TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 29, 2004
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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
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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
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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
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"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.
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