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TEN- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 27,2012 June Yard of the Month By Kay Proctor Dean and Florene Rob inson of 425 Gale Street were selected by the Hep pner Garden Club for the June Yard o f the Month recognition. After raising daughters Natalie and Jacklyn, the couple now shares their two-story home with three cats and one friendly Aire dale named Bo. Florene was raised on a farm in the Adrian/Nyssa area and Dean and Florene Robinson (inset) received Yard of the Month loves animals. Acceptance recognition for June from the Heppner Garden Club. -Con of Dean’s marriage proposal tributed photo included Dean’s promise to to good use in her kitchen. fighting wild fires during include Florene’s pet dairy Florene has “fun watching summ ers, saying it is a cow. Ginger, in all their fu things grow.” She acquired “young man’s job,” but still ture plans. So, Ginger went her love of gardening from substitute teaches and is to college with the newly her mother and has received employed by the county for married couple...Treasure starts from her including fire suppression. Dean is a Valley Com m unity and clumps of red hot poker native Heppnerite and at Eastern Oregon colleges. plants that thrive in the front tended college on a football Their home was origi and back yards and attract scholarship. He worked for nally built in 1895 and sur hummingbirds. She laughs quite a few years for Frank vived the tragic 1903 flood. about another start from her Anderson at the Arlington The south side of the home mother called “naked lady,” place before teaching in was built with square nails. with the botanical name of lone in 1987. Florene has worked in The home was used as the Amaryllis Belladonna. parsonage for the Assembly Bee-friendly plants do banking since 1981 and is of God Church when the well and include sage/sal- the friendly voice answer Robinson’s bought it in via, larkspur, roses, catmint ing phones at the Bank of 1980, and the two remod and day lilies. Other plants Eastern Oregon. She has eled and added on a few include quince, irises, coral been a hospice volunteer years ago. The original bells, mums, snapdragons, and has served as treasurer yard had three large but holly, bleeding heart, hosta of the senior center board rotten locust trees, and the and a tree peony. Every for about 20 years. How fortunate for Hep stumps are still used in the year, orange poppies flour ish by their front porch pner that Florene accepted landscape. Dean’s proposal and that After Dean retired as a around Menjorial Day. The “mountain part” of Dean accepted Florene’s teacher/coach/athletic di rector for lone in 2009, his the back is Dean’s favorite pet cow, and that the Robin first retirement project was and includes a blue spruce son family moved back here to replace their nondescript and “quaking ass,” also and made the community front fence. A long-time known as quaking aspen. just that much better. Yard o f the M onth goal was to use black pine He encourages others to log rails and juniper posts. garden and if something recognition is sponsored by Heppner Garden Club, With input, encouragement “dies, plant some more.” Dean’s lawn mowing the City o f Heppner and and help from neighbor Sam Hornbeck, the fence is often interrupted by his MCGG-Green Feed and was built the old-fashioned volunteer firefighting work. Seed. way; draw knives to strip He recently retired from bark from poles, tenon and mortise joints, and no nails. Curved poles were found to make an archway for the entry and to create the Robinson’s brand on the gate. Dean hopes to enclose the entire yard with pole fencing someday. The Robinsons men tion that people often stop as they walk by their home and comment on the sol idly-built fence. Neighbor Shirley Rugg noted that, when the gate is shut and the R obinson’s brand is shown in reverse, it shows as her brand. Dean still pastures two horses in lone, but gave up their long-time beef cow/calf herd not too Not only did the Goldwing Road Riders put on a great light long ago. parade for the community on Friday night and a bike show on Florene’s favorite plant Saturday afternoon, they also helped out the local Neighbor is a forsythia shrub that hood Center with food and monetary donations. Altogether, honors Dean’s sister and her $186 dollars was donated, along with a great collection of brother. A charming, old- food. They also spent money in local businesses. The best fashioned double washer part is that they enjoyed our friendly community and will be tub doubles as a planter. coming back again sometime in the future. Pictured are Terry Blackberries, gooseberries, Huffman, Oregon District Director (L), and Dan Burgess (R) as they present monetary donations and food collected by the strawberries, fruit and herbs Goldwing riders to Janice Skaggs of the Neighborhood Center from the back yard are put on Saturday, June 16. -Contributedphoto Goldwings good for the community Book sale planned for July 4 The Topic Club book sale will be held at the lone Legion Hall on Tuesday, July 3, and Wednesday, July 4, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. This annual book sale benefits the lone Library, which has been operated for more than 80 years by the women of lone with every type of fundraising activity. Since the current lone City Hall was built in the 1950s, the library has been located next door to city hall. The Topic Club has been responsible for the cost of the librarian, book leasing, book purchases and other supplies. A read ing program is conducted each summer, plus other programs of interest to the community. These library supporters also were instru mental in forming the lone Host an Exchange O- i . nr i . (fo r 3, 5 or 10 months! s ä ä s - p sssÄS Contact Cathy at 541-422-7107 or Arnjm 1 -a 0 0 -7 3 3 -2 7 7 W .. . . ■■■*■■ ■■■«■di I BALLOON RIDE -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE Wednesday might have noticed a red helicopter fly ing around. The copter was being used by Odyssey Pro ductions Inc., a full-service film, video and multimedia production company from Portland that specializes in producing interpretive program s for museums, visitor centers, zoos and aquariums. Padberg said the company just got back from filming a documentary in Africa. But to accomplish the balloon tour o f Morrow County Padberg needed one more element. “ We wanted to show people doing things. How we live our lives here.” he said. So he sat down at the phone and started calling people. When he finished, he had lined up more than 50 citizen volunteers for Wednesday who would do things on the ground while the helicopter filmed them. “ We started film ing at the OHV (off highway vehicle) park in the moun tains, where Gary Rea, Mark Rietmann, Sharon Winters and others were shown riding their OH Vs on the trails, which would show the fun of using the park. We then flew over Penland Lake where, guess what? Ron H aguew ood and others were fishing,” Padberg said. Padberg had originally lined up 50 people to do various activities last Tues day, but when the weather turned bad, he had to re schedule everyone for the next day, “When the weath er was just beautiful.” Did Padberg have new appreciation for Hollywood An oversized basket hanging beneath what seems to be a hot air balloon is a portal for visitors to the SAGE Center to visualize an aerial overview of the region's key features and industries. directors who do this all the time? “ It is kind o f nerve wracking,” said Padberg, who sat in the back seat o f the helicopter for five hours watching the filming on a screen in front of him. He was always in contact with the cinematographer controlling the camera in the helicopter’s front seat and, by radio, with people doing the activities on the ground. “We had to have some o f the people do things several times to get the right shot,” he said, but he thinks the completed production will be quite a show. “I think people are really go ing to enjoy this,” he said. Padberg said after the OHV and Penland Lake, they got a shot of Brian Thompson and his crew of cowboys moving cattle. “ B ria n w as g o in g to move some cattle on Tuesday, but then when the weather turned bad he agreed to hold them there until the next day for the filming,” said Padberg. “It made a nice shot.” The helicopter then Filming the simulated balloon ride Project manager for the Port of Morrow Sage Center is Mark Patton, and he provided the Gazette with the following information about the simulated balloon ride filming helicopter, and its Morrow Coun ty itinerary last Wednesday. “Steven Winslow, Carl Davis, and Adam Heiser will be installing the Wescam system and Red One MX camera on the Eurocopter AS350b at Applebee Aviation and we will film aerials up and down the Co lumbia River Corridor and throughout Morrow Coun ty beginning at 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday (Wednesday). Steve Heiser, Sarah Chamness, and Max Rudolph will be on the ground in Morrow County to coordinate ground/water-based activities and meals.” Following is the itinerary of the helicopter work last Wednesday. Helicopter Itinerary Depart Applebee Aviation/Buxton, OR - 7:15 a.m. Fuel Truck at Boardman Airport - 8:45 a.m. 1. Touchdown at Boardman Airport/Refuel/Load Mary - 8:45 a.m. 2. Threemile Canyon Farms - 9:15 a.m. 3. Powerplant - 9:30 a.m. 4. Wells Springs - 9:45 a.m. 5. Windfarm - 10 a.m. 6. lone - 10:15 a.m. 7. Refuel at Lexington Airport - 10:40 a.m. 8. Wall Creek/OHV/Liftoff - 11:15 a.m. 9. Cattle/Elk - 11:40 a.m. 10. Lake Penland - 12 p.m. 11. Blue Mtns. and Transition to Farmland -12:15 p.m. 12. Willow Creek Resevoir/Heppner - 12:30 p.m. 13. Farmland/Cropduster - 12:45 p.m. 14. Poplar Farm - 1 p.m. 15. Touchdown at Port o f Morrow/Unload Mary - 1:20 p.m. 16. Columbia River/Marina/Touchdown Se quence - 1:30 p.m. (Odyssey Coordinates) - Jet Boat, Barge/Tug, Jet Skis, Etc. 17. Lunch/Recap - 2 p.m. 18. Refuel at Port of Morrow/Retum to Buxton - 2:30 p.m. Library District during the September 2011 election, with a board o f directors sworn in on January 3, 2012 . “It is exciting to have the lone Library District in our community,” says one Topic Club member. “We look forward to extended hours, services such as computers, high speed in ternet and WiFi, automation of the existing collection, ebooks and audio books, plus other expanded work shops and classes. With the Library District, we will be allowed to catch up to the other districts in our area in Artists with photogra a variety of ways. phy, textiles, water color, Anyone who w ould oil, acrylic, pen, pencil, like to donate books can ; ink, metallurgy, ceramics contact Betty Gray at bg- and alternative media are ray@ co.morrow.or.us or welcome to submit their 541-422-7335. work to the 2012 art show The 2012 art show will during the lone Red, White be in the lone Legion Hall and Blues celebration. during those same hours. Monday, July 2, from 7 This is the art show’s sec p.m. to 8 p.m., the Ameri ond year as a part of the 4th can Legion doors will be of July celebration. Anyone open to the large portion of who would like to display the hall for artists to set up any art can call Taranna Pat their art. ton at 541-422-7317. Doors will be open for came down and filmed Wil low Creek Lake— filming a large herd of elk on the way down—coming up over the rim of the dam and getting a nice shot of Heppner, which included shots of the court house. Later the helicopter was filming some wheat fields, Padberg said, when, all of sudden, (it was actu ally planned, but will make a great shot) a spray plane came up right under the helicopter and the camera. John Boyer took his spray plane up and did several passes for the crew, simu lating actual spraying but with water. Padberg says he thinks the shot is going to look great. The helicopter uses a special 280-degree camera mounted on the front to get all the great shots, and he is looking forward to seeing them wheri editing is done. “That camera shoots in four times HD (high defini tion)” he added. After filming a section of farm land showing all the differently-colored crops, Padberg said they went over the Oregon Trail and got some footage of actual ruts. They went on over the Three Mile Canyon dairy, the poplar-tree plantation and shots o f the Port of Morrow and the industries there. One interesting shot was of several fishermen, including Don Russell and Ron McGinnis, hooking a six-foot sturgeon on the Co lumbia River. Padberg said the fishermen were excited because they had been fish ing most of the day trying to get a fish for the filming, then finally did. “They had a little trou ble lifting that big sturgeon up in the air, though, for the camera,” Padberg said, laughing. Other shots o f inter est were one looking right down the stack o f the Boardman coal-fired plant, some windfarm shots, and jet boats on the river where families with 15 people had gathered. “Those people riding jet skies in the river was some dedication.” Padberg said, noting how cold the water is this time o f the year. If you happened to be on the ground and waved to the helicopter last Wednes day, you may be immortal ized in the Morrow County story for quite some time. “We had lots of partici pation from people, and we really appreciated it,” said Padberg of the 50 or more who volunteered to help. “I think it is going to make a really nice presentation.” Art and craft show planned ( viewing Tuesday, July 3, and Wednesday, July 4, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Legion Hall will be open 6-8 p.m. July 5 for art ists to pick up their work. Artists are encouraged to be on hand intermittently to answer questions regard ing their artwork. “For sale” signs are not allowed on artwork; however, artists may leave business cards so patrons can follow up later. The Legion Hall will also host a craft show dur ing the Fourth of July cel ebration. Doors will open to the small section of the hall at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday for crafters to set up tables. Cost per table is $10; craft ers may sell their wares. Doors will be open to craft show patrons July 3 and 4 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Interested parties can call Taranna Patton at 541- 422-7317 with questions re garding art and craft show. I
