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TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 10,2011 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County Chronicles offer a glimpse of history M orrow C ounty’s H om e-O w ned Weekly N ew spaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LI.C and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act o f March 3,1179. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at l i t W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676- 9221. Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or david@rapidserve net. Web site: www.heppner net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97136. Subscriptions: $27 in Morrow County; $21 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $33 elsewhere; $27 student subscriptions. David Sykes............................................................................................... Publisher Andrea Di Salvo..............................................................................................Editor All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost lor a display ad is $5 per column Inch Cost for classified ad is 50f per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5.75 per column Inch For Public/legal Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Dates fpr pub lication must be specified. Affidavits must be required at the lime of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) For Obituaries Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines. Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary. For Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author The Heppner GT Mil not publish unsigned letters. AH letters MUST include the author's address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the right to edit letters The GT Is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks Mil be placed in the classifieds under ’Card of Thanks’ at a cost of $10. Over the Tee Cup Sixteen ladies turned out at Willow Creek Coun try Club for day of great playing weather on August 2. Low gross of the field was a tie between Pat Ed- mundson and Jan Paustian; low net was also a tie between Betty Carlson and Bernice Lott, and least putts went to Lorrene Montgomery. For flight A, Karen Thompson had low gross. Corol Mitchell had low net and long drive. On flight B, Pat Dougherty had low gross, Burul De Boer and Lynnea Sargent tied for low net, Darcie Mitchell and Ann Elgin tied for least putts, and Darcie Mitchell had the long drive. In flight C, Laura Rogers had low net, Luvilla Sonstegard had the least putts and Ann Elgin had the long drive. Lynnea Sargent also had a long putt of 20’8”. NEW BOARD MEMBERS -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE placing Mayra Colin-Car- rillo, Javier Garcia, HHS, replacing Martha Munkers, Louise Kienzle, SBE/WRE music teacher, Sybil Stew ard, WRE fourth-grade tcagher, TaMara Thornton, IE&Tifth grade teacher; extra duty contracts-Jeremy Wilson, head girls’ basket ball coach, Melissa Lind say, HHS assistant girls’ basketball. -heard the follow- ing announcements: board goals workshop, Port o f Morrow, August 10,3 p.m.; new teacher orientation, district office and Morrow Education Center, August 15-16; “My Future, My Choice” meeting, district office, August 16, 6 p.m.; ESD board w o rk sh o p , Pendleton, August 17; dis trict-wide in-service, RHS, August 22, 8 a.m.; staff in- service, August 23-25; first day of school for students, August 29. Community lunch menu Elohim Covenant Church members will be serving lunch on Wednesday, August 17 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. The meal will include Swiss steak; mashed potatoes; carrot, raisin and pineapple salad; hot rolls and bread pudding. Menu is subject to change. The 28th issue of the Morrow County Chronicles will be available at the Historical Society booth during the Morrow County Fair. -Contributedphoto By Doris Brosnan Nine writers con When the Morrow tributed to this year’s Mor County Fair opens its gates row County Chronicles, on Wednesday, August 17, reflecting the success of the 2011 Morrow County Louis and Betty Carlson to Chronicles will go on sale. recruit ideas for the pub The 28th issue of the county lication and the individu Historical Society’s annual als to write about those publication will again cost topics. The magazine was not published in 2005 and only $5. This year’s Chron 2006 because of the lack of icles contains 71 pages full individuals willing to serve of text and pictures that offer on editing committees. The various historical accounts Carlsons, who recognize related to Morrow County the importance of history, events and citizens. Among worked feverishly to re the individuals featured new interest in collecting within the unusual cover and saving the history of of this issue, the reader will Morrow County. They have find Nels Anderson, Grace continued their efforts since Drake and Lenna Smith, 2007 but this year have all closely affiliated with announced that they must the early years of the OSU step aside. They encourage Extension programs. everyone and anyone who Biographical and appreciates local heritage autobiographical articles to step forward and contact also offer bits o f history them about helping on a from the lives of John and committee to oversee next Dorris Graves, Stuart Dick year’s Chronicles collec and Mike Benge, as well tion. Without individuals as the military history of willing to spearhead the the McElligott brothers of project, a 2012 Morrow lone. County Chronicles cannot A glimpse is of be published. In addition to this fered of the sawmill family , of James and Mary Reid. * new issue of the Chronicles, An article also relates some on sale at the Historical history of the sawmill in Society fair booth will also dustry in Morrow County, be past issues of the Chron begun in small operations icles and sets of the existing in the mountainous regions 26 issues o f the historical collections. Each set will of the south county. A group of county cost $100. Although the residents reminisce about Chronicles first appeared school days at the Pine City in 1982, no copies remain School, and Edith Mathews o f that or the ’83 issue. describes a typical one- A re-issuing of those first room schoolhouse and ex two collections might be plains the school routine of come a future project of the days gone by, when she was Morrow County Historical Society. a young teacher. Applications for Slottee, Lexington scholarships available Co rwC' (*r\,c£ 15th ANNUAL BEER 8 WINE TASTING T hursday , A ugust 18 th 6:00 p . m . - 10:00 p . m . Morrow County Fairgrounds p . PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR ENTERTAINMENT 6:00-6:30 J oe L indsay 6:30-8:30 T iller ' s F olly 8:30-10:00 E ven P lane A pplications are now available for the Lex ington Precinct and Eliz abeth Slottee M emorial scholarships. Applications may be picked up at Heppner High School, lone High School or online. The dead line to turn in applications is September 1, 2011. The Lexington Pre cinct award is given to a s ophomore, junior or senior who lives in the Lexington voting precinct. The Slottee Memo rial Scholarship is awarded annually to a junior, senior or graduate student at an accredited four-year college or university. The scholar ship is given annually in order of priority. First pri ority is given to students majoring or minoring in music; second priority is given to students who have been accepted into a school of education. C riteria used in awarding the Slottee Me morial Scholarship include scholarship, leadership, cit izenship, financial need and probability of success in the student’s chosen field. For questions or more information, call Bill Rietmann at 422-7296 or Sharon Harrison at 989- 8496. P rovided by M orrow C ounty F air S tarter S et : $10 I n c lu d e s 1 take - h o m e g la ss A N D 2 D R I N K T IC K E T S A d d it io n a l T ic k e t s : $ 5 .0 0 each H ic k o r y S m o k e d T r i -T ip D in n e r Morrow County Public Works b M S W H w y 74. P. O. Box 4M , U n n g to n . OR 97S3S K id s 12 & under o f p a in t th a n a la n d fill. Recycling your old paint free, m simple and something th at everyone can do More importantly, protecting our environment ta something we should all want to do. That's why the Paint Care program was created to make it eaay for everyone to recycle and properly dispose of every can of unused paint - $6.00 Dispone of FREE of charge at these location* M u m i ' j D am 217 North Mam St., Heppner • Pfwie 876-9158 • Flira 676-9426 Serving Morrow, Wheeler & Gilliam counties Since 1959 Donald K. Evans Donald K. Evans, raising wheat and cattle. 89, lifelong Heppner resi He loved hunting, dent, died Wednesday, Au roping, riding snowm o gust 3, 2011 at Pio b iles, gard en in g neer Memorial Hos and tin k erin g in pital. A memorial his shop, especially service was held at with welding. He 11 a.m. on Tuesday, sat on the M or August 9 at Hope row County Rodeo Lutheran Church in B oard, w hich he D onald Heppner. chaired for sever Evans He was bom al years. He was March 18, 1922 in a m em ber o f the Heppner, the son of Claude H eppner B.P.O.E. #358 and Millie Buschke Haney. and Hope Lutheran Church, Following the death of his which he helped build. father, when Don was just Survivors include: four years old, his mother wife, Margaret Evans of married Earl Evans, who H eppner; sons, Wayne then adopted him. He was Evans o f Riley, OR and raised and attended school Monty Evans of Heppner; in Heppner, graduating in daughter, Michele Berg 1941. Mr. Evans enlisted in strom o f Hermiston; five the United States Navy in grandchildren and seven 1942. He returned to Hepp great-grandchildren. ner following his honorable Memorial contri discharge in 1944. butions may be made to On March 18,1946 Hope Lutheran Church, he married Margaret Krebs PO Box 863, Heppner, OR in Portland, OR. 97836 or to Pioneer Memo Mr. Evans worked rial Hospital, PO Box 9, at the Standard Station and Heppner, OR 97836. then the Heppner Lumber Sweeney Mortuary Mill. He eventually went of Heppner was in charge of into ranching and enjoyed arrangements. Archie N. Lucas Archie Nolan Lu cas, 46, formerly o f Hep pner, passed away at his home in Las Vegas, NV on July 26, 2011. Services were held at Southern Ne vada Veterans Memorial Cemetery at 8:a.m. on Au gust 8. Archie was a Hep pner High School graduate and a veteran o f the U.S. Army. He served as an am munition specialist in the army. During his service, he was honored with an overseas service ribbon, good conduct medal, and an expert marksmanship badge. Archie was a lov ing husband and father who lived with a kind and gen erous spirit that was mani fested during his work with the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he strove to help veterans receive the respect and support they deserved. Injured during his military service, he dealt with his ongoing m edi cal struggles with dignity, grace and nobility. He lived with com passion and empathy, seek ing to help those around him whenever possible and taking a genuine interest in people’s lives. Archie is survived by: his loving wife, Carol Virginia Metcalfe; his two children, Sven and Saman tha Lucas; his mother, Linda (Lucas) Lagao; stepfather, Dante Lagao; and th re e s ib lin g s , Tammy (Lucas) Cutler, Tyrone Lucas and Clifford Lucas. Control your blood pressure Submitted by the Morrow County Health District High blood pres sure is an extremely com mon illness, especially as people age. Today there are a great number and variety of medicines and treatments for hypertension. Despite all the wonderful medi cines, it is still common for people not to take hyperten sion seriously. Why should you take hypertension serious ly? Because it is the main risk factor for strokes and is a major risk factor in heart attacks, heart failure and diabetic kidney disease. These illnesses are the ma jor causes of death and dis ability as a person ages. Why don’t people take hypertension more se riously? It causes very few symptoms until there is a stroke or heart attack. The cost of medicines can add up, and there can be side effects from the medicines. Furthermore, many people just have not had their blood pressure checked, or think that lowering their blood MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT ! r* c « H « n c « I* H M l( k < « r t pressure will “slow them down.” New g u id elin es recommend starting with lifestyle changes and an inexpensive diuretic called hydrochlorothiazide. Life style changes include an improved diet with reduced salt and fat content, an in crease in physical activity to improve the function of the heart and blood ves sels, and weight reduction to within 10-15% of one’s ideal weight. If a person smokes, it is extrem ely important to quit. For a person with hypertension, medicines can be chosen depending on a variety of factors. 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