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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 28,2007 - THREE Children and crashes H opkins presents plaques to Heppner Lions’ members h»t - L\ < ■ i ■ | Dan Van Liew (left) accepting a plaque from Governor Hopkins. Lions Club Gover nor Gerald Hopkins held a presentation for the Heppner Lions on Feb. 21. A D istrict G C on vention will be held at the Desert River Inn in Umatilla on March 9-10. Members of the Heppner Lions will help with the convention. H opkins said that due to his own background, emphasis will be on youth activities including Quest, peace posters, Youth Ex change, and LEO panels. Past District Governor Rog er Trueax will be conduct ing the Young Ambassador speech contest as a part of the event. Other activities, ac cording to Hopkins, will in clude a Friday golf scramble, Friday evening talent show for Lions and community m em bers, a fam ily feud game. Dimes of Diabetes workshop, and leadership panels. Past International D irector Robert Eichhorn will be the guest speaker and discuss the effects of Hurri cane Katrina and donations made by Lions Internation al. During the presenta tion, Dr. Hopkins gave a brief history of Lionism and discussed the goals of Inter national President Jimmy Ross, including self-evalua tions of community projects, working with other agencies on major projects and publi cizing Lion events in the lo cal media. He said the Dis trict G goals also encourage support of the D istrict G Emergency Fund, being in volved in the awards pro grams including the nomina tion of a business that sup ports Lions, and encourag ing others to join a great or ganization. He noted that Hep pner has done much for their community through the sales of fireworks, helping with the M orrow County Fair, holding a rifle raffle, sup porting the Juvenile Diabe tes Association and Migrant Summer School Program. The club also voted to give $44.50 to the D istrict G Emergency Fund. Hopkins concluded the presentation with out standing plaques given to Dan Van Liew, Paula True ax, and Rusty Estes. By Molly Khea Director of Nursing, Home Health and Hospice, Morrow County Health District In January I received a mailing from the Depart ment of Transportation advocating February 11-17 as Na tional Child Passenger Safety Week. The information in cluded sobering statistics as well as an order form to ob tain free educational material on child and infant car seats. Upon reading through the material I wrote myself a note to send for the material and submit an article about this important topic. Well I did send for the educational posters and bro chures, and when they arrived fixed a bulletin board dis play in the hospital hall, but 1 didn’t get around to writing a news release. Until today. This morning I received a mailing from the Legacy Emanuel Children’s Transport Team. This is a team of nurs es, respiratory therapists and physicians that specializes emergency transportation of critically ill or injured chil dren. The transport team's motto is “Because kids need us.” I pulled out the ODOT mailer and reread numbers of children in Oregon that were injured in motor vehicle crash es in 2005 - “ 1,354 child passengers under age eight were injured and six were killed_” Of the injured, head injuries were the most common and often resulted in lifelong dis abilities. The flyer expounded, two out of five of these chil dren were not using child restraints - do the math - 544 kids under the age of eight - were not in a child restraint when the crash occurred. These are school age children - these kids do not drive - a supposed adult is driving. Using the right child restraint can reduce the chance of crash injury an estimated 71 percent for infants, 54 per cent for toddlers, and 59 percent for children in boosters. Oregon has more than four hundred certified child seat technicians who last year inspected 2,580 child and boost er seats; 82 percent were incorrectly used or installed. So how do we assure our children are appropriate ly secured? When I called the Oregon Child Safety Seat Resource Center they referred me to Diane Kilkenny at the Morrow County Health Department. Diane told me that she and Sherry Smith, Public Health Director, are Cer tified Child Seat Technicians and they encourage anyone with a child seat restraint to contact their office at 676- 5421 and one of them will be happy to ensure your child’s restraint is properly installed. Although the transport team’s motto “Because kids need us.” is appropriate, I would like to see fewer children require specialized transport. Those of us transporting chil dren need to do all we can to ensure their safety. The first step is to make sure their car seats are installed correctly. Please call Public Health and get this small step taken. Cruz-In parade entries due H eppner’s seventh Kinzua Mill site) on High annual St. Paddy’s Cruz-In way 74/207. Participants are participants are reminded to asked to arrive by 10:30 a.m. fill out their entry forms and so the parade announcer will send it to P.O. Box 1232, be able to gather facts on Heppner, OR 97836 or call each vehicle before the pa the Heppner C ham ber of rade that begins at noon. The Commerce at 676-5536 or entries will be on display on visit www.heppnerchamber. Water Street in downtown Heppner. com. Pre-registration of P laq u es w ill be $10 received by Tuesday, awarded for Leprechaun’s March 13 will include a dash Choice, Judges Choice, and plaque. On-site registration the M ustang Award (for will be $15. Mustang vehicles), which is P a rtic ip a n ts are sponsored by the Heppner asked to assemble their ve High School student body. The Great Green Pa hicles from 10 a.m. until rade will be at 1 p.m., fol 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, The Oregon Trail Library in Boardman will host an evening of storytelling and discussion with Oregon author March 17, at the northwest lowing the St. Paddy Cruz- entrance to Heppner (former In Parade. Rick Steber on Thursday, March 8, at 7 p.m. Steber is an award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction. He has done extensive research on Oregon and Northwest history. “He is passionate about preserving oral history and traditions and brings this alive with his storytelling,” said a library spokesperson. Holly Rebekah Lodge will be hosting their monthly Everyone is invited to attend. card party this Saturday, March 3, at the Lodge hall in Boardman library to host author Oregon East Symphony Chamber Music Series to hold recital T he O regon E ast Symphony Chamber Music S e rie s p re sen ts L isa R obertson, v io lin ist and Matt Cooper, pianist in a recital on Friday, March 9, at 7:30 pm at the Arts Center of Pendleton, 214 N. Main. Both are on the faculty of Eastern Oregon University. R o b ertso n and Cooper will perform Sonata No. 1 in A minor by Robert Schumann; Sonata No. 1 in A Major by Gabriel Faure; and Night M usic by Ned Rorem, an unusual piece w hose m ov em en ts each portray a different feature of a summer evening. Lisa R obertson is concertmaster of the Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestra in La Grande and the Oregon E ast Sym phony in Pendleton. She earned a B.M . and M .A . at the University o f Iowa and a doctoral degree in violin performance at Florida State University. She taught and played professionally for fifteen years in Germany and Korea, and presently teaches violin, viola, string chamber music and is co-director of the Fiddle Ensemble at EOU. She has soloed in the Brahms Double Concerto with both the OES and Grande Ronde Symphonies. M att C o o p er has been at EOU since 1991 w here he teaches piano, m usic th eo ry and ja z z studies. M att has earned degrees from the University o f C in c in n a ti and the U n iv e rsity o f O reg o n , in clu d in g his D o cto r o f M u sical A rts from the Conservatory of Music at the U. of Cincinnati. He has e arn ed aw ard s at m ajo r ja z z competitions (third place in the T h e lo n io u s M onk In te rn a tio n a l P ian o Competition in 1988) and performed extensively as a classical and jazz pianist as well as with orchestras and in recitals in Oregon and Washington. Tickets are available at the door for $12 adults and $5 stu d en ts 18 and under. Christian Life Center to host family serving in Fiji The Slater family will be at Christian Life Center, 535 W. Morgan St., Heppner, on Sunday, March 4, at 6 p.m. The Slater family is serving the country of Fiji with a specific focus on the youth and children, according to a news release. They are involved in village ministry and pastoral care throughout the islands. The Slaters hold weekly evangelistic outreaches for the youth in the city of Labasa, the largest on the island of Vanua Levu. They are also disciplining a group of “Young Believers” with the purpose of building up spiritual leaders. The Slaters are also excited to promote Kids Quest crusades throughout the Fiji islands, as well as targeting the other Pacific Oceania islands for this specific ministry. They have an open door into the national schools for assemblies and they host visiting ministry teams for kids camps and church building. The Slaters served in the Oregon district for 12 years prior to their first term in Fiji. They were senior pastors in Halsey, Oregon for three years. Before that, they were involved in youth ministry in Prineville. Heppner Garden Club to meet Barb O rw ick and Margaret Flaherty will be sharing gardening helps that are available at our local li brary. Barb and Margaret are employed by the library and want to encourage all citi zens to take advantage of all the helps that the library of fers. They have a story time for the children during li- brary hours. The G arden C lub will meet on Monday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. H ostesses will be Ida Farra and Bebe Munkers. Heppner Garden Club does many activities in the community to help beau tify Heppner and the public is always welcome. Senior Center Lexington Holly Rebekah Lodge Marriage lunch menu Licenses to hold card party The Hope/Valby/All The Morrow County OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO; tl 12 1 Clerk’s Office at the M.C. Courthouse has released the Lexington. Play will start at 7 p.m. following marriage license Prizes will be awarded to the high and low man, report: high and low woman, and traveling. Sandwiches, snacks, -February 26: Mauro and drinks will be served during the evening. Antonio Alatorre Quezada, The cost is $5 per person. Everyone is invited to 20, Boardman, and Rocio attend. V elazquez R iv era, 21, Boardman. Saints Church members will be serv in g d in n e r on Wednesday. March 7. The menu will consist of lasagna with meat, mixed veggies, hot rolls, assorted pies, and juice. ■ See Our Seleetion o f Patrick’s D ay Item s! s LUNCH IS SERVED! Eat In or Take Out... 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