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T W O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 14, 2002 Chamber Chatter The Official Newspaper o f the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow by Claudia Hughes Chamber Executive Director H ep p n er GAZETTE-TIMES U S PS. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner. Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner. Oregon Office at 147 W Willow Street Telephone (541) 676-9228 Fax (541) 676-921 1 E- mail gnu heppner net or gnu rapidserve net Web site: www.heppncr.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, PO. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: $24 in Morrow County; $18 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older). $30 elsewhere David Sykes............................................................................................................ Publisher April S y k es.............................................................................................................. Editor New * deadline is M onday at 5 p.m. For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $4 75 per column inch Cost for classified ad is 50< per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $7 up to 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $5.35 per column inch. For PuNicrLegal Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Oates for publication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.net • Start or Change a Subscription • Place a Classified Ad • Submit a News Story • View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes • Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! Obituaries Gertrude Mildred Frye Gertrude Mildred Frye, 96, of Irrigon, died Wednesday, August 7,2002, at Good Samaritan Cen ter in Hermiston. It was her request that no funeral service be held. Disposi tion was by cremation. Mr. Frye was born July 3, 1906, at San Francisco, Califor nia. She was a homemaker and mother. She loved knitting, rock hounding and fishing with her late husband, Harvey. The couple were residents of the Irrigon area for over 30 years. Mrs. Frye was the last of 18 siblings. Her husband, Harvey, died February 2, 2002, and her only daughter. Beverly Frye, died January 5, 1998. There are no survivors. B urns M ortuary of Hermiston was in charge o f ar rangements. Robert Ernest Ferrell Robert Ernest Ferrell, 84, of Enterprise, died July 31,2002, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital. A memorial service was held August 10, 2002, at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Enterprise. Mr. Ferrell was bom May 31, 1918, to Ernest W. and Edna Ferrell in Klondike, Oregon. He grew up on the family farm in Wasco and graduated from The Dalles High School at the age of 16. He m arried M ildred Hattenhauer o f The Dalles on January 12, 1941, in The Dalles. They were apart the four years he served in the U.S. Army artil lery in North Africa and Italy dur ing World War II. After the war, he attended the University of Oregon and re turned to work for First National Bank o f O regon in C ondon, Union and Hood River. He was the manager of the First National Bank in Heppner in the 1950s before becoming the manager o f the Moro branch in 1957. In 1960, he was promoted to m anager of the Enterprise branch and retired from there in 1974. He was a member of the Elks Lodge and was a lay reader in St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church. He enjoyed fishing and bird hunting, especially duck and pheasant hunting, with his Ger man Shorthair dogs. He and his wife enjoyed golf ing together. Upon retirement, they wintered in Tempe, Arizona, for over a decade. He was preceded in death by his wife Millie in 1988 and by his sisters, Irma Morrison o f The Dalles and Elda Clough of Tule Lake, California. Survivors include his daugh ters, Nancy Ingram and Judy Fletcher; grandchildren, Rob, Mandi and Ashley Anderson of Enterprise, Melissa Bohnenkamp o f Bend, Megan Berry of Baker City; and three great-grandchil dren. Memorial contributions may be made to the family in care of the Bollman Funeral Home of Enterprise. held. Disposition was by crema tion. Mr. Heliums was bom Janu ary 19,1914, at Corvallis to John and Flavia Miner Heliums. He was raised and attended school at Echo where he graduated from high school. On May 19,1934, he married Rose J. Motheny at Walla Walla, Washington. He served w ith the U.S. Navy during World War II be tween 1943 and 1946. The Heliums lived at Echo and at Pendleton for a number of years. They also lived at Ameri can Falls, Idaho, for 12 years be fore moving to Heppner in 1972. During the next 18 years, the couple spent their winters in Southern California and Arizona. Rose Heliums died in 1992. On May 3, 1996, he married Helen Schaffitz, at Shaniko. They lived at Heppner until 2000 when they moved to Hermiston. Mr. Heliums was a building contractor for many years. He w orked for and later owned McCormack Construction Com pany. His first construction job was working on Bonneville Dam. He designed and built potato sheds during his years in Idaho. He worked as a deputy sheriff in Umatilla County during the early 1960s and had been an active Pendleton Round-Up volunteer and had served as grounds direc tor in the 1950s. He was proud of the fact he had climbed Mt. Hood. Mr. H elium s had been a member of Rotary, Elks, Ameri can Legion and Main Street Cow boys. Survivors include his wife, Helen Heliums of Hermiston; son, Virden “Scoop” Heliums of Port land; daughters, Marilene “Janie” Rimensberger o f Ojai, California, and Elizabeth “Liz” Burke of Hermiston; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, Oregon affiliate, 1425 N.E. Irving Street, Suite 100, Portland, Oregon 97232-4201. Sw eeney M ortuary o f Heppner was in charge o f ar rangements. R PLATED Heppner Chamber welcomes Snyder, Seydel, Lewis, Poe & Moeller LLC, certified public accountants operating out o f LaGrande, as its newest member. Brent G underson, raised in Heppner and known to many, is employed by the firm. It’s great to see Heppner’s young adults doing business close to home. This is why the Chamber and Willow C reek Valley Econom ic Development works diligently to grow new businesses in our area. The community and county welcomes one and all as they “Discover the Centennial Spirit” during the 80th Celebration, in full swing as you read this. And what sp irit M orrow C ounty has: organizational spirit, historic spirit, business spirit, community spirit and Chamber spirit. All these come together to help make Heppner a special place where visitors are welcome and people share successes and failures, happiness and sadness, struggles and triumphs. It’s about small town living and celebrating. Whether you are volunteering, taking care o f 4-H livestock, working in a booth, putting on or entering the parade, rodeoing, etc., savor the moments. Hum an brains are an amazing part o f the body, but puzzling to figure out. Why is it that only portions of what one needs to remember is expelled and then, two or three days later when you are mindlessly petting your cat, a message jumps out reminding you of something you forgot? That w ould be what happened a w eek after “Celebrate Heppner”. Zap ...the music in the park with Joe and Leann Lindsay, brought about by the efforts o f the Willow Creek Valley Service C lub and the M orrow C ounty U nified Recreation District. It was a great ending to a successful day and all involved are to be commended. F orgive the brain cells for shorting out. C om puters on overload don’t always function well. Hear them again at the Thursday night’s fair festivities put on by Murray’s Country Rose. K!eep those parade entries coming. Spectators will enjoy a performance by the Round-Up City Cloggers prior to the parade. W ith th at, the H eppner Chamber o f Commerce wishes one and all a great weekend “D iscovering The Centennial Spirit.” Thought for the w eek: “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” -Anonymous W E P R IN T B U S IN E S S CARDS Lett «I fyyltt - Lett Celo>vt Heppner Gazette - Times 676-9228 JE W E L BO XES Virden A. Heliums Virden A. “Slim” Heliums, 88, of Hermiston, formerly a long time Heppner resident, died Sun day. August 4,2002, at Good Shep herd M edical C enter in Hermiston. At his request, no service was Friendships bridge the Pond-thanks to the Boggart! Peterson's H«ppn«r Jewelers. 676-9200 From left to right: top row-Paula Auchterlonie, Ewan Nicoll, Bruce Gilchrist; middle row-Emma Moore, James Beck, Thomas Stackhouse, Pablo Belastegi, Heppner Elementary School teacher Jannie Allen; front row-Sher Crawford, Catriona Smith, Lewis Fraser. (E d ito r’s note: H eppner E lem entary School teacher Jannie Allen and her husband Dick, former Heppner and lone school principal recently returned from six weeks in Scotland, w here a cousin lives. The following article appeared in the Blairgowrie Advertiser, the local newspaper.) A boggart is responsible for the b irth o f lo ng-distance friendships between pupils at Hill Primary School in Blairgowrie, Scotland, and their counterparts at Heppner Elementary School in Heppner, Oregon. In January, the O regon children began reading a novel written by author Susan Cooper entitled “The Boggart". The story involves a make-believe castle called Castle Keep near Port Appin, which is home to an age- old spirit known simply as The Boggart. Interest in Scotland grew as the pupils celebrated the birthday of Robert Burns, complete with a piper in full Highland dress, tea, shortbread and haggis. Scottish songs w ere sung, S cottish television documentaries viewed and famous Scots from William Wallace to G reyfriar’s Bobby were discussed in detail. With this great interest in all things Scottish at its height, Oregon teacher Janet Allen thought her pupils might like to correspond with children in Scotland. Blairgowrie was the obvious choice, as Allen’s family hails from Blairgowrie. Her great-grandfather was artist William Geddes, her grandmother lived in Blairgowrie until going to the United States at age 30, and her cousin Jennifer Woods still calls Blairgowrie “home” . Allen also has a pen-pal o f her own, Audrey Penny o f H.W. Irvine Butchers. Phone calls to Woods and Penny put Janet in touch with the headmaster o f the Hill Primary (elementary school in Blairgowrie), Mr. Bryan Massie. The letters were mailed from Oregon full of information about school, families, hobbies, books, television and sports. All types of questions about life in Scotland were asked, from “Do you believe in the Loch Ness monster?” to •< a ■*.- • V• *_• ■ “Do you read Harry Potter?” The young people in Oregon anxiously awaited letters from Hill Primary and were so excited when they arrived. Hill Primary teachers Miss Knight and Mr. Poole had their classes answer the letters from O regon. M any pupils involved continue to write, and several use e-m ail to stay in touch. While on holiday recently in Blairgowrie, Allen found that one of the pen-pals, Bruce Gilchrist, lives right over the garden wall from her cousin. (G ilchrist is H eppner E lem entary School student Sean Murray’s pen pal.) Bruce arranged a meeting in the Wellmeadow on July 25 between the O regon teach er and the Scotland pupils. The pictures and the story in the Blairgowrie Advertiser will also appear in the local newspaper in Heppner. “Six thousand miles doesn’t seem very far away, as the new friends found that kids are kids, whether in Oregon or Scotland,” said Jennifer Woods. The group at the W ellmeadow included James Beck, Ewan N ico ll, Bruce Gilchrist, Catriona Smith, Emma Moore, Paula Auchterlonie, Sher Crawford, Pablo Belastegi, Lewis Fraser and Mrs. Janet Allen, right, from H eppner E lem entary School, Oregon. We Print Business Cards Heppner G a zette-T im es John and Ann Murray win state pharmacist of the year award John and Ann M urray w ith pharm acist o f the year plaque John and Ann Murray, owners o f Murray’s Drug in Heppner, have won the Oregon State Pharmacists Association Pharmacist of the Year award. The award was presented at the OSPA annual meeting held at Salishan Lodge near Lincoln City on June 22. Unfortunately, the Murrays were unable to be present to receive their honor. “It’s normally a difficult decision, but in this case the board made their decision right away,” said Tom Holt, OSPA executive director, concerning the Murrays’ selection. “The primary reason was their public stand regarding cuts in state Medicaid reimbursement. They spoke out at a time when it made a difference. It’s not always an easy thing to do. It’s not easy to speak out publicly.” Holt said that OSPA has around 800 members throughout the state, including pharmacy owners as well as pharmacist employees of chain stores, hospitals and other organizations. We Print Business Cards Heppner G a zette-T im es ■ *.• - ■ c • r«*■ *-• '(% r.i LOOK WHO 'J NIFTY 50 ! *•*> f> # ?:* 45» Gun Club to hold shoot The Morrow County Gun Club will hold a shoot at the Ruggs Ranch shooting range on Saturday, Aug. 24, beginning at 9 a.m. This shoot is open to the public, not just MCGC members. Cost will be $50 for the day and will include lunch. Shells may be purchased on-site for an additional cost. Those interested in shooting or for more information, contact Sandi Day at 676-5275 or Mark Schlichting at 989-8525 to reserve a spot in the shoot.
