FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner. Oregon Wednesday, December 1, 2004 BEO donates $1500 to Inland Northwest Musicians Myrna VanCleave (left) with Willow Creek Symphony and Singers received a check from Sharon Harrison with the Bank of Eastern Oregon in the amount of $1500 for Inland Northwest Musicians. The Willow Creek Symphony and Singers will benefit from the $1500 the Bank o f Eastern Oregon donated tò the Inland Northwest Musicians this week The Inland Northwest Musicians is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to bring symphonic and choral music to the rural northeastern Oregon and southeastern W ashington communities The Willow Creek Sym phony and Singers became part o f the Inland N o rth w est M usicians in 1999. It is a preparatory group comprised o f students and adults from around the region The group practices in Heppner at the Heppner Elementary music room at 6 p m on Tuesdays. The Willow Creek Symphony and Singers has a set o f concerts coining up this w eekend S aturday evening, Dec. 4, a concert is schedule for Long Creek The group will perform again Sunday afternoon, Dec 5 at 4 p m in lone at the high school The c o n ce rts will featu re a variety o f symphonic and choral selections including pieces by Mozart and Grieg A reception, hosted by the Valby T hrivent Financial for Lutherans, will follow the concert in lone The reception will feature lone High School student artwork. The lone concert is sponsored by the Morrow County Unified Recreation District Heppner volleyball players make all-conference Heppner Booster Club donates monies for several Projects The H eppner Booster Club meeting was held on Nov. 10 at the high school with Ron Bowman, club president, presiding T reasu rer’s report listed $6,175.39 as auction income but stated that this was not a final figure, as some bills hadn’t been paid yet. C lub m em bers listened to the following delegations: C h e e rle a d in g - A dvisor, Virginia G rant, req u ested m oney for uniforms and pom-poms for elementary and junior high ch ee rle a d ers fo r an upcoming clinic The needed money ($650) was funded to them with the stipulation that the Elementary Parent Club would reimburse Booster Club for half o f the funds as soon as they could Accelerated Reading Program- Jeannie Collins requested Booster Club to help with incentives- gifts for prizes for those excelling in the Reading Program . B o o ster Club approved $600 for this program A new account will be set up for tracking these expenses Band- Bobby Rice, the band teacher, requested help for replacing worn out shirts. They would like the shirts to be school colors. The request was tabled until prices can be determined Track- Mr. Smith reported on the progress of the track. He would like to have the asphalt down by the end o f winter. He requested $5,000 to $7,000 from Booster Club to help with these expenses. $7,000 was approved for this project. S h a m ro c k e tte s - Only $20 was raised on babysitting during the Steak Feed and Auction It was approved to donate $ 100 to the S h am ro ck ettes for babysitting during the event. In old business, it was not known if there was any price for buttons done by Mrs. Bowman The club decided to just count any expenses for this as a loss In new business -It was noted that many people w ere very appreciative o f the tailgate parties put on by the Booster Club A membership drive will be discussed in a future meeting -Flyers and Ads were sent to all p aren ts and notices will be put in the paper and on TV -The minutes of the meetings will be given to the journalism class for them to w rite an article for the Gazette -Tax-ID update is inconclusive at this point -New by-law s are being written up -V eterans Day celebration at the school went very well with over 100 veterans in attendance The club will make sure this event continues to happen annually. O th er business included a request from Greg Grant to see if Booster Club would put on a feed for the basketball team on Friday, Dec 17. The teams will be in charge o f breakfast and will also have hospitality (water, juice, muffins, fruit and cookies) Booster Club agreed to donate $200 for the hospitality expenses and they will do a spaghetti dinner on Friday night The issue o f using the snack shack to earn money during basketball was discussed Cindi Doherty w ill be in charge o f scheduling w ork tim es Groups o f athletes will do the clean up of the gym after the games The next B ooster Club meeting will be on Dec 8, 7 p.m in Mrs Gentry’s room (home-ec) a t th e h ig h sch o o l. lone to hold 7th annual Basketball Bonanza The seventh annual lone Basketball Bonanza Tournament will be held Dec 3-4 at the lone School gym nasium s. The team s competing this year for the title are Mac-Hi, Enterprise, Umatilla and lone The U m atilla Vikings and Mac-Hi Pioneer girls start the JV tournament at 1 p.m on D ec 3. Enterprise and lone play at 4 p.m. The JV Boys start off with Umatilla and Mac-Hi at 2:30 p.m The last JV game o f the day is Enterprise and lone at 5:30 p m The next day will begin w ith the g irls ’ Shanna Kietmann (left) was named first team Columbia Basin Conference volleyball all-conference and Madison Bailey was named second team. Linsey Mitchell (right) receiv ed an h on orab le mention. We Print Letterhead Heppner Gazette-Times 676 9228 Low rates got your Goat? Well, here’s something to chew on... Two Good Deals that say “Not Baaaaad!” 30-Month CD Rate Premium Checking Account** Interest Kate APY* 3.50% 3.55% •APY < Aimml Percentage Yield). 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The g irls ’ ch am pionship m atch is scheduled for 1 p m , follow ed by the b o y s’ championship game at 2:30 p.m A girls’ match up betw een the M ac-H i Pioneers and the Umatilla Vikings will kick off the Varsity tournament at 3 p.m on Dec 3 Later to finish out the girls’ round, lone will be taking on Enterprise at 6 p.m The first boys’ game will be at 4 30 p.m with Mac-Hi battling the Umatilla Vikings. The final game o f the night has the lone boys m atched up against Enterprise at 7:30 p.m. The next day will begin w ith the g irls ’ consolation game at 1 p m , and the boys’ consolation at 2:30 p.m. The g irls ’ ch am pionship m atch is scheduled for 4:30 p m , fo llo w ed by th e b o y s’ championship game at 5:30 p m T ro p h ies will be awarded for the top teams in each division Ticket prices for the tournament will be $3 for adults and $ 1 for students w ith ASB card s Please remember that only water is allow ed in lo n e School Gyms The lone Booster Club sp o n so rs the tournament We Print Business Cards Heppner G azette » CJRA Rodeo year-end awards given Jenny Griffith anil Amy Jepsen Rebecca anil Eric Jepsen Taighlcr Dougherty and Devin Robinson Six local members of the Cayuse Junior Rodeo Association were recently given awards at the CJRA annual dinner, which was held at the Grange Hall in Goldendale, WA on Nov. 21. The CJRA sponsored eight different rodeos in eastern Oregon and eastern W ashington from May th ro u g h September o f 2004 These rodeos were held in Prosser, A rlin g to n , G oldendale, Umatilla, Milton-Freewater, Glenwood, Union and La Grande. There were three age divisions for both boys and girls Peewee, ages 8-11; Juniors, age 12-14; and Seniors, age 15-18 Prizes and money were paid out for w inners at each o f the individual rodeos. Members also accumulated points in the overall standings for year-end awards In the Peewee Boys division, Devin Robinson finished second for the season in goat tying and fourth in barrel racing. In Peew ee G irls, T aighler Dougherty tied for first in breakaway roping, was third in barrel racing, fourth in goat tying and fourth in pole bending. Rebecca Jepsen also tied for first place in breakaway roping In the Junior Boys division, Eric Jepsen finished third in team roping as a header Senior Girls division winners included lone High School stu d en ts Jenny Griffith and Amy Jepsen, who tied for first place in ribbon roping Jepsen also earned fourth place honors in breakaway roping as well The Cayuse Junior Rodeo Association is open to anyone who wants to join There w ere about 150 members in 2004. Next year they are adding a new 5-7 year old division To compete, contestants have to be 5 years old by Jan 1, 2005 and not older than 18 on the same date There is a $50 fam ily m em bership fee Contestants can compete in any CJRA ro d eo as a "guest,” but are not eligible for year-end awards unless they are CJRA members HHS to present two-act comedy The Heppner High School drama department is presenting a two-act “tropical laff spoof’ by Tim Kelly called “Lagooned.” The play will be held Dec I and Dec 8 at 7 p m in the Heppner High School cafeteria Jodi Chapa, of Heppner, will be directing the play Cost for admission is $1 per person at the door. The funds raised will go towards repairing the stage floor F e a tu rin g P R IM E R IB E v e ry F r id a y CH ECK O U T O U R S P E C IA L S ON SA T U R D A Y ! 5 a.m .-9 p.m . T h u r s d a y - S a t u r d a y 6 a.m .-2 p.m . S u n d a y J? 1 • A JO HN ’ S PLACE MAIN STREET. HEPPNER