Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. August 14, 2002 - THREE
Queen Sail! McElligott regrets leaving Morrow
County, but looks forward to studying abroad
By Sarah Coller
Queen Salli McElligott is
really not looking forward to
leaving Morrow County this fall
when she heads to the University
o f Portland to study political
science. “I was perfectly fine
with being in high school and now
they tell me I have to go
somewhere else,” said the green-
eyed, blonde-haired queen.
However, something tells
us that the pretty, 18-year-old
lone graduate will not have a hard
time making her way outside of
Morrow County. Queen Salli has
put a lot of time, effort and talent
into school, community and
church activities. Besides being
the president of both the lone High
School Student Body and the
National Honor Society, Queen
Salli has been a part o f the
International Club, the parks
committee, 4-H and several sports
teams. She took part in a project
with her Catholic Church youth
group collecting hygiene products
to be given to the Macdonald
Center. She also received several
honors this past school year,
including the OSAA Scholar
Award, the Big Sky Academic
Award, O utstanding Math
Student, Drama Award and
Citizenship Award.
She is currently employed
at W heatland Insurance and
babysits for a local family. She
enjoys water sports, boating and
hanging out with her friends and
the two children she babysits, R.J.
and M akenna Ramos. She
especially likes to ride horses with
Makenna. “She will be a princess
someday,” says Salli.
Queen Salli is the
daughter o f Paul and Charity
McElligott of lone. She has a
brother, Jeremiah, 19 and a sister,
Diana, 17. Her father and mother
both participate in fair activities.
They have donated livestock in
the past and her mother is the
swine superintendent. Mrs.
M cElligott was also a rodeo
queen in Grant County and is now
the court’s chaperone.
The spunky queen’s
horse is named J.R. and she has
a dog named K.L., in addition to
a pig for fair.
Queen Salli is looking
forward to a study abroad
program she has signed up for.
During the second semester of
her sophomore year in college, she
will go to Salzburg, Austria, to
study.
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2002 Oregon Trail and Pro Rodeo Queen Salli McElligott
H er “ royal junior highness”, Salli McElligott
Queen Salli lead the court
in several community projects this
year. Some o f the projects
included painting planter boxes at
the fairgrounds, selling water
bottles for Cycle Oregon and
helping with the Celebrate
Historic Heppner festivities.
Salli says that her favorite
thing about being on the court is
The Willow Creek Coun
try Club ladies held a playday on
Aug. 6. Results are as follows:
low gross o f the field-Pat
Edmundson; low net of the field-
Luvilla Sonstegard; least putts of
the field-Jackie Allstott.
Flight A: low gross-Corol
Mitchell; low net-Karen Thomp
son; least putts-Mary Kincaid;
Flight B: low gross-Loa
Henderson; low net-Lorrene
Montgomery; least putts-Carol
Norris.
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all of the free food, and adds, “I
want to thank everyone for their
support this year and 1 look
forward to seeing you there.”
Queen Salli is joined by
Princesses Genia Grant and Julie
Proctor as the 2002 Oregon Trail
Pro Rodeo and Morrow County
Fair Court.
WCCC Ladies hold playday
HORRAI S COUNTRY ROSE
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Music by
Joe and
Leanne
Lindsay
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Com m itm ent to vigilance, tolerance
required for democratic society
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Flight C: low gross-Joyce
Dinkins; low net-Maude Hughes.
Chip in: Luvilla Sonstegard
#16,Corol Mitchell#12.
The ladies also played Thurs
day evening, Aug. 8. Results are
as follows:
Low gross-Cindi Doherty;
low net-Pat Edmundson and Shari
Stahl; least putts-Loa Henderson;
birdie-Cindi Doherty #9; chip in-
Cindi Doherty #9, Luvilla
Sonstegard #7.
Golf players are reminded
that Thursday evening play time
is changing to 6 p.m.
To the Editor:
1 appreciate the responses of
Stuart Dick and F. Green White
to my recent thoughts about
balancing
our
personal
professions of faith with our
public life. My family and Stuart
Dick’s family have been friends
for more than 60 years.
Stuart points out that our
money contains references to a
deity and that the Bible is used
for swearing in witnesses in court.
However, those who do not
recognize the binding force of the
Bible are swom in without it. It is
also true that Congress and many
state legislatures begin their
sessions with a nondenominational
prayer. As I pointed out in my
letter, there are many such areas
where our public statements of
faith merge into our requiring such
statements.
But it seems to me that these
examples are not as worrisome
as is the governm ent’s
requirement that school children
must either pay homage to my
God or abstain from pledging
allegiance to their country. When
Congress inserted the words
"under God” it changed a patriotic
pledge into a public prayer to a
deity recognized by me, but not
by many others in our diverse
nation. If we would be troubled
if, in order to pledge allegiance to
our country, we were required by
our government to pay homage to
a deity we do not recognize, we
can understand why others also
would be troubled when required
to pay homage to a deity that they
do not recognize.
Stuart Dick states that I
claimed that the government’s
required words “ ‘under God”
forced me to pay homage to a
Christian God. Apparently he did
not read my letter carefully. The
question that I asked was: “” What
do I gain when I use the power
of government to require others,
when pledging their allegiance to
our republic, to also pay homage
to my god?”
I was surprised to read
Stuart’s claim that if I had my way
I would remove God from
America. Neither my GT letter
nor any of my other writings urge
removing God from America. It
would be rather arrogant for me
to think that I could do so. It would
be like trying to deny the beauty
of Penland Lake or the majesty
of the view from Potamus Point.
Stuart D ick’s unfounded
statement follows a pattern in his
writings of claiming or inferring
that those with whom he disagrees
are sacrilegious, unpatriotic, or
both. I doubt that this is true. But
if this were true, it would make it
easy to prosecute traitors. We
could ask Stuart Dick for the
names of people with whom he
disagrees and then just put them
in jail for treason.
In fact, disagreem ents
between those who wish to
protect our country and those who
wish to harm it are easily
Electric Co-Op Announces
Notice of Nominations
Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative hereby notifies all
members that nominations are open for the following three
director’s positions:
For three year terms:
ZONE NO. 3: That territory served, or to be served, by
the Cooperative lying East of the Morrow-Gilliam County
line and North of the Baseline.
ZONE NO. 4: That territory served, or to be served, by
the Cooperative lying East of the Morrow-Gilliam County
line, South of the Baseline, and North of the Township line
between Township 2 South and 3 South.
ZONE NO. 8: That territory served, or to be served, by
the Cooperative lying within the incorporated city limits of
Heppner, Oregon. (Heppner Zone).
The members of the nominating committee are:
Zone No. 3:
Marnie Anderson, lone, Oregon 541-422-7204
Zone No. 4:
Charlie Daly, Heppner, Oregon 541-376-8333
Zone No. 8:
Cliff Green, Heppner, Oregon 541-676-5097
The nominating committee will accept nominations up
to and including the last day of August, 2002.
Nominees must be members of Columbia Basin Electric
Cooperative, Inc. and they must reside in, and receive
electrical service in, the Zone in which they will be running.
resolved. The difficult issues are
raised when people like Stuart and
me wish to protect our country,
but disagree on the best ways to
do so. Calling one another
unpatriotic does not advance the
discussion.
Mr. White raises the very
important and very difficult issue
of how a free, open, and diverse
society can protect itself from its
enemies. Can we identify such
people in advance? It seems to
me that searching for “foreign-
looking” people will not provide
sufficient protection. Remember
Timothy McVeigh whose
murderous act killed and injured
so many people in the Oklahoma
City bombing. M cVeigh’s
description: white, middle class,
Anglo-Saxon, protestant, male,
short hair, no beard, U.S. military
background, driving a truck.
Before 9/11 this was the
description of America’s most
infamous terrorist.
The most persistent acts of
terrorism in U.S. history have
been the lynchings, shootings, fire
bombings, and cross-burnings by
the Ku Klux Klan and similar
American terrorist groups.
Terrorist groups often claim
to be acting on behalf of their
own deity. People of the Islamic
faith are as horrified at the
murderous acts o f those few
terrorists claiming to be acting for
their deity, as we are horrified at
the two centuries of lynchings and
other acts of racial hatred by
many American terrorists claiming
to be acting on behalf of our
Christian God.
Mr. W hite’s thoughtful
question about how to protect our
democracy without at the same
time damaging its enduring
principles will require our
continued commitment to both the
vigilance and tolerance required
of those of us who live in a
democratic society.
(s) Lance Tibbies
Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Columbus, Ohio
Trueax elected
to Lion’s board
Irrigon resident Roger
Trueax was recently elected to a
second four-year term on the
Board of Trustees of the Oregon
Lions Sight and Hearing
Foundation, a non-profit
foundation that serves needy
Oregonians through the Lions
Clubs of Oregon.
Trueax, a member of the
Heppner Lions Club, is an active
leader in the community, and w ill
be an asset to the Oregon Lions
Sight and Hearing Foundation's
Board, said executive director
Amber Kern. “I am thrilled that
Roger has been elected to the
board once again,” said Kern.
“ Roger brings a wealth of
considerable experience to our
organization and I look forward
to his significant contribution in
helping our foundation strengthen
its presence in his community.”
The 2002-03 Board of
Trustees for the Oregon Lions
Sight and Hearing Foundation
consists of 30 members from
across the state. The foundation,
founded in 1959, is dedicated to
serving the Lions Clubs of Oregon
by supporting their efforts in
humanitarian assistance, including
sight, hearing, diabetes aw areness
and positive youth development.
Some of the many programs that
the OLSHF operates include
Oregon Lions Mobile Screening
Unit Program, which provides free
screenings in visual acuity,
hearing, diabetes, glaucoma and
blood pressure to 6.000 adults
each year and screenings in visual
acuity and hearing to 14,000
children each year; Lions Indigent
Patient Care Program, which
pays for eye and ear surgeries for
low-income Oregonians; Lions
Eye Bank o f Oregon, which
prepares cornea and sclera tissues
for transplant and research; and
Lions Eyeglasses Recycling
Program, which coordinates the
collection of used eyeglasses and
their distribution to needy citizens
of third world countries.
Memories can
preserve the “old
school”
To the Editor:
I have been hearing
comments and murmurings.
mostly expressions of sadness,
about the demolition of the Junior
High School building. Other
feelings, frustration, anger, all of
these are natural and normal
outlets for grief and even trauma
from seeing the force and finality
of something which was so much,
and for so long, a nerve center of
the community. The people truly
stand in unison when the school
song is sung. To a great many, the
first thought is not of any of the
present buildings, rather memories
and experiences in the “old
building and gym” are the ones
closest to the surface. Such a
building(s) is more than a
monument, landmark or relic. In
memory it is a symbol of a living,
breathing entity which touches the
lives of thousands who spent time
in its hallways and classrooms,
students and teachers alike.
It is right and proper to
grieve. Now is the time to do it.
when our very being is tom up.
seeing the splintered beams,
broken bricks, and other pieces of
our beloved building being hauled
to - who knows where - and for
what use, if any? Out of sight out
of mind, the cynic might say. I say:
the group experience of that old
school building will live forever, in
some form, in the hearts and
minds of its people - those who
attended, those who taught them,
and parents who were involved
in their children’s school
experience.
My reason for writing is not
to bemoan what cannot be
changed at this point in time. My
purpose is to suggest a way to
channel and preserve for
posterity, the poignancy of this
moment in Heppner’s history. If
every person who has one
thought of sadness, or remorse,
will first describe those feelings;
then take another hour to records
an anecdote from your memory,
which is related to your
experience in that school. A
paragraph or page, prose, poetry ,
letter to friend, thank you to a
special teacher, or essay -
whatever form is the one most
expressive for you. I w ill also
suggest you draw pictures,
diagrams or cartoons. Paint a
picture, do a needlework block,
wall hanging, or create a mosaic
with old pictures. I am suggesting
that your imagination is the limit
in a task of preserving celebration
and pathos, in supporting memory
with a tangible record of living
history gathered on the spot of
drastic change.
The real wonder of such a
project is in the sharing. 1 have
not planned or discussed w hat I
have written and suggested to any
person or group. 1 can only offer
my own post office box as a
repository for those "pieces of
your heart” you are willing to
share. The recognition would be
the satisfaction in your own heart,
and being recognized by name for
having participated. If there are
many. I’m confident a group or
committee will form to organize
it and put it in book or pamphlet
form for distribution.
Last April, I visited my
hometown on the occasion of my
brother’s funeral. The family
dinner was held in a building
adjacent to "my old school” of
similar style. The windows were
boarded to keep out pigeons. The
building, condemned as unsafe for
one person to walk through the
halls and rooms for old time's
sake. I felt sad to see that kind of
change in the place where I had
spent II years of my life. Not
every memory of that place is
pleasant for me; nor is every
memory of our building a pleasant
one. If shattered beams and
broken bricks could speak we
would learn much about
ourselves. They can speak,
through you. of times past and
even hope for a future none of us
can imagine. Are you game for
the challenge?
(s) Grace E. Drake
P. O. Box 527
Heppner, Oregon 97836
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