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
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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
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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.