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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 18,2009 - FIVE Road Bowling winners announced Realizing the w is dom in the Irish wish that "‘the wind be always at your back,” the eight teams o f road bow lers on Sunday re versed the direction planned for their bowling action on Balm Fork. By following the 1.3-mile course down stream, the wind was, in deed, at their backs, remov ing what would have been an uncomfortable headwind challenge from the already challenging activity. "I don’t think these hardy participants even once com plained about the in clement weather,” reported the organizer, who did have to add that she followed the action from inside a pickup with the windows rolled up. Maybe a grumble now and then could be heard when even the best laid plans went astray and tosses re sulted in bowls rolling under barbed w ire fences. At least one bowler who retrieved a team m ate's toss needed first aid for a cut on his hand from the w ire. The honor o f being lead-off team went to Turner and Tomas (K en Turner, Tomas Elguezabal). They and a new team right be hind them, 2 Wrights (Tim, Leann), finished the course and disappeared, apparently Top Photo: 2009 competitors in the annual St. Patrick's Road Bowling competition. Right Photo: 2009 Road Bow ling winners. -Contributed Photos not opting to brave the ele ments while waiting for the other teams, and the closing ceremony. Tw o o th e r n ew bow ling team s receiv ed special recognition: The 4 B ow ling Broads (Jean Strange, Brandi Sweeney, K am i C om be, M ich elle Stone), who most everyone agreed had the most fun, Neal featured speaker at ICABO annual meeting took last place. The Wing-lts (Tim and Jacque Hedman, Ken and Lana Eckm an) took third place. Only eight tosses separated third place from first. Only 28 tosses separated the Broads from first place. . Second place went to third-year participant, the Mabe team (Bill Mabe, Crysti Taylor, Donny Fen- Jr. High wrestlers compete at state T h ree H ep p n er wrestlers won a berth to the middle school state cham pionship in Woodburn on March 14. Jacob Moore, Tim Nelson and Jared Lem mon each qualified at the re gional tournament on March 7 by placing in the top four o f their weight classes. The three competed in Wood- burn in 16-man brackets against all other top four re gional winners from across the state. The Jr. M ustangs have qualified wrestlers for state in previous years, but have not been able to place a competitor or w in a match at the state tournament prior to this year. Gary Neal (above standing). General Manager of the Port of Lem m on won his Morrow, was featured speaker at the annual lone Community Agr-Business Organization last Wednesday in lone. Neal gave an overview of on going and new businesses and activity of the Port. A large crowd attending the meeting had dinner and also heard reports from various community organizations and groups. Offi cers for the coming year are: Ed Rollins president, Betty Gray VP, Karen Padberg Secretary and Stacie Miller Treasurer. Rick Min ster, Regional Development Officer from John Day (above seated), was also a speaker at the meeting. -Photo by David Sykes nell), with 43 tosses. Plac ing first and becoming the first team to be engraved twice onto the road-bow ling trophy was Team Bohica (Adam and Chad Doherty, Jake Roy, Jason H anna), w ith a total o f 38 tosses in this second year o f competi tion for them. Rounding out the list of brave bowlers were Road first two m atches to ad- vance to the championship semifinals where he finally lost by a close 4-0 score. He went on to w in a sixth place medal. Nelson was elim i nated in the consolation quarterfinals, just one match away from placing in the tournam ent. N elson had w on his previous m atch in the final seconds by an exciting come from behind 6-5 score. M o o re w r e s tle d two matches, and although didn’t get his hand raised, ended his first ever season o f wrestling among the elite middle school competitors in Oregon. Heppner Elementary Chess team competes in state tournament In th e se Tough E con om ic T im es it’s E specially Im portant to Take Care o f Your Most Im portant A sset - Your Health. A c lin ic a p p o in tm e n t now can help avoid a H igher Cost E m ergen cy Visit Later. N ow is the Time to Take Charge o f Your Health and Your H ealthcare. If you have q u e s tio n s or co n c e rn s, or haven't had a physical exam in a w h ile, s c h e d u le an a p p o in tm e n t tod ay w ith one o f our providers. Rem em ber, w ith o u t good health, those other in v e stm e n ts don't really matter! Our Staff of Caring Professionals are here for all your Family Medical Needs. Our providers are F.d Berretta, Ml). 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Cody Orr, Justin Pranger, Justin Bailey, and Garret Gibbs. Pic tured above is Mr. Fow ler presenting some items made by students in his shop class to the Senior Center. Photo by Andrew Sykes -Continued from Page ONE The Willow Creek Country Club Ladies will hold their spring kick-off meeting on April 7 at 9 a.m. with breakfast and a business meeting at the golf course. A golf format scramble will follow at 10 a.m. Your Partner in Wellness lin and C laudia H ughes, Cliff Green, Frank and Cara Osmin) in the Osmins' shop, w here everyone enjoyed doughnuts, coffee, and hot chocolate w hile score sheets were examined. Above the clatter o f rain on the tin roof, the results were announced and the cash prizes aw arded to the top three places. lone School District to make over $183,000 in budget cuts WCCC Ladies to hold meeting, golf scramble Pioneer Memorial Clinic, Heppner Rheage (Steve and Molly Rhea, Mark and Anita Bur rows), with two four-year veterans and two new team members, and Boad Row lers (Mike and Cindi Doherty, Gayle Gutierrez, Kelly Fox), a third-year group. Dry warmth aw aited the bowlers and the safety crew (Butch Laughlin, Mer Picture from left to right are Heppner Elementary Chess team members Cara Arbogast, Kai Arbogast, Joseph Jones, Patrick Burch and Alex Lindsay. -Contributed Photo The Heppner Ele- mentary Chess team com peted in the state Chess for Success tournament on Friday. March 13, at the Convention Center in Port land. Two individual play ers, Joe Jones (K-4,h grade) and Kai Arbogast (5,h grade) also played on Saturday. Although the Hep pner team did not place, each team mem ber came home with a medal. Mem- bers were Kai Arbogast. Joe Jones, Alex Lindsay, Patrick Burch and alternate, Cara Arbogast. On Saturday, Kai Arbogast won four out o f five o f his matches in in dividual play to place third in the state. He received a trophy for his accomplish ment. Wedding Tables Jared K cim ian & Irislia A d a m s Saturday, M ay Qth 5 : 0 0 p.m . Rugqs Ranch ^ MuMUj'J D/UUj INC 217 North Main • Heppner • Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 Serving Heppner, Lexington & Ione out for high school track, 22 for high school tennis (including seven from Hep pner), three for high school baseball, three for golf and one for high school softball. Middle school track started March 16. -accepted the resig nation of Erin Heideman for extra duty coaching. -approved the Divi sion 22 standards report as presented. -approved the 2009- 10 Umatilla-Morrow ESD m anagem ent serv ices as presented. -heard the following announcem ents: Monday, April 13-budget com m it tee meeting; Tuesday, April 14-Oregon School Board Association spring regional meeting; Monday, April 20- next board meeting. -le a rn e d th at the deadline for filing for the board position is March 19. Board member appointee, Lisa Rietmann. indicated that she has filed. -held an executive session following the meet ing for the purpose o f dis cussing personnel and ne gotiations. Library District to host program on Japanese immigration to Oregon Earlier this year. Or- egon Trail Library District libraries invited residents to read the book Stubborn Tw ig by Lauren Kessler as part o f the Oregon Reads 2009 program to honor ()re- gon’s Sesquicentennial. This week, to provide further information on the Japanese immigration to Oregon and the internment experience. Amy Peterson from the Or egon Nikkei Legacy Center will be visiting two of the I OTLD libraries, This free program w ill take place at the OTLD Heppner branch library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 19. It will be offered again at the O T L D B oardm an library at 7 p.m. on Friday. March 20. For more informa tion contact library staff in H e p p n era t(541) 676-9964 or in Boardm an at (5 4 1) 4 8 1-2665. )
