Tri-County Shrine Club honors players
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Bessie Wetzel 1 Newspaper i ihri v
University o f Oregon
Eugene. OR 97403
Area Shrine football
players and alternates, Tyler
Boyer, Nick Christman and
Brandon Seitz were honored
with a prime rib dinner at
John’s Place by area Shriners
this past Thursday, May 12
Coaches Greg Grant, Dale
H olland, sp o u ses and
families joined them
Ric Sherm an o f
Hermiston, past East-West
Shrine G am e C hairm an,
spoke to attendees, as did
Dick Crist o f Pendleton
C rist re p re se n te d the
P o ten tate o f A1 K adar
Temple
The annual E ast-
West Shrine Game will be
played in Baker City on Aug
6, 2005 at Bulldog Memorial
Stadium A block o f tickets
is being held and may be
obtained by contacting ticket
ch air G ene O rw ick. All
t
(L-R): First pick Tyler Boyer and alternates Brandon Seitz
and Nick Christman.
proceeds from the game go
toward the Shriners Hospital
and Burn C enter to treat
children Today, that cost is
$20 per second, seven days
a week
“ Local Shriners will
be contacting businesses and
individuals for advertising in
the Shrine Game program, as
they have done in the past,”
said
M erlin
H ughes,
president o f the Tri-County
Shrine Club “The Club and
the players appreciate the
community support for the
children in the S hrin ers
Hospital and Burn Center,”
said Hughes
Three HHS tracksters qualify for state
VOL. 124
NO. 20
16 Pages
Wednesday, May 18,2005
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
lone Schools honored for achievements
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The lone School
B oard learned at their
regular m eeting M onday
night th a t the
lone
Community School was the
recipient o f a $2,000 grant
to
fund
p arent and
com m unity involvem ent
activities (see story May 11
Gazette-Times).
The board also
learned that lone Schools
aide Cathy Halvorsen and
teacher Linda NeifFer were
the re c ip ien ts o f the
Umatilla-Morrow Education
Service D istrict’s Crystal
Apple Award for excellence
in ed u catio n . The lone
Community School received
the Holes Memorial Award
for “taking learning outside
o f the c lassro o m and
creatin g a program that
serves the community ” ICS
teacher Duane Neiffer and
the greenhouse crew were
honored for the school’s
greenhouse project.
stipulations Students taking
In other business, the the courses must be juniors
board:
or seniors, must have their
-ap p ro v ed
the p a re n ts ’
and
school
second reading and adopted ad m inistrator’s approval,
criteria for special academic and must be self motivated
re c o g n itio n
(se lec tin g and have time to complete
v aled icto rian ).
Som e the work successfully. If the
courses, such as physics, student does not complete
trig o n o m e try /a d v a n c e d the course successfully, the
algebra, chemistry, calculus,
advanced placement courses continued page two
and Spanish 3, will be
weighted
-learned that Nick
Christman, Barbara Holland
and Tyler Raible will be
T u esd ay , M ay 17, 2 0 0 5 - M o rro w C o u n ty
honored as this y e a r’s
Unofficial results
Contested positions only
v a le d ic to ria n s,
each
achieving a 4.0 grade point
average
MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT Position 2
-approved the first
John Murray
reading o f a d istan ce
Margaret Hollandsworth
ed u catio n /co lleg e cred it
policy. The d istric t has
MORROW COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT Position 2
approximately $5,000 for
John Renfro
students to pay for college
and distance ed classes for
Nancy Vander Does
stu d en ts, w ith certain
MORROW COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT Position 3
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his will a monetary gift to
Valby for the renovation o f
the parish hall, Sunday
school rooms, hallway and
kitchen. With the gift, the
project has been completed
with great appreciation from
the members o f Valby.
John was the son of
Mr and Mrs. Vick Peterson
o f The Dalles Vick was a
brother to Henry Peterson of
the Valby area John spent
many o f his younger years
working in the harvest fields
in the lone area and found
Valby to be an attraction that
led him to an internment at
Valby
A second dedication
o f the day was on behalf o f
the late “ B ud” Lundell.
Lundell and his brothers,
Wally and Raymond, were
born and raised in the
G o o seb erry area and
attended Valby as young
men The boys were the sons
o f A lgott and B eulah
Lundell
Lundell joined the
service during World War II
until he w as ho n o rab ly
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Matt Van Cleave and Shanna Rietmann
meter dash His preliminary
mark o f 11 43 seconds on
Friday ties him for 10th
overall individual effort at
HHS and was a personal
record Boyer also placed
fifth in the long jump with a
leap o f 18 feet \ - V a inches
and was on the third placed
400-meter relay team
Shanna R ietm ann
ran to a fourth place in the
girls’ 100-meter dash and
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Valby holds confirmation
and dedications
P a sto r
Ron
Zschoche, interim pastor o f
Valby L utheran C hurch,
conducted a special day of
dedications and celebration
o f confirmation on Sunday,
May 15
Cory Peterson, son
o f Rick and Anita Peterson,
completed a two-year course
on Lutheran doctrine and
Biblical study of both the Old
and New Testament The
confirmation gives Peterson
full m em bership with all
rights and privileges o f the
L u th eran
C hurch
A
reception followed in the
newly renovated parish hall
at Valby
M any friends and
relativ es o f P eterso n
a tten d ed the rite o f
confirmation from Portland,
The D alles and v a rio u s
points o f Central Oregon
A lso o f special
interest o f the day included
tw o
d ed icatio n s
An
engraved stone plaque was
p resen ted
to
Eunice
Peterson o f Tucson, AZ, on
behalf o f her late husband,
John Peterson John left in
H ep p n er
High
School tracksters completed
the 2005 season last Friday
and Saturday, May 13 and
14, by com peting in the
D istrict 7 2A m eet at
Sherm an C ounty High
School T hree a th le tes
qualified for this weekend’s
state 2A meet at Western
O reg o n U n iv ersity in
Monmouth.
M att Van C leave
w on the trip le jum p at
district with a leap o f 40 feet
8-V2 inches to earn a trip to
state He had a season’s best
earlier o f 41 feet 9 inches,
w hich is the sixth best
individual effort ever at
HHS. Van Cleave placed
sixth in the shot put with a
toss o f 39 feet 9-3A inches, a
season’s best and ran on the
third place 400-meter and
1600-meter relay teams.
Tyler Boyer sprinted
to a second place finish and
qualifying effort in the 100-
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met the
qualifying
s ta n d a rd
of 1348
seconds
and a trip
to state
She also
ran the
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Chris Rauch
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Patricia Furgerson
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Daniel Creamer
Jerry Healv
BOARDMAN CEMETERY DISTRICT (2 positions)
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