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TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 21,2007 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner Obituaries Gilbert ‘Gib’ Parnian Simpson GAZETTE-TIMES U S.PS 240-420 Morrow C ou n ty’s Home-Owned W eekly N ew sp ap er Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner ( Jregon under the Act of March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at 188 W Willow Street telephone (341) 676-9228 Fax (5 4 1 1 676-92 l i t mail editor« rapidserve.net or david#heppner net. Web site wuw heppner net. Post master send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times. PO. Box 337. Heppner Oregon 97816 Subscriptions $26 in Morrow County: $20 senior rate (in Morrow County only: 62 years or olden: $32 elsewhere; $26 student subscriptions. 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Benefit to be held for Umatilla- Morrow SMART program Gilbert ’Gib’ Parman Simpson, Prineville, passed a\Vay on M onday, F ebruary 19, 2007, at Pioneer Memorial H ospital, in P rin e ville, Ore gon. He was 101 Gib Simpson years old. Graveside services were on Wednesday, Febru ary 21, 2007 at Spray Cem etery, in Spray, Oregon. Ja net Warner officiated. Mr. Sim pson was bom in Condon, on April 18, 1905, to Cass and Helen (Parman) Simpson, the el dest of nine children. He grew up in the Kahler Basin outside of Spray and then the family sent him to Portland for high school. He graduat ed 12th grade from Franklin High School in Portland. He m arried Ada A nderson in V ancouver, Washington on December 3, 1935. He was instrumental in getting the Sentinel Butte Television Signal and Co lumbia Power & Electric Co op in the Spray area. He was an active volunteer with the Spray School Board, and the Spray Rodeo Association, serving as the grand marshal in 1992. He worked as the janitor, and clerk in the Spray schools. He and his family moved to Pendleton in 1961 where he worked for the State of Oregon Game Com mission, working with big game, fishing, and birds. He retired from the Game Com mission in 1970, and then worked on the Hales Ranch, north of Pendleton, until he was in his 80’s. He, his wife and sons moved to Prineville in 1986, and spent most of his time with his family. He helped build his daughter Rene’s The Hermiston Area The students in the program Leadership Council for the also receive two books each Umatilla-Morrow SMART month to take home and program is sponsoring a ben keep. The goal of this pro efit Saturday, Feb. 24, at the gram is not only to give stu Desert R i\er Inn in Umatil dents someone to read with la. This event will support or to one-on-one but also to the SMART (Start Making encourage them to become A Reader Today) programs life-long readers. This pro in H eppner, B oardm an. gram has been a success be Stanfield, and Hermiston. cause of the volunteers who The evening will in are involved with the pro clude live music, oral and si gram including the 62 vol lent auctions and drawings unteers who read at Hepp for a variety of items. The ner Elem entary and Sam oral auction will include a Boardman Elementary. three-night stay at Eagle Anyone interested in Crest Resort for the Memo- volunteering may contact the . rial Day weekend, a framed , sch00| coordinators, Barb ! .artist s .proof,of, "Enter j*ie Mcorc at Heppner Elemen- ,£hallefl&er by weU.-typyyn tary and Lupe Canllo at Sam wildlife artist Rod Frederick Boardman Elementary, or from Central Oregon, two Melissa George, Umatilla- round's of golf with use of Morrow SMART Area Man golf cart at Echo Golf Club, ager at (541 ) 966-3276. Any and a variety of other items. financial contribution can be Appetizers will be sent to the SMART office at served and there will be a no 1207 SW Frazer Ave, host bar. Tickets may be pur Pendleton, OR 97801. All chased in advance for $ 10 or contributions are tax-de at the door for $ 15 and are ductible since SMART is a available in Morrow County non-profit organization. th ro u g h B arb M oore (SM A RT C o o rd in ato r at Heppner Elementary), Lupe Carillo (SMART Coordina jtjr tor at Sam Boardman Ele mentary) or at the Boardman Chamber of Commerce. In Umatilla County, tickets may be purchased at the Her B y D A V ID S Y K E S miston Chamber, Cottage REALTOR Flowers, Wilcox Furniture or the Stanfield School District B E A U TIFY B ATHR O O M Office. The fastest way to discour clean dirty hath mats. To make The Umatilla-M or age a potential buyer is to have bathroom rugs fluffy, try dry row SMART program cur your home shown with an un ing them with a tennis shoe. rently serves 314 children in tidy bathroom. Little things Remove personal items the two counties. This in count. Keep it looking fresh. (shaving cream, hair spray, cludes 32 at Heppner Ele Before a showing, be sure to c o lo g n e s, e tc .) from the m en tary and 36 at Sam replace used towels with clean counters and around the sink ones. Check for soap film in for a more spacious, tidy look. Boardman Elementary. The and around the bathtub. To Replace messy hand soap with cost of this program is ap clean stubborn tub stains, use liquid soap in a dispenser. Re proximately $3(X) per child undiluted bleach. Vinegar is place tile as needed. Check for for one year. Approximately also a good cleaner for bath clogged drains or drippy fau one-third of the total cost of tub. tile and sink. cets. To add a pleasant scent, the program must be raised Is the shower curtain free put a jar of potpourri (a mix locally with the remainder of o f mildew? If not, wash it or ture of flowers, herbs and spic the funding coming from the replace it. Also, replace or es) on a bathroom counter. state level of the non-profit SMART program. The pro Property listings are available gram provides a part-time at www.sykesrealestate.net ESTATE coordinator in each SMART school who coordinates the 188 W. Willow • P.0. Box 337 • Heppner, OR 97836 adult volunteer readers who (541) 676-9228 • 1-800-326-2152 read at least an hour a week, Cell (541 ) 980-6674 • Fax (541 ) 676-9211 two half hour sessions with E-mail: david@sykesrealestate.net two children by grades K-3. cHeal Estate home in Prineville and land scaped his daughter Nova’s home in Salem. He enjoyed the outdoors, camping, fish ing, hunting, spending time with his family and traveling. He was a “wonderful” car penter and auto mechanic. He was baptized in the B aptist faith and his family remembers him as a true gentleman. He is survived by his w ife o f 71 y ears, A da; daughters, Rene and her h u sb an d . Bob F ish e r o f Prineville, Nova Sweeney of H illsb o ro ; son, D ale Simpson of Prineville; sister, Alice Bellomo of Sandy, Oregon; nine grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and tw o g reat, g re a t grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, son Jim in 2000, brothers, Kenneth, Jack and Ted, and sisters, Mildred, Virginia, Rebecca and June. Arrangements are in the care of the Prineville Funeral Home. M emorial contributions may be made to the Spray Cemetery Fund in care of J.R. Adams, Spray, Oregon 97874 Gilbert Batty G ilb e rt B atty of Medford, died Friday, Feb ruary 16, 2007. He was born N o vember 5, 1925 near Hard man to Joe and Jessie Batty. The family moved to a wheat farm at Eightmile where they lived until 1940 when they purchased a farm near Mon- um ent w here Mr. B atty graduated from high school. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then graduated from Oregon State College. He owned a bulk fuel plant in Brookings, OR and retired in Medford. He is survived by: his wife, Jackie of Medford; his son, David of Medford; his daughter, Pamela of Brook ings; three grandchildren; a brother, Raym ond (Bud) Batty of Heppner; and sev eral nieces and nephews. Death Notices Michael J. Armato Michael J. Armato, 51, form ally o f Heppner, died Monday, February 19, 2007, at LaGrande. Com plete service details and obituary will a p p ea r in next w e ek 's Gazette-Times. Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in charge of arrangements. Charles H . Davidson Charles H. D avid son, 92, of lone, died Satur day, February 17, 2007, at The Dalles. Funeral Service will be held 11 a.m. Friday, Feb ruary 23, 2007, at the lone Community Church. Con cluding service and burial will follow at High View Cemetery in lone. A complete obituary will appear in next week's Gazette Times. Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in charge of arrangements. Student places Kilkenny first at regional named competition Oregon Seven FBLA s tu d en ts from the H eppner chapter of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of Ameri ca) attended Regional Skills Conference at the Eastern Oregon University campus in La Grande on Feb. 8. Two students quali fied to attend the State Lead e rsh ip C o n feren ce in April. Ashley Wolff placed in both of her events, coming in first in Introduction to B usiness and seventh in Business Math. Baillie Kei- thley came in eighth in Ac counting II. The students who attended the regional event were: CydeCoil, Baillie Kei- thley, Kate Kilkenny, Jessi ca C onnor, A m anda Mathew, Eddie Collins, and Ashley Wolff. There were over 430 students in attendance at the regional conference. The top ten places in each event qual ified to go to state. The state conference is in Portland on April 4 - 6 . The Heppner FBLA chapter is currently working to raise funds to be able to attend the conference. The chapter is begin ning a “ G ive Up O ne Day” fund raiser where they are asking every HHS stu dent (grades 7-12) to give up one pop and one candy bar to help each of the girls and their advisor to go to state. If every student do nates $2 (the price of a can dy bar and a pop) it will sponsor one of the girls. If they each do that for only three days, the group will have most of the funds they need for the two students and advisor to attend the event. The chapter can also enter some state-only events and take more students if enough funds come in. The HHS chapter is also seeking business part nerships. Last year the chap ter received such a partner ship from the Bank of East ern Oregon and from the Jones family. The chapter hopes to acquire similar help this year from more busi nesses or individuals/ fami lies in town. Donations may be sent to Heppner High School FBLA chapter, PO Box 67, Heppner, Oregon 97836. There are about 17 students who currently at tend FBLA meetings at the school. Their advisor is Dar lene Marquardt. Marquardt is the Business and Profes sio n al T ech n ical Education teacher at Hepp ner High School. This is the second year that HHS has had an active FBLA chapter. A c cording to research, there was an FBLA chapter at Heppner back in the 50’s and then it disbanded for many years until last school year when it was reactivated. Divorces The Morrow County Circuit Court at the M.C. Courthouse in Heppner has released the fo llo w in g report: -February 15: Stacie Lyn Spencer, Irrigon, and James Lee Spencer, Nampa, Idaho. At the MCGG G R E E N F E E D STORE in Heppner; New Items! O LCAKAN fii: S A L E : ALL KEY INSULATED CLOTHING & WINTER BOOTS: 15% OFF S to c k T a n k H e a te r s a n d D e -Ic e rs : 1 5 % O FF H e a te d B u c k e ts a n d P e t B o w ls : 1 5 % O FF ^ G e o r g ia ^^ continued from page one But th a t’s not the only language Kilkenny will have to speak. He will be closely watched by a large and often vocal faculty, a constituency that has no clear parallel in the business world. And K ilkenny arriv es at a tim e when athletics and its relationship to academics - a sensitive subject in the best of times - is going through one of its periodic discussions at the UO. Even before Kilkenny arrived, p rofessors were upset over a football game being sch ed u led for the weekend before finals next year, co n cern ed at the am ount o f m oney being raised for a th le tic s and worried that the “student” in “student-athlete” is being marginalized. It is too early to ju d g e how facu lty w ill receive the new athletic director, but it seems he at least got off on the right foot. On Wednesday he woke up early to attend a hastily organized breakfast with key faculty members before his ap p o in tm en t was announced, stopped in later at a UO Senate meeting for an introduction, and that evening attended a reception for professors who recently received a new academic honor. “He certainly walks the w a lk ,” said E nglish professor Suzanne Clark, a m em ber o f the ath letic director search committee. “If that represents the kind of commitment he has to the university as a whole, then it’s a good start. I think we're all holding our breath and feeling optimistic.” T hat kind of atte n tio n to his new colleagues across the river could go a long way, hut Kilkenny will have to do more than socialize to win a passing grade from faculty. Problems he’ll have to deal with straight away include the scheduling issue and acad em ic su p p o rt for student athletes. But he also faces a new issue: a grow ing sentiment among professors that seem ingly cash-rich athletic programs, long fed from the general fund before becoming self-supporting a few years ago, ought to be sending som ething back across the river. F aculty m em bers hope “that there would be a way some of the resources the a th le tic d ep artm en t brings in can be shared with the academic side,” Honors C ollege professor David Frank said. “ I understand they are self-sufficient, hut more resources might be fo rth co m in g in this direction.” How K ilkenny handles that while keeping fans, donors, athletes and coaches happy, his teams winning and the cash flow positive will show how well the worlds of business and college sports mesh. Heritage Land Co. 278 N. 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