TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 27,2009
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Garden Club elects officers
The Heppner Garden Club concluded this year’s activities
with a plant exchange at the St. Patrick Senior Center on
May 2, 2009. The following officers have been elected for the
year 2009-2010: Neva DeMayo, president; Danny Picard, vice-
president; Jan Delinger, secretary; Melissa Monaco, treasurer.
-Contributed Photo
Oregon Trail Library District launches
Summer Reading Program
“Be Creative @ Your Library” this summer at
the Oregon Trail Library District libraries in Boardman,
Heppner and Irrigon. Explore the worlds of music, dance,
art, books, and more.
The 2009 Summer Reading Program is open to
young people, ages 0-12. There will be programs, a visit
by a special performer, prizes and a lot of fun. Registration
for the Summer Reading Program will begin Wednesday,
June 3.
For more information call the OTLD Board-
man library (541 >481-2665 or OTLD Heppner branch at
(541)676-9964.
All programs are free of charge.
Summer Episcopal church
camp announced
The Episcopal Dio
cese o f Eastern Oregon
invite parents to send their
children to summer camp
for a week at Ascension
School Camp in Cove.
A typical day at
camp includes blocks of
time for Christian educa
tion, crafts, sw im m ing,
recreational activities and
camp fire programs for the
entire camp in the evening.
Beginners Camp, Interme
diate Camp, Junior High
and Senior High camps for
children 8-18 years of age
are available.
Anyone interested
is sending their child to
camp can contact Ascen
sion School at 541-568-
4514. Transportation and
scholarships are available.
Kinzua lunch group meets
The Kinzua lunch group met at Service Creek
on May 15. Those attending were: Dixie and Bruce
Hollomon, Jean Ann and OL Adams, Marilyn and Dawn
Garcia, Pat Hyatt, Montell McDonald, Bill Potter, Mary
Lee and Bob Britt, Ada and Emice Schell and Sharon and
Smokey Smiley of Hood River.
The next lunch group meeting will be held July
17.
YOUR ASSISTANCE NEEDED.
I need help with a new book project. After the recent
passing o f my father and listening to all the great stories,
not just about him but about his peers as well, I realize
that they need to be compiled for all of us and future
generations to enjoy and cherish. There is an era of color
ful characters, our parents and grandparents mostly that
lived much differently than we're allowed to live today.
Some would call them "the good ol days"! W e all agree
i you just can't get away with things you used to be able to
get away with. I plan to call the book
"The Best and Last of
Eastern Oregon’s Greatest Outlaws"
"An era of upstanding citizens who got
away with hell!!!"
Please mail or e-mail me your stories and please don't
be shy! M y goal is not to embarrass anyone, but to share
the memories and the laughter. Pictures are encour
aged and appreciated. Everyone contributing will receive j
a copy o f the book and your names can be included or
kept anonymous. I hope I count on everyone, I can't write
this book without you..... M y Thanks in advance for your
contributions.
Shelly Rietmann
7 0 3 3 8 Rietmann Lane, lone, Oregon 9 7 8 4 3
2rfarm@hughes.net
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Obituaries
Dinner-at-the-Cemetery Players’
production to be held
Willard R. Horton
W illard R ussell
Horton, 68, of Hermiston
died Friday, May 15, 2009
at his home.
Mr. H orton was
bom in Wallowa on April
24, 1941, the son
of Cyril and Emma
H enderson H or
to n . He jo in e d
the United States
Navy in 1949. Af
ter his honorable
discharge from the
Navy he worked in
logging and with
heavy equipment.
Willard
He married Judy Horton
Ann S av ag e at
Lewiston Idaho in
1962.
He is survived by:
his wife, Judy Horton of
Hermiston; daughters, So
nya Edgemond of Weston,
Judy Marie Story also of
Weston, and Diana Teal
o f Hermiston; son, Wil
lard Russell Horton Jr. of
Wallowa; brother, Rich
ard Horton of Hermiston;
sister, Daphene Nytz o f
Hermiston; eight
g ra n d c h ild re n
and three great
grandchildren.
He was
preceded in death
by his parents,
b ro th ers W ar
ren Horton and
Steve Horton, a
nephew , Cyril
R.
Horton.
D is p o
sitio n was by
cremation and a memorial
service will be held at Wal
lowa at a later date.
Sweeney Mortuary
of Heppner is in charge of
arrangements.
Lee T. McRoberts
L ee T h o m a s
McRoberts, 80, formerly
o f Heppner died Friday,
May 22, 2009 at his home
in Portland.
He was born Oc
tober 24, 1928 in Heppner,
the son o f W illiam and
Stella McDander McRob
erts. He was raised and
attended school in Heppner
where he graduated from
high school in 1946. He
attended college for a time
before marrying Marianne
Gammell on M arch 12,
1949 in Pendleton.
Mr. M cR o b erts
worked in the welding sup
ply business which took
him around the Pacific
Northwest. Following his
retirement he took up the
game of golf and accom
plished a hole in one on
four different occasions, a
feat he was understandably
proud of. He also enjoyed
traveling, biking, garden
ing, and cooking.
Survivors include:
his wife, Marianne McRob
erts of Portland; sons, Terry
McRoberts and his wife
Ellen o f Coto De Caza,
CA, and Tim McRoberts of
Vancouver, WA; daughter,
Sherie Knight and her hus
band Don of Auburn, WA;
sisters, Caroline Goodwin
o f Portland and Frances
Wright of Twin Falls, ID;
brothers, Arlo McRoberts
of Rancho Mirage, CA and
Ellis Me Roberts of Hep
pner; grandchildren, Amy
Herter, Eddie McRoberts,
Kristin McRoberts, Molly
Kinghom, Kevin Knight,
Chris Knight, and Shaun
Knight; and great-grand
children, Aiden, Delaney,
Cassie, Jadyn, and Logan.
A graveside service
for Mr. McRoberts will be
held at noon on Thursday,
May 28, 2009, at the Hep
pner Masonic Cemetery.
Memorial contri
butions may be made to
the Oregon Food Bank,
PO Box 55370, Portland,
Oregon 97238-5370.
Sweeney Mortuary
of Heppner is in charge of
arrangements.
By Doris Brosnan
“Rails, Riches, and Rejection: The History of
the Railroad in the Willow Creek Valley” is the title
of the June 13 play that will feature the Dinner-at-the-
Cemetery Players.
The dialogue of the main characters - Tom
Ayers, Marian Good, and Jerry Brosnan - and scenes
depicting significant events carry the audience through
the coming of the OR&N railroad and its history in the
valley, to the final departure of the UP railroad, and
into a thought-provoking image of the future.
“Rails” is the fifth play offered by the thespian
group that originated with its 2003 presentation com
memorating the 1903 Heppner Flood. The core group
is joined this year by several more actors eager to help
bring history to life. A cast of thirty-two will entertain
with drama and comedy as the stories unfold. These
stories will feature railroad “suits,” Valley movers and
shakers, good guy-bad guys, local names and faces
from the distant and recent past.
As this is “dinner theatre,” a formal dinner
will precede the production. This year, the dinner
will be served inside the museum, surely a first for
the museum and the diners. Dinner will be served at 6
p.m. and the play, which will last approximately one
and a half hours, will begin at 7 p.m.
Dinner-theatre tickets will go on sale on June
1. They will be available at the Heppner Chamber of
fice, Murray’s, Bank of Eastern Oregon, and Heppner
TV. The price is $20.
The thespians will present this original stage
production by the mural on the side of the agricultural
museum, on Riverside Drive, weather permitting.
Should inclement weather require a change, a decision
to move dinner and the play to the St. Patrick Parish
Hall will be made on Saturday morning.
Boardman Community
Clean Up Day a success
T h e B o ard m an cooked hot dogs for all the
Community Clean Up Day workers as a way to say
was a huge success for the thank you for spending the
residents of Boardman.
morning working. The hot
With over 70 peo dogs and buns were do
ple working 233 hours on nated by Boardman Family
Saturday, May 16, from 9 Foods, and Swire Coca-
a.m. to noon, volunteers Cola donated soft drinks.
bagged over 150 bags of
The organization
trash along Boardman Av that donated the most vol
enue and on Front Street. unteer hours was the Youth
The volunteers planted Advisory Group from Riv
bushes and trees in front of erside High School; they
Boardman Family Foods received $300 for their ef
and the Library they put in a forts. Second place went to
water drip system and then Cub Scout Troop 615, they
finished off the landscaping received $125.
by spreading bark.
T his ev en t was
In front of Board- made such a success by
man Auto Parts - NAPA many sponsors and all the
workers put in an irrigation volunteers that willingly
system and are planting gave their time and en
grass. Workers also cleaned ergy to help the Boardman
Heppner M ethodist Women to
the signs and picked up C ham ber o f Com m erce
trash along the Heritage host this important clean
hold annual Indoor Yard Sale
Trail.
up day.
On Saturday, June and household items as well
M ayor P h illip s
6, the Heppner Methodist as a good selection of tools,
Women will once again which is expected again
hold their annual “Indoor this year. There also will be Smithsonian Art Series continues
Yard Sale”. The sale will many miscellaneous items at Heppner Library
be held from 9 a.m. to 1 such as homemade food
The next program with local residents.
p.m. in the basement of the items and other numerous
in
a
series
offered at Hep
The SAAM series
Heppner Methodist Church, items.
pner
from
the
Smithsonian
were
developed
specifi
but there may be some
Money from this
A
m
erican
Art
M
useum
cally
for
Eastern
Oregon
outdoor displays of items sale is used for youth pro
(SAAM)
will
be
held
this
residents
to
enhance
the
for sale as well. There will grams, repairs and refur
Thursday,
May
28,
at
the
regional
project
“A
Sense
of
be many bargains, but no bishment of the parsonage
public
library
at
noon.
Place”
currently
underway
early sales.
as well as other church
The public is invit by the nonprofit Libraries
In previous years, needs that are not in the
ed.
Lunch
will be provided of Eastern Oregon (LEO) to
there has been an excellent budget. The Heppner Meth
for
all
attendees
at the one bring programs in the arts,
selection o f gently used odist women appreciate all
sciences and humanities to
hour
program.
goods including exercise the support that is received
the
region.
SAAM
staff
will
equipment, linens, kitchen from the community.
present “Personal Values
SAAM staff has de
Hardman Cemetery work party held Associated with Place in the veloped its series at no cost
U.S.” - a program showing to LEO. Other programs in
pieces form our country’s the sciences and humanities
national collection of art are made possible by a grant
that reflect life on the farm, to LEO from the Institute
in small towns, and in cit o f Museum and Library
ies.
Services (IMLS).
This program will
“We’re hoping for
explore concepts of art as a good turn-out from area
portrayals of rural areas as residents,” said M arsha
peaceful and tranquil, and Richmond, director of the
the city as often conceived Oregon Trail Library Dis
of as corrupt, crime-ridded, trict. “If we have a number
crowded and polluted or as of people in the audience,
On a blustery Tuesday afternoon, several members of the
a cultured, progressive, di we can continue to offer
Heppner Odd Fellows Lodge held a work party at the historic
Hardman Cemetery in preparation of Memorial Day weekend. verse place with numerous programs such as this in our
district.”
Lawn mowers, weedeaters, and tractors with bush-hog mowers opportunities.
The program is pre
For more informa
moved-in and in short-order had the cemetery looking ship
shape. Volunteers donating their time and equipment were Dan sented as a live, two-way tion, please contact Rich
Brosnan, Gary Jones, Bob Jepsen, Bob Stevens, Frank Osmin, interactive videoconfer mond at 541-481-3365 or
Al Riney, Tim Dickenson, Corey Sweeney, Mark Wunderlich, ence, where local residents LEO executive director Lyn
Steve Rhea, and Tom Wolff. The Hardman Cemetery is under
will be able to talk directly Craig at 541-763-2355.
the care and maintenance of Heppner Lodge #66 of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and has graves dating from with museum staff and they
1892 to the present. Several century-old grave stones have
very decorative and unusual inscriptions, with many pioneer
families interned there. -Contributed Photo
Heppner Garden Club
to hold June meeting
HES/HHS Spring Concert
to be held Thursday
Heppner Elementary School and Heppner High
School will hold their Spring Concert on Thursday, May
28, at 6 p.m. at the HES gymnasium.
“Prepare for the Fair” will be the topic for the
June meeting of the Heppner Garden Club at St. Pat’s
Senior Center, 7 p.m., on June 1. Discussion will include
plant divisions, classifications, rules and helpful hints for
Heppner Elementary School will hold their
exhibitors.
awards night on Tuesday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the
Hostesses will be Eve Ironhawk and JoAnne school gymnasium.
Burlson.
HES to hold awards night
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