TWO • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 25,2006
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Engagement
Lobell-Bates
Sheryll Lobell of
Portland and Dale Bates of
Heppner are pleased to
announce their engagement.
The bride-elect is the
daughter of Helen Black and
the late Roy Black of
Medford.
The groom-elect is
the son of Edward and
Lorraine Bates of Condon.
The couple plans for
a Saturday, April 29, 2006,
wedding in Portland.
Dale Bates and Sheryll Lobell
HHS cheerleaders to hold annual
dessert auction
The
Heppner
cheerleaders will be holding
their annual dessert auction
Tuesday, Feb. 7 during
halftime of the girls' and
boys’ varsity games. A
delicious assortment of
homemade specialties will be
available from our area's
Finest bakers. All proceeds
will go to fund uniforms and
cheer clinics for the high
school cheer program.
Those who cannot
attend, but still wish to bid
may do so by contacting
Virginia Grant at 676-5257.
These desserts and
others will be auctioned:
Margaret
Bennet’s
anniversary cake by Robinae
Disque; Almond Coffee
cheesecake by Barb Orwick;
Chocolate
Coconut
Cheesecake by Barb Orwick;
Grandma’s Famous Sugar
Cookies by Bev Sherman;
Coconut/White Sheet cake
by Garnet Huddleston;
Chocolate Truffles by Joan
a
filli 1
McDaniels; CaramelAValnut
Cinnamon rolls by Bernice
Lott; Mustang Spirit Sheet
Cake by Terina Healy; Oreo
Cheesecake by Joyce
Shephard; Churos with
Gnoch by Virginia Grant;
Chocolate Fudge Cake by
Ann Jones; and Heart
Shaped Cinnamon Swirl
Cake by Celita Strouse.
HHS boys to
hold fundraising
dinner
The Heppner High
School boys’ basketball
program is holding a
fundraising dinner on
Saturday. Jan. 28 during the
game against Sherman
County. The dinner, which
includes spaghetti, rolls,
salad and dessert, will begin
at 3 p.m. Cost for the dinner
is $5.
Everyone is invited
to come out and enjoy the
game and good food.
We the family of
FRANK ANDERSON
want to thank our relatives, friends and our
communities for the tremendous outpour
ing of love and sympathy in the loss of my
husband and our father.
!jj We would like to especially thank all those
people who gave so caringly in the prepa
ration of the church for the service, the in
terment at the cemetery, the Elks for the
use of the Lodge for the fellowship and meal
that followed the services.
And we especially want to thank all the
women and men, and the Heppner Senior
Class, who prepared and served the won
derful meal that made that time of the com
munity so very special.
Family, friends and community was so very
important to Frank and we know he was
well pleased with the tremendous outpour
ing of love and support we have received.
Again, thank you one and all,
Kay, Eric, Steve and Charlie Anderson
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Positive attitudes will make a
difference at Irrigon Jr/Sr High
Support Our Troops Group,
community supports soldiers
To the Editor:
The soldiers of the 3-
116,h returned home in mid-
November from Iraq, but not
without their losses. To the
families that lost their
soldiers, out thoughts and
prayers went to them in their
sorrow. This reminds us all
that “Freedom isn’t Free.”
The Support Our
Troop Group recognizes the
many
individuals,
organizations and businesses
in our community which
have supported the soldiers
and their families here at
home. Ladies made yellow
ribbon bows and tied them
on all the trees through town
and maintained them
through the 18-month
deployment. They looked
great. Many people donated
care items, snack food,
money and helped get boxes
ready for mailing. Two
hundred-plus were send
during the year. The
Methodist Church let the
group assemble our boxes in
the kitchen area. Businesses
helped with postage and
organizations donated
money to purchase needed
items. CenturyTel arranged
phone calls from soldiers in
Afghanistan at our Memorial
Day celebration and set up
the PA system and slide
display.
The Support Our
Troops Group received
several thank you notes and
a phone call telling us how
they appreciated our concern
and our support. Receiving
items and letters made their
stay a little easier. Our troops
said they received more
packages and mail from
Heppner than any other
soldiers. They shared their
goodies with fellow soldiers
and the children. The kids
loved them and watched for
them to come to their
villages, knowing they
would get treats.
Everything helped to
make this project the success
it was. For all the prayers
that were said for the
soldiers as well as their
families, our group thinks
Heppner is truly great.
The money that was
left is being donated to help
purchase custom-made
computer carts and
computers for the severely
wounded
receiving
treatment and therapy at the
VA Palo Alto Health Care
Center System at Palo Alto,
California. These are big hits
with the vets and enable
them to keep in touch with
buddies in Iraq and their
families.
Remember to thank
our vets.
(s) Evelyn Sweek
Support Our Troops Group
Heppner
To the Editor;
that’s another story all
At the Dec. 11 well
in
itself.
What school, school
meeting of the Morrow superintendent,
County School Board a administrator, or school
school
group of parents surprised district doesn't have
the school board, school handful of negative nellies a
administration
and
they have to deal with?
community of Irrigon with that
Unfortunately
as cliché as it
complaints about Irrigon Jr. sounds, the squeaky
wheel is
Sr. High School. These the one that gets oiled
parents even invited the local IJSHS case, splashed all or over in
newspapers to cover this
front page of the
meeting. The East the
newspaper.
Wouldn’t it be
Oregonian had stated a few lovely if these
negative
months back that due to low nellies could understand
staffing they would be unable damage they do the
to
to attend the MCSD themselves, their community
meetings and that they
their children by always
would not be covering them and
for the negative
anymore. So one would looking
instead
of
the positive ? No,
think that these parents really our community
and schools
had some big time news if are not perfect, but
what are
both local papers sent out these negative people
doing
reporters to cover this to improve it? To these
meeting. The parents were people we invite you to join
given plenty of the school your
Club, come to
board’s time to air their school Booster
events,
a part of
complaints, most of which the solution, be not
the
happened years before we problem. Can’t we all work
were even a high school and together to make this school
some of which happened the
best it can be for the
under a totally different students?
deserve it.
administrator. In other By always They
looking for the
words “old news.”
negative
you
are doing a
On Dec. 12, both disservice to the
Morrow Tell Senators to vote no on asbestos
local newspapers ran front County School District,
page coverage of this Irrigon Jr. Sr. High School's bill
this bill passes, the victims of
meeting, and when word administration and staff, the To the Editor:
this horrible disease and their
started to spread about what community of Irrigon and
It
is
very
difficult
to
will lose their right
had gone on, many of us sadly to your own children. believe that there actually to families
a
jury
trial.
Once a right is
were upset with these
For
the
past
two
people
out
there
that
taken
away,
almost
parents for rehashing old years, we have worked strongly believe asbestos impossible to get it it is back.
The
news, and the newspapers closely
with
the
products
are
no
longer
being
less
informed
the
public
is,
for not doing their administration of IJSHS manufactured. Research the easier it is to pass this bill.
homework before printing
to get for our students shows that there are more
Please call your U.S.
yet another sensationalized trying
what
they
are
lacking
due
to
than
1700
asbestos
products
senators
ask them to
article about Irrigon. On the opening of a new school. being manufactured at the vote “no” and
S.852, the so-
Dec. 21 a group of We have found Ron Anthony present time, here in the called on “Fair
Bill."
concerned parents braved and Chris Davis easy to talk United States.
Environmental
matters
the icy conditions and met to and work with. They
plans on should be the concern of
with reporter Kathy Aney don’t always give us the passing Congress
a
bailout
bill,
for the everyone.
from the East Oregonian answer we are wanting, but manufacturers of asbestos,
(s) Anita Dorn
about doing a follow up they have always been fair. the third week in January. If
Echo
article on Irrigon Jr. Sr. High If these negative nellies
School that would represent
as hard as Ron
our students in the positive worked
Obituaries
Anthony does at getting us
manner they deserve. We what
need, our school's
were told that her editor wish we
list
would not commit to an short one. would be a very James H. Rogers, Sr.
article, but that he would like
James H. Rogers, daughters, Tammy Conklin.
In
closing,
we
would
her to meet with us. As of like to acknowledge the Sr., 60. of Heppner, died S u s a n
today there has not been one Morrow County School Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006, at Milliman,
J a mi e
word mentioned about that Board members and his home.
meeting in the E.O.
A memorial service R o g e r s
Mark
On Jan. 8, we Superintendent
will be held Saturday, Jan. 28 a n d
Burrows,
for
their
open
door
opened our E.O. and what policy and their readiness to at 11 a.m., at Christian Life S h e r r i e
R ogers;
did we find but a wonderful listen to any concerns from Center in Heppner.
sons,
Dan
article about how the town anyone, at any time. We
He was born Nov.
of Helix rallies around their appreciate Ron Anthony for 29, 1945 at Syracuse, NY. R o g e r s
school and students. To the countless hours he has He was raised and attended and James
Helix we say “Way to Go!” put into making our school school in New York state R ogers, James Rogers.
If one was to replace the a safe, and inviting before moving to California. J r . ;
Herman. Ronny,
words Helix High School environment
our children He served in Vietnam with brothers,
Ben
and
Chuck;
and sisters.
and put in Irrigon Jr. Sr. High to learn in. The for vast
the U.S. Army and also
majority
Jenny
and
Billie.
He was
School you would have a of your community supports boxed and learned the
in death by
picture of what has been
appreciates your hard mechanic trade while preceded
brothers,
Fredrick.
Duane
going on at the newly formed and
and commitment to enlisted. He later was a and Bobby.
IJSHS for the year and a half work
Jr. Sr. High School, recruiting officer for the
M e m o r i a l
since it has opened. Our gym Irrigon
Army.
(s)
Danny
and
Meredith
contributions
may be made
is full every time there is a
On March 26, 1987,
Young,
Irrigon
game, the Knight's Pride Richard and Becky Seewer, he married NoraJ. Hallowell to the donors’ favorite
choice.
Booster Club serves a meal
Irrigon at Ripley, NY. He worked at charity of
Sweeney
Mortuary
at every game and the Pep Richard and Kelly Wright,
several jobs, the last for
of
Heppner
is
in
charge of
Band led by Jeff Scarles is
Columbia Trailer in
Irrigon
arrangements.
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always rockin' the house.
Billy and Sarnie Griffin, Hermiston. The couple
But, instead of getting
Irrigon moved to Heppner in 2004.
encouragement from our
He enjoyed TV,
Gregory and Carma
local newspapers, we get
reading,
westerns, country
Barron, Irrigon
more negativity written
music,
fishing
and being with
Nancy Burnett, Irrigon
about IJSHS.
his
family.
Gail Horning, Irrigon
As for the
Survivors include his
Judy Brown. Irrigon
complaints of these parents.
Barbara Huwe, Irrigon wife, Nora Rogers;
Care
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