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.
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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
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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.
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