TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 4,2008
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Obituaries
Helen M. Black of great
A memorial service
for Helen M. Black will be
held 11 a.m. Friday, June 6,
at the First Church of the
Nazarene in Medford.
Mrs. B lack, 78,
formerly of Medford died
Thursday, May 22, 2008 at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
in Heppner.
She was bom Janu
ary 19,1930 in Scotts Bluff,
NE to Rudy and lola Clure
Adler where she was raised
and graduated from high
school.
On March 7, 1953
she married Roy Black in
Sppkane, WA. She spent the
majority of her life in south
ern Oregon. During her last
two months of life, she was
living with her daughter and
son-in-law in Heppner.
Mrs. Black worked
in the Registrar’s Office at
Southern Oregon University
for over 22 years and of
ficially retired on April 30,
1992, but continued to work
part time for about eight
years. She was a woman
integrity, a strong
woman of faith in Jesus
Christ and loved to “serve”
others. Her family was most
important to her.
She is survived by:
sisters, Evonne Holloway
of Newark, OH, and Shir
ley Forsyth of Medford;
daughters, Sheryll Bates of
Heppner and Sandra Black
Schmaltz of Medford; sons,
Warren Black of Eugene,
Daniel Black of Phoenix,
and Donny May of New
Mexico; and son- in- law
Chris McClure of Medford.
She had eight grandchildren
and four great-grandchil
dren. She was preceded in
death by both her parents,
her husband, Roy Black in
March, 1998 and youngest
daughter Cynthia McClure
in March, 2000.
Contributions may
be made to Pioneer Memo
rial Home Health, P.O. Box
9, Heppner, OR 97836.
Sweeney Mortuary
of Heppner is in charge ot
arrangements.
HHS grad releases new book
Steve Warren, a 1966 graduate of Heppner High
School, recently has written a book entitle “Beyond the
Finish Line”. Warren is an Oregon native who was raised
in Heppner.
Although the book is not available in stores, paper
back copies and can be obtained for $12.75 by emailing
the publisher at bevondfinish@comcast.net. The book
can also be downloaded for $6 as an e-book at lulu.com/
content/2224265.
Warren is the author of “Drat! Mythed Again”
which was published in 1986. He also wrote and produced
an audiotape titled “The Last Seminar” in 1987.
Health district awards
renovation project bid
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-learned that the
Hospital Foundation do
nated $20,000 to update
the furnishings at Pioneer
Memorial Clinic. Vander
Does said that soundproof
ing the rooms and adding
more office space are still
priorities.
-learned that the dis
trict became the agent of
record to facilitate a grant
which will be used to put
digital x-ray equipment at
the Irrigon Clinic.
-learned that the dis
trict is still in negotiations
with the union.
-learned that the
district received a grant to
fund the purchase of a new
all-terrain-vehicle for the
OHV park.
-a p p ro v e d p u r
chase of a small two-wheel
drive pickup for district use
and expending less than
$15,000.
-approved authoriz
ing the Morrow County
Treasurer to invest district
funds.
-learned from Ma
honey that the estimated
valuation of the county pre
viously stated in the MCHD
budget was correct. There
had been some earlier confu
sion about a possible change
in the valuation, but that
information was in error.
-learned from Ma
honey that the district is
$10,000 gain for the month
of April and a $662.98
average monthly year-to-
date loss. The district had
$475,582 in gross patient
Reminding you of your responsibilities
revenue for the month.
-learned that: Pio
Your city elected officials and city employees hope
neer Memorial Clinic had that your Memorial Day and graduation activities were
477 patient visits for the memorable and enjoyable. This is the traditional start to
month of April with 22 new summer here in eastern Oregon as well as around the state.
patients, 54 seen by a nurse It seems a good time to remind residents of the community
and 17 no-shows; Irrigon of some responsibilities that are important all of the time
had 161 patient visits with but are more noticeable in the summer.
23 new patients, 35 seen by
During spring and summer everyone seems to be
a nurse and eight no shows; outside more so animals at large, dogs in particular are
Heppner Ambulance had 14 much more noticeable and complaints to the city increase
page-outs and 14 transports significantly. 1 would like to remind dog owners that the
for $14,395 in revenue; city requires dogs to be on a leash when not on owner’s
Boardman Ambulance had property. It’s also important to have your dogs licensed.
37 page-outs and 18 trans A license makes it far more likely that your pet will be
ports for $ 18,338 in revenue; ' returned to you and the cost and inconvenience will be
Irrigon Ambulance had 17 less.
page-outs and 11 transports
Another point of attention for many in the commu
for $ 10,035 in revenue; there nity is the rapid growth of weeds and tall grasses. The city
was one life flight; Pioneer ordinance does require residents to maintain there lawns
Memorial Hospital had eight and gardens. The unsightliness can certainly be enough to
admissions, one swing-bed get people’s attention but the best reason to maintain your
admission; 17 admitted for property is the fire danger that un-kept and dry vegetation
observation, 469 emergency poses. Cutting the tall weeds and grasses is an ongoing
room outpatients, 69 emer chore that not only makes your property more attractive
gency room encounters, but far safer.
1723 lab tests, 105 x-ray Steve Bogart
procedures, 42 CT scans,
Interim Heppner City Manager
23 EKG tests, one treadmill
procedure, seven respira
tory therapy procedures, Senior Center Menu
200 Home Health visits, one
Christian Life Center members will be serving
Hospice admission and 1250 lunch on Wednesday, June 11. The menu will include bar
drug doses for $49,905 in becue brisket on a bun, oven baked steak fries, coleslaw
pharmacy revenue
with pineapple, and chocolate pudding.
complete
adjudications
Jones received the Heppner
Garden Club’s Yard of the
Month May’s recognition.
Robin, who is origi
nally from Baker City, met
Mike in college and they
have two daughters, Brianne
Jones Wood and Kellee.
Mike is the fourth genera
tion working on his family’s
farm. Robin is employed as
an aide at Heppner Elemen
tary School.
T h eir c h arm in g
home at 360 Gale, which
was built in 1894, has been
in their family since Great
Grandpa, Jeff Jones, bought
it prior to the 1940s, adding
on to the house for his fam
ily. Before that, it served as
a parsonage for a Baptist
church located next door
where the two-story brick
apartment house currently
stands.
Mike and Robin
have remodeled and filled
their home with family
mementos and sentiments.
They even made a separate
room with it’s own outside
entrance for the two cats
they adopted and the ad
ditional three felines who
adopted the Jones.
Their welcom ing
front porch looks upon a
cyclone fenced yard and
sidewalk flanked by a red
maple and a flowering pear
tree. Besides barberry and
potentilla shrubs, Robin
plants annuals in pots scat
tered throughout. Hard to
detect is a slightly low area
in the front lawn where
Jones unexpectedly dis-
Jones family receives May Yard of
the Month recognition
Piano students
Mike and Robin
Sixteen local piano
students recently completed
piano syllabus adjudications
sponsored by the Oregon
Music Teachers Associa
tion.
Completed levels are
as follows: Level I - Patrick
Burch, Joyce Chen, Sophie
Grant, Alex Lindsay, and
Kaid Peck; Level II - Di
ana Healy, Kaelyn Lindsay,
and RJ Skaggs; Level III
_ stacee Halvorsen; Level
IV - Jonathan Chen, Jessica
Hamilton, and Bethany Van
Cleave; Level V - Stephanie
Schuler, and Daniel Van
Cleave; Level VI - Sarah
Stillman; Level IX - Kristen
Van Cleave.
The students were
required to play three mem
orized pieces in addition to
scales, chords, arpeggios,
sight reading, and ear train
ing. Teachers of the students
are Kristen Van Cleave and
Myma Van Cleave of Hep
pner.
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covered and dug out a long
abandoned brick lined septic
tank.
Underground sprin
klers automatically water
at 2 a.m. when needed and
the soil is decent. The lawn
rarely needs to be fertilized
and Mike only occasionally
has to spot kill dandy lions.
Mike usually is the lawn
mower and they both pull
weeds.
The south side flow
erbed has a long, full row
of candytuft perennials and
hardy, pink geraniums. The
northeast side yard bed has
multiple colored, old fash
ion roses, several started by
Great Grandma Jones and
aphid control is done with
a systemic fertilizer and
occasional doses of soapy
water.
A new privacy fence
was built this spring to sur
round their backyard after
removing some overgrown
lilacs. A jog in the property
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line contains an extra hardy
yellow rose bush that grows
in the middle of a previous
vegetable garden.
A snowball shrub
with aged, twisted bark is
loaded heavily with new
blooms with a forsythia
close by. Future plans in this
general area are for a horse
shoe shaped water feature.
A double swing in
the backyard is a favorite
place for both Mike and
Robin. Summer barbecues
are held by the fire pit and
the wood pergola. A special
area is the memory garden
made of landscape blocks
and filled with soil from
the farm. Included in the
memory garden are Oregon
grapes from Mike’s mother,
Sue Jones, white lilies from
Grandmother, and nearby
wind chimes from Robin’s
Dad.
Other plantings in
the yard are dianthus, ivy,
purple tulips, clem atis,
trumpet vine, pink bee balm,
campanula, Shasta daisies,
white lilac and a climbing
rose.
Mike enjoys yard
work as he enjoys farming.
Robin recommends to plant
what you like; lots of texture
and color. Good advice from
a family who makes their
living from G od’s good
earth.
Yard of the Month
recognition is co-sponsored
by Heppner TV, MCGG
Green Feed, the City of
Heppner and the Heppner
Garden Club.