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.
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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.
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Health Department to hold open
house
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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
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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.
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Center Photo: Madison Aldritt and Jill Rudolf are excited to be
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members of the kindergarten class. The kindergartners won the
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grade school competition for the penny wars last week at lone
Schools.
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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
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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.
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Left Photo: Kindergartners Jake Heideman and Matt Orem
show off their muscles while enjoying root beer floats.
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Time to get ready for
St. Patricks Day!
We have lots o f great items in stock (
including shamrock plants and giftwarel ¡
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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,
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