TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
U.S.P.S. 240-420
Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
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David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
Andrea Di Salvo ............................................................................................ Editor
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Local reception
planned for newlyweds
A local reception for newlyweds Trevir and Mindy
(Wenberg) Faley is planned for Sunday, May 3, from
3-5 p.m. at Heppner City Park. Rain location will be in
the Heppner Seventh-day Adventist Church gymnasium.
Friends and relatives are invited to the casual meet-and-
greet event; light refreshments will be served.
The couple is registered at REI; Bed, Bath and Be-
yond; Macy’s; and Williams-Sonoma.
Kinzua Lunch Group
The Kinzua Lunch Group met April 17 at Service
Creek. Those attending were John and Midge Geer, Rol-
lene Allen, Marilyn Garcia, Fossil; Charm Bogle, Prinev-
ille; Windy Liptak, Condon; James Craig, Stanfield; Dixie
and Bruce Holomon, Hermiston; Pete and Jackie Hester,
Redmond; and OL Adams and Bob Kilkenny, Heppner.
Group members said they really enjoyed the visit,
great food and the sunshine. The next lunch will be May
15 at 11:30 a.m. There will not be a lunch in June, as the
annual Kinzua Reunion will be in Fossil June 20.
Area residents invited
to Hermiston prayer
event
Residents from area counties are invited to the greater
Hermiston area National Day of Prayer event on May 7
from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Hermiston High School gym.
Community lunch menu
Amazing Grace Fellowship members will serve lunch
on Wednesday, April 29, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center.
The meal will include scrambled eggs and ham, bacon
or sausage; hash browns; sliced tomatoes; Waldorf salad;
biscuits and gravy; and spiced pears.
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 on Thursday, May
7, at noon in Heppner City Hall conference room.
Cost of lunch is $10; Howe’s About Pizza will cater.
Chamber lunch attendees are asked to RSVP at 541-
676-5536 no later than the Tuesday before to guarantee
a lunch.
Why I Pray In Tongues
Well, I don't make it a practice to pray in tongues in
public. "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue
speaketh not unto men, but unto God." (I Corin-
thians 14:2) But in my private prayers, I often pray
in tongues. In Romans 8:26 it says, "Likewise the
Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought." Many times I
don't know what the will of God is and I don't know
what the proper solution would be. On those occa-
sions I pray according to the instructions given in I
Corinthians 14:15 and pray in English what I know,
and let the Spirit (tongues, according to verse 14)
pray through me on a level that surpasses my intel-
lect. Sometimes, when I am in private, I worship in
tongues because I don't have the vocabulary to give
adequate expression to the adoration that wells up
in my heart. I want to enter into a spiritual realm
that supersedes my intellectual abilities and give full
vent to my feelings.
Hey, if you find that your prayer life is hindered by
the inability to fully give expression to the burden of
your heart, I heartily recommend praying and wor-
shiping in tongues.
HOSPICE VOLUNTEER
RETIRES
-Continued from PAGE ONE teer staff chaplain for three
came a full-time chaplain
at the Hospice of the Florida
Suncoast (now Suncoast
Hospice) in Clearwater,
FL. While on a home vis-
iting team, through daily
contact, she says she came
to value hospice care even
more as a medical choice
for everyone from babies
up to 100-year-olds.
In 1998, Willey took
early retirement in order
to move to Heppner to be
with her ailing mother,
Lynn Bibby. Eventually,
they entered the Pioneer
Memorial Home Health
program, where Willey says
they received care and sup-
port through her mother’s
peaceful home death. No
local hospice existed at the
time. However, Willey said
the home health staff gave
“personal, caring, loving,
expert care” to both her and
her mother.
In fact, she says, the
entire community was wel-
coming.
“I’ve been very blessed
by the people in this com-
munity,” she says. “They’ve
been very welcoming to me
as to my mother.”
In 2002, the local health
care provided by home
health expanded to include
hospice, becoming Pioneer
Memorial Home Health
and Hospice. Willey says
Molly Rhea and Robinai
Disque “reeled” her in to
help organize in the areas
of volunteers, chaplain and
counselor. However, Rhea,
now director of nursing at
Pioneer Memorial Hospi-
tal, says Willey was “in-
strumental” in the hospice
start-up.
“She offered to help us
with the leg work, including
meeting the requirement of
having hospice-trained vol-
unteers available through-
out our service area of Mor-
row and Gilliam counties,”
says Rhea.
For her efforts, Willey
was awarded Volunteer of
the Year in 2003 by the
Oregon Association for
Home Care, presented at
Otter Crest.
After the hospice ac-
creditation was complete,
Willey served as a volun-
years, including two years
as a counselor and one year
as volunteer coordinator.
After that time, employed
staff filled the roles of chap-
lain and counselor; Cyde
Estes, as a trained volun-
teer, became volunteer co-
ordinator. Willey continued
to work with Estes as a
volunteer until her recent
retirement.
Willey says she is step-
ping down from her posi-
tion as volunteer because,
quite simply, it’s time.
“I have come to the
place that I feel it’s time for
me to step aside,” she says.
She also says that,
while she’s retiring from
several other things, she
isn’t retiring from life; she
will continue to be active in
the community and to reach
out when she sees a need.
“I’m doing what I still
feel called to do but in a dif-
ferent way,” she says.
At the same time, Wil-
ley says it’s time for more
freedom and less structure.
“To just have a few
years to do nothing,” she
says. “Just letting it unfold,
being grateful for the bless-
ings I have in this wonder-
ful, God-created world.”
At the same time, she
says she considers hospice
care an important medical
option and urges others to
learn more about the local
hospice program so they
can discover the same value
she did.
“Whether listening to
a client or a caregiver or
a family member’s hopes,
fears, joys, life stories;
holding a hand; laughing
together; sharing prayers,
blessings, communion; go-
ing on a drive; doing er-
rands; conducting the cli-
ent/family planned funeral
or memorial; consoling a
companion pet; or follow-
ing the family during the
year of bereavement—all
these and more enriched
my life because the client
and the hospice team taught
me how to live, laugh, for-
give and love in a deeper,
more inclusive way every
day of my life until my last
breath.”
The View from the Green
Over the Tee Cup
It was a cold and windy
Tuesday morning on April
14 when 13 women turned
out for their play day at Wil-
low Creek Country Club.
Low Gross of the field
went to Karen Thompson
(44), low net to Betty Burns
(27) and least putts to Corol
Mitchell (13).
For flight A, low gross
went to Pat Edmundson and
low net to Eva Kilkenny.
For flight B, low gross
was a tie between Sarah
Rucker and Emily Thomp-
son.
On flight C, low gross
was a tie between Lor-
rene Montgomery and pat
Dougherty. Low net went
to Jackie Allstott, and Judy
Harris had least putts.
Long putt went to Sarah
Rucker and Karen Thomp-
son. Corol Mitchell had KP.
WCCC Sunday men’s
play
Men’s play on Sun-
day, April 19, had another
hole-in-one, shot by Mike
Doherty during this week’s
par-three challenge, playing
from the number 9 tee to
number 4 green. Twenty-
five men played in this
week’s event.
Results are as follows:
Gross—1 st (tie), Ron
Bowman/Derek Gunder-
son, 64; 3 rd , Duane Disque,
66.
Net—1 st , Mike Doherty,
48; 2 nd , Roger Mortimore,
52; 3 rd (tie), Delbert Bin-
schus/Dave Gunderson, 54.
Special Events—KP
5/16, Duane Disque, 5’2”;
KP 9/18, Rick Britt, 4’5”.
Next Sunday is the
annual Mustang Scram-
ble. This is a three-player
scramble open to the first 27
teams. Contact Greg Grant
or Matt Scrivner for more
information.
The next regularly-
scheduled men’s play will
be Sunday, May 3. Charlie
Ferguson, Larry Runyon
and Stacy Wilson are hosts.
Columbia-Blue
results for The Dalles
Thirty-five senior golf-
ers from Willow Creek
Country Club played golf
in the CBSGA Tournament
at The Dalles Country Club
(par 71) on May 13.
The weather was ex-
tremely cold and windy, but
the golfers said they had a
great time.
Results for WCCC
were as follows:
Columbia Division (Hand-
icap 0 to 17)
Gross: 4. John Boyer –
81, 9. Ron Bowman – 88.
Net: 8. Duane Disque
– 74.
Blue Division (Handicap
18 to 25)
Gross: 3. Jim Swanson
– 90, 5. Tom Shear – 92.
Net: 9. Dave Gunder-
son and Tim Hedman – 78.
Senior Division (Handi-
cap 26 and over)
Gross: 6. Steve Marlatt
– 105, 8. Bill Morris – 108,
10. Earl Fishburn – 110.
Net: 3. John Kilkenny –
72, 7. Alan Scott – 75.
The next Columbia-
Blue Senior Tournament
will be at Echo Hills Golf
Course on May 11.
Old Time Fiddlers at
Stokes Landing
Blue Mountain Old Time Fiddlers will be at Stokes
Landing Senior Center in Irrigon on April 25 starting at
6 p.m.
Admission is $5. Food will be available at 5 p.m.
County 4-H hosts urban/rural exchange
The week of April 9-13,
Three host families
the Morrow County 4-H fro m M o rro w C o u n t y
hosted participants and
chaperones this year…the
Gibbs and Wolff families of
Heppner and the Heideman
family of Ione.
The weekend was
kicked off with a meet and
greet potluck for all of the
participants to get to know
one another. The rest of the
weekend was spent attend-
ing numerous activities ex-
periencing different ways of
life across Morrow County.
One of the urban students,
Urban participants
Peter, holds a piglet during a toured the SAGE Center in
visit to an area farm during Boardman, Shepherd Flat
the 4-H exchange program.
Wind Farm, local brand-
-Contributed photo
ings, went to local schools
program participated in the with their host siblings,
4-H Urban/Rural Exchange learned about the rural way
Program.
of life first-hand with their
host families, and experi-
enced many more activi-
ties during this jam-packed
weekend.
“This was the second
year Morrow County par-
ticipated in the program,
and it turned out to be a fan-
tastic learning opportunity
for both the urban students
and the rural host families,”
said Morrow County 4-H
Agent Ashley Jones.
Anyone who has ques-
tions or is interested in
learning more about the
local 4-H program, contact
the office at 541-676-9642,
visit the web at http://ex-
tension.oregonstate.edu/
morrow/welcome-morrow-
county-4-h, or follow them
on Facebook at “Morrow
County 4-H Oregon.”
Wheat Commission to hold
special board meeting
The Oregon Wheat Commission will hold a special
board meeting on Thursday, April 30, at the Port of Mor-
row, 2 Marine Drive, Boardman, at 10 a.m. Lunch will
be provided to all attendees.
Anyone with questions should contact the Oregon
Wheat Commission office at 503-467-2161.
Commission meetings are open to the public.
Morrow County School District is creating a long term
investment plan for each of our school buildings. We
are working with a consultant to assess our buildings
from the viewpoints of both physical condition and
functionality. We have a community group in place that
is reviewing this data and generating recommenda-
tions on what to do with each of our facilities, including
whether to repair, replace, or consolidate schools. We
would also like the input of our wider community base
and to share with you the progress of these discussions.
We will be conducting three community-wide meetings
at the following locations and times:
THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH – HEPPNER COMMUNITY,
Heppner Elementary cafeteria @ 6:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, MAY 5TH – BOARDMAN COMMUNITY,
Riverside High School auditorium @ 6:30 p.m.
We welcome your input. Only together can we make
informed decisions that positively impact our students
and your children. Please attend one of these informa-
tional meetings and exchange with us your ideas.