HeppnerGazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May2,2012 -FIVE
HEALTH DISTRICT
O bituaries
Bethal Ann (Blake)
Heinrichs
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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 -
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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.
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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
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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
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