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Morrow County queen promotes fair, rodeo a . OR mene, ots Luge M orrow County Fair and Oregon Trail pro Rodeo Queen Krysten Powell has been busy this month. She travelled to Myrtle C reek, OR for the 2013 97403 HEPPNER 5(K § VOL. 132 N 0. 4 8 Pages Wednesday, January 23, 2013 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Garbage truck overturns on Heppner Hill Miss Teen and Junior Miss Rodeo Oregon coronation, held at the Feathers C a sino and Resort. There, she met several other county queens, state queens, di rectors and the 2012 Miss Rodeo America, Mackenzie Carr. Q ueen K ry sten par ticipated in the auction and photo session with other visitin g royalty, m aking several new friends. Then she introduced herself and invited them to her corona tion on M arch 2, as well as Morrow County’s 100lh fair and 91 " rodeo, held the third week o f August. Queen Krysten is plan ning on attending the Miss National Pro Rodeo Asso ciation coronation in Bend the weekend o f the Jan. 26, M o rro w C ounty F a ir and O regon fr a il Pro Rodeo Queen Kryxten (second from rig h t) w ith other state-wide royalty at the 2013 Miss Teen and Ju n io r Miss Rodeo Oregon coronation. -Contributed photo as well. There, she will meet throughout her reign several more neighboring “ I t ’s lo o k in g like a county queens and courts great year, for sure,” stated that she will seeing a lot o f Queen Kry sten. New Ducks coach mentions Heppner Gives small towns a shout-out during NCAA press conference H eppner rec e iv e d a shout-out from new Ducks head coach Mark Helfrich. T h e m e n tio n cam e Sunday during Helfrich’s speech during a NCAA college football news con ference at the stadium club at Autzen Stadium in Eu gene. Helfrich, described by U SA Today as “ ... a person able 39-year-old native Or egonian,” tossed the shout out to sm all tow ns like H eppner when he talked about re-opening portions o f practice for fans and signaled on open mind re garding booster functions, w hich predecessor Chip Kelly famously detested. “That’s part o f the job. 1 grew up in this state, and I know what Oregon football and Oregon athletics mean to a guy in Coos Bay, a guy in Heppner, or wherever. Hiat’s a big part o f it," Hel frich said. “ We’re going to do our best to make every body feel involved.” Water lone celebrates Street inauguration closed A garbage tru c k traveling northbound on H ighw ay 207 south o f Heppner, from John Day on the w ay to Finley Buttes lan dfill, overturned Jan. 9 on H epp n er H ill. The driver, who was not identified, was transported to Pioneer M em o ria l Hospital; however, no fu rth e r inform ation was available concerning his condition. -Photo by Megan Futter Water Street in Hep pner will be closed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday beginning Jan. 23 and continuing for approximately one month. No access through the street will be available dur ing that time. Jack Robinson & Sons Construction is in charge of the project. Higher education at a higher level Heppner woman gives new sense o f adventure to learning By Andrea Di Salvo While many might con sider higher education to be an adventure, not many take it to the lengths one local woman did. How far did she go? W ell...K enya, Africa. Andrea Nelson, 29, o f Heppner is in the first year o f her doctorate program, pursuing a D octorate o f Education in educational leadership through George Fox University, a Quaker university based in N ew - berg, OR. N e ls o n , ju n io r high language arts/social studies teacher at Heppner Junior/ Senior High School, was al ready balancing school and a career with her marriage to Morrow County District A tto rn ey Justin N e lso n and being a mother to their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter...something most w o rk in g parents w ou ld attest is quite enough. Not one to do things by halves, though, she jumped at the chance to go just a little bit farther. She first heard o f the opportunity to go to Kenya when doing coursework at G eorge Fox in N ew berg last summer. One o f her professors, she says, had A n d rea Nelson (fa r right) w ith her George Fox professors and several Kenyan teachers and adm inistrators in fro n t o f one o f the schools they visited in Kenya last fall; Nelson says school conditions w ere challenging, w ith many o f the school buildings having mud walls like this one. -Contributed photo done a sabbatical in Kenya. Nelson was fascinated by the stories her professor told, and excited by the possibilities. “ I ju m p ed righ t on board and said. ‘When can I go?’” she says. N e lso n w as granted leave from her position at HHS and found herself on a plane for Africa at the end o f September. She was gone two weeks, from Sept. 29 to Oct. 12. With work and family com m itm ents right up to the day she left. Nelson says she was “Too busy to be lone C om m unity School celebrated the 57"* presidential inauguration on Jan. 17 with a hit of pomp and circumstance o f its own. The lone gy m had standing room only as a group o f d ig n ita ries, played by lone students and rang ing from President Barack O bam a and C h ie f Justice John Roberts to U.S. Rep. G reg W alden and lone M a y o r L in d a L aR u e, enacted the inaugural events. The historic event ended w ith the inaug u ral ball. Top: Presentation o f the colors and introduction o f digni taries started the inaugural form alities in lone last Thursday. M idd le: The grand march after the benediction led the way into the ball. Bottom left: Retired lone teacher B arb ara Collin was recognized fo r her key role in the last 32 years o f the inaugural reenactment. Collin came out o f retirem ent briefly to help again this year. Bottom right: President and M rs. 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