SIX- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 23,2012
Mustangs, Cardinals compete in state
track finals
Heppner softball
all-stars
Heppner softball all-stars (K-L) Micha Hint*, Cassie Day,
Natalie Kausch and Bailey Bennett. -Contributedphoto
Mustang golf state
results
The Mustang golf team,
comprised of athletes from
1 leppner and lone schools,
competed in the state cham
pionship finals last week
end.
The boys came in 9,h
with a final score of 709.
The girls placed 11th with
a score of 863. Individual
results for the tournament
are as follows:
Boys: Austin Gutierrez,
174; Kyle Harrison, 178;
Zac Orem, 183; Adam Col
lin, 188; Luke Jobes, 188.
Girls: Blake Greenup,
192; Jordan Peterson, 216;
Maddie Lindsay, 227; Paige
Grieb, 235; Stacee Hal-
vorsen, 236.
Complete tournament
results are available at
http://www.osaa.org/golf/.
Youth basketball
clinic in Irrigon
lim inaries with 11.58Q,
shaving that down to 11.47
and 5th in the finals. He
also shaved his prelim i
nary time of 23.37Q in the
200M dash to 23.09 for 3rd
place. Bara placed 7th in the
11OM hurdles with a time
of 17.13. He also shaved
his prelim inary time o f
45.14Q in the 300M hurdles
to 44.99 in the finals, taking
7lh there.
The H eppner 4x400
relay team took 8th in the
preliminaries with a time of
3:53.03Q, but lost ground in
the finals to take 8th with a
time of 3:54.01. The team
consisted of Bryce Fowler,
Jeff McConnell, Seth Palm
er and Jacob Moses.
The lone Cardinal track
team had athletes compet
ing in the 1A state finals.
The men’s team placed 3 15*
overall, tying with North
Clackamas Christian for the
spot. The men’s 4x 100 Me
ter relay team, consisting
of Evan Rietmann, Justin
Estabrook, Luke Emmel
and Steven Holland placed
SIDS walk scheduled
lone cheerleaders are organizing a SIDS walk to be
held May 26 at 11 a.m. The walk route will start and finish
at lone Community Park.
The walk’s theme will be “A Walk for Bailey.” T-
shirts will be available for $20 for adults and $11 for
children. Donations will also be accepted.
Anyone who is not able to participate in the walk but
who would like to buy a t-shirt or contribute may call
Misti Stefani at 541-422-7142; an account has been set
up at Bank of Eastern Oregon.
Lunch will be held in the park after the walk, with a
bouncy house for kids and a special speaker.
The next lunch meeting of the Heppner Chamber of
Commerce will be held Thursday, May 24, at noon in the
St. Patrick’s Senior Center dining room.
Guest speakers will be Carla McLane from the County
Planning Department and Amy Dunkak from Northeast
Oregon Area Health Education Center (NEOAFIEC), who
will give an update on their new programs.
Cost of the lunch is $9; The Stable of Youth will
cater. Participants are asked to RSVP no later than the
Wednesday before.
H ope L u theran,
Valby Lutheran and All
Saints Episcopal church
members will be serving
lunch on Wednesday, May
30, at St. Patrick’s Senior
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Jordan Bemrose, music teacher at lone Community School,
held a recital for her private piano students at the lone Com
munity Church on Saturday, May 19. Pictured are (back L-R)
Payton Miller, Larrysa Burright, Bemrose, Eva Martin, Madi
son Alldritt, Carson Eynetich, Jake Heidenian (Front L-R),
Hailey Heideman, Mackenzie Heideman, Cameron Proudfoot,
Jill Rudolf and Calvin Rietmann. Photo by Erin Heideman.
Community lunch menu HHS holds fruit and
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8th in preliminaries with
a PR time of 46.71Q; the
team shaved that time down
to 46.39a in the finals to
come in 6th.
lone girls also shone in
dividually. Makenna Ramos
placed 9lh in the women’s
400M dash preliminaries
with an excellent time of
1:06.71. Charlette Burghard
placed 9'h in the 3000M
run finals with a time of
12:30.08, which was a new
PR for her, cutting nearly
13 seconds off her previous
are available at osaa.org/
personal record.
Complete state results track/.
Chamber lunch meeting
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by Paula Emmel
On Monday, May 14, Willow Creek Country Club
hosted 110 Columbia-Blue Senior Golf Association golf-
ers. The players came from Beacon Rock, N. Bonneville,
Husum Hills/White Salmon, Goldendale, Arlington,
Condon, Kinzua Hills/Fossil, Echo, Willow Run/Board-
man, Big River/Umatilla, Milton-Freewater and Heppner/
Lexington/lone.
The weather was warm and sunny. Great food was
provided by the WCCC Women’s Association.
The next Columbia-Blue tournament will be played
at Condon on June 11.
vegetable sale
beans, rice, green salad,
tomato juice, tortillas and
flan. Milk is served at each
Heppner High School will hold a end-of-the-year
meal. Suggested donation fruit and vegetable sale this Thursday, May 24, from
is $3.50 per meal. Menu is 3:30-5:30 p.m. at the Heppner High School greenhouse.
subject to change.
Everything is on sale.
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Above: The lone relay team with their sixth-place medals
(L-R): Seniors Steven Holland and Luke Emmel and juniors
Justin Estabrook and Evan Rietmann. Below: Senior Makenna
Ramos finished strong in the 400M preliminary round. -Photos
WCCC hosts CBSGA p} ano students
able. The clinic is open to
all area youth. All proceeds
go to the Lady Knight bas
ketball program.
Registration for fourth
through sixth grade is at
8 a.m., June 8 at the gym;
seventh and eighth grades
register at noon on June 8 at
the 1HS gym. Or, call 541 -
377-5451 to pre-register.
The event is sponsered
by the Irrigon High School
Lady Knight basketball
team and Coach Gene He-
liker o f Blue M ountain
High Five in concert with
the Irrigon Youth Basket
ball program.
A C o lu m b ia R iv er
youth basketball clinic will
be held Friday and Satur
day, June 8-9, in the Irrigon
High School gymnasium.
Fourth-, fifth- and sixth-
grade boys and girls will
practice 9 a m. to noon both
days, with a scrimmage on
June 9 from 5-6:30 p.m.
Parents are welcome.
Seventh- and eighth-
grade girls will practice
1-4 p.m. June 8-9, with a
scrimmage Saturday from
6:30-8 p.m. Parents are
welcome.
Cost to participate is
$25; scholarships are avail
The 2012 OSAA 3A,
2A, 1A Track & Field State
Championships took place
Friday-Saturday, May 18-
19 at M cArthur Field at
Western Oregon University
in Monmouth, OR. Both
Heppner and lone had team
members competing in the
state finals.
Heppner athletes com
peted in the 2A classifica
tion in Monmouth. Mustang
women came in 26th overall,
tying with ever-present rival
Irrigon for the spot. Indi
viduals who stood out were
Emma Osmin, who came in
9th in the girls 300M hurdles
with a time of 52.99, and
Carrie Haguewood, who
competed in both the high
jum p and the long jump.
Haguewood took 8th in the
high jump with 4-06.00 and
6th in the long jump with
15-00.25.
H eppner m en cam e
in 15th overall, tying with
Neah-Kah-Nie for the rank
ing. Conner Pappas and
Andrew Bara both shone
in their events. Pappas took
5th in the 100M dash pre
today,” quipped Rhea.
Blauer also brought
up the impending imple
mentation of coordinated
care organizations (CCOs)
which look to be the trend
of the future of health care
in terms of management
and distribution of federal
health care dollars. With
CCOs, persons who are re
ceiving Medicaid funds for
their health care would each
be designated a set amount
o f money, which would
be used to pay for a wide
spectrum of care, includ
ing medical, dental, and
psychological care. A CCO
would manage this care and
ultimately determine where
these funds are distributed,
which is precisely why this
is a concern to rural health
care providers. This method
would likely ultimately lim
it Medicaid expenses. The
names of several organiza
tions have surfaced with
respect to the possibility of
becoming CCOs, includ
ing Family Care (Oregon
Health Plan-Medicaid) and
GOBHI (Greater Oregon
Behavioral Health) which
currently covers 17 rural
Oregon counties.
Blauer said that urban
area health care facilities
in Oregon, specifically the
Portland area, are already
forming CCOs and that he
has been invited to meet
with administrators o f other
rural hospitals in Eastern
Oregon to discuss forming
their own CCO.
“Honesty, I’m a little
unclear as to how it will
all shake out,” said Blauer.
“But we don’t have to make
a decision for a few years.
I just want to make sure it
works out for our county,
our county health district
M
The board also d is
cussed the critical impor
tance o f putting a serial
levy before voters to meet
health district expenses not
covered by the district’s
base levy. The current five-
year serial levy will expire
in November 2013. Vot
ers had initially approved
a three-year serial levy,
which expired before the
current five-year levy was
approved. “We know from
experience that the year we
didn’t have a levy was not
a pleasant one,” commented
board member Leann Rea.
Molly Rhea also re
ported that the last two
MCHD doctors are being
trained on the district’s new
telestroke machine, which
will aid local physicians in
treating stroke patients with
the assistance of specialists
via telemedicine. Rhea said
that the nurses have already
completed their training.
She said that the first mock
trial of the system is planned
for June 1.
“T hat’s pretty excit
ing,” said Rhea.
In other business, the
board:
-received the follow
ing report: Pioneer Memo
rial Hospital had two acute
admissions, one swing bed
admission, five admitted
for observation, 473 total
outpatients, 63 emergency
room encounters, 1,462
lab tests, 96 x-ray proce
dures, 24 CT scans, 25 EKG
tests, eight colonoscopy
procedures, 11 respiratory
therapy procedures; Pio
neer Memorial Clinic had
424 patient visits with 28
new patients, 20 seen by
a nurse and 11 no-shows;
Irrigon Medical Clinic had
180 patient visits with 29
new patients, 56 seen by
a nurse and 10 no-shows;
Heppner Ambulance had
31 total page-outs with 19
transports for $20,972 in
revenue; Boardman Am
bulance had 30 total page
outs with 16 transports
for $20,031 in revenue;
Irrigon A m bulance had
22 total page-outs with 16
transports for $19,545 in
revenue; there were three
flights; Home Health had 97
patient visits; Hospice had
one admission; pharmacy
had 598 drug doses for
$36,701 in drug revenue.
-received the following
financial report for April;
$529,508 in gross patient
revenue, less $16,748 for
bad debt and less $8,282
in contractual and other
adjustm ents (M edicare/
Medicaid settlements) for
$504,478 in net patient
revenue, $102,894 in tax
revenue and $12,618 in
other operating revenue for
$619,991 in total operating
revenue, $632,079 in total
operating expenses and
a $34.914 non-operating
gain for a $22,826 gain for
the month and a $12,712
average monthly year-to-
date gain.
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