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Local people ‘star’ in Morrow County movie . lh r a r v Bessie Wetzell Newspaper Library University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 From cattle drive to sturgeon fishing, volunteers step up to show life in Morrow County Crewmen from Odyssey Productions install a 280-degree camera on helicopter in preparation of shooting the Morrow County balloon footage to be used at the new Sage Center at the Port of Morrow. By David Sykes VOL. 131 N O. 25 10 Pages Wednesday, June 27,2012 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon lone teacher retires after 35 years By Andrea Di Salvo lo n e C o m m u n ity School will lose one of its shining stars when teacher Barb Collin retires this year. In her 35 years as an elementary school teacher in lone, first with Morrow County School District and then lone School Dis trict, 56-year-old Collin has shared the lives and stories of multiple generations of lone students. “I’ve enjoyed all my years of teaching and it’s been interesting working with teachers who I taught as children, and kids of stu dents I taught. The teacher I worked with last year, I taught her early in my career, and I’ve taught all but one of her kids,” Col lin says. Collin was bom in Hep pner but spent her growing- up years in Spray, OR. She graduated from Spray High School in 1973, the only senior in a high school that boasted 14 students and only one boy. After high school, she spent two years at Columbia Basin Com munity College in Pasco, playing volleyball and bas ketball on the relatively new girls’ teams. She grad uated from CBCC with an associate’s degree and then went to La Grande to attend Eastern Oregon State Col- fall, She moved to lone at lege, now Eastern the age of 21 and Oregon University. hasn’t left since. She graduated from C ollin spent there in 1977 with her first 22 years a Bachelor of Arts as a third-grade degree in elemen teacher. In her 22nd tary education and year, the school started combined a minor in physical Barb Collin education. classes, and Col lin continued with That same sum mer, Chuck Starr hired third grade in the morning ■See COLLIN RETIRES/ Collin to begin at lone PAGE SIX Elementary School that ple at a time, rise high into the air, and take participants on a bird’s-eye view tour of the county. “The balloon ride will show people that might not otherwise get off the free way, what we have to offer in all of Morrow County,” Padberg said. But in order to accomplish the ride, the whole county needed to be filmed, from the air, and volunteers were needed to show our lifestyle. Anyone in town last -See BALLOON R1DE/PAGE TEN Guardsmen lend a hand Volleyball team to be grand marshals this year's Red, White and Blues parade in lone. -Contributed photo Dawn Eynetich and the Cardinal 2011 1A State Volleyball Champion Team will be the grand marshals in this year’s Red, White and Blues 4th of July parade in lone. The parade will be on July 4 at 1 p.m. on lone’s Main Street. BANK OF EO CUSTOMER APPRECIATION BBQ- M A IN STREET -11:00 AM -2:00 PM PULLED PORK MEAL 4 ROUTE 74 BAR - IO N E LESIO N HALL - 5:30 PM TEXAS HOLD 'EM 4 CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT - IO N E LE SIO N HALL - 7:00 PM TUESDAY JULY 3 station at Hager Park and cleaned out the spillway at the nearby W illow Creek Dam. They installed around 70 feet of sidewalk at Cutsforth Park, and ran electrical and water lines to camp grounds. They also provided landscaping at Willow Creek Water Park in Heppner. “We love this commu- -See NAT L GUARD/P4GE FIVE Irrigon Jr./Sr. High School teacher Gary Hunt retired this year after more than 30 years with the Mor row County School Dis trict. Hunt, 56, has a 32-year teaching history, 31 years of which were in Mor row County. During his time with the MCSD, he has taught in every Hunt was raised town in the county in Lexington, the except Lexington son of Dean and and Hardman, in Lois Hunt. He at cluding five years tended school in Lexington for two in lone before the town formed its years before that Gary Hunt own school district. school closed, then He has taught ju attended school in nior high and high school Heppner, graduating from science, math and, briefly, -See TEACHER RETIRES/ PAGE SEVEN physical education. G-T deadline remains same for Fourth of July issue SOLE TOURNAMENT - W ILLO W CREEK COUNTRY CLUB - 9:00 AM 2012 ART SHOW - IO N E LESIO N HALL - 9:00 A M -6:00 PM TOPIC CLUB BOOK SALE - IO N E LESIO N HALL - 9:00 AM -6:00 PM TALENT SHOW - IO N E C ITY PARK - 6:00 PM MUSIC BY CORY PETERSON ONE CITY PARK - FO LLO W IN 6 WEDNESDAY JULY 4 Local girls Gracey and Shaylyn DeLoach try out the newly-con structed monkey bars at Hager Park during a picnic honoring the National Guardsmen last Sunday. -Photo by April Sykes Irrigon teach retires after three decades By Andrea Di Salvo FRIDAY JUNE 29 US NAVY FLYOVER FIREM A N 'S BREAKFAST - IO N E FIRE HALL - 7:00 AM PRESCHOOL 5K WALK/RUN (donation requested) M A IN STREET 5 I6 N -U P - 7:00 AM 7:30 AM 2012 ART SHOW - IO N E L E 6IO N HALL - 9:00 AM -6:00 PM TOPIC CLUB BOOK SALE - IO N E LE 6IO N HALL - 9:00 AM-6:00 PM FOOD VENDORS 4 MERCHANDISE VENDORS OPEN BLUES CRUISE CAR SHOW - IO N E C ITY PARK -1 0 :3 0 AM FIS H POND, FROS JUMP, BIKE RAFFLE - IO N E FIRE HALL/CITY PARK -1 1 0 0 AM ALTAR SOCIETY PIE SALE - IO N E FIRE HALL -1 1 0 0 AM RED, W H IT E 4 BLUES PARADE (Srand Marshals. lor* Cardinals Volleyball State Champs) -1 :0 0 PM PARK A C T IV IT IE S BEGIN - 1 0 0 PM GAZEBO ENTERTAINM ENT BY LOCAL ARTISTS - U N T IL 3:00 PM AMERICAN LEGION BINGO - IO N E LEGION HALL - 2 0 0 PM B L U E S B A N D S - ON S T A G E -IO N E AMPHITHEATER- 3 0 0 PM THE VERMEN - IO N E ALL-STARS - TERRY EVANS - THE J IM M E S I BAND BOAT TRIP AUCTION - ON STAGE - IO N E AMPHITHEATER - 7 00 PM RAFFLE D R A W IN 6S - ON STAGE - IO N E AMPHITHEATER - 7:00 PM FIREWORKS DISPLAY - DUSK I county. On top of that, the movie would show local people living their lives in work and recreation. The inspiration for the filming was the new Sage Center now being built on 1-84 near the Port of Morrow. Part of the new interactive visitor center will include a simulated hot air balloon ride showing all of Morrow County, and the ride will use the movie foot age filmed last Wednesday to accomplish this. Padberg fcays the bal loon ride will take 10 peo By April Sykes Around 115 Army Na tional Guardsmen enjoyed a picnic supper at Hager Park put on by the local churches and members of the com munity last Sunday. The picnic served as a thank- you to the Guardsmen for their work with local parks, as well as a kick-off for lo cal vacation bible school. They members of the 234,h Engineer Company out of Camp Rilea (near Warrenton) arrived on Sat urday, June 16, and expect to leave this week. The Guardsmen themselves came from all over Oregon, mostly the Portland area, with some from Washing ton and one from Nevada. During their stay here, they erected a covered pa The lone Cardinal 2011 1A State Volleyball Champion Team, vilion, swings and a play with coach Dawn Eynetich, will be the grand marshals for IONE RED, W HITE 4 BLUES 4TH OF JULY IONE, OR 2012 US NAVY FLYOVER Port of Morrow Com missioner Marvin Padberg had a big idea on how to show life in Morrow Coun ty- “I wanted to show peo ple from outside the area what we have to offer here in Morrow County, and how we live our lives,” he told the Gazette-Times. In order to do that, Padberg and the Port of Morrow decided to film a bird’s-eye view of the whole county using a heli copter. That’s right, make an aerial movie of the whole The Heppner Gazette- Times deadline for the July 4 issue of the newspaper will remain the same, with news and advertising due ■n 7 v at 5 p.m. on Monday, July July holiday. 2. However, the paper will The G-T office will not appear in post office be closed on Wednesday, boxes until Friday, July 6, July 4 . because of the Fourth of MCG G iGliËËNf FÉ Ëüi&, St'Èït IN ; HEIM'N EK ^ ^ CIWANCE SAIE!! ™ ^ mtu ^HANGING BASKETS + C 0 L 0 m BOWLS Morrow County Grain Growers Green Feed & Seed JAjZJJVAJndanJWa^Heggne^ I
