T W O ■ Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 14,200 7
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2007 Pheasants Forever
banquet to be held
The Columbia Plateau Chapter of Pheasants forev
er will hold it’s second annual banquet Saturday, April 14,
starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Heppner Elks Lodge. “We are
moving to a little different format for this year's Banquet,”
said Skip Matthews, Chapter President, “We had such an
awesome response at our first banquet last year we will be
expanding the dinner time and moving the auctions up
stairs to give everybody a little more room to move around.”
Pheasants Forever is a national non-profit conser
vation group that raises funds for upland wildlife habitat.
“One of the great things about our fundraising effort is
that all of the money that we raise from the banquet stays
in control of our local group,” said Matthews. “We are
able to put nearly 100% of our funds into conservation
and habitat efforts here in Morrow, Gilliam and Umatilla
Counties.”
Banquet flyers for dinners and sponsor packages
are available now at several local businesses. The tickets
and prices are as follows: Single - $50 (Includes 1 PF mem
bership, 1 dinner ticket, 10 raffle tickets); Couple - $60
(Includes 1 membership, 2 dinner tickets, 20 raffle tick
ets); Ringneck - $30 age 15 and under (PF Ringneck mem
bership, PF Ringneck hat, 1 dinner ticket, 10 youth raffle
tickets, 1 youth banquet gun raffle ticket); Rooster Booster
- $ 125 (1 membership, 2 dinner tickets, 50 raffle tickets, 1
ticket for banquet gun).
Sponsors: Long Tail Feather - $250 (1 membership, PF
hat, 2 dinner tickets, 75 raffle tickets, 1 ticket for banquet gun,
and 1 ticket for sponsor gun); Silver Spur - $500 (2 member
ships, PF hat, 4 dinner tickets, framed print, 200 raffle tickets,
1 ticket for sponsor gun, 2 tickets for banquet gun; Golden Spur
- $1,000 (2 memberships, PF hat, 4 dinner tickets, framed print,
200 raffle tickets, 2 tickets for sponsor gun, 4 tickets for ban
quet gun).
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St. Patrick’s celebrates 25th anniversary
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as the oldest native-born
Irish w om an w ith an
aw ard from John F.
Kilkenny. Bill Lowe won
the H u tc h 's P rin tin g
A w ard as the old est
Englishman present. Kate
Daly won as the oldest
native Irish person bom in
C ounty C o n eg al and
K athleen H isler was
nam ed the oldest Irish
person whose ancestors
came from County Leitrim
and she won a prize
donated by Ralph Currin.
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P ierce
d e cla re d
that
Ron
McDonald was awarded a
prize
from
B oyce
Insurance for being the
oldest Scotchman present;
Vic Lovgren was given a
prize from H-M Ranch for
being the oldest Irish-
Sw ede. Red L eonard,
H erm isto n , got the
T urner-V an M arter &
Bryant Insurance award as
the
re d d e st-fa c e d
Irishman, or facsimile, and
Bud batty was awarded a
prize
from
M&R
Floorcovering because he
was judged the shortest
Irishman or facsimile.
The newest Irish
Immigrant prize, donated
by Eb Hughes, went to
P atricia (M rs. P atrick
Campbell) a recent-from-
Irelan d
b rid e.
The
you n g est Irish person,
Janelle Healy, gained a
prize given by Paul Hisler,
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Photos from 1982 Heppner Gazette-Times
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staff are working to help
prepare for the memorial by
collecting photos to display
and arranging for flowers.
T he
U m atilla-
Morrow Education Service
District’s (UMESD) Crisis
Flight Team was activated
M onday m orning to the
school to set up a safe room
and to help students and staff
cope with the loss.
The C risis F lig h t
Team is a specially trained
team of responders from the
UMESD and local school
districts who are available to
assist adm inistrators and
provide support to students,
staff and parents during
traumatic situations that may
affect the school’s climate. A
school adm inistrator may
request the C risis Flight
Team be activated, which
Browning did. A pastor also
responded to the school this
morning to assist students
and staff. Browning said
once students began talking
about Kendrick’s death this
morning, emotions began to
rise and “they definitely kept
the Crisis Right Team busy.”
“They just need to
talk about it,” Browning
said. “With such a small
school and town, everyone's
really close, so it’s hitting us
hard.”
Several students on
a youth gro u p trip to
California have been notified
of Kendrick's death and will
return to school Tuesday,
Browning said. “I'm sure
that’s when things will get
really tough, when they
come back,” she added.
A benefit lasagna
dinner was held Tuesday
night from 6-8 p.m. at the
lone High School cafeteria
to raise m oney to help
Kendrick’s parents, Susan
and Andre Kendrick, who
have had to take time off of
work and need help to pay
for their son’s funeral.
B row ning
said
com m unity
m em bers
stepped in to lend support to
the benefit dinner and have
already opened a fund at the
Heppner Parent
Teacher Club to
raffle off baskets
this weekend
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The Heppner Parent
Teacher Club will be raffling
off baskets during the St.
Patrick’s Day festivities this
coming weekend.
Members have been
hard at work gathering the
contents and local businesses
have been very generous in
g iv in g . T hey have six
options: Wine Things, Just
for K ids, Just fo r M en,
Pamper Time, Spring, and A
N ight on the Town in
Pendleton.
T hey w ill be out
sellin g tick ets at the
Motocross, before the fiddle
group Lott’s Electric, before
and after the parade, and
other locations throughout
the weekend. The baskets
will be on display at Heppner
T.V. The drawing will be
held Sunday, at the end of the
Road Bowling Court.
Tickets are $1 each
or six for $5, and can be
p u rch ased b efo re the
w eekend, ju s t call A lita
Nelson at 676-8733.
off Stansbury during school
hours in stead o f ju st
permanently closing it down.
“This decision affects more
neighborhoods than just the
sc h o o l,” said H eppner
Mayor Les Paustian. “The
superintendent says kids
have darted out from behind
a pillar in front of traffic. A
b a rric a d e
w ould
be
effective,” he said.
Morrow County
S h e riff’s D eputy Randy
Rayburn, who lives in and
patrols around Heppner, said
it would be easiest to close
the street off during school
hours, but he w ould not
particularly like to see it
closed down for good. He
cited times such as during
rodeo when a closure would
cause traffic problems.
H ep p n er C ity
m anager Dave D eM ayo,
who had earlier met with
school officials about the
street, said closing it down
was a city council decision.
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any questions, please contact
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public information officer
during this time.
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crooked 2x4 from Kinzua
corp. which went to the
“C rookedest Irishm an”
Jimmy Farley.
T he
en tire
M orrow
C ounty
Community gained much
pride and joy on its prize
winning St. Patrick’s Day
in 1982. L e t’s do this
every year.
lone School planning Thursday memorial service
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The H eppner Jr. High band perform ed under the direction of
Jim A ckley.
photos by David Sykes
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A leprechaun, alias D onna
M oeller.
UPSTAIRS AT THE HiPPNER ELKS LODGE
SATURDAY, MARCH 1 7th STARTING AT 8 :30 RM .
DANCE TO "FREE RAIN" - M s ROCK BAND FROM SEATTLE
T he
co u n cil
voted
unanimously to not support
closure of Stansbury Street.
In other action the
council heard a report from
city public works director
Brian Harmon, who said it
cost the city over $45,000 to
clean the d ig ester at the
sewer plant. The project was
recently com pleted by a
com pany from Portland,
w hich dug out sludge
accum ulating for “ many
years” in the bottom of the
tank “The workers said that
was the worst tank they had
ever seen,” said Harmon. He
said everything from towels
to syringes was pulled out of
the gunk, and that at $20 per
ton, it cost the city $3,500
to dump the debris at Finley
Buttes landfill.
To c o rre ct the
problem the city has been
discussing several proposed
upgrades to the sewer plant,
including a new grinder and
mixer. Those repairs have
been estimated to cost up to
$200,000, money the city at
this time does not have.
In other business,
the council approved an
ag reem en t w ith the Bi-
C ounty C om m unications
B oard for use o f rad io
frequencies in the area. The
city is going to purchase
radios for the public works
department that will need to
use the frequencies. The
radios are being purchased
with $8,000 of “tippage”
money received this year
from the county.