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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. March 5, 2008 - THREE St. Patrick’s schedule of events -Continued from Page one Sunday, March - The Stable o f Youth/ Shamrock Lanes will hold an Irish Sweepstakes/Mixed Doubles No-Tap Bowling Tournament at 10 a.m. and noon. -Lind’s Concession will open at 9 a.m. in the parking lot of Heppner Fam ily Foods. The concession will feature com dogs, el ephant ears, funnel cakes, nachos, beer battered onion rings, cotton candy, caramel apples, etc. -C h u rc h : y o u r choice, visitors are w e l come. -V e n d o r’s S quare will be held all day at the N eighborhood C enter on Main Street. For more infor mation call 676-5024. There will be crafts, food and other treasures from local and visiting vendors. -S h e e p D og T r i als will be held all day at Thompson’s Ranch -The Morrow Coun ty M useum w ill be open from 1-5 p.m. -Road Bowling will be held at 1:30 p.m. Get your team o f four people ready and meet at the junction o f W illow C reek and Balm Fork. Also, St. P atrick’s raffle tickets are available at City Hall and Heppner TV. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Proceeds will go to support St. Patrick’s ac tivities. Raffle items are on display at Heppner TV and City Hall. The tickets will be sold through Saturday, March 15, and will be drawn during Saturday evening’s entertainment. You need not be present to win. There will be various prizes including a men’s basket and a women’s basket. RV parking for the w eekend is a v a ila b le at W illow C reek RV Park (5 4 1 -6 7 6 -9 6 1 8 ), N o rth western Motel and RV Park (541-676-9167), and Mor row C ounty Fairgrounds (541-676-9474). For more inform a tio n ab o u t any o f these ev ents call 676-5536 or 676-9618 or visit www.hep- pnerchamber.com and click on Events, then Featured Events. 16 Oregon Trail Library District announces kick off of The Big Read in Heppner Registration forms available for St. Patrick’s Celebration events The Oregon Trail Library District has launched its Big Read Program in celebra tion of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Free copies o f the book are now available in Heppner at the Bank o f Eastern Oregon, City Hall, St. Patrick's Senior Center, and the Heppner branch library. The Big Read is presented in partnership with the Libraries of Eastern Oregon. The Big Read is an initiative o f the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NE A present The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in coopera- tion with Arts Midwest. The Big Read in the Pacific Northwest is supported, in part, by a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment. Heppner is one o f 127 communities nationwide participating in The Big Read from January through June 2008. Since the program’s national launch in 2006, the NEA has funded more than 300 Big Read programs in the nation’s towns and cities. The community will read The Joy Luck Club during the month o f March. In April, Heppner will celebrate the Joy Luck Club with a full calendar o f events including a visit from author Greg Nokes and a program from the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum. A full event schedule will be announced as it is finalized. Registration forms for Amateur Boxing Smoker, Cruz-ln, Great Green Parade or Road Bowling can be picked up at the Chamber office, or call 676-5536 to have one mailed out. Deadlines are approaching so pick up a form or make the call today. . , ¡ j f p i l r n „ n p a n ’s I ici- I C M U C I ll t i i r i l s U C d l l » L i s t h o n o r a t P a c ific U lliv e rs itV ^ Health Department to hold open house MC Weed control assistance offered to Willow Creek area landowners Morrow County Health Department will hold an open house on Wednesday, March 12 from 1-4 p.m. to showcase their expanded office. Refreshments will be The Lower Willow served. Morrow County Health Department is located at Creek Weed M anagement 120 S. Main Street upstairs in the Gilliam Bisbee Build Area is offering financial ing. and tech n ical assistan ce w ith a erial and g ro u n d HHS Class o f 1968 is planning their 40th reunion spraying o f Russian knap to meet in Las Vegas, NV the weekend o f May 24-25-26, weed, yellow starthistle and 2008. For more information contact Marsha Lovgren Shan spikeweed, said coordinator non at mshannon7@yahoo.com or 317-727-7047. We are Clint Carlson. The work is funded still in the planning phase and welcome all classmates, by a grant from the Oregon even those who did not graduate with us. Class of ’68 planning Vegas reunion Shanna Rietmann o f Heppner was named to the Fall 2007 Dean’s List at Pacific University. To quality for the Dean’s List in the College o f Arts and Sciences, a student must achieve a term GPA o f 3.70 with 12 or more graded hours. “Earning their name on the Dean’s List at Pacific University is an honor for the student and for Pacific,” said Pacific University President Dr. Phil Creighton. “It exemplifies the caliber o f students and the programs of- fered at the University.’ State Weed Board. An earli er grant from the weed board was used to map infestations o f the three noxious weed species covering about 500 acres in the lower Widow Creek Valley, and to test control methods. N o x io u s w e e d s have invaded the bottom land throughout the Wil- low Creek valley, red u c ing farm productivity and threatening fish and wildlife habitats. Landowners restor ing stream bank vegetation through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Pro gram have also found that new ly planted trees and shrubs face tough competi tion from aggressive weeds if left untreated. Test plots using Mile stone ™ herbicide showed promising results. The cost IfM rJ o f the herbicide and a por tion of the application cost for helicopter and ground spraying are supported by the state grant. Landowners match the grant by paying a portion o f the application cost or by applying the her bicide themselves. The Lower Willow Creek Weed M anagement Area and landowners will work with the Gilliam and Morrow County weed de partments to monitor and evaluate the project. The weed manage m ent area en co m p asses 200,000 acres in northern Morrow and Gilliam coun ties. It includes the lower 15 miles o f Willow Creek, which flows into the Colum bia River, and the surround ing range and farm lands east and west o f the creek. The weed management area was established with support from The Nature Conser vancy to bring private land- owners, county, state and federal agencies together to develop and implement effective weed control mea sures. Top Photo: Members of the freshman class at lone High School To participate in the share root beer floats with the kindergartners after winning the program or for m ore in penny wars last week. form ation, co n tact C lint Center Photo: Madison Aldritt and Jill Rudolf are excited to be Carlson at 541-422-7450 members of the kindergarten class. The kindergartners won the or e-mail at ccarlson(</in c grade school competition for the penny wars last week at lone Schools. ora. Penny War fundraiser held at lone School A week long battle for pennies ended with three winners at lone Schools last week. The ASB leadership at lone High School organized a Penny War for grades K -12 to raise money for a shadow box for Stormy Kendrick’s football jersey. Stormy was a freshman student last year who passed away. “It was a neat activ ity for us to get to do for Stormy,” said ASB President Kip Krebs. “ Lots o f classes really were competitive.” The objective o f the penny war was for each class to bring as many pennies to put in their class container. A ny silv e r co in s w ould count against the class, so many students brought coins to sabotage other classes. In the grade school category, the kindergarten brought over 5,000 pennies, in the middle school category the ~. eighth graders brought over 6,000 pennies and the fresh man won the high school category with 7,500 pen nies. The ASB collected $775.00 dollars total from the event. i Left Photo: Kindergartners Jake Heideman and Matt Orem show off their muscles while enjoying root beer floats. iiniim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiimiimiiii mu mi it iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mum i h .... in nun in nun id u iiiiniimi n mi i mi in in m nun i n i ni mi m u 11 jjiiiiiiiM iiiiiM i ii ii iii ii im m i ii ii ii iii iM iM M t i im ii iii m iM M i ii m i m i im ii ii iii m i ii ii ii iii H i ii iii im ii iH ii iii ii ii ii iii m iii m m i iii ii ii iii ii H i ii iii ii im ii ii iii ii ii im ii iim i im i^ Time to get ready for St. Patricks Day! We have lots o f great items in stock ( including shamrock plants and giftwarel ¡ Espresso Special of the Month: UGLY DUCKLING L O T S OF E A S T E R s t u f f n o w in NEW SPRING & SUMMER HOURS Monday - Friday 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday - 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. ^ M umujm D aiuj •NC. 217 North Main • Heppner Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 Serving the Willow Creek Valley Heppner Lexington & lone St. Patrick’s Committee to hold final meeting South Morrow County Scholar ship applications available The final St. Patrick’s Committee meeting will be held Wednesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. at City Hall. Pizza A p p lic a tio n s are and beverages will be served. a v a ila b le for the South M orrow County Scholar ship. Heppner High School counselors and lone High POWERLINE HAZARD School c o u n se lo rs have Fallen Wires them available in the form of a computer disk. T he S o u th M o r row County Scholarship is awarded annually to four g raduating seniors from South Morrow County. The scholarships are given an nually using the following criteria, scholarship, leader ship, citizenship, financial need, and probability o f suc cess in the student's chosen field. C o n ta c ts for th is scholarship are Barb Hayes, Remember: Del LaRue or Martha Munk- All Down Power Lines are Dangerous! ers. from your consumer-owned power provider < olumhia Basin Electric ( 'o-Op
