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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 31,2012 Chamber Chatter Heppner United Way of Uma tilla and Morrow Counties: United Way’s K ick-O ff Campaign is now under way. Win your choice of a 2012 Honda Metro scooter; a red and blue tribal pattern Pendleton blanket; weekend getaway for up to six people for Dec. 21-22 at Seaside Worldmark; $25 Visa Gift Card, with the proceeds to benefit United Way of Uma tilla and Morrow counties. Drawing will be Dec. 1 but you need not be present to win. There will be a maxi mum 2,000 tickets to be sold, so call the United Way office at 541-276-2661 and purchase some tickets, or they can also be purchased at Columbia Bank or Ban ner Bank in Hermiston; Sterling Bank and White Elephant on Main in Pend leton. Saturday, Nov. 3: Ar- tifactory Craft Fair, spon sored by the St. Patrick Senior Center, will be held on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 9 a m. - 4 p.m. Contact the senior center to reserve a table/space at 541-676- 9030. Monday, Nov. 26-Dec. 20: Collect the local rewards cards when you shop local for the opportunity to win some great prizes donated by merchants. Receive $10, $20 and $50 denom ina tions, depending on how much your local purchase is. Shop local and plan on coming to H eppner’s Celebrate Christmas Com munity Event on Thursday, Dec. 20. T hursday, Nov. 29: Girls get cheering lesson from HHS squad The Heppner High School cheerleaders held a cheer clinic Oct. 22-23 and Oct. 25. Girls preschool through fourth grade learned a cheer and a dance from 2012 HHS cheer squad members Kelly Nelson, Jordan Jones, Sanim Lemmon, Faith Jones and Erica Nelson. The junior cheerleaders will perform at a future high school basketball game. Top: The HHS cheer squad members show the girls some cheering moves. Bottom: The entire group shows off their cheer power after the clinic. -Contributed photo Chamber lunch meeting This week’s lunch meeting o f the Heppner Chamber of Commerce will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1, at noon in the St. Patrick’s Senior Center dining room. The meeting will be an all entities report. Cost of lunch is $9. Willow Creek Diner will cater. Lunch attendees are asked to RS VP no later than noon the Wednesday before to accommodate enough meals. OBAMA'S REPORT CARD 23 million unemployed or underemployed 4 7 m illio n on Food S ta m p s $ 716 Billion in Medicare Cuts \ ___________________________________/ Mark your calendar for the upcoming Merchant Holi day Open House and Parade of Lights starting at 5:30 p.m., to include hanging o f homemade ornaments on the tree outside of the post office by Heppner Day Care and HES students, and local carolers. Pick up your parade entry at the chamber office and participate in this great “wintery” event. Plan to stay and shop downtown and get a head start on the Christmas presents. Sunday, Dec. 2: Christ mas Is com m unity pro gram held at the Methodist Church with two perfor mances, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets will be sold; more information at a later date. T hursday, Dec. 20: Heppner’s Celebrate Christ mas C om m unity Event will be held at the Morrow County Fairgrounds, start ing at 6 p.m. with dinner, and drawing of the rewards cards winners, raffle and penny board items starting at 7:30 p.m. Plan to come and spend a great evening with the rest of the com munity. Pictures with Santa will also be available. SAGE STORE: Calling all local artists. The Board- man C ham ber o f C om merce will be opening up a retail space in the highly anticipated SAGE Center com ing in M arch 2013. The Store at the SAGE Center will offer a variety o f products ranging from souvenirs, artw ork and gifts. The Chamber hopes the store will expand the SAGE Center experience, continue education and enhance the knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of Boardman and the Port of Morrow. To enhance the visitor’s shopping experi ence, the Chamber would like to sell original and handcrafted, local art work, not limited to pottery, pho tography, jewelry etc. We will be contacting local art ists to submit their artwork for consideration to be sold in The Store at SAGE Cen ter and would like as many options as possible. If you or someone you know is a local and talented artist and would like to be con sidered to have work to be displayed and sold through the Store at SAGE Center, submit the artist’s name and mailing address so we may contact them. You may submit information to the Boardman Chamber by phone at 541-481-3014 or email at amber@boardman- chamber.org. Morrow County Fair: Morrow County Fair has two opening for Fair Board members; the 2013 theme contest will end on October 31. Court Tryouts are Nov. 4 at 1 p.m. at the fairgrounds. Application deadline is Oct. 26. Pick up an application at the Fair Office or call 541 - 676-9474. Pies more than just dessert for basketball program Fall pie sales help fund girls 'summer basketball camp By Andrea Di Salvo Residents o f Heppner and the surrounding ar eas are finding themselves tempted again by the prom ise of a variety of tasty pies, courtesy o f the Heppner High School girls’ basket ball team. The girls aren’t sell ing the pies just to wreck people’s diets, though. The fundraiser, which features Wild Plum Pies, is an in tegral part of funding the girls’ basketball program, including a recently-estab lished summer basketball camp. In fact, last year's pie sales funded most o f last summer’s week-long bas ketball camp at Wallowa Lake. HHS girls' basketball coach Jeromy Wilson said the girls had to chip in a little bit for housing, but the rest of the camp, including a basketball clinician and a fun day at the lake, was paid for by—you guessed it—the pies. The camp was a new idea for the girls’ basketball program. Wilson, who is now in his second season coaching the girls, said that, as far as he knew, the program had never offered such a camp to the girls. He and junior varsity coach Melissa Lindsay wanted a new approach to teambuild ing and training. “ We w anted to try something new, fresh,” he said. “It turned out really well.” The purpose of the bas ketball camp was to spend time on the court as a team, developing skills and team building, as well as having fun, Wilson said. Eleven high school girls, ranging from sophomores to se niors, attended the camp. The mornings were filled with drills and time with the basketball clinician, and most of the afternoons were taken up with games. Wilson said the results o f the camp were amaz ing; the girls beat three 4A schools in their afternoon games. The clinician was also impressed, and spent extra time with the Mustang team. “He saw how well the girls were meshing and playing,” said Wilson. The girls did take an afternoon off to have some fun on the lake, renting go carts and paddle boats for some relaxation time. It was all part of the goal, Wilson said, “ ...to really build off team camaraderie.” “(The purpose was) to play basketball on the court but also have fun together,” he said, adding that the goal was accomplished. “The The Heppner girls’ basketball team took a break during their rigorous training regime last summer for some fun around Wallowa Lake, including time on the miniature-golf course. Pictured (back to front) are: Coach Jeromy Wilson, Kelly Wilson, Maddie Lindsay, Micha Hintz, Macy Gibbs, Bailv Ben nett, Emma Osmin, Kayla Kindle, Alana Wilson, Paige Grieb, Makenzie Correa and Ryan Dougherty. -Contributedphoto girls really enjoyed it. It was a fun time for coaches and players. It’s a credit to the community and the people who bought pies and helped us be able to afford that.” O f course, the goal of this year’s pie sale is to fund another such experience for the girls next summer. All Mustang girl basketball players will be pre-selling pies throughout the month of November. The girls will offer an extensive list o f pies, including apple, peach, cherry, marionberry, peanut Heppner Garden Club to meet The next meeting of the Heppner Garden Club will be held Monday, Nov. 5, at 6 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Club leadership would like to remind members that this is an important meeting at which many decisions will be made, and input is needed from all members. “If you care, be there,” says a spokesperson. Shared Ministry celebrates All Saints This Sunday, Nov. 4, the shared ministry of Hope Lutheran Church and All Saints Episcopal Church will celebrate All Saints Sunday by worshiping at All Saints, beginning at 10 a.m. More information about activities at the Shared Ministry is available by calling the church office at 541-676-9970. Golf memberships available at Artifactory The Willow Creek Country Club will have a booth at the Artifactory Christmas craft fair planned for this Saturday, Nov. 3, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. WCCC will have memberships available in addition to information about the glow ball tournament. Those stopping by will also have an opportunity to talk to the “pro” manning the booth about golfing sup plies. H e p p n e r Les Schwab co n g ratu lates th e H ep p n er M ustangs. G lue M ountain C o n feren ce D is t r ic t Volleyball Cham pions!1 . 124 NORTH MAIN STREET • HEPPNER OR 97836 541-676-9481 i 1 butter chocolate, pumpkin, razzle dazzle and straw berry rhubarb. Sugarless pies are also available. All pies are $12; sugarless pies are $13. Orders are due by Fri day, Nov. 16. Pies will be available for pickup on Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. at the HHS gym.. .just in time for Thanksgiving. Contact any high school girls basketball player to order pies, or call Coach Wilson at 208-739-8509 or Coach Lindsay at 541-256- 0366 with questions.
