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HeppnerGazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May2,2012 -FIVE HEALTH DISTRICT O bituaries Bethal Ann (Blake) Heinrichs V / 1939. Bethal worked at the Heppner Public Library for 10 years and volunteered for the American Red Cross for more than 25 years. She was preceeded in death by her husband, Paul Heinrichs, in 1996. She is survived by her daughter. Paula Hein richs, of Portland, OR. T hreadgill’s Me morial Services is in charge of arrangements. Bethal Ann (Blake) Heinrichs, 91, passed away peacefully on April 14, 2012 at Lumi Adult Care Home after suffering from a stroke three days earlier. At Bethal’s request, no service will be held. Interment will be at Willamette National Cemetery. Bethal was born Septem ber 17, 1920 in lone to Snoda and Kenneth Blake. She graduated from Heppner High School in Youth fishing derby planned The seventh annual youth fishing derby will be held at Cutsforth Park on May 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. This a free event sponsored by the Oregon De partment of Fish and Wildlife and Morrow County parks for children 14 years old and younger. Cutsforth Park is located at 58430 Willow Creek Rd., Heppner, OR. For more information, contact Betty Gray at the Morrow County Public Works Office, 541 - 989-8214. RE-ELECT LEANN REA^ MORROW COUNTY COMMISSIONER HERE TO SERVE ALL THE PEOPLE OF MORROW CO. WITH HARD WORK, STRONG LEADERSHIP, KNOWLEDGE & INTEGRITY. Sell your unwanted gold, silver or platinum jewelry for cash! We will give B iving : 10 Ulm, 14 uut , , 22 uum mi um you a FREE 11 umi mi II 111 (HUM evaluation! Or See Store Our For Website Details B uying hours : T ues .- S at ., 9:30-5:30 I.J. GEMS 541-567-3975 800-900-3975 J QUALITY JEWELERS LTD " i4 239 E. Main Street Downtown Hermiston Family Tradition of Trust Since 1949" i WWW.lJGEMS.COM Esther Anderson Esther Anderson, rolls are legendary. Her former Heppner resident, family didn’t know about died April 24, 2012 at her store-bought bread for a favorite place on Earth— her very long time. home in Dallas, OR—in the She sewed beauti arms of her husband, Nels. fully, making clothes for Even though her heart gave all her children. Later, out at age 90, her every child and spirit will never die. grandchild—20 of Family and friends those plus six more will gather May 5 at from blended fam 3 p.m. at Restlawn ilies—had a quilt Funeral Home, 201 she made for them. Oak Grove Road Now, her 50 great NW in Salem to Esther grandchildren have celebrate her life. one, too. Anderson Esther Bar In 1965, bara Yackley was Esther and Nels and bom January 3, 1922 in El the four younger boys head liot, ND to Carl and Mabel ed to the Republic of Niger Yackley. When she was in West Africa. In their two 14, her father died, so she years there, she learned began working for families French and how to endure in the Lisbon area, earning the heat. They returned to $3 a week to help support Oregon in 1967 and lived in her mother and her siblings. Albany for a year until Nels She graduated from Lisbon was transferred to the Polk High School at age 16 and County Extension Service married Nels Anderson a in Dallas. year later, on October 7, They had one more 1939. two-year stint in Africa, this They lived in North time in Botswana in south Dakota until 1946 and had ern Africa. Esther worked three ch ild ren — C arole for the U.S. Embassy while Anne, Connie and Jerry. In there. 1946, they came to Hep D a lla s b ecam e pner, where Nels was the home, and Esther and Nels county extension agent for lived in the same house 19 years. There they had for 43 years. Her interest four more children: David, was in her family, but she Doug, Chris and Richard. also worked at the Morri With seven ch il son School library, helping dren, Esther was a busy children follow her passion mom. Out o f necessity, for books. she was a seamstress and a With so many chil cook. In fact, her prowess dren and grandchildren and as a cook made her famous then great-grandchildren, for the pies she baked that Esther was the center o f were sold at the Elks Club attention. Her home was and H am lin’s Tavern in full o f family; she w el Heppner. She had a milk comed them warmly. Every route until the health board holiday was at Grandma’s halted that; then she sold house-Easter egg hunts, milk from the back porch huge Thanksgiving dinners to regular customers. (with her pies, of course) Her boundless en and C hristm as celeb ra ergy extended into her com tions. munity activities; she was She and Nels found president o f the Heppner time to travel extensively Mothers Club, president of with their friends and fam the Morrow County School ily. She loved her garden District board, 4-H leader even as she became less and member of the Morrow mobile. She continued to County Fair board, among work on scrapbooks full others. Every summer she of memories for her and cooked at 4-H Camp. her grandchildren and their Undoubtedly, her families. She never stopped true claim to fame was sewing. The cookie jar was as a mother and later as a always full. grandmother. With a busy So is her family’s husband, Esther took on love, pride and admiration much of the job of raising for her. her children. She directed In lied of flowers, the summer vacations. She donations may be made to made sure the kids learned her favorite causes: Mari- to work hard, swim, drive on-Polk Food Share, 1660 and be responsible for their Salem Industrial Drive NE, actions. When the children Salem, OR 97301 or the and their friends came home 4-H Center, through the from school, there was Polk County Extension Of always something baked fice at 182 SW Academy, fresh to eat. Her cinnamon Dallas, OR 97338. “ Music in The Parks*' Funded by Morrow County Unified Recreation District and Portland General Electric In The -A*, -PmÊ® / V * PGE / Sponsored by North Morrow Community Foundation, Irrigon Watermelon FestiVal and MPS A Texas Hold ‘Em fundraiser for the Heppner High School baseball pro gram will be held May 12 at the Heppner Elks Lodge. Doors open at 5 p.m. with sign-up at 5:45 p.m. and tournament play at 6:30 p.m. Buy-in is $40. No-host beverages and food will be provided. For Information call: Kathie @ 541-571-1710 (Boardman) OR Donna @ 541-922*3197 (Irrigon) Clinic remodel. -d iscu ssed with CEO Michael Blauer as pects of proposed coordi nated care organizations (CCO), which will replace Oregon’s Medicaid man aged care organizations. He reported that GOBHI has indicated that it wishes to become a CCO. -learned from Blau er that the switch over to electronic medical records is progressing, with the issues that still need resolu tion becoming “smaller and smaller.” He and Mahoney said that the district is near ing the point where they can submit the costs to the gov ernment for reimbursement. She said that the district can be reimbursed for around $448,000. -learned that the sprinkler head rep lace ment at Pioneer Memorial Hospital, mandated by the state fire chief, is currently ongoing. -heard from Blauer that the CHI P program , the “Biggest Winner,” has concluded and was “quite the success.” -heard a presenta tion by Robanai Disque, MCHD Home Health and Hospice director, on the Home Health’s annual eval uation. Fuels reduction meeting planned The Heppner rang er district of the Umatilla National Forest is hosting a public meeting at 6 p.m. on May 8 at the Heppner ranger district office, 117 South Main Street, to dis cuss the Potamus Project and continuing assessment for identifying fuels reduc tion and forest stand density projects in the Penland Lake area southeast of Heppner. In 2001, the Mor row County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (C WPP) identified the Pen- land Lake Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) area as a priority for fuels reduc tion projects to lessen the impact of wildfire on lives, property and the landscape. The goal of this meeting is to discuss the current status of the project and present the current treatment alter native; visit about specific interests and project ideas to develop an additional alternative; review com ments received to use in building into the additional alternative; and discuss current fuel conditions and expected fire behavior within the project area and the expected fire behavior predictions after treatment on proposed units. For more informa tion, contact Scott Wryn at the Heppner ranger district 541-676-2138. Topic club holds ladies’ tea The Topic Club o f lone hosted a luncheon for all of the graduating young ladies from lone Community School. This is an annual event held each year at the lone Community Church. Back row (L-R) are Topic Club ladies Betty Gray, Lisa Rietmann, Virginia Martinez, Kathy Morter, Jeanette Logan, Betty Riemtann, Margo Shear, Stacy Shelton, June Crowell, Tori Rice and Eunice McEligott. Middle row (L-R) are students Christine Raible, Jordan Peterson, Rebecca Jepsen. JoAnna Patton, Mary Rietmann and Melanie Eldrige. Front row (L-R) are students Tashina Rushlow, Dominika Senkerikova, Shan non Metcalfe, Mary McElligott, Makenna Kamos, Jasmine Verduzco and Kaytee Burghard. -Photo by Lynn Dee Ramos C ongratulations to Brandon W edding, C O N C ER TS BEG IN AT 7 :0 0 PM Monday June 18 Boardman Marina Park Tony Madrigal - 50's, 60's, 70's Monday June 25 Irrigon Marina Park Irrigon High Jazz Band Monday July 2 Boardman Marina Park Pamela Kinsey - Gospel - "Honor our Veterans' Monday July 9 Irrigon Marina Park BlueZette - 60's, 70's - "Honor our Veterans" Monday July 16 Boardman Marina Park Los Temerosos - Mariachi Band Monday July 23 Irrigon Marina Park Kelly Thibodeaux - Cajun Band - Fiddler Monday July 30 Boardman Marina Park Missy G Band - Country Monday August 6 Irrigon Marina Park Cale Moon Country - Gospel Monday August 13 Boardman Marina Park Frank Carlson - Country Monday August 20 Irrigon Manna Park Sidewalk Stampers - Dixieland Band ONE district had a $ 104,298 gain for the year, an $11,589 average monthly year-to- date gain. -approved a $15,000 request from Del Turner, a paramedic em ployed with the district, for three state-of-the-art defibrillators to be installed in the district’s three main ambulances, one each in the Heppner, Irrigon and Boardman ambulances. He said that the defibrillators would increase survival chances for heart attack victims by sending critical information to specialists via cell phones or other devices even before the pa tient arrives at a designated hospital, thereby dramati cally reducing the time that it would take for diagnosis and treatment. Turner has written a grant proposal for his “Pre Hospital Triage” plan. The board approved the request for $15,000 on the condition that Turner’s grant funding is approved. -learned from Di rector of Nursing Services Molly Rhea that there are currently six long-term care patients and one swing-bed patient. -received a timeline for construction documents and the bid phase schedule for the proposed Irrigon Fundraiser planned Free Outdoor Music Festival ( BUDGET - C -Continuedfrom n n t i n u p f i fr n m PA PAGE (IF Marraw We are proud to have Brandon as an employee at MCGG. He has been with MCGG since June of 2009 where he has worked in the propane department. Brandon demonstrates an incredible way of communicating with customers and fellow employees. Brandon goes above and beyond what is expected of any employee. Good Job BrandonU L e x in g t o n 9 8 9 -8 2 2 1 • 1 -8 0 0 -4 5 2 -7 3 9 6
