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New Methodist pastor can wear his
cowboy hat again
By Sarah Coder
Keith B rudevold, the
pastor of United Methodist church
in Heppner, comes from a long
line of clergymen. The recently
hired minister, who comes from a
Norwegian family and grew up in
Minnesota, stated that his father,
g ran d fath er
and
g re a t
grandfather were all Methodist
pastors.
Brudevold has been here
in Heppner since the first o f July.
“I am very much enjoying it
here,” he said.
B rudevold
started
serving Methodist churches in
1973—ten of those years he spent
in the music ministry, writing
songs, especially for children, and
traveling with his guitar all over
the United States and foreign
countries. “I even had a country
western hit on BBC,” he said,
referring to a song he wrote for
his daughter called, “going to
Nashville.” “1 was like #1 in
Hong Kong,” he said with a laugh.
Brudevold has served
churches
in
M innesota,
Tennessee, South Carolina, Idaho,
and now O regon.
“ M ost
churches I’ve served have been
rural or small town churches,”
said Brudevold, “I’ve traveled a
lot and found that it’s not the size
of a city but the size of the heart
o f the people. I ’ve put down
roots here, (in Heppner), very fast
and it’s nice to be able to wear
my cowboy hat again.”
The friendly pastor said
that he has had a lot o f cups of
coffee at the R&W. “It is very
easy to feel like I fit in here.
Heppner’s Main Street is one of
the nicest looking small town main
streets I’ve ever seen. It is very
attractive. I can tell that there has
been a concerned effort and
organization with the banners and
hanging baskets.”
Brudevold said that he
arrived on a Monday evening
with his church greeting him at the
door. “ They had my truck
unloaded with one hour,” he stated
Also new to Heppner is
Brudevold’s black lab, Shadow,
who keeps him company in the
parsonage next door to the
h isto rical H eppner church.
“She’s very friendly and likes to
take long walks around town.”
B rudevold enjoys his new
residence calling it a “wonderful
big home.”
B rudevold has three
grow n children and three
grandchildren. In fact, his third
grandchild, a girl, was bom on July
18. Both of his daughters live in
Boise, Idaho and his son lives in
South Carolina.
Brudevold enjoys going
camping and riding horses. “ I still
have a saddle and will soon be
looking for a horse to put under
it,” he said, adding that he had
always wanted to adopt a wild
horse.
One thing that Brudevold
is very ex cited about is his
birthday. You see. his birthday is
on M arch 20 and he was so
e x cited to hear that the
community has a celebration near
then. “I am going to pick out a
nice, green shirt to wear because
one o f these years (the St.
Patrick's day celebration) has to
fall on my birthday,” he said.
The United Methodist
Church in Heppner has a long and
meaningful history. It has been
here for more than 120 years and
went through all kinds ofjoys and
disasters right along with the city,
including the flood. “There is a
w o n d e rfu l
diversity of
talents here,
(in
the
church),
e s p e c ia lly
musical. I’d
love to see
the church
continue its
w ork in
presentations
and having
special
p ro g ram s,”
s
a
i
d
Pastor Keith
B rudevold. Brudevold of the
“I am thrilled Heppner United
about (the Methodist Church,
p o ssib ility of) w orking in
coo p eratio n w ith the other
churches and in conjunction with
the ministerial association to plan
a meaningful event for September
11 to remember and recognize that
day as a community.”
B rudevold says that
church growth begins with one
m ajor focus:
the w orship
experience, whether it be Sunday
or any other day. “Church is an
im portant tim e for them (the
congregation) to realize how
interconnected they are—they
have support in life situations.
Church begins with a feeling of
family. For me, I need to develop
that. People need to be aware
that they are participating in a
larger family. Kids need to see
that they have many grandmas
and grandpas. Then we can
begin, through Bible study and
prayer groups, things that we do
believe in. We can see ourselves
becoming more aware of others’
needs and hurts. How can we
respond to people around the
world? I want the church to have
that vision. It begins with caring
for yourself and feeling good
about yourself. The church is a
place to celebrate all aspects of
life.”
Student leaders
attend summer
leadership
workshops
Five hundred student leaders
from around the state attended the
Oregon Association of Student
C ouncil’s sum m er leadership
workshops in late July, where they
received leadership training in
o rg an izatio n
and
tim e
management, communication,
project planning and meeting
skills, goal setting and ethical
decision-making. The students
also shared community service
project ideas.
For the past 10 years, the
middle and high school workshops
have been sponsored by the
Independent Banks o f Oregon
(ICBO). ICBO has 39 member
banks around the state serving
their local communities.
Bank of Eastern Oregon in
H eppner helped sponsor the
workshop.
We P r in t C o m p u te r Forniti
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from the Bible. We honored
authority (and when we didn’t,
they had the power to discipline
us until we got it right). We all
owned guns but the thought of
shooting friends and teachers was
unthinkable. When politically
motivated lawyers took God, the
B ible,
prayer,
the
Ten
Commandments and respect for
authority and the sanctity of life
out of our schools, a new set of
values quickly filled the void;
beginning abortion by demand,
homosexual rights, guns, gangs,
drugs and a wide and growing
assortment of maladies that are
poisoning our nation.
Lance, you claim that the
words “under God” force you and
a m inority o f ath eists and
contending relig io n s to pay
homage to the ‘Christian God’.
The truth is by removing God from
the pledge (and if you have your
way from America period) you are
forcing all Americans to submit to
a new allegiance to the values of
a godless society. Let us draw a
comparison. The world we grew
up in Heppner, Oregon in the
fifties is the world that “under
God” gave us and that is why
Congress added the words. The
world that our children wake up
to and must contend with in the
schools and society of today is the
result of removing God from our
schools and culture.
Pledging Allegiance to, “One
Nation Under G od” does not
require any Am erican to pay
homage to, serve, or worship God.
Pledging Allegiance to, “One
Nation Under God” is merely
honoring our nation and the price
our founding fathers and those
who served our nation paid in war
and peace. “One Nation Under
God” was a statement of fact to
those that gave us this great land
and they w arned us in the
Declaration of Independence we
w ould not survive w ithout
allegiance to our C reator.
To the Editor:
In response to Lance Tibbies’
July 31 editorial, I want to begin
with a reflection regarding your
father Doc Tibbies. No memory
for me is more poignant and
stirring than the m em ory o f
growing up in Heppner in the
fifties. Doc Tibbies was the
epitome of a country doctor. He
was more than a doctor. He was
m inister, mentor, and deeply
respected professional. I can still
remember most of my visits to his
office. I was one o f his best
customers. I had my head stitched
up a half a dozen times at least.
We inherited a differen t
world than our kids are inheriting.
The biggest problem s I can
rem em ber growing up in the
Heppner schools of the fifties was
running in the hall or getting
caught with chewing gum. We
respected our teachers, and if we
didn’t, we usually had a meeting
with the ‘board’ of education. My,
how things have changed.
You may wonder, what does
this have to do with the Pledge of
Allegiance and, ‘one nation under
God.’ Does it also bother you
Lance that our money says “In
God We Trust”? Do you throw
away your money that says “In
God We Trust” because that
offends you as well? Does it
bother you Lance that as a
Professor of Law we still use the
Bible to swear our veracity on?
We inherited these values from
our founding fathers. They knew
the source of their liberty •and
freedom. Our problem is, we
inherited the world in which we
grew up in Heppner in the fifties
from our fathers, yet we did
nothing to earn the blessing. They
paid the price for the value system
that “under God” represented.
Nobody was forced to worship
God. Nobody was forced to pray.
Nobody was forced to read or
even own a Bible. The value
system that “ under G od”
represented gave A m erica a
moral and ethical foundation. We
honored our parents. That came
(s) Stuart Dick
Pendleton
More students identified in school photo
Rowell Ledbetter; Hazel Grabil;
Ervin Ritchie; ? Swanson; Milton
Morgan.
Third row: ? Eubanks;
Warren Coole; Clarence Brenner;
?; Daniel Head; ? Murray.
Mother is now 92 and
lives at Sun Terrace in Hermiston.
She was surprised at seeing
herself and her sister and so many
classmates that she remembered.
To the Editor:
My mother,'Josie Peck,
identified some o f the school
children in the 1924 lone School
picture published a few weeks
ago, (July 17,2002).
Front row: ?; Gladys
Graves; Hazel Padberg Benge;
Gladys Brasheres; Eva Stange;
Veda Eubanks Brenner; Mae
Murray; ?; Mary Musgraves.
Middle row: Teacher; ?;
Josie Rowell Peck; Dorothy
(s) Dorothy Tucker
Turner, OR
Family information needed
information or contact with a
descendant would be welcome.
To the Editor:
I am doing research on
the N elson and Sarah Best
Cumpton/Compton family. Any
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Justice Court
Report
The Justice Court office at the
courthouse in Heppner reports
handling the following business:
R ichard Peck, 66,
Heppner; criminal trespassing II,
$307 fine.
Leslie Lee Thompson,
40, lone; speeding 67/55, expired
drivers license, $197 fine.
Jerry Arthur Stefani, 53,
lone; speeding 75/55, $77 fine.
Jam es Roger Rose,
Hermiston; passing in a no-passing
zone, $132 fine.
Cory Alan Grabeel, 29,
Heppner; speeding 73/55, $77
fine.
Erika Dawn David, 28,
Yakima; speeding 76/55, $132
fine.
Teresa Michelle Gaines,
37, Heppner; speeding 75/55,
$111 fine.
Jesse Travis Seigal, 49,
Pendleton; speeding 75/55, $111
fine.
Motel to keep
names for rodeo
housing
Anyone wishing to rent out
rooms, RVs or housing to visitors
during the Morrow County Fair
and Rodeo may contact Lynda
Crane at the Northwestern Motel
in Heppner. Call 676-9167 for
more information.
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To the Editor:
It saddens me to see that our
majestic old school building has
been tom down.
It was probably inevitable
though; the building was old,
ou td ated , and needed to be
replaced by something that better
fits our modem, highly evolved
technologies.
Still, when 1 see long, straight
and strong support timbers ripped
out, split, splintered and dumped,
I feel unease. It seems clear that
the site will be refilled by new
structures designed by learned
persons of architecture from some
far place, assembled by faceless
firm s who specialize in the
construction of the latest, and
from material that is mined and
milled from sites unknown to any
here.
More troubling though, is the
fear that in the new classrooms,
there may no longer be heard the
teachings of things that direct the
hearts and heads o f the young
tow ard
certain
pow erful
assumptions which have enabled
this republic to maintain a high
level of responsible freedom even
w hile under huge internal
pressures o f the civil war, and to
thrive in spite o f a never ceasing
threat from international enemies.
This worry about the health
of the continued cohesiveness of
ideas o f the c itizen s o f our
republic, was sharpened when the
H onorable Lance T ibbies,
Professor at Law, kindly decided
to teach to me, and to all parochial
den izen s, som ething o f the
paradigm of intellectual thinking.
H is letter to the editor
indicates that he learned, while
attending that majestic old school
building, that we, as a republic,
were one nation, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all. He was
then introduced to something new.
He then learned that we are also
under God.
Only after he went away, and
was exposed to a higher order of
knowledge, did he learn that after
the civil war it was decided that
we, common man, needed to
assume that we were indivisible.
The pledge of allegiance was then
created. It was purposely crafted
to suggest this and other ideas to
the great unwashed. Then, when
faced w ith com petition with
godless regimes, this pledge was
altered, slightly, to reflect the
assumption that we occupied the
superior position of being a nation
under God.
N Main • Heppner
676-9426
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O ur com m on ideas and
assumptions are of the utmost
importance, as witnessed by the
fact that they, heretofore, have
served us well against predators
who labeled themselves as kings,
benevolent dictators, socialist
regimes and communist states. All
shared the com m on goal o f
seeking after our demise.
At this time, a large number
of powerful governments have
banded them selves into an
alliance with the common idea that
they are, exclusively, the
followers of the true God. These
many governments refer to their
sum as The Nation of Islam.
The admitted goal of Islam is
to convert all o f mankind. To
achieve that goal, they are
instructed to first invite others to
convert, second to demand those
who will not convert to obey the
laws of Islam, and third, if there
is no obedience to those laws,
then the sword must be applied.
Although the moderates of these
countries claim that they will be
tolerant o f the religion of others,
it is an observable fact that in all
places where Islam has gained
control, all other religions are
outlawed.
R adical elem ents o f this
alliance have repeatedly attacked
us, most notably in New York City
and the Pentagon at a date
referred to as 9/11.
Professor Tibbies, before you
take your leave from this beautiful
valley, could you tell us if we are
again facing serious threat? If we
are so tolerant of the desires of
others, even those who have
targeted our end, and they wheel
in their Trojan horse, might we,
thusly weakened, become a part
o f The Nation of Islam? Would
we not then lose our freedom,
even to squabble am ongst
ourselves about what the meaning
of what God is?
If that threat is real, and
pressing, then to counter that
threat, what changes should be,
or can be made in the institutions,
which teach the common ideas?
In order to counter this threat,
must we remove all things of God
from our pledge, our coins, or our
schools? O r should we be
concerned that by removing those
rem inders, we forget that the
pow er th at has m ade us an
uncommonly successful people
has come from the com m on
practicing o f m ores, and the
adhering to laws that spring from
the Christian way?
(s) F. Green White
Heppner
Slottee Memorial
and Lexington
scholarships
deadline
approaching
The South Morrow County
S cholarship Trust rem inds
students that the deadline for
applications for the Elizabeth
Slottee Memorial Scholarship and
the Lexington Voter Precinct
Scholarship is Friday, Aug. 16.
The S lottee M em orial
Scholarship is awarded annually
to a junior, senior, or graduate
student at an accredited college
who is majoring or minoring in
music. If no applicants are found,
the award can be given to a
student who has been accepted
into a school of education. The
sch o larsh ip am ount w ill be
determined by the earnings of the
donations of the community and
the Slottee family, which totals
more than $10,000.
The Lexington Voter Precinct
Scholarship is for $500 and will
be aw arded to a college
sophomore, junior or senior living
in the Lexington voter’s precinct.
Applications in disc format
can be picked up at Klamath First
Federal bank in Heppner. Contact
Sharon Harrison at 676-9164 or
Del LaRue at 422-7568 for more
information.