Park.
The Elks Lodge funded free swim
on this past Monday, June 17.
In addition to the regular
pool hours, adult swim time is
now open Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 5:10-6:00 p.m.
The cost is $2 or $ 1 with a season
pass.
Art for all at the
Morrow County
Fair
VOL. 121
NO. 25
10 Pages
Wednesday, June 19,2002
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
2002 Watershed Field Day held
The third Watershed Field
Day in Morrow County was held
May 8-9 on Duane N eiffer's
property near lone. The Natural
Resource Systems Consortium in
Umatilla and Morrow County
sponsors the field day, which
provides students with quality
“hands-on” experiences that tie
into existing science, agriculture
and natural resource classes or
units.
A pproxim ately
140
students attended on the first day
and 155 on the second, including
grades 4-12. Schools that
participated were Hermiston's
Armand Larive Junior High and
H ighland H ills Elem entary,
Monument School, AC Houghton
^ Elementary and Columbia Middle
School from Irrigon, Boardman’s
R iverside High School, and
Heppner and lone schools.
“ H ands-on” stations
included soil development, plant
and wheat identification, mapping,
macro-invertebrates, and water
quality
and
stream -bank
restoration.
“A project like this takes
support from many agencies,
teachers, students, parents and
schools. The “ hands-on”
experience for the students is
very important in teaching them
about conservation of our soil and
water and how that affects all of
us,” stated a Morrow SWCD
spokesperson.
Plant identification was
taught by Dawn Callow’s science
class at Columbia Middle School:
G abe H ansen, Jace Jones,
Amanda Walker, Shelley Orcutt,
SheaLynn
Slover,
Heidi
Vangorder. “The students did a
great job teaching the station and
then shared with students at
Columbia MS what they had
learn ed ,” com m ented Dawn
Callow.
Not only do Gary Hunt
and Duane N eiffer work as
presenters for the m acro
invertebrate and mapping stations,
they also have had the opportunity
to watch their classes participate
as group leaders and work as
presenters throughout the last
three years. They stated. “As we
live in rural areas this field day
gives our students an actual
hands-on experience about
w atershed education. They
actually do research on Willow
Creek and learn how the
watershed is affected by different
One “hands on” station featured planting trees.
Students observe macro-invertebrates.
land management practices. This
is much more meaningful than
learning it from a text.”
The lone students who
helped with presenters were:
Brad Burright, Cyndi Heagy, Salli
McElligott, Colin McElligott,
Adam Neiffer, Adam McCabe,
Kristina Powell, Cameron Krebs,
Andrew Rietmann. Cayle Krebs,
Jeff Hunt. Paul Neiffer, Til Tullis.
The group leaders from
lone were: Aaron Tworek, Jaysi
B ennetto, Cody Bergstrom ,
M acarena E sposito, Tracy
Griffith, Brian Gutierrez, Karl
Morgan. Caitlin Orem. Koby Rea.
A shley
R oberts,
Jamie
VandenBrink, Brian Bunch, Eva
Chitty, Johnny Collin. Brittanny
Day, Billy Gates, Emily Key,
M egan M cCabe, M eghan
McCabe, Natalie McElligott. Billy
Ross, Curtis Thompson. C'yd
Tullis. Many of these students
have helped for the last three
years.
Steve Brownfield’s field
biology class in Heppner works
with Morrow SWCD throughout
the year placing Stow-a-ways in
Willow Creek in three strategic
areas. The data loggers are
removed each fall and the class
downloads the recorded water
temperature information. The
following biology class students
also helped at the field day
teaching the students how to
m easure
w ater
quality
parameters including pH. turbidity,
conductivity, temperature and
dissolved oxygen levels at the
w ater quality station: Paula
Spicerkuhn, Shelley Rietmann.
Lacy Matteson. Daniel Jepsen,
Stefan Matheny. Sam Van Liew,
Molly Turrell Doug Orwick and
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With the fair coming up in
A ugust, those planning the
Morrow County fair hope that
everyone who paints is busy
preparing work to bring in on
August 12 from 1-8 p.m.
There are 11 categories
in which to enter in Amateur Art.
Watercolor has two divisions and
oil has five. These first 11
categories are for artist’s own
design or from a photo they have
taken or set up. Lot 12, broken
into 4 divisions, is for classes and
copies: any painting done in a
workshop or a copy of another
artist’s painting must be entered
in this category. For everyone
with the ability to make a nice
piece of sculpture by hand and
with tools, there is Lot 13. In
these 13 categories, anyone from
ages 18-100+ can enter.
The Youth division, ages
14-17, has the same categories as
above plus Lot 15, computer art.
They will be judged in this age
group only so all high school
students will be judged on an
individual basis by an artist judge.
The fair board encourages lots of
competition.
The
Professional
category is for art teachers, artists
who sell at art shows and galleries
and anyone who sells or does art
for an income, such as illustrating
for books.
All the same
categories as with Amateur are
available.
The theme of the fair this
year is “Discover the Centennial
Spirit” and those who aren't sure
what sort o f piece to do are
encouraged to pursue something
with this theme.
All work will hang on old
barn boards to provide equal
judging. Entrants are asked to put
wire on the back of their entries
to ensure stable hanging.
Morrow County Creative
Arts and Crafts will give a special
award based on points for ribbons.
Murray’s Drug will provide an
award to the individual who paints
“Ann’s Favorite Painting.”
Everyone is invited to
come take a look at the talent
displayed by other Morrow
County community members.
For questions or more
information, or to inquire about art
categories that are not listed in the
premium book, please call Shirley
McNary at 422-7569 or Betty
Mills at 676-5546.
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Merry Brannon, pool manager, receives a SI.000 gift from Darrell Raver of
the Bank of Eastern Oregon. The funds w ill help to cover free Monday sw im
days this summer.
Exalted Ruler Marty Brannon presents pool manager. Merry Brannon,
with a $250 check to fund Monday's free sw im day.
Hospice program accepts patients
By Molly Rhea
A long-held vision is
finally reaching fruition for the
staff at Pioneer Memorial home
health. The agency has recently
been given the go-ahead to begin
accepting patients to their newly
established hospice program.
To be eligible for hospice
care, a person must be terminally
ill and agree to palliative care,
treatment to enhance comfort and
improve quality of life, as opposed
to treatment directed toward the
underlying disease.
H ospice's goal is to
provide support and care for
persons in the last phases of an
incurable terminal disease so that
they may live as fully and as
comfortably as possible. The
hospice staff provides training
and support to the p atien t’s
caregivers through the dying
process and continues to offer
bereavement follow ing the death
o f the patient. The hospice
philosophy is to affirm life, while
neither hastening nor postponing
death.
At first glance, having the
availability of the hospice benefit
may not seem much different to
some from what Pioneer
Memorial home health already
provides. However, there arc
many differences, some subtle
and some not so subtle.
Hospice em phasizes
caring for the whole person: their
mental, emotional and spiritual
states as well as taking care of
their physical needs. The hospice
team consists o f the patient's
physician, nurses, social w orker,
and a spiritual counselor or clergy.
If needed, the patient may also
receive physical, speech and
occupational therapy, as well as
help with personal care, w hich is
provided by home health aides.
Volunteers arc an
im portant part o f hospice.
Volunteers can be used in many
capacities such as, helping in the
office and as couriers, aiding in
fund raising, providing caregiver
respite and direct patient care.
Medicare. Medicaid and
most
private
insurance
companies reimburse hospice on
a per diem basis. Out of the daily
payment (per diem), hospice
provides all the disciplines listed
above and any needed medical
equipment, as well as furnishing
the medications being used for the
terminal condition.
Pioneer
Memorial
Hospice ( PMH) sta ff feels
Heppner is very fortunate to have
Carolyn Willey in the community.
She has volunteered to be the
volunteer coordinator, as well as
function as the hospice’s chaplain
and bereavement coordinator
Willey took early retirement from
Florida Suncoast Hospice, one of
the largest hospices in the nation,
to care for her mother. Lynn
Bibby. during the last two years
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