FOUR • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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teachers and also me. 1 hope
HES fifth and
sixth graders
speak out
[E d ito r’s Note: Fifth and
sixth grade students from
Heppner Elementary School
wrote letters to the editor as
part o f class project. The
subject o f the letters range
from ideas fo r the old pool
to su p p o rtin g our local
businesses.]
To the Editor:
I think som ebody
from the Fish and Wildlife
Society should clean up the
creek. There are tons of tires
and cans in the creek. The
cans and tires are making the
creek dirty.
The fish are dying
because of the garbage in the
creek. I think everybody
who really like fish should
pitch in.
E verybody
w ill
appreciate those who help
clean the creek, especially
the people who like to fish.
So pitch in.
(s) Tomas Elguezabal
Heppner
To the Editor:
My name is Lindsay
Cutsforth and I am a fifth
g ra d e r
at
H eppner
Elementary.
I’m writing because
I think the com m unity
should try to donate money
to try to get a clothes store
in Heppner. We have to pay
lots of money for gas to go
to Hermiston, Pendleton or
Tri-Cities just to get clothes.
This is especially bad since
the gas prices are $2.50.
It would be nice if
we could get a clothes store
for women, kids and men. It
w ould even be nice if
G a rd e n e r’s M en ’s W ear
w ould have som e kids
clothes and a little bit more
for women.
If the community did
I ’m sure a lot of people
would appreciate it.
(s) Lindsay Cutsforth
Lexington
To the Editor:
My name is Kyle
Tayloe and I’m a student
from Heppner Elementary
School. I think it is cool how
the community of Heppner
supports our school. The
magazine sale and bringing
box tops to school are two
of the ways the citizens of
Heppner support HES.
I w ould like it if
there was a shop that would
open and all the m oney
would go to the school. It
could sell little toys or just
even used stuff that people
give to the shop. We could
have new co m p u ters,
playground balls and new
black top.
This would help my
siblings, the school, my
that this could happen so
Heppner would be happier,
(s) Kyle Tayloe
Heppner
To the Editor:
My name is Colter
R aver and I am a sixth
grad er
at
H eppner
Elementary. I am writing to
say I think we should do
something with the old pool.
I was thinking that
we should make it into a
skateboard park. Then the
kids w ith sk ateb o ard s
wouldn’t get bored and have
to ride on the street. They
would have more fun and
wouldn’t do stuff they’re not
supposed to. It would be
safer for pedestrians.
I would go to the
skateboard park and have
fun instead of riding around
town.
(s) Colter Raver
Heppner
To the Editor:
My name is Donald
Matthews and I go to school
at Heppner Elementary. I
was wondering why the City
shut down the bike track?
M any kids think that
Heppner is boring and the
bike track is a fun place to
be. It was a great place to
ride bikes with my friends.
The bike track used
to be a bunch of weeds and
dirt. What was the problem
with weeds, dirt and a few
hills? There was even grass
growing in until the City
destroyed it.
If everyone on that
street hates the dust, the City
should water it more and
maybe grow some grass. If
the C ity d o e sn ’t build
another bike track or a fun
place to play in the town it
will be a little bit boring.
(s) Donald Matthews
Heppner
To the Editor:
My name is Jessica
Hughes and I am a sixth
grad er
at
H eppner
Elementary.
I have an idea to
share with you all. You know
the old pool at the front of
town? On my gosh, it is so
old and yucky. So let’s do
something with it. It’s just
sitting there doing nothing;
nobody can use it like it is
anyway. So let’s change it.
H e re ’s my idea:
L e t’s m ake
it
into
som ething. A ctually we
could m ake it into tw o
things. A roller-skating rink
in the spring, summer and
fall and in the winter it could
be an ice-skating rink. We
would need equipment to
repave it and put ice over it,
but we w ould gain the
m oney
back
from
customers.
I think it would be a
good recreation addition to
the town of Heppner and
would look a lot cleaner and
nicer than that old rusty
pool. Please think about the
Effective June 25, 2004, the Fire Chief
of the City of Heppner is imposing a
CLO SED SEASON for open burning
based on local fire safety concerns.
This burning ban is for the City of Heppner.
A reminder that open burning
also includes a “burn barrel.”
The closed season will remain in effect
until further notice this fall as per ORS 478.960.
idea. It would look really (s) Ian Murray
cool and be really fun.
Heppner
To the Editor:
(s) Jessica Hughes
Heppner
Hi, my nam e is
Devin Robinson and I am
To the Editor:
fifth g rad er at H eppner
My name is Emily Elementary School and I am
Thompson and I’m a sixth here to say that I appreciate
g rad er
at
H eppner all the people that ate at the
E lem entary School. The Colt Soup Feed.
magazine sale at HES was a
The feed helped us
su ccess. It raised about pay for things like pads,
$4000 fo r the T u pper helmets and footballs. Some
Outdoor School Program.
of those things help protect
I appreciate all of the us like pads and helmets. I
money people gave towards hope that next year more
Tupper. I am w riting people will attend the feed.
because I want to encourage Because pads get old after a
m ore people to buy while and may not protect
magazines or at least give us.
some donations. If we don’t
I also appreciate the
raise about $4000, the kids people that supported us
that are com ing to sixth d u ring our C olt gam es,
helped us fight on and take
grade can’t go to Tupper.
T upper
was the victory. I appreciate
awesome. I’ll remember it everything our community
forever. I really want the has done for Colt Football,
younger kids to go to Tupper (s) Devin Robinson
and have great memories Heppner
too. So please, help support
To the Editor:
Tupper Outdoor School. It
My name is Brynna
would be horrible if it had
Rust and I’m a sixth grader
to go.
at H eppner E lem en tary
(s) Emily Thompson
School.
Heppner
I ’m w riting today
because I think that the gas
To the Editor:
price is rid icu lo u s. I t’s
My name is Ashley almost up to $3. Ahhh. So, I
Wolff and I am a sixth grader thought of an idea how to
at H eppner E lem en tary
help.
School. I am w riting to
Maybe people can
inform you about an
start walking more. I think
amazing program called the
people should start walking
Great American Bake Sale.
if they live in tow n. Or
T his
year,
people could ride bikes. I
approximately 13 million saw a person who drove to
kids in the United States the store when he lived right
alone are at risk for hunger.
by it. I mean right by it. On
The Great American Bake
the news recently, there has
Sale helps solve this by been a report that people
having kids all across the spend more time in their cars
country hold bake sales and than exercising. And that’s
send all their proceeds into
one reason th ey ’ve been
Share Our Strength. Share
overweight.
Our Strength then turns the
H e re ’s
an o th er
money into grants for non
point. W hen people are
profit organizations fighting
driving in cars they ju st
childhood hunger in the
wave. I mean that’s fine, but
United States. Since it was
if you ride your bike, or
started in 1984, Share Our
walk, you can say hi and talk
Strength, or SOS, has raised
for a while. It would make
and distributed more than
the C ity o f H eppner
$74 million to anti-hunger
friendlier too. So park that
o rg a n iz atio n s here and
car, save money and get in
overseas.
shape.
I think that this is a
(s) Brynna Rust
wonderful program and I am
Echo
trying to start a bake sale
To the Editor:
here. If anyone would like to
My name is Jordan
help please contact me, I
Hatfield and I am a sixth
greatly appreciate all the
g rad er
at
H eppner
help I can get.
E lem entary School. I ’m
(s) Ashley Wolff
writing to you today because
Heppner
I appreciate what the city did
To the Editor:
at that old vacant lot, which
My nam e is Ian
is now Heritage Plaza.
M urray and I am a fifth
As you all know, I
g ra d e r
at
H eppner still go to the elementary
Elementary. I have always school and I have to walk
known that we have had a
through the Plaza every day.
great community and strong
It is nice to walk or ride
businesses.
through it. Plus, it is nice not
I can alw ays go
to get chewed out for getting
dow ntow n and buy a mud on the carpets at home
delicious apple, fresh food,
and at school.
our medicine and lots of
I ’m also w riting
other things. We need people
about the road to school.
to keep these businesses
Quaid Street is the road I
running and the gas prices
ride on. It think it would be
are high and we don’t want easier for the kids walking
to d riv e all the way to
on that street to put a better
H erm iston ju s t to get
sidewalk in or a bike lane for
groceries. We had a shoe
the people riding bikes. It
store, but it closed down
would help the drivers too.
because
not
enough
It w ill help the d riv ers
business. I don’t want that to
because they won’t have to
happen to the stores that are stress out about the kids
left.
walking.
To the people that
(s) Jordan Hatfield
shop here in Heppner, I hope
Heppner
you continue to do so and To the Editor:
the people that don’t, I hope
My name is Araceli
that you think about what I
Z avala and I ’m a sixth
said.
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g rad er
at
H eppner
Elementary.
I have an idea that
involves the Heppner Public
L ibrary. See the public
library is really a cool place
to be, but a lot of people
don’t seem to realize that.
There you can do a lot of fun
things like getting on the
In tern et and search in g
w eb sites, w atching and
listening to music videos on
the Internet and you can also
learn a lot of things there.
My point is that I hope
people will take this into
consideration and go to the
library more often. Instead
o f ju s t sittin g at hom e
watching TV, you can come
to the library.
I hope people will do
what I suggest and go to the
library more often.
(s) Araceli Zavala
Heppner
To the Editor:
My name is Brent
Eckm an and I ’m a sixth
g rad er
at
H eppner
Elementary School. I want
to say that I appreciate all the
donations for Diabetes Walk
For the Cure. This walk is
held each fall to raise money
to fight this disease. You
d o n ’t know how much I
appreciate it.
W hen I was first
diagnosed, I really wasn’t
thinking about finding a
cure. But later on, I realized
that I wanted to help find a
cure because I didn’t want
kids to go through what I had
to go through.
I hope next year that
even m ore people w ill
donate. To the ones who
donated last year, I really
appreciate your support.
(s) Brent Eckman
Lexington
To the Editor:
My nam e is Joe
Armato and I’m in the fifth
grade
at
H eppner
Elementary School.
S o m e t h i n g
happened a while ago, it was
made by volunteers and now
it has been tom down. Some
of you may wonder what it
is, well, it’s the bike park. I
used it every once and a
while, but normally in the
sum m er. Now that it is
turning sum m er again, I
wanted to use it and then a
friend told me it was tom
down.
Two days ago, I
wanted to ride on it and then
I remembered it was tom
down. So, the city should
either let kids have bikes on
Main Street, so that we can
ride around in other places
or build another bike park,
(s) Joe Armato
Heppner
To the Editor:
Hello, my name is
Erin Price and I am a sixth
g rad er
at
H eppner
Elem entary School. I am
pleased to say that I enjoy
that Heppner looks so great.
Downtown Heppner looks
wonderful and so does the
new Heritage Park. But there
is one thing that I would
w ish the C ity w ould do
next... the old swimming
pool.
I am not sure what
the Heppner workers are
working on since Heritage
Park is finally finished. I
heard it would be a skating
park, which is a good idea
since the bike trail was
flattened.
I w ant to rem ind
everyone that I appreciate all
the hard work on Heppner.
It’s the best looking town in
Oregon.
(s) Erin Price
Heppner
To the Editor:
I love
H eppner
everything. We are a strong
sm all tow n th at holds
together. I’ve noticed that
H eppner has su p p o rted
anything from som eone’s
new idea to the 2A baseball
championship.
Take last year for
instance, there were more
people from Heppner that
atten d ed the G rid K ids
football championship than
there were from Hermiston.
Or how almost every sports
fan in Heppner goes to the
regular season games. Or the
new Heritage Park, it was
probably som eone’s idea
that we supported.
But we can’t forget
the volunteers that make it
happen. That’s why I would
like to suggest some kind of
day that would honor the
v o lu n teers o f H eppner.
B ecause w ithout them
Heppner would never be the
way it is.
(s) Justin Gutierrez
Heppner
To the Editor:
I w ould like to
co n g ratu late the C ity o f
Heppner and all the groups
that made Heritage Plaza
happen. They took an icky
lot and made it into a really
neat park. The equipment
from the Ag Museum shows
the history of our area.
T his show s that r
when people decide to work
together, things can happen.
Heppner has a lot o f city •
pride and I’m proud to live
in a place where people are
proud of their town.
(s) Kellee Jones
Heppner
To the Editor:
Hi, my name is Matt
Hams and I ’m currently
going
to
H eppner
Elementary School. I wrote
this letter to talk to you about
the creek.
The creek is very
dirty, people treat it like a
trash can. There are lots of
th in g s that co u ld hurt
somebody and it is almost
summer, so lots of kids are
going to be dow n there
fishing and rafting.
So, I think we should
get some volunteers to clean
up the creek and make it safe
for kids and fish.
(s) Matt Hams
Heppner
To tne Editor:
S o m etim es I get f
bored in the middle of the
summer so I have made a list
o f 10 th in g s to do this
summer:
1) Play basketball.
2) Go swimming.
3) Have a paint ball
war.
4) Go bike riding.
5) Play baseball.
6) Play football.
7) Play with your
friends.
8) Work for senior
c itiz e n s (C all
676-5927).
9) Play with your
dog.
10) L ast
but
d e fin ite ly not
least, read a
book.
Hope you don’t get
bored.
(s) Kyle Vanderwalker
Heppner
To the Editor:
L ately, I have
n o ticed th at p eople are
driving too fast in Heppner
w hile kids are o u tsid e
playing near the road. I think
that the d riv ers need to
w atch how fast they are
going.
The d riv e rs also
need to see how fast they
should go on streets that are
close to the schools. If they
don’t stop going so fast, one
of these days a kid is going
to get ran over.
(s) Hollie Whatley
the way Heppner
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