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
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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.
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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
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club that focused on poli
tics and the United States
government. Sara Ballard
is the president o f the club.
Accompanying them on the
trip is John Flaherty, HHS
social studies teacher, and
Elizabeth Ballard. Sarah's
mother.
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Don’t forget to bring
a toy for the Elks toy drive
and be entered into a special
drawing. Come and spend
a fun evening with family
and friends and celebrate
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working for money to help
pay for portions of the trips.
Each family has sacrificed
a lot to make this trip pos
sible.
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.