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Parade lights up night Community1 Bank wins 2012 commercial trophy 11 1 ■ 1 1 1 • 111 •••• 1111 ■1111 1 1 111 1 1 1 Bessie Wetzell Newspaper l ibran University of Oregon Eugene, OK 97403 5(K VOL. 131 N O. 48 8 Pages Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon New face at local veterinary clinic By Andrea Di Salvo Pet and livestock own ers in south Morrow County will see a friendly new face at the Temple’s veterinary clinic in Lexington. Stephan Gibson, DVM, jo in ed Dick and Karen Temple in their business Nov. 19. The 27-year-old obtained his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS in May of this year; his position with the Temples, he says, will be his first “professional” job. Despite his youth and recent graduation, Gibson has no shortage of life ex perience. He was bom in Zimbabwe, Africa, while his father was w orking with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Zambia. When Gibson was two, the family returned to the U.S., where they lived in Illinois for the next 12 years. They then moved to the Ukraine, where Gibson’s Top: Community Bank employees designed this year’s winning commercial entry. Bottom: Doris Brosnan presents the glittering star trophy for the best commercial float to Community Bank employees. Pictured (L-R) are: Amy George, Doris Brosnan, Branch Manager Nikki Worden and Jenelle Von Gunten. Not pictured is Nicole Skillings. -Photo by Andrea Di Salvo New vet Stephan Gibson started with Dick Temple’s vet prac tice in Lexington on Nov. 19. (L-R) Gibson and Karen and Dick Temple with one of the veterinary clinic’s current patients. -Photo by Andrea Di Salvo father worked with plant breeding to improve crops while his mother taught English in the universities. His parents are currently in Uganda, where his father teaches plant breeding. Gib son also has a twin brother, and an older sister adopted from India. ■ When he reached col lege age, in 2004, Gibson returned stateside to Kan sas. He says he spent a year before college w orking on a calf ranch in Kan sas, and then spent the next three years complet ing undergraduate stud ies in veterinary medicine at Kansas State. He then went on to complete four years of graduate work at KSU, obtaining his DVM in May. While in college and graduate school, he worked part time at various -See NEW VET/PAGE FIVE Pastors invited to submit Christmas messages Businesses, individuals also invited to sen d in Christmas greetings The Heppner Ga zette-Times will publish a Christmas edition on Dec. 19. Area pastors are invited to submit Christmas messages to be published in the Dec. 19 edition. The deadline is Friday, Dec. 14, at 5 p.m. Messages can be dropped off at the Gazette office, emailed to editor@ rapidserve.net, or faxed to 541-676-9211. Any businesses or individuals who would like to have a Christmas greet ing in the Dec. 19 Gazette should call 676-9228 or email megan@rapidserve. net by Friday, Dec. 14, at 5 p.m. NOAA issues monthly climate summary for Heppner According to data re ceived by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pend leton, OR, temperatures at Heppner averaged warmer than normal during the month of November. The average temper ature was 43.2 degrees, which was 1.9 degrees above normal. High tem peratures averaged 51.7 degrees, which was 0.9 degrees above normal. The highest was 70 degrees on the 1". Low temperatures averaged 34.7 degrees, which was three degrees above normal. The lowest I was 23 degrees on the 26th. There were 11 days with the low temperature below 32 degrees. There were two days when the high temperature stayed below 32 degrees. Precipitation totaled 1.39 inches during Novem ber, which was 0.21 inches below normal. Measurable precipitation o f at least .01 inch was received on 10 days with the heaviest, 0.31 inches, reported on the 20®. Precipitation this year has reached 14.17 inches, which is 1.49 inches above normal. Since October, the w ater year precipitation at Heppner has been 2.80 inches, which is 0.06 inches above normal. The outlook for De cember from NOAA’s Cli mate Prediction C enter calls for near normal tem peratures and above normal precipitation. Normal highs for Heppner fall from 44 degrees at the start of De cember to 41 degrees at the end of December. Normal lows fall from 28 degrees to 25 degrees. The 30 year normal precipitation is 1.32 inches. \ Last T hursday saw Main Street in Heppner light up in a big way as the community turned out for the 16® annual Parade of Lights, sponsored by Co lumbia Basin Electric Co op. Competition was stiff, but a few sparkling floats were eventually recognized for their creativity and com munity spirit. The winners for the 2012 Parade of Lights were: Best Commercial Float, Comm unity Bank; Best Community Float, Mus tang Express Railroad; Best Community Float, Santa’s Little Helpers; Best School Float, Class of 2014; Judg es’ Choice, Bank of Eastern Oregon. All entries included Bank o f Eastern Oregon, “Skate your way to financial happiness at Bank of East ern Oregon”; Northwestern M otel/Cornerstone G al lery, “Oregon Trail Lights”; Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo, Queen K rysten Powell; Heppner Junior High (7® and 8® grades) HHS Class of 2015 and 2016; HHS Class of 2014; HHS Class o f 2013; “ Santa’s Little Helpers”; “Mustang Ex press Railroad,” Jim Kin dle, Jay Keithley and Ryan Jundt; Quilter’s Round Up/ Fine Baskets, “Gingerbread Wonderland”; and Com munity Bank, “Gingerbread House.” -More parade picture on PAGE EIGHT Heppner woman proves it’s never too late for adventure By Andrea Di Salvo Heppner woman Neva DeMayo thought her days o f adventure were over. Then the 61-year-old re ceived a letter that changed her life. Last year, DeMayo says she submitted a resume to a Lutheran women’s organi zation, hoping for a chance to represent the Lutheran women o f Oregon at an International Women’s Fo rum in Warsaw, Poland. When months passed with no word, DeMayo assumed they had chosen someone else, and moved on with her life. Instead, she was shocked when, a year later, they responded and pre sented her the adventure of a lifetime. When she learned she had to go alone, with no husband and no friends, she says she started to get cold feet. “’Do I really want to do this?’ 1 thought. ‘Europe by myself?’” she says. “I did things by myself I never dreamed I’d have to do.” Cold feet or not, De Mayo started using the new Mango language learning system from the Heppner library, downloading Polish lessons onto her computer. She says she by no means became fluent, but did learn a few phrases. She left for Poland on Sept. 18, leaving husband David DeMayo to bach it for the next three weeks. After the three-day Lu theran women’s event in Warsaw, DeMayo says she was given VIP treatment throughout the country for three weeks, including one day in the Czech Republic. She didn't list the places she went, saying her experi ences were too many. “You’d have to devote Neva DeMayo spent three weeks in Poland this fall, an adventure of learning and self-discovery for this quiet Heppner woman, who says she had thought her chances for adventure were finished. -Photo by A tide a Di Salvo the entire newspaper to me if you were to list every where I went, the things I saw, the people I met,” says DeMayo. Neva's visit included Lutheran churches, schools, -See POLAND TRIP/PAGE SIX GREEN FEED & SEED IN HEPPNER: I2LAVE CHRISTMAS TREES Montana Silver 20% off thru December 24! Morrow County Grain Growers Green Feed & Seed 242 W. Linden Way, Heppner • 676-9422 • 989-6221 (MCQG main office) f
