Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - THREE
Century Farm and Ranch program awards century
status to 18 farms and ranches in 2004
At an annual awards
cerem ony at the O regon
State Fair, Oregon families
from 18 farms and ranches
will receive the formal status
of Oregon Century Farm or
Oregon Century Ranch. The
2004 Awards Ceremony will
be held on Saturday, Sept. 4,
at 2:30 p.m., in the Jackman-
Long B u ilding on the
Oregon State Fairgrounds in
Salem. The public is invited
to jo in
the O regon
A g ricu ltu ral E ducation
Foundation and its major
partners, the Oregon Farm
B ureau,
the
O regon
Department o f Agriculture,
and the Oregon Historical
Society in the celebration of
these C entury Farm and
Ranch families.
In 2004, there will
be eighteen Oregon farms
and ranches added to the list
o f more than 1,000 family
p ro p e rtie s w hich have
reached the century mark or
m ore. Five ranches and
th irtee n farm s from 10
counties will be represented
in this year’s awards. The
local family and their ranch
being honored in 2004 is
R.W .B. R anch, M orrow
County. The local family and
their farm being honored in
2004 is S tevens Farm ,
Morrow County.
The Oregon Century
Farm and Ranch Program
started in 1958 to honor
farm and ranch families with
century-long connections to
the land. In the course of its
46-year history, the program
has honored these families
by re c o g n izin g th eir
perseverance in the ever-
ch an g in g ch allen g e o f
supplying food and other
farm products to the nation
and the world. This award
acknowledges, as well, the
fam ilies’ com m itm ent to
farm ing and ranching, a
reflection o f Oregon’s rich
agricultural heritage.
A cco rd in g
to
Century Farm and Ranch
Program Coordinator, Glenn
Mason, “We, the public, as
consum ers o f what these
fam ilies grow and raise,
need to take time out now
and then and say, “ We
a p p re cia te
these
hardw orking farmers and
ran ch ers who have fed
Oregonians and America for
a century or more. Oregon’s
more recent history o f the
last 150 years o f settlement
patterns can be traced in part
by reading som e o f the
stories submitted with the
Century Farm and Ranch
Program
ap p licatio n s.
Whether their family land
was acq u ired from the
United States government
through a Donation Land
Claim in the 1850s, or later
in the late 19th or early 20th
century by homesteading, or
by purchase or trade from
earlier Anglo or European
settlers, these Century Farm
and Ranch fam ilies give
faces and names to Oregon’s
agricultural history. This
program and the aw ards
ceremony at the State Fair
provide us the opportunity to
meet an important part of the
living history o f Oregon.’’
C onducted each
year, there is a form al
application process required
for a family to receive the
century farm or ranch
designation. A five-member
advisory board reviews each
ap p lic atio n ag ain st the
q u a lific a tio n s,
w hich
include
co n tin u o u s
operation o f the farm or
ranch; a gross income from
farm use o f not less than
$ 1,000 per year for the three
years out o f the five years
prior to application; and
family members must live
on or actively manage the
farming or ranch activities.
Each y e a r’s com pleted
applications are forwarded
to the Oregon Historical
Society Library and are
available to researchers and
other library users. To mark
the award o f the century
farm or ranch status, each
family receives a certificate
signed by G overnor Ted
Kulongoski and the Director
of the Oregon Department of
Agriculture, Katy Coba. A
metal roadside sign denoting
century farm or ranch status
with the name of the farm or
ranch and the year
established also is made
available to each family.
This year the property signs
have been made available to
the designated properties
through a generous grant
from
the
O regon
Department of Agriculture.
The 2004 aw ard
ceremony is made possible,
in part, by contributions
from the C apital Press
(S alem ), the H azelnut
M arketing B oard, the
O regon W heat G row ers
League, and the Tillamook
C ounty
C ream ery
A ssociation. The Oregon
Century Farm and Ranch
program is adm inistered
through
the
O regon
A g ricu ltu ral E ducation
F oundation (O A EF) in
Salem and is p artially
funded
through
a
partnership o f the Oregon
Department of Agriculture,
the O regon H istorical
Society, and the Oregon
Farm Bureau.
Slottee Memorial and Lexington scholarships
The South Morrow
County Scholarship Trust
has announced a deadline of
Sept. 17, 2004 for the
Elizabeth Slottee Memorial
S ch o larsh ip
and
the
Lexington Voting Precinct
Scholarship.
The
E lizab eth
S lottee
M em orial
B U C K N U JV I'S
C A T E R IN G :
Barbecue Beef & Fried Oysters
at Murray's Wine Tasting, Aug. 19
at the Morrow County Fairgrounds
Watch for weekly specials
at John's Place & Bucknum's Tavern!
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S ch o larsh ip is aw arded
annually to a junior, senior
or graduate student at an
accredited four-year college
or university.
The award is given
to recognize and remember
the enthusiasm, spirit and
dedication that Elizabeth
inspired in her students. It is
also given to rem em ber
Elizabeth's love of music.
This scholarship is
given annually, in order of
priority to: first, a student
w orking for a m ajor or
minor in music and second,
a student who has been
accepted into a school o f
education.
The
L exington
Voting Precinct applications
are also av ailab le. This
aw ard is for a college
sophomore, junior or senior
liv in g in the L exington
voters’ precinct.
Applications in disc
format can be picked up at
Bank o f Eastern Oregon in
Heppner.
C ontact
Sharon
Harrison at 676-9125, Del
LaRue at 422-7468 or Barb
Hayes at 676-9141, if you
have any questions.
Willow Creek
Water Park fair
schedule
4-H members, with
a 4-H member bracelet, can
enjoy the W illow Creek
Water Park in Heppner, free
on Thursday, Aug. 19 and
Friday, Aug. 20. Anyone
w ith a fair pass will be
adm itted at a discounted
price o f $ 1 both days.
The pool w ill be
closed Friday night, Aug. 20
for the 7-9 p.m. session. It
will also be closed Saturday,
Aug. 21 and Sunday, Aug.
22 for the 1-5 p.m. session.
Heppner Schools have new
vice principal drawn to Heppner because
lone school
district
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coaches
can use the floor on
of its small town atmosphere
Aug.
23;
and it offered him the ability
-the district is still in
to be activ e in school
the
process
o f hiring a half
a d m in istra tio n
and
time
teacher
for the 2004-05
co ach in g . “ I was also
school
year
to
teach two PE
looking forward to working
classes
and
an
elective;
in a great school system,”
-the
new
read er
said Stone.
Heppner was also a board has been delivered
“quality place” for him and and the lone City Council
wife Michelle to raise their granted an easement to the
three children, Nalani, 5, district for a section of the
N aleah, 3 and N oah, 10 lot on the comer o f Spring
and Main streets. Columbia
months.
Heppner was also Basin Electric is running the
ideal, as a job in lone opened pow er and ISD w ill be
for Michelle. She will be an charged the cost o f a street
elementary music and math light, rather than a meter
reading. Howard Mullins
teacher at lone Schools.
Stone has coached and Ron Haguewood are
for 12 years, in both assistant constructing a pole for the
and head coach positions. board. The district is in the
He was a head football process o f establishing a
Daye Stone
coach for seven years, and phone line and electrical
H eppner Schools
has also coached basketball, wiring. The Cardinal on the
have a new vice principal,
track , v o lley b all and read er board, how ever,
Daye Stone. Stone will also
baseball. “I was also looking appeared orange, rather than
be the elem entary school forward to the opportunity to red, and the com pany
counselor and an assistant
work with Greg Grant,” said su p p ly in g the pan els as
high school football coach. Stone. “Heppner has a great agreed to replace them with
This is Stone’s first football program.”
the appropriate color free of
administrative job, as he just
charge;
As a counselor at
received his administration
-B ro w n in g
has
HES, Stone will be active in
credentials through Eastern
completed
a
rough
draft
of
heading up the Child Study
Washington University. He
the
student/parent
handbook
Team,
w hich
is
a
received his bachelor of arts
combination o f the English and w ill fin alize the
degree at Western Montana Language Learners Director, graduation portion once she
College.
the
ap p ro p riate
the Title teacher and the has
Stone com es to Special Ed director. He will information and will also
H eppner from M ilton-
also be active in the referral c o n tact the ESD for a
Freew ater, where he had
system for p ro fessio n al printing quote;
been teaching for the past
-Browning met with
services for students.
several years. Before that, he
engineer
Bob Depoe and
“ I am looking
was a teacher and football forward to a great year and K nerr C o n stru ctio n to
coach in Montana.
working with a tremendous discuss correction o f the
Stone, who grew up staff,” said Stone.
flooding/sink hole at the
in Days Creek, OR, was
school following three days
o f heavy rain. A proposal is
University of Nebraska announces being created with projected
construction following the
graduates
psychology in the College of last football game. The goal
Approximately 800
E d u catio n and H um an is to relieve some o f the
students received degrees
Sciences and director of the water load from the new
from the U n iv ersity o f
O scar and L uella B uros building roof into a separate
N eb rask a-L in co ln
in
Center for Testing at the drain field and to also tie in
commencement exercises
U niversity o f N ebraska- the cafeteria roof drainage
on Aug. 14.
pipes, so that the cafeteria is
Lincoln, gave the address.
Chancellor Harvey
The local graduate not flooded again. She says
Perlman presided over the
was A leida Johannah that the sink hole will no
ceremonies. Barbara Plake,
Goodyear, who received her longer be an issue when the
W.C. Meierhenry university
doctor of philosophy degree. water is diverted away from
professor o f educational
the original French drain;
-in serv ice
is
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