TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 11,2012
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Local student places
in essay contest
Jeannie Collins (L) with third-place regional essay winner
Skyler Hawk. - Contributed photo
Skyler Hawk placed third in the Oregon State
Federation of Garden Clubs regional essay competition
with his essay, “The Benefits of Community Gardens.”
The federation sponsors contests for essays, posters and
poetry.
The Heppner Garden Club sponsors Heppner
students and sends them to the state competition. Jeannie
Collins worked with the essay group.
HES to hold Wild
West dance
Mrs. Gentry instructing third-graders Mikel Jaca, Sage Fer
guson, Gaige Futter and Rylee Bray on the western swing.
-Contributed photo
Heppner Elemen
tary School invites area
families to kick off spring
the western way at the Wild
West family dance at HES.
Desert Sounds will
be there to keep the music
pumping from 7-9 p.m. for
line dancing and western
swing. The FFA students
will be giving roping les
sons. Raffle tickets for gift
baskets will be available for
purchase, and snacks will
be served.
“Dress in your best
cowboy and cowgirl clothes
and kick up your heels with
your family and friends,”
says one HES staff mem
ber.
This event is free
and sponsored by the HES
Parent Teacher Club.
tH ttO N MILLER
BENEFIT 90FTBALL
TOURNAMENT AND
Date: April 14
Tim e: 8:30
Cost: $200 per team
Teams: 9 player minimum
Obituaries
Herbert Lawrence
‘Larry’ Lovgren
Herbert Lawrence chinery run, which came in
“Larry” Lovgren, 77, of handy on the farm. He was
Squam Bay Valley, BC a man who never raised
passed away on March his voice to his girls, al
ways a gentleman,
11, 2012 after a
long battle with
with never a harsh
Alzheimer’s dis
word to say about
anyone. He was a
ease. A memorial
service will be held
friend to many and
at 2 p.m. on May 12
will be missed by
all who knew him.
at the Squam Bay
He w as
Hall.
Herbert
Larry was Lawrence
preceded in death
by: his parents, Vic
born in Morrow “Larry”
tor in 1991 and Jes
County on Decem Lovgren
ber 6, 1934, the son
sie in 1974; his first
of Victor Arthur
wife, Joan June Lovgren
and Jessie Irene (McDan in 1995; his brother, Dean
iel) Lovgren; he grew up Arthur Lovgren in 1983;
on a farm where they grew and grandson, Tyrell Dean
grain and raised cattle. Af Wilson in 1984.
He is survived by:
ter graduation, in 1955, he
married Joan Thomas and a sister, Donna (Vince) All-
moved to Canada in search man of Pendleton, OR; four
of a piece of land with daughters, Vicky (Tom)
water. They settled in the Davis of Barriere, BC, Jan
Squam Bay Valley in Brit Davis of Kamloops, BC,
ish Columbia, where they Brenda (Gordon) Wilson of
shared many happy years Little Fort and Beisecker,
raising their family. Af Alberta, and Jacki (Wayne)
ter his wife’s death, Larry Van Sickle of Squam Bay,
married Darlene in 2000, BC; nine grandchildren,
and he was able to do some Justin (Sheshawna) Da
traveling. He lived on the vis, Deana Davis (Destry
farm until being admitted Nowoczin), Joe, Kevin
into Forest View Place in and Lauren Davis, Tyler
the Dr. Helmcken Memo Wilson, Katelyn Wilson
rial Hospital in Clearwater, (Brandon Abel), Jacob
B.C. in 2008.
Van Sickle (Kim Monsos),
Larry loved and Trevor Van Sickle; and four
took great pride in his work great-grandchildren,
and his farm. He drove Cat,
Memorial dona
building roads for Mac Al tions in his memory may
len Logging for around 40 be made to the Alzheimer’s
years, only taking time off Society, North Central In
to put up hay on the family terior, Box 277, Stn. M,
farm in the summer. In the Kamloops, BC, Canada,
fall, he would take a week V2C 5K6.
or so to go hunting with his
Online condolences
buddies in northern British can be made to www.north-
Columbia. He was a great thompsonfuneral .com.
story teller and always had
North Thompson
a sense of humor. Larry was Funeral Services in Bar
a great mechanic; he could riere, BC is in charge of
make any old piece of ma arrangements.
Sara R. ‘Isa’
Brown
Sara R. “ Isa ”
Brown, 86, of lone died
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
at her home. A memorial
service was held 11 a.m.
Wednesday, April 11, at the
lone Community Church.
She was bom June
13, 1925 in Rochester, NY,
the daughter of William and
Ruth Mead Titus. She was
raised and attended school
in Rochester. She attended
both the Ironaquoit High
School and Fairport High
School in Rochester. Af
ter graduating from high
school, she was a dancer on
and off Broadway and was
in summer stock theatre in
New York.
Isa had several ca
reers in her lifetime, one of
them being an executive
secretary for Alistair Cooke,
the journalist; John Howard,
who was responsible for
setting up the engineering
school at Columbia Uni
versity; and Ron Sholnech,
the director of the YMCA
in Rochester. In 1973, while
working at the YMCA, she
met R. J. “Hasa” Brown,
and the couple was married
in 1976.
She earned a mas
ter’s degree in philosophy,
as well as a master’s in the
ology. She attended Bexely
Hall Seminary in Rochester,
graduating in 1980; she
began serving churches in
Lyle, NY and proceeded
to serve other churches at
the Fort Berthold Reserva
tion in North Dakota, in
North Fork and Alturas
in California, and in lone,
Condon and Enterprise in
Oregon. She also did pulpit
supply in various churches
in Oregon; a favorite was a
house church in Bend. She
retired from the ministry
in 1988 while serving the
United Church of Christ
in lone.
She was very proud
of her Native American
heritage.
Survivors include:
her husband, Hasa Brown
of lone; daughter, Khita
Wyatt of Ann Arbor, MI
and grandchildren, Mekiah
and Aleya.
Memorial contri
butions may be made to the
lone Community Church,
PO Box 346, lone, OR
97843.
Sweeney Mortuary
of Heppner is in charge of
arrangements.
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Wolf management
not fair to ranchers
Howdy Editor,
On March 11, the Heppner Tea Party sponsored
an informational meeting on wolves. The gathering was
well worth the travel to get there. Their goal was to tell
the facts and leave out the media spin. 1 am not quoting
or attempting to put words in their mouths. The following
is my “take” from the meeting.
It was well done with little finger-pointing. The
presentation was made up of three rancher wives along
with their local county sheriff. Each gave a verbal and vi
sual presentation. The visual showed the sheriff, rancher,
ODFW representative and veterinary, all witnessing the
several investigative autopsies at the same time. The
evidence represented the huge unreasonable and over
whelming challenge ranchers face 24 hours a day to stay
in business and save their agricultural livelihoods. Not
only do they have to deal with the wolves, they have also
received death threats.
Their verbal presentation: Oregon was not in the
original federal wolf recovery plan. Wolves have never
been endangered; they were brought to Yellowstone from
somewhere else. The plan manages people, not wolves.
There are no constraints on wolves; the constraints are
all on the people.
We are notified of sex offenders in our neighbor
hoods. Only “after the fact” notification—if it comes at
all—comes to the ranchers when wolves are around their
cattle.
Wolves get used to and outsmart the noisemaking,
visual and mechanical required gadgets and deterrents
that are supposed to scare them away. These required
deterrents were originally financed by wildlife groups
but, like their promised reimbursements to ranchers for
dead animals, the financial load has been shifted to locals
and taxpayers to obtain and install.
Not all wolves are collared. Wolves can travel
six to 10 miles within minutes. It is impossible for the
range rider and ranchers to effectively monitor thousands
of head of cattle and cover thousands of acres, adding
burdensome costs in gas and time that should be spent
on other farm/ranch needs.
Investigation and evidence handling is very
inconsistent with the ODFW. State livestock reimburse
ments don’t come when the animal is killed by the wolves.
If ranchers are compensated, it doesn’t cover the real
cost nor the future production of the animal. Some local
citizens have contributed, but owners are ultimately re
sponsible for the costs of investigation and vet bills.
Wolves don’t let cattle and game disperse over
range land, pushing cattle away from feed in one area and
causing overgrazing on other parts of the range area. Be
cause of wolf harassment, calving rates have dropped.
Kill permits are issued, but depredation usually
takes place at night. It is very difficult to catch them in
the act. Even with a permit, you cannot kill a wolf if it is
chasing or biting at your dog or livestock...you must be
able to prove they were actually going to kill your animal.
Even for self-protection, you must be able to substanti
ate that your life was in danger. Houses and people don’t
scare them...they will lie in close distance, monitoring
your home and every action.
Some previously agreed-upon lethal tools for
protecting livestock have been taken away. Cattle that
have been subject to wolf attacks become unmanageable.
Wolves don’t always eat what they kill. Wolves also maim
just for the fun of it, or to train their young. Some wounds
do not immediately kill the cows. Sometimes cattle don’t
respond to treatment; rather, they suffer with 108.4 degree
temperatures, dying from resulting infections.
Nonlethal wolf attacks leave cattle with scrapes
and scars on the inside and outside of legs, flanks, bel
lies, sides, and with hideously shredded udders. A person
would be booked on probable cause, but the ODFW
frequently ignores obvious evidence. There is no appeal
to their decisions.
Leonard C. Routson
Umatilla, OR
Legion fundraiser a
success
The eighth annu
al fundraiser for the lone
American Legion and Aux
iliary Post #95 was success
ful. Lots of people showed
up for the bake sale, bingo
and Texas Hold Em’ poker
tournament.
Trevor McCoin
won the rifle drawing, while
Gene Doherty and Ed Riet-
mann were the lucky win
ners of half a beef each.
The poker tourna
ment also had four paying
placements: first, James
Seufert; second, Steve Bul-
lack; third, Alva Anderson
and fourth, Mary Riggs.
The Office Pub
graciously donated a $50
gift certificate, which was
awarded during the one
time bingo blackout game;
Ina Peterson won that.
P O S IT IO N
A V A IL A B L E
S eeking a m otivated individual to com plete
housekeeping and outdoor yardwork for 3 hours
daily, 3 days per week. Must be able to lift 50 lbs,
work outdoors, complete specific projects and run
errands. Compensation is 12.00-15.00 per hour,
DOE. Must be able to pass criminal background
check and have valid driver’s license. Please send
a letter of interest with your contact information to:
Boxholder, P.O. Box 219, Heppner, Oregon 97836
The raffle prizes, shirts, and trophies will be handed
out at the Elks Lodge after the
conclusion of the tournament.
To sign up for the tournam ent or
purchase raffle tickets, please contact
Josh Henrichs at 541-256-0506 or
Corey Sweeney at 541-256-0355.
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