Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 15,2006 - THREE
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Raffle planned during St. Pat’s
A raffle of a handmade afghan, throw rugs and
pillows will be held during Heppner’s St. Patrick’s weekend
celebration. The raffle items may be seen at Heppner TV ’s
display window.
Tickets are $1 each or six for $5, and may be
purchased from any member of the Church of the Nazarene
or at Lott’s Electric. The drawing will be held on Sunday,
March 19, during the Nazarene church’s breakfast. Ticket
holders need not be present to win.
The raffle is sponsored by the Church o f the
Nazarene.
‘Wee Ones’ Craft Table offers free
kids’ activities on Saturday
“Come, all you wee
people,” says the organizer
o f the “ Wee O nes C raft
Table.” On Saturday, ‘little
p e o p le ’ and th e ir adult
chaperones are invited to the
“Wee Ones Craft Table,”
which will be located at
Heritage Land Company’s
office across from the Bank
o f E astern O regon. A
sidewalk sign will designate
the location on the east side
of Main Street.
Children, pre-school
to sixth-grade, with their
adult h e lp ers, w ill be
welcome at four different
activities. From about 11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the table
will feature pressed-foam
doorknob hangers, to be
decorated with Irish symbols
by the children. Each child
can personalize a hanger
further by adding his or her
name.
A fte r the p arade
until about 2:15 p.m., the
children will find makings for
macaroni bracelets. After
that, the table will offer
pressed-foam beads (Irish, of
course) and wire for making
another type o f bracelet,
until about 3 p.m. Children
who visit the table from
about 3 to 4 p.m. will not be
creating but will be invited
to “dig” in a container of
w heat g rain s fo r “ Irish
treasure” keepsakes.
C hild ren m ust be
accom panied by an adult
while at the Craft Table and
will be requested to limit
themselves to making one
each of the crafts and finding
one treasure. The materials
and keepsakes are free. If
adults would like to donate
any amount, proceeds will
go to the Heppner Day Care.
Stew feed Friday
at senior center
Arts and
crafts sale
this weekend
Everyone is invited
to “start St. Patrick’s week
end off right” by enjoying
Mrs. O ’Leary’s Beef Stew,
freshly made rolls, slaw, and
a wide selection of pies and
other desserts, all for $6 per
adult and $2 for children 6-
12 years old. Children under
five are free.
The stew feed will be
held at St. Patrick’s Senior
Center in downtown Hepp
ner on Friday, March 17,
from 5-7 p.m. Those wish
ing to attend can follow the
signs on Main Street.
“Rumor has it that a
group will be coming by to
sing an Irish tune or two to
get everyone in the mood,”
said a M ethodist Church
spokesperson. “Then you
will be full and ready to at
tend Casino Night at the
Elks.”
T he stew feed is
sponsored by the Heppner
United Methodist Church.
Breakfast to
feature bagpiper
Sunday m orning
breakfast will be held March
19 from 8-11 a.m. at the
Church of the Nazarene, 335
N. Gilmore (the church by
the hospital) in Heppner.
The menu includes
French toast, ham, juice and
coffee. Cost is $5 for adults,
$2 for children 12 and under
and $12 for a family.
The breakfast will
feature live bagpipe music by
Mike Keown of Arlington,
formerly of Heppner.
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Creative Arts and Crafts will
have a variety of items for
sale and some to show this
Friday, March 17, from 8:30
a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday,
March 18 from 8:30 a.m. to
4 p.m. at the Les Schwab
store in Heppner.
Orders will also be
taken on an individual basis.
Mary Ella Johnson
w ill bring her crocheted
rugs, made of cotton and
denim. The rugs are made in
various shapes and sizes and
are each one of a kind.
B everly M cC loud
and her H eritag e Hom e
Collection of wool rugs and
seat cushions will also be
available.
A large display of
country crafts done by Betty
C h ristm an and L o rren e
Montgomery will be for sale
w ith m any c h o ice s for
browsers themselves or as a
gift. They may have a crib-
size quilt if, Montgomery
says, “I get my thread and
needle busy.”
Wood carvings by
Shane Laughlin will also be
a v ailab le and in clu d e
sh elv in g , bird hou ses,
sh am ro ck s, b ears and
benches.
New this year is laser
metal work done by high
school student, Montana and
father, Steve Marlatt. There
w ill be large and sm all
designs of various items.
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Thursday, ‘Columcille’and ‘Brigid’
St. Paddy’s Casino Night
this Friday at the Elks Club
Though the lepre
chauns, reportedly, have
been schooled in dealing
cards, they will probably not
be needed at “Casino Night”
on Friday.
“ We have enough
volunteers to allow the lep
rechauns some down time in
preparation for their busy
Saturday,” reports chairper
son Victor Vander Does. “In
fact, demand was so high last
year for more Blackjack ta
bles, we will have more deal
ers this year. We have also
added a second 4-5-6 table.”
Will the luck o ’ the
Irish be present at the Elks
Club as players try their skill
at th ese gam es and the
Wheel of Fortune? The Irish
might not have a comer on
good luck in the casino, but
alm ost e v ery o n e claim s
some Irish blood on St. Pat’s
weekend, so maybe every
one who wins will be a wee
bit Irish. Players will have
from 7 to 11 p.m.. to enjoy
the play and try to increase
their stakes.
Play o f the games
will be with $ 1 and $5 chips
this year, which players may
purchase at the door. Be
sides playing, at any time
during the evening, partici
pants can use those chips or
cash to purchase $1 raffle
tickets and place the tickets
in containers for items they
hope to win. Over 40 dona
tions will make the raffle an
other source of suspense at
the end of the evening. The
donations are currently on
display in the window of the
Heppner TV office on Main
Street.
Ticket holders need
not be present to win the
prizes, though most people
may want to wait for the
d raw in g s. The w inning
numbers will be posted in the
area newspapers and at the
TV office, or absentee tick
et holders may call the St.
Pat’s Committee to check
numbers after the weekend,
676-5536.
Proceeds from Casi
no Night are important funds
for the St. Pat’s Committee
and will help finance next
year’s celebration, said orga
nizers.
Cruz-In autos Wine tastin8 at
featured in
Murray’s Drug
two parades this Friday
this Saturday
The Sixth Annual St.
Paddy’s Cruz-In parade in
Heppner begins at noon Sat
urday, March 18, from the
staging area at the old Kin-
zua Mill site off Highway
207/74 at the northwest en
trance to Heppner.
This is the first of
two parades during the 24th
Annual St. Patrick’s Celebra
tion in Heppner.
The second parade, A local wine, made in nearby
The Great Green Parade, Arlington, Oregon, and bottled
will begin at 1 p.m. through by Wheatridge in the Nook, will
downtown Heppner.
be available at the wine tasting
Vehicles will assem scheduled at Murray Drugs on
ble and register from 10 a.m. Friday, March 17, from 5-7
until 11:45 a.m. at the stag p.m.
ing area.
Following the Cruz-
In Parade the vehicles will be
on display on Willow Street
The 2006 Wee Bit O ’
in downtown Heppner.
Ireland Celebration will see
Ju d g in g for three the return of some of the fa
awards will begin about 1:15 vorite Irish entertainers fea-
p.m. with results announced ‘ turing songs of Ireland and
around 2:15 p.m.
some rollicking foot tapping
The aw ards to be music. Music will be heard
presented are: Leprechaun’s all about town, but especial
Choice, Judge’s Choice, and ly during the KUM A Coffee
the Mustang Awards - select Hour, 10 a.m. Saturday and
ed from the display of early during the afternoon Ceili at
Mustang cars. The Heppner the Elks from 2 to 4 p.m.
High School Student Body
Returning for their
20th anniversary of perform
sponsors this award.
All participants who ing will be The Irish Singers.
register will be awarded a John Doherty and Scott Sag
er started out in Jim Farley's
metal dash plaque.
For more informa showroom strumming their
tion contact the Heppner guitars and singing for the
Chamber of Commerce at first KUMA Coffee hour..
(541) 676-5536 or at their Others joined them through
w eb site
w w w .heppner the years, including Mike
Duffy who MC’s the after
chamber.com.
noon Ceili. The group has
performed all over, including
local spots such as The Rain
bow, Kelly’s, The Great Pa
Fr. Condon’s play performed
This Thursday, March 16, Father Jerry Condon of
St. Patrick’s Church and his cast and crew will present, as
the opening feature of Heppner’s celebration of St. Patrick's
Day, two of his dramas, “Columcille” and "Brigid, Patroness
of Ireland.”
Fr. Jerry Condon’s interest in Ireland’s history and
in drama led to his writing of three one-act plays. Knowing
some of the history of these two figures may be helpful to
the theater audience.
Columcille, also called St. Columba and the Apostle
of Caledonia, lived during the sixth century. He was bom
in Donegal into a royal family. His father was a kinsman of
princes then reigning in Ireland and western Scotland; his
mother was also of royal blood. He studied under St. Finnian
at Clonard.
In about 546, he founded Derry, now the city of
Londonderry, and, in about 552, he established Durrow
Monastery, now in County Offaly.
Setting out in 563, at the age of 42, Columcille
began his missionary work that would take him and his
disciples mostly into regions of Scotland, islands near
Scotland, and northern England. He seems to have been
successful in his missionary efforts and the spreading of
Christianity among the Pictish tribes. He spent about thirty-
four years organizing his ecclesiastical system in Scotland.
Brigid is also known at Bridget, Brighid, or Bride.
She is thought to have lived during the second half of the
fifth century and early part of the sixth century.
Renowned for her beauty, tradition holds that Brigid
was bom in or near County Louth to a father of royal blood
and a mother who was a slave. When her father tried to
give her in marriage, she demurred, and because of her
piety she was allowed to leave her father and become a
nun.
Brigid founded four monasteries, including the
famous monastery of Kildare. A woman said to have rare
ability and dedication, she became, along with Patrick and
Columba, one of the three patron saints of Ireland. St. Brigid
is held in great reverence in England and Scotland, as well
as in Ireland.
The public is invited to these musical presentations
at the St. Patrick Parish Hall on Thursday, March 16.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the dessert-theatre is free, although
donations will be accepted, to be given to a charity selected
by the theatre group.
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page 1 for a complete schedule of events,
or v is it www.heppnerchnmber.com.
Irish entertainment-it’s tradition
cific, Friday Night Alive, and
at weddings and Irish wakes.
They have a soft spot in their
hearts for Heppner.
The C hancers, re
turning for the third time, are
about as close as you can get
to Ireland without traveling
there. T heir brogue truly
adds to the flavor. They first
visited Heppner and missed
the event, but entertained in
Bucknum’s, enjoyed meeting
Father Condon, and made
sure to get the right date in
2005. Som e rem em b er
“Captain Ireland” and crew
entertaining at the KUMA
Coffee Hour. This year the
group, who has added a
young lady since last year,
will be entertaining at Sham
rock Lanes, the Kuma Cof
fee Hour, during the Ceili,
and popping up all over, in
cluding performing at Wil
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Saturday, March 18th • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
St. Patrick's Church Parish Hall • 525 Gale Street
Cost: Adults $7 / 12 & Under $4
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before the weekend is over.
Som e o f W illow
Creek Valley's entertainers
during the afternoon Ceili
will include Rebecca Jepsen
on Celtic harp, who will be
playing a Celtic Concerto as
well as lively Irish tunes, and
vocalist Nick Berretta, who
is a first rate tenor soloist.
M ulligan Stew, under the
tutelage of Peg Willis, will
have the audience tapping
their toes to some awesome
fiddle m usic, and K eith
Brudevold, Cara Osmin and
Pam Wunderlich will be on
the venue.
Singing for dinner
entertainment at the St. Pat's
dinner will more than likely
be the Lindsay Family and
Joe if he isn’t all sung out
from Father Condon’s plays
the previous night. One nev
er knows in Heppner, what
musician will show up on
what stage to keep the Irish
jumping, tapping, and sing
ing.
Top the weekend off
with a performance of The
Trail Band at Heppner Ele
mentary School, funded by
the Morrow County Unified
R ecreation D istrict. For
those who have been asking,
yes. Mick Doherty will be on
hand with his hammer dulci
mer.
‘Tis sure the week
end will please all those with
a love of Irish music.