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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 11,2007 - FIVE High school student interns with “ Radium Girls” to be presented Representative Greg Smith B> \Iuhalt-) Huddleston Last fall H eppner High senior R.J. Farrens, due to his interest in politics, was interviewed for an internship with our representative Greg Smith. The internship took place in Salem at the State Capital building. According to R.J., Greg Smith went above and beyond introducing the world of politics to him. R.J. sat in on sessions while bills were getting passed, with Mr. Smith right there explaining every step o f the way, making sure R.J. got the most out of the experience. R.J receiv ed the opportunity to testify on a House Bill in front of the judiciary committee. The bill dealt with freedom of speech in high school and college newspapers. R.J. stated that Greg Smith’s willingness to m ake sure he had an understanding of the political world, was unmatched by any o th er d istric t representative. R.J. plans to attend University of Oregon where he plans to take new steps in furthering his education in the world of politics. HHS student qualifies for National FBLA conference Two students and a teacher made their way to the FBLA state leader ship conference in Port land on April 4, 5 and 6 and brought home a win. A shley W olff placed second in the en tire state for her event (In troduction to Business) and qualifies to represent the state of Oregon at the National FBLA confer ence in Chicago, IL in late June (June 28-July 1). Donations will be accept ed from individuals and Ashley Wolfe brings home award and plans for trip to businesses to help fund the trip to the windy city. Chicago. -Photo by Darlene Marquardt Checks can be made pay able to H eppner High School FBLA. Dependability. Skill. Trust. «:is You can depend on and trust Air Life of Oregon to be there in your time of need. You will be cared for by highly trained, skilled professionals utilizing state-of-the- art medical equipment. lone Education Foundation brings the world to classrooms by HHS Drama Club "Radium G irls,” a drama by DW Gregory, will be presented by the Heppner High School Drama Club. The drama is based on a true story. Show d ates and tim es are as follow s: Wednesday, May 16, at 7 p.m.; Monday, May 21, at 7 p.m.; Wednesday, May 23, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 26, at 1 p.m.; and Saturday, May 26 at 7 p.m. General admission tickets can be purchased at Sw eet P ro d u ctio n s Ice Cream Parlour for $3. Each showing is limited to 100 seats. Ladies Play Day held at WCCC The Willow Creek Country Club Ladies Play Day was held Tuesday, April 10. Results were as follows: Low gross of the field was Pat Edmundson; low net of the field was Pat Dougherty; least putts of the field was Corol Mitchell; flight A low gross was Virginia Grant; flig h t C low gross was Bernice Lott; flight C low net was JoAnn Barbee; and flig h t C least putts was Beverly Steagall. In other events KP 3rd shot on #2 w ere Pat E dm undson, V irginia G ran t, C orol M itchell, Pat Dougherty, JoAnn Barbee, and Bernice Lott. A total of seven players attended. April tee off time is 10 a.m. Pictured are bottom row (l-r): Cathy Halvorsen, Linda NeitTer. and Lindsay Orem. Middle row <1- r): Brandi Orem. Karen Holland, and Barbara Collin. Top row I l-r): Dean Kohinson. Jim Kaihle, and Ryan Rudolph. Globes arrived this students are better versed in The lone Education week to lone Community locating the world's oceans, Foundation is a non-profit School’s classrooms. Teach continents, and countries. o rg a n iz a tio n that was ers were excited to receive The elem en tary formed to enhance and sup the large globes as most of classroom s also received port the lone Community the globes in the school still Sony CD Walkman players School. lone E d u catio n had East and West Germany for their classrooms. These Foundation also finances a on them. Students and staff players provide students the portion of the music pro look forward to using the opportunity to listen to text gram and many other en new globes for geography, and stories as they practice deavors at lone Schools. science and math. Already, their reading fluency. WC Ladies hold opening day activities The Willow Creek Ladies held their opening day activities on Tuesday, April 3. Tw enty ladies braved the brisk early morn ing air, and frosty car win dows, to enjoy the breakfast, cooked and served by the ladies’ board. The spring business meeting was held, followed by scramble team play, with 18 ladies partici pating. The officers for 2007 are: President, Luvilla Son- Benefit Mexican dinner and auction to be held A Mexican dinner and auction benefit will be held for Roy Proctor on Saturday, April 2 1, from 4 to 7 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish Hall. Roy was diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia and is in need of a bone marrow transplant. The transplant is scheduled to happen in New York. The cost is $5 per person. Roy’s 2006 HHS classmates and community members are organizing this event. MaryAnn Elguezabal, Roberta Lutcher, and Dora Collins are organizing the dinner. Anyone unable to attend and would like to make a donation to the Proctor family, an account has been set up at the Bank of Eastern Oregon under "The Proctor Family Medical Fund." For more information about the dinner and auction contact Shelli Britt at 676-5478 or Reica Herbison at 676- 5343. Lindsey Lobe and Brian Haguewood Saturday, April 28 in Odessa, WA MlfWiOj'J Dwj L 217 North Main • Heppner • Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 Serving Heppner, Lexington & lone steg ard ; V ice-P resid en t, Lorrene Montgomery; Sec retary-Treasurer, Virginia Grant; Board Members, Pat Dougherty, Beverly Steagall and Pat Edmundson. Winners for the day were: a three way tie for first place, team of Betty Carlson, Joanne B arbee, and Loa Henderson; team of Virginia Grant. Bernice Lott, and Bev Steagall; and the team of Eva Kilkenny, Neva DeMayo, Suzanne Jepsen and Pat Ed m undson; second place, team of Corol Mitchell. Pat D ougherty, Sherree M a honey and Lorrene Mont- gomery; third place, team of K aren T h o m p so n , S ally Walker, Barbara Gilbert and Jackie Allstott. In special events, K.P. #3 won by the team of Betty Carlson, Joanne Bar bee and Loa Henderson, and K.P. #6 won by the team of Eva K ilkenny, N eva De- Mayo, Suzanne Jepsen. and Pat Edmundson. The Tuesday WCCC Ladies' Group meets every Tuesday through September. Play begins at 10 a.m. in A pril, players should be there by 9:45 a.m. to sign up for the day’s activity. HES announces third quarter honor card recipients Congratulations to the recipients of the Heppner Elementary School honor card for the third quarter of the 2006-07 school year. Kindergarten: Jacee Currin. Gibson McCurry, Cason Mitchell. Naleah Stone, Sam Bricker, Keegan Gibbs, Claire Grieb, Caitlyn Scrivner. Cheyenne Smith, and Leo Waite. First grade: Cara Arbogast..Kassidee Cimmiyotti, Morgan Correa, Riley Gorham. Diana Healy. Darby Holtz, Payton Lehman, Alex Lindsay, Dillon McCorkle, Shayna Osmin. Nichole Shaw. Kevin Smith, Reiah Waite, and An drea Woods. Second grade: Kaden Corbin-Wickland. Kolby Currin, Bryan Fowler. Logan Grieb, Caden Hedman, Tim Jaca, Kevin Murray, Demitra Schmidt, Nalani Stone, Kane Sweeney. Jeremiah Vogele, and Lane Wilhelm. Third grade: Caitlynn Bailey, Tommy Bredfield, Joyce Chen. 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