FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 13,2006
Wolfsen returns from cross
country bicycle trip
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Kill Wolfsen he nan his 4800-mile cross-country bicycle trip at
Florence, OR on May 1.
Wolfsen finishes his trip in front of the Victory Monument in
Yorktown, Virginia on Aug. 17.
Bill W olfsen, of
lone, left on a cross-country
bicycle trip from lone on
May 1. He traveled from
lone to Florence on the
O regon coast w here he
touched his front tire into the
P acific ocean, and then
trav eled a cro ss country
arriv in g in Y orktow n,
V irginia at the V ictory
Monument on Aug. 17, with
a total of 4800 miles.
“Victory Monument
commemorates the victory
of the United States gaining
freedom from England. I
also achieved victory at that
spot on August 17 with a
total of 4800 miles,” said
Wolfsen.
A fte r
reach in g
Portland, Wolfsen sent about
20 pounds of things home to
reduce the load in his trailed
attached to his bike.
With that load, he
did fine but it was slow on
upgrades. He did however
make it over Hoosier Pass in
Colorado to an altitude of
over 11,500 feet, but the
short rollercoaster hills in
M issouri w ere a new
challenge. Those grades in
Missouri were much steeper
than going over all the passes
including the Cascades and
the cro ssin g of the
Continental Divide several
times. He ended up sending
another 25 pounds of things
home before continuing.
lone welcomes new staff members Public encouraged to attend
public hearing on Willow Creek
Once again, school is science at C ondon High
TMDL
back in session and with the School and was an elective
B\ l iana Camarillo and Alex Carlson
A fter the last very steep
grade getting onto the Blue
R idge Parkw ay things
changed back to small rolling
grades.
W olfsen's original
plan was to average 70 miles
per day. but with the load on
his tra ile r he ended up
averaging 55 miles per day.
He also took Saturday's off
as a rest day and if there were
a Seventh-day A dventist
Church close by he would
attend.
Wolfsen camped all
the way across A m erica
except for a few nights in
hostels and one night in a
motel. The stay in the motel
was to stay in a town where
he needed a bicycle repair
and reached the town just
after the bicycle shop was
closed. He had extra spokes
but kept breaking them and
used up all his total supply.
A long the trip he
only had three flats but broke
six spokes which took a little
longer to replace than fixing
a flat.
W olfsen w ill be
giving a slid e show
presentation of his bike trip
at the Seventh-day Adventist
C hurch in H eppner on
S aturday, Sept. 16. A
potluck vegetarian dinner
will be held at 1 p.m., with
the slide show beginning at
2:30 p.m. The event is free
of charge.
new year com es new
students. Along w ith 16 new
students, lone Community
School is joined by three new
staff members for the 2006-
2007 school year.
Jerry Cronin comes
to lone
f r o m
Pendleton.
Before
coming to
l o n e ,
Cronin
taught a
S p a n ish /
E S L
course at BMCC and was
the librarian at the Adams
Public Library. He taught
Spanish and technology in
C alifo rn ia for 15 years
before returning to Oregon.
C ronin has also lived in
A laska and has been
involved in the Peace Corps
and the People to People
S tudent
A m b assad o r
program. Cronin will teach
Spanish and technology at
lone.
Erin Heideman is the
n e w
science
teacher
this year
for lone.
Before
teaching in
lone, she
taught
middle
and high school general
science* teach er.
She
g rad u ated from OSU
majoring in agriculture and
welding. Heideman has also
taught
A g ricu ltu re
Education at Pendleton High
School and is a former FFA
advisor for Condon. Helix
and Pendleton sch o o ls.
Heideman will teach 6lh - 1 0 h
grade science in lone as well
as a wildlife management
class that will be taking a trip
to Mount St. Helens this fall.
Karl Blaeuer is the
new part-time music teacher
at lone. He is a principal bass
performer
w ho has
performed
with both
na t i ona l
a n d
international
symphonies.
He’s been
te a c h in g
music and
French for the last 17 years
in schools located in Oregon,
Tennessee and Colorado. He
is also currently offering
private music lessons in
Suzuki
and
strin g ed
instruments (violin, viola,
cello, bass and fiddle).
The th ree new
additions to the lone Staff
will make for yet another
great school year.
Pharmacy student interns at
Murray Drugs
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in Heppner.
Ginny Krause, 24, a K rause. She has been
student at U niversity of learning some of the ropes
W ashington, S e attle, is o f norm al
pharm acy
completing the first of eight operations and has been
one-m onth internships at shadowing Ann Murray at
Murray Drugs in Heppner as Pioneer Memorial Hospital
part of her work experience observing her work up there.
for her final y ear o f K rause is also giving
pharmacy school.
presentations on chronic
Krause, who is from disease management.
Richland. WA. chose Murray
Other areas Krause
Drugs, for two reasons she plans to work at after
said. The first reason being Heppner include Providence
it is in a rural, underserved Hospital in N ew berg, an
area and the second it is a AIDs clinic in Harborview,
independent business, rather WA, Valleyview in Monroe,
than a large retail pharmacy. WA where she will get to
She also said she became work with patients on lots of
aw are o f M urray D rugs medicines and learn how to
through family friends. Dr. make sure none interact with
Ed and Jeanne Beretta.
each other; and at Swedish
“1 am having a very Hospital in Seattle, working
to fill out registration papers.
There are several good tim e h e re ,” said with general medicine.
new leaders and changes to
Planning session for Wee Bit O’
the AWANA program this
year.
Ireland to be held
AWANA is an
A planning session to gather fresh ideas and new
in te rn a tio n a l,
non- volunteers for the Wee Bit O' Ireland festivities to be held
denominational ministry with St. Patrick's Day weekend will be held Tuesday, Sept. 19
thousands of clubs located at 4 p.m., at City Hall in Heppner. Everyone is invited to
around the world. The group attend and encouraged to bring any ideas.
in Heppner has volunteer
leaders from at least five
different local churches.
The Morrow County Fair misreported the winnings
Call Dale Bates at of Kody Lovgren of Heppner. Lovgren received a Grand
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information.
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AWANA Bible club to start
AWANA Bible Club
gets started for a new school
year this Thursday night.
Sept. 14, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Kids in grades kindergarten
though the sixth grade are
welcome to attend. It will be
hosted by W illow C reek
Baptist Church in Heppner,
w hich is lo cated in the
S eventh Day A d v en tist
building on M inor Street,
just off of Water Street in
H eppner. P aren ts are
encouraged to bring their
clubbers early the first night
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The
O regon
D ep artm en t
of
E n v iro n m en tal Q u ality
(DEQ) is seeking input on
water quality planning for
streams in the Willow Creek
watershed. A public hearing
will be held Tuesday, Sept.
19 from 6-8 p.m. at the
M orrow Soil and W ater
Conservation District office
Willow Creek drains
into the Columbia River and
flows through the Oregon
tow ns
of
H eppner,
Lexington and lone. DEQ is
p ro p o sin g
w ater
temperature goals for much
of the basin, bacteria goals
for the Balm Fork tributary
and pH ta rg e ts for the
Willow Creek Reservoir and
two facilities that discharge
waste w ater into W illow
C reek in the H eppner
vicinity.
The Willow Creek
Total Maximum Daily Load
(TMDL, a pollution limit)
and management plan will be
available for public comment
through Oct. 10, 2006.
At the
public
hearing, discussion will be
en co u rag ed fo llo w in g a
presentation of the TMDL
study and outcomes. Written
and oral testimony will be
invited at the hearing.
The d o cu m en t is
av ailab le o n -lin e
at
w w w .deq.state.or.us/W Q /
TMDLs/UmatillaBasin.htm.
It can also be obtained at the
P o rtlan d and P en d leto n
DEQ offices or the office of
the Morrow Soil and Water
Conservation District.
To request a copy or
discuss the TMDL, contact
Don B u tch er at D E Q ’s
Pendleton office at (5 4 1)
278-4603.
Local cadet completes training
C adet Jam es M.
Beebe, grandson of Jeanne
Johnson of Lonerock, OR,
has completed cadet basic
training at the U.S. Military
Academy.
Beebe was among
approximately 1,300 cadet
candidates who concluded
their training with a 12-mile
road m arch from C am p
Buckner to West Point on
Aug. 7. New cadets were
officially accepted into the
Corps of Cadets during the
Acceptance Parade on Aug.
12.
B eebe g rad u ated
from C h u rch lan d High
School in Churchland, VA in
2006. He plans to graduate
from West Point in 2010 and
will be co m m issio n ed a
second lieutenant in the in
the U.S. Army.
The mission of the
U.S. Military Academy is to
educate, train, and inspire
the Corps of Cadets so that
each
g rad u ate
is
a
co m m issio n ed lead er o f
character committed to the
values o f duty, honor,
country and prepared for a
caree r o f p ro fessio n al
excellence and service to the
nation as an officer in the
United States Army.
Oregon Sheep Growers looking
for Make It Yourself With Wool
entrants
O re g o n 's
59th
annual Make It Yourself with
Wool C o n test, open to
seam stresses and knitters
anywhere in the state, will be
held at The Resort at the
M ountain in W elches,
Oregon on Saturday, Dec. 2,
2006. C om plete co n test
rules and entry forms are
av ailab le from Program
Director Maureen Krebs, the
office of the Oregon Sheep
G row ers A sso ciatio n in
Salem, (503) 364-5462, or
your local county extension
office. Entry forms must be
submitted to the Program
Director by Nov. 15, 2006.
The
M ake
It
Yourself With Wool Contest
is open to all ages, pre-teens
to adult. Each contestant
must utilize their skill and
creativ ity to co n stru ct a
wool garment or outfit made
of wool or a wool blend with
a minimum of 60 percent
w ool. The c o m p etitio n
in clu d es m odeling the
garment/outfit forjudges, as
well as the judging of the
garment’s construction.
Contestants
com pete in separate age
categories, with the winner
in the Junior division (ages
13-16) and Senior division
(ages 17-24) receiving an
expense paid trip to compete
in the N ational M ake It
Yourself with Wool Finals
sponsored by the American
Sheep Industry Women in
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 25-
27, 2007.
C o n te sta n ts
are
responsible for their own
transportation and lodging in
conjunction with the Oregon
co n test.
H ow ever,
contestants and their families
qualify for the group room
rates granted to OSGA by
The Resort at the Mountain.
C ontestants will need to
make reservations by Nov.
12. Call (800) 669-7666 and
identify yourself as part of
the Oregon Sheep Growers’
Annual Meeting.
The Oregon contest
has been p ro m o tin g the
beauty and versatility of
American wool fabrics and
yarn sin ce 1947. M ajor
sponsors are the Oregon
Sheep Growers Association,
Oregon Sheep Commission,
with support from OSGA
members and affiliates.
For
m ore
in fo rm atio n ,
c o n tact
Program Director Maureen
Krebs at (541 ) 422-7548 or
eatlamb@centurytel.net.
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Bill Wolfsen will present a program
on cycling across the U.S.
Saturday, Sept. 16 at 2:30 p.m.
Seventh-day Adventist Church
E v e ry o n e is in v ite d to a tte n d !
Vegetarian potluck luncheon at 1 p.m.