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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - FIVE Ione Booster Club honors businesses ODFW announces mule deer and elk management objective meetings On Jan. 8 at the lone High School home basketball game, the lone Cardinal Booster Club recognized businesses who contributed to lone activities. (L-R): Dean Robinson- lone Athletic Director, Marcus Collier- Colliers Market, Gina Jepsen and Arlynda Gates- Dobyns Pest Control, Sharon Rietmann- Bank of Eastern Oregon and Betty Gray- Booster Club member. Elks offer scholarships to Scouts The 57 Oregon Elks L odges and the Elks National Foundation are pleased to announce the availability of Elks scholarships ranging to $8000 for Eagle Boy Scouts and Gold Award Girl Scouts who will graduate from high school in 2005 These scholarships are independent of the perhaps better known Most Valuable Student awards and the Elks Legacy Scholarships for children, stepchildren and grandchildren o f Elks members Applications for the Scouts scholarships must be made through the district offices o f BSAand GSUSA and are judged by their national scout offices The Elks simply provide the money to the Scouts from their charitable trust fund, the Elks N ational Foundation The deadlines for applications are Feb 28 for Eagle Scouts and April 5 for Gold Award Girl Scouts. Eligible scouts should contact their scout leaders or they may obtain further inform ation at www bsa scouting.org/nesa or www girlscouts.org, or they may co n tact the scholarship chairperson at their local Elks Lodge Eligible scouts are reminded applications must be filed in a timely manner The Elks are also offering scholarships ranging up to $4000 per year for the children o f deceased or totally incapacitated Elks members. Those funds are possible for eligible students under the age of 23, are full time undergraduate students, unmarried and are based on financial need The deadline for those applications is between July 1 and Dec 31 of each year Eligible persons should co n tact the scholarship chairperson at the local Elks Lodge or David Crumley at (541) 756- 0719. BUCKNUM’S TAVERN Has Full Service Lottery OREGON LOTTERY Bucknum’s Tavern Main Street, Heppner ABOUT THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES NEWSPAPER News articles The Heppner Gazelle welcomes new s articles that are of inter est to the communities of lone. Lexington. Heppner and the sur rounding area You can submit \our article through mail. fax. email or bring it to our office (sec below under how to contact us). There is no charge for news articles, but if the article is a money making acti\ ily for a person or business other than a non profit or community sen ice organization, it must run as a paid advertisement. Advertisements There arc several different types of advertisements in the Hep pner Gazette Display ads arc the boxed ads that run throughout the news paper and arc charged for by the amount of space The larger the ad the more it cost. Photos and graphics may be used in display ads. 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OR 97816 Office address 188 Willow St The O regon D epartm ent o f Fish and Wildlife today announced a series o f town hall meetings to accept public comment on proposals to update the state’s mule deer and elk management objectives Management ob jectiv es are used by biologists to help guide harvest managem ent decisions related to herd health, habitat, and wildlife damage to property The proposals call for changes to reflect im proved population information, long-term or permanent changes in habitat availability and changes in the amount o f property damage th ro u g h o u t O re g o n ’s 67 W ildlife M anagement Units. The management objectives for deer were last updated in 1992. Elk managem ent objectives were updated in 1994 ODFW biologists will explain p roposed m anagem ent objective revisions at the following m eetings scheduled statewide between Feb 10 and March 10, with local meetings to be held Heppner: Thursday, Feb 24, 7-9 p m , ODFW Heppner District Office, 54173 Hwy. 74, 2 miles north o f H eppner (old Kinzua Mill office); Pendleton: Thursday, Feb 24, 3-7 p m., (open house form at), Pendleton C onvention Center, 1601 Westgate The proposed management objectives will be presented to the Oregon Fish and W ildlife Commission for approval at the May 13 meeting in Prineville Interested individuals are invited to offer comments in writing or they may testify before the Commission at the meeting in Prineville. W ritten comments can be mailed to ODFW Wildlife Division, 3406 Cherry Ave N.E., Salem OR 97303-4924 Geography Bee held at HES HES Geography Bee contestants: (Front Row L-R): Michael Hawks, Shane Smith, Des in Robinson anil Donald Matthews; (Back Row L-R): Nick kempas, Joe Armato, Stefanie Schuler, Sarah Kendrick, Justin Gutierrez, Eric C hick and Wills Gentry. Photo by Sands Matthews HES students reach with caring hands HES Gcngraphy Bee svinner Justin Gutierrez ssith teachers Jannie Allen antl Karen Smith-Griffith. Photo tn Sands Matthews Teacher Jannie Allen with kindergarten student, Jerem iah Jackson Vogele, 6, who donated a baggie full of pennies to help with aid in Southeast Asia. boy brought all he had to Christmas is usually a time when children are very consum ed with themselves . new toys to play with and a vacation from school But things changed in a drastic way on Dec. 26 as the world watched the news in horror following the earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia When the young people returned to school on Jan 3, the pictures and staggering numbers had touched everyone deeply and the whole school family wanted to do something to help Coffee cans were covered with newspaper clippings o f the tragedy and colorful shiny stars were scattered across the articles A coffee can in a fifth-sixth grade classroom quickly started to fill, so another can was left at the office and a note was sent home in M onday folders letting parents know about the fundraiser A kindergarten student came with a baggie stuffed full with pennies and a few larger coins He was beaming from ear to ear and said that his dad had helped him fill the sack He may not know where Sri Lanka or Thailand are, but he knows he can do something to help the children Another young give, 27 cents Some students used some of their Christm as money, while others returned cans and bottles to the store and brought in the refund money Others visited with their families about the tragedy and brought donations from their parents. The money came steadily and the older students started reading the newspaper and watching the TV to see which movie starts and “ other rich peo p le” donated to the cause There were many good discussions about the kind “rich people” that helped out and the students decided on their own that Sandra Bullock is their favorite actress and Leonardo DiCaprio is their favorite actor. After an ad on Channel 3, com m unity members even stopped by the school with donations and two $100 checks were added to the cans The final total of money collected was approxim ately $646. A check for that amount will be sent this week to Mercy Corps in Portland, who has been on the scene from day one and continues their efforts yet The community of Heppner has the right to be very proud of their young people with big hearts G lobes lined the stage and red, white and blue balloons flew' high as the 12 young geographers from Heppner Elementary School com peted in the annual Geography Bee The Bee, which is sponsored by the National G eographic Society, was held Thursday, Jan 13 in the school’s gym Students in grades 3-6 attended as well as parents and well-wishers from the community. All of the geography wizards were students in grades five and six and they were Donald Matthews, Justin Gutierrez, lan Murray, Eric Chick, Devin Robinson, Stephanie Schuler, Sarah Kendrick, Shane Smith, Willy Gentry, Joe Armato, Michael Hawks and Nick Kempas Reading questions for the competition was H E S ’s 5-6 grade social students teacher, Karen Smith-Griffith and Jannie Allen served as score and time keeper The prelim inary round of seven questions for each student narrowed the field to five competitors- Hawks, Gutierrez, Chick, Kendrick and Kempas Following three questions, there were two young men left to vie for the medal, Kempas and Gutierrez In the championship round, all answers are written as both contestants receive the same questions The new National G eographic Society C ham pion is Justin Gutierrez, with Kempas a worthy runner-up Gutierrez will take a written test, which is sent to Washington. D C to the Society. If he scores high enough on the test, he will be invited to compete at the Oregon State Fair Following the contest, contestants and their families were treated to cookies from around the world, which were baked by the staff members of HES C ookies from Israel, England, Sweden, Norway, Mexico, Denmark, Italy and Scotland provided a global air to the reception When asked how the Bee was from a contestant’s point o f view, one o f the students replied, “It was kind of scary, but I was so glad I knew some of the answers The cookies and jelly beans were really good too ” Each participant received a ja r of jellybeans red, white and blue, of course 1« K M ****** B A R B F C IF F A PF. R T Â Ë & S P *. ) L o t t ’s E l e c t r i c 3 69 N M a m St Heppner Trurgrr IlnoH r flirt tirili* (5 4 1 )6 7 6 -5 8 1 1 Introducing our N E W TurnArountTu P rogram You choose the approach that fits you best: No C o u nting Plan I Literacy partnership to hold meeting in Pendleton Flexible P O IN T S I Plan FREE R E G IS TR A TIO N FOR MEETINGS. Pay only the weekly fees The Eastern Oregon Reading Foundation and the Take-Off program would like to invite all organizations and individuals interested in literacy to a partnership meeting on Jan 26, at 7 p m The meeting will be held at the Umatilla-Morrow ESD in Pendleton If you or your organization is interested in helping children become better readers, please join us The meeting will consist of sharing what different organizations are doing to help promote reading and how we can work together to reach all children in Umatilla and Morrow counties For more information contact Kay Dallman, Executive Director, Eastern Oregon Reading Foundation at (541) 966-3160 or kay dallman@umesd k 12 or us Call 1 800 651 6000 or Click WeightWatchers com for more information Call 1-800-651-6000 for times Free Registration until March 5, 2005 HERMISTON: Hermiston Senior Center • 435 W Orchard PENDLETON First Christian Church • 215 N Main St HEPPNER Heppner Methodist Church • 175 W Church St Vahd through March 5 2005 at partiapafcng m ating locabons Not vabd for A l Wort mertngs or O rÉ nt subacnplon products 02004 W wght C atchers International Inc A ll ngfits rw«cv«l W EIGHT W ATCHERS and POINTS d fradem ar* s of W#»<#it W atchers tatem alonal Inc I {
