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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 24,2010 events announced lone American Legion and Auxiliary to hold Chamber This week’s Cham- w rapping up the planning ber lunch meeting w ill be an of this year’s 28th St. Pat annual Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament overv iew of Windows 7 by rick’s “Wee Bit O ’ Ireland” program s the A m erican Legion and Auxiliary sup ports and offers throughout the year. The Legion Post sends a high school junior to Boys’ State each year. They also award a college scholarship to one qualified recipient each year. The Auxiliary sends two high school junior girls to Girls’ State each year.They award an annual scholarship to a qualified senior girl. The American Le gion and Auxiliary also donates beef to the VA Kid ney & Liver Transplant Housing Facility in Van couver, WA each year. They also provide support to the Veterans Nursing Home facility in The Dalles. Both organizations support many small projects throughout Willard French displays the gun he donated for the lone the year including projects American Legion and Auxiliary annual fundraiser. -Contrib uted Photo that support our overseas This annual event keep and maintenance of troops, Veterans programs helps raise money for up- the facility and the special and community needs. T he 2 0 1 0 lo n e American Legion and Aux iliary Texas Hold ‘Em pok er tournament and bingo and bake sale fund-raising event will be held on Satur day, March 20, at the lone American Legion Hall in lone. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Sign-ups will be held at 6 p.m. with play beginning at 6:30 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to the four top players. A sandwich and salad bar will be available and drinks will be served by Taylor’s. Two raffles will be held throughout the eve ning, a rifle raffle and a beef raffle. The rifle is a Savage Model 11 .243 Winchester bolt action with a 3x9 Bush- nell scope. The beef raffle includes two halves of beef, cut and wrapped. Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Welborn awarded Bronze Star zation ceremony January 25 at the Army aviation facility in Salem. During the unit’s deployment from January 2009 until their return in January 2010, Welborn was a platoon sergeant and led a team of soldiers in Central Iraq performing both life saving and routine medi cal evacuations. All sol diers returned home safely. Welborn had previously deployed to Afghanistan in 2002 and works full time as a registered nurse for the Portland Veterans Hospital. Form er H eppner resid en t W illiam Wel- bom, grandson of Gladys Van Winkle, was recently awarded The Bronze Star for his service in Iraq. Welborn is a Ser geant First Class in the Oregon National Guards C/7-158th AVN, an air am bulance or MEDEVAC unit. SFC Welborn was also inducted into the Army Avi ation Associations Order of St Michael for lifetime con tribution to Army Aviation. The medal was presented by Governor Ted Kulongoski during the unit’s demobili- Pat Struthers. The meeting will be held at City Hall at 12 p.m. The cost for lunch is $9. Sweet Productions will be catering the lunch. T hose p lan n in g to attend weekly Cham ber lunch m eetings are asked to RSVP by the W ednesday before each meeting to accommodate enough food and seats. Upcoming events: A community open house will be held on Thurs day evening beginning at 7 p.m. at Heppner City Hall. March 11-14: St. P a tric k ’s C om m ittee is celeb ratio n w hich w ill start on Thursday evening, March 11, with the variety program “Ireland in Story, Song and Laughter” written and coordinated by Father Condon and Joe Lindsay. The celebration will end with the Sheep Dog Tri als and Road Bowling on Sunday, March 14. The Heppner Chamber Board is working on the coordi nation of the third annual Amateur Boxing Smoker Event which is scheduled to be held on Friday, March 12, beginning at 8 p.m. at Heppner High School. Heppner Seventh-Day Adventist Church to host concert Morrow County Creative Arts and Crafts to meet The Morrow County Creative Arts and Crafts will meet February 25 at I p.m. at The Stable of Youth. St. Pat’s is the main item on the agenda. Any one taking part in the sale at Les Schwab is asked to contact Mary Ella Johnson at 541-676-5347 so a list can be made of who will be attending. The Robert Walton Class has been set for June 11, 12, and 13. A snow scene of Lake Penland w ill be painted. Anyone inter ested in taking this class is asked to contact Betty Mills at 541-676-5546. Setting up a wa- tercolor class is also on the agenda. A list of those planning to participate in the class is needed. Those unable to attend are asked to contact Sharon Harrison at 541- 989-8496 orTrish Sweeney at 541-676-9226. Heppner Seventh-Day Adventist Church will host an evening of gospel blue grass music on Saturday, March 6, at 5 p.m. in the church gym. The group Hand Picked will be performing. Refreshments will be served following the con cert. The church is located at 560 North Minor Street. FEAST meeting to be held March 2 A FEAST (Food Education Agriculture Solutions Together) community food meeting will be held Tuesday, March 2, in Heppner at the OSU Extension Office from 10 a.m. to noon. Community rallies to help injured cowboy Emmet Evans The rodeo, ranch, and business communities have come together to help cowboy local Emmet Evans with expenses incurred as a result of a recent calf- roping accident in Walla Walla, WA. Hamley’s of Pend leton has donated the use of the Slickfork Saloon Satur day, March 6, beginning at 7 p.m. Emmet’s family will host a silent auction while Hamley’s Pat Beard hosts a “Roundup of Talent”. As of this news release, eight different acts were on the tap, each scheduled to per form tw o to three numbers. There will be a S10 entrance fee at the door: half will go to Em met’s benefit fund and half to cover Hamley’s ex penses. On January 17,30- year-old Evans was serious ly injured at the calf roping in Walla Walla, WA. The N o n -D is c r im in a tio n S ta t e m e n t Centurylink is the recipient of Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual's income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA'sTARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice &TDD).To file a complaint of discrimina tion, write to USDA, Director of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, or call toll free (866) 632-9992 (voice) or (800) 877-8339 (TDD) or 1866) 377 8642 (relay voice users). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. CenturyLink" accident occurred when he stepped off his horse to tie his first calf and somehow his horse clipped his leg as he was getting stopped. Ac cording to reports, he broke both his tibia and fibula bones above his ankle. Both the bones shattered with the tibia also breaking further down the leg at the ankle joint. Unfortunately, the force of the accident did re sult in part of his tibia com ing out through the skin, the side of his boot and his jeans into the dirt, so it was a really bad, open fracture with lots of contamination. Evans had surgery at St. M ary’s hospital the day it happened, to clean the wound and repair the fibula with a plate and screws. D octors also placed an external fixator on the leg to stabilize his tibia which still has not been repaired. The wound is still open, because it cannot be closed due to all the swelling. To try to keep the wound clean, he has had a “wound vac” on. which sucks out fluid and dirt. He went to surgery rodeos in roping events,” said a spokesperson. His mother, Julie Evans, a certi fied nursing assistant from Eugene, has been taking care o f him since he was able to go home to Pullman. Unfortunately, he does not have health or disability insurance to help cover the enorm ous expenses that will result from the accident. An account has been established for Ev ans at Banner Bank. Any again, two days after the ac cident, but the swelling was too much for the doctors to do anything but wash it out again. On January 24, his family was finally able to move him to his current home in Pullman, WA, with the wound vac in place. The first appointment with the Pullman surgeon resulted in reports that his leg was still too swollen to close. Once the swelling subsides the surgeon will attempt to repair his tibia. He was cur rently scheduled for surgery Tuesday, February 9. He remains at home in Pullman with his wound vac on and his leg elevated. Emmet, a 25-year Pendleton Roundup volun teer raised in the Pendleton area, has lived in P ull man , WA, since 2006. His girlfriend, Mami Hamack, will graduate from WSU’s School of Veterinary Medi cine in 2010. He works for Wesmar Construction, and trains and shoes horses for a living. “Emmet is an excellent leatherman and also competes in Northwest Heppner FFA members to receive state degrees On March 22 Hep pner High School FFA m em bers Brandi Hong, Brynna Rust, Haley Struck- meier, Willy Gentry, Brett Harrison, Jarreid Miller, Devin Robinson, and Kel- lee Jones will be part of the 289 Oregon FFA members receiving their State FFA degree at the 82nd Oregon FFA State Convention in Corvallis. ^eA^ckuKtb.com. ÍE S SCHWAB WHY I I S SCHWAB SHAKES? Over 25 Years Experience BRAKE SYMPTOMS TO WATCH TOR: On year brakes trek? U S SCHWAB BRAKE SERVICE INCIUBES: m m u r n f m ' j hi Professionally Trained Technicians 'Jim Be year brabas natal when yen slap aa Iba pedal? 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This achievement is the result of their participation in the Oregon FFA for a minimum of two years and meeting the high standards required for the degree. Each State FFA de gree recipient began in the FFA with the Greenhand degree follow ed by the Chapter FFA degree. These tw o degrees are awarded by their chapter after they have met the qualifications for each degree. For the State FFA degree each recipient must have two years of re cords of working in an agri cultural placement for over 900 hours or earned and invested $1,000 in an en trepreneurship supervised agricultural experience. After completing the application for the State degree each candidate had to pass a written exam and a presentation on their project to a team of the 2009-10 Or egon FFA State Officers. Senior Center Menu H eppner U nited Methodist Church mem bers will be serving lunch on Wednesday, March 3. The menu will include chicken casserole, green salad, Jell-O with fruit, and brownies. »
