Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner. Oregon Wednesday, September 20,2006 - THREE
Yard of the Month
lone volleyball opens league play
By Kay Proctor
Mary Ella Johnson’s
home at 215 W. Baltimore
has been recognized as the
S eptem ber Yard o f the
Month in Heppner, which is
the last recognition until
April 2007.
The two-story house
was built in 1900 and is
known as the Gilliam house.
Johnson had lived in a nearby
apartm ent and w anted a
place o f her ow n. The
Gilliam house had sat empty
on its overgrown, weedy lot
for five years with a sadly
n eg lected in te rio r and
exterior. Johnson had faith in
the house so she purchased
it in 1995.
She started in by
having the roof redone and
then painted the house’s
exterior herself in warm
earth tones. Rescreening the
front porch herself, Johnson
also put in Plexiglas on the
windy side of the porch to
protect the potted plants
sca tte re d th ro u g h o u t. A
charming fountain sits in one
corner proving a soothing
sound that can be heard
inside the house, too. A split
log bench provides some of
the seating on the relaxing
porch that is J o h n so n 's
favorite part of her home.
She can v isit w ith her
neighbors from the porch
and gaze out at the hilltops.
Not too long after
moving in, the water line
from the meter to the house
broke and Johnson dug it out
herself. After clearing the
overgrowth, she laid a thick
sod lawn. Another project
she did herself is a patio area
made from cement pavers.
Two gifts from her
brother. Dick Johnson, take
up a portion of the yard; a
well b u ilt co v ered dog
kennel and a D oberm an
P in cer nam ed G arnet.
Johnson had a fence built
along the back of the lot to
help define Garnet’s outdoor
living space. Old fashion
hollyhocks have sprung up
around the fence. Growing
around the dog kennel are
plantings of Kenilworth ivy,
which started as a gift from
her botanist sister, Elaine
U rban, and is Jo h n so n ’s
favorite plant.
The ta ll, green
spruce in the front yard has
provided shade for the house
and a shelter for all kinds of
b ird s in clu d in g a great
horned ow l. The late
Howard Gilliam grew up in
this house and told Johnson
that he has a picture o f
himself as a child standing
next to and about even with
the
sam e
Spruce.
U nderneath this tree,
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Mary Klla Johnson with her dog (¡arnet. Photo by Kay Proctor.
Johnson heaped soil and put
in easy to care for plants such
as lavender, creeping phlox,
blue fescue and hens and
chicks. Scattered throughout
the barked mounded bed are
rustics such as the top half
of an old milk can, antlers
and pine cones. During her
employment time with the
US Forest Service working
out in the woods, she would
find interesting rocks and
pack them home to place in
this area.
The front yard fence
and gate are original as are
the sidew alks. There are
planters along them filled
with m arigolds and moss
roses. Some of the plantings
in the b o rd er beds are
c a le n d u la ,
g ay feath er,
J u p ite r’s beard, mock
orange, peonies, black-eyed
Susan, silv er and lemon
thymes, columbine, parsley
and sedums. Along a side
yard, old lilacs grow with a
birdhouse standing among
them.
Screening that side
yard is a tall row of roses of
a coral pink color. These
tough roses were in place
when Johnson bought her
home surviving the years of
neglect. G arnet's favorite
place in the yard is laying in
the cool grass behind these
roses in the deep shade of a
sumac planted by her owner.
The soil has been
good to grow things in, but
while digging in the yard in
an old burn pit site, Johnson
found a US Navy dog tag.
The name printed on it is “K
C Lindsay,” along with an ID
number. Johnson would love
to visit with anyone who
knows the owner of the dog
tag and would return it to
him.
O rig in a lly
from
P en d leto n , in H eppner
Johnson has worked as a
cook at the Senior Meal Site
and baked for the Willow
Creek Diner. Her current
kitchen is certified by the
state and she bakes
cinnamon rolls and dinner
rolls upon request. She is a
member of the local Art Club
and has been presented with
the Sweepstakes Award at
the Morrow County Fair for
her ‘Badger’ scratchboard
work and various crafts. Her
home’s interior is creatively
cozy. One o f her latest
projects is restoring a 1920s
‘Sellers’ kitchen cabinet. For
various reasons, she has put
her home up for sale.
While Johnson has
always been interested in
gardening, her inspiration is
her late brother-in-law, the
noted botanist Karl Urban.
Urban was widely known for
his work in wildflowers and
native plants. His plant
illustrations have been used
in many publications and are
still requested. He developed
a plant coding system used
by the USFS and The Native
Plant Society o f Oregon
awarded him a fellowship.
He shared his knowledge by
leading nature tours and
teaching others.
And that is w hat
Jo h n so n en jo y s about
gardening; it is “something
you can share; it’s not costly,
but rich. Who doesn’t like
flowers?”
And w ho d o e sn ’t
like a person who creates a
nice yard and home with her
own hard work and tender
loving care?
The Heppner Yard of
the Month is cosponsored by
the City of Heppner, MCGG
Green Feed, Heppner TV
and the H eppner G arden
Club.
Over the Tee
Cup
L adies g ath ered
Sept. 12 at Willow Creek
C o u n try C lub for th eir
weekly play.
Jan Paustian took
low g ro ss o f the field.
Lynnea Sargent took low net
of the field. Betty Christman
and Betty Carlson tied for
least putts of the field.
In flight A, Karen
Thompson took low gross.
In flig h t B, Lois
Hunt took low gross.
In flight C, Bernice
Lott took low gross and Pat
Dougherty took low net.
C h ristm an had a
chip-in on hole #5.
lone has play ed
tough over the last three
weeks. With Dufur, Condon , f
and Sherman tournaments
under their belt they’ve now
learned that league play will
not be easy, but is surely
accomplishable.
The Cardinals took
on several team s at the
Sherm an
to u rn am en t
Saturday, Sept. 16. They
defeated Culver and played
tough against South Wasco
and Union. In the end, the Stephanie Holland goes for the block against Arlington.
Photo by Donna Rietmann.
Cardinals took eighth place.
“ [The] g irls did
good,” said Coach Brandi
Orem. “I saw improvement
from each of the girls.”
m
lone
took
on
Heppner Thursday, Sept. 14,
and played well, although
Heppner took the win.
lone tip p ed o ff
league play on Friday, Sept.
15 against Arlington at lone.
The
C ard in als
started o ff the m atch
dom inating the first two
games 25-17 and 25-14. The
teams took the match to five
games giving Arlington their
first league win.
Stephanie Holland
was 14 for 14 in serves and
had three blocks and four
kills. Emily Rietmann was
nine for 10 serving, while
Kaylee Palmateer led the
back row in serve receives.
“Stephanie Holland
had a great game. She was
all over the co u rt and
aggressive at the net. Tiana
Camarillo came off the bench
and stepped in doing a great
job also,” said Orem.
The Cardinals will
match up against Arlington
Kylee Svetich blocks a hit against Arlington.
this Friday for their next
Photo by Donna Rietmann.
league game.
Cardinals drop to Buckaroo 64-0
The lone Cardinals
traveled to St. Paul last
Friday evening where they
ran into a bigger, faster,
stro n g er
team .
The
Buckaroos, currently ranked
#2 in the state, thoroughly
m anhandled the C ards,
winning the game 64-0.
lone was again
forced to reconfigure the
offense, starting the game
with several key players on
the sidelines due to injury.
Then early in the first
quarter, senior end Mark
Davidson left the game with
a knee injury. About midway
through the second quarter,
junior Kevin Fowler, the
other end took a hard hit and
went down with bruised ribs.
St. Paul did most of
their damage on the ground,
racking up 362 yards of
rushing on 42 carries. With
an ad d itio n al 80 yards
passing, the Buckaroos had
442 yards of total offense to
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the Cards 56 yards, lone’s
running game was stymied
by the strong B uckaroo
defense. Leading rusher for
the Cardinals was Paul Hams
w ith 41 yards on three
carries.
On
d efense,
M ontana M arlatt led the
team with 12 tackles (seven
u n a ssisted .)
He
was
followed by Clay Morter
w ith nine tack les (four
unassisted) and Paul Hams
with seven (two unassisted).
“Nobody wants to
lose a game like that,” said
Coach Dennis Stefani but he
noted that it was a good
learning experience for his
young team. “They got to
see how a really good
fo o tb all team operates.
T hose kids have been
playing to g eth er since
peewee football. It wasn't
that this team was that much
b ig g er but they were
stronger.”
“We found positives
in a lot o f areas,” noted
Coach Stefani. The team had
ju s t one penalty to the
B uckaroos 13 and “they
learned a lot of techniques”
from their opponent. “We
also found different people
to play different positions
and everyone played a ton,”
he said.
Despite the lopsided
loss. C oach Stefani was
pleased that the team kept
their heads up and “kept
trying to figure out” a way
to compete with St. Paul.
“Their enthusiasm is just
great,” he said.
The Cardinals have
another tough one on the
schedule this weekend for
their home opener. lone will
host Wallowa this Saturday,
Sept. 23, starting at 1 p.m.
"Wallowa is another top five
team. We'll go in with a goal
of trying to improve and give
them a game,” said Stefani.
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