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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 15,2013 - THREE Morrow County students celebrate achievements Karlee Gale; and eighth It’s been a success ful spring for students in Morrow County. Students throughout the district have shined at various academic competitions throughout the region. Here are the highlights: Windy River Elemen tary Spelling Contest Congratulations to the Windy River Elementary Spelling Contest winners for 2013: Division 1: First place: Isabella Ganova; second place: James Tiboni; third place: Andrew Zellars. Division II: First place: Rose Jurcich; second place: Jared Miller; third place: Daisy Paredes. Both first-place win ners will be invited to com pete at the InterMountain Education Service District’s regional spelling contest at Blue Mountain Community College on May 13. All stu dents will receive awards at the end-of-the-year assem bly at Windy River. District-W ide Math Contest Congratulations to the grade-level winners of the Morrow County School D istrict M ath C ontest: Third grade: Cody Fletch er; fourth grade: Madelyn Nichols; fifth Grade: Gavin Robinson & Nicole Proph- eter; sixth grade: Jaiden Mahoney; seventh grade: Celebrate Heppner to include flea market, craft fair Celebrate Heppner will includes a community flea market and craft fair for this year’s event on Friday, June 14. The Celebrate Heppner Committee is working on the list o f activities tak ing place during the day and would like to invite any community members who would like to set up a table and participate in the community flea market, fundraisers and craft fair to contact Heppner Chamber o f Commerce get a spot on Main Street. Pick up a registration form at the chamber office or post of fice. The merchant sidewalk sales also will be happen ing that day, along with other activities soon to be published. Anyone interested in participating as a commu nity flea market and craft fair vendor, contact the chamber at 541-676-5536 to get signed up. Anyone planning on having a garage or yard sale, let the chamber know, and they will include it in the schedule. “So, put Friday, June 14 on your calendar,” says chamber Executive Direc to r Sheryll Bates, “and plan on participating in this year’s Celebrate Heppner Event!” grade: Kyler Sorenson & Alexandria Dunn. Eastern Oregon Uni versity Regional Math Contest Congratulations to the M orrow County School D istrict junior high and high school math students for their outstanding per formances at the Eastern O regon U niversity R e gional Math Contest. In the Small School Category (pool o f 13 schools), the math relay category was a clean sweep with Irrigon students taking third place, Boardman students taking second place, and Heppner students taking first place. Heppner High School also took home first place for overall team in the small school division. 2013 Spring Knowl edge Master Open C o n g ratu latio n s to Windy River Elementary and Heppner Elementary schools for their participa tion and respective first and second place finishes in our Statewide Knowledge Master Team completed this spring. Both schools are at the top of the list for Oregon. First place: Windy River Elementary School, Boardm an; and second place: Heppner Elementary School, Heppner. lone students shine in county spelling contest All three lone Community School spelling champions placed at the Morrow County contest on May 13. Henry Padberg (left) placed third in the middle school division; Jill Rudolf (middle front) was first in elementary; and Oskar Paterson (right) was first in high school. Jill and Oskar will advance to the state competition in Salem this August. -Contributedphoto Free trees available Wheat Foundation this week selects MoCo Morrow SWCD will have free bare root tree seedlings available Thursday and Friday, May 16 and 17, from 9 scholarship recipient a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ag Service Cetifer, 430 W Linden The O regon W heat tend Eastern Oregon Uni Foundation awarded versity or Oregon nine $ 1,000 scholar State University, ships to high school studying exercise seniors. Students science/nutrition, were judged on their with plans to get a community involve- degree in kinesiol m e n t, a c a d e m ic ogy. Kyle is a four- achievement and an Kyle year honor student essay on a wheat Harrison and a two year Na industry topic. tional Honor So Kyle Harrison, ciety member. He son of Travis and Kirsten has been involved in bas Harrison, is a graduating ketball, golf, football, 4-H senior from Heppner High and FFA, as well as many School. He plans to at- community services. Way in Heppner. Species available are Western Larch, Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine and Spruce. Trees will be given away on a first come, first served basis. Customers are asked to bring their own containers. Neighborhood Center seeks board members The Neighborhood Center of South Morrow County in Heppner would like to extend invitations to one per son from lone and one person from Lexington to join its board of directors. Interested parties, please stop by the Neighborhood Center or call 541-676-5024. Collins awarded Ag Bell choir to play in scholarship lone June 15 Local student Maggie Standing Tall for American Collins was one of four lo Agriculture Scholarship, cal students who received to go towards their college scholarships from tuition. One recipient, T h e M c G re g o r Maggie Collins of Company’s Stand ing Tall for Ameri H eppner, ap p ar ently showed great can A g ric u ltu re Scholarship Pro interest in the Ag industry, as evident gram. The McGregor Maggie in her applications and essay. Collins Company report Collins is planning to at ed that it “found a wellspring of strength and tend the University of Ida intelligence in the pool of ho. She will receive $1,000 applicants in the Standing towards her tuition. “There are fine futures Tall for American Agricul ture Scholarship Program.” ahead for all of us as these This program focuses sup young, intelligent people port of agriculture at a most consider careers in agri important level—students. culture,” reports company Four local high school se president Alex McGregor. niors each received a $ 1,000 Donkey basketball this Friday The Heppner FFA chap ter would like to remind everyone about the Donkey Basketball game at the Hep pner High School gym this Friday, May 17. Pre-game entertainment includes a mini petting zoo and roping lessons given by Garrett Robinson and Tate Gentry at 6 p.m., with the game to start at 7 p.m. Tickets can be pur- chased ahead of time from the HHS and HES offices. Advance prices are $8 for adults, $6 for students, and $4 for children 10 and under. Students in grades K-4 have received coloring pages and, if they show up to the game with their page colored, they get a free ticket in. Tickets purchased at the gate are a dollar more for each age group. The Raytown Christian Church Youth Vocal and Bell Choir from Raytown, MO will provide a concert June 15 at 6:30 p.m. at lone Community Church. This is their 42nd annual trip; they are heading to the Pacific Northwest for the first time almost a decade. The youth bell choir is made up o f students from grades six through 12 and has been nationally rec ognized by the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers. Their vocal choir, readers and drama leaders help round out a full pro gram around the theme of “Courage!” The youth will also be helping lead worship at lone Community Church on June 16 at 10 a.m. All are welcome. Chamber lunch meeting David VanDerlip of Oregon Rural Housing Services will be the speaker at the next meeting of the Heppner Chamber of Commerce, this Thursday, May 16, at noon in the St. Patrick’s Senior Center dining room. Cost of lunch is $10; Willow Creek Diner will cater. Lunch attendees are asked to RS VP no later than noon the Wednesday before. Community lunch menu Volunteers from the United Methodist Church will serve lunch on Wednesday, May 22, at St. Patrick's Se nior Center. The meal will include scrambled eggs; ham, bacon or sausage; hash browns; citrus salad; biscuits and gravy; cinnamon rolls; and tomato juice. Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. t On April 12, the Fab Four Foods Group got up to their elbows in active cultures as they experimented with making two kinds of yogurt. One had to be incubated at room temperature and the other had to be kept at a certain temperature. Above, Morgan Orem and Renee Peterson jar up their yogurt. -Con tributed photo Sheriff's Report April 29: -M orrow responded and the subject County S heriff’s Office said her brother left and cited Rufino Lopez Ramir- she didn’t want to press ez, 38, for Violation o f charges, the Speed Limit-School -MCSO received report Zone and No O perator’s from a subject who said that License. a male wearing a ball cap -MCSO received a re- and driving a Ford V* ton port of harassment. MCSO 4x4 pickup with S W on the released no further infor- side plate ran him off the mation. road on Hwy. 74 Lexington -MCSO received report and was out of sight within of a sprinkler pipe broken a minute. He reported that and causing high water in the vehicle ran two vehicles the street on Columbia Lane off the road on both sides, in Irrigon. -MCSO received re- -MCSO received re- quest for extra patrol on port of two horses loose in Gale St. for vehicles speed- Boardman. The horses were ing on Gale St. in Heppner. put back into their pasture. The caller said that one -MCSO cited Ricky J. vehicle was a large brown Hawkins, 50, for Violation Ford pickup that said “wast- of the Basic Rule, 70 mph ed wages” on it. in a 55 mph zone. -MCSO deputy report- -MCSO received report ed a subject on a bicycle in from an Irrigon woman front of Irrigon City Hall that she had a cat in a trap, that would not stop for the A deputy responded and deputy. The deputy pursued transported the cat to Pet the subject on foot and ar- Rescue. . rested Marion Ivan Taylor, -MCSO cited Guiller- 53, on a Morrow County mo Mendoza Guzman, 18, Circuit Court warrant for for Violation of the Basic Unlawful Possession o f Rule, 80 mph in a 55 mph,« M etham phetam ines and zone. Failure to Appear. An ad- -MCSO received report dition charge of Possession that the Irrigon library proj- of Methamphetamines was ect, under construction, was added. He was lodged at broken into the previous Umatilla County Jail, night. A deputy responded -MCSO, Heppner Am- and took the report. bulance received report of -MCSO received report a female subject who had of pit bulls running around gone into a hardware store the marina in Irrigon. in Heppner wanting them -MCSO received report to make a new set of keys, from a farmer of a theft in However, they advised they Irrigon. The caller reported could not without the origi- that one of his fields was nal set. The caller said he hit and 96 sprinkler heads gave the woman a ride taken. He said he had seen home and asked her where where someone had pulled she kept her keys, but then off the road and left a pop she seemed confused and can and wanted to have wondered what they were fingerprints pulled. He re- looking for. quested deputy contact. -MCSO received report -MCSO received a re- from an Irrigon woman port from an Irrigon woman that she had been receiving who said she had a check spam calls again, cashed by an unknown -MCSO received report person. from an Irrigon woman -MCSO received report that there was a horse in from an Irrigon man that her yard, he had $500 in coins and -MCSO received report $1,000 in jew elry taken from an Irrigon woman that from his home. someone had been dumping -MCSO received report garbage in the alley. She from a Heppner teacher wanted to find out who was that he has been receiving the dumping the garbage harassing text messages and have it removed, from an unknown person. -MCSO received report He requested contact. from a Boardman woman -MCSO received report that they had just moved from an Irrigon woman of a into a house and a car pulled suspic ious subject knocking into their driveway and had on her door. She advised the been sitting there for the last person left and no deputy 20 minutes with no reason was needed. to be there. -MCSO received report -MCSO received report of a big dump truck where of an open garage door and the city parks its vehicles in one subject in the garage Heppner that has a blinker in Irrigon. A deputy made on like someone had been contact and advised that messing with it around 9 a woman was just getting p.m. home from work. A pril 30: -M orrow -Heppner Ambulance County S heriff’s Office received request for an received report from an Irri- ambulance for a disoriented gon female that her brother 81-year-old female. Hep- broke her headlights and pner Ambulance responded was trying to take the tires and she was transported off her car at 3:46 a.m. to Pioneer Memorial Hos- -MCSO received an- pital. other call from the Irrigon -Irrigon A m bulance female at 3:49 a.m. to re- transported a 56-year-old port that her brother took male who had fallen and the lugnuts off her car and hurt his hip and shoulder, broke a headlight. A deputy
