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Heppner sparkles for Christmas B essie W etzell N ew sp ap er Library University of O regon E u gene, OR 97403 50 < VOL. 130 NO. 46 8 Pages Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Celebrate Heppner Christmas December 15 C h ris tm a s w ill come a couple weeks early this year, when the annual Celebrate Heppner Christ mas takes place Thursday, December 15. The celebra tion will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the annual Parade of Lights down Main Street, with the remainder o f the evening’s activities to fol low at the Morrow County Fairgrounds. A dinner catered by Sweet Productions will warm celebration-goers starting at 6 p.m. The dinner will be a spaghetti feed with marinara or meat sauce, garlic bread, garden salad, and Christmas cake with coffee, hot cocoa or lem onade. The dinner will cost $5 per guest, or $3 for children under 5. There will be a no-host beer and wine bar catered by Bucknum’s. Diners will receive a $10 rewards card for every meal purchased. O th er a c tiv itie s during dinner include the opportunity for people to find “Scrooge” and see if they can get him to hand over a reward card or two, $5 pictures on stage with Santa, and rew ard card prizes, raffle basket items and penny board items set up in the annex. Everyone is asked to drop their rewards cards in the appropriate prize container before 7:15 p.m., as well as purchase raffle tickets for an oppor tunity to win some great prizes. Raffle basket prizes Mary Chandler (L) holds up Zachary Brown (center) to place his ornament on the city Christ mas tree during the lighting ceremony last Thursday, while Keeley Naims (R) gets a boost include a Nikon Coolpix from another helper to hang her own work of art. - Photo by David Sykes Camera with L015 15x Optical zoom, Kindle with keyboard and two Por table RCA 9” DVD players. Penny Board prizes will be an Xbox 360 and a Kindle with keyboard. The evening’s ac tion will begin at 7:15 p.m. with the introduction o f Heppner’s foreign exchange students. Announcement of rew ard card, C hristm as raffle winners will follow immediately after. E veryone is re minded to keep collecting those rewards cards every time they purchase from local merchants from now until December 15. NOAA issues Heppner climate summary According to pre liminary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton, tem peratures in Heppner aver aged slightly warmer than normal during the month of November. The average tem perature was 41.8 degrees, w hich was 0.6 degrees above normal. High tem peratures averaged 51.6 degrees, which was 0.8 degrees above normal. The highest tem perature re corded was 64 degrees on the 12*. Low temperatures averaged 32.1 degrees, w hich was 0.4 degrees above normal. The lowest was 26 degrees, on No vember 1. There were 16 days with a low temperature be low 32 degrees. P recipitation to taled 0.54 inches during November, which was 1.06 inches below normal. Mea surable precipitation of at least .01 inch was received on eight days, with the heaviest, 0.15 inches, re ported on the 12*. Snowfall totaled 1.2 inches, with at least one inch of snow reported on one day. The heaviest snowfall was one inch, re ported on the November 19. The greatest depth of snow on the ground was also one inch on the 19*. The outlook for December from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Cen ter calls for below-normal temperatures and near- to above-normal precipitation. Normal highs for Heppner fall from 44.0 degrees at the start o f December to 41.0 degrees at the end of December. Normal lows fall from 28.0 degrees to 25.0 degrees. The 30-year normal precipitation is 1.32 inches. The N a t i o n a l Weather Service is an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra tion, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. Area pastors invited to submit Christmas messages The Heppner Gazette-Times invites area pastors to submit Christmas mes sages to be published in the December 21 edition. The deadline is Friday, December 16, at 5 p.m. Messages can be dropped off at the Gazette office, emailed to editor@rapid- serve.net, or faxed to 541 -676-9211. I Carolers strolled Main Street and lent their voices to the festivities during Heppner’s Customer Appreciation Day and tree lighting. Front (L-R): Andrea Collins, Julissa Sanchez, Jasmine Garcia, Chance McCormack and Joe Lindsay. Back (L-R): Bethany Koelker, Hannah Jones and Ella McCormack. -Photo by David Svkes This gingerbread cathedral was built by Sweet Productions owner Jodi Chapa (pictured) with the help of daughters Jodessa and Kolleen, who were home from Western Oregon University over the Thanksgiving holiday. The church, on display through the Christmas season, took 26 hours to create. Inset: The inside of the cathedral shows a wealth of detail, all rendered in gingerbread. /Vjotor by Andrea Di Salvo G-T closed for Christmas The Gazette-Times will be closed Monday, December 26 for the Christmas holiday. The news and ad deadline for the December 28 edition will be Friday, December 23 at five O’clock. Normal business hours will resume Tuesday. December 27. GREAT GIFTS FOR KIDS! Z&DO [ F & m m 0 ® ^ cm ? Through December 23 M orrow County Grain Growers L o x in jjjto r^ 8 9 -8 2 2 ^ ^ 1 -8 0 0 -4 5 2 -7 3 9 ^ ^ O T fa n n ^ q i^ ^
