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F O U R - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 20,2013 Heppner student lone school will host district speech and reaches finals debate tournament Zach Bredfield, a sixth support o f his classmate artists. The sub g rad e stu d en t mission was sent at Heppner El to "Storyworks ” em entary, saw and Zach said, “I an a r tic le in had kind of forgot “ S to ry w o rk s ” ten about it until m agazine last my teacher, Mrs. fall, and decid Allen, received an ed to enter the email from Scho “Create a Char lastic, who prints acter” contest. Zach Bredfield th e m a g a z in e , The premise of “Storyworks ”, She the contest was to create a announced to all o f my character which would be classmates that I was one chosen by children's author of the four finalists out of G ordon K orm an as the over 6,000 entries.” The protagonist o f a new novel. After hours o f deliberation, author, Gordon Korman, Zach decided on a charac sifted through the thou ter named Zane Geddes, a sands o f hopeful entries 13-year old who lived in and ended up with four to medieval Scotland. Zach consider further. Zach is developed Zane’s charac patiently waiting for further teristics, the story’s setting, news, which should come and the problem of the tale. in April. Zach’s picture He also drew a picture of and character description Zane with the help and will be on the "Storyworks " website. WCCC Men’s Club kick-off The Willow Creek Country Club Men's Club Kick Oft' breakfast and play will be held on Sunday. The WCCC Board of Directors will serve the breakfast at 8 a.m. with tee off scheduled at 9 a.m. Sign up for play will be done by the 2013 officers of the Men’s Club including Matt Scrivner, president; Ron Bowman, vice-president; John Edmundson, secretary; and board members, Tom Shear and Duane Disque. lo n e H igh S chool Speech and Debate team will host this year’s district tournament, lone will wel come speech teams from Hermiston High School and Pine Eagle High School on April 5. Ifie tournament will be held in the afternoon, but the exact start time has not been determined. lone has had a team for seven years, but this is the first time the school has hosted the district tour nament. Oregon offers tw elve different speech events and four different styles of debate at the high school level. D ist. 9 should see r e p r e s e n ta tio n in all the speech ev en ts, as well as three o f the four debates. Speech competi tors will compete in two rounds, in front of multiple judges. Composite scores w ill determine who advanc es to the OSAA state tour nament at Western Oregon University. Debate rounds will be set after the number of teams has been final ized. After years of taking lone to speech tournaments, Coach Jim Raible is excited to bring a speech tourna ment to lone. “It’s a great chance for the community to experience something they may never have been exposed to.” The biggest challenge to hosting the tournament in a small town is recruiting judges. The judging at speech tournam ents is done by coaches, teachers, parents, community members, and college students. At larger tournaments attended by many schools, there are various sources to draw from. In a small town, the tournament will need all the help it can get. “There is no such thing as a certified speech judge like you might think of for basketball. The students are used to seeing all kinds of different judges. Once people get over the initial reservation, they have a great time judging,” said Raible. To help facilitate, Raible plans to hold a judge training session one or two evenings before the tourna ment. Anyone interested in helping judge should con tact Jim Raible at the school by phone 541 -422-7131. HHS students attend OSHA conference Students from Heppner High School’s Industry and Engineer ing Department attended the Oregon Governor’s Occupational Safety & Health Conference in Portland. Students learned about the dangers of drowsy driving and dangerous Decibels with hearing loss, they also learned about the right to receive safety training from employers. Guest speakers talked about industrial accidents and their personal experiences with the loss of a limb. Students toured the exhibit hall visiting with Occupational Safety and Health Professionals. There were vendors to visit w ith, marketing nearly every conceivable safety product. There was a Fork Lift Rodeo with drivers pitting their fork lift operation skills against drivers from around the state. Pictured: Kellie Nelson, Kai Arbogast, Brey Hines-Kissler, Victor Meyer, Jesse Wolford, Joe Schmidt, Mikegean Wood, Justin Howey and Tim Nelson. Not pictured: Tyler Berry, Shelton Sharp and Rylee Wagoner Duo finishes walking map re-do Irrigon man returns Club members show off jelly roll quilts from deployment U.S. troops serve in south, southwest and central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa, islands in the Pacific, and Europe. Coffey is a squad leader assigned to the 4"' Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richard- son, AK. He has served in the military for six years. He is the son of Daniel Coffey o f Airport Road, H erm iston, and Bonnie Carvajal of Southeast Ninth Street, Irrigon, OR. The sergeant is a 1995 graduate of Dayton High School, WA. Army Sgt. Jeremiah J. Coffey has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward oper ating base to serve in sup port of Operation Enduring Freedom. Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name given to anti-terrorism mili tary operations involving dJ.S- troops and allied coali tion partners. Active duty and reserve com ponent members from all branches o f the U.S. armed forces have been deployed to sup port the war against global terrorism outside the bor ders o f the United States. Warm Water therapy pool now available Ashlie Hanson & Kellie Nelson, with the support of John Edmundson, finished a long project started last year by a leadership class. The group re-did the city walking map and painted a variety of shamrocks on the sidewalk in conjunction with historical sites and area hot spots. Recently, Ashlie & Kel lie went around and connected the special shamrocks with a walking path of smaller shamrocks. - Contributed photo Heppner FFA wiiTbe recognized for its hard work Pictured: L-K: Jill Rudolf, Morgan Orem, Payton Miller, MaLInda Morter, Mackenzie Heideman, and Madison Orem. Absent were Sydney Stefani and Jordan Rollis. Members of the Sew Fantastic 4-H Club were excited to show off their finished quilt tops at their last meeting on March 9 at the lone Community Church. The girls have been working on their jelly roll quilts for the past two months. Each quilt was made from forty pre-cut two and one half inch wide strips of color coordinated fabric called a “jelly roll”. Everyone’s quilts looked unique because of the dif ferent fabrics, how they arranged their strips, or the addition of borders. They will be having them profes sionally quilted, and then sew on the binding to finish them up in time to display at the county fair. After the quilt show and tell, the members learned about pattern companies, pattern terminology and measure ments. Then they pro ceeded to use a pattern and rotary pinking blades to ach cut out a hooded sweatshirt from fabric they had cho sen. Club members will continue to work on their sweatshirts at their next meeting on April 10, from 1-3 p.m. at the church. from noon until 7:00 p.m. Rocky Mountain Therapy has reserved Wednesdays from 2:00 to 4:00. The cost The Heppner FFA in cooperation with the Heppner Les for Therapy Pool use is $ 12 Schwab Tire Center exceeded the 500 pound goal for food per hour for up to six people or cash donations that was set for each chapter by the state with a one hour minimum. association. Between non-perishable food items and cash Punch cards will be sold for donations the FFA has donated 1247 pounds to the South Mor row Neighborhood Center. During the State FFA Convention, $25 or $40. Heppner FFA will be recognized for this accomplishment. Contact us by phone at Without such generous communities supporting our activities 541 -676-5752, or e-mail at we would never have had this success! wcwpspa@centurylink.net. Leave your name, date and time you are requesting and your phone number. You This week's lunch meeting of the Heppner Chamber of Commerce will be held on Thursday. John Finley from can also check for updates Finley Fresh Produce will be guest speaker. He will give the history of Finley’s Fresh Produce, their goals and share on our Facebook page. Wil what produce is available. Sweet Productions will be catering lunch and will be serving: Beef enchilada, Spanish low Creek Water Park. rice, refried beans and dessert Please RSVP, 541-676-5536 no later than Wednesday to guarantee a lunch. The cost is $10. The Willow Creek Park District will open the Water- park warm water Therapy Pool for public use starting Wednesday, March 20. “The Therapy pool has been has been out of use for some time due to vari ous problems”, said Skip Matthews, WCPD Board President, “we have been able to update the heater and repair everything so it is ready for the public to use again.” T he p o o l w ill be available for reservations Wednesday through Friday Chamber lunch meeting DISTRICT LfAGUf CH AMPIO 'HAMHONS SOFTBALL ^ ASTATE CHAMPIONS 2012* U ('ll H i R U O N E -KEVIN PAYNE- JANEL1.E ELUS - MARINS A 1 ' PM SHELLY MACAftE - MADISON ROSENftALM NFL S 4 M.M LEMMON V - NICOLE KEMPKf.N F\Y fJDVEY COSTER l-lt-tc n n i 23-4 NATALIE RAUCH » MAGHI ■ HANNA LOVGRTN - MK H.\V! TESSA GOULD -J O S L Y 'A T ! MAKÏ.N7.1Ï. COV IT US SCHWAB i HEPPNER LES SCHWAB CONGRATULATES THE MUSTANG SOFTBALL TEAM AND THANKS ALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP SIGN SPONSORS & DONORS 124 N. MAIN STREET HEPPNER OR 97836 541- 676-9481 I i
