Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (June 20, 2007)
SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 20,2007 Heppner FFA Chapter attends Eastern Oregon Livestock Show Brynna Rust (left) and Jessica Hughes with livestock judge and their sheep Brynna Rust and Jessica Hughes recently attended the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show in Union with their livestock projects. They were competing in the FFA division with their sheep projects. Heppner FFA advi sor Beth Dickenson said she was very pleased with how Heppner's first show went. “Brynna won grand champion overall with her breeding ewe and Jessica received reserve champion overall with her breeding ewe. The girls did an awesome job and I think they had fun in the process,” said Dickenson. Farmers enjoy Morrow County Crop Tour Annual crop tour Local farmers gath ered Friday, June 15, for the annual Morrow County Dry land Crop Tour. The event was hosted by Chris and Cathy Rauch and Steve and Tana Hill who call their joint farm ing operation north o f Lexington, Starvation Farms. Larry Lutcher, Mor row County Extension agent, had a number o f speakers talk about the various test plots that have been set up on their farm. At the first site, Dan Ball spoke o f her bicide options for weed con trol in chem fallow. Larry Lutcher and Don Wysocki, Pendleton Extension agent, gave their insights on old and new varieties of hard red winter wheat at the next stop. Then, Chris Rauch and Bon Lee from the Wheat Marketing Center in Port land gave an overview o f hard white wheat and the m arketing o p p o rtu n ities that lie ahead for farmers who want to try their hand at raising that variety o f wheat. Most o f the HWW that is produced now is used d o m estically . This variety o f w heat makes ex cellent noodles and steam bread. A ustralian HWW only makes good noodles, so according to the experts, Korea, Taiwan and Japan are anxious to buy from us if we will just produce more. The last stop dealt with fertilizer management. Mike Flowers, OSU crop specialist, discussed sev eral pertinent topics such as: With the cost of fertilizer high, how do growers man age it to get the best bang for their buck? Do they put it on in the fall and gamble that they w ill guess the right amount of moisture during the winter? Or do they put it on in the spring after we know what kind o f winter w e’ve had? Or maybe they split it up...part in the fall at planting time and the rest o f it in the spring. Also how do they manage it for protein levels in the red wheats? Flower also shared the re sults of this test plot with those in attendance. A steak din ner provided by M orrow C ounty W heat G ro w ers with “delicious salads and desserts brought by local farm families was the high point of the evening.” The Rauches and the Hills pro vided a slide show o f the history of their farm through the generation-great-grand- father Chris Moehnke on down through Julian and Irv Rauch and now Chris Rauch and his sister Tana Hill. The fifth generation is being raised on the farm now. M illie Rauch had a beautiful quilt displayed in the shop that followed the same topic. G-T closed for Fourth of July The H eppner G a zette-Times office will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, in observance o f Inde pendence Day. The news deadline for the Thursday, July 5 paper will rem ain Monday at 5 p.m. The office will re open at its regular time on Thursday, July 5. I Heppner High School holds Night of Excellence Awards presentation H e p p n e r H ig h School held a Night o f Ex cellence awards night re cently. P re s id e n tia l Awards, given to eighth and 11th grade students earning a 3.5 or higher grade-point average and exceeding in math or reading on the na tional norm state tests were presented to the following students: 11 th grade: Latosha Bowles, Baillie Keithley, W hitney M atthews, Sean M urray, K elsey W olff; eighth grade: Joseph Ar- mato, Lindsay C utsforth, Justin Gutierrez, Brett Har rison, Donald Matthews, Ju lia Meyer, lan Murray, Kelsi Putman, Devin Robinson, Daisy Victorio. Individual academic awards were presented as follows (listed by instruc tor): Jason Palmer, Physi cal Science: Excellence in Earth Science - Julia Meyer; E x cellen ce in P hysics - Sean Murray; Excellence in Physical Science -Maggie Armato. D ieter Waite, Life Science: Excellence in Life Science - Devin Robinson; Excellence in Biotechnol ogy - Maggie Armato; Ex cellence in Biology - Sarah Ballard. J e a n n ie C o llin s , Language Arts 9-10: Ex cellence in Language Arts - Emily Thompson. Mark Dowdy, Lan guage Arts 11-12: Excel lence in Advanced Place ment Language Arts - Regi Seitz; Excellence in Lan guage Arts 11-12 - Maggie Armato. John Flaherty, High School Social Studies: Ex cellence in American Histo ry - Maggie Armato, Sheri- lyn Peck, Sarah Ballard and Spencer Palmer. David Melville, Ju nior High Social Studies and Math: Junior High Social Studies Student o f Year - Julia Meyer; Excellence in Crafty Ladies create smiles Junior High Math - Mayci Garrett; Excellence in High School A lgebra 1 - Zach McCart. Troy Morgan, High School Math: Excellence in Math - Maggie Armato. Petra Payne, Span ish - Spanish Student o f the Year - Maggie Armato. David Fowler, Tech nology E ducation: High School Student o f the Year - Chess Little; Junior High Student of the Year - Devin Robinson. M arian n e S m ith , Art: Excellence in Junior High Art - Julia M eyer; Excellence in Art - Caleb O ’Neal, Amanda Mathew and Keshia Richmond. Joe Lindsay, Music: O utstanding Junior High Band Student - Zechariah H intz; O utstanding High School Band Students - Sean Murray, Jason Hou- weling and Kelsey Wolff: Choir - Kiritina Crumbliss. The following high school students received an academic letter for hav ing a 3.5 or higher grade- point average with five core classes. =Ninth grade: Jodes- sa Chapa, C urtis Harper, Jordan Hatfield, Jared Hud dleston, Keenan Jack, Chris topher Lien, Emily Thomp son, A shley Wolff, Lane Wright. -10th Grade: Mag gie Armato, Sarah Ballard, Spencer Palmer, Sherilyn Peck, Joseph Pranger, Kath ryn Moore, Stephanie Rill, Jo rd a n S h ep h erd , Luke Young. -11th Grade: Luke B asile , Jen n a B ow m an, Latosha Bow les, Cyde Coil, Ignacio Elguezabal, Kelsie Fox, Baillie Keithley, Katie K ilkenny, W hitney M at thews, Josie Miller, Sean Murray, Megan Orr, Kendra Rayburn. -12th Grade: Aaron Allstott, Justin Delveaux, Tony Haguewood, Mahaley Huddleston, Casey O ’Neal, Quinn Peck, Regina Seitz. ‘Crafty Ladies" (left to right) Eve Ironhawk, Ellen Rollis and Marj Spangler, present a Father’s Day gift to Elmer Meligan, a resident at the Willow Creek Assisted Living. The Crafty Ladies, who create arts and crafts proj ects and ‘sunshine baskets’ to cheer people with illness or injuries and for other occasions, meet every Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. and plan to start a new project soon. Anyone who is interested in joining them may call Ellen Rollis, 676-5411, or Marj Spangler, 676-8206 HHS lists honor students H e p p n er High School has re le a se d its fourth-quarter honor roll. Following are the students who have qualified: Seventh grade: Seth Palmer, 4.0, Justin Pranger, Natalie Rauch, Zechariah Hintz, Joanna Patton, Cam- ron Day, Carrie Haguewood, Chase Milner, Cody Nelson, Cody Orr. E ighth g rad e: Jo seph Armato, Willy Gentry, Justin Gutierrez, Brett Har rison, Donald M atthew s, Julia Meyer, lan M urray and Devin R obinson, all 4.0, Kelsi Putman, Lindsay Cutsforth, Brooke Thomp son, Daisy Victorio, Daniel W h ite-Jeffrey s, K olleen Chapa, Amber Gray, Jared Hedman, Keshawna Tala mantes.. Ninth grade: Emily Thom pson, A shley Wolff and Lane Wright, all 4.0, Jared H uddleston, Frank Meyer, C hristopher Lien, Jodessa Chapa, Curtis Harp er, B rynna Rust, Jordan Hatfield, Andrew Johnson, Erin Price. 10th g ra d e : M ag gie Armato, Sarah Ballard, Spencer Palmer, Sherilyn Peck and Jo rd an S h e p herd, all 4.0, Quinn Chick, Grant Smith, Joseph Prang er, Stephanie Rill, Luke Young. N th grade: Latosha Bowles, Sean Murray, Me gan Orr and Kelsey Wolff, all 4.0, Whitney Matthews, Sarah Johnson, Josie Miller, Tim Hauer, Ignacio Elgueza bal, Katie Kilkenny, Baillie Keithley, Luke Basile, Jenna Bowman, Kylie Doherty, Taylor Kempas, Matthew McCabe, Andre Rauch. 12th grade: Aaron A llstott, Sarah Price and Regina Seitz, all 4.0, Jus tin Delveaux, Lyndi Pat ton, Casey O ’Neal, Quinn Peck, Mahaley Huddleston, M eghan G ain es, R obert Smith. lone School Board to hire additional teacher with lone Education Foundation funding T he lo n e School B oard, at th e ir June 11 m eeting, learned that the lone Education F ounda tion Board of Directors has approved a grant o f up to $60,000 to fund a new el ementary school teacher for the 2007-08 school year. With the grant, the lone E lem entary School will include a kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade and combined fourth/fifth classrooms. The purpose o f the grant was to reduce class size and the use o f combination classrooms in the elementary school, es pecially in the primary grade levels. Average class size will now be approximately 10-12 students in kinder garten through third-grade classroom s and 17 in the fourth/fifth-grade combina tion classroom. Also at the June 11 m eetin g , board m em ber Gregg Rietmann was hon ored for his service. He was a member o f the board from 2003-07 and served as co- chairman o f the board and on the facilities committee during his tenure with the district. In other business at the meeting, the board: -approved the fol lowing extra duty contract recommendations for 2007- OS: D ennis Stefani, head high school football coach. head high school boys’ bas ketball coach; Josh Brown ing, assistant high school fo o tb a ll c o a c h ; B ran d i Heideman, head high school volleyball coach, assistant high school girls’basketball coach; Lynn Dee Ramos, assistant high school vol leyball coach; Dean Rob inson, head middle school football coach. O u td o o r School d irector, athletic director; Diana McElligott, m iddle school volleyball coach; Jim Swanson, assis tant high school boys' bas ketball coach; Ryan Rudolf, head high school girls’ bas ketball coach; Dick Allen, middle school boys' basket ball coach; Janet Holland, Read-n-Play, SMART pro gram; Allison Rudolf, Next Step Prep; Karen Holland, English language learner program; Jim Raible, DART program, concessions; and Lindsay Orem, special edu cation, Talented and Gifted program. -approved, in a three to one vote, entering a public relations contract with Um- atilla-Morrow' ESD for the 2007-08 year. According to the contract, the ESD, on an as-needed basis, will write press releases for upcoming events, programs and stu dent or staff achievements; will field media calls, and serve as public information officers; will create flyers. brochures and posters; cre ate fact sheets for the media and provide other commu nity relations services as requested. -heard information regarding the latest proposal to ren o v ate the ex istin g custodial house for use as a weight room. The board has asked that other options be pursued, including the addition of a garage to the custodial house. -adopted the 2007- 08 budget. -approved the ELL plan. -le a rn e d that the next board meeting will be August 20. No board meet ing will be held in July. Texas Hold’em tournament Saturday in lone The lone Red, White & B lues C ru is in ’ to the Blues second annual Texas Hold’em Poker tournament will be held this Saturday, June 23, at the lone Ameri can Legion Hall on Second St. in lone. Sign-up begins at 6 p.m. Those planning to at tend are rem inded that there will be no late sig n u p s. Buy-in will be $40. Cash and prizes will be awarded and a no-host bar will be available. For more informa tion, contact Marvin Pad- berg, 422-7276. WCCC playday held WCCC ladies play- day was held June 12. Low gross o f the field was Eva Kilkenny; low net o f the field was Jean Strange, and least putts o f the field was Joanne Barbie. Flight A: low gross V irginia G ran t; low net Karen Thompson; least putts Betty Christman. Flight B: low gross Luvilla Sonste- gard. Flight C: low gross Pat Dougherty, low net Lorrene M ontgom ery, least putts Bemiece Lott. O ther events: sec ond shot on no. 6 K.P. on all flights - Virginia Grant. Long drive each flight no. 1 - Karen Thompson (A), Luvilla S o n steg ard (B), Bemiece Lott (C). There were 10 play ers participating in the play- day. A nine-hole tourna ment held Tuesday, June 26. s
