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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Heppner AR prize winners announced Pictured left to right, Mason Alleman and Sophie Rodriguez were Heppner Elementary’s AR (Accelerated Reading) prize winners for November and December. Each month, students read a rainforest-themed book. If they pass the AR test, they are entered into the prize drawing. Not pictured: Winner Jen- nie Adams. –Contributed photo FLYING BOOTS A teen winds up for the toss during the 2014 Welly Toss. -File photo -Continued from PAGE ONE and is open for all par- will work with schedules. Team registration forms are available at the Heppner Chamber of Commerce Office. They are due to the chamber office by Thurs- day, March 12, or teams can bring forms with them and turn them in at the registra- tion desk. A $20 registration fee will be charged for team play. The fees collected fund the prizes and supplies for the event. Individual play is free ticipants from 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Age brackets are available for kids (2- 12), teens (13-17), and adults 18 and over, for both men and women. All kids will receive a gold coin for playing; there will be a prize for the male and female adult winners and teen winner. The top teams will receive a prize, and the first-place team will have its name engraved on the “Traveling Boot Award.” Scholarship board elects officers At the annual meeting of South Morrow County Scholarship Inc., Bill Riet- mann of Ione was elected President; Ginger Bow- man, Vice President; Del LaRue, Treasurer; and Sha- ron Harrison, Secretary. Board members serving are Martha Munkers, Brandi Sweeney and Carri Grieb. The South Morrow County Scholarship Trust was established several years ago to provide funds to grant scholarships to graduating seniors from Heppner and Ione high schools and to take the place of the Troedson Scholarship fund, which will be discon- tinued in the year 2023. Application for this year’s scholarships will be available in the form of computer disk at Heppner High School and Ione High School starting in March. Marriage Licenses The Morrow County Clerk’s office has released the following report of marriage licenses: January 29, 2015: -Norma Angelica Acosta Chavez, 27, of Boardman and Benjamin De La Cruz Perez, 34, of Boardman. The Day the War Came Home A family remembrance by Rev. Keith Brudevold Editor’s Note: Rev. Keith Brudevold served as pastor of the Heppner United Methodist Church from 2002 to 2008, and now resides in Salem, OR. The day was February had come in that an en- er. The stranger, in broken 3, 1943. My father and emy U-boat had torpedoed English and with much in- mother were living in New a troop freighter off the terpretation from the church Jersey, just across the river southern coast of Green- member, explained that her from New York City. Every land. These were the same close relative, Hans Jorgen day they could watch the waters that had claimed Danielson, was the Ship’s ships heading out into the the Titanic some 40 years Master of the Dorchester. Atlantic, passing the Statue before. The ship was iden- In the Merchant Marine of Liberty as they carried tified as the USAT (U.S. Service, the Ship’s Master their cargoes of soldiers and Army Transport) Dorches- is what we would refer to supplies to the European ter, which had sailed from as the Captain of the Ship. Theatre of World War II. New York in January. “Would it be possible,” My father, Bennett, had When the casualties she asked, “if we could become a Methodist pastor, were finally reported, there have something of a reli- but when the war broke out were 133 passengers and gious service for Master he had volunteered to be crew who were pulled alive Danielson?” a chaplain. He was turned from the icy waters, and 675 The date for the service down, because without his who had perished. Later was set, and the ladies of the glasses on, he was con- reports from the survivors church made many plates sidered legally blind. His told how the ship had gone of sandwiches. My father, mother, Agnes Brudevold, down in only 20 minutes. In hardly out of seminary, my grandmother, had told the panic on deck many of prepared a message. And me once that even as a tiny the soldiers could not find a community and many boy, the first thing Ben- their lifejackets. The story dignitaries came together to nett had to put on when he was being told of how four mourn their common loss. climbed out of bed in the chaplains on board—a Jew- And every year in February, morning was his glasses. ish Rabbi, a Catholic Priest, throughout his long minis- So Dad stayed with his A Methodist Pastor, and try as a United Methodist little Danish-Norwegian a First Reformed Church Pastor, my father would tell Methodist congregation Pastor—had taken off their his congregation the story in New Jersey. He joined lifejackets and given them of the four chaplains. the Civil Air Patrol as a to others, and had stood In 1961 the U.S. Con- chaplain, and also served arm-in-arm singing hymns gress officially declared as a civil defense volunteer, as the waters rose about February 3 as Four Chap- patrolling the streets during them. lains Observance Day. And the mandatory night black- This was tragedy as for my father, the Rev. Ben- outs to ensure safety from close and as personal as it nett G. Brudevold, it was al- the threat of aerial bomb- could get for America. ways the day when the War ing. The war was very real, Within a few days there had come to his doorstep. but sometimes it seemed so was a knock on the parson- In truth, he had become the very far away. age door, and my father chaplain that his restricted The news from the war greeted a church member, vision had once prevented was pretty bleak on that who had with him a strang- him from being. February 3. Early reports REMEMBRANCE WALK -Continued from PAGE ONE Remembrance Walk/5K Heppner Family Foods, the dual benefit of helping detect the possibility of a gas explosion, as well as de- termining if it’s safe to enter the vicinity of a smoldering fire without an air pack. Estes said the South Morrow EMT Associa- tion, which covers Hep- pner, Lexington and Ione, is considering an automatic blood pressure machine for one of the area ambulances. That and other planned pur- chases, though, will depend on funds received. Regardless of the amount, Estes said the orga- nizations appreciate Friends Helping Friends thinking of them. “Of course we’re al- ways grateful for the dona- tions,” said Estes. “That’s what makes it possible to get this extra life-saving equipment.” The seventh annual Run will take place March 14 during the St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The event will begin with a social hour and registration at 8:30 a.m. with the walk/run starting at 9:30 a.m. The walk/run will pro- ceed following a route of handmade green sham- rocks. Each shamrock sports a pink heart with the name, and sometimes a photo, of a remembered loved-one. Donation is $5 per name. Due to limited supplies, Feb. 27 will be the last day to order shamrocks. Pre-registration for the walk/run is encouraged. As an added incentive, committee members have announced that door prizes will be given to the 25 th , 50 th and 75 th pre-registered participants. Door prize sponsors include Murray’s Drug, Howe’s About Pizza, Devin Oil and Lexington Sinclair Dino Mart. Friends Helping Friends is again asking for a $5 donation per walker or runner. Children accompanied by adults are free. Everyone is encour- aged to wear green or pink. For more information on the walk or shamrocks, contact Susan Hisler at 541- 676-5878 or Kathi Dicken- son at Kathidickenson@ hotmail.com. For questions on the run, contact Janelle Ellis at 541-676-5240 or origan- elle@hotmail.com. Donations can be mailed to Friends Helping Friends, c/o Kathi Dicken- son, PO Box 566, Heppner, OR 97836. Those wishing to have a personalized shamrock can also mail their photo and honoree to Dickenson at the same address. Class of 2019 dodge-ball tournament next week The Class of 2019 would like to remind ev- eryone of the eighth-grade dodge ball tournament planned for Thursday, Feb. 12, at 5:30 p.m. at Heppner High School. The event is a fund- raiser for the eighth-grade class but the tournament is open to all ages. Teams will be com- prised of eight members at a cost of $40 per team. Contact Mr. Palmer or Mrs. Dickenson for further information at 541-676- 9138 or by email at eliza- beth.dickenson@morrow. k12.ur.us or palmer@mor- row.k12.ur.us. Community lunch menu Hope and Valby Lu- theran and All Saints Epis- copal church members will serve lunch on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at St. Patrick’s Se- nior Center. The meal will include meat loaf, scalloped potatoes, orange-kissed beets, cucumbers and on- ions, and hot rolls, with chocolate lasagna for des- sert. Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. Chamber lunch meeting The next lunch meeting of the Heppner Chamber of Commerce will be an all entities report this Thurs- day, Feb. 5, at noon in the Heppner City Hall confer- ence room. Cost of lunch is $10; Sweet Productions will cater. Thursday, Feb. 19, the chamber lunch will be host- ed by Willow Creek Valley Economic Development Group (WCVEDG) for the organization’s annual meeting. The meeting will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the St. Patrick’s Senior Center dining room and will be catered by Cor- nerstone Gallery. Chamber lunch attend- ees are asked to RSVP at 541-676-5536 no later than the Wednesday before to guarantee a lunch. Benefit screening of ‘Dryland’ to help local FFA programs The public is invited to a benefit screening of the film “Dryland” at the SAGE Center in Boardman Sunday, Feb. 22, at 2 p.m. Entrance fee is $15, The meeting of the Morrow SWCD originally which includes the movie scheduled for Feb. 3 has been re-scheduled to Tuesday, and dessert, with proceeds Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. at the Ag Service Center conference to benefit the FFA programs room. The agenda remains the same. SWCD meeting rescheduled of Morrow County. The screening is spon- sored by the Bank of East- ern Oregon and Morrow County Grain Growers. The film, produced by Hare in the Gate Produc- tions, recounts a tale of “A small town in the American T West (that) struggles for survival, fueled by ingenu- ity, heart, and axle grease.” The film has been fea- tured at numerous film fes- tivals from the Puget Sound to Ohio, and received the “Best Documentary Feature by a Northwest Filmmaker” award at the Eugene Inter- national Film Convention. More information on the film is available at www.drylandmovie.net or on Facebook and Twitter at “drylandmovie.” HEPPNER LES SCHWAB CONGRATULATES THE LADY MUSTANGS AND WISHES THEM GOOD LUCK ON THE REST OF THEIR SEASON! Front row: (l-r) Kacie Gray, Rylee Kollman, Kaelyn Lindsay, Macy Gibbs, Morgan Correa, Riane Dompier, Jessica Kempken, Maddie Lindsay, Sophie Grant, Kelly Wilson, Caitlynn Bailey, Paige Grieb, Rian Wizner Back row: (l-r) Head Coach Missy Lindsay, Luke Swanson, Slater Mitchell, Mike Ehrsam, Anna Wedding 124 N. MAIN STREET, HEPPNER OR 541- 676-9481