TWO • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 28,2005
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E nter the scarecrow contest
Grab your straw and broom and start sweeping your
creative ideas into a pile. It’s time to begin stuffing your
flannel shirts and jeans. 'The annual Harvest Scarecrow
Happening is about to begin. You can register your
scarecrow at the Heppner Chamber of Commerce by Oct.
1. Come in to register and pick up your number. We hope
to see all businesses with a welcoming scarecrow to greet
visitors throughout the month of October. Anyone is
welcome to participate- schools, individuals and businesses.
If you’d like your scarecrow to be more visible, ask a local
business for permission to display your entry. Recognized
categories this year include: Most Welcoming, Most Unique
and The Biggest and Best.
Update on Sager family in Africa
I Editor's Note: Following is an
e-mail letter from kelly Sager
in Africa to Harley Sager. It is
an update on how the Sager
family is doing in Rwanda,
Africa as they continue their
mission work there.)
A good afternoon to
one and all. I am flying solo
today. Laura is spending the
day working with orphans in
Butare, which leaves me in
charge of six kids. It is only
1 p.m. and I am already tired.
The power has been off all
day so 1 can’t use the TV/
DVD to entertain them. I
will definitely be ready for
afternoon naps. Kooper,
Darby and I made a couple
of trips downtown today to
get our TV fixed. The kids
have come a long ways with
going downtown. Today,
Darby requested to sit in the
car while I went into the
shop.
She
is
now
comfortable staying alone
and reading a book. It used
to be they were scared to
death to be downtown even
with us in the car. They truly
have adjusted to life in
Africa. What once appeared
to be strange and unusual has
become a normal, everyday
occurrence, i.e. people with
severe disabilities, children
asking to guard the car,
people begging or trying to
sell you the strangest things.
It is not my habit to buy
underwear from a guy on the
street, but I am frequently
asked to.
Recently I have been
familiarizing myself with the
Kigali public transportation
system. It has been a learning
experience in many ways. I
am seeing Kigali and its
people from a totally
different perspective. Up
close and personal. The taxis
are 12 passenger vans but
they try to put as many
people as they can inside one
of them. It is a great way to
practice my Ikenyarwanda as
I literally have a captive
crowd. In addition to riding
the van taxis, I have also
ridden m otorcycle and
bicycle taxis. My favorite so
far has been the bicycle. You
ride along at a leisurely pace
while someone else does the
peddling. Reminds me of
when I used to peddle the
bike while my brother sat
behind me. Because I was
older he always got to ride
while I peddled my legs off.
I get lots o f stares and
comments from everyone.
One person shouted “There
goes a poor muzungu,” as I
was on a bike rather than
driving my own car. I have
seen very few white people
on bike taxis so it must have
been quite the site to see me
going down the street.
My language skills
have improved over the past
few months. I can now carry
on a simple conversation for
20-30 minutes as long as I
am controlling what is talked
about. As soon as someone
starts talking outside of my
narrow window they lose me
very quickly. In spite of my
gains I have a long, long,
long ways to go.
The kids are great.
They still enjoy attending
their one room school house
and swimming every Friday
with friends. All have
become quite proficient in
the water. Grayse turned a
year old on Sept. 12. She has
been a blessing to our family.
She is w alking and
developmentally on target in
all areas.
I am traveling to
Nairobi, Kenya at the end of
this month. I will be there for
a week seeing a variety of
medical specialists- Internist,
optom etrist
and
d erm atologist.
Those
hamburgers, French fries and
potato chips from my youth
aje beginning to catch up to
me. My prayer is that I will
come home with a clean bill
o f health or at least
medications that will get me
there.
We are excited about
Peg Willis from Pendleton
visiting us next month. She
taught the girls fiddle/violin
when we were in the states.
She will be with us for three
weeks. We have her schedule
booked full. In addition to
working with the girls on
fiddle and Brick on
mandolin, she will be visiting
orphanages, seeing the
mountain gorillas and seeing
much of what Rwanda has
to offer to visitors.
My
com puter
battery is running low so I
will close. Come see us. We
would love to show you
around this place. For those
fellow Duck fans - be sure
to keep me posted on how
they are doing. It is hard to
be so far away from college
football during this time of
year.
(s) Kelly Sager
Rwanda, Africa
Card party to be
held at Rebekah
Lodge
The Holly Rebekah
Lodge will be hosting a
monthly pinochle card party
on Saturday, Oct. 1 in
Lexington at the IOOF Hall.
Play will start at 7 p.m.
For only $5, a person
will have an evening of
cards,
visiting
and
sandw iches, chips and
snacks to eat while playing.
Prizes will be awarded to the
high man, high woman, low
man, low woman and two
traveling prizes.
Lottery profits helped fund the 0SU
College of Veterinary Medicine.”
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