HeppnerGazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Tellechea, Renfro win May
featured gardens
Pam Renfrom (L) and Kathy Tellechea (R) won the Garden
Club’s Featured Garden Award for May. -Contributedphoto
ing the limits to see what can
grow” here and encourages
others to give themselves
“time to figure out where a
plant will grow best” and to
also “have fun.”
With a love of gar
dening that comes from
both sides of her family,
back to her grandparents,
Pam’s style of gardening
is “the more the merrier,”
with full beds and no dirt
showing. Her favorite plant
is whatever is in bloom and
whatever will live through
our late spring and early
autumn frosts.
Part of the Renfro
household includes John’s
pet sheep, dog Dundee,
laying chickens, doves and
fantail pigeons.
Kathy and Pam’s
gardening spills out into
the alley separating their
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homes. Views across their
park-like properties this
time of year showcase a
large number of colorful
tulips and daffodils greeting
all who pass by.
The Featured Gar
den recognition honors
those with exceptional sea
sonal highlights, special
outdoor projects or rural lo
cations. To suggest a place
for this honor, contact Kay
Proctor of the Heppner
Garden Club.
A whimsical bunny peers out
of the flowers in one of the
winners’ gardens. -Contrib-
uted photo
Nearly 40 students
from Umatilla and Morrow
counties showed off their
spelling prowess during
the 2011 Umatilla-Morrow
Spelling Contest on May
9 at Blue Mountain Com
munity College.
The spelling con
test, sponsored by the Um
atilla-Morrow Education
Service District, brings
together 1” through 12,h
grade students who are
the spelling champions in
their respective divisions in
their schools. The students
take a written spelling test
during the contest, and first
through third place winners
are selected in each of three
divisions for each county:
Division 1 (1st through 5th
grade), Division 2 (6,h-8th
grade), and Division 3 (9th-
12th grade).
T h is y e a r, 39
students represented 33
schools in Umatilla and
Morrow counties.
An awards ceremo-
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Cinco De Mayo
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of the same year of the dated report card.
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After presenting the flag for salute during the Cinco De Mayo
celebration at the Boardman Marina, Scout Pack 615 conducted
a special cleanup project at the Boardman Library. Rear to front
(L-R): Arrik Russell, Nicholas Richards, Josh Mathews, Ethan
Harper and Cody McCulloch. Front Row (L-R): Nathan Ellis,
Braydyn Russell, Daniel Crist and Miles Harper. -Contributed
photo
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ny was held immediately
following the completion
of the test scoring. Winners
from each Morrow County
division include:
Division 1
l 5t Place: Olivia Schmidt,
Heppner Elementary
2nd Place: Jared Miller,
Windy River Elementary
3rd Place: Dvita Sharma,
Sam Boardman Elemen
tary
Division 2
Pat Struthers and
the H eppner Cham ber
of Commerce will host a
technology open house on
Thursday, May 19 at 7 p.m.
at Heppner City Hall.
This event will be
gin with a proposal by the
hosts to organize a local
computer user’s group,
which would provide an
informal atmosphere to al
low computer users to get
answers to common (and
not so common) questions
about technology issues.
At the conclusion
of the meeting, Struthers
will conduct a short Q&A
session on computer secu
rity, maintenance and anti
virus issues as a follow-up
to a series of articles he
wrote for the Gazette-Times
a few years ago.
A number of local
businesses will be making
presentations and helping
host the monthly meet
ings. Sibbea Browning of
Entirely Equine Marketing
will be doing presentations
on web-based marketing
for small- and home-based
businesses. She is also an
expert photographer and
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pner Gazette-Times will
be outlining the technical
requirements for submitting
articles and photographs for
the Gazette-Times.
Struthers has been
offering computer repair
services in the Heppner
area for six years, and for
some time he has seen the
need for an informal user’s
group. Computers have
become simpler and safer
to use in the last five or six
years, but there still many
areas of basic knowledge
about technology that are
difficult to acquire.
The local commu
nity has dozens of residents
and business people that
have expertise and experi
ence in various technology
areas. The hosts of this open
house are confident that a
good mix of beginning and
more experienced users,
meeting on a regular basis,
could begin to remedy a
lot of the frustration in
volved in making technol
ogy work.
Struthers, the Wil
low Creek Valley Economic
Development Group (WC-
VEDG) Technology Com
mittee and the Chamber are
happy to continue to host
such a group if the local
community finds it useful.
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1st Place: Ryan Ibarra, Riv
erside Jr/Sr High School
2nd Place: Riley Lawson, Ir-
rigon Jr/Sr High School
3rd Place: Oskar Peterson,
lone Community School
Division 3
1st Place: Corbin Tegner, Ir-
rigon Jr/Sr High School
2nd Place: Christine Raible,
lone Community School
3rd Place: Andrew Bara,
Heppner High School
Technology open house to be
held this week
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quarter-mile relay race and
ranch bronc riding. Rodeo
stock will be furnished by:
2010 stock contractor of
the year, B-Bar-D Rodeos;
2010 announcer of the year,
Scott Allen; 2010 contract
act of the year, JJ Harrison
and 2010 bullfighter of the
year, Jason McCall.
Festivities Satur
day will finish with a dance
at the school gym, with
music by Hired Guns of
Hermiston.
A cowboy church
service will be held Sun
day at 9 a.m. in the rodeo
grandstands. The final per
formance of the rodeo will
take place at 1 p.m.
For further infor
mation about these events,
call 541-468-2442.
Morrow County Division 1 winners (L-R) Olivia Schmidt,
Jared Miller and Dvita Sharma pose with their certificates.
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and will be prepared by
students and parents in the
Spray High School athletic
programs.
The parade will
begin at 11 a.m. on Satur
day, May 28 at the Spray
General Store. Queen Sara
Marcus will lead; grand
marshals will be past and
present rodeo clowns.
The rodeo itself
will begin with the grand
entry at 1 p.m. Contes
tants include members
of the Northwest Profes
sional Rodeo Association,
Idaho Cowboys Associa
tion and Pro West Profes
sional Rodeo Association.
Aside from the usual rodeo
events, there will also be a
kids’, women’s and men’s
quarter-mile race, three-
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Spray rodeo and half-marathon
Memorial Day weekend
The annual Spray
Rodeo and Eastern Oregon
Half-Marathon will take
place in Spray May 27-29.
The 64lh annual
Spray Rodeo will begin
with slack on Friday May
27 at 11 a.m. There is no
admission charge for Fri
day, and concessions will be
available on the grounds.
Saturday kicks off
the main events with the
Eastern Oregon Half-Mar
athon at 8 a.m. It is the lon
gest-running half-marathon
in the state, with a 13.2 mile
course from Service Creek
to Spray.
Saturday and Sun
day mornings will feature
a “Buckaroo Breakfast” in
the school cafeteria. The
breakfast will run from
early morning until 11 a.m.
By Kay Proctor
Close friends and
close neighbors, Kathy Tel
lechea and Pam Renfro of
Lexington, have been cho
sen by the Heppner Garden
Club for its May Featured
Garden recognition.
When Kathy and
her husband, the late John
Tellechea, moved onto their
comer lot in 1978, the land
was bare. Over the years,
fencing and outbuildings
were added and the soil en
riched with sheep and rabbit
droppings from Kathy’s
own animals. Kathy raises
vegetables and has land
scaped the yard and beds
with a wide variety of plant
ings, including 200 roses.
Her well-maintained yard
and home causes traffic to
stop to admire the many
blooms. Her favorite plants
are both floribunda and hy
brid tea roses.
Kathy got her love
of gardening from her
mother, the late Dorothy
Burcham. She describes
her gardening style as “neat
and tidy...everything has
a place.” Her undomesti
cated Barbado sheep help
by keeping weeds down on
the large town property. Her
three heelers, Annie, Dallas
and Chula, help by keeping
watch over everything.
Visiting sons John
and Phillip keeps Kathy
busy, and she and Pam
share a hobby of raising and
showing Mini Rex rabbits.
Moving from the
Willamette Valley in 1995
with husband, John, Pam
tackled the challenge of
gardening in eastern Or
egon. Her comer lot had
an older yard, which Pam
has added to and enhanced
while John does the veg
etable gardening.
She enjoys “push-
Wednesday, May 18,2011
JOHN'S PLACE 164 W. Main » Heppner 541-676-5017
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Willow Creek Bap
tist church members will be
serving lunch on Wednes
day, May 25 at St. Patrick’s
Senior Center.
The meal will in
clude lasagna, mixed veg
etables, applesauce, garlic
bread and cake.
Menu is subject to
change.