Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 13,2013 - THREE
Bank of EO hosts successful
wrestling tournament
Heppner High School
hosted the fifth annual BEO
Invitational Wrestling Tour
nament on Saturday, Feb.
2, with 17 teams represent
ing Adrian, Crane. Culver,
Elgin, Enterprise, Grant
Union. Imbler, Irrigon, Jo
seph, La Grande, Mac-Hi,
North Lake, Pine Eagle,
Riverside, Union and Wal
lowa high schools compet
ing at this increasingly
popular wrestling event.
La Grande took home the
team champion trophy, with
Mac-Hi placing second and
Riverside taking home the
third-place trophy. Heppner
High’s Tim Nelson, wres
tling at 195 pounds, was
voted outstanding wrestler
o f the tournament by the
coaches.
Adorned in easy-to-find
gold t-shirts, over 20 BEO
employees and community
members volunteered to
help at the tournam ent.
BEO’s Volunteer Coordina
tor, Shelli Britt, organized
and coordinated the volun
teers with what one event
planner called “ ...grace
Mustangs whip
Huskies in final
league victories
Boys miss districts by a hair;
girls tied fo r second in BMC
Some of the many community volunteers who helped make the event run smoothly. Back (L-
R): Alita Nelson, Kate Paige, Jon Moore, Will Lutcher, John Propheter, Lacey Davison, John
Nelson and Joe Perry. Center back (L-R): Will Lemmon, Ashli Gould, Shannon Boor, Thomas
Gould, Shelli Britt, Sharon Miller, Sandy Day, Tina Palmer and Jay Gibbs. Center front (L-R):
Diane Reimer, Melanie Gates, Timothy Gould, Samm Lemmon, Sue Gibbs, Brianna Peterson,
Roberta Lutcher and Misty Petzhold. Front (L-R): Keegan Gibbs and Jeremiah Petzhold.
-Photo by Sandy Matthews
and an uncanny ability to
make it look easy.” Sandy
Matthews photographed a
group of the volunteers dur
ing a short break between
matches.
Mark Lemmon, Bank
of Eastern Oregon’s Chief
Financial Officer and Hep
pner High School w res
tling coach, along with
Greg Grant, Heppner High
School Athletic Director,
organized and coordinated
the tournam ent. Babette
Wall handled marketing and
organized the many admin
istrative details necessary
for the tournament to run
smoothly.
Lemmon, Grant and
Bank of Eastern Oregon say
they appreciate the many
vo lu n teers, com m unity
members and parents for
their invaluable time and
help in making the tourna
ment a success.
“It was the smoothest-
run wrestling tournament
we have had and it couldn’t
Heppner coaching team Ken Bailey, Brian Lemmon and Mark have been done without a
Lemmon look on—with some input—during an intense match.
great Hospitality Room and
-Photo by Sandy Matthews
Andrew Sykes has been Print, since 2006, and has
named manager of Rapid worked at the Rapid Print
Print, a printing
business for the
business located at
past several years.
25 S.W. Emigrant
His specialties are
in Pendleton.
graphic com put
er program s and
Sykes, 32, is
graphic design.
a 1998 graduate
o f Heppner High
Rapid Print is
School and a 2004
a full-service print
graduate of Cornish Andrew Sykes ing business that
College of the Arts
opened in Pendle
in Seattle with a
ton in 1988. Sykes
bachelor’s degree in fine Publishing, LLC, also owns
art. He has worked for the Heppner Gazette-Times
Sykes Publishing, LLC, the newspaper and GT printing
parent company of Rapid in Heppner.
If Y O U h a v e a fa m ily m e m b e r w h o su ffers fro m
g a m b lin g ad d ictio n , Y O U ca n als o re c e iv e F R E E tre a t
m e n t e v e n if th e g a m b le r is not re ce iv in g tre a tm e n t
If yo u a re a re s id e n t o f M o rro w C o u n ty a n d you w ish
to ta k e a d v a n ta g e o f th e s e rv ic e s a b o v e or d e s ire m o re
in fo rm atio n , P le a s e call a n y o f th e follo w in g n u m b e rs
to s e t u p a L O C A L a p p o in tm e n t o r ju s t to talk:
B o b b y H a rris @ 5 4 1 - 6 7 6 - 9 9 2 5 or 5 4 1 - 2 5 6 - 0 1 7 5
Community Counseling Solutions (C C S) @ 541-676-9161
O R 1 -8 7 7 -6 9 5 -4 6 4 8 (1 -8 8 8 -M Y L IM IT )
O utstanding w restler Tim
Nelson.
basketball teams won their
final league contests over
the Elgin Huskies on Sat
urday in Elgin.
The boys beat the Hus
kies 44-40 in a physical
game where both teams
badly wanted the win. The
Mustangs finished the 2012-
13 season 4-12 in the BMC
for a three-way tie with
Union and Enterprise for
sixth place in the league...
just out of the BMC district
tournament.
The Lady Mustangs
won 56-27 over the Hus
kies. They bounced back af
ter the previous night’s loss
to play well together as a
team. Baily Bennett scored
15; Alana Wilson, 13; Blake
Greenup, nine; and Emma
Osmin, seven points for
Heppner. The Mustangs
finished with a 12-4 re
cord, tied with Union and
Pilot Rock for second in the
BMC. The win/loss record
among those three teams
places them in fourth place
going into the BMC district
tournament.
The Lady M ustangs
will play Weston-McEwen
at 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15,
in the first round of district
playoffs at Pendleton.
Nordic ski continues
great season
Heppner High news
New manager at
Pendleton printing
business
If you or someone you know has a gambling problem,
help is available and that help Is FREE of charge.
the team work and dedica
tion o f our volunteers,”
said Lemmon. “And, we
look forward to next year’s
tournament, which is tenta
tively set for Saturday, Feb.
8, 2014.”
At Enterprise this week,
the boy’s Mustang basket
ball team played even with
the O utlaws except for
shooting the rock. Heppner
was outscored in the second
quarter 20-6, which proved
to be the difference in the
game. JC Putman led the
Mustangs in scoring with
12 points and 8 rebounds
in the 50-34 loss to the
Outlaws.
The Lady M ustangs
lost a game they needed
to win to be in contention
for the district title and top
seed in the Blue Mountain
Conference district tourna
ment. The Mustangs looked
nervous in the first half.
Turnovers and not getting
the ball inside produced
eight points after two quar
ters, for a 22-8 score. Hep
pner charged back into the
contest in the third with an
18-5 run over the Outlaws.
Starting the final frame,
down by one point at 27-
26, the Mustangs let up
defensively as the Outlaws
pulled away for the 52-44
win. Baily Bennett scored
23 points and Alana Wilson
put up 13 points for the
Mustangs.
Both Mustang varsity
By Jordan Jones
The Heppner girls and
boys gave a great finish to
the 2013 basketball ¿¿ason
with a victory against El
gin. As winter sports come
to an end, the community
will continue to have op
portunities to support local
baseball, softball and track
players.
This weeks’ senior is
George Alexander Vincent
Smith. His parents are Greg
Smith and Lisa Nelson.
Smith has four siblings,
Grant, Matt, Ryan and Gen
eviève Smith. Smith enjoys
all food in general, but says
his favorite color is blue.
Smith participates in wres
tling, and enjoys hanging
out with his friends. After
Smith graduates from Hep
pner High School, he plans
on going on a mission trip,
and says he would like to go
everywhere in the world.
Chamber lunch meeting
This winter, the Arbuckle Nordic Ski club was able to drive
to the top of Coal Mine Hill, thanks to plowing done by Bruce
Young Logging through a Stewardship Fuels Reduction Proj
ect. Gaining the extra elevation gave the group more trails and
closed roads on which to ski. This past weekend, the club had
new snow on top of a good base...there’s still more than 40
inches of snow at the Arbuckle Snotel site. The club members
say the combination of great weather and lots of snow is making
for an excellent Nordic ski season. -Contributedphoto
Darin Umbarger from Clearview Mediation and Dis
ability Resource Center will be the guest speaker for this
week’s chamber lunch meeting on Thursday, Feb. 14.
The meeting will start at noon in the St. Patrick’s Senior
Center dining room. Cost of lunch is $ 10. Murray’s Drug
will cater.
Area residents who are
Lunch attendees are asked to RSVP no later than interested in the Cursillo
the Wednesday morning before to accommodate enough Movement are invited to a
meals.
gathering on Sunday, Feb.
17, for an evening of fel
lowship.
The evening will begin
St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish members will serve lunch
at
6
p.m. with a spaghetti
on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center.
dinner
at Hope Lutheran
The meal will include oven-fried chicken, mashed po
Church,
dinner to be pro
tatoes and gravy, mixed vegetables, sliced tomatoes, hot
vided
by
the Heppner-area
rolls, and Boston cream pie. Milk is served at each meal.
4th
Day
Group.
Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject
Anyone who is inter
to change.
ested or curious about the
Calling all area
Cursillistas
Community lunch menu
Cursillo Movement is in
vited to join the group, who
will be sharing information
about C ursillo and this
year’s upcoming weekend.
Applications will also be
available to work on the
team.
For further inform a
tion, contact Dan and Di
ana Sharp, 541-676-8262;
George Naims, 541-571-
6519; or Robanai Disque,
541-989-8535.
Heppner Les Schwab is a donation location for the Oregon
"FFA 50,000 Pound Food Challenge"
HURRY!... Bring in
your food donations to
Heppner Les Schwab now
thru the end of February!
Les Schwab Tire Centers from across the state are partnering
w ith the more than 100 local FFA chapters to raise food
for local food banks and charities. The food drive is to raise
much-needed food for each local community's food banks.
. K ■ f / [ires¡77
/— »
124 N. MAIN STREET
^
HEPPNER OR 97836 541- 676-9481^
1
\