TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 3, 2003
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St. Patrick’s Senior Center news
Guests and treats were the focus of a recent Heppner
St. Patrick’s Senior Center’s congregated noon meal. Marion
Brosnan’s family came to help her celebrate her 89th birthday-
about 15 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, spouses
and others. They provided cake and ice cream for the group.
The celebration included singing, visiting and laughter.
Marion came to Morrow County as a teacher of one
of the many country schools which now exist only in memory.
She chose to stay when a local rancher suggested it. Over
the years she has made rich contributions to our community
life. Now she is one o f the residents o f St. Patrick’s Senior
Center, and still remains actively engaged in her favorite
activities.
Ruby Steers is the most recent resident of the
apartment complex. She came to Morrow County more than
55 years ago as a war bride from Arkansas. She and her
husband (Sam) lived and worked most of those years in the
Hardman area. Since his death in 1983, she has been for a
time in Arkansas, and in other parts of the world and the U.S.
on mission trips. “This is the place I have found peace, and
I ’m going to stay,” was her comment during a brief
conversation.
Results of surveys, in the Morrow/Umatilla County
area, indicated that minor and major home repairs, routine
household chores, meal preparation or cooking, and finding
prescription drug assistance programs were the five
mentioned as most needed.
O f more than 100 survey forms returned, 29
respondents were male and 80 female; Fifty-six persons were
in the 80 and over age bracket; 34 were in the 70 to 79
bracket; and 16 were in the 65 to 69 age bracket. Sixty-
three live alone and 45 live with another person or persons.
These statistics are a part o f the information used to put
together the four-year plan the Area Agency on Aging and
CAPECO have been working on since March 2003.
Meals on Wheels and Transportation Services are
two other high priority services in Morrow County. These
numbers were revealed at the quarterly meeting of the AAA
Advisory Committee. Ed Baker and Tom Wilson, Morrow
County members, and Grace Drake attended the scheduled
meeting in Milton-Freewater last week.
The senior bus is scheduled to leave for the Westward
Ho Parade in Pendleton on Friday, Sept. 12 at 8:15 a.m. The
bus will be leaving from the Main St. entrance of the Center.
The bus will not travel this year to the Dress-up Parade as
previously announced. Remember, Westward Ho Parade,
Friday, Sept. 12, departing at 8:15 a.m.
On Wednesday, Sept. 10, volunteers for serving the
meal will be from the United Methodist Church.
Correction in fair results
Last week’s edition of Open Class Swine Champion
the Heppner Gazette-Times G ilt. The w inner o f this
misidentified the winner of the category was Kelly Lieb.
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Fundraising Dinner
fo r the Benefit o f
the lone Education Foundation
Saturday September 27th
At the lone Legion Hall
Social Hour at 6 p.m. • Dinner at 7 p.m.
T h e e v e n in g w ill in clu d e L iv e M u sic,
A u c tio n Ite m s a n d R a ffle D ra w in g .
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Morrow County School District # 1 Fire restrictions
continue during
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D essert
m eal
d rin b s.
Ticket price:
$25.00 for adults.
$10.00 for children 12 years and under.
Children 6 and under free.
Tickets are available at the Bank o f Eastern Oregon,
lone Branch or contact Lynn Dee Ramos at 422-7559
Limited amount o f tickets available.
NURSERY SALE
T W O DAYS O N LY! Sept. 12 -13
Fruit Trees, Sha de & F lo w e rin g Trees
Shrubs & Perennials
P le a se jo in u s in s u p p o r t o f th e lo n e S c h o o l
a n d celebrate a n h isto ric y e a r
in th e life o f o u r c o m m u n ity .
Tht Ion* Education Foundation
is a 501c3 non-profit corporation.
Contribution« to tha Foundation art tax-deductible
Bow hunting season
Last month 1 mentioned how excited I was to see
began
on A ug. 30, and
Susan and Mick Tolar as Grand Marshals of Boardman’s
co
n
d
itio
n s in the Blue
Fourth of July parade. After I had sent the article in 1 attended
Mountains
are still very, very
the Irrigon Watermelon Festival Parade and was delighted to
dry
with
the
risk o f fire
see John Sebastian, principal at A.C. Houghton, honored as
their Grand Marshal. It is very gratifying to see educators ex trem ely high. C ooler
temperatures both at night and
honored in so public a manner.
during
the day seem to lull
August is Morrow County Fair time; the most interesting
people
into a false sense of
site I saw was a lone skinny goat as the only contestant in one
security,
but the extreme
division. Skinny or not, it was a blue ribbon winner.
Please drive carefully, as school in now in session, again, dryness o f the fuels in the
finally. It was getting to be too long and quiet a summer. It is forest hasn’t changed. The
O regon D ep artm en t o f
good to have the buildings filled with activity.
Forestry and the Umatilla
W here is Irrigon Elementary School?
National
Forest have Public-
Irrigon Elementary School is the name the Board
approved for the new building across from Columbia Middle Use Restrictions in place to
School. The Board approved this name as one o f three help keep the public and
presented to the Board from a committee set up for that firefighters safe.
C am p fires, w ood
purpose by the Board. Board member Pat McNamee chaired
stoves, briquette fires are not
the committee. The other two names presented were Tolar
Elementary School and Stokes Landing Elementary School. allow ed except in a few
designated Umatilla National
So once again we ask, is there a High School in
Forest campgrounds. These
Irrigon?
are
Ju b ilee Lake and
Yes, it will open in September 2005. The board did
W
oodward,
on the Walla
meet in August to set their goals for the year. As we talked last
Walla
District;
Bear Wallow,
month in this article they had two choices. Pick a day to open
the high school or pick a day to make the decision. After North Fork John Day and
Olive Lake on the North Fork
extensive discussion they choose to open the school.
There was a lot o f discussion about the criteria that John Day District; and Bull
was set several years ago to decide when the high school was Prairie Campground on the
to be created at the Columbia Middle School campus. Heppner District. Propane
However, circumstances and board decisions since that time stoves and liquid gas cook
have changed some o f the concerns. The most significant stoves are allowed.
The use o f chainsaws
change is the Board’s financial goal of2002-2003 dealing with
is
not
allowed.
Equity. The Board kept the financial goal and the Equity issue
Generators or other
as a 2003-2004 goal. So, in setting up the high school, it will
be set up based on the money it generates is what it is allowed internal combustion engines
are not allowed except in the
to spend as all the other schools are currently doing.
d esig n ated
In looking at the size it is apparent at the present time above
campgrounds
in
an area at
that the high school in Irrigon will not be as large as Riverside
least
10
feet
that
has been
High School when they are split. The difference in the number
William A. Rowell
of students at A.C. Houghton Elementary and Sam Boardman cleared o f all flammable
William A. Rowell,
Elementary indicates the relative size of each. However, with material or in the cleared bed 76, of lone, died Sunday, Aug.
the addition of the 7th and 8th grade in each it should still allow o f a pickup truck.
Motorized travel off 24, 2003, at Jonathan M.
for sufficient teachers to provide a sound basic core curriculum
W ainw right
M em orial
in each high school along with reasonable electives. The Forest Roads and Trails is not Veterans Medical Center in
difference will be in the number of sections for each class that allowed. ATVs, motorcycles Walla Walla.
will be offered. One school may offer two sections o f U.S. and other vehicles must stay
A graveside service
on developed roads and trails.
History and one may only offer one section.
was
held
Sept. 3 at Lexington
Sm oking is only
There are a lot of questions that need to be answered,
Cemetery.
and the two years will give us time to find good answers and to allowed inside an enclosed ,i .
Roweft was bom June
make the necessary plans to have both high schools running vehicle or building, developed 22, 1927, at lone, to Arthur
rec rea tio n site p r w hile
smoothly from the beginning.
stopped in an area at least and L.V. “Toots” Crowell
How will the district deal with the additional money
three feet in diameter that is Rowell. He attended school at
from the Legislature?
lone and attended Hermiston
The district will be careful and cautious in the spending b arren or cleared o f all High School.
flammable material.
of the additional money. Although the legislature has finished
He served with the
F ollow ing these
for the session and it appears that our state’s economy has
U.S. Army during World War
stabilized, there are still some questions to be answered. It restrictions will help ensure a n.
appears that the group of people that have been working for safer, fire-free hunting season.
Rowell worked in the
Bow hunters come to
over a decade to lower Oregon’s standard of living will be at it
farming
and
logging industry in
again. The initiative users plan to try to undo what the legislature the Blue Mountains from all the Heppner and lone areas
has taken a record amount of time to accomplish. What creates over the United States (and a most of his life.
the most concern is that they never offer any way to improve few other co u n trie s) to
He loved to hunt and
participate in the hunting
our lives, only diminish them.
fish
and
had a special passion
season here. The Oregon
The district’s administrators have been discussing how
for
playing
bingo.
we want to approach the use of this additional money. The Department o f Forestry, the
He
was active in the
recently published testing results of the No Child Left Behind Umatilla National Forest, the South M orrow C ounty
Act have provided a focus in the Boardman and Irrigon areas. Bureau of Land Management N eighborhood C en ter at
We have known that our ELL program has not been all it could and the National Park Service Heppner and the Retired
be. We intend to reassess how we have been spending our all have similar restrictions in Senior Volunteer Program
ELL money and with the additional money from the legislature place. It is im portant for (RSVP). He helped with the
we hope to substantially improve our ELL program k-12. With visitors to know the ownership delivery o f Meals on Wheels
the Equity goal in place, it makes it clear that the ELL money is of the lands they’re recreating and drove the Senior Bus. He
now where the ELL students are. Part o f our careful and on. Restrictions are much the alw ays v o lu n te e red for
cautious plan is that this may take us a little time. We have same on both public and anything that would help
already started looking at where we are currently spending p rivate, but hunters and others.
m ust
have
money. When we finish that analysis we will look at what we cam pers
Survivors include a
feel we need to do to move towards the program we want to permission to be on private son, Mike Rowell ofHeppner;
property.
create.
“ We have several and a stepdaughter, Terry
In Heppner we were able to make some decisions
W inters o f H erm iston;
just prior to school starting. The principal was able to put large w ildfires currently grandchildren, Ryan Clayton
together an add-back list based on conversations he’d had burning in the northwest,” said and Mellisa McDaniel, and
with staff and patrons during the meetings to reduce expenses. John R obertso n , Fire four great-grandchildren. He
We added a .5fte kindergarten position to bring it back to a Management Officer for the was preceded in death by
full day program. We added a.5fte 3rd and 4th grade position Umatilla National Forest. “The sons, Carl and Raymond, and
to bring it back to three full time teachers. We added a .33fte nation’s firefighting resources by his parents.
in music to bring it back to a full time music position. At the are tapped. If a wildfire were
M e m o r i a l
high school we added a .5fte position, the principal will be to outgrow our local initial contributions may be made to
able to shift some classes and add some cut classes and we attack resources it could be the South Morrow County
devastating. There is nothing
increased the Spanish program by one additional class.
Neighborhood Center, P.O.
Ifyou have questions about items in this article or desire more wasteful than a human- Box 895, H eppner, OR
an explanation of items concerning education, please write or caused wildfire that could have 97836.
E-mail me in care of this newspaper or to the Morrow County been prevented.”
Sweeny Mortuary of
For more information
School District office at P.O. Box 368, Lexington, OR 97839.
H
eppner
is in charge o f
on restrictions, contact the
arrangements.
Um atilla N ational Forest
50% OFF ALL N U R SER Y STO CK
lone Education Foundation will be kicking off sales
of memorial bricks to be placed at the plaza
to be built as part of the new school playground.
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A memorial service
was held Tuesday, Sept. 2, at
the Boardman Senior Center.
Disposition was by cremation.
In lieu o f flowers,
do n atio n
m em orial
contributions may be made to
the Boardman Senior Center.
E llis was born at
Dellvale, Kansas on Oct. 30,
1928 to parents LeRoy and
Bessie Smith Ellis.
He was a longtime
resident o f Boardman and
worked for the Union Pacific
Railroad for 42 years.
He was a veteran of
the Korean War, serving in the
U.S. Army.
He married his wife
Alice on Feb. 20, 1970 in
Sandy.
Ellis was a member of
the Eagles Lodge, Kiwanis
Club o f Corbett and was one
o f the Board o f Directors for
the Boardman Senior Center.
He is survived by
wife, Alice, o f Boardman;
sons, David Ellis of Cle Elum,
WA, Tony Jimenez of Sumner,
WA, Tim Jimenez o f Corbett
and Ted Reiker o f Troutdale;
daughters, Barbara Cruz of
Cle Elum, WA, Tobi Ervin of
Corbett, Tamra Ramsey of
Boardman, Tanya Smith of
Scio; sister, Donna Wyman of
Beloit, KS; 16 grandchildren
and 13 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by
two sisters and three sons.
Bums Mortuary o f
Hermiston was in charge of
arrangements.
i
W tihM dLìÈL kkl V
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Supervisor’s Office at (541)
278-3716; the Pendleton
o ffice o f the O regon
Department o f Forestry at
(541) 276-3491, or visit
w w w .fe .fe d .u s /r6 /u m a /
fireupdate.htm.
Rosetta J. Palmateer
Rosetta J. Palmateer,
77, ofHeppner, died Monday,
Sept. 1, 2003.
R ecitatio n o f the
Rosary will be at 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, Sept. 3, at St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church in
Obituaries
Heppner. A funeral mass will
held Thursday, Sept. 4, at
James LeRoy Ellis be
11 a.m ., at St. P a tric k ’s
James LeRoy Ellis, Catholic Church, Heppner.
74, o f B oardm an, died
A full obituary will run
Wednesday, Aug. 27,2003 at in next week’s edition o f the
his home in Boardman.
Gazette.