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