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
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BALLOON RIDE
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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.
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