SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Mustang wrestling crowns two district
champs
Cardinal season ends
at district tournament
Smith, Propheter head to state; Flynn places third in districts
Cord Flynn of Ione (above) narrowly missed going to state, but
still made a trip to the winner’s podium, placing third in his
182-pound weight class at the Special District 4 tournament
last week. –Photo by Kandy Boyd
-From PAGE ONE ons.
The Mustang wrestling
team came away from the
2A/1A Special District 4
tournament last weekend
with two district champi-
Ryan Smith of Heppner
defeated Kyran Simpson
of Burns in 79 seconds
to win the District 4 title
for the 106-pound weight
class. This win comes on
top of two other victo-
ries over Jesse Paulson of
Grant Union and Dylan
Staigle of Enterprise. All
were by pin. Smith is the
returning 1A/2A 106-pound
state champion and will be
seeded number one next
week at the OSSA 1A/2A
state championship.
“I am grateful to be
part of such a great team,
with great teammates and
coaches,” said Smith. “I
feel like today’s victory was
just another step in build-
ing Heppner’s wrestling
program.”
Also going to state next
week is John Propheter of
Heppner, who won the 2015
Special District 4 title in the
285-pound weight class.
Propheter is a senior at Hep-
pner High School.
Rounding out the Mus-
tang wrestlers making a trip
to the podium was Cord
Flynn of Ione, who placed
third in his class at the dis-
trict championship. Flynn is
a sophomore at Ione High
School.
Special District 4 is
comprised of teams from
Adrian, Elgin, Joseph, Ir-
rigon, Wallowa, Burns,
Enterprise, Heppner-Ione,
Pine Eagle, Crane, Grant
Union, Imbler and Union-
Cove.
Ione Legion Hall seeks
Peterson
community aid for improvements honored for
The Ione Legion Post
#95 and Legion Auxiliary
Unit #95 are asking for aid
from community members
to improve an Ione institu-
tion.
That institution is the
Ione Legion Hall. The
Legion Hall is the only
Ione building, aside from
perhaps the school, large
enough to house many of
the community’s celebra-
tions and get-togethers.
However, the Legion
Auxiliary has determined
that the hall needs some
sound abatement to become
an even better venue for lo-
cal events.
With that in mind, the
Auxiliary is pursuing a
three-fold process. First,
they carpeted the stage to
help absorb sound. The
second step was to order
enough sound boards to
cover the walls and part of
the ceiling. The third stage
is to hire a contractor to
install the sound boards in
the hall.
The first and second
stages of the project are
complete, with new stage
carpet installed by Tim
Hedman and sound boards
purchased and awaiting
installation.
The cost of the im-
provements has been high,
say Legion and Auxiliary
members.
They say they have al-
ready spent approximately
$9,000, about $3,500 of
The Lexington Grange
Celebrates the birthday
of Dr. Seuss and
Read Across America Day
March 1st at 1:30 pm
Come to a read-aloud and then
watch the movie Horton Hears a
who. The entry fee is a new book
or $1.00. can bring pillows and
blankets to lie on the floor.
Popcorn and drinks will
be available. The Lexington
Grange is located at:
66296 Marquardt Rd
Lexington, OR 97839
which was contributed by
anonymous donors. While
they are in the process of
obtaining bids from con-
tractors to attach the boards,
that stage of the process
will most likely cost around
$8,000.
“Our treasury is de-
pleted and we need your
help to finish and make the
Hall a more enjoyable place
to have gatherings,” Legion
and Auxiliary members
wrote in a letter of appeal.
Donations may be sent
to Maureen McElligott,
secretary-treasurer of the
Legion Auxiliary, Box 5,
Ione, OR 97843.
community
spirit
Lewis & Clark to
appear at Ione school
March 5
Ione senior Oskar Peterson
has been named a Local Hon-
oree in the 2015 Prudential
Spirit of Community Awards
due to his volunteer work. –
Contributed photo
Become a hero; give
blood during Red Cross
Month
During Red Cross
Month in March, the Amer-
ican Red Cross reminds
eligible blood donors that
it doesn’t take a cape or su-
perpowers to be a hero. By
donating blood, donors can
become heroes for patients
in need.
Red Cross Month is
dedicated to the everyday
heroes who support the
Red Cross mission. The
need for blood is constant.
The Red Cross depends on
Ione junior Jessie Flynn (#10) fights her way through the
Knights’ press and toward the basket during the district
game versus the Condon-Wheeler Knights. Both Ione’s girls’
and boys’ basketball teams made it into the Big Sky District
Tournament, but their seasons ended there. The girls won last
Wednesday’s game against Arlington by 42-32 but suffered
twin losses over the weekend to Condon-Wheeler (26-59) and
Dufur (34-39). They ended the season 6-8 league and 7-17
overall. The boys lost last Tuesday’s game against Dufur 36-77,
giving them a season record of 4-18 overall and 3-11 league.
–Photos by Sandra Putman
blood donor heroes in com-
munities across the nation
to collect enough blood to
meet the needs of patients
at approximately 2,600
hospitals nationwide, more
than 60 of which are in the
local Red Cross Pacific
Northwest Blood Services
Region. Donors with all
blood types are needed, par-
ticularly those with types O
negative, A negative and B
negative.
An opportunity to do-
A community program
featuring the daring explor-
ers Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark will be pre-
sented at the Ione Commu-
nity School on Thursday,
March 5, at 2:30 p.m.
The program is present-
ed by Traveling Lantern,
a Portland-based theatre
troupe offering a regional
tour in collaboration with
Libraries of Eastern Oregon
(LEO).
Performances of “Lew-
is & Clark: Two Brave
Friends Begin the Perilous
Journey of the Corps of
Discovery” are free. The
public is invited.
Attendees will expe-
rience the excitement of
Lewis & Clark as they scout
and map the unknown beau-
ty of our newly-expanding
nation.
The 50-minute pre-
sentation will feature how
the explorers met Native
Americans, canoed down
mighty rivers, and became
the first to see the grandeur
of the Northwest as they
followed the sunset to the
ocean and carved out the
Oregon Trail.
The program is spon-
sored by the Ione Public
Library.
For more information,
contact Mary or Kristy at
the Ione Public Library,
541-561-9828 or leolibrar-
ies@gmail.com.
nate is coming up March 3
from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
at Riverside High School,
210 NE Boardman Ave. in
Boardman.
To learn more about do-
nating blood and to schedule
an appointment, download
the Red Cross Donor App,
visit redcrossblood.org or
call 1-800-RED CROSS
1-800-733-2767.