Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - FIVE
Heppner teacher awarded
Crystal Apple
Wranglers winners and participants Chamber Chatter
B\ C laudia Hughes, Exec. Dir.
(L-R): 8 and 9 year old winners and participants: Tied for I'1-
Blake Greenup, Bobbie Correa, 2"d- Garrett Robinson, 4“- Ryan
Dougherty, Meeka Boyd and Maggie Collins. Not pictured: 3rd-
place Tate Gentry and participant Steven Thompson. Photo h\
Nancy Jepsen
[Editor’s note: The pictures
o f the 8 and 9 year old
winners and participants and
Most Improved were
missing from last week's
Wrangler’s article ]
Overall winners in
the 8 and 9 year old category
for the Wrangler’s Riding
Club inlcuded: tied for 1st-
Bobbie Correa and Blake
Greenup, 2nd- Garrett
Robinson, 3rd- Tate Gentry
and 4th- Ryan Doughtery
Bobbie Correa o f
Echo received the award for
Most Improved
Bobbie
Correa-
Most
Improved. Photo by Angie Hughes
St. Patrick’s Senior Center news
United M ethodist
volunteers will be on hand
May 25 to serve at the senior
meal The menu is country
style pork ribs, scalloped
potatoes, green beans, Jell-
O with pineapple, corn bread
and birthday cake to
celebrate May birthdays.
At the current
meeting, the new brochures
will be reviewed for final
approval and arrangements
for new pictures to be taken,
which illustrate the various
activities at the Center.
Some new kitchen
utensils and coffee pots have
been purchased Others had
been burned out beyond
repair Included in the
purchases is a 100-cup urn
Plans are still underway for
purchase o f round tables for
the dining room
Eve Ironhawk is a
new office volunteer on duty
each Tuesday morning You
are invited to stop in to
welcome her to the staff o f
persons who keep the center
operating
Merchants to plan Celebrate
Historic Heppner
All
interested
Heppner merchants are
w elcom e to attend the
Heppner
Chamber
M erchants
Com m ittee
meeting on Wednesday, May
25 at 8 a m . at the
Cornerstone Gallery across
from Northwestern Motel.
Plans are underway for the
July 29-31 “Celebrate
Historic Heppner.”
The
com m ittee
meets the fourth Wednesday
o f every month to plan
marketing strategies and
upcom ing events for
Heppner During these
meetings, those present are
introduced to seminar
opportunities, em ployee
tips, ideas for building
Heppner
and
other
marketing information
“Alvin Liu, chair o f
the Merchants Committee, is
full o f energy and new ideas
for growing Heppner,” said
Claudia Hughes, executive
director o f the Heppner
Chamber Hughes also
believes that it’s the
networking and sharing o f
ideas by all o f Heppner
businesses that nets the most
successful results.
It’s truly weather for
ducks (and beavers) Even
so, visitors are starting to
take the opportunity to
travel the back roads. Many
want to leave the beaten
path, as did the couple from
Grants Pass who passed
through the Chamber office
today. Now we can say,
“Yes, the Blue Mountain
Scenic Byway is open ”
Then we tell them about the
museum,
historic
courthouse, the stores, flood
memorial, hunting, fishing,
golf course, water park and
ATVing If that d o esn ’t
convince them to spend a
while in Heppner, then they
are invited back for one o f
our Heppner Happenings
Visitors, marketing,
events and positive energy
are all a part o f the Heppner
Chamber o f Commerce
goals for 2005. In addition,
the Board puts a strong
em phasis on pro-active
legislation , relocation,
prom otion, events and
youth Whatever can be done
to diversify H eppner’s
economy to assist in keeping
and bringing in people and
jobs is on the Chamber target
list
Youth is identified as
being an important part o f
Chamber President Nancy
Gochnauer’s 2005 agenda
She has done some
interviews to learn what
youth would like to see
happen in this community
and continues to research
activities available here for
young people One wish
expressed was for a movie
theater. The Chamber is
looking into some ideas We
have appreciated having
input from the student
council during our First
Thursday All Entities Report
m eetings The youth o f
Heppner are our future and
are one o f the many reasons
numerous people are
working to create jobs in this
community.
On legislative and
community: Congressman
Greg Walden has been
visiting Eastern Oregon
communities and working on
solutions for the growing
meth addiction As more and
more is learned about meth,
one begins to see the
ongoing problems it causes
communities, businesses,
families and individuals One
wonders how we can make
a difference0 We need to set
exam ples to prove that
nature, laughing, caring,
kindness, friendship and
doing things for others is the
best kind o f high We need
to help people to feel good
about themselves and to not
give up We need to find
more activities to encourage
individual talents. It’s about
knowing and liking who you
are, putting your priorities in
the right places and then
giving life your best shot
Thought for the
Week: The following was a
quote from an article about
the dangers of meth, “Try me
once, I may let go; try me
twice, I own your soul ” Pass
it on.
Morrow County TSP update
meeting to be held in Irrigon
Local citizens and
interested parties are invited
to attend a Morrow County
Planning Commission Public
Hearing regarding the
Morrow
County
Transportation System Plan
(TSP) update, the c o
adoption o f city TSPs, and
the supporting proposed
changes to the county zoning
documents The meeting will
start at 7 p m on May 25 at
the
Stokes
Landing
Community Center located
at 195 NW Opal Place,
Irrigon
The county will
consider the adoption o f the
Morrow County TSP as well
as code revisions required to
implement the plan. The
updated TSP insures that the
cou n ty’s transportation
network will be able to serve
the entire county over the
next 20 years The proposed
code revisions include
clarifications for private road
standards, sight distance
requirem ents, site plan
review requirements, gravel
updated access management
standards for county roads,
and applicable access
management descriptions for
state highways The updated
TSP will also insure that the
county is consistent with the
requirements o f the State o f
Oregon Transportation
Planning Rule
The hearing will also
consider the co-adoption o f
the TSP for the cities o f
Irrigon,
Boardman,
L exington,
lone
and
Heppner
The community is
invited to attend and
comment about the current
and long-term transportation
needs, plans, and code
revisions for enhancing the
road system for everyone
who uses it.
If you are unable to
attend but want to share your
thoughts, please contact
Howard Roll at CTS
Engineers by telephone at
(503) 597-2903 or email at
hroll@ ctsengineers.com
Another contact is Joyce
Jackson at Mitchell Nelson
Group by mail, telephone, or
email Her address is 2116
NW Wilson Street, Portland,
Oregon, 97210 Her direct
phone line is (503) 225-
0822, ext 5 and her email
address is jlj@mngi com
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Cara Osmin
Cara Osmin, third grade teacher at Heppner
Elementary School, was honored with the Crystal Apple
award The Umatilla-Morrow Education Service District
presents the Crystal Apple award for excellence in
education
Osmin, along with 35 other education professionals
were honored May 11 at the Pendleton Red Lion
Van Liew to graduate with honors
Local
student activities such as Habitat for
Matthew Van Liew will be Humanity and the National
graduating from Stevens Kidney Foundation’s Walk in
Institu te
Central Park Van Liew
served as president and has
Technology r ■ ■ ■ b
been recognized on the
on May
national level by the
26. Van W
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fraternity.
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Van Liew is also
graduated B B i l jB active in several other
f r o m
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gm organizations. He js a
Heppner K V y 'M
brother o f the Sigma Nu
H >gh
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fraternity and active in the
School
K ■
Christian Fellowship and
American Culture Club
2000
One o f his latest projects
and left
was a steel bridge
Matthe« Van Lie«
for school
com petition
for
the
at Stevens in Hoboken, NJ. American Society o f Civil
Stevens is well Engineers (ASCE) where he
known amongst engineering was one o f the designers
c o lleg es and is located Student teams must design
directly across the Hudson and construct a 20 foot long
River from New York City. steel bridge capable o f
Interested in civil carrying over one ton o f
engineering and specifically weight Bridges are judged
structural design, Van Liew on several criteria including
enrolled in the co-operative assem bly
time
and
education program This is deflection Even though
a five-year program in which Stevens has not competed in
students take classes and recent years, they placed first
work
at
internships overall in the regional
alternating
sem esters com petition and first in
Through this program Van assembly time, load and cost
Liew had many interesting They will be com peting
internships, including one nationally over Memorial
where he worked on the Day weekend in Orlando,
Empire State Building He FL
will graduate magna cum
Van Liew was also a
laude with a 3 9 gpa and will recognized student leader on
be receiving both a campus He was elected as
bachelor’s and m aster’s president o f the student body
degree In recognition o f his government his junior year
accomplishments, he has and inducted onto the Gear
been inducted in to the and Triangle and Khoda
engineering
honor senior honor so cieties
fraternities o f Tau Beta Pi Through these groups he
worked with administration
and Chi Epsilon
Beyond his studies. and faculty to improve the
Van Liew has found time to Stevens’ campus.
After graduation,
give back to his community
During his freshman year, he Van Liew will be staying on
joined a co-ed community the east coast He has
service fraternity Alpha Phi accepted a position with
Group
Omega The fraternity is Washington
committed to community International and will be
service both on the campus residing in the Princeton, NJ
and in the local community area. There he will be a
Through the fraternity. Van structural engineer for their
Liew volunteered in many power plant division
Heppner resident graduates
from Boise State University
B oise
State
U niversity, the largest
university in Idaho, granted
degrees or certificates to
1608 students during its 75th
commencement ceremonies
on May 14 in Taco Bell
Arena, with President Bob
Kustra officiating
Krista L Adams, of
Heppner, was awarded a
bachelor o f arts degree in
mass
com m unication/
journalism
B oise
State
University is a four-year
public institution located in
Boise, ID Boise State is
Idaho’s
metropolitan
research university, located
in the state’s population
center and capitol city The
18,456-student university
offers
undergraduate,
graduate and technical
programs with more than
180 fields o f interest in eight
co lleg es.
For
more
inform ation,
visit
www boisestate edu
Al-Anon meetings to be held iii
Heppner
Weekly Al-Anon meetings will be held in Heppner
on Thursdays at Heppner Christian Church The meetings
will begin this Thursday. May 19 at 7:30 pm Heppner
Christian Church is located at 293 N Gale Street in
Heppner