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
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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.
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one who w ould like to
contribute to the Emmet
Evans benefit fund, send
contributions to Banner
Bank, 1300 S.W. Court,
Pendleton, OR 97801 .
Evans is a Heppner
High School graduate.
Anyone with dona
tions for the auction can
contact Cathy Thompson
at 541-566-1515, Sherree
Mahoney at 541-676-5876,
or Beth Dickenson at 541-
676-9138.
Oregon FFA has
a total m em bership o f
over 4,500 members. 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
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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.
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