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.
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consolation game at 10 a m ,
and the boys’ consolation at
11:30 a m. 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
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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
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