T W O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Chamber Chatter
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by Claudia Hughes
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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
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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.
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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
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“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.
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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.
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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.