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    Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 25,2007 - FIVE
Watershed Field Days
celebrates 10 years
HHS track team hosts meet
Tim Hauer in the last leg of the 4x100 boys relay (they won).
Students identify macro-invertebrates from Willow Creek.
Zack Kurtz in the discus.
Sherilvn Peck starting off the 4x100 relay (the girls won also).
On Tuesday, April
17, Heppner High School
track team hosted the Mus­
tang Invitation Track Meet.
The results are as follows.
Jordan Hatfield: sec­
ond place 110m high hur­
dles, 17.31; second place
300m int. hurdles, 45.19; and
first place triple jump, 40’9”.
Tim H auer: first
place 400m, 54.31.
Zack Kurtz: second
place discus, 115’4 ” ; and
second place javelin, 147’4”.
Brendan McElligott:
first place 1500m, 4:50.
Caleb O ’Neal: first
place 100m, 11.30; second
place 200m, 24.34; second
place long jump, 19’8.5”.
Casey O'Neal: first
place 200m, 24.30; and first
place long jump, 21’ 1.5".
Spencer Palmer: sec­
ond place 400m, 59.12; fifth
place discus, 8 1 '5 ” ; and
eighth place javelin, 113’6”.
D alton W ellm an:
fifth place javelin, 133’2”.
B rittan y B oothe:
eighth place 100m, 14.84.
Jo d essa C happa:
first place 1500m, 6:03.50;
and first place 3000m ,
14:38.87.
Cyde Coil: second
place high jump, 4 ’8”.
Kellee Jones: sev­
enth place 200m, 37.56;
fourth place 400m, 1:34.21.
Katie Kilkenny: first
place 400m, 1:14.10; sev­
enth place javelin, 62’ 1 ”; and
third place high jump, 4 '6 ”.
Catherine McEllig­
ott: first place 300 low hur­
dles, 55.50.
Amber Patton: sixth
place javelin, 63’5”; and first
place high jump, 4' 10”.
Sherilyn Peck: sec­
ond place 200 meters, 28.91;
and first place long jump.
15’.75”.
Erin Price: first place
200m, 28.59; first place
100m high hurdles, 17.34;
and third place triple jump.
31\5".
Sara Price: third
place 100m, 13.93; second
place shot put, 26’5” ; and
second place long jum p,
14’ 10”.
Brynna Rust: first
place 100m, 13.46; and third
place long jump, 14'7.5”.
Kristen VanCleave:
second place 100m high hur­
dles, 18.65; second place
300m low hurdles, 56.95;
first place shot put, 29'9”;
and second place triple jump,
31’7.75”
Ashley Wolff: fifth
place shot put, 20’8”; and
third place discus, 62’3”.
Kelsey Wolff: sixth
place 200m, 34.32; and third Casey Mahen in the triple jump.
place 400m. 1:19.23.
Boys 4x100m relay,
first place: Jordan Hatfield.
Tim Hauer, Caleb Maben.
and Casey Maben, 46.31.
Girls 4x100m relay,
first place: Brittany Boothe,
Sherilyn Peck, Sara Price,
and Brynna Rust, 55.80.
Boys 4x400m relay,
first place: Casey O'Neal, •a w .
S pencer Palm er, D alton
Wellman, and Tim Hauer,
4:01.81.
Girls 4x400m relay,
first place: Brynna Rust,
Sherilyn Peck, Catherine
McElligott, and Erin Price,
5:08.96.
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hacks up the play at Saturdays Softball game against Pendleton's
C team. The Heppner Mustangs played a double header against
Pendleton losing both games.
■Photo b \ Sandy Matthews
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Conservation District; Mor­
row Soil and Water Conser­
vation District; OSU-Co-
lumbia Basin Research Sta­
tion; Natural Resource Con­
servation Service; and Uma­
tilla National Forest and Gil­
liam Soil and Water Conser­
vation District.
In addition. Field
Day organizers have invited
teachers to bring high school
leadership classes and sci­
ence students to the field day
as station presenters and
lead ers. A bout 70 high
school students from Pilot
Rock High, Pendleton High,
Heppner High, lone High,
Irrigon High and Hermiston
High schools will participate.
S tatio n s are d e ­
signed to provide students
with hands-on contextual
learning activities that focus
on a few of the many com­
ponents that make up the
study of Watershed systems.
Teachers will use water con­
servation kits purchased by
the C onsortium to make
water conservation a part of
each student’s future by ap­
plying what was learned at
the field day into daily liv­
ing.
Baker City
Degree Day held
April first was not an
“April Fools” day this year.
The S tate D egree Team
traveled to Baker City to
confer all of the degrees. The
In itiato ry D egree was
co n ferred on seven new
m em bers and four other
members took the rest of the
degrees as well.
The team was made
up of the Grand Master Patty
Olson, Grand Warden Allan
Jackson, Grand Secretary
John
B lades,
G rand
T rea su rer R obert Lynn,
Assembly Secretary Vangy
P ro v in s,
three
past
presidents, three past grand
m asters and six oth er
members from around the
state. One brother from
Idaho also came and took
part.
The team
was
pleased to he able to travel
to Baker City and confer the
degrees on this wonderful
class of candidates.
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The M orrow Soil
and Water Conservation Dis­
trict was part of the concep­
tion of the Watershed Field
Days program in 1997. This
year the WFD will be cele­
brating 10 years. The local
Willow Creek site is sched­
uled on Wednesday, May 2,
from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.
at Duane Neiffer’s property
west of Lexington.
The presenters will
be served barbequed ham­
burgers this year to celebrate
the 10 year anniversary.
Some of the presenters have
been donating their time for
the field day every year.
The McKay Creek
field day is located south east
of Pendleton and is sched­
uled on Monday, April 30
and Tuesday. May 1, the
Umatilla River Site is locat­
ed west of Hermiston and
scheduled on Thursday and
Friday, May 3-4.
For the past nine
years, the Watershed Field
Days have created an invalu­
able learning experience with
in-the-field, hands-on learn­
ing about our most valuable
resource -water. More than
4000 elem entary, m iddle
school and high school stu­
dents have participated in the
Field Days over the years.
The Watershed Fifcld
Day exposes students to the
concept o f “ W atershed.”
Within the Watershed con­
cept, the learning stations
focus on two themes: Agri­
cultural Practices That Ben­
efit the Environment, and
Healthy Streams: Evaluation
and Restoration Skills.
Each day the s tu ­
dents will rotate among sev­
en different learning stations
that include: Soil Develop­
ment and Formation; Weath­
er and Watersheds; Wheat
Plant Identification and Plant
E x p erim en tatio n P ro ce ­
dures; Mapping - GPS and
compass work; M acro-in­
vertebrate Sam pling and
Identification; Water Quali­
ty Monitoring and Testing;
and Stream Bank Stabiliza­
tion and Restoration.
Presenters from area
natural resource agencies
and school educators will
teach the Field Day Stations.
Agencies participating in the
Field Days include: Nation­
al Weather Service - NOAA;
Umatilla Basin Watershed
Council; Oregon D epart­
ment of Agriculture; USDA-
Agriculture Research Sta­
tion; Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife; The Con­
federated Tribes of the Uma­
tilla Indian R eservation;
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