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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 9,2005 - THREE Heppner RV Travel Group complete summer of travel Scholastic Fall Book Fair a success Pictured left to right: Gary & Doris Jones, Ed & Gracie Baker; Franklin & Norma Jean Miles, Dexter & Corrine Miles, John & Nella Britt, Dick & Lynnea Sargent, Dick & Sharon Jones, Paul & June Jones, Ned & Kathy Clark (not pictured). The H ep p n er RV Travel Group has completed an active sum m er travel season. The group made several trips to interesting re c re a tio n a l spots th ro u g h o u t O regon & Washington. In May the group traveled to Hood Park, WA. A Corp. of Engineer Park located at the mouth of the Snake River, SE of Pasco at a real nice park for 4 days of R&R. A ten day mystery trip took the group to southeastern Oregon, Steens M o u n tain s, W h iteh o rse Ranch, Silver City, Idaho, Owyhee Reservoir Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, U nity Lake, Sum pter, & home. A ugust found travelers at Elk Meadows lo cated in H u ck leb erry country on the southern base o f Mt. A dam s. Here p a rtic ip a n ts picked Huckleberries, toured the fo re ste d area along the W hite Salmon River, ate great pizza, drank huckleberry shakes, had a potluck, and rode bicycles on forest trails. September the group traveled to Leavenw orth, WA, where the group spend four days doing fall festival activities - watching street entertainm ent, shopping, attending a parade, eating (L-R) Maidens Lacey Thompson, Stacee Halvorsen and Julianne Carlson display their more ice cream, attending favorite books. potlucks, and telling stories around the campfires. The group enjoyed many new and fun places to explore. The mystery trip gave participants material for a great co llectio n of photographs and stories. Now for the most part the RV’s are put away for the winter and group members can reflect on their great time together. The winter months are spent planning for the next summer of adventure. 5th Quarter event planned at Heppner Elks; proceeds to fund reader board The Elks Club will soon have a new electric re a d e r board on th e ir building on Main Street in Heppner. The 5lh Quarter, a special function to help fund the reader board, will be held at the Elks on Saturday, N o v em b er 19, a fte r the Heppner High School home playoff game. The evening will include a salmon bake and ham dinner available for $15 each, beginning at 6:30 p.m., prize draw ings and entertainment by Dan Bums 3-D P ro d u ctio n s. The com m unity is invited to attend. The $8,000 reader board project will provide up to six or seven announcements of special community events, including notices of high school sports events. The fund raisin g effort is headed up by Josh and Melissa Coiner. Raffle tickets will be sold at the Elks. Prizes include a $675 Phoenix barbecue with non flare stainless convection, donated by Kenny Turner, a C ivil W ar re p lic a black powder pistol, and a one-day Do you hove pheasant hunt for two at the Todd Lindsay ranch. Raffle tickets are $2 each and six for $10. T he salm on was donated for the second year in a row by Keith Presky, a long-time hunter from the Portland area. The re a d er board project received $2,500 from (L-R) Teachers Brandi Orem, Linda Neiffer, Barb Collin and Michelle Stone receive the Tippage Fund. their wish list books from Cathy Halvorsen. Brandon Seitz graduates from boot cam Brandon graduated from boot camp on Oct. 21 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He is currently attending Technical School as a T echnical O rd in an ce A p p ren tice. Brandon will remain there until his training is complete in 3-4 months when he will be transferred to Langley AFB in Virginia. Brandon is a 2004 H ep p n er H igh School g rad u ate. He w ill be returning home Dec. 22-Jan. 3 for a brief visit. Anyone wishing to contact him can write to him at the following address: AB Brandon T. Seitz 6291 710 E.Ave. #14218 Shepphard AFB, TX 76311-3472 all ¡I h ’ advantages? Brandon Seitz Media Specialist and event organizer, Cathy Halvorsen, poses with the book fair mascot. Justice court Justice court at the Morrow County courthouse in Heppner has released the following information: Philip Stickney, 47, Hood River, Borrowing a buck deer tag. Exceeding the bag limit of buck deer, $157 and $159 fine respectively. G e o f f r e y R o seb ro o k , 41, B oring, Discharging firearm from a public road, $159 fine. C o m m u n i t y members of lone along with parents and students entered the Kingdom of Reading on Nov. 2 and 3 in the lone Com m unity School gym, which was organized by Cathy Halvorsen. the school media specialist. Dragons adorned the w alls w hile maidens in long gowns and crowns assisted book buyers young and old. Each classroom in grades K-5 receiv ed ap p ro x im ately $250 in books from their wish lists and total sales from V A C X JX JM Some people seem to have all the advantages. It’s true in life. It’s true in financial services. We are constantly updating our portfolio of services to find new ways to save you money, increase your earnings on investments, as well as make banking more convenient. Are your services up-to-date? Stop in and see us today. We can review your lineup of services and make sure you’re taking full advantage of what we have to offer. ALL MAKES, SALES, SERVICE, REPAIR Bags and Belts Financing Available Celebrate the spirit o f your hometown! Bank of Member FDIC 750 Hermiston Ave. Suite 1 (In new location down tho atroot noxt to G oodw ill) 541 -567-8138 the book fair neared $2,500. a percentage of the final total will be returned to the lone C om m unity School lib rary in the form o f ad d itio n al books by the Scholastic Book company. Thank you to all the parent and community volunteers who help ed create the Kingdom of Reading. LaRue named to BEO board of directors L in d a K. L aR ue, Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer at Bank o f E a s te rn O regon, has been namedto t h e Board of Directors o f Bank o f E a s te rn O re g o n and BEO Linda LaRue Bancorp, its holding company, at a recen t board m eeting according to Chairman of the Board, Ned Clark. “We are delighted to have Linda join the board. Linda has attended board meetings for some time as the Board Secretary and we have com e to value her insights and opinions in a variety of areas. Adding her to the board is a natural extension of the trust and confidence we have in her abilities,” said Clark. LaRue started her banking career in 1974 as a part time teller in the branch system . She has held a v ariety of p o sitio n s culminating with her being nam ed to h er c u rre n t position in the organization in 1996. She has been a leader in banking circles in Oregon for some time and was elected to the Oregon Bankers Association Hall of Fame in 2004. L aR ue, and h er h usband. D el, a re tire d educator, have lived in lone for the past 34 years. They have three grown children and nine grandchildren.
