SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 13,2007
Wheat Foundation announces scholarship winners HHS Greenhouse holds plant sale Heppner FFA
The Oregon Wheat
Foundation has announced
the 2007 scholarship recipi
ents. $500 scholarships
were awarded to four high
school seniors, M ichelle
R ucker, A rlin g to n H igh
School. Regi Seitz, Heppner
H igh S ch o o l, W hitney
Lenhart, Helix High School
and Stacy M arie B ird,
Sherman High School. Stu
dents were judged on their
com m unity involvem ent,
academic achievement and
an essay on a wheat indus
try topic.
M ichelle R ucker,
A rlin g to n High S chool
graduate, is the daughter of
Jim and Sarah Rucker. She
was very active in volleyball,
basketball, track and rodeo.
She served as a 4-H junior
and teen leader. She will at-
tend Oregon State Univer
sity and major in business
with a minor in exercise and
sports science.
Regi Seitz graduated
from Heppner High School.
Her parents are Wayne and
Lori Seitz. She served as a
4-H A m bassador, a teen
leader for Students Today
A re n ’t R eady for Sex
(STARS), and lettered in
three sports. She plans to
study pre-law at Oregon
State University.
W hitney L enhart,
daughter of Steve and Cindy
Lenhart, graduated from
Helix High School. She was
active in 4-H, FFA, basket
ball, volleyball and Euro
club. She plans to be an en
gineer and will begin her col
lege edu catio n at Blue
Mountain Community Col-
Charles Kidd Scholarship awarded
Robert Turner of Ir-
rigon has received the $250
Charles Kidd Scholarship
administered by the Board-
man Tillicum Club. This
aw ard is given based on
community service involve
ment.
Turner is a 2007 Riv
erside High School graduate
and is a 2006 Renaissance
Award winner. He participat
ed in football, basketball and
track and has received sev
eral awards for sports dur
ing his four years at River
side High School. His com
munity service involved vol
unteering at the Irrigon Wa
termelon Festival, Riverside
Kids Basketball Camp, Fam
ily Worship Center, Cycle
Oregon, and carpentry and
welding projects for the high
school. He plans to attend a
four year college to study
engineering.
The Boardman Tilli
cum Club is Boardman’s old
est service club and admin
isters the C h arles K idd
Scholarship given to gradu
ating Riverside High School
students with an emphasis on
community service. Applica
tions for 2008 high school
graduates may be obtained at
the counselor’s office at Riv
erside High School.
Lexington Baptist VBS cancelled
T he
L ex in g to n
Baptist Church will not be
able to sponsor a vacation
Bible school June 19 through
June 23 as p re v io u sly
planned.
T he youth group
from the Umatilla Baptist
Church, who had planned to
lead the program, will not be
available that week.
The church hopes to
be able to sch ed u le an
a ctiv ity at a later d ate,
a cco rd in g to a church
spokesperson.
60th Annual Spray Rodeo May 26-27,2007
Thank you to the following Sponsors:
Event Sponsors: Bareback Riding - Gardner Enterprise, Inc.
(John Day); Calf Roping - Jim Doherty Construction (Spray); Breakaway
Roping - Bank of Eastern Oregon (Heppner); Saddle Bronc Riding -
Western Ranch (Redmond & Pendleton); Steer Wrestling - Sunburst
Fabrications, Inc. (Redmond); Barrel Racing - Johnny Creek Ranch
(Kimberly); Wild Cow Milking - Eisele Farms, Inc. (Boring & Spray);
Team Roping - Stanley Ranch LLC & Hotel Condon (Fossil); Bull Riding
- K Bar M Ranch LLC (Kimberly); All-Around Champion Saddle - D R
Johnson Lumber Co & 4 J Ranch (Riddle & Spray).
Chute Sponsor Signs: Lone Elk Market (Spray); Real Estate
Outback, Inc. (Spray); River Bend Retreat (Spray); Cupper Creek Land
Co. LLC (Kimberly); River Bend Motel (Spray); Top Dog Landscape
Maintenance (Redmond).
Flag Sponsors: Corn Cob Ranch (Spray); Bank of Eastern
Oregon (Heppner); Kimberly Rock Products & Rock ‘N Real Estate
(Kimberly); Les Schwab Tire Center (Heppner); Pendleton Grain
Growers (Pendleton); Don Moss Enterprises (Dayville); Jim Doherty
Construction (Spray); J & Z Shuttles (Spray); Wheeler County News
(Spray); John Day River Veterinary Center (John Day); Oregon Trail
Rodeo Boosters (Heppner).
Buckle Sponsors: Stanley Ranch LLC & Hotel Condon (Fossil);
Lone Elk Market (Spray); Les Schwab Tire Center (John Day); River
Bend Retreat & Motel (Spray); Eisele Farms, Inc. (Boring & Spray);
Rick & Sue Petersen (Pnneville); Robert & Anita Cody (Spray); Western
Ranch (Redmond & Pendleton); Wilson Ranches Retreat Bed &
Breakfast (Fossil).
Fence Sponsor Signs: Columbia Power Co-op (Monument);
Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc. (Lexington); Prineville Men's Wear
(Prineville); Kimberly Center (Kimberly); Fossil General Mercantile
(Fossil); Roger Britt Excavating & Septic Service (Heppner); D-Wave
Cattle Co. (Dayville); Eisele Farms, Inc. (Boring & Spray); Dallas Newton
Welding (Spray); Les Schwab Tire Center (Heppner); Kimberly
Orchards LLC (Kimberly): 44 Ranch Rawley Stanley (Hermiston); Trails
End Farm Supply, LLC (Condon); Swaggart Brothers, Inc. (Hermiston);
Lazy J's Charolais Ranch (Kimberly); Pettyjohn's Farm & Building
Supply (Heppner); Grant County Ford (John Day); Woodpecker Truck
(Pendleton); Eckman Construction, Inc. (Bend); Boyers Cash Store
(Monument); Grant County Building Supply (Canyon City); Peterson
Machinery Co. (Redmond); Rocky Smith General Construction
(Redmond); Bar WB (Prairie City); Tyrholm Big R, Inc. (Klamath Falls);
Bisnett Insurance. Inc. (John Day); Wilson Ranches Retreat B & B
(Fossil); OS Innco, Inc. DBA Oxford Suites (Bend); Cornerstone
Surveying, Inc. (John Day); Sun Rocks RV Resort (Prineville); Prairie
Springs Fish Farm (Dayville); Bradley Thoroughbred Brokerage
(Lexington, Ky); Fossil Fuel (Fossil); Ted Britt Logging (Heppner);
Russells Custom Meats (Canyon City); Lazy Wolf Resort (Spray); Colin
Macarthur Equipment (Dayville); Cupper Creek Land Company &
Kimberly Rock Products (Kimberly); Don Moss Enterprises (Dayville);
Franks Creek Ranch (Dayville); Precision Helicopter Logging (Bonners
Ferry, Id); Coldwell Banker Sun Country Realty (Prineville).
Thank you to Tom & Debbie Campbell for donating the sheep
for the Mutton Bustin; Joe, Pat, & Mark Kmtz for donating the pigs for
the kids pig scramble; Judy Alford family & Bob A Glenda Lee for
sponsoring the horse races; Morrow County Grain Growers for the use
of the tractor; Rockey Goode'l for use of equipment; all who donated
cash: and our many volunteers.
Spray Rodeo Association, Inc.
i
i
lege.
Stacy Marie Bird is
the daughter of Patrick and
Debbie Bird. She graduated
from Sherman High School
and plans to study nutrition
and exercise science. She is
a 2A state track champion,
editor of her school year
book. and participated in a
wide variety of community
service projects.
O regon
W heat
Foundation Scholarships are
open to high school seniors
whose parents are wheat
producing members of the Frank Meyer helps customer Sandy Matthews with her selections
O regon W heat G ro w ers during the recent plant sale held at the Heppner High School
League or whose parents are greenhouse.
employed by members of the
organization. Scholarship
applications for 2008 high
school graduates are avail
able online at www.owgl.org
Umatilla
Landing Days
preparations
underway
The Umatilla Volun
teer Firefighter’s Association
and the Umatilla Chamber of
Commerce will be working
together again this year to
host the “best Landing Days
Celebration yet” on Satur
day, June 23.
The entire celebra
tion will be held at the Uma
tilla Marina.
Familiar features at
this annual celebration in
clude: Saturday, June 16 -
Distinguished Citizens Ban
quet (held at the Desert Riv
er Inn); 5K Fun RunAValk at
Spillway Park kicks off Sat
urday’s events; Parade fol
lows at 10:30 am.; and Clas
sic car show (as long as they
receive entrants).
There will also be a
kids’ fishing pond; bouncy
houses; flea market; local
entertainm ent throughout
the day on the "main stage”;
street dance with two live
bands, Blue T atto o and
Nuketown; a beer garden
opens at noon; and a fire
works show at dusk.
For D istinguished
Citizens Banquet ticket in
formation, contact the Uma
tilla Chamber of Commerce
Office, 541-922-4825, tem
porarily located inside the
Umatilla City Hall.
Entry forms for the
5K Fun RunAValk are avail
able at the Umatilla Cham
ber of Commerce, Umatilla
Fire Station, Umatilla City
Hall and local health clubs.
Entry into the race is $ 15 and
each entrant receives a tank
top. Pre-registration is pre
ferred. however participants
may sign up the morning of
the run.
T he run starts at
Spillway Park ju st below
McNary Dam. Instructions
will be given at 7:45 a.m.
with the run starting at 8:15
a.m.
Anyone who would
like to be in the parade, en
try forms are available at the
Chamber of Commerce Of
fice. Pre-registration is nec
essary if you want your en
try to be judged.
Parade participants
need to gather at the Uma
tilla High School parking lot.
The parade starts at 10:30
a.m., on Saturday, June 23.
There is still space
available in the flea market.
Rental is $25 per 20' x 20'
space. To reserv e your
space, call 541-571 -0031.
For more inform a
tion. call the Fire Station at
541-922-3718 or Maureen
Roxbury at 541-314-8903.
banquet held
The H eppner FFA
Chapter recently held their
first annual FFA Banquet at
which, supporting citizens
and “hardworking” students
were honored for their in
volvement in FFA.
B rian and Susie
Thompson and family and
Ken Bailey and family were
honored for going “above
and beyond” for the FFA
Chapter, and are now mem
bers of the FFA Honorary
Chapter.
The D istinguished
Service Award was given to
many businesses and individ
uals that gave support to the
FFA Chapter, said advisor
Beth Dickenson. Kevin and
Angie Hughes, Tim and Sh
annon R ust, B o b b ette
Lovgren, Daye Stone, Vicky
Rayburn, Lorrie Fox and
Mark Burrows were all help
ful in helping organize activ
ities, working at the activi
ties, chaperoning FFA activ
ities or donating money to
the chapter.
Pendleton Electric
d o n ated o v er $ 4 ,0 0 0 in
labor to help rew ire the
greenhouse and barn, and
M orrow C o u n try G rain
Growers donated the pro
pane tank for the greenhouse
and
installed the heater. Co
Lane YVright uses his customer service skills with Bailley Keithly
lumbia Plateau Pheasants
as she decides which hanging basket to buy her mom.
Forever was a “huge help”
when it came to needing
money for field trips, said
Dickenson. They
offered numerous fundrais
ing activities for FFA and
horticulture classes to do.
Students received
aw ards
fo r
th e ir
p articip atio n in the FFA
chapter. Discovery Degrees
w ere aw ard ed to Lane
Wright, Whitney Matthews,
Frank Meyer and Heather
Wiggers, allowing them to
continue their success in
FFA.
Green Hand Degrees
were awarded to members
that have participated in FFA
and have satisfactory plans
fo r th e ir SA E p ro je c ts.
These members were Emily
Thom pson, Brynna Rust,
Jonathon Hendricks tries on the homh suit with a little help from
D alton W ellm an, Taylor
Karl Farher and Dennis Wagner.
Disque, Kendra Rayburn,
K elsie Fox, S tep h an ie
Howard, Wacy Coil, Jason
W ainwright, Trent M iles,
E sg ar S an ch ez, D illon
Lutcher and Jessica Hughes.
The S tar
G reen
Hand Award was given to
the most active member (and
voted on by their classmates)
who has a strong SAE and
had dem onstrated leader
ship. This year the receiver
o f the S tar G reen H and
Karl Farher and Dennis Wagner talk to the class and show some Award was Kendra Rayburn.
“The Heppner FFA
of the equipment that they us on the joh.
hopes to continue the tradi
tion o f the FFA Banquet
for many years to com e,”
said Dickenson.
HHS students receive presentation
from OSP and Bomb Squad
FFA car
wash to be
held Friday
Karl Farher and Dennis Wagner prepare to set the robot up to
he used in a demonstration.
-Allphotos hy Beth Dickenson
Karl F arb er and
Dennis Wagner from the Or
egon State Police and Bomb
Squad cam e to H eppner
High School to present in
formation about their careers
and students' future possibil
ities during a presentation
during Beth D ickenson's
freshman careers class.
They brought out a
bomb suit and students were
able to try it on and go for a
walk (it w eighs approxi
mately 90 pounds), and on a
hot day it was far from com
fortable.
They also brought
the robot used with bombs
and were able to show stu
dents how it worked.
Farber, an Oregon
State Trooper also talked
about his experience being
on the SWAT team and a fire
investigator.
A
c ar
w ash,
sponsored by the Heppner
FFA Chapter, will be held
th is F riday, June 15,
beginning at 9 a.m. behind
Les Schwab on Main Street
in Heppner.
FFA m em bers are
raising money to attend the
national FFA convention in
Indianapolis.
D onations will be
accepted.
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