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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Letten to the Editor Obituaries E d ito rs note letters lo the Editor must b e signed. The Gazette-Times will not publish u n sign e d letters Please include your address a n d p h o n e n u m ber o n all letters lor use b y dte G-T office. The G - T reserves the right to edit The G T is not responsible for a ccuracy of statements m ad e in letters. (A ny letters expressing thanks will be p la c e d in the classifieds under "C a rd o f Ernest E. Lovgren The Official Newspaper o f the City o f Heppner and the County o f Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S P S 240-420 T h a n k s ' at a Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly New spaper Pub lishe d w ccklv and eulercd as periodical matter at the Post O ffice at Heppner. O r egon under the Act o f M a r c h 3, 1874 P eriodical postage paid at Heppner. O re -g o n O ffic e at 147 W W illo w Street T elephone (5 4 1 ) 6 7 6 -4 2 2 8 . 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For Pubkc/Legal Notices pubkc/legal notices deadline is M onday at 5 p m Dates for pubii cation must be specified Affidavits must be required at the time of submission Affidavits requre three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppncr.nel • Start or C hange a Subscription • Place a C lassified Ad • Subm it a News Story ♦ View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes • Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! First annual Oktoberfest means fun for community Mark your calendars for a special event coming on Saturday, Oct. 9. It’s Heppner’s first annual Oktoberfest, happening in the heart of town. The whole town is helping to make this a fun day for everyone, townspeople and tourists alike. There will be live entertainment by home grow n ta len ts like Joe and L eanne L indsay, the Shamrockettes and Shenanigans throughout the day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., as well as contests for the talented, the silly, the daring and the brave-at-heart. Can you crow like a rooster or spit a pumpkin seed farther than anyone you know? Do you have the ugliest dog in town or have you grown a stupendous pumpkin this year? Do you bake the world’s most delicious cake or is your husband, brother, son, dad or uncle downright ugly in the moming-or even for the rest o f the day? Have we got contests for you. You can enter any or all contests and there's no age limit-except for Ugly Man, we think you should be at least 18 for that one. There will also be street vendors showing off and selling their crafts and goodies between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. with a mini kids’ carnival as well as a wine-tasting booth with some o f the finest wines Murray’s Country Rose has to offer from 2-6 p.m. Bucknum’s and John’s Place are also presenting a beer garden with some special micro brews and tasty German food from 12-9 p.m. After the cake contest is judged at 1 p.m. at John's Place, the cakes will be auctioned off between 5-6 p.m. right on Main Street. From the sound o f some recipes rumored for entry, there will be quite a few mouth-watering delights to bid on, so come join the fun for that. The award for first place is $ 100, sponsored by Sherrell Insurance. Second place is a mighty sweet $75, sponsored by Wheatland Insurance and Third Place is worth trying for at $50, sponsored by Morrow County Grain Growers. Bragging rights: priceless. Between 6-10 p.m.. Main Street will be closed to traffic for a street dance to the music of Hired Gun, a multi talented musical group from Hermiston, sponsored by Bank of Eastern Oregon, CenturyTel, Les Schwab and a generous contribution from an anonymous donor. This band has been known to get loud and kick up a ruckus for the pure fun of it and they will be a great finish to a wonderful day. Sponsors have donated cash prizes for other contests, in addition to the cake baking contest. Contests and sponsors are: Pumpkin seed-spitting/sponsored by Northwestern Motel and Pettyjohn’s; Ugly Dog/sponsored by Peterson’s Jewelers and Heppner Heating and AC; Biggest Pumpkin/sponsored by Central Red Apple and Lott's Electric; Ugly Man/sponsored by Gardner’s Men’s Wear and Heppner Hardware; Rooster crow /sponsored by Kuhn and Spicer, Attorneys and Willow Creek Realty. This could be the start o f something you and your families can enjoy and participate in for years to come, so come spend the day and smile a while. Anyone wanting to enter a contest, be a judge, a vendor or just help out in general, call Nancy Gochnauer at 676-5481. lone Education Foundation 2nd Annual Fund Raising Dinner The lon e Education Foundation would like to thank the following businesses and organizations who helped to sponsor the dinner on Saturday, Sept. 25: Bank of Eastern Oregon Morrow County Grain Grou Wheatland Insurance Company I.C.A.B.O. We also thank everyone who purchased dinner tickets; those who attended the dinner, those who donated auction items, and those who purchased auction items. We appreciate the support of our community and surrounding communities. Sincerely. lone Education Foundation l cost o f $7.) Pioneer Memorial provides vital, caring resource To the Editor: T his forum was chosen to express a few of the reasons to protect a valuable commodity that the community is in danger o f losing. Many residents are aw are o f the very real possibility o f the Pioneer M em orial H ospital and subsequent services being eliminated due to lack o f m onies required to keep these services operational. As a private patient and an em ployee o f the M orrow C ounty H ealth District, there is definitely a vested interest on my part as to the future o f available programs to our town. While at St. Anthony’s Hospital, the care p ro v id ed was su ffic ie n t; at P ioneer M em orial, it exceeded medical standards, plus the TLC received from the staff due to personal history and connections from other areas of daily living alleviated and in itiated a w o rry -free environm ent to speed up recovery time. It is m uch easier having a prim ary care provider and the hospital team possessing all medical history than relying on staff unfamiliar with you and your current status. As a patient it has been necessary to access alm ost all o f the departments, beginning with E m ergency Room , Lab D epartm ent, B usiness Office, X-Ray Department, A cute H ospital C are, A m bulance S erv ices, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Sw ing Bed Program, and ending with Home Health Services. At my age, 1 hadn’t given much thought to the necessity of using the Swing Bed Program. Fortunately, for recuperative time it was available. This afforded my husband daily visits without disrupting fam ily and/or friends schedules. The staff arranged transportation to any and all out o f the area physicians’ appointments. After being discharged from the H o sp ital, the s ta ff contacted Home Health, and again experiencing capable personnel, it assuredly sped up the recovery time. Please, remember, you never know when you or a loved one will need the services the Hospital can and does provide. (s) Teresa Flaiz Heppner Booster Club auction items pouring in I f you h a v e n ’t alread y m arked your calen d ars, for. Saturday, O cto b er 16, do so immediately, said a Heppner High School Booster Club spokesperson. “ H eppner High supporters need to put off any other plans so they can be present at the popular annual HHS Booster Club Auction and Steak Feed.” “ W hether auction- goers are interested in OSU fo o tb all or B ushnell binoculars, 30 pounds o f ground beef or a night’s stay at the C olum bia G orge H o tel...th ere’s something for everyone. The blue and gold M ustangs quilt and pillows would grace any bed or couch in style after a bird hunt on a fall morning.” For anyone who’s a bit hesitant to raise your hand to bid on an item, there’s always the raffle with a long list o f items to win. A rifle, a W eber-G enesis barbecue and a 32” Tobisha TV are among the prizes to be won for a single ticket in the e v en in g ’s raffle. In addition to these large items, there are dozens o f other prizes to be aw arded throughout the night. Many o f the things to be auctioned and raffled are on display in the Heppner TV Office in anticipation for the October 16 event. “This autumn tradition is a great deal of fun for everyone and a grand w ay to su p p o rt extra-curricular programs at Heppner High School,” said the spokesperson. Royal court to rule over Homecoming week at HHS Heppner High School hom ecom ing events will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 29, w ith a pow der p u ff football game. The game will be held at 7 p.m. A bonfire will follow the game. A noise parade will be held on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 2:30 p.m. The hom ecom ing varsity football game vs. the Umatilla Vikings will be held on Friday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. A soup feed, sponsored by Colt Football will be held startin g at 5:30 p.m ., through h alf-tim e. The homecoming court queen and king will be announced during half-time of the game. The court consists of: junior prince Mikel Britt escorting ju n io r princess Brittany Herbison; junior prince M atthew K enny escorting ju n io r princess Katie Britt; senior prince Josh Lankford escorting sen io r p rin cess B lair K eithley; sen io r p rince Brandon Seitz escorting senior princess M adison Bailey; and senior prince Tyler Boyer escorting senior princess Cara Kennedy. E rnest Eugene Lovgren, 86, o f Scholls, Oregon, formerly o f lone, died Monday, September 6, 2004. F uneral serv ices w ere held Saturday, S ep tem b er 11, 2004 at Scholls Community Church in H illsb o ro . Interm ent followed at M ountainside Cemetery in Scholls. Mr. L ovgren was born January 17, 1918, in lone, one o f three children of Ernest Eugene and Bertha Mae Stretcher Lovgren. He lived in Eastern O regon before moving to Scholls in 1931 with his family. He attended H illsboro High School. During World War II, he worked in the Portland Shipyards. He then worked for Saxton Crushing doing road construction. On Valentine’s Day, 1950, he married Joyce J. Holliday in Coquille. They observed their 54th wedding anniversary earlier this year. The family moved to Scholls in 1952. Mr. L ovgren had w orked as a heavy machinery mechanic and did warranty work for Balzer M ach in ery and C al-O r Machinery before retiring in 1983 from C openhagen Construction. He was a long-time member o f the International U nion of O perating Engineers Local 701. He also was a m em ber o f Scholls Community Church and Eagles Lodge No. 379. At age 80, he learned to play the fiddle and joined the N orthw est Old Time Fiddlers. Mr. Lovgren was a wood carver and made his own fiddle and had recently begun carving a second one. He also enjoyed volunteering and welding. Survivors include his w ife, Joyce Lovgren, Scholls; a son and daughter- in-law, Deraid and Gayle L ovgren, H illsb o ro ; six g ra n d c h ild re n , Jeffrey Lovgren, Hillsboro, Tiffany Lovgren, Springfield, Adam and Tyler Lovgren, both of F orest G rove, Jen n ifer Conaway, Beaverton, and Katie Roberts, Hillsboro; three great-grandchildren; one brother, Albert Lovgren, and one sister, M ary Christopherson o f Sisters. M e m o r i a l contributions may be made to the Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Association. Fir Lawn Mortuary of Hillsboro was in charge of arrangements. Death Notice Margaret E. Ball Margaret E. Ball, 69, of Lexington, died Saturday, September 25, 2004, at her home. A rrangem ents are pending at Sw eeney Mortuary o f Heppner. Senior news Local teacher to go to Afghanistan continued from page one wouldn’t have the luxuries and freedoms that we have.” Melville, a second lieutenant who reenlisted in the National Guard to attend officer’s candidate school, is a CH helicopter (big double rotor helicopter) pilot and platoon leader who will be reporting for duty early to train soldiers and get his unit ready for deploym ent. Initially he will be training out o f Pendleton. He expects to be in Afghanistan for one year, p ro b ab ly in the Kandahar or Bagram areas, flying h elico p ters and transporting personnel and cargo. He says that while the big CH 47 that he flies is large enough to transport as many as 33 personnel, it is surprisingly very fast and also ideal for the high a ltitu d e region of Afghanistan. An Eastern Oregon native, Melville grew up and graduated from high school in Enterprise. He joined the National Guard while he was only 17 and still in high school. After high school he earn ed a degree in m ultidisciplinary studies (elementary/middle school education) from Eastern O regon U n iv ersity at LaGrande. He and his wife, Amanda, live in Hermiston, where she works as a nurse. She also has family in the Hermiston area. M elville says that Melissa McElligott o f lone has been hired as a perm anent substitute and will take Melville’s place at H eppner Ju n io r High School. DMV warns against online driver-record sellers If a website — even an official-looking one — claims you can order your O regon d riv in g reco rd online, it is definitely not a government site, and you might not get what you pay for, DMV officials warn Oregon custom ers. Such websites are not affiliated w ith O regon DMV. Yet DMV has received a few calls from custom ers complaining that they had not received their Oregon driving record after ordering it from one of these online com panies. C ustom ers b eliev ed that they had ordered the record from DMV, when in fact the Web sites w ere o p erated by private companies. In addition, these p riv ate Web sites are charging anyw here from $29.95 up to $89.95 for driving record information. O regonians can get their own record directly from DMV for $ 1.50. To get your driving record, stop by any DMV office to order it. The record will be mailed to you the next business day. Or v i s i t www.OregonDMV.com to find out how to get your reco rd by m ail. If Oregonians come across a site that offers O regon driving records, report the site by sending an email to The senior bus will pick up passengers at the St Patrick’s Senior Center at 11:45 a.m. on Sunday, Oct 3, for the trip to at Stokes Landing in Irrigon. They will also pick up passengers at HEPPNER ELKS 358 6 7 6 -9 1 8 1 "M h m h r ie m h Meet" 1 4 2 N o r t h M a i n the Lexington School at 12 H noon and in lone at Dot H Halvorson’s home at 12:15 Thursday, September 30th p.m. A sign-up sheet will be HUNTERS' NIGHT: Barbecue Ribs Dinner! posted at the St Patrick’s DMV@odot.state.or.us. Drawings for 22-250 Howa Rifle meal site Wednesday, Sept. CUSTOM w ith scope. Gun Cabinet, plus 29, for those who wish to go. The program will be many more prizes. Dinner starts at BANNERS by Howard Mullins on the 6 p.m., Lodge at 8 p.m. For cur Heppner Lewis and Clark Tail. G azette-lim es rent Elks members and out-of- 676 9228 town guests. O r e g o n p l
