TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Music in the Parks
to be held July 12
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of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
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Skweez the Weezel & Celtic Dancers will perform on July 12
at the Boardnian Marina Park. -Contributed Photo
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The Music in the Parks series will continue on
Monday, July 12, at Boardman Marina Park at 7 p.m.
M usical guests will be Skweez the Weezel & Celtic
Dancers.
Music in the Parks is funded by the Morrow
County Unified Recreation District and PGE. The event
is sponsored by North Morrow Community Foundation
and Irrigon Watermelon Festival and is presented each
year by MP5+.
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McDowell-Burnside
engagement announced 2010 Athena Caledonian
Games to be held
The 2010 Athena Caledonian Games will be held
Friday, July 9, through Sunday, July 11.
Many events will be spread out over the three
days including parades, competitions, stories, food and
music. Events begin at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and will go
through Sunday afternoon.
McDaniel family reunion to be held
The McDaniel family reunion will be held on
Sunday, July 18 at noon by the fireplace at Anson-Wright
Park.
A potluck will be held. Those planning to attend
are asked to bring beverages, table service, and chairs.
For more information call M aryetta Baker at
541-676-5276.
Brian Burnside and Danielle McDowell
Bill and M erilee
McDowell of Heppner an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter, Danielle Marie
McDowell, to Brian Henry
Burnside. Brian is the son of
Tom and Laura McElligott of
Heppner and the late Howie
Burnside.
Danielle is a 2001
graduate of Heppner High
School. She received her B.A.
in psychology from the Uni
versity of Oregon in 2005. She
currently works at Bi-Mart in
Eugene as a nationally certi
fied pharmacy technician. She
plans to apply to pharmacy
school at Oregon State Uni
versity in 2011.
Brian graduated from
Heppner High School in 1998.
He is a crew boss for a wild
land firefighting and timber
service company, Miller Tim
ber Services in Philomath.
Brian also logs for them in the
off season.
The couple met in
Heppner in 2001 and will
exchange vows September 18,
2010, at First Baptist Church
in Eugene.
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Editor s Note: The follow
ing article was submitted by
Sheree Smith o f the Morrow
C o u n ty H e a lth D e p a r t
ment
Let’s set the record
straight, once and for all:
V accine does not cause
autism. Period. Andjnow,
England’s General Medical
Council has found that the
English doctor who formu
lated this dangerous theory
acted “dishonestly and ir
responsibly” — so much so
that they stripped him o f his
medical license.
Back in 1998, An
drew W akefield w rote a
paper theorizing a link be
tween the measles-mumps-
ru b ella vaccin e (M M R )
and autism, based on blood
samples he took o f eight
children with autism at his
son’s birthday party. “The
L ancet” , a British m edi
cal journal, published that
paper, and it took 12 years
for the journal to retract it
as pure bunk.
But the damage had
already been done. In 1998,
90 percent o f children in
England received the MMR
vaccine. After “The Lan
cet” published Wakefield’s
article, immunization rates
across Europe plummeted
w hile d isease outbreaks
increased. Since then, at
least two dozen scientific
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will not happen. Not vac
cinating, however, leaves
a child vulnerable to dis
eases that can cause perma
nent damage, even death.
Im m unization m ay have
eradicated sm allpox, but
there are other diseases out
there— some ju st a plane
ride away, others right in
our own communities.
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284 c ases o f w h o o p in g
cough reported in Oregon,
but future outbreaks can
be avoided w hen people
m ake the choice to im
munize. It’s important for
concerned parents to ask
many questions about vac
cine so they can make the
decision that is best for their
child and their community.
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and scientists, we also ask
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more risk than getting vac
cinated. Chicken pox could
lead to pneumonia; measles
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cide for themselves whether
to vaccinate their children.
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laboring in laboratories and
conducting clinical trials,
who foresaw the day when
people like us w o u ld n ’t
worry w hether our child
was next.
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o f thousands o f children
have refu ted the p o s tu
lated connection between
vaccines and autism. One
study included all 537,303
children bom in Denmark
between January 1991 and
Decem ber 1998. Another
report studied the recipients
o f 3 million doses o f MMR
vaccine. No study corrobo
rated Wakefield’s claim.
But the fear per
sists; som e parents still
hesitate to vaccinate their
children. Sadly, delaying
or w ithholding vaccines
will not lessen the risk o f
autism; it will only increase
the amount o f time during
which children are at risk
for v a c cin e -p re v en ta b le
diseases. And all the time
and money spent on defend
ing the false connection
between vaccine and autism
could have been used for
real research on autism.
In O regon, m ost
parents vaccinate their chil
dren on time. But for those
who are concerned that vac
cine may cause autism in
their children, that simply
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M orrow C ounty S chool
Valetta “Jo” Burt, District began at the district
65, o f Heppner died Thurs office and later she worked
day, July 1,2010 at Pioneer in the Special Education
M em orial H o sp i
system. She retired
tal in H eppner. A
in 2007.
graveside memorial
She e n
service will be held
jo y e d v o lu n te e r
at 11 a.m. on Thurs
ing at the Morrow
day, July 8, 2010 at
C ounty M useum ,
Beulah Cemetery in
gardening, being in
Troy, ID. A memo
the mountains and
spending time with
rial service will be
Valetta “Jo
held in Heppner at Burt
her friends, and es
a later date.
pecially time with
her grandchildren.
She w as
bom on December 16, 1944 Mrs. Burt was a member
in Pendleton, the daugh o f St. P a trick ’s C atholic
ter o f C harles and Ruby C hurch in H eppner, Big
Humphreys Umbarger. At Meadow Club and White
age three she moved with Pine Riders, both in Troy,
her fam ily to from Pilot ID.
She is survived by:
Rock, to Troy, ID where
she was raised and attended her husband A1 B urt o f
school graduating in 1963. Heppner; sons, A lfred C.
She then attended Links Burt and his wife Jeannie
Business School in Boise, o f Chapel Hill, TN, Tony
ID. After graduation from Burt o f Portland, and Andy
Links she worked for the Burt and his partner Larissa
R.O.T.C. at the University o f H eppner; sister Janet
o f Idaho. In 1970 she went O ’Connor and her husband
to work for First Security Jim of Moscow, ID; brother,
Bank in St. Marys, ID.
Lael U m b arg er and his
On June 20, 1970 wife Kris o f Reno, NV; six
she married Alfred B. Burt grandchildren; and numer
at Moscow, ID. The couple ous nieces and nephews and
moved to Montana in 1974 cousins.
w here she collected fire
She was preceded
weather data for the United in death by her parents and
States Forest Service. In a sister Carolyn Kay.
M em orial contri
1978 they moved to Gold
Beach, and then to Heppner butions may be m ade to
the Pioneer Memorial Long
in 1979.
In 1980 she started Term Care Unit, PO Box 9,
a day care business which Heppner, Oregon 97836.
Sweeney Mortuary
continued until 1984 when
she beg an w o rk in g for o f Heppner is in charge of
Spicer-Kuhn Law Offices. arrangements.
Valetta “Jo” Burt
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process will be very acces
sible and easy to complete,
said Melanie Noell, finan
cial aid counselor at EOU.
“Students will be
able to submit their tran
scripts and resumes online,
and there are built-in fail-
safes to make sure all the
necessary docum ents are
included,” Noell said. “We
expect to see the number of
complete applications in
crease and the process will
be more competitive.”
Making the transi
tion from paper to electron
ic applications is something
the Financial Aid Office at
EOU is planning to imple
ment for other university
scholarships in the future.
The annual dead
line for EOU Foundation
scholarship applications is
February 1. Online appli
cations will be accessible
via the main Financial Aid
website at www.eou.edu/
fao/. For more information
contact M elanie Noell at
541-962-3551.