Willy Gentry wins MOCO Rodeo All
Around
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Eugene OR 97403
W illy G entry o f
Heppner captured the All-
Around Cowboy award for
the Morrow County Rodeo
held August 21 in Heppner.
Gentry won the Cow Rid
ing, Steer Wrestling and
Open Calf Roding events.
Tiffany Greenup
won the Senior Breakaway
Roping and the Senior Bar
rels events and Devin Rob
inson won the Amateur Calf
Roping.
Ty Sturza of Herm-
iston won the Oregon Trail
Pro Rodeo (National Pro
Rodeo Association) All-
Around saddle. Sam McK
enzie of Jordan Valley won
the Mike Currin Memorial
Calf Roping Buckle. The
OTPR was held on Friday
and Saturday, August 19
and 20.
Complete results
are as follows:
Morrow County Rodeo
All Around: Willy
Gentry-Les Schwab Tires.
Cow Riding: Willy
Gentry-Miller & Sons.
C alf Riding: Tim
HEPPNER
VOL. 130
NO. 34 8 Pages
Wednesday. August 31, 2011
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Oregon ranks 30<h in nation in identity
theft
State official says
Social Security
number most valu
able info for thieves
By David Sykes
Although Oregon has
moved from seventh in the
nation for identity theft, to
now ranking 30th, people
should still be careful to
keep thieves from stealing
their identity, an official
with the Oregon Dept, of
Consumer and Business
Services told the Heppner
C ham ber o f Com m erce
recently.
Diane Childs says in 2007
Oregon ranked seventh,
but has since tightened up
with new laws and rules
to improve the guarding of
data here.
“Personal information is
protected by law,” Childs
said. “And if we get that
info in our businesses we
must safeguard that info.”
She said the most soft-after
info is social security num
bers, followed by driver li
cense numbers and state ID
cards. Childs said the social
security number especially
can open up all sorts o f
doors for identity thieves
who will open charge and
credit card accounts with
the information.
To obtain the information,
thieves most often us com
puter hacking techniques,
Childs said. Hacking ac
counts for about 19 percent
of identity theft, inside theft
at businesses, etc., about 17
Diane Childs of the Oregon Dept, of Consumer & Busi
ness Services recently spoke to the Heppner Chamber of
Commerce about the threat of identity theft.
percent, and what she called
“data on the m ove” ac
counts for about 16 percent
o f the theft cases.
She defined data on the
move as when someone
transmits personal informa
tion over the internet, smart
phones or uses their credit
card somewhere.
Childs says our personal
data can end up on all kinds
o f devices that we need
to be aware of, including
thumb drives, laptops and
smart phones, as just an
example. “Be aware where
your data is and monitor
who has access to it,” she
urged. As an example o f
places where data is stored
but many people don’t even
think about, is used copy
machines. The newer digi
tal copy machines use a
hard drive to store data
when it is copied or trans
mitted by fax, and she said
businesses should “wipe”
or erase those drives before
turning them back into the
leasing company, throwing
them away, or exchanging
them on a trade in.
She said business need
to train people to handle
other people’s inform a
tion, including customers
and employees. And she
warned people about giving
out account numbers based
on an email someone re
ceived. “Scrutinize emails
that come in,” she warned.
A company will never ask
for your account number
through an email, she said.
Willy Gentry
-Photo by Sandy Matthews
Gould-Paul Hisler, Jr. Fam
ily Shad Hisler Memorial.
Buckle.
Steer W restling:
Willy Gentry-M ike Ma
honey Family.
Mutton Bustin’:
Blane Mahoney-Dickenson
Chiropractic.
Senior Goat Ty-
See RODEO RESULTS
Page SIX
Soldiers in Iraq unite for prayer
JO IN T B A SE
BALAD, Iraq — Bright
lights flooded the room,
w hich was filled w ith
soldiers from Oregon’s 3rd
Battalion, 116th Cavalry
Regiment, and Kentucky’s
1st Battalion, 149th Infantry
Regt., both belonging to the
77th Sustainment Brigade,
3 1 0 th E x p e d itio n a r y
Sustainm ent Command,
Sunday, Aug. 21. These
so ld iers, including the
commanders of both units
and others from all ranks
and jobs, united for a Sunday
m orning prayer brunch
for two main reasons: to
celebrate the completion of
the 149th’s training process
in transferring operations
from the 116th and to ask
for God’s blessing in the
journeys ahead for each unit.
After a brief speech from
the 116th Cav. and 149th
Inf. Regt. com manders,
each u nit’s chaplain led
the group in teaching of
lessons learned in the
deployment and a moment
of prayer aimed at offering
fellowship between two
units from different ways
o f life and c o m p le te
opposite ends of the U.S.
Capt. Andrew Johnson,
the 116th Regt. chaplain, a
native ofHeppner, Ore., said,
“It’s important to realize
that our fellow brothers
and sisters aren’t our enemy
on deployment. Realizing
the value o f our team s
is im portant, however.”
Pictured left to right: Capt. Andrew Johnson, chaplain
for the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regt. from Heppner,
and Silverton, OR, native Lt. Col. Phillip Appleton, 116th
Cav. Regt. commander, bow their heads as 1st Battalion,
149th Infantry Regt. chaplain Maj. Brian Seidel leads a
prayer at Joint Base Balad, Sunday, Aug. 21. Both units are
a part of 77th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary
Sustainment Command. The 149th Inf. Regt. has recently
reached the end of a lengthy mission hand off process
which sees them taking the reigns from 116th Cav. Regt.
in escorting supply convoys across the roads of northern
Iraq.
O verall, the
prayer brunch offered a
reminder to soldiers of the
importance of a strong spirit
in the face o f adversity.
Maj. Brian Seidel,
chaplain of 149th Regt. and a
native of London, Ky., said,
“The spiritual component
of [a Soldier’s] total fitness
is often undervalued till
crisis. Sometimes we don’t
appreciate the significance
o f spiritual fitness till we
desperately need it. But
we need it for all of life,
the good and the bad.”
For both units in the
months to come, perhaps
good spirits will be useful to
successfully finishing their
respective missions.
Kids head back to school
Round-up themed fund raiser to benefit
Roy Proctor
Tickets for a fund
raiser to benefit Roy Proc
tor, a Heppner native who
is recovering from a second
bone marrow transplant
on August 18, are now on
sale. Proctor has Fanconi’s
Anemia.
The tic k e ts are
for a Pendleton Round-
Up themed basket that in
cludes: a Pendleton Woolen
Mills blanket; two Wednes
day or Thursday tickets
for the 2012 Pendleton
Round-Up; two adult tick
ets to the Happy Canyon
Pageant; two adult tickets
for the Round-Up Hall of
Fame; one bottle Round-Up
Whiskey; four Pendleton
Round-U p glasses; one
bottle of Hamley’s wine;
two Hamley’s wine glasses;
two Pendleton Round-Up
wine glasses; one Pendleton
Round-Up cookbook; $50
)
The school year opened Monday for these kids at Heppner Elementary school. Principal
and stafT were at the door to welcome back the children for the new school year.
School opened for both the Heppner and lone School Districts.
These kids got right with some activity going right away Monday morning when they
got a soccer game going before class at the Heppner Elementary playground.
Pendleton Round-Up basket on display at Murrays Drug
gift certificate to Hamley’s
Steak House; 2012 Pend
leton Round-Up calendar,
bumper sticker and bro
chure; two bottles of Pend
leton Round-Up barbecue
sauce and one W estern
themed table runner. The
galvanized bucket was do
nated by Morrow County
Grain Growers.
Tickets are on sale
until October 8, 2011. The
winner will be drawn that
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