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