Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Youth track m eet held
The Heppner Day Care
celebrated Heppner with
a youth track meet last
week.
The meet was spon
sored by the Heppner Day
Care board members, staff
and volunteers.
There were running and
field events for preschool
through high-school stu
dents.
Those who participated
reportedly had lots o f fun
and competed well. Each
participant received a prize
for attending.
Below are the results
for the events:
Javelin
Maya Payne, age 4, dis
tance, 12’5"; Isabel Payne,
age 3, distance 4’; Kooper
Miller, age 3, distance 9’7”;
Caige C handler, age 4,
distance 18’; Tripp Stew
art, age 4, distance, 13’8”,
Logan Turner, age 5, dis
tance 20 ft; Zach Brown,
age 6, distance 9’7”; Jace
Coe, age 9, distance 56’;
Connor Brosnan, age 9,
distance 49’, Drew Coe,
age II, distance 7 4 '3 ” ,
Jordan Sweeney, age II,
48’; Chris Pryor, age 14,
distance 86’.
Long Jump
Isabel Payne (3) 3'2”;
Maya Payne (4) 3’5”; Kay-
nenn Brown (2) 1'3”; Lo
gan Turner (5) 3' 10"; Tripp
Stewart (4) 5’3”, Zaehery
Brown (6) 6’2”; Jace Coe
(9) 9 ’2” ; Drew Coe (II)
9'7”; Jordan Sweeney (II)
9’3”, Connor Brosnan (9)
7 ’7” ; Kooper M iller (3)
4'2”.
50 Meter Dash
Connor Brosnan (9) 7.5
sec; Drew Coe (11) 7 sec;
Zach (6) 9 sec; Jace Coe
(9) 7.5 sec; Jordan Sweeney
(11)8 sec.
Logan Turner (5) II
sec; Tripp Stewart (4) II
sec; Isabel Payne(3) 14sec;
Maya Payne (4)12 sec.
100 meter dash
Jace Coe (9) 19 sec;
Connor Brosnan (9) 17.5
sec; Jordan Sweeney (9)
20.5 sec; Drew Coe (II)
17 sec; Zach Brown (6)
19 sec; Logan Turner (5)
25 sec; Tripp Stewart (4)
26 sec; Maya Payne (4) 27
sec; Isabel Payne(3) 32 sec;
Kooper Miller (3) 43 sec.
200 meter
Drew Coe ( 11) 37 sec;
Jace Coe (9 ) 39 sec; Jordan
Sweeney (9 ) 43 sec; Tripp
Stewart (4) 1 min; Maya
Payne (4) 1.16 min; Isabel
Payne (3 ) 1.22 min.
400 meters
Drew Coe (11) 1.38
min; Jace Coe (9) 1.48 min;
Connor Brosnan (9) 2.28
min; Jordan Sweeney (9)
1.54 min; Zach Brown (6)
2.06 min; Kopper Miller (3)
3.02 min; Isable Payne (3)
3.22 min; Tripp Stewart (4)
2.29 min; Logan Turner (5)
2.31 min.
1600 meters
Tripp Stewart (4) 8.05
min; Jace Coe (9) 7.53 min;
Connor Brosnan (9) 9.24
min; Drew Coe (11) 7.45
min; Jordan Sweeney (II)
8.15 min; Kane Sweeney
(14) n/a.
Hog H andlers 4-H club form s
By Olivia Schmidt, Club
Reporter
Heppner Hog Handlers
are led by Jennifer Wilson,
and the group is made up
o f Micha Hintz; Emma,
Shayna and Kael Osmin;
Blake and Hunter Greenup;
Makenzie Correa; Brian
Fowler; Baily Bennett; and
Joe Schmidt. The group has
had five meetings, a barbe
cue to paint pig waterers,
and a field trip to David
Piper’s to learn about rais
ing a litter of piglets.
For community serv ice,
the group plans to help
spruce up the fairgrounds
because of this year’s cen
tennial celebration. With
the combination of com
munity service and raising
pigs, 4-H is designed to
A few of the members of the ne w Heppner Hog Handlers 4-H
club. C 'ontributed photo
teach selflessness and re
sponsibility. But, ofcourse,
it pays to do so; if you take
good care of your animals,
it’s a great opportunity to
earn some money.
H eppner Hog H an
dlers will be putting on a
donation-only car wash at
the Neighborhood Center
parking lot Friday, June 28,
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Any
funds raised w ill help offset
the cost o f float and fair
decorations for this year’s
centennial celebration.
M usic in Parks to honor vets
Music in the Parks is
honoring our vets July 1
at 7 p.m. at the Boardman
Marina Park.
Rolling Hills Chorus
is a group of real women,
singing real harmony and
having real fun today. It
is affiliated with North
Pacific Region 13 of Sweet
Adelines International, a
worldwide organization of
women singers committed
to advancing the musical art
form of four-part a cappella
harmony in the barbershop
style through education and
performance.
The Rolling Hills Cho-
Rolling Hills Chorus
rus is community-based and
centered in the Tri-Cities
area of Southeastern Wash
ington and Northeastern
Oregon, with members hail
ing from the lower Yakima
Wednesday, June 26,2013
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R etiring city m anager always
liked a challenge
Breazeale headed both Heppner and Irrigon
By David Sykes
Finding out what a
community wants to ac
complish, and then helping
them get there, was always
the motivating force be
hind retiring Irrigon City
Manager Jerry Breazeale’s
willingness to keep pushing
forward.
“I like to look at the big
picture and to build things,”
says Breazeale, who is step
ping dow n after eight years
at the helm of the city of
Irrigon, and seven years
before that as the Heppner
city manager.
Honored at a potluck
Saturday, he received a
plaque of appreciation from
Irrigon Mayor David Bums
and also a certificate o f
appreciation from the Ir
rigon city crew. Music was
provided at the gathering
by Amercan Idol contes
tant, and Irrigon hometown
son, country singer Lee
Pritchard. The gathering
was held at the new Stokes
Landing Bed & Breakfast,
w hich is located by the Ma
rina in Irrigon and owned
and operated by former
school principal Phyllis
Danielson.
Breazeale was born
in Portland 65 years ago
where his father was at
tending Reed College, and
then after moving with his
family to Washington for
a while, and then to New
York, he moved back at 13
to Palo Alto, CA. He started
his public career working at
a water district in the 1970
at Georgetown, CA, and
then went to Minnesota for
a few years, where he tried
homestead farming.
“I found out I could not
support myself; I was visit
ing my sister in Eugene,
I saw an ad for a utility
Irrigon M ajor David Burns (left) presents a plaque of appre
ciation to retiring city manager Jerry Brea/eale. Brea/eale
was treated to a retirement party at the Stokes landing Bed &
Breakfast on Saturday. Photo by David Sykes
worker at the city of Veneta,
and I applied.”
He got the job and spent
four years there before
moving to Madras, where
he worked for the city pub
lic works department for
the next nine years. After
that he was hired in 1998
as Heppner’s city manager,
and then in 2005 took the
Irrigon city manager job.
While at Heppner, he
oversaw the complete reha
bilitation of the city water
system. In Irrigon he saw
a new city hall, skate and
children’s park built. The
city is currently having a
new library constructed
next to city hall.
“I would not take a job
where there is not chal
lenge,” Breazeale said of
his desire to “take on big
projects.” He praised his
city council for backing him
up and working to improve
Irrigon.
“ It is sometimes hard
on the council when you
do these things. When you
do anything, you are going
to take some flack for it,”
he says, “but they hung in
there.”
One project Breazeale
worked on but did not see
materialize was a plan to
use the former Army Depot
near Irrigon to lure a big
mushroom grower.
“Jerry wanted to make
Irrigon the mushroom capi
tol of the country,” Mayor
Bums said at his retirement
party, “but with the powers
that be it was not to hap
pen.”
Now that he is retired
Breazeale plans on stay
ing in Irrigon where his
wife, Marsha, is head o f
the library district, and, “ I
have a boat I am working
on that I will be taking out
fishing,” he says. Although
he is ready to take a break
from the public spot light,
fie is still on the Morrow
County Planning Commis
sion and has some other
unnam ed projects he is
contemplating.
“I also want to spend
some more time with my
family,” Breazeale says.
He has a son, two daughters
and a step-daughter.
“ I enjoyed w orking
with the people o f both
communities,” he says of
Heppner and Irrigon. “It’s
been fun.”
Tracking down 100 years of royalty
O ver the p ast few
weeks, Rita Bergstrom has
been on the hunt for contact
information regarding past
Morrow County Fair &
Rodeo royalty. Of the 100
years of royalty, Bergstrom
has narrowed down her
search list to 35 names.
Our hope by writing
this article is that people
from the Gazette-Times
community can help Berg
strom collect the last of the
contact information for the
Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo’s past royalty so we
may invite them to come
and celebrate the I00lhyear
of the Morrow County Fair.
Contact Bergstrom at 541 -
676-5538 or email her at
bergiesplace@centurytel.
net if you know how she
can connect with the fol-
lowing list of royalty she
has yet to find:
2002 Saili McElligott
2001 Tammy Booth
1991 Jodee Vandeven-
ter
1990 Donna Flanna-
gan, Stacy Henry
1989 Shawna Cash
1988 Missy Schoon
over Barnhart
1987 Cindy Davis Bro
snan
198I Kathy Hanson
Clow
1974 Cathy Chapel
Reyes
I970 Vivian Phillips
Parideso
1969 Rhonda B ell
inger
1966 Mardee Childers
1963 Sharon Donavon
Barrick
1962 Irene Potts
Valiev. Tri-Cities, Ritzville
and Hermiston. Member
ship is open by audition to
adult women. The Rolling
Hills Chorus performs for
community events, chari
table organizations, private
If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, functions, and produces
annual shows.
help is available and that help Is FREE of charge.
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