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Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 20,2009 - FIVE Heppner and lone teams participate in state track action Heppner girls finish in first und second place. -Photo by Theresa Craw ford Crawford Jordan Hatfield finished second in hurdles. -Photo by The resa Crawford lone track team brings home state medals Cory Peterson hands off to Matt Hams in the final leg of the 4X400. -Photo by Theresa Crawford The lone Track fifth place medal in the Team took advantage of 4X100 and sixth in the the ideal track conditions 4X400. Team members, at last weekend’s OSAA Alex R ietm ann, Clay State 1A/2A/3A Track Morter, Cory Peterson Meet to pick up some and Matt Hams, knocked medals and record some almost nine seconds off PR’s. The meet was held their season best 4X400 at Western Oregon Uni time in the preliminary versity in Monmouth. heats on Friday. The team C la y M o r te r followed up with their capped his high school second best time of the career by finally getting season on Saturday, run on the podium in the high ning 3:40.78. The 4X100 jump. A four year quali team. Rietmann, Morter, fier in the event. Morter Peterson and Hams, was jumped flawlessly over just a whisker from “a big 5’ 10” which was enough medal” with .47 seconds to tie for fourth place. His separating second place from seventh. PR in the event is 6*1.” The lone boy’s Tie Chalongtr- relay teams snagged the akul, an exchange student Forest users asked to be light on the land, avoid driving off forest roads M u d d in g and off-road vehicle use in the spring, when the ground is saturated, continues to be a problem for public land managers in the Blue Mountains. Mud bogging or ’mudding” may look like a lot of fun to some but it leaves behind scars on the land that never heal and frequently cause resource issues in the future. Mud bogging is an activity done when people drive motorized vehicles through wet ar eas including meadows, springs, ponds, streams and lake shores. “When vehicles spin their tires to throw mud, they rip up fragile vegetation and soil, creating deep mud holes and ruts,” said Wal ter Merritt, Law Enforce ment Patrol Captain on the U m atilla National Forest. “This extensive resource damage to the land and vegetation is expensive to repair and labor intensive. In most cases, these areas can never be restored to their original state.” Not only is mud bogging extremely dam aging to the land, it is illegal. Each year, law en forcement officers write a number of citations and warnings. “ It’s always unlawful to operate a ve hicle off-road in a manner which damages or unrea sonably disturbs land and vegetative resources,” said Merritt. This type of Mustangs compete state golf action activity is punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and/or six months in jail. In addi tion, the suspects can be held liable for the restitu tion cost, which includes the cost to the forest to repair damaged property and rehabilitate the areas that were damaged due to their illegal activity. M erritt also warns o f unintentional damage due to wet, mud dy roads and rain soaked, saturated areas. Whether you pull a vehicle off the road to pick mush rooms, load up firewood, or find a place to camp, the weight of the vehicle can cause the pick-up to sink and get stuck. Mer ritt suggests you get out of the vehicle and test the ground before you drive off the road to your favorite firewood spot or camping area. Avoid areas with visible puddles and unstable soil. Look for rocky, well-drained areas to pull onto. “What may take a vehicle a few minutes to tear up can take many years and a lot of money to restore,” said Merritt. lone School tennis players to participate in state tournament T h e School tennis team will be participating. T h e r e is no charge for the state tour nament. Schedules and brackets can be found at www.osaa.org/tennis/. 4A/3A/2A/1A 2009 Ten nis State Championships will be held Thursday- Saturday, May 21-23, at the Eugene Swim & Tennis Club. Four student from the lone Community Babe Ruth Golf tournament to be held The following Heppner Mustangs went to the state golf meet in Banks: Zach Orem, Donald Matthews, C hris Lien, Joe Pranger and Josh Shank. -Photo by Sandy Matthews he Heppner Babe Ruth Golf tournament will be held on Sunday, May 24 at the Willow Creek Coun try Club. The tournament will be a four-person scram ble. The cost is $30 per person and lunch is included. The caddy auction will begin at 8 a.m. The tournament w ill start at 9 a.m. Prizes will be awarded. £ We hove Memorial Spray Rodeo and Easter Oregon half-marathon to be held Doy cemetery M E M O R I A L D a y vases- Call our floral Department- Closed Monday, May 676-9426 2 5 th fo r Go Mustangs! Memorial Day Have a great weekend! Wedding I ablees M e g a n K ae B a ile y & K v le R i c h a r d S n o w R obert R aym on d A sh b ech & J e n n i f e r M a r ie B m s h i a Gazette-Times S a tu r d a y ,) un e 2 0 th '> Heritage Land Co. S a tu rd a y , Juno 2 7 th We sell Residences. Ranches, and Recreatian ______ ____________________ send payment, along with the positions played in high school and the year graduated to Jess Osmin, 58794 Balmfork Road, Heppner, OR 97836. For more infor mation call 676-9079 or 571-2674. The third annual alumni football game w ill be held Saturday, June 20, at 6 p.m. The cost to play is $30 per person and all proceeds will go to the Heppner football pro gram. Players are asked to Annual Morrow/ Gilliam G olf Scramble to be held The annual Morrow/Gilliam Golf Scramble will be held on Thursday, June 4, at the Willow Creek Country Club. Registration will open at 8:30 a.m. A shotgun start at 9 a.m. will kick off the event. For more information contact the Oregon Wheat Growers League at 541-276-7330. Ladies Play Day results were: low gross were Betty Christman; low net was Jacki Allstott; least putts was Bernice Lott; and long drive was Betty Christman. Flight C w i n ners were: low gross was Sherron Woodside; low net was Burul DeBorg; and long drive was Bural DeBorg. K P: Vi r g i n i a Grant, second shot on #7. Ladies Play Day was held on Tuesday, May 12, at the Willow Creek Country Club. Re sults are as follows: M a y 12 Low gross of the field was Pat Edmundson. Low net of the field was Virginia Grant and Pat Doughtery. Least putts of the field was Lorrene Montgomery. Flight A w i n ners were: low gross was Nancy Propheter; low net was Corol Mitchell; and long drive was Pat Edmundson. Flight B winners The Willow Creek Ladies 18-hole Invitational will be held on June 2. Heppner UMC gets wheelchair ramp 278 N. Main, Heppner (541) 676-5049, (541) 980-3465 www heritageland.net, www.farmseller.com www.eastoregonrealestate.com 217 North Main • Heppner ■ Phon« *7 *9 1 5 8 • Fiorii 676-9426 Serving Heppner Lexington t lone The annual alumni football game will fie held June 20. -Contributed Photo can 676-922» A d a m A s h le y M c C a b e & S h e l l e y K a tl ir v n R ie t m a n n ^ MutftUj'i DfUUj 1 of the money raised will go to St. Charles Medical Center Breast Cancer Re search which was started in memory of Sara Fisher, a teacher, counselor, and active community vol unteer who died in 1992 after a seven year battle with breast cancer. For more infor mation about weekend activities call 541-468- 2442. Third annual alumni football game to be held Advertise with the Heppner S a tu rd a y , M a y 3 0 th ™ The 62nd annual rodeo be held May 22,23, and 24. Also, the 45,h an nual Eastern Oregon Half Marathon will be held beginning at 8 a.m. The Spray Rodeo is also participating in the “Tough Enough to Wear Pink" campaign on Saturday of the rodeo as an initiative to raise awareness and money for breast cancer patients. All from Thailand, gutted out 3000 meters, running to a second place finish at a non-placing 12,h place. district so he could get Jepsen improved her time to state and buy a pair 1:12 from her perfor of OSAA sweatpants. A mance at Pre-District on pleasant surprise greeted May 2. Beth Morter made Tie at the state meet. The the finals in the triple folks running the t-shirt jump with leap of 31-3.5. stand had seen the article Strong performances in in the new spaper and front of her kept her from they gave him a pair of the medal stand. Makenna sweatpants for free. Tie Ramos ran the 100 meters ran tough but did not ad in 13.92 but did not ad vance to the finals. Clay vance to the finals. Morter (100 meters) and “I am very proud Cory Peterson (400 me of how all the kids per ters) also did not make formed this season. We the finals. had some great perfor On the g i r l s ’ mances at District and side o f the meet, Re continued that on to the becca Jepsen recorded State Meet,” said Coach a 43 second PR in the Ryan Rudolf. 0 South Morrow County's Number One Real Estate Company I Heppner l nited Methodist church recently added a wheel chair ramp to their building. Workers recently finished building an attached wheelchair ramp to the church build ing. Contributed Photo \
