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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 12,2009 - SEVEN 2009 Jackpot Rodeo winners announced Gentry named All Around Cowboy The 2009 Morrow County Jackpot Rodeo was held on Sunday, August 9, in Heppner. The results are as follows: Mutton Busting - l 51 place, Mike Jaca; 2nd place, Logan W addell; and 3rd place tie between Hunnter Dyer and Blane Mahoney. PeeW ee B arrels (12 & under) - 1st place, Coby Dougherty; 2nd place, Kolby Currin; and 3rd place, Jaiden Mahoney. Jr. Barrels (13 to 17 years) - Is' place, Blake Greenup; 2nd place, Whitley Reece; and 3rd place, Jessica Hughes. Sr. Barrels (18 & over) - 1st place, Doro thy Love; 2nd place, Lexie Shaw; and 3rd place, Tif- fanie Greenup. Jr. Goat Tying (14 & under boys & girls) - 1“ place, Tate Gentry; 2nd place, Blake Greenup; 3rd place, Garrett Robinson; and 4th place, Kolby Cur rin. Goat Tying (girls only 15 & over) - 1 “ place, Tiffanie Greenup. Jr. Breakaway (14 Willy Gentry was named the All Around Cowboy for this year’s Morrow County Jackpot Rodeo. -Photo by Sandy Mat thews & under) - 1 51 place, Garrett Robinson; 2nd place, Tate Gentry. Sr. Breakaway (15 & older) - 1st place, Terri Smithsonian “America’s Art” Program Set at Heppner Aug. 27 Live from Wash ington, D.C., an interactive videoconference program for area residents from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) will be held in Heppner on Thurs day, August 27. The 50-minute pro gram is open to persons of all ages and will begin at noon at the Heppner public library, 444 N. Main St. Educators from the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C. will fea ture art treasures in our na tional collection and discuss pieces of art that they will show to area residents. Attendees will be able to view art in several formats from the national museum and will be able to talk directly with SAAM staff via live time, two-way videoconferencing. “This program will allow East Oregonians to trace America’s heritage through artists’ eyes, with particular emphasis on our relationship to the land,” said Sherwood Dowling, SAAM distance learning manager. “From sea to shin- ing sea, from wilderness to urban centers, we’ll explore the social, political and technological innovations that have profoundly af fected American life and art.” The program is sponsored by the Oregon Trail Library District and Libraries of Eastern Oregon (LEO) in partnership with the Smithsonian through a regional LEO project called “A Sense of Place,” which presents free public pro grams in the arts, sciences and humanities. The regional proj ect is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IM LS), which strengthens collaboration between museums and li braries and works to in crease cultural understand ing of these institutions. F or fu rth e r in formation, please contact library district director Marsha Richmond at 541 - 481-3365 or LEO direc tor Lyn Craig at 541-763- 2355. SAAM’s website is w ww .am ericanart.si.edu and IMLS can be viewed at www.imls.gov. BEO helps sponsor student leadership workshops Student leaders at tend summer leadership workshops sponsored by community banks Approximately 350 high school student lead ers from around the state attended the Oregon As sociation of Student Coun cil’s Summer Leadership Workshops in July, where they received leadership training in organization and time management, commu nication, project planning and meeting skills, goal setting and ethical decision making. The students also shared community service project ideas. For the past 16 years, the workshops have been sponsored by the In d ep en d en t C om m unity Banks of Oregon (ICBO). ICBO has 38 member banks around the state serving their local communities. Some of the workshop stu dents have had the oppor tunity to serve as interns at their local community bank. Bank o f Eastern Oregon in Heppner helped sponsor the workshop. HEPPNER ELKS 358 676-9181 "Where Friends Meet" 142 North Main Summer Evening New Staff- Claudia Ramirez Calf Riding (ages 9 to 13) - 1st place, Blake Greenup; 2nd place, Coby Dougherty. Free sport physicals to be offered at lone Community School Free sport physicals will be offered on August 20, at 5 p.m. at lone Community School. Students in grades 6-12 that plan on participat ing in athletics need to have a physical every other year. Forms are available at the school office or you can log onto the OSAA website, http://www.osaa.org/forms/ PhysicalExamination-June2005.pdf, and print them. Students receiving physicals have to have a com pleted physical form with a parent signature. 2009 issue of Morrow County Chronicles now available The 2009 issues of the Morrow County Chron icles are now available at all county branches of the Bank o f Eastern Oregon, at the Morrow County Mu seum in Heppner, and at the Boardman Health Mart Pharmacy. The 2009 Chron icles offers stories about people, places, and events and comes from individuals in all of the five incorpo rated county communities. The cost o f this year’s Chronicles remains at $5. It represents the 26th volume of the collection of articles that relate Mor row County history. The Morrow County Historical Society also has past issues of the publication available at the Museum. Full sets of the publication - 24 issues, as it was not available in 2005 and 2006 - may be purchased for $110. The Morrow Coun ty Society is now solicit ing articles for next year’s Chronicles and encourages people with ideas and sug gestions to contact Louis and Betty Carlson (676- 5302) or Carol Michael (481-9457). The Physical/Oc- cupational Therapy D e partment at the Umatilla- Morrow Education Service District has recently com pleted purchasing special ly-designed equipment to assist special needs chil dren in their daily activities and learning environments thanks to an $11,761 grant from the Wildhorse Foun dation which was awarded in March of 2008. The departm ent was able to purchase items such as: special tapered beams and balance wedges to help children improve walking and sitting balance, toe cages for tricycles, as sistive computer software and a N intendo Wii Fit with a game to assist in motor skill development all for children in six pre school classroom s ages three through five among other things. Developmen- tally appropriate toys were purchased for home use for children from birth through three years of age as well. The Assistive Tech- nology Program worked w ith the PT/OT Department at the UMESD to set up a series of specialized equip ment for teachers working with special needs students, Dining room closed (or class reunion on Saturday, August IStli Claudia will be preparing German Dishes as well as Ethnic and Eastern Oregon favorites beginning in September. Look for the Friday night specials on August 21st! Come join other members, family and friends at your Elks dub and provided training for the equipment’s use. This equipment and services to special-needs children ages birth to five is an attempt to equalize the educational op portunities to children liv ing in rural areas. Children in Umatilla-Morrow may not always have the same ease of access to specialized equipment and services that are readily available to chil dren in urban areas. “The Early Child hood Special Education teachers were so apprecia tive when they received the wedges, trikes, develop mental toys and adaptive technology for the comput ers we purchased with the money (Wildhorse) gave us,” said Cynthia Lammers Smith, PT/OT Coordinator for the UMESD. “I person ally enjoyed giving the developmental toys to the birth to three-year-old chil dren and their families.” M ore th an 530 children in the UMESD’s early intervention/early childhood special educa tion programs in Umatilla, Morrow and Union coun ties are benefiting from the equipment purchased with the grant funding. Boardman approves new parking regulations Tuesday night the Boardman City Council approved a resolution es tablishing parking regula tions along the city’s truck route right-of-ways. In the drafting phase for several months, Resolution No. 23- 2009 addressed a problem with trucking companies using the city’s right-of- ways as permanent parking for their businesses. The new parking regulations allows for all vehicles to park in the city truck route right-of-ways for up to 72 hours and des ignates Main Street from Columbia Avenue to Wilson Lane, and the entirety of Wilson Lane as no-parking zones. The resolution states, violators o f the parking regulations could be cited or their vehicles could be impounded. Also approved last night were the associat ed language changes to the city’s Municipal Code re garding traffic control. The Local artist holds show Local artist An drew Sykes has scheduled a show of his paint ings at the You and I F r a m in g ■Vk and G a l lery, 414 T..........: West First Andrew A v e n u e , Sykes Kenne wick. WA, through Septem ber 2. Hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sykes, Heppner, OR, has a bachelor o f fine arts degree/painting from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. He is employed as a graphic designer and color printer w ith the Heppner Gazette- This painting and others are on display at You and 1 Fram ing and Gallery in Kennewick. WA. Times. X [)jn in g Q U t Full menu Friday, August 14th I Gentry. Cow Riding - l 5' place. Bo Foster; tie for 2nd place betw een Willy Gentry and Jared Gorham. Steer Wrestling - l51 place, Malcom Andrew Stanton. Open Calf Roping - 1st place, Willy Gentry; 2nd place, Jerry' Gentry; 3rd place, Bo Foster. Amateur Calf Rop ing ( l sl go) - 15‘ place, Dick Temple. Amateur Calf Rop ing (2nd go) - 1st place, Willy Gentry; 2nd place, Luke Crosswaite; and 3rd place, Dick Temple. Team Roping - 1st place, Luke Crossw aite / Angel C rossw aite; 2nd place, John Steagall / Cliff Dougherty; 3rd place, Bob Kindsfather / Don Kinds- father; 4lh place, Rick Mer- zlock / Ron M cDowell; and 5th place, Willy Gentry / Jenny Griffith. The Kinzua Ama teur C alf Roping Saddle was awarded to Dick Tem ple. The Morrow Coun ty All Around Cowboy was Willy Gentry. Wildhorse grant provides funds for equipment for special needs kids THANK YOU PATRICK MCELUGOTT! Murray’s Drug sincerely wishes to thank those who helped us put on our 13th Beer and Wine tasting at the Morrow County fair We especially appreciated the assistance of Patnck McElligott. wine consultant (son of Don and Eunice McElligott) affiliated with OWEN ROE. SINEANN. and AMITY wineries, who helped us select our wines and worked that, night to make it a success We also wish to thank the Bamyarders 4-H club, led by Alita Nelson for set-up and take-down, along with Dave and Kay Fowler, Tim and Beth Dickenson, Jay Coil. Kendra Rayburn, Kylie VanArsdale. Sean. Luke. Ian, Laune and Kevin Murray We also want to thank Dale Bates for his work providing a sound system for the excel lent entertainment The music was wonderful, thanks to Joe and Leanne Lindsay with Stacy and Corey Cooley, Brady Goss (Thanks to Morrow County Fair Board H C D ’s available!) and Luke Basile and Catlin Martin Despite the rain (after how many days of dry and hot?) it was an enjoyable event. Sincerely, John and Ann Murray < language changes establish a definition of truck storage at the 72 hour parking limit areas, as well as language to remedy violators who move from one location to another in an attempt to avoid a citation. In other city busi ness, councilors heard an update on the new Punc- turevine Control Program. So far 72 bags have been issued with 28 filled bags returned in the first day of the program. In addition, the council agreed to an in tergovernmental agreement with the Boardman Park and Recreation District for maintenance of the freeway off ramps. The next m e et ing of the Boardman City Council will be Tuesday, August 18, at 7 p.m. School supply drive being held A school supply drive is currently being held at Bank of Eastern Oregon in Heppner. This tradition was started years ago by the Heppner division of Bank of Eastern Oregon. Supplies donated in the past include backpacks, pencils, paper, calculators, Kleenexes, crayons, pens, notebooks, markers, eras ers, colored pencils, binders and gym shoes. Generous cash donations help to fill in where supplies are low. M ary A nn E l- guezabal sorts the donated supplies and make sure that children have what they need to be successful at school. “It is heartwarm ing to see the smiles and confidence that a child has once they have their sup plies,” said Elguezabal. “It changes their whole outlook about school.” Senior Center Menu Heppner Christian Church members will be serving lunch on Wednes day, August 19. The menu will include BLT sandwich, potato salad, assorted soups, fruit juice and chocolate mousse. The soups will include tomato, vegetable, lentil, and split pea.
