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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 19,2013 Local man named to LCDC advisory committee David Sykes o f Hep pner has been named to the Citizen Involvement Ad visory Committee (CIAC) o f the Oregon Department of Land Conserv ation and D evelopm ent C om m is sion (LCDC), the LCDC announced last week. The appointment was made at the commission’s meeting May 23 in Salem. The Citizen Involve ment Advisory Commit tee was estab lish ed to advise LCDC and local governments on matters pertaining to citizen in volvement in land-use plan ning. It does not set policy nor review local land-use plans or decisions. The D epartm ent o f Land C onservation and Development administers Oregon’s statewide land- use program. According to the CIAC web site, citizens o f O regon often ask how they can participate in the statewide land-use planning program. The system is complex and can be cumbersome and in David timidating. The pur pose of the CIAC is to provide a regular forum where citizens around the state can share their experi ences and find information about the LCDC. The CIAC has eight volunteer members, one from each of Oregon’s five Congressional Districts and three chosen at-large. Com mittee members are ap pointed to four-year terms, and Sykes’ district covers 19 Eastern Oregon coun ties. He is o w n er o f both Sykes Publishing, LLC, a family business that publishes the Heppner Gazette- Times newspaper, and Sykes Real Es tate with offices in Sykes Heppner and Pend leton. In addition, Sykes is chairman o f the Morrow County Planning Commis sion and a current board member o f the O regon Chapter of the American Planning Association, for which he attends regular meetings and has written articles for the association’s newsletter concerning local planning from the perspec tive of the citizen planner. L o c a l students q u a lify fo r w o r l d ’s la rg e s t ju n io r h igh r o d e o Kolby Currin, an eighth- grade student at Heppner Junior/Senior High School, and Jacee Currin, a sixth- grade student at Heppner Elementary School, have earned positions on the Or egon state National Junior High rodeo team and will be traveling with fellow teammates to Gallup, NM, June 23-29, to compete at the ninth annual National Junior High Finals Rodeo (NJHFR). Kolby will compete in the calf roping, chute dog ging, goat tying, ribbon roping and shooting compe titions. Jacee will compete in the pole bending, goat tying, breakaway roping, ribbon roping and shooting competitions. Featuring more than 1,000 contestants from 41 states, five Canadian prov inces and Australia, the NJHFR is the world's larg est junior high rodeo. In addition to competing for more than $75,000 in priz es, NJHFR contestants will also be vying for more than SI00,000 in college schol arships and the chance to be .named the National Junior High Finals Rodeo National Champion. To earn this title, contestants must fin ish in the top 20—based on their combined times/scores in the first two rounds— to advance to Saturday evening's final round. Na tional champions will then be determined based on their three-round combined times/scores. Again, this year, the Saturday championship per formance will be televised nationally as a part of the CinchTown Tour telecast series on RFD-TV. Live broadcasts of each NJHFR performance will also air online at NHSRATV.com. Performance times are 7 p.m. on June 23 and 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day there after. Along with great rodeo competition and the chance to meet new friends from around the world, NJHFR contestants can enjoy many family-oriented activities, church services sponsored by the Fellowship of Chris tian Cowboys, and shopping at the NJHFR tradeshow, as well as visiting nearby his torical attractions. Visit NJHFR.org daily for complete results. For ticket information, call 800- 590-1302. Earn While You Learn Program At Community Bank we recognize the importance of education and would like to encourage our student-customers in their academic success. • Pays $1 directly into an open Youth Savings Account for every "A" (or top grade1) that our I st through 12th grade students receive on their end-of-the-year report cards.2 • Reports cards3 must be presented at the local Community Bank branch during the months of June or July of the same year of the dated report card ICommunity BANK Local Money Working For Local People www.communitybanknet.com 1 Top grades include any grade of an "A” (A-. A, or A+). Bonus paid once per main school subject per grading period Top grades should be noted on report card and could include "S+" for above satisfactory, "E" for excellent, or any other grade explained on report card to be the top grade for that grading system $25 minimum balance required to open the account and obtain the Annual Percentage Yield and the bonus The Annual Percentage Yield (APY) on a Youth Savings account is 0 05%, effective May 29. 2013 and is subject to change at any time Bonus will be deposited on the same business day that the report card is reviewed 1 Up to $50 annually per student 1 Report cards must be originals, no copies please Member fdic Fireworks set to fly for Red, White and Blues The Fourth of July is only a couple o f weeks away, which means lone’s Red, White and Blues cel ebration is right around the comer. This year’s celebration will bring back old favorites like the Blues Cruise car show. The Red, White and Blues parade, blues bands on stage and, o f course, fireworks at dusk on the Fourth. Other events will be new or will have a new twist. The celebration will start with a bang Saturday, June 29 with the 2013 Texas Hold ‘Em poker and crib- bage tournament at the lone Legion Hall. A barbecue chicken dinner with no-host bar by Route 74 will begin at 5 p.m. Game sign-ups start at 6 p.m. and play will begin at 6:30 p.m. Poker buy-in is $40, cribbage buy- in is $20. No late buy-ins allowed. Cash prizes will be awarded. Paintball by Blast Zone of Hermiston will be in lone July 3 and July 4. They w ill set up the course on the Stefani lot at the east end of 2nd St. Play w ill begin daily at 10 a.m. and will run until dark. The Lady Cardinal bas ketball team will manage People enjoy food, fun and lots of sun at the Red. White and Blues Fourth of July celebration in lone last year. the Dawn’s Early Light 5K Walk Run this year. There is a $10 fee to participate; all proceeds will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project. Contact Tobey Gar rett at tkmgarrett@hotniail. com for more information. Boat auctions will be held at 6:15 p.m. on the Fourth. Fishing trips to the Snake River will be auc tioned off with proceeds go ing to the local scholarships for graduating seniors. A craft fair at the lone Legion Hall will offer a venue for area crafters for $10 per table. Contact Taranna Patton at taran- nap@gmail.com for more information. The City of lone also will bring back the Ken Turner Memorial Horse shoe Tournament, which has been missing from the event lineup the last few years. This year’s blues bands on stage w ill be HiFi Mojo, 3-4:15 p.m.; Billy D and the Hoodoos, 4:45-6 p.m,; Tommy Tutone, 6:30-8 p.m. and the Sonny Hess and Vicki Stevens band, 8:30-10 p.m. lone’s Fourth of July celebration is sponsored in part by Morrow County Unified Recreation District. Look for a full schedule in a later issue of the Gazette. WAGENBLAST RETIRES -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE become an actress. of fun," says Wagenblast. She says the children were always full of surprises; she remembers one incident that took place with a kin- dergartner a year or so after she started in lone. “ I heard this small voice, ‘Mrs. Wagenblast, how old are you?” ’ she remembers. “‘Pretty old,’ I said. ‘Well,’ he answered, ‘are you 118?” Her contribution to the school received official rec ognition in 2003, when she received the Grant Rigby and Crystal Apple awards. More recently, Wagenblast was honored at a school assembly, with a large bou quet of roses and booklets of advice that the children had assembled. She says the guidance the children gave her was priceless, ranging from suggestions to wear her pajamas all day and eat ice cream for breakfast to taking a trip to Hawaii or going to Hollywood to “Hawaii sounds good,” she says, “but I don’t know about Hollywood. I don’t think they’d hire a 62-year- old actress." When the students at the assembly were asked to stand if they had worked with Wagenblast, she says most of the crowd stood. It’s not surprising since, during her tim e at the school, Wagenblast inter acted with an entire genera tion of lone’s youth, until her life has touched nearly every student in the school through the Read Naturally program, lunch hours, vari ous classroom assignments and an estimated 10,000 recess duties over the 18- year span. Going into retirement, Wagenblast is anticipating spending time with a dif ferent group o f children, her six grandkids, whom she looks forward to going to Spokane to visit more often. She is also eager to have more time to do things around the house. “I plan to be at home and do a whole lot of get ting rid of stuff,” she says, saying cleaning the base ment is high on her list. On the lighter side, she also plans to spend time garden ing and sewing. “ I love to sew little girls’ dresses,” she says, adding that she wants to sew for her granddaugh ters. And, o f course, she says she’ll be around to help at the lone school if needed “I’m glad I’m going to retire, not have to get up (early) every morning, but I am going to miss the kids. I have lots of funny stories, lots of hugs. I’m going to miss the staff,” she says, but “I’ll miss the kids the most. Kids are so much fun. Little kids have the funni est stories. They have such wild imaginations.” FSA committee nomination period now open Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week that the nomination period for local Farm Ser vice Agency (FSA) county committees begins on Mon day, June 17. To be eligible to serve on an FSA county com mittee, a person must par ticipate or cooperate in a program administered by FSA, be eligible to vote in a county committee election and reside in the local ad ministrative area in which the person is a candidate. Farmers and ranchers may nominate themselves or others, and organiza tions representing minori ties and women also may nominate candidates. To become a candidate, an eli gible individual must sign the nomination form, FSA- Morrow County Health District will hold an Open House at Irrigon Medical Clinic 220 North Main Street Irrigon, Oregon Monday, June 24th From 5 to 7 p.m. Ribbon Cutting at 5:30 p.m. Please join us in celebrating this newly renovated location. 4 * MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT Excellence In Healthcare 669A. The form and other inform ation about FSA county com m ittee elec tions are available online at www.fsa.usda.gov/elec- tions. Nomination forms for the 2013 election must be postmarked or received in the local USDA Service Center by close of business on Aug. 1, 2013. Elections will take place this fall. W hile FSA county committees do not approve or deny farm ownership or operating loans, they make decisions on disaster and conservation program s, emergency programs, com modity price support loan programs and other agricul tural issues. Members serve three- year terms. Nationwide, there are about 7,800 farm ers and ranchers serving on FSA county commit tees. Committees consist o f three to 11 members that are elected by eligible producers. FSA will mail ballots to eligible voters beginning Nov. 4. The voted ballots are due back to the local county office either via mail or in person by Dec. 2. Newly elected commit tee members and alternates take office on Jan. 1, 2014.
