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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 23,2011 lone eighth graders get crash course in careers Picture are: (top row) TJ Patton, Oskar Peterson, Sam Gilbert, Joe Doherty, and Brandon Beck: (middle row) Karina Rios, Michaela Forrester, Daniel Holtz, and Zack Irons; and (bot tom row) Rita McElligott, Brianna Snyder, Cassidy Braun, Emily Rea and Lauren Garrett. - Contributed Photo Eighth graders at lone Community School experienced an entire day on the road with their sci ence teacher, Erin Heide- man, to gain a first hand perspective on careers. Each year, the Um- atilla-Morrow Education Service District hosts a ca reer showcase at the Pend leton Convention Center for all eighth grader students in Morrow and Umatilla coun ties. The Career Showcase is an opportunity for eighth graders to take a look into their high school years when they begin exploring their career path. Eleven hundred students visited over 32 business booths from vari ous community businesses who donated their time to show students the different opportunities available, lone students were some o f those students. “One of the best booths was the state police booth,” said lone eighth grader TJ Pat ton. “It was fun putting on the simulation goggles and trying to walking a straight» line.” In addition to a great day at the conven tion center, lone students went out to lunch and then toured the Pendleton Un derground. “1 had no idea there was a whole world underground,” said student, Lauren Garrett. “It was re ally neat.” “As a teacher, one of the best parts of my job' is the opportunity to ex pose students to the things around them ,” remarked Erin H eidem an, 6th-10th science teacher at lone Community School. “One of the greatest advantages to working in this district is the flexibility we hax?e to travel with students and the support there is from the district and from parents.” Mustang Wrestlers finish third at Districts, two win championships The Heppner wres tling team competed in the 10-team 1A/2A Special District 4 championships on Friday and Saturday at Wallowa High School. The Mustangs won third place after holding that position nearly from start to finish o f the two-day tournament. The battle for first place seesawed back and forth between the En- terprise/W allow a co-op team and three-time dis trict champion Crane. In the end the sheer depth of numbers of Enterprise/Wal- lowa prevailed by just five points even though Crane had five district champions compared to Enterprise/ Wallowa’s one. Eleven of the 12 Heppner w restlers were victorious in at least one match and seven advanced to the championship semi finals. Jared Lemmon (112 lbs), Alex Smith (125 lbs), Jarreid Miller (130 lbs), Wade Matthew (135 lbs), Andrew Bara (160 lbs), Tim Nelson (189 lbs), and Jacob Moore (215 lbs) all found themselves in the semi fi nals on Saturday morning. Lemmon and Miller won their matches to advance to the championship round. Sm ith and Bara went on through the con solation bracket to finish fourth. Junior Spaulding, competing at 119 pounds, came back after a loss in the first championship round to earn two victories and also claimed fourth place. Nelson and Mat thew won the consolation cham pionships for third place and earned a wrestle back against the district runner up to see who would qualify for the state tourna ment. Neither of the Mus tang wrestlers prevailed and both finished as state Tfiternates. Jacob Moore cam e back through the consolation bracket to fin ish fifth. Senior Alex Fuent- es did not place in the tour nament but won a match and scored team points in Garrett Gibbs (top photo) and Junior Spaulding (bottom photo) work on pinning their opponents during the district tournament this past weekend in Joseph. -Photos by Jeremy Lanthorn the consolation bracket of his final district competi tion. L e m m o n , th e fourth ranked wrestler in Oregon 2A at 112 pounds, had no problem dispatching his challenger from Joseph in the semi final match by a technical fall score of 17-1 at 2:40 into the match. A technical fall is awarded and the match ended when one wrestler gains an advantage of 15 or more points. He was likewise as dominant in the championship finals as he defeated fifth ranked Thom as O ’Toole from Crane by a 17-2 technical fall in 2:48. S e n io r J a r r e id Miller, ranked second in Oregon 2A at 130 pounds, took a more dramatic route to the finals. Miller, trailing by one point to an unseeded wrestler from Imbler with 45 seconds left in the match, deliberately gave his oppo nent a one-point escape in a strategy meant to get a take down to tie the score and send the match into over time. Instead, not only did he take his opponent down with 10 seconds remaining, but he also dropped him to his back, adding three near fall points to the two-point takedown and w inning 8-5 as time ran out. In the cham pionship bout, he defeated fifth ranked Forrest Cox from Enterprise/Wallowa by a fall in 3:53. W ith the w in s, Lemmon and M iller be came the third and fourth district champions in Hepp ner wrestling history. Lem mon is the first freshman from H eppner to win a district title or to qualify for state. Both will compete at the OSAA state champion ship tournament in Veter ans’ Memorial Coliseum in Portland on February 25 and 26. The state tourna ment begins at 8:30 a.m. Friday. Current brackets can be found and results can be followed through out the tournament on the w w w .osaa.org/w restling web site. First Friday Friends of Jesus program held U S SCHWAB IT STARTTO 48 YEARS ADO AS A TRIBUTI TO. . . Our farmers and ranchers. 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In ad d itio n , the workshop will take a look at statewide assessments, o f which every child in public school must take in reading and math beginning in 3rd grade. The goal is to help parents understand the different options fijr their students, and how to work with a team to choose the option that will work best for their children. Child care for ages 3 and up will be provided during the workshop. Reg istration is required for child care and to ensure enough materials will be available for everyone, so please register early for this free workshop. If you need assistance in a language other than English, please contact the Oregon PTI main office at least two weeks in advance (1-888- 505-2673). To register, contact Robin Wortman at 541 -886- 9235 or 1-888-505-2673, ext. 211, or e-mail rwort- m an@ oregonrisecenter. org. The workshop will run from 5-8 p.m. on March 2 at the Umatilla-Morrow ESD’s Ponderosa Room, 2001 SW Nye Ave., Pend leton.
