TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 21,2005
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Cardinal Booster Club
Cardinal Booster Club met Monday, Dec. 5, at the
school library. Betty Gray reported on the progress made
for the jo int Ione-H eppner booster club dinner. The
committees met to plan the menu and dinner times. Besides
the $ 1500 donation from Morrow County Grain Growers,
the committee is guessing each club will have to provide
$500 toward dinner expenses. The salad will be donated
by C ollier’s Market. The committee will meet again
December 15 at 6 p.m. in Lexington.
The club is planning a community workday to paint
the school cafeteria. Painting will begin at 9 a.m. on
December 27 and continue the next few days as needed.
Volunteers, who are asked to bring paint supplies, are
needed for this school improvement project.
The Basketball Bonanza held in lone was a success,
according to sponsors. Arlynda Gates was recognized for
her work organizing the concessions and tjie hospitality
room, which was hosted by Wheatland Insurance and the
Bank of Eastern Oregon. Dobyns Pest Control made a
donation toward pizza costs. Helen Heideman supplied
numerous pies for the weekend. C ollier’s Market and
M ike’s Mobile Slaughter offered the club considerable
discounts to keep food costs at a minimum. Club members
voted to give $20 gift certificates to school cook Kay
Alldritt, and custodians Kelly Griffith and Adena Johnson
to thank them for their support. It was suggested in the
fixture the club feed the visiting boys’ championship teams
before they depart on. Saturday night.
Superintendent Bryn Browning asked for money
to help keep admission costs down for students attending
“The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” in Hermiston
Monday, December 12. The club agreed to provide up to
$2 each as needed for the 125 students.
It was reported the community band has started
practice and will play at the first home game in January.
Karen Padberg will be asked to organize sack meals to
give the visiting teams as they depart from all Hone games.
The club discussed various ways to thank businesses
for their support of lone Community School. It was agreed
the club could print programs with lone girls and boys’
teams printed inside and business ads on the back. Visiting
team rosters could be inserted each week. Browning will
talk to Cathy McCabe about making a program for this
year.
Certificates of recognition will also be sent to
businesses at the end of the school year. It was suggested
lone logo merchandise be sold at the Bank of Eastern
Oregon as well as Sunflower Junction. The next meeting
of the Cardinal Booster Club will be Monday, January 2,7
p.m. at the school library.
Ballroom dance lessons begin
Ballroom dancing lessons for all ages will begin
Jan. 5, at the Morrow County Fairgrounds Annex, 7 p.m.
Thursdays and or Saturdays for $10 a lesson or those
interested may buy a package or couples pack for a
discounted rate. Drop ins are welcome.
Instructor Jodi Chappa is offering a New Year’s
Special for those who register before the first lesson in
January the fee will be 5 lessons for $45 with the sixth
lesson free.
Lessons begin Jan. 5 and are offered every Thursday
and Saturday through Feb. 4. Students will learn the Rumba,
Salsa, Waltz, Jitterbug, Rumba/Waltz Combo, and Salsa/
Jitterbug Combo.
Call Chappa at 676-8161 to sign up for classes.
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cost o f $10.
Keep our community clean in 2006
To the Editor:
F rien d s, re la tiv e s
and travelers who come to
our area frequently comment
on how clea n and nice
looking our com m unities
are.
T h is litte r free
appearance of our streets,
roads, and highways is an
asse t, w hich serv es to
encourage people to return
to our area and to consider
moving here.
A
good tow n
appearance doesn’t happen
by itself. It takes a lot of
people working together to
keep o u r ro ad w ay s and
n e ig h b o rh o o d s in good
shape.
The Department of
Transportation Litter Pick
up
P ro g ram s
are
instrumental in collecting
and disposing of roadside
trash . T he Youth L itter
Patrol and the A dopt-a-
H ighw ay L itter P ick-up
Program are activities, which
accomplish a great deal in
behalf of maintaining our
good appearance.
C h ristm a s E!ve.
H ave a. v ery M erry C h ristm as !
A lso, the M orrow
County ordnance-requiring
containment of solid waste
d e liv e red to the county
transfer stations supports the
effort to keep our roadways
litter free. The penalty for
not covering loads going to
the transfer stations gives
citizens a good reason for
tarping loads of solid waste.
Recently I was in the
Hillsboro-Forest Grove area
of Washington County. The
quantity of roadside trash
along the Tualatin Valley
Highway was appalling. We
do not want to look like that.
So, I encourage us
all to continue making an
effort to keep our streets,
roads and highways looking
good in 2006.
(s) John Edmundson
Heppner
Tax advantage for charitable
donation for needy companion pets
To the Editor:
In th is Season o f
Giving and year-end closing,
there still is time to double
the benefit of your gift to
b e n efit o ur needy four-
legged friends.
The positive fallout
from H u rrican e K atrin a
resulted in Congress passing
a one-time only incentive to
help prevent a drop-off in
local charitable giving. As a
re su lt, cash g ifts given
through Dec. 31 of this year
to your favorite non-profit
humane organization qualify
for a 100% deduction from
adjusted gross income, up
from 50% in past years.
F or
sure,
not
everyone is in the position
with sufficient income to
take full advantage of this
special tax break; but, there
still is the tax sav in g s
ad v an tag e p o ten tial o f
jum ping down to a lower
bracket with your donation
before the end of the year.
W h atev er y o u r tax in g
position, you can feel great
about making that special
donation, no m atter how
large or how small, for the
benefit of our four-legged
and feath ered friends in
need.
W ith rising costs,
escalating utility rates, and
increasing service demands,
all local humane non-profit
organizations are short on
adequate funding. So, for the
sake of the needy pets and
their care, please consider a
special donation yet this year
to assist your local shelter
and pet rescue groups. For
more information on how
you can help, ju s t call:
Pioneer Humane Society at
276-0181 or 1-866-486-
2631, E astern O regon
Humane Society/Pet Rescue
of Hermiston at 564-6222,
A nim al W elfare A lliance
League at 567-1868, PETS
of Milton-Freewater at 938-
4711, and Blue Mountain
Wildlife at 377-8246.
A nd, fo r all who
have not yet done so, please
commit to donating just a
nickel a day (that is only
$18.25 for the year) to the
Pioneer Hum ane Society
Anim al Shelter B uilding
Fund to care for the needy
companion pets of the region
- donations can be made at
any branch of Banner Bank
or
via
P ayP al
at
www.pioneerhumanesociety.ag.
(s) Jerry
Gildemeister
LaGrande
The Board of Directors of Morrow County
Health District would like to thank the following
employees and volunteers for their time
and assistance in conducting our local
Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Workshops:
Employees
Elizabeth Peterson
Diana Grant
Darla Vandever
Victor Vander Does
Kathy Skinner
Terry Anderson, PA-C
Sheryl Angell
Sheridan Tamasky, PA-C
Robanai Disque
Molly Rhea
Debbie Peck
Delia Robinson
Nicole Mahoney
Toma Adams
Donna Schonbachler
Betty Hickerson
Janine Homan
Working
Together?
To the Editor:
Harney County has
recently settled the passage
of the school bond of Nov.
2005. The same issues of no
fu n d in g
fo r
sch o o ls
necessitated this bond issue
as it has in most communities
across Oregon. Now it is
time to analyze where we, as
com m unities and a state
need to go from here.
Whether I talk to one who
ty p ic a lly su p p o rts or
opposes school bonds, I do
not know anyone who does
not support our kids as the
future of our communities.
During and before
the bond issue campaign I
was asked to sit down with
a re p re se n ta tiv e o f the
school board and discuss the
bond issue and my position
on it. I told that b o ard
member on both occasions,
I support almost anything
that is a lasting benefit to our
kids. I also stated that this
community has always stood
behind its youth in many
ways but the community as
a whole is in deep financial
strife. We discussed that we
all remember when all of our
schools and roads expenses
were paid for by natural
resource production, more
specifically in the Harney
area, timber production.
The private sector of
our and many communities
believes, rightly or wrongly,
that our schools currently
teach o p p o sitio n to the
redevelopment of the natural
resource industries which
fueled the high quality of
Oregon schools of the past
and also fueled the entire
economy of rural America.
Without question, some of
this perception is true but I
do not know the depth of this
position among individual
educators here or across the
state. In this case, as in most,
p erception overrides the
reality without honest and
open communication of fact.
In light of that, I suggested
to the board member that a
m essag e from our local
school teachers and the OEA
stating their support for the
natural resource industries
that supported their students
and their paychecks should
be done. In this way the
educators could, in intent
and philosophy, give back to
the community from which
it is asking support. A simple
trade, support for support.
That suggestion fell on deaf
or incapacitated ears, as no
le tte r o r su g g estio n o f
u n d e rstan d in g o f the
community’s perception was
presented by any education
group.
Thanks to their huge
capacity for supporting their
kids, H arney C ounty
narrowly passed the school
bond. T he sym ptom is
treated but the disease of a
failing economy lives on. We
did not lose our rural natural
reso u rce
in d u strie s
overnight and we can not
gain them back overnight.
However, unless we want to
become a totally socialized
econom y,
we
m ust
strengthen the private sector
economic base job by job. In
rural Oregon, unequivocally,
this means natural resource
re d e v elo p m e n t. A step
tow ard
h elp in g
this
redevelopment would be for
each o f you, and, doubly
im p o rtan t, each teacher,
te a c h e r’s
group
and
education administrator to
write and call our Federal
C o n g ressm en
and
C ongressw om en and tell
them and your community
th at
you
su p p o rt
C o n g ressm an W ald en ’s
Forest Emergency Recovery
and R esearch A ct (HR
4200). This bill is a step
toward smart utilization of
our forests, after fire, which
will help our timber industry
su stain its e lf and o u r
communities.
Educators sending
this message would help bind
the education system to the
payers of private sector tax
d o lla rs w hich su p p o rt
education until we can regain
sensible multiple use of our
forests and add to the tax
coffers instead o f taking
from them.
(s)Tim Smith
Harney County
Keep the faith
To the Editor:
The ed ito r o f the
Weekly Gazette has asked
for the local church clergy to
write something about the
Christmas season. Although
I am not a local clergy nor is
this specific to Christmas I
would like to write about
Faith and Success.
You see it is easier to
write about success than it
is to have faith that God
succeeds in my failures,
p erh ap s b ecau se o f my
fa ith fu ln e ss. T h a t’s a
paradox o f the G ospel -
success is not in the product
but in the process, faith. If I
knew I had to succeed at
everything, I would never
begin.
I fail everyday. There
is always more to do than
time or my abilities allow,
and there are always those
who are disappointed in
what I do. But, I sleep nights
and get up to do it again
tomorrow. I call that Faith.
It is n ’t faith to
b eliev e in good w hen
success abounds. Faith, you
see, is belief in good when
good efforts appear to have
failed. To have that may be
the only true success there
is.
As you hustle and
bustle this Christmas season
and are feeling low because
you can’t seem to do it all,
remember your faith.
W ishing You and
Yours - Faith this Holiday
Season
(s) Dr. Diann Nagel
Heppner
Cardinal Booster
club schedules
meeting
The next meeting of
Cardinal Booster club will be
Monday, Jan. 2,7 p.m. at the
lone C om m unity School
library.
We w o u ld lik e t o say a h ig T H A N K Y O U to
a ll o f o u r C u s to m e rs , C lie n ts , F rie n d s a n ti
F a m ily f o r h e lp in g us s u rv iv e th is la s t year.
The Board also thanks the District’s remaining
employees who covered fo r the above named co-workers
so they could assist with the workshops.
We w is h y o u a v e ry M e r r y C h r is tm a s a n d
Volunteers
a n d F rie n d s th r o u g h th e H o lid a y s .
T aylor'« R esta u ra n t, lo n e
w ill c lo se at 4 p.m . on
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Becky Cherry
John Murray. RPh
Nancy Vander Does
Ray Michael. RPh
For additional assistance with Medicare Part
Prescription Plan information, contact our help desk
(541) 676-9133 or 1-800-737-4113.
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