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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 17 200b - FIVE lone students participate in Elect To Read @ Your Library Celebrate Heppner Christmas Event Schedule Students in grades K-3 had a great time in Mrs. Halvorsen’s reading incen tive program known as Elect To Read @ Your Library. This program was based on the am ount o f m inutes a stu d en t spent reading. They also received extra minutes for doing fun things like making posters o f “My teacher for Presi dent,” turning in fun trivia on past Presidents, naming Presidents on Mt. Rushmore and money. Classes (or teams) competed against each other for top minutes. The main prizes were strictly awarded on an individual basis, but there was a prize for the h ig h est average reading time. Team members sup ported one another as it’s true that together everyone achieves more. Top Photo: K-3 students receive their prizes from Librarian Cathy Halvorsen. Bottom Photo: Librarian Cathy Halvorsen with the first grade on red, white and blue day, -ContributedPhotos The K indergarten class won the team prize logging in with 16,130 min utes. This class was awarded blue bubblegum ice cream A f t e r n e a r l y 30 y e a r s in t h e in s u r a n c e INDUSTRY IN IONE, JlM SWANSON HAS DECIDED TO RETIRE FROM WHEATLAND insurance C enter , I nc . on D ecember 31 st , 2008. P lease join us in congratulating J im FOR ALL HIS HARD WORK AND DEDICATION to W heatland . A n open house will BE HOLDING J IM ’S HONOR ON THURSDAY D ecember 18 th from 10 am t o 3 pm a t WHEATLAND INSURANCE IN lONE. E veryone is welcome ! ¿"-Stas Taylor's Restetaunt Will be closed from S p.m. December 21 to 8 a.m December 27 Have a M e rry Christmas! • J i cones for their efforts. All students were awarded reading certificates along with individual prizes and bookmarks handed out each week. They each were aw arded grand prizes at the conclusion. Top reader o f the whole program was Aaron Smythe from second grade with 1484 minutes. The top 5 readers from each class and their total minutes read were as follow'S: Kindergarten: Tay lor Rollins- 1480, Eva Mar tin- 1250, M alychi Wen- b e rg -1192, C olt Parker- 1165, and Cameron Crum- 1115. First Grade: Nate Os- theller-1292, Megan Dohre- ty-928, Mathew Orem-805, Jill Rudolf-765, and Emma Rietmann 715. Second Grade: Aar on Smythe-1484, Renee Pe terson-1281, Gracie Crum- 1160, Syd Payant-1104, and Nester Ramirez-875. Third Grade: Roman R o d riq u ez-1373, Morgan O rem -1305, Karsyn Rios- 1255, Austin Morter-890, and Seth Thompson-485. The schedule as fol low s is for the Custom er Appreciation Day and Cel ebrate Heppner Christmas Event: 5:00- 5:45 p.m . - Get your picture made with Santa at the Elks Lodge 6:00 p.m .-L ight pa rade on Main Street (Spon sored by Columbia Basin Electric Coop) 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Dinner served by the Elks Club - $10 adult; $6 children up to age 12. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Pictures with Santa at the Elks Lodge 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Drop your “rewards card” into the draw ing bag for the prizes of your choice (make sure your name is on each rewards card), buy 50/50 tickets for a chance to w in some “cash” and purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win one of the four Cham ber R attle Baskets. You will need to do this before the drawings begin at 7:30 p.m. 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Drawing for “rew ards card” Pictured in the top photo are the Rewards Card prizes that vs ill he available on Thursday night at the Elks Club. Bottom Photo: Chamber Raffle Baskets. Photos by Autumn Morgan prizes. You must be present or send som eone to put your rewards in the prizes and take them for you if your rewards card is drawn. Draw ing for Chamber Raffle Basket winners (don’t need to be present to w in). Rewards Card prizes are on display at Heppner City Hall. Chamber Raffle Baskets are on display at Heppner TV. Rewards Card prizes range from Barbie puzzles and cam ouflage gloves to m anicures and Heppner students headed to Hospital to hold presidential inauguration open house for long-term care unit Pioneer M em orial Hospital in Heppner will hold an O pen H ouse in honor o f the new h o sp i tal expansion on Monday, December 22, from 2 to 7 p.m. C o n stru c tio n has been underway since June and is now complete. “We’re just winding up some fur nishing details,” says Ad m inistrator Victor Vander Does. “ W e’ve had great local support for this project and w e’d like everyone to come and see it,” he said. m, • Estate By DAVID SYKES These Heppner High School students »ill he traveling to Wash ington D.C. for the presidential inauguration. -Contributed Pho to By Taighler Dougherty This January 15 stu dents from Heppner High School are proud and thrilled to be attending the inaugura tion o f president elect Ba rack Obama in Washington DC. 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The group has been fundraising since March Soup feeds, car washes, y ai d sales and currently a steer raffle are being used to help generate funds. The places that they will visit are the Smithso nian, famous monuments, m em orials, and a special tour o f the capital are some o f the planned events. Sara Ballard remarked that she is looking forward to the diverse sight seeing oppor tunities that D C provides. She is also excited about the private w reath lying ceremony that the students will participate in the at the Tomb o f the Unknown Soldier. The kids arc very excited to go and cannot wait. They appreciate the community's support for the help that is allowing them this opportunity to attend such a historical event. Senior Center Menu Christian Life Cen ter church members will be serv ing lunch on Friday. De cember 26. The menu will include roast beef, au gratin potatoes, green beans, hot spiced apple cider, hot rolls, and chocolate cream pic.
