FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, July 23,2014
2014 Maryan L. McElligott Memorial
Scholarship recipients announced
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VISITOR FROM POLAND
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through someone else’s
eyes. She is a lovely person.
It was nice having her as a
house guest.”
Boruta, who studied at
the Christian Theological
A cad em y in Warsaw,
Poland, has a level o f
re lig io u s e d u c a tio n
n o rm ally e x p e c te d o f
members o f the clergy;
she has even studied Greek
and Hebrew. However, the
Lutheran church in Poland
d o esn 't ordain women.
Instead, Boruta teaches
religion in a public school
in the town of Cieszyn,
which sits on the border
between Poland and the
Czech Republic. And. yes,
it is actually on the border.
The town has been divided
between the two countries
since 1920.
“We joke that it is the
largest town in Poland,
because it was too big to
fit all in Poland,” she said
with a smile. She teaches.
of course, on the Polish side
of town.
It surprised Boruta
to hear that religion is
not taught in American
public schools; she says
it is commonly taught in
public school in Poland,
where each religion or
denom ination, whether
C ath o lic , Lutheran or
Eastern Orthodox, will have
its own classes. She was
also surprised at the number
of churches in a small town
like Heppner. Poland, she
said, does not have so many
denominations, but she
found a tour of the town's
churches fascinating.
In fact, DeMayo said
Boruta's visit to one local
church was her favorite part
of her trip.
“ Her favorite thing
was the morning she spent
with Betty Carlson, who
took her out to Valby,”
said DeMayo. “ She was
impressed that Valby is this
church out in the middle of
.
nowhere, and people still
come to it.”
Boruta is not married,
but lives with her Bernese
mountain dog, Matilda,
in Dt^bowiec. Poland. She
said the village’s name
translates to “Oakland.”
However, it shouldn’t be
confused with the home of
the Raiders football team.
The village, like Heppner,
has a population of less than
2,000, and was named for
the area's ancient oak trees.
The trees are so old, said
Boruta, they are considered
national treasures.
D ^ b o w ie c is a lso
famous for a unique type
of salt. In fact, said Boruta,
the town received a public
g rad u atio n to w e r— a
s tr u c tu re used in the
production of salt, which
removes water from a saline
solution by evaporation-
on July 11 o f this year.
People sit in the graduation
tower, because the mineral-
rich water droplets in the
air are regarded as having
beneficial health effects.
The G azette-T im es
spoke to Boruta one day
into her trip. Her first
impression of Heppner?
“It's hot,” said Boruta,
whose visit coincided with
last week’s record-setting
heat wave.
D e p ite j e t la g , a
drive from the Portland
airport and an exhausting
s c h ed u le rig h t before
le a v i n g P o l a n d — she
A ward Winning Igeai &
had just coordinated an
Special Italian Winn featured!
evangelism camp attended
by 150 children— Boruta
seemed to cope well with
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the transition. Even the heat
Ouch Jana also welcome!
was a welcome change from
weather that had turned
ße sure to bring lawn chairs!
cold and rainy back home,
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Coming to us all the way from
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she hadn’t used it for many
years, she was fluent in her
conversation at the G-T
office.
Wh e n a s k e d th e
greatest difference between
Poland and the U.S.: “The
distance. The space. It’s a
huge country. How many
hours were we driving here
from Portland?” she asked
rhetorically.
“That impressed her,”
D eM ayo added, “ how
far we had to drive from
Portland, and we were still
in Oregon!”
“She kept commenting
on the landscape and how
vast (it was),” said De
Mayo after the visit, “and
she was so impressed by
the sparsity of population,
especially when she sees
how far out in the country
the people who live out
on their ranches are from
their nearest neighbor.
Apparently in Poland they
can’t spread out like that.”
Boruta said that, after
one day in America, she
hadn’t experienced any
difficulties, but there were
some differences.
“I was shocked about
the rugs,” she said. “The
rugs were just amazing, like
a fairy tale.”
DeMayo clarified that
she referred to the carpets in
the airports, because there
are no carpets in public
buildings in Poland.
“I feel like in a movie,”
Boruta continued. “The
houses are different. The
roads are very wide.”
After one day, though,
she already had some
favorite things.
“The nature, the views,
the landscape,” she said,
adding that she kept looking
out her plane window and
expecting to see houses.
“It's breathtaking.”
She said she also liked
the people, both in Heppner
and those she met en route.
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lone library winds
down summer
reading program
Readers Ruen Waite and Duke Moore reach the ultimate prize,
the sun. -Contributedphoto
The lone Library has
concluded a successful
2014 sum m er reading
program, led this year by
Andrea Grigg.
Nearly 50 children,
ages tw o to 12, took
part in weekly sessions
learning about ecosystems,
radioactivity, architecture,
music, rockets, geology and
raptors. Several teen helpers
and presenters volunteered
their time and talents,
which also helped make
the program a success.
Readers can still turn
in their reading logs and
collect prizes until Aug. 1,
say librarians Mary Walker
and Kristy Crowell.
4-H members go
‘hog wild’ for fair
lone Community Livestock 4-H member Ivy Sandford shows
off one of her Morrow County Fair show pigs during a recent
project visit by her leader. Ivy will be a freshman at lone High
School next year and participates in athletics, 4-H and rodeo.
Ivy is the daughter of Rick and Sylvia Sandford. - Photo by
Erin Heideman
“The people are so nice.
Everyone wants to help
you,” she said. “They seem
interested in me somehow.
It’s an unusual feeling for
me. It’s surprising for me
that I came here and you
(did) the interview.”
And, she said, that was
one thing America had in
common with the U.S.
“Polish people like guests,
as well.”
D eM ayo said that,
later in her visit, Boruta
discovered another favorite
thing.
“She really liked our
lemonade,” DeMayo said,
adding that the Polish
woman ordered it wherever
they went.
Aside from visiting
local churches, the rest
of Boruta's visit held a
p acked s c h e d u le that
included visits to the
SAGE Center, Pendleton
Underground, Tamastslikt
Cultural Institute, Valby
Lutheran Church, and visits
at Willow Creek Terrace
and the St. Patrick’s senior
meal site. Demayo said the
area seemed to make a good
impression on Boruta.
“ It impressed me, at
the end of her visit, she
said, ‘I can see you are a
people of faith and family.’
That’s how she saw us,”
said DeMayo. “1 took her
around town and showed
her all the churches, and
she was amazed at all the
diversity of churches in a
small town. She sees that
that is very important to
us.”
“ I am very happy
that 1 could come here.
I appreciate very much
that I was invited. I ’m
happy that I could meet
you people, that we can
share our experiences, some
information, and go into
relationships, and share our
faith,” Boruta said. “That's
very important.”
Irrigon Watermelon
Festival this week
The City of Irrigon will
hold its annual Watermelon
Festival this Saturday. July
26. Several events are
planned to take place all
day long beginning at 6:30
a.m.; funds raised in this
community event go to
benefit various areas across
the community of Irrigon,
including graduating
scholarships, Cooley Sports
Complex, the senior center,
food baskets program, flags
for events, and more.
For more information,
contact Renee Couchman
at 541-922-1560 or Aaron
Palmquist, City Manager, at
manager@ci.irrigon.or.us.
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