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Teens at IUCC get “Fed Up" with world hunger during the 30-hour famine.
VOL. 123
NO. 14
8 Pages
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
New trees installed at Heritage Park in
honor of Arbor Week
Teens at IUCC break their fast after going 30 hours without food.
Mayor Bob Jepsen, City Manager Jerry Breazeale, volunteer Steve Brudevold and Jack Meligan, who
volunteered tractor and operation time, install the first tree of six at Heritage Plaza in Heppner.
Arbor Day was first
celeb rated in 1972 when
Sterling Morton proposed to
th e N e b ra s k a B o ard o f
Agriculture that a special day
be set aside for the planting of
trees. In 1970, P resid en t
Richard Nixon proclaimed the
last Friday in April as National
A rb o r Day. T o d ay , the
h o lid ay . A rb o r D ay, is
observed within communities
throughout the United States.
Millions o f trees are planted
every year for Arbor Day.
T h e c itiz e n s o f
H eppner, along w ith the
O regon State L egislature,
recognize the first week in
April as Arbor week.
In re c o g n itio n o f
A rb o r W eek, an d the
importance that trees play in
our lives and community, we
have ch o sen to use th is
occasion to plant the first six
trees in Heritage Plaza, stated
M ayor Bob Jepsen. These
trees have been planted to
welcome visitors and provide
comfort to our citizens through
their beauty and shade. Trees
can help prevent erosion of our
precious topsoil, cut heating
and cooling costs, moderate
the temperature, clean the air,
produce oxygen and provide
habitat for wildlife. “The trees
planted in Heritage Plaza will
be a source o f pride and
enjoyment in our city for many
years to come,” said Mayor
Jepsen.
“As Mayor of the City
of Heppner, I, Robert Jepsen,
hereby proclaim the first week
in April to be Arbor Week and
that the planting of these three
scarlet oaks and three sugar
maples, to be our recognition
of Arbor Week 2004,“ stated
Mayor Jepsen.
Citizens of Heppner
are urged to plant trees to
g la d d e n th e h e a rts and
promote the well being of
present and future generatioas.
Easter Egg Hunt to be held
The H eppner Elks
Lodge is sponsoring ar. Easter
Egg Hunt on Saturday, April
10 at 10 a.m. Preschool and
kindergarten children will hunt
at City Park, Heppner, first
and second graders will hunt
in the lower field at Heppner
Elementary School and third
and fourth graders will hunt at
Hager Park. Heppner.
The Easter Bunny will
be at City Park so have those
cameras ready.
Correction
The TV Shoot is on
S a tu rd a y , A p ril 17, not
Wednesday, April 14 as stated
in the March 31 edition of the
Gazette-Times.
It's Springtime!
Get Your Potting Soil
and Fertilizer at MCGG
ow County Grain Growers
Lexington 989-8221 • 1-80C-452-7396
For farm equipment, visit our w tb site at w ww.nKgg.not
Eleven lone United
Church of Christ middle and
high school students joined a
half million American teens in
getting “Fed Up” enough to do
the World Vision 30-Hour
Famine February 28-29.
T he te e n s so u g h t
pledges to feed and care for
c h ild re n
in c o u n trie s
w orldw ide, including the
United States, then fasted
to g eth er for 30 long and
hungry hours. They asked
family members and friends to
pledge them individually and
also asked sup p o rt from
church members at a “third
world” coffee hour and by
providing cans to fill with loose
change and return. The final
tally of pledges and donations
showed the local group raised
$ 1671.37, nearly $ 1 (XX) more
than they raised in 2003.
During the Famine, the
group went door to door in
lone and collected 359 food
items for the Neighborhood
Center. They studied Bible
passages about feeding the
hungry, read about some of
those who are helped by the
funds the Famine brings in. and
prayed together for those in
need. The teens also bowled
at Shamrock Lanes (smelling
the pizza) and spent the night
together at the church. They
b ro k e th e ir fa st w ith
communion followed by a meal
prepared by parents.
Youth participating in
the 30-Hour Famine included
Brenna Rietmann. Brittnee
DesBouillons, Tiana Camarillo.
Beka D esB ouillons, Kara
Clay. Tori Heagy, Shannon
C lay, A shley Jakabasky,
Missy Baker. Lynzee Sjurset
and Jessica Morris. The group
leader, who also fasted, is
Terri Clay.
F ounded in 1950,
World Vision is a Christian
hum anitarian organization
serving the w orld’s poorest
children and families in nearly
100 countries, providing health
c a re , e d u c a tio n , w ater,
sanitation, food, and small
business projects w ithout
regard to religious beliefs,
g en d er, race o r ethnic
background.
Friends of the Library solicit
book donations
At the March meeting of the Friends of the Library,
members decided that a good time to hold a book sale would
be in July during the Celebrate Heppner festivities. In order to
have a good selection of books for the sale, the group is soliciting
donations of new and gently used paper or hardback books
from anyone who would like to help the library.
The books may be dropped off at the Spicer-Kuhn
Law office on Main Street or to Pastor Keith Brudevold at the
Methodist Church.
The book sale money is used for library needs that do
not have budgeted funds. As a current example of previous
book sale fund use, the Friends of the Library are commissioning
Bob DeSpain to build a new sign, which will include the fact
that our library is now a branch of the Oregon Trial Library
system. We expect the new sign will be installed sometime
before the book sale in July.
If you would like to be a member of the Friends of the
Library group, you may do so by getting an application from
Barb Orwick or Margaret Flaherty at the library, filling it out
and returning it to them.
“We can always use new members with new ideas, so
join us in supporting the library." said a Friends of the Library
member.
Scholarship applications available
The Gertrude L. McRae Scholarship Committee
announces that grant applications are now available to all
graduates of Grant County high schools. Graduates of high
schools within Morrow, Wasco or Wheeler counties may also
be considered for a scholarship award if too few Grant County
applications are received.
Preference will be given to Grant County high school
graduates who reside in Oregon and have completed one or
more years of college.
For an application and student criteria list contact the
McRae Scholarship Committee d o Grant County Court, 201
S. Humbolt. Suite 280, Canyon City, OR 97820, or call (541)
575-0059. Completed application packets must be received
by the Grant County Court office before 5 p.m., Friday, July
30.
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