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
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lery, 414
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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.
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Full menu Friday, August 14th
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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
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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.