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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 9,2011 St. Paddy’s Cruz-In to be held March 19 The 10,h annual St. Paddy’s Cruz-ln will be held on March 19 during the 29lh annual St. Patrick’s celebration in Heppner. The show area will be on Willow Street (between Heppner Family Foods and St. Patrick’s Senior Center) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Anyone who has a classic vehicle and would like to join the show can register from 9-11 a.m. The cost is $20 per vehicle. There will be 13 awards this year including: Leprechaun’s Choice, Mus tang’s Choice, Best Con vertible, Teenage Driver/ Owner, and more. There will also be a Participant’s Choice Award to be voted on by the car owners them selves. Judging will begin at noon. The awards will be given out at 2:30 p.m. near the big green shamrock painted on Main Street. This year’s awards are sponsored by D&L Auto Parts, Heppner High School, Les Schwab Tires, Lexington Auto Body, a C ruz-In supporter, and Looslie Towing. The event will in clude a participant’s poker walk through five down town businesses with cash prizes for th first and sec ond best poker hand. C ar ow ners can also enter the Great Green Parade that will begin at 1 p.m. Registration forms will be available at the Cruz-In registration desk. For more informa tion, to register, or to vol unteer, contact the Heppner Chamber at 541-676-5536 or Gary Jones at 541-676- 5456. Friends of the Heppner Library holding annual book sale The Friends of the Heppner Library will be holding their annual book sale St. Patrick’s weekend. The sale will be held at Heppner City Hall on Fri- ,day, March 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and continue on Saturday, March 19, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. At the close of the St. Patrick’s Day Friends’ Book Sale, there will be a drawing for an electronic “NOOK” reader. Tickets for the raffle are being sold at Sweet Productions for $ 1 each or six for $5, and will be on sale during our two day book sale. Anyone who would like to help set up on Thurs day, after 5 p.m. is welcome. The help would be greatly appreciated. An “early bird” book sale for Friends of the Heppner Library Members will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Membership is $5.00 and will be available that evening and during the two day book sale. The money raised will be used to provide equipment, books and ac tivities for the children, and adult patrons of the Hepp ner Library, that are not part of the limited budget. lone American Legion & Auxiliary to hold poker tournament Saturday The lone American Legion and Auxiliary Post #95 2011 annual Texas HoliJ ‘Em Poker, bingo and bake sale fundraiser extravaganza is scheduled for Saturday, March 12, at the lone Legion Hall. The money raised goes into the general fund with it paying for insurance for the hall, up keep and renovations. The hall is rented to community members to use for recep tions, fundraisers, large meetings, etcetera. Buy-in for the pok er tournament is $40. Reg istration will begin at 6 p.m. with poker play to begin at 6:30 p.m. No late buy- ins will be allowed. The last four players will win money. This year Bingo will start at 5:30 p.m. For a quarter per card played, players have the opportu nity to win cash. There will be a va riety of locally baked goods for sale. A sandwich and salad bar with a variety of sandwich fixings, salads, and baked beans will be available for a donation. There will be a no-host bar provided by Taylor’s Res taurant and Lounge. There will be two raffle items this year. The Legionnaires are selling raffle tickets for a Super C om anche sin g le shot handgun, donated by John Jepsen. It shoots either .45 caliber or .410 gauge shells, it is new but has been test fired. The Auxiliary is sell ing raffle tickets for a half of a beef, cut and wrapped. There will be two drawings, two winners for beef. The money from the Auxiliary raffle goes into a fund that will help purchase, raising and processing of the beef. The Auxiliary donates a whole beef yearly to the Kidney and Liver Veteran’s Home in Vancouver. This is the sixth year of taking beef to Vancouver. A ll tic k e ts are selling for $1 each or six tickets for $5. You can purchase raffle tickets from lone Legion and Auxiliary members, they will also be available for purchase at the door. Household Hazardous Waste Event M orrow County will be hosting another Household Hazardous Waste event FREE of charge to County residents Saturday April 23, 2011 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Lexington Road Dept. 3 6 5 W. Hwy 74, Lexington, OR Accepted during the event: Remembrance Walk/5k Run planned for St. Pat’s Celebration The Remembrance Walk/5k Run event is sched uled for Saturday, March 19, and will begin with a social hour and registra tion from 8:30-9:30 a.m. at the All Saints Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall. The Walk/5k Run will com mence from that point at 9:30 a.m. Commemorative wrist bands are planned for participants. Funds from the $5 Walk/5k Run entry will be earmarked for the purchase of a GlideScope which will assist doctors, nurses and EMTs in the emergency room at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. This life saving tool can be used for both children and adults when breathing is compromised. Friends Helping Friends goal is always to focus on medical needs in our com munity. The remembrance fundraiser is inspired by the memory of Donna Schon- bachler, an RN, Home Health and Hospice nurse. To pre-register or donate in memory of your loved one, please make contributions payable to Pioneer Memorial Hospital and send to: Kathi Dicken son, PO Box 566, Heppner, OR 97836. Please include the name of the person you wish to memorialize. You need not walk or run to participate. A $5 gift donation can be made in memory of a loved one. A list of all names will be published after the Re membrance Walk/5k Run event. The Friends Helping Friends Committee is work ing to gather photos of those memorialized which will be placed on shamrocks lining the w alk route. Contact Su san Hisler, 541-676-5878, if you would like to share a photo of your loved one. With the “Luck • of the Irish,” the 50th pre-reg- istered (paid) entrant will receive a free large pizza, courtesy of Howes’ About Pizza. Inland Northwest Chorale to perform March 12 & 13 Inland Northwest Chorale will present “Toward the Unknown Region” under the direction of R. Lee Fri- ese. Performances are planned for: March 12 at 7 p.m. at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Milton-Freewater; and March 13 at 4 p.m. at the Umatilla High School Commons in Umatilla. Admission is free to all Inland Northwest con certs. Donations are always gratefully accepted. A recep tion of beverages and cookies will be held following the concerts. The chorale consists of 35 volunteer singers from many locations in the Northeast Oregon. Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings at 7 p.m. at Harris Junior Academy in Pendleton. New singers are always welcome. No auditions necessary. HHS FBLA goes to state (smaller than 25 gal.) O il based paint, Paint thinners and solvents, Roof and asphalt patch, Adhesives, glues and contact cement, Caulks sealers and joint compounds, Lawn and garden chemicals and fertilizers, Pool nated with oil smaller than 25 gal. containers) Mercury thermometers, Florescent lamps, All types of aerosol cans, Used cooking oil, Road flares, PCB ballasts, Organic peroxides (hardening agents) Items not accepted: Empty containers, ammunition, explosives, biological waste, radioactive waste. Morrow County Public Works mcpubllcwork@co.morrow.or. us PO. Box 428 Lexington, OR. 97839 541-989-9500 “Oliver” to be performed March 13 & 17 For the last six years, Fr. Gerry Condon’s original dramas have un officially marked the start of St. Patrick’s Weekend activities in Heppner. Fr. Gerry is the pastor of St. William Parishi lone, and St. Patrick Parish, Hep pner. “Oliver,” his new est production, tackles a more serious topic than the last few plays - religious persecution in Ireland and martyrdom. This play tells the story of Oliver Plunkett, an Irish priest and bishop killed for his faith. Saint Oliver Plunkett is perhaps not as well known to Amer- icans, so Irish native, Fr. Gerry, chose his story for his next drama. Performances will take place in lone on Sun day, M arch 13, 3 p.m ., in the lone High School Cafeteria and a dessert the ater in Heppner, Thursday, March 17, 7 p.m. at St. Pat rick Parish Hall. Free-will offerings will be accepted with all proceeds donated to a cause chosen by the cast and crew. Proceeds from the play will be donated to Cre ative Care Preschool in lone and Heppner Daycare and Preschool in Heppner. St. Pat’s musical schedule announced H e p p n e r ’s 2 9 lh annual St. Patrick’s Wee Bit O ’ Ireland Celebration Entertainment promises a great evening on Saturday evening, March 19. The music will be sure to get your toes tapping, your head nodding, and possibly force you to put your hands together in a clap or two. T h e O ld T im e Fiddlers will be putting together some old time fiddle music at the Morrow County Fairgrounds dance hall beginning at 6:30 p.m. At 7 p.m. the Pacific North- west’s internationally trav eled, virtuosic ambassadors of song “Tiller’s Folly” will be performing in the Hepp ner Elementary Gymnasium with “The NeverCanEvers” (a local band from Mitchell) filling in during the inter mission time. To view a fu ll schedule visit www.hep- pnerchamber.com. There is no admis sion charge as all of the en tertainment is being funded by Morrow County Unified Recreation District. Willow Creek Tea Party to meet Monday Used oil (containers less than 25 gallons) O il filters, Spent Antifreeze, polish, toilet bowl cleaners, carpet shampoos) Sludge (soil contami Heppner freshman writing students take the top three spots, plus an honorable mention, this winter for an Environmental Essay Competition in Oregon sponsored by the Heppner Gar den Club. Oregon students were asked to write an essay focused on things they felt they could do to improve the environment. Clayton Cook won first place, Samm Lemmon placed second, Jordan Bailey placed third, and Marie Owen was chosen for honorable mention. The first place paper has been sent to Cali- fornia to compete at the regional level. -Contributed Photo The Heppner FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) has 10 students who have earned the opportu nity to represent Heppner at the state FBLA convention in Portland April 7-9. These students took online tests, spoke in front of panels, and some even t6ok paper/pencil tests. Com peting against schools from Wallowa, Umatilla, Union, and Baker County, they placed in the top 10 at the FBLA Regional Competition in La Grande in February. Gabby Sanchez, Tayllor Gould, and Daisy Victorio placed 10lh in management decision making; Ashlie Hanson placed 9,h in public speaking; Jacob Moore placed 6,h in public speaking; Austin Gutierrez and Austin Roberts placed 7,h in entrepreneurship; Drew Brannon placed 9,h in sports management; Kellie Nelson placed 9th in business law; Paris flea market to be held in lone and Connor Pappas placed 9th in cyber security. A Paris flea market will be held in lone on Satur To raise funds for the trip, the FBLA will hold day, March 12, from 9 a.m. - noon in the school cafeteria. a bake sale on Friday, March 11, beginning at 9 a.m. in Proceeds from the sale will support lone students who front of Heppner Family Foods. will be traveling to Paris and Normandy in March 2012 Volunteers needed for Watermelon with advisor Lea Mathieu. Items to be sold include jewelry, collectibles, arts Festival Committee and crafts, toys, household goods and linens, electronics, The W atermelon helps to raise awareness of furniture, and a couple of antiques. Festival Committee is look the great place that Irrigon ing for volunteers to sit on is and it also provides fund lone 4-H Livestock Club meeting held the planning committee for ing for community needs. By Oskar Peterson as the club colors. Other 2011 . Events like the Wa The lone Commu business included choosing The W atermelon termelon Festival can o^ly nity 4-H Livestock Club a community service and Festival Committee plans take place when the com held their first meeting on fund raiser project. The club the annual event and de munity members step up February 13 from 3:30-4:40 voted unanimously to host cides how to use the pro and volunteer to help. The p.m. at the lone Commu a clean up day at the lone ceeds from the event to Festival Committee meets nity Church. Club members Cemetery prior to the cel serve the community. The once a month from Febru present were Austin Carter, ebration of Memorial Day Watermelon Festival is the ary through October. Tyler Carter, Aaron Smythe, and to host a concession main community celebra Anyone who would Hannah Padberg, Jenna stand at one of the home tion for Irrigon and brings like to volunteer can contact Taylor, O skar Peterson, tennis matches at lone High people from all over to committee chair Donna Ep- Kylie M cElligott, Mary School. enjoy the fun. The festival penbach at 541-922-3197. McEUigott, Rita McEllig The final item of ott, Donald McElligott, and business was record books. Club members are to com R ed u ce Your H e a tin g an(/ Austin Morter. The first item of plete a portion of their re business was to elect club cord books on-line and C o o lin g C o sts W in te r officers for 2011. President bring it to the next meet is Austin Carter, vice presi ing. There being no further R e b a t e s & T a x I n c e n t i Ves dent is Hannah Padberg, business, club president, secretary/treasurer is Kylie Austin Carter, adjourned A v a ila b le N o w McElligott, and reporter is the meeting at 4:29 p.m. and announced the next meeting Oskar Peterson. ADD A LAYER After much discus will be on March 13 at 3:30 OF INSULATION sion, the group voted unani p.m. at the lone Community IN YOUR ATTIC < mously for red and black Church. Automotive batteries, Alkaline & rechargeable batteries, Propane Tanks chemicals, Household cleaners (including bleach, ammonia, furniture HHS students place top three in essay competition ALL NEW VINYL FRAMED THERMAL PANE WINDOWS By ' PLyGEM Mr. Insulation Co. Inc. (541) 567-2348 • (541) 276-0097 • 1-800-265-2348 Stop by our showroom! 30599 Lauback • Hermiston www mrinsulation info mrinsulation@eotnet • CCB# 97049 • Member N E 0 H B A “ tb The Willow Creek Tea Party will meet on Mon day. 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