Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Ione track and field makes
good showing at state
Ione juniors (L-R) Jessie Flynn, Jorge Aguilar and Rachel
Holland at the state championship meet. -Photo by Paula Em-
mel
By Paula Emmel
Three Ione athletes at-
tended the 1A state track
and field meet in Eugene
this past week.
Ione junior Jorge Agui-
lar competed in shot put
finals on Thursday. He
placed eighth with a put of
39’2.25”. As the only men’s
competitor from Ione, he
earned one team point and
placed, as a team, in a tie
for 36 th of 36 scoring teams.
Junior Rachel Holland
competed in javelin, throw-
ing 96’9” on Thursday and
placing 11 th in finals. She
also ran the 400M prelimi-
naries and ran a personal
record (PR) of 1:05.95a,
placing 10 th .
Junior Jessie Flynn
rounded out Ione’s team at
state; she competed in long
jump finals on Thursday
and placed fourth with a
jump of 15’4”, earning five
team points. After her first
jump in long jump she went
to run the 100M preliminar-
ies. She qualified for the
finals, seeded second, in the
100M with a time of 13.16a
placing first in heat 1 of 2.
Next she ran the 100M
hurdles, placing easily in
first with a new personal
record of 16.33a in heat
2. The PR time was more
than a second faster than
her previous PR. After her
fantastic finish in the 100M
hurdles, she ran the 300M
hurdles about an hour and
a half later in the evening.
She gained another person-
al record of 48.16a, placing
first in heat 2 prelims. Her
new PR was just under a
full second improvement,
qualifying for finals in both
hurdle races on Friday.
Friday during 100M
finals, the top three finishers
were only five hundredths
of a second apart from
first to third place, with
the fourth position only
three hundredths behind
them. Relying on a photo
finish, OSAA officials de-
termined the placing. Flynn
placed third, earning six
team points.
She was running a per-
fect 100M hurdle finals
race, in first place, when her
toe got caught on the ninth
hurdle, placing her steps
off for the 10 th hurdle. She
fell on the 10 th and rolled
toward the finish line, got
up and finished in eighth
place. She had been on a
16:30ish finish pace but
ended, after the fall, with
18.51a. Jessie earned one
more team point.
About an hour and a
half after her fall, she ran a
48.76a placing third over-
all in the 300M hurdles
and earning six more team
points.
Flynn earned all the
Ione women’s 18 points,
placing the team in a tie
for 15 th place of 39 scoring
teams.
Ione FFA celebrates with first
annual banquet
Submitted by Chapter Re-
porter Austin Carter.
The Ione FFA chapter
had its first annual banquet
last week and the event was
hailed a success.
Nine students earned
their chapter degree. Distin-
guished Service and Honor-
ary degrees were presented,
member awards were re-
ceived, and new officers
were elected.
Congratulations go out
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Courses to be held June 16th, 18th, 23rd and 25th
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at
Heppner High School
With a field day Saturday June 20th
at Lexington Gun Club 8am -12 noon
Any person under 18 who wishes to hunt must
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out of state must also hold a valid Hunter Education
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To register for the class go to
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and follow registration instructions.
The fee for the course is $10 and is set by ODFW
to Distinguished Service
recipients Morrow County
Wheat Growers, Eric and
Brandi Orem and the Ione
Education Foundation, and
also to Honorary Degree re-
cipients Loyal Burns, Sarah
Crane, Brent Martin, Brian
Rust and Bill Jepsen.
The 2015-16 officer
team is President, Mor-
gan Orem; Vice President,
Tarynn Angel; Secretary,
Katie Gilbert; Treasurer,
Emily Taylor; Reporter,
Austin Carter; and Sentinel,
Danny Doherty.
The next FFA meeting
is June 2 at 4 p.m. in the Ag
room; dinner will be served.
HONOR FLIGHT
full emotion of the memo-
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was interviewed for Bend
television.
“He watched them raise
the flag at Iwo Jima. I was
glad that he got that recog-
nition,” recalled McCabe.
“I saw on TV today that
one in three Marines was
killed. When we were there,
George told my son, John,
‘I didn’t get a scratch, and I
don’t know why I didn’t.’”
Griffith said seeing the
famous monument was cer-
tainly a the trip’s highlight
for him.
“When we were on the
island, the picture that the
memorial was made of was
taken about four hours after
George Griffith
the first flag,” he recalled.
“When they raised the first
flag I just happened to be
looking at the top of the
mountain with a pair of field
glasses. I saw this group of
men up there and wondered
why they were exposing
themselves like that...when
I turned around, that flag
was up there.
“That flag’s pretty im-
portant to me,” he finished.
As a member of the
military police, Griffith
said he was one of the last
to leave the island.
Also in the jam-packed
tour were the Navy Me-
morial, the Air Force Me-
morial and the Women in
War memorial, where they
were greeted by Steve El-
lis of Baker City, whose
daughter, Army Cpl. Jes-
sica A. Ellis, was killed
while serving as a medic
in Iraq. Matthews said the
memorial was supposed
to be closed that day, but a
general opened it specifi-
cally for the group to meet
with Ellis.
One of the last stops in
D.C. was the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier. Mat-
thews said the weather for
their trip had been perfect
throughout, but their group
leader told them he was
“praying for rain” for that
stop, so everyone in the
group could experience the
Magnetic
Door Signs!
rial. Whether or not the
group members appreciated
the answer to that prayer,
it certainly made the stop
memorable.
“Just as we were get-
ting there, there was a big
boom like a cannon went
off. I thought, ‘Maybe that’s
part of the ceremony,’ but
it wasn’t,” said Lloyd Mc-
Nary. “It started to rain and
we got two or three more
big booms and then it rained
buckets on us. That poor
guard that marched back
and forth, he never hesi-
tated. I never saw it rain so
hard in my life.”
“When we were get-
ting on the plane to come
on, I saw a lot of people
had plastic sacks; I’m sure
they had their wet clothes in
them,” McNary added with
a chuckle.
Though the visits to the
capital’s memorials were
emotional, almost over-
whelming at times, group
members said they were
floored by the reception
they received everywhere
they went.
“Everywhere we went,
people would start applaud-
ing the vets and saluting
them. Wherever we went,
it was like the parting of
the sea; they would see
us coming and send the
veterans to the front of the
line. We never had to wait,”
said Matthews. “Little kids
would come up and shake
their hands and salute them
and thank them for their
service.”
“I never thought I’d
be so emotional. I can’t
believe the emotion I went
through all four days,” said
McCabe.
Though the schedule
was grueling for the vets,
participants said Honor
Flight volunteers and
guardians did everything
they could to make travel
easier.
“There were a lot of
leaders from down there in
Bend, and they were really
nice, helped you on and
off the bus and things. Our
leader, Darla, was really
great,” said McCabe. “My
son, John, he really did a
good job of taking care of
me and pushing me around
in the wheelchair. He just
did everything he could to
help them, too.”
“The food was very
good and the flights were
good. We had to get up at
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three o’clock in the morn-
ing and that wasn’t much
fun. But I really enjoyed the
whole thing,” said Tatone.
“It was kind of tiring
but it was a lot of fun,”
added McNary.
While the trip to D.C.
was the core of the experi-
ence, the honors the vet-
erans received didn’t end
with the return flight. They
received a heroes’ welcome
at PDX when they returned
to Portland May 17.
“It took us an hour
to get through the airport
when we got back to Port-
land. There were people
there to welcome us, Viet-
nam vets standing along
the way. The whole airport
was full of people,” recalled
Matthews.
Mary Jean McCabe, Er-
nie McCabe’s wife, didn’t
go on the trip because of
physical stipulations for
guardians, but was on the
concourse in Portland to
greet her husband when he
returned.
“When the vets came
off the plane and saw that
all the applause and cheer-
ing was for them…” she
recalled. “People in all the
shops at the airport, just
the general public, man the
cheering and the applause
started all the way down
the airport.”
The experience
wrapped up with a “mail
call” in Portland, with let-
ters of appreciation handed
to each veteran and the pre-
sentation of a personalized
quilt made for each vet-
eran and registered with the
Quilts of Valor Foundation.
“Man, we were treated
well. It’s an amazing trip,”
said Matthews, adding that
it was also a bonding expe-
rience for the veterans who
made the trip. “The 48 vet-
erans arrived as strangers
but parted as friends.”
According to HFN,
time is of the essence for
our World War II veterans.
Most of the veterans on
the tour were between 88
and 95 years old, with the
average age of World War
II veterans being in their
late 80s; we have already
lost 90 percent of World
War II veterans, and close
to a thousand die each day.
Visit http://honorfligh-
tofeasternoregon.org/ for
more information on the
program, or visit them on
Facebook at “Bend Heroes
Foundation.”
Ione staff honored at Crystal
Apple Awards
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Ione School District had two staff members honored at the 2015
Crystal Apple Awards Wednesday in Pendleton. Top is Brandi
Orem with her family, including kids Matt, Morgan, Madi and
Mason, husband Eric Orem, and parents Bonnie and Bob Ball.
Bottom is John Bristow with his wife, Linda. –Contributed photo