FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Bank hires new lender,
promotes branch manager
The Bank of Eastern
Oregon hired Jill Peck as a
Commercial Loan Officer for
its Boardman and Irrigon
b ranches, acco rd in g to
President
G e o rg e
K o f f le r .
P e c k
com es to
the Bank of
E a s te rn
O re g o n
a f t e r
successful
stin ts at
U n i t e d Jill Peck
States
National Bank, Columbia
River Bank and Bank o f the
West.
Peck is an Eastern
Oregon native and graduated
from Oregon State University
with a degree in Agricultural
Econom ics. She and her
husband, Dean, who teaches
at Riverside High School in
Boardman, will be relocating
to north Morrow County.
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In
a
related
development, Julie Gisi has
been named Branch Manager
of
the
Bank o f
E a s te rn
Oregon in
Boardman.
G isi has
been with
the bank
since its
entry into
V
n o r t h
M o rro w Julie Gisi
County in
1998. She worked previously
at Inland Empire Bank and is
enro lled in the O regon
Bankers Association’s Bank
Operations School.
Gisi and her husband,
Paul, who works at Two
Rivers Correctional Institution,
live in Boardman with their
children, Stefanie and Kenny.
The Bank o f Eastern
Oregon is a full serv ice $83
million com m ercial bank
headquartered in Heppner,
with six branches in Morrow
and Gilliam Counties.
Open class winners at the 2003
Morrow County Fair
The 2003 Morrow
County Fair was held Aug. 13-
lb in Heppner. Fair contests
were available in both 4-H
and open class categories.
Following is the open class
winners.
Animals- Best Mini Rex
sponsored by KT’s Bunny Bam:
Anna Unruh; Most Unique
sponsored by
Barbara
VanArsdale: Garrett Gibbs; Most
Attentive sponsored by Barbara
VanArsdale:
Sam antha
Oregon Best Contest-
Baum gardner; and Youngest
Bob's Best Home Baked Bread:
sponsored by
Barbara
Amy Jepsen; Watermelon Seed
VanArsdale: Macy Gibbs.
Spitting: ages 7 and under-
Beef-Champion Heifer
Nathaniel Roberts at 10 feet 2
Calf: M akenzi Hughes, and
inches, ages 8 to 15- Paul Hams at Champion Female: Paige Grieb.
16 feet 6 inches, Women’s- Megan
Swine- Champion Gilt:
McCabe at 19 feet 1 inches, and
Colette Cason.
Mbit's- Ron BotifriEln,#t,21Jlfeet 7: ’ !
Sheep- Cham pion:
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Colette Cason.
.AH 1 '->J Sweepstakes Winners- > w J i i
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Animals-
Flowers: Pam Worden; Crafts:
Champion Chicken: Garrett
Lynn Pardue; Canning: Amy
Gibbs.
Jepsen; Food: Kylee Disque; Art:
Betty Mills; Photography: Kristi
Worden; Needlework: Lynne
Uitto; Clothing: Bobbi Peck;
Quilts: Marlene Currin; Kids 3-
6: Paige Grieb; Superkids 7-9:
Garrett Gibbs; Junior 10-13:
Shannon Clay; and Booths: Fair
Each year CSU
and OTPR Court.
Transport, Inc. located in
People’s Choice Art: Arlington, awards one $500
Landscape and Scenery by Janice scholarship to the child of a
Paustian.
driver em ployed by the
V iew er’s
C hoice Company. The winner of the
Photography: Little Wet Dog by 2003
CSU
D river
Kristi Worden.
S cho larsh ip is D iana
Anne’s Favorite: Winter McElligott.
Charm by Deepa Data.
McElligott is a 2003
Morrow
County graduate o f lone High
Creative Arts Award-Art: Molly School, and the daughter of
Day, and Crafts: Ginger Keithley. Charity and Paul McElligott
Flow ers-
Best oflone.
Horticulture: Pam Renfro, and
M ost Blue R ibbons: Kathy
Tellechea and Pam Renfro.
Diana
McElligott
receives
scholarship
Intoxicants still factor into 25 percent
of fatal crashes in Morrow County
The statistics should
be sobering enough. Since
1998, each year more than
22,000 drivers in Oregon are
arrested while Driving Under
the Influence o f Intoxicants
(DU1I), which includes both
alcohol and other drugs.
Furthermore, over the past
five years DU II remains a
contributing factor in more
than 40 percent o f all the
state’s fatal crashes.
In Morrow County
though, there is a small bit of
good news. According to
2002 statistics just released
from the Transportation Safety
D ivision o f the O regon
Department ofTransportation-
(T SD /O D O T ), M orrow
County’s five-year average of
alcohol and drug-related
fatalities stands at only 25
percent of all fatal car crashes
in Morrow County. While the
numbers are encouraging-
below the average for most
O regon co u n ties- TSD /
ODOT urges Morrow County
to remain proactive in their
pursuit o f an even lower
amount of incidents.
“Over the past five
years, m ore than 1,100
Oregonians have needlessly
died in alcohol and drug-
related car crashes,” said
Gretchen McKenzie, TSD/
ODOT statewide Impaired
Driving Program Manager.
“And DU1I offenses always
increase during holidays. In
surveys, people o f legal
drinking age report that they
usually drink more at holiday
gatherings as compared to
other times of the year. As we
approach Labor Day, followed
by the winter holidays, we
want to remind people to be
even more vigilant about not
drinking and driving- and not
allowing friends who are under
the influence to drive.”
Nationwide studies
show that 77 percent o f
American adults believe they
have enough information about
drinking and driving and how
alcohol affects their individual
blood alcohol concentration
(BAC) levels. However, 72
percent of adults do not know
the BAC limit for driving in
their own state, erroneously
responding with .33 percent-
four times the .08 BAC level
for drunk driving in Oregon.
M cK enzie added,
“People tend to think that they
are in better shape to drive
than they really are. In
fact, 83 percent of adults are
unaware that whether they
drink beer, wine or distilled
spirits, the effect on their BAC
level is going to be the same.
M oreover,
co n tro lled
substances- or even medicines
taken as prescribed- can have
a considerable negative impact
on driving ability. Combine
drugs with alcohol, even in
small amounts, and the effects
can be particularly dangerous.”
As Oregonians hit the
road for the final holiday of the
summer, representatives of
TSD/ODOT encourage the
public to keep in mind the top
three tactics- in addition to
simply not driving under the
influence of drugs or alcohol-
that help reduce the potential
for DU1I offenses:
1) D esignate a
driver. According to studies,
designated drivers- people
who have not consum ed
alcoh o l or dru g s- save
thousands o f lives and spare
thousands more from suffering
injury due to intoxicated
driving. Annually more than 70
m illio n p eople serve as
designated drivers or are
driven home by one.
2) Take the c a r
keys. Prevent a person from
driving under the influence by
having them hand over the
keys well before they become
impaired. If the person is
already impaired, make every
effort possible to take away
their keys and secure an
a lte rn ate
m ode
of
transportation for them.
3) R eport drivers
you suspect may be under
the influence. If you see a
driver weaving, driving with the
w indow s dow n in cold
weather, passing dangerously,
straddling the center line,
making wide turns, driving too
slowly or tailgating, the driver
may be ill or intoxicated and
shouldn’t be on the road.
Report the car, along with its
description and location, to the
police or sheriff or call 800-
24-D R U N K (8 0 0 -2 4 3 -
7865)- keep this number in
your car or programmed on
your wireless phone.
For more information
about DUII in Oregon and
T S D /O D O T ’s cam paign
urging drivers to “ Drive
Sober,” contact Gretchen
M cK enzie, T SD /O D O T
statewide Impaired Driving
Program Manager at (503)
986-4183. And for more
information about DUII, visit
w w w .o d o t.s ta te .o r .u s /
t r a n s a f e t y /
Impaired_Driving.htm.
HHS announces
September
schedule
School will begin on
Sept. 2 at 7:57 a.m ., for
Heppner Junior/Senior High
students.
The Morrow County
School Board meeting will be
held on Monday, Sept. 8, at
7:30 p.m., at A.C. Houghton.
A Site Council meeting will be
held on Wednesday, Sept. 10,
at 6 p.m., in the HHS Library.
School pictures will be
on M onday, Sept. 15.
H om ecom ing w ill be on
Friday, Sept. 26.
Also watch for the
many volleyball and football
games through out the month.
Art workshop
scheduled
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Creative Arts and Crafts is
sponsoring a tw o-day art
workshop with artist Sandra
Haynes, Saturday, Sept. 6
and Sunday, Sept. 7. The
workshop will be held from 8
a.m.-4 p.m. both days, at the
4-H annex at the Heppner
Fairgrounds.
Haynes has shown
her work throughout the
W estern
S tates.
The
registration fee is $80 prepaid
plus pencils. Drawing material
will be provided.
For more information
and registration, call Judie
Laughlin at 676-9781.
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Fall agenda for MC
Creative Arts and Crafts
The Morrow County
Creative Arts and Crafts will
be holding their meeting Aug.
28, at 1 p.m., at GD’s banquet
room.
A print o f this year’s
Robert Walton Workshop w ill
be available to see and a
supply list will be provided.
The workshop is scheduled for
Oct. 24-26 from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m . C ost for the
workshop is $ 100, payable by
Sept. 26. For more information
contact Betty Mills, 676-5546
or Bebe Munkers, 676-9677.
The workshop painting is of a
mountain scene with elk.
Sandra Haynes will be
doing two workshops. One
will be a two-day workshop
on Sept. 6 and 7, using
colored and regular pencils.
She will show the class how
to layer colored pencils to give
d iffe re n t shades. Judy
Laughlin can be contacted
about the workshop at 676-
9781. The cost is $80 payable
in advance of the class. The
second workshop will be held
Nov. 15 and 16, and will be
on Scratch Board Art. Haynes
also uses watercolor in this
class, which is something new
for everyone to try. The class
must be paid for by Oct. 12.
All classes are limited in size
to 10 or 12 people.
There is still some
space available for the Fall Trip
scheduled to leave on Oct. 10
to the O regon G ard en s,
Lincoln City, Bandon and
Sisters. For more information
on this trip contact Betty Mills,
676-5546.
Death
Notice
William Rowell
William Rowell, 76, of
lone, died Sunday, Aug. 24,
at Jonathan M. Wainwright
M em orial
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Arrangements are pending at
S w eeney M o rtu ary in
Heppner.
Methodist
church to hold
kids program
The
H eppner
Methodist Church will be
hosting a “Kids Kontinental
B re a k fa st” and Sunday
sch o o l, on Sept. 7. The
breakfast will begin at 9 a.m.,
with Sunday school following.
More information will
be provided in next week’s
Gazette.
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