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
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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
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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. O bam a (Ju n io r
Verduzco and Annahellc M cD an iel) aw ait th eir introduction.
nervous, not even getting
“I like to travel,” she
a chance to pack until right says, though she adds that
before her departure.
the trip to K enya cou ld
She says she travelled have been difficult on her
with som e o f her profes
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