Special Edition • Morrow County Fair and Rodeo • Heppner Gazette-Times Wednesday. August 8, 2007 - Page 11
Jarreid Miller, Ashley Anderson Morrow County Fair & Rodeo pennant bearers
the fair and rodeo court, he
enjoys playing football and
wrestling. He has had sheep,
beef, goat, poultry and horse
4-H projects. He and his
family have many animals
on their “hobby farm.” He
also likes reading science
fiction.
Pennant bearer Ash-
ley Anderson also has a sister
on the 2007 court. Princess
Makayla Anderson. Ashley,
15, is the daughter o f Larry
and M arcia A nderson o f
Boardman. Her grandpar
ents are Mick and Maxine
Cimmiyotti o f Hermiston.
This fall Ashley w ill
be a sophomore at Riverside
Junior/Senior High School.
She is a member o f National
Honor Society and played
on the JV basketball team.
She participates in the 4-H
with horse and steer proj
ects. clothing construction
and fashion revue. She is
also a member o f the Irrigon
High School FFA club.
Synergy band to perform at fair
Ashley Anderson (left) and Jarreid Miller
Ja rre id M ille r o f
H eppner and Ashley A n
derson o f B oardm an are
serving as Morrow County
Fair and Oregon Trail Pro
Rodeo Pennant Bearer this
year.
Jarreid, the son o f
Reid and Sheila Miller o f
Lexington, joins his sister,
Josie Miller, on the court as
Josie is fair and rodeo queen
this year.
Jarreid , w ill be a
ninth-grader at Heppner Ju-
nior/Senior High School this
fall, has grandparents who
live locally, Joe and Bon-
naRae Miller, Heppner, and
George and Myrna Sieler,
Lexington.
Besides serving on
A band with local
ties is coming to the Morrow
County Fair this year. “Syn
ergy,” w ith former Heppner
resident Nathan Johnson,
will perform on Friday, Au
gust 17, from 4-6 p.m.
The band co n sist
o f five members: Nathan
Johnson, 17, has played bass
guitar for three years. He
became interested in mu
sic when he was in Wendy
Appleton's fifth-grade band
class in Heppner. Since then
he has moved to Tigard and,
along w ith other members of
the band, plays in the Tigard
High School guitar class. El
liott Hocker, 16, also plays
guitar. He has been playing
guitar for tw o years. He
started playing piano and
trumpet in fifth grade and
currently plays the French
horn. He also enjoys writing
songs for the band. M ar
cus Williams, 18, a recent
graduate from Tigard High
School, has played guitar
for three years and also
enjoys w riting songs for
the band. Autumn Briggs,
17, also a recent graduate
from Tigard High School,
plays guitar and sings vocal
when needed. She has been
Synergy (left to right): top-Autumn Briggs, Marcus Williams;
hottom-F.lliott Mocker, Nathan Mocker, Nathan Johnson
The band is influ
singing since third grade.
She continued through high enced by many different
school at Tigard and also types of music, but mostly
enjoys a jazz/rock com bi
joined the guitar program
there. The final band mem nation.
ber is Nathan Hocker, nine,
who plays drums. He has
been playing for over 2-'/ j
years, when he received his
first set for Christmas and
The Morrow County
began taking lessons. His
Fair has twp new classes this
older brother used to let year. In Canning, a class for
him jam with him and his nuts (Class L-Nuts) has been
friends, but now the band is added. The other addition
playing at different gigs.
is in Crafts where Class I-
Work in Progress was added
for those “not quite done”
projects.
“ We hope you will
exhibit in these classes this
year,” said fair secretary
IONE OFFICE
MF.PPNF.R OFFICE
Ren’ee Yocom. “If you have
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next year please fill out a
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suggestion card at the fair
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office.”
Two new fair
classes offered