TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. January 1, 2003
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
H ep p n e r
G A Z E T T E -T IM E S
U.S.P.S. 240-420
N e w sp ap e r
P u b lis h e d w e e k ly and entered as p e r io d ic a l m atter at the P o st O f f ic e at H e p p n e r.
O re g o n under the A c t o f M a r c h 3. 1879. P erio d ical postage paid at Heppner, O re g o n
O ff ic e at 147 W W illo w Street T ele p h o n e (5 4 1 ) 6 7 6 - 9 2 2 8 F a x (5 4 1 ) 6 7 6 -9 2 1 1 . E -
m ail gt u h ep p ne r net o r glfu ra p id se rv e net W e b site: w w w .h e p p n e r net P ostm aste r
send ad d re ss ch a n ge s to the H ep p ne r G azette-T im es, P .O B o x 337, H eppner, O re g o n
9 7 8 3 6 . S u b s c r ip tio n s: $ 2 4 in M o r r o w C o u n t y ; $ 1 8 s e n io r rate (in M o r r o w C o u n t y
o n ly ; 6 2 y e a rs or older); $ 3 0 else w h ere
D a v id S y k e s ............................................................................................. P u b lish e r
K a t ie W a l l ................................................................................................. E d ito r
News d e ad lin e I* M o n d a y at S p.m.
C ost 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 C ost for a classified display ad is $5 35 per column inch.
For Public/legal Notices publicdegal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Dates 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 C hange a Subscription
• Place a C lassified Ad • Submit a N e w s Story
• V iew Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes
• Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations
• Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more!
M ustang JV boys cruise to win over
Cardinals
By
Rick Paulius
A 25-0 run in the third
quarter helped the Heppner
Mustang JV boys to an 86-28
win over the lone Cardinals on
Thursday, Dec. 19 to remain
unbeaten at 5-0 on the year. The
Mustangs will play at Riverside
on Friday, Jan. 3 and will host
Hood River Valley on Saturday,
Jan. 4 at 1 p.m.
K yler L ovgren had
seven points in the First quarter
as the Mustangs took an 18-4
lead and got seven points from
Brandon Seitz and four each
from Lovgren, Zack Skaggs and
Brian Smith in the second to take
a 40-16 halftime lead.
In the decisive third
quarter Josh Gutierrez had nine
points including a 3-pointer.
Smith had five and Aaron Griffith
had four points.
Griffith had nine points
including a 3-pointer and Eric
Torres had Five and Jode Coil
four points in the fourth as the
Mustangs cruised to the win.
Editor's note: Letters to the Editor must be signed. The Gazette-1 im e s will not publish
unsigned letters. Please include your address and p h o n e num ber on all letters for use b y
the G - T office. The G - T reserves the right to edit. The G -T is not responsible for accuracy of
sta te m e n ts m a d e in letters. (Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds
under "Card of T h a n k s' at a cost o f $ 7.)
Veteran offers his view of Sen. John Kerry
Vlorrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly
For Advertising advertising deadline is M onday at 5 p m
Letten to the Editor
Griffith led five Mustangs
in double Figures with 15 points
with Gutierrez scoring 13, Seitz
and Smith each scoring 12 and
Lovgren scoring 11 points.
Skaggs had eight points.
Heppner 18 22 25 21-
86
lone 4 12 0 12-28
Heppner: Aaron Griffith
7 0-1 15, Josh Gutierrez 5 2-8
13, Brian Smith 5 2-6 12,
Brandon Seitz 4 4-6 12, Kyler
Lovgren 5 1-1 11, Zack Skaggs
4 0-0 8, Eric Torres 2 1-1 5,
Cody Walton 2 0-2 4, Jode Coil
2 0-2 4, Tyler Boyer 1 0-0 2 and
Judd Lemmon 00-10. Team: 37
10-28 86 3-pt.: Gutierrez and
Griffith.
lone: K. Thompson 3
2-5 8, R aible 2 4-5 8, C.
Thompson 2 1-25, Bergstrom
1 0-0 3, Satterly 1 0-0 3,
Ekstrom 0 1-4 1, Ball 0 0-3 0,
C o llin s, B unch, Rea and
Palmateer. Team: 9 8-19 28 3-
pt.: Bergstrom and Satterly.
TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF THE SAVINGS
A T MCGG
SHOP PARTS AN D LABOR
NOW IO% OFF
C all M ark or Aihley
to tot up an appolntmont >
C A U L K IN t SALE
A L L PARTS
10% OFF
(December and January)
[Editor’s note: This article was
written by Michael Benge and
submitted by William French]
To the Editor:
John K e rry ’s war
record:
As Sen. John Kerry,
M assach u setts D em ocrat,
considers a bid for the White
House, Americans should know'
a few things about him that he
might prefer go unmentioned?
And I d o n ’t mean his $75
haircuts.
W hen Mr. K erry
pontificated at the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial on Veterans
Day, a group of veterans turned
their backs on him and walked
away. They remembered Mr.
Kerry as the antiwar activist who
testified before Congress during
the war, accusing veterans of
being war criminals. The dust
jacket of Mr. Kerry’s pro-Hanoi
book, “The New S o ld ier;”
features a photograph o f his
ragged band of radicals mocking
the U.S. M arine C orps
Memorial, which depicts the flag
raising on Iwo Jima, with an
upside-down American flag.
Retired Gen. George S.
Patton III charged that Mr.
Kerry’s actions as an antiwar
activist had “given aid and
comfort to the enemy;” as had
the actions of Ramsey Clark and
Jane Fonda. Also, Mr. Kerry lied
when he threw what he claimed
were his war medals over the
White House fence; he later
admitted they weren’t his. Now
they are displayed on his office
wall.
Long after he changed
sides in congressional hearings,
Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed
trade relations with Hanoi. At the
same time, his cousin C. Stewart
Forbes, ch ief executive for
Colliers International, assisted in
brokering a $905 million deal to
develop a deep-sea port at Vung
Tau, V ietnam - an odd
coincidence? As noted in the
Inside Politics column ofNov. 14
(Nation), historian Douglas
Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry’s
biography. Hopefully, h e ’ll
include the sen ato r’s latest
ignominious feat: preventing the
Vietnam Human Rights Act
(HR2833) from coming to a vote
in the Senate, claiming human
rights would deteriorate as a
result. His actions sent a clear
signal to Hanoi that Congress
cares little about the human rights
for which so many Americans
fought and died.
The State Department
ranked Vietnam among the 10
regimes worldwide least tolerant
of religious freedom. Recently,
354
ch u rch es
o f the
Montagnards, a Christian ethnic
m inority, w ere forcibly
disbanded, and by mid-October,
more than 50 Christian pastors
and elders had been arrested in
Dak Lak province alone. On
OCt. 29, the secret police
executed three Montagnards by
lethal injection sim ply for
protesting religious repression.
The communists are conducting
a program against the
Montagnards, forcing Christians
to drink a mixture of goat’s blood
and alcohol and renounce
Christianity..
Thousands have been
killed or imprisoned or have just
“ d isa p p e a re d .”
The
Montagnards lost one-half of
their adult male population
fighting for the United States, and
without them, there might be
thousands more American names
on that somber black granite wall
at the Vietnam Memorial.
As
Mr.
K erry
contem plates a run for the
presidency, people m ust
remember that he has fought
harder for Hanoi as an antiwar
activist and a senator than he did
ag ain st the V ietnam ese
communists while serving in the
Navy in Vietnam.
(s) Michael Benge
Foreign Service officer and
Vietnam veteran
Commission on Children and Families to
hold meeting
The regular monthly
meeting of the Morrow County
Commission on Children &
Families will be held on Jan. 14,
in the conference room o f the
Human Services Building, which
is located above H eppner
Hardware from 7-9 p.m. Agenda
items will include discussion of
child care development hinds, the
Emergency Food and Shelter
Program, election of officers, and
other business as necessary. The
public is encouraged to attend
and participate in the discussions.
For further information or
if
you
need
special
accommodations call 676-9676.
Garden club to hold first 2003 meeting
The Heppner Garden
Club will hold its next meeting
Jan. 6, at 7 p.m., at the St.
Patrick’s Senior Center.
Alberta Johannes and
Caroline Keck will be hosts for
the evening. A video class
presentation will be given.
Mustang boys finish second in
tournament
By Rick Paullus
A 16 for 65 shooting
performance by the Heppner
Mustang boy’s varsity allowed
the Pendleton JVs to win the
South
M orrow C ounty
B ask etb all
Tournam ent
ch am p io n sh ip 63-43 on
Saturday, Dec. 21. The
Mustangs blew past the Klickitat
Vandals 71 -47 on Friday to get
to the championship game. The
Mustangs (5-2) will play at
Riverside on Friday, Jan. 3 and
will host Hood River on Saturday,
Jan. 4 before starting Columbia
Basin Conference play the
following weekend.
On Friday, Dec. 20, The
Mustangs and Vandals stayed
even through the first quarter as
Justin Botefuhr hit two free
throws, Brad Adams a short
jumper, and Luke Murray had a
rebound
basket.
Chuy
Elguezabal hit a 3-pointer and
Murray made one of two free
throws to take a 10-9 lead. They
then went on a 10-3 run to close
out the quarter with Adams
scoring off a steal by Botefuhr.
Tanner Britt hit two long jumpers
then fed Elguezabal for a lay-in
and Adams scored off a rebound
to make it 20-12 after one.
The Mustangs kept up
the heat in the second as Adams
scored off a baseline drive and
after a basket by the Vandals
they went on a 13-0 run as
Elguezabal hit another 3-pointer
and had a steal and a lay-in.
Adams scored inside, Britt hit
two free throws, Brandon Seitz
and Josh Winters each made one
of two free throws and Britt fed
Seitz for a lay-in. After a Vandal
free throw, Doug Orwick hit one
o f two free throw s, Conor
Kilkenny hit a jumper and Brian
Smith made one o f two free
throws to make it 39-15 at
halftime.
Elguezabal opened the
third by scoring inside. Donald
Adams hit a long jumper and
Botefuhr hit a short jumper but
the Vandals hit two 3-pointers
and a bucket to stay with the
Mustangs. Botefuhr scored off a
rebound and Britt hit a long
jumper but the Vandals hit three
more 3-pointers and narrowed
the gap to 49-34 after three.
M urray opened the
fourth hitting a 3-pointer but the
Vandals came back with one of
their own to make it 52-37
before the Mustangs went on a
run to put the game away.
Elguezabal hit a 3-pointer, Brad
Adams hit two lay-ins and Seitz
scored twice off of rebounds to
make it 63-37. Elguezabal fed
Seitz twice for lay-ins and after
two 3-pointers by the Vandals,
Smith scored inside and Britt hit
a jumper to end the game with
the Mustangs leading 7! -47.
Elguezabal led four
Mustangs in double figures with
15 points, hitting six of 11 shots,
getting five steals and having two
assists. Brad Adams hit seven of
10 shots for 14 points and had
five rebounds. Seitz hit five of
seven shots for 11 points and had
seven rebounds. Britt hit four of
six shots for 10 points and had
two assists. Kilkenny had seven
rebounds, Botefuhr had five
rebounds and two steals. Winters
had three steals and Murray had
two steals.
The Mustangs went on
to play the Pendleton J V Bucks,
Saturday, Dec. 21, losing 63-43.
Brad Adams had eight
points and Murray four in the first
quarter as the Mustangs trailed
just 16-14 after one and got four
more from Adams and Murray
for the Bucks extended their lead
to 28-22 at halftime.
Botefuhr and Adams
each had four in the third but the
Bucks increased their lead to 42-
33 after three and outscored the
Mustangs 21-10, hitting nine of
17 free throws in the fourth to
pull away for the w in.
Adams led the Mustangs
with 17 points and 12 rebounds
with Murray adding 12 points and
four rebounds. Botefuhr pulled
down 15 rebounds and two
steals and Donald Adams had
five rebounds.
Heppner 20 19 10 22-
71
Klickitat 12 3 19 13-47
H eppner:
Chuy
Elguezabal 6 0-3 15, Brad
Adams 7 0-2 14, Brandon Seitz
5 1-2 11, Tanner Britt 4 2-2 10,
Luke Murray 2 1-2 6, Justin
Botefuhr 2 2-4 6, Brian Smith 1
1 -2 3, Conor Kilkenny 1 0-2 2,
Donald Adams 1 0-0 2, Josh
Winters 0 1-21, Doug Orwick
0 1-21 and Brian Haguewood
0 0 -10. Team: 29 9-23 71 3-
pt.: Elguezabal 3 and Murray.
Klickitat: Keys 7 0-0
20, Groves 2 0-0 6, Schultz 2
1-2 6, Bauer 2 0-0 4, Tomenga
2 0-1 4, Cleveland 1 0-0 3,
Quantrell and Holycross. Team:
18 1 -4 47 3-pt.: Keys 6, Groves
2, Schultz and Cleveland.
Pendleton 16 12 1421-
63
Heppner 14 8 11 10-43
Pendleton: Richter 7 2-
3 16, Fedderline 5 3-6 13,
Gundlach 3 3-49, Post 3 0-1 8,
Reid 2 0-0 4, Barkley 1 2-2 4,
winter 1 0-0 3, Greenfield 1 0-0
2, Stahl 1 0-0 2, Anderson 1 0-
2 2 and Cowpaoo. Team: 25 10-
18 63 3-pt.: Post 2 and Winter.
Heppner: B. Adams 7
3-6 17, M urray 5 2-4 12,
Elguezabal 2 0-2 4, Botefuhr 2
0-1 4, W inters 1 0-0 2,
Haguewood 0 2-2 2, D. Adams
0 1-2 1, Kilkenny 0 1-2 1,
Orwick, Britt, Smith and Seitz.
Team: 17 9-19 43 3-pt.: none
HHS to hold Coat and Dollar Mustang JV girls beat Eagles
Donation drive and label it so the students will By Rick Paullus
steals. Tiffany Piper had sii
«
SNOWMOBILE ACCESSORIES
10% OFF
Morrow County
Grain Growers
1-800-452-7396*989-8221 • 350 Main • Lexington, Oregon
For farm equipment, visit our web site at www.mcgg.net
CUSTOM
BANNERS
Aojr Sise
Lots off Colors
Logos & Graphics
Do you have a coat or
sweater you no longer wear?
Does your child have a coat that
they have outgrown? Heppner
High School will be holding their
first annual Coat and Dollar
Donation drive, on Sunday, Jan.
5.
Students will be going
door to door throughout the
community asking for donations.
Any coats or warm articles of
clothing that you would like to
donate will go the Neighborhood
C enter to be distributed to
children and adults in the
community.
The N eig h b o rh o o d
Center is also in need of personal
care items such as toothpaste and
shampoo. Students will also be
asking if you would like to donate
one dollar to help pay for some
of these items.
If you have clothing
items you would like to donate
and are not going to be home,
you may leave it at the front door
know they have permission to
pick it up.
The collection will begin
at 1 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 5. Any
high school students who would
like to help and have not yet
signed up are asked to call
Ashley Ward at 676-9826.
Births
Bryce
M ichael
W un derly- a son, Bryce
Michael, was bom Dec. 18,
2002 at G ood Shepherd
Medical Center in Hermiston, to
Mischelle Davocol, of Irrigon.
Order M a g
netic
Door Signs
HERE
Heppner Gazette-
Ti mes
676-9228
A 14-2 run in the third
quarter helped the Heppner
Mustang JV girls to a 44-30 win
over the Hood River Valley girls'
frosh on Saturday, Dec. 28 in
Hood River. The win improved
the Mustangs record to 4-2 on
the year with games at Weston-
McEwen on Friday, Jan. 10 and
at home on Saturday, Jan. 11
against Stanfield.
The Eagles took a 9-8
lead after one despite four points
from Blair Keithley but the
Mustangs came back to take a
23-18 lead at halftime getting
seven second quarter points
from Terra Wilson.
Keithley had five points
in the Mustangs third quarter run
that put them comfortably ahead
37-20 after three and they
coasted through the fourth for the
win.
The Mustangs were led
by Keithley with 11 points, seven
rebounds and two assists, with
Wilson adding nine points, four
rebounds, two assists, and two
points and two assists. Katie BrilJ
had four assists and two steals!,
Laurie M urray had five
rebounds, Krista Hendricks had
four rebounds, Heather Yocom
had two steals and two assist?
and Amy Jepsen and Krystal
Naims had two assists each. ;
Heppner 8 15 14 7-44:
Hood River 9 9 2 10-30
Heppner: Blair Keithley
5 1-1 11, Terra Wilson 3 3-4 9,
Tiffany Piper 3 0-1 6, Lindsey
Mitchell 2 0-1 4, Katie Britt 1
2-2 4, Lynan Bingham 1 0-0 2,
Chelsey Betsinger 1 0-0 2, Amy
Jepsen 10-12, Krystal Naims
1 0-0 2, Laurie Murray 01-3 1,
Krista Hendricks 0 1-21 and
Heather Yocom. Team: 18 8-15
44 3-pt.: none
Hood River: Pillar 3 1-
4 7, Watters 3 1-1 7, Jefferies 1
4-4 6, Friend 0 4-5 4,
Cedestram 2 0-1 4, Cody 1 0-1
2. Bauld, Heinze, Tanner and
Lucas. Team: 10 10-16 30 3-pt.:
none