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.
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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
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