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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. March 12, 2014
lone pep band takes state
tournament title
MATHENY PROJECT
-Continuedfrom PACE ONE
The lone bund was awarded Band of the Tournament at the state basketball competition
recently. Pictured are: (fourth row) Yvonne Ylortcr, Jorge Aguilar, Austin Morter, Oskar
Peterson (third row) Jordan Bemrose, Judy Rea, Miranda Taylor, Chris Pryor, Shaun
Epperson, Joel Peterson (second row) Earysa Burright, Susie Teenian, C'harlette Burghard,
l aureo Garrett, Kaitlin Bass, Levi Garrett (first row) Stephan Gibson, Hunter Padberg and
Kaitlin Garrett. The flowers are in loving memory of trombone player Boh Baker, w ho was
dedicated member and supporter of the lone Community Pep Band and lone Music Program.
-Contributed photo
SAGE Center, Boardman
chamber job fair a success
B O A R D M A N — An
even 370 people attended
the SAGE C enter’s first
agriculture and energy
job fair last Wednesday in
Boardman.
The event, attended by
28 exhibitors from regional
agriculture and energy
industries, educational
institutions and government
a g e n c i e s , to o k th e
opportunity to collaborate,
seek out new talent and
provide information to a
wide range of people at the
SAGE Center.
“There was a diverse
g roup o f p eo p le w ho
are actively looking for
employment with a lot of
different skill sets here
today,” said Kalie Davis.
SAGE Center manager.
“There is a great partnership
between the businesses and
colleges to let students
know w hat e d u c a tio n
they need to fill current
positions.”
Organizations
participating the job fair
echoed Davis’ sentiments
regarding the event.
Kirk Jacobson, Beef
Northwest human resources
director, said the event
exceeded his expectations.
“ I fo u n d at le a s t
five qualified candidates
fo r p o s itio n s h ere in
Boardman,” Jacobson said.
A recent job fair at the SAGE Center in Boardman provided
a chance for local job-seekers to connect with educators and
employers in the agriculture : and energy fields. -Contributed
photo
“1 liked the outreach to the
Ag teachers. It helps connect
me with their students in
their department so they
can come see what we do.
I am also able to work with
other HR professionals in
the region.”
Students from local
high sch o o ls atten d ed
to learn about available
careers and what education
is required to help get those
jobs.
Wal l a
Walla
C o m m u n ity C o l l e g e
showcased its technical
tra in in g avai lable and
b ro u g h t stu d e n ts who
will be seeking jo b s in
the future. Brian Evensen,
head electrical instructor,
and Jam es B radshaw ,
energy systems technology
d ir e c to r , b o th lik e d
networking with businesses
and being able to meet with
potential students.
Boardman Foods vice
president o f operations
D ebbie Radie said she
appreciated the opportunity
to interact with community
c o lle g e s th a t c o n d u ct
workforce training as well
as many individuals who
are genuinely interested
in coming to work at the
Port of Morrow. Boardman
Foods is an onion processor
at the port.
Davis said she plans
to host the event next
year and stay true to the
SAGE C enter’s mission
of showcasing the region’s
ag ricu ltu re and energy
industries. She said she
also hopes to promote local
businesses and expand
marketing to other regions
and more job-seekers.
Old Hills Will Sing,” were
a long time in the making.
"All of it is underscored
with gratitude. It starts
a little bit with me and
Molly and Cookie,” says
Matheny, referring to long
time friends Molly Rill of
H eppner and C atherine
“Cookie” Christensen of
Pilot Rock. “The whole
project was bom of Molly
wanting to do something.
She wanted me to do a
CD—she was always on me
to get my music down—so Wayne Seitz and Dennis Stefani work the sound board during
she sort of spurred it on. a recording session. -Contributedphoto
Then we got Cookie to do Bennett Matthews; Sharon had. 1 think we all know
Harrison; and Matheny’s p eo p le who have had
the graphics.”
husband,
Mark Fennessy.
neurological issues of some
“There is an underlying
“There’s
no
substitute
sort.
Of course, he (Dave) is
theme of the desire to do
the
one
who motivated me
for
jumping
into
something
something that makes a
with
a
partner
and
knowing
to
do
this.”
difference. 1 think that, in
“(This support) Helps us
the end, is what appeals to they’re going to land right
there where you land,” develop the next generation
everyone,” adds Rill.
of investigators/clinician-
Rill stresses that she Matheny says.
To date, Matheny says investigators by providing
plays a purely adm inistrative
role, while Matheny refers they have raised just short a concrete, living, breathing
to C h riste n se n as the of $9,000 to sendtoOHSU. focus for our work,” wrote
“Even though research- Heinricher in another letter.
“graphic whiz.”
“She's not only talented, wise that may be drops in “It says (to them): This isn’t
she's also tenacious,” says the bucket, those are our a textbook anymore, we
drops in the bucket,” says don’t have the answers, and
Matheny.
With those three friends Matheny, who adds that, there is someone right here
at the core, a group o f though the dollar figures are and now who needs us to
volunteers formed in 2009 important, she doesn't like get answers.”
“It gets really personal
to promote the CD and the to focus on them.
“We’re grateful to do for them,” Matheny adds.
project. Joining Matheny on
the project was Pitzer, also something with people we “That says something not
love for someone we loved only about OHSU but
a talented musician.
“ She can make that a lot,” she says. “Molly and about what this is doing
keyboard do things even it I were joking the other day for people.”
Even though Dave
didn’t know it could do,” about how a married couple
M atheny jo k es, adding builds a house, and the Matheny did pass away last
that Pitzer provided all the marriage might— might— year, he played an important
instrumentals except for survive. We’ve made it role in the creation of
some guitar by local man through two CDs and we’re “When the Heart is Calm,”
still friends. It’s a longer listening to and influencing
Wayne Seitz.
S e itz was the one process than any of us every early drafts of the work and
helping choose which songs
who stepped up to do the thought.”
W hile the CDs are made the final cut.
recording in his studio,
“ When I sing them,
Strawberry Lane Studio in ten sely personal for
#1, which he built several everyone involved in their I still hear the jokes and
years ago when his own c re a tio n , the M atheny comments he made on each
band, Even Plane, wanted project has also become of them,” Matheny recalls.
personal for those on the
Two o f the songs,
to release its first CD.
the title track and “Two
Seitz taught him self receiving end at OHSU.
“ With the M atheny Old Cowboys and Three
about recording with help
from Dennis Stefani of P roject g ifts, we were Guitars,” were written by
lone. Stefani worked as able to support a summer M atheny herself. O ther
a recording engineer for undergraduate trainee in our songs include traditional
several years at Westlake laboratory, Sophie Davis,” ballads like The Story,
Studios in Los Angeles. wrote Professor and Vice- House of the Rising Sun/
His father’s failing health Chair for Research, Dept, Amazing Grace, Pancho
brought Dennis home to o f Neurological Surgery and Lefty, Always On My
help for a while on the M ary M. H e in ric h e r, Mind, (Sittin' On) The Dock
Ph.D. in N ovem ber o f of the Bay, The Last Thing
family farm.
“ Dennis Stefani has 2011. “It is critical to have On My Mind, I Won't Let
in c re d ib le e x p e rie n c e funding to educate the next Go, Destination Donegal
down in LA in studios generation o f physicians, and Bright Early Morning.
Matheny says the songs
there. Those two men put as we recognize the need
in a lot of hours...a lot of for training in spinal cord might be considered “easy
listening.”
hours,” Matheny says. “The injuries.”
“The partnership that’s
engineering and recording
“People said they felt
developed with OHSU is it helped them, 1 do n ’t
and patience.”
O thers involved in pretty special and I think know, relax,” she says,
the project include Dave’s they think it is too,” says referring to the first CD.
w ife, P atty ; Dave and Matheny. “ Some o f the Matheny adds that many
Sandy’s “little sister," Sally things they were working people told her they had
Matheny Brosnan; Judy on were directly related to some sort o f meaningful
B ennett B arber; Sandy some of the issues David experience listening to the
CD. “That’s not something
1 did. I suit up and show up
and participate.”
For all the memories
and nuance in the two
CDs she’s released so far,
Matheny, visiting Heppner
this weekend from her new
home in Montana, says that
many of the songs resonate
in a special way.
“So many songs about
Ireland are ballads about
missing the homeland. A lot
of times those are true for
those of us who grew up in
Pioneer Memorial Clinic
Heppner and moved away,”
she
says. “So, it’s delightful
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to be doing this.”
Heppner, OR 97836
Both “These Old Hills
Will S ing” and “ When
the Heart is Calm ” will
MORROW COUNTY
be available for purchase
HEALTH DISTRICT
at the CD sig n in g , at
•r
E xce lle n ce In H e a lth c a re
M urray’s Drug, through
mathenyproject.com or by
mailing an order to The
Matheny Project, P.O. Box
1095, Heppner, OR 97836.
Both are priced at $15.
For more information,
s e n d an e ma i l t o
matheny project@ gm ail.
com, visit www.matheny
project.com or visit the
F aceb o o k page un d er
“Matheny Project.”
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