Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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Mustang baseball splits season Mustang golf teams place
second at Echo Hills
opener
The Mustang baseball
team split a double-header
with Joseph/Enterprise last
Thursday, winning the first
game of the afternoon 8-7
but then facing a 4-8 loss
to the Eagles in the day’s
second game.
The Mustang baseball
team will host the Union/
Cove Bobcats on March 31.
Mustang softball start-
ed the season slowly with a
4-15 loss to Echo/Stanfield
on March 16. The girls’ next
contest is a double-header
at the Heppner Tournament
this Wednesday, March 25,
beginning at noon.
Thursday’s baseball
stats are as follows:
HEPPNER 8, JOSEPH 7
Game 1 R H E
JHS 120 300 1 — 7 7 3
HHS 100 060 1 — 8 5 3
J. Exon, C. Stone (6) and D.
McQued. Pat Collins,
Cade Arbogast (5) and
Weston Putman. W —
Arbogast. L — Stone.
Mustang golf teams
started the season on the
right foot by placing at
Echo Hills on March 20.
Heppner boys took sec-
ond in the tournament with
a total team score of 380 on
the par-72 course, just be-
hind first-place Hermiston
(366). Wallowa took third
soundly defeating third-
place Pendleton (531).
Individually, Sophie
Grant placed third with 85
and Amanda Rea took fifth
with 98. Other individual
team scores were Paige
Grieb (99), Emily Rea (115)
and Riane Dompier (195).
‘Welcome to the Jungle’ spring
dance scheduled for HES
Mustang Patrick Collins readies himself for the tag at second
base. -Photo by Sandra Putman
JOSEPH 8, HEPPNER 4
and D. McQued, R.
Game 2 R H E
Hayward (6). CJ Kin-
JHS 000 710 0 — 8 6 2
dle, Cade Arbogast (4)
HHS 002 011 0 — 4 10 5
and Weston Putman.
S. Beckman, T. Olson (5) 2B — Putman (HHS).
Heppner Elementary
School Parent-Teacher
Club is once again putting
on a spring dance for HES
students in kindergarten
through sixth grade.
Students have been
learning jungle-themed
dances in P.E. to coincide
with the “Welcome to the
Jungle” theme for this
year’s dance, planned for
Thursday, April 2, from 7-9
Bullying prevention town halls planned for
Morrow County
Morrow County Lo-
cal Community Advisory
Council, Ione School Dis-
trict and Morrow County
School District are present-
ing several opportunities
for local parents to hear
Stan Davis present on “Pre-
venting Bullying, Prevent-
ing Harm.”
Town halls on the topic
are planned March 30 at
Riverside High School,
March 31 at Irrigon High
with 403.
Heppner individual
scores were Logan Grieb,
89; Jesse Corbin, 93;
John Propheter, 97; Ross
Cutsforth, 101; and Brian
Rill, 107.
Heppner girls also took
second at 397, losing out
to Hermiston (356) but
School, April 1 at Ione
Community School and
April 2 at Heppner High
School. All presentations
will take place from 6-7:30
p.m.
Davis co-leads the
Youth Voice Research Proj-
ect, which has collected
information from more than
13,000 young people in the
U.S. about what works and
what doesn’t work in bully-
ing prevention.
He has worked with
young people and families
for more than 40 years
as a therapist and school
counselor, is the author of
two books on the subject,
and his work has been fea-
tured in newspapers and
on radio and TV, including
a segment of the television
newsmagazine “20/20”
with John Stossel.
Davis’s talk will ad-
dress ways that parents can
raise strong, kind youth
and how schools can build
positive behavior norms, re-
spond to a reported incident
of peer mistreatment, best
support mistreated youth,
and help mistreating youth
change their behavior.
For more information
on Stan Davis and his work,
visit http://www.stopbul-
lyingnow.com/.
Pet supply donations Bake sale planned for
European music trip
needed
Ione fifth-grade students in Diana McElligott’s class
are doing a community service project to help the Oregon
Humane Society. They have placed boxes in businesses
around Ione, Lexington and Heppner to gather pet food,
toys, collars, leashes and beds for animals in shelters. Any
donations would be greatly appreciated.
A bake sale will be held
at Heppner Family Foods
March 27 from 8-10 a.m.
for Skylar Hawks.
Skylar received the
honor of being one of 300
p.m. in the HES gym.
Desert Sounds Mobile
D.J. has been hired to spin
tunes again this year.
The dance is free to all
HES students and families.
Cookies and drinks will be
provided for snacks.
Raffle tickets will be
available for purchase for a
chance to win prize baskets.
The baskets, provided
through the support of lo-
cal businesses, parents and
retired teachers, include a
camping-themed basket,
beach-themed basket, fam-
ily game night, and a “Beats
by Dre” basket, and much,
much more.
Students must be ac-
companied by a parent or
guardian, who must remain
as long as the student is
there.
Folk singer provides
education, entertainment
Heppner students were entertained by folksinger Adam
Miller on March 19. Miller delighted students with songs and
stories that included Over the Rainbow, The Frog Song, Jack
Tales and This Land is Your Land, accompanying himself on
guitar and autoharp. Miller explained to the students that
he learned the songs and stories by using the oral traditions
method, which is from someone’s mouth to another person’s
ear through many generations. This assembly was sponsored
by the Morrow County Grain Growers Fueling the Future
Program. –Contributed photo
nominees picked out of
6,000 to attend a European
music program July 3–18
of this year. The group will
be performing in England,
France, Germany, Swit-
zerland, Italy, Austria and
Lichtenstein. The students
will work with the director
of Lewis and Clark College
in Portland.
Skylar also has an ac-
count set up at the Bank of
Eastern Oregon and dona-
tions can be made directly
to his account. Anyone
The Boardman City Council has moved its regularly
who would like to bake
something for the bake sale scheduled Tuesday, April 21, meeting to Tuesday, April
or who has any questions, 28.
The city council meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in
contact Shelli Britt at 541-
Boardman City Hall Council Chambers.
676-5478.
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