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SIX • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. May 26,2004 Chamber Chatter By Claudia Hughes, Exec. Dir. Finally, a patch of blue. It’s been some years since we saw this many days of rain falling in Morrow County. Green is looking good and it hopefully means a good wheat crop and grass for all those four legged energy converters. We can use more of the same with some sunshine thrown in to energize us and to make Memorial weekend pleasant at the cemeteries. Isn’t it wonderful that cemeteries are in such beautiful locations? Visitors from Eugene and Medford were in the Chamber office this week trying to locate a family cemetery of the 1800s. It’s a great weekend to remember our history and pass it along. “Our” Heritage Plaza dedication will be this Friday, May 28 at 11 a.m., with coffee and punch served to guests. Come see this joint effort of many, many volunteers and city employees, which continues to enhance Heppner as a great place to live, visit and do business. Remember when the area was a fenced in weed patch, waiting for someone to care? Remember when it was no use to anyone and impossible to building anything on that spot? It took many meetings, letters, applications, labor hours and persistence by our mayor, city manager and city council to change that. “Build it and they will com e.” Please join the community in the dedication of this plaza where our veterans are honored, mothers can push strollers, people can enjoy walking and visitors can view antique machinery depicting the history and heritage of Heppner and Morrow County. The possibilities are endless. Be sure to take your guests to the St. Patrick’s Senior Center for dinner at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 30. Count on great food and meeting new and old faces from near and far. Looking ahead: Celebrate Historic Heppner is scheduled for July 30, 31 and Aug. 1. The weekend will include a sidewalk sale, BBQ and Pie Auction, “street dance” to kick off the Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro-Rodeo, all on Friday; Dinner at the Cemetery on Saturday; and the annual Quilt Show on Sunday. What a good time to invite friends and relatives to Heppner. What a great way to save on gas and enjoy what’s right under our nose. Thought for the Week: “There is the positive side and the negative side, and at every moment I decide.” - William James. Weed Management Area hires new coordinator The Lower Willow Creek Weed Management A rea has hired E rica U ram kin as the new C oordinator. U ram kin recently relo cated from South Carolina to accept the position and is looking forward to starting on the project. She had been working for the US Forest Service as a R esearch Biologist Noxious weeds are posing a threat to the native vegetation and grasslands in the area. The WMA was formed last fall in order to help local land owners and m anagers control weed problems on their lands. It encom passes roughly 200,000 acres in northern G illiam and M orrow co u n ties, and is being funded by a National Fish and W ildlife Foundation grant that was obtained by The Nature Conservancy. The idea behind the WMA is to map out the problem areas and w ork w ith everyone cooperatively to contain the weeds. Having a WMA as part of the local co m m u n ities is a great o p p o rtu n ity . C om bined e ffo rts, like th ese, are generally more successful in competing for grant money and have proven to be a greater force in dealing with noxious weed problem s. Another beneficial part of the WMA will be future workshops or newsletters intended on keeping the public informed. C o n tact E rika Uramkin at (541) 422-7450 or uramkine@hotmail.com for q u estio n s about the WMA. May 2003 seat belt blitz The time has come through June 6. Local law again for us to address the e n fo rcem en t w ill be issue of seat belt usage. w orking reg u lar and Beginning on May 24, the overtime shifts doing seat state o f O regon w ill be belt enforcement. involved in a seat belt blitz. On another note, it is This is to hopefully increase w orth m entioning that the seat belt usage rate in the during our local survey, a state, which is currently at num ber o f people were 91 percent. observed wearing the seat Oregon is ranked in belt under their arm. The the top four for seat belt public needs to be aware that usage. This is in no small by statute the seat belt must part due to the Three Flags be worn over the shoulder 7lh grade student: l '1- seat belt blitzes. and not placed under the Jordan Shepherd. On a more personal arm. 8,h grade student: 1st- note, a survey of Morrow Heppner students in If you have any Sean Murray. County was done on May 14 q u estio n s reg ard in g the grades 4 through 8 competed and we are currently at 66 safety blitz, you can contact ag ain st o th e r M orrow percent, which is well below the C ounty School D istric t M orrow C ounty the state average. students on April 15 in the Sheriff’s Department at 676- On May 24 a seat 5317. Please drive safely Math Contest hosted at A.C. be|t bljp; will beg ip. and go and buckle up .Jt jU .H oughton Elem entary in The M orrow Soil * Irrigon. Many local students '* r - .. ...................•• • ' t ' - y p ' r 9r «~l »r ?>r.K mrt and W ater C onservation placed in the event. 4th grade students District and Weed Advisory placing were: 4,h place- Zach Board will hold their regular Hintz and Shane Smith; 5,h meeting on June 1 at 5 p.m., place- Zach Yocom; 6lh- at the P etty jo h n O ffice By Rick Paullus Nick Christman then beat Karlie Crumbliss; 7th- Justin Building in Heppner. A n in e-ru n fifth out an infield single, Cody The meeting agenda inning, all with two outs, Walton was hit by a pitch, P ran g er; and 9th- T rent items and discussion items carried Cannon. the H eppner Elguezabal had a RBI single, 5lh grade students: include: Manager report and M ustangs to a 12-1 five- Coil walked, Walton came 2nd- Joe Armato; 4,h- Sarah agency reports. There is inning win over the home on a wild pitch, Quinn Kendrick; 5lh- Ian Murray; prospect o f an executive Sherman County Huskies to Peck walked, Naims scored 6,h- Eric Chick and Justin session according to ORS win the C olum bia Basin two more w ith a single, C o n feren ce title on Murray reached on an error Gutierrez; and 7'*'- Donald 192.640(2). The meeting is open Saturday, May 22 in The to score one and Gates had Matthews. Dalles. The win gives the a two RBI single to make it 6,h grade students: to the public. Mustangs the number one 12 - 1 . l ”- Lane Wright; 2nd- Ashley seed into the US Bank/Les Wolff, 5,h- Curtis Harper and The Huskies went in Schw ab C lass 2A State order in the bottom half and C olter R aver; 7,h- Em ily Karla Noemi Tournam ent and a home the game ended because of Thom pson and 8lh- Kyle A fanador-Abad- a game on Wednesday, May the ten-run rule. Tayloe. Full results for 7,h daughter, Karla Noemi, was 26 against the number two Elguezabal went the and 8lh grade placem ents bom May 10,2004, at Good team out of the Northwest distance to pick up the win were not available at time of Shepherd Medical Center in League. giving up two hits, one walk p u b lish in g . K now n H erm iston, to M ercedes The Mustangs (22- and one hit batter, while Abad and Roberto Afanador 2-1) took an early 1-0 lead striking out seven. placement includes: of Boardman. in the top of the first when Coil went two for Chuy Elguezabal led off two with a double, triple and ♦ UW W W UUHW W MUmMHUHW HMMMmM» with a single, went to second scored twice. Naims went on a Jode Coil sacrifice bunt, two for three with three RBI. went to third when Josh Gates went two for four with G utierrez reached on an four RBI. Elguezabal went error and scored on a Kiel two for four with two runs Naims single. and scored. Lovgren had a The Huskies tied in homerun and two RBI and the bottom of the second on Murray scored twice. a hom erun, but the Heppner 102 09-12 Mustangs came back to take 120 the lead for good in the third Sherm an C ounty when Coil doubled, Naims 010 00-1 2 3 reached on an error, Luke C huy E lguezabal Murray was hit by a pitch and Jode Coil; Chad King, and Billy Gates scored two Wallace (5) and Kaseberg. with a single to make it 3-1. W- Elguezabal (10-1). L- The Mustangs broke King. 2B- Coil (H); Wallace the game open in the fifth (SC). 3B- Coil (H). HR- We Repair And Maintain when Murray singled and Kyler Lovgren (H); King with two out. Kyler Lovgren (SC). Your Propane Appliances. hit a homerun to left field. Heppner students participate in Math Contest Morrow SWCD to hold regular meeting Mustangs beat Huskies to win district title Births Get Your | Propane Appliances | Serviced Now! 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The C olum bia P lateau has becom e a popular event for the riders due to the unique nature of the event- the three point-to- point road stages and the support o f the local co m m u n ities. The race consists o f four ‘stages,’ w ith the o verall w inner being determ ined by the lowest time for completing all of the stages. Each stage is an individual race. The complete event consists of three road races and one time trial. In the road races all riders in each group start together, but in the time trial the riders are started at 30- second intervals and only race against the clock. The race started in Heppner and first stage, on Friday, May 7, of 76 miles, took the riders to lone, via Hwy 74 (east), up Franklin Grade, Butter Creek Road, Baseline Road and on into lone. On Saturday morning, the riders rode the time trial, two miles up Ella Road, from lone. On Saturday afternopn, .stage 3 took the riders from, Iw M o. J t e j J , via FJwy 74, Rhea Creek Road, Hwy 206 and then Hwy 19 to Fossil, a distance o f about 75 m iles. On Sunday morning, that final stage, of 85 miles, took the riders from Fossil back to H eppner, via Hwy 19 (through Service Creek and Spray), Hwy 207 (over the big hill between Spray and H ardm an) and on into Heppner. The finish was on the hill leading up to the Willow Creek reservoir, just south of town. On the first stage, a group of five riders managed to get away from the main field just a few miles out of Heppner. One of the riders in the lead group eventually dropped back to the main group, but although the main group put in a major effort to catch the leaders, the four leaders m anaged to stay ahead o f the main field. Over the course of this stage, the main field also broke up into three main groups. The winner of stage one was British Columbia rider Cam Evans (Symmetries). Saturday morning’s time trial saw Rusty Beall (Ridge Mortgage Services), from Clarkston, WA, put in the best time for the day. In the afternoon stage, the main field again broke into several smaller groups, but the front group managed to stay intact. Stage 3 saw Cam Evans come across the line first again. At this point of the race, Cam Evans was leading in G eneral C la ssific a tio n (GC for sh o rt), w hich is the combined of times for the three stages so far. There is also a points competition, where riders earn points for city limit signs during each stage as well as the stage finishes. There was one mid- race sp rin t on stage 1 (Vinson) and two on stage 3 (C ondon and M ayville). Cam Evans was also the points leader, having won the first two road stages and also scoring points on all three mid-race sprints. On the final stage, a group of about eight riders got away from the main group early on and built up a lead of about 9 minutes by the turn onto Hwy 207, just east of Spray. During the big climb out of Spray, this lead group was whittled down to three riders. Cam Evans and his team m ates (Symmetries), were in the group b ehind the three leaders and gave chase for the remainder of the stage, but failed to catch the three leaders. O ne in terestin g development, during stage 4, was that two of the riders in the lead group accum ulated quite a few points during this stage, as there are four m id-race sp rin ts: S ervice C reek, Spray, Hardman and Ruggs, and one o f them , C raig W ilcox (Ridge M ortgage S erv ices), m anaged to overtake Cam Evans in the points competition. As well as the GC (overall time) and points competitions, there was also a team competition, which was won by the Symmetries, from British Columbia. In addition to the main race, the Pro/1/2 field covered above, there were also races for four other groups of riders: Category 3 m en, C ateg o ry 4 m en, M asters men (age 40 or ,more) and Women. The top riders in each group are listed below. Pro/1/2 (GC): Cam Evans, BC, Sym m etries; Omer Kem, OR, Broadmark Capital; Solomon Woras, OR, Team Rubicon; Craig W ilcox, OR, R idge M ortgage S erv ices; and Rusty B eall, WA, Ridge Mortgage Services. Pro/1/2 (Points): Craig Wilcox; Cam Evans; A nton Jack so n , WA, Broadm ark C apital; Will Routley, BC, Symmetries; and Omer Kem. Pro/1/2 (Team): Sym m etries, B roadm ark Capital and Hutch’s. Category 3 Men (GC): Galen Erickson, WA, B yrne S p ecialty G as; M ichael H enry, WA, Recycled Cycles; Andrew F ischer, MT, W hitm an C ollege; Jason R enkens, OR, PSU ; and M ark Stadick, WA, Vision Tech. C ategory 4 Men (G C ): Sloane A nderson, WA, V isio n /4 -C o rn ers; Mark Davies, WA; Yanni P apadopoulos, WA, The Valley A th letic C lub / Specialized; Keith Milne, BC, Schwalbe; and Duncan Steele, BC, Devo/Powerbar/ Ryders. Masters Men 40+ (G C ): C lint C hase, WA, Byrne Specialty Gas; Mark K ing, OR, Low es P ro p erties; D ave Z im belm an, WA, Excel Sports B oulder; John Tolkam p, BC, Escape Velocity; and Randall Smith, WA, Byrne Specialty Gas. Women (GC): Suz W eldon, WA, W ines o f W ashington/K ing 5 TV; C h ristin e F letch er, BC, Team B C /D izzy C hicks; Marcia Jensen, WA, Byrne S p ecialty G as; Pam ela Egger, BC, Escape Velocity; and A lliso n B eall, WA, Wells Fargo/Ragatz.
