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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 29,2009 Students set to complete jr. lifeguard training Jr. lifeguard training at the Willow Creek Water Park began July 20 and will concluded on July 30. Lane Wright is the instructor and Merry Chandler is the pool manager. T op Le f t P h o t o : T r a i n e e s s w i m m i n g l a p s . Top Center Photo: Lane Wright briefs trainees about lifeguard devices. Top Right Photo: (Lto K) Jordan Jones, Kayla Kindle and Lilly Sandford listen to directions from their instructor. Bottom Left Photo: Lilly Sandford uses the 'guard tube' to pull in distressed swimmer (Wright) to safety. Bottom Right Photo: Larissa Gray also works on pulling Wright to safety. -Contributed Photos Basile awarded July Yard of the Month By Kay Proctor The home of Joan Basile at 815 Lakeview C ourt has been chosen as Heppner’s Yard of the Month for July by the Hep pner Garden Club. A native of Bronx, NY, Joan moved to Heppner in 2001 to be closer to son, Joe, and his family. For her new home here, Joan chose a sloped, hilltop lot with a view of Willow Creek Res ervoir. Builder Rick Drake constructed the home and did terracing work. For a jumpstart, Joan had help with curb lawn edging, un derground sprinklers, sod, basalt rock hardscaping and the beginning of the yard’s landscaping. She has been maintaining and adding to it ever since. Learning to garden in Eastern Oregon after keeping a half-acre yard in Greenport, Long Island, NY for 30 years has been an adjustment, particularly the lack of humidity and rainfall. Roses have done well here as in LI. Hy drangeas bloomed well in NY, but her lone ‘Lacecap’ hydrangea here has yet to bloom. Surprisingly, the soil on her lot is good and not overly rocky. At the top o f the 5’ terrace in her backyard, Joan keeps an herb garden; oregano, mint, sage, thyme, rosemary, and, of course, basil. Also on top of the terrace are ‘Skyrocket’ ju nipers and lilacs, both white Joan Basile received the July Yard of the Month. -Photo by Kay Proctor and purple blooming, which are Joan’s favorite plant. Other plantings in clude yew, spirea, ponten- tilla, rock daphne, 'Blue Star'juniper, ‘Mugo’ pine, euonymus, Butterfly bush, barberry, holly, blue nest spruce and dogwood. Pe rennials are lupine, lav ender, iceplant, dianthus, snow-in-sum mer, vinca, mum, violets, cranesbill, blanketflower, campanula, sedum, creeping phiox and hollyhocks. A Lenten rose flourishes next to the heat pump in a side yard while the only tree, a weeping crabapple anchors a corner in the front yard. Tulips, daffodils and grape hya cinths make a showing in the spring. Joan enjoys her front porch after shade covers it and can watch and sometimes hear lake activities from there. Close by a honeysuckle vine and feeder attracts humming birds. Future plans de Ladies Play Day was held on Tuesday, July 21, at the Willow Creek Country' Club. Results are as follows: July 21 Low gross of the field was a tie between Pat Edmundson and Corol Mitchell. Low net of the field was Lorrene Montgomery. Least putts of the field was a tie between Bernice Lott and Jean Strange. Flight A winners were: long drive, Pat Ed mundson. Flight B winners pend upon the visiting deer. If they eventually destroy her roses, that bed would be a good spot for a water feature. Retired as the book keeper in her late husband’s accounting practice, Joan has more opportunity now to travel coast to coast visit ing her son, John, in Alaska, and daughter, Vicki, in Virginia. Stating that she en joys gardening much more then doing housew ork, Joan’s advice is to “get advice from people who know the area” and has received plant starts from local friends. She believes that working in the yard is a “great hobby” and that it is “fun to try things”. Not su rp risin g w ords from someone who moved from an island next to New York City to a rural hilltop in Oregon to establish a new home. Yard of the Month recognition is co-sponsored by the City of Heppner, MCGG-Green Feed, Wind- wave-Heppner TV and the Heppner Garden Club. Bank of Eastern Oregon Member FDIC N o b u tts ab ou t it __ BEX) d o e sn ’ t h o o f around when it c o m es to county fair & rod eo tim e!! A U G U S T 6T H -SE P T E M B E R 2 N D 414 West First Avenue, Kennewick WA 99336 Monday-Friday 10 AM-5 PM & Saturday 10 AM-2 PM « Bank o f Eastern O regon has been sponsoring local county fairs & rodeos since 1945! 541-676-9125 councilors to suggest any language changes to the code and/or the resolution before the final re-write. The council is expected to take action on Resolution No. 23-2009 and associated municipal code language changes at their next meet ing. In other city busi ness, councilors approved a liquor license for the new owners of the local grocery store, renamed Boardman Select Market. Councilors approved $300 towards a puncture vine eradica tion program, which will pay citizens $1 a bag for puncture vines removed within the city’s residential areas and bike paths. The council heard a report from the Boardman Chamber of Commerce updating the council on their activities this past year and planned goals for the coming year. The next m e et ing of the Boardman City Council will be Tuesday, August 4, at 7 p.m. Smiths honored for Boardman Yard of the Month Carol and Gerald Smith Judge Charlotte Gray, Heppner Justice Court, has released the following report: -Dustin D. Rollis, 28, Heppner, Driving While Suspended Violation, No Operator’s License, $244 fine. -Mark Jerry Charles Bangham, 33, Newburg, Failure to Use Seatbelt (Child 4 years), $76 fine. -Joseph M. Coscadellie, 34, Susanville, CA, Violation of the Basic Rule by going 85 mph in a 55 mph zone, $185 fine. -Barbara L. Cutsforth, 46, Heppner, Failure to Use Seatbelt, $99 fine. YOU & I FRAMING & GALLERY Tuesday night the Boardman City Council tabled passage of a resolu tion establishing parking regulations along the city’s truck routes. Although Res olution No. 23-2009 has been in the drafting phase for several months now, the council decided to hold off its passage until associated language changes can be made to the City’s Munici pal Code. The M u n ic ip a l Code will need some re writes to address issues of concern to the council. One major concern is whether the city should include lan guage which puts time lim its on parking in the city’s right-of-ways. Some of the council felt the changes in the code, written as-is, does not go far enough to ensure the city’s right-of-ways stay clear of long-term parking. The council would also like to include language to remedy violators who move from one location to another to avoid a citation. Mayor Phillips would like were: low gross, Joanne Barbee; low net, Pat Dough erty; least putts, Jackie Allstot; and long drive, Bernice Lott. Flight C winners were: low gross, Luvilla Sonstegard; low net, Ann Elgin; least putts, Burul De Boer and long drive, Ann Elgin. K.P.: Pat Dough erty (11-inches). Chip-ins: Lorrene Montgomery (#6). Longest putt: Jean Strange. Justice Court Report A COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS Boardman one step closer to new parking regulations www.beobank.com t Just past the west end of the Boardman City Park sits a fairy-tale entry planting that dances with color. D elightfully sur prising textures in rock, lawn, large trees, planter pots, boulders, rock walls ornamental grasses, cacti, and hanging baskets, and a touch of ivy. Driving by it the first time was enough to make me want to jump out of my car and shout “Well slap my Granny!” “Who did this?” It makes you feel like you just stepped into a set from The Wizard of Oz. You know the one where the good fairy (that would be Carol) is sprinkling mag ic fairy dust around with her wand. Only Carol’s is a watering wand. C o n s ta n t d ead heading, vigilant drip ir rigation and early morning misting occur regularly. The munchkins are Carol Smith’s delightful grand daughter Kirstyn, who she tends weekdays, and her two older sisters, Justyce and Malyssa. When the Smith’s arrived here in 1991 from Nebraska, they found the yard frying in the July heat and sun. A pickaxe would not penetrate the sod and the entire house and vegeta tion was totally engulfed in English Ivy. They set about removing ivy from such places as under sid ing and shingles and even inside the house. They dis covered a cactus native to where they grew up in Idaho which tolerated the reflective heat well and an entry landscape of heat tol erant plants was conceived. For 18 years they have labored to bring beauty to their entry planting. Ger ald says “It’s hard to make things grow in this cli mate.” However, his two sons and their families are growing up here. And that little bunch of ivy remains out front to remind them of all their hard work. I
