FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 10, 2015
HES announces final Colt Character
winners for year
Local girls qualify for
national rodeo finals
Jacee Currin and Jaiden
Mahoney, both of Hep-
pner, have each qualified
to represent Oregon in the
National Junior High Finals
Rodeo (NJHFR) in Des
Moines, IA later this month.
Both girls are in eighth
grade at Heppner Jr./Sr.
High School. Jaiden is rep-
resenting Oregon after plac-
ing first in pole bending
and second in barrel racing,
while Jacee placed first in
goat tying and fourth in
season consists of four
regular-season rodeos and
a three-round state finals
event. The top four aver-
age winners for the year in
each event advance to the
national competition.
The 11 th annual NJHFR
will take place June 21-27
in Des Moines and will
feature roughly 1,000 con-
testants from 42 states, five
Canadian provinces and
Australia. In addition to
competing for more than
Heppner Elementary has announced the final Colt Character winners for the year. The character trait for April/May was
Improving Yourself Continually. See story for list of winners. –Contributed photo.
Heppner Elementary
School has announced the
Colt Character Awards win-
ners for April/May, 2015.
The final Colt Character
Trait for the year was Im-
proving Yourself Continu-
ally, and included traits
such as goals, potential,
courage and persistence.
Student winners are listed
below by class:
Mrs. Morris (Kinder-
garten)—Caige Chandler,
Keaton Coiner, Healy
Hisler, Avree Lathrop,
Claire Lindsay, Hailey Mc-
Daniel, Alakae Rodriguez,
Patrick Wolford.
Mrs. Matteson (Kin-
dergarten/First Grade)—
Mariah Combe, Vincent
Kielmeyer, Sarah Munkers,
Lily Nichols, Rylee Palmer,
Maya Payne, Natalie Piper,
Sophie Rodriguez, Tripp
Stewart, Logan Turner.
Mrs. Stewart (Second
Grade)—Zachary Brown,
Isiah Martin, Aden Lathrop,
Zaleta Masterson, Makiyah
Christian, Kadie Henrichs,
Keeley Nairns, Zaleta Mas-
terson, Jackson Coiner.
Mrs. Coiner (Third/
Fourth Grade)—Keegin
Chitty, Dylan Christian,
Morgan Cutsforth, Ethan
Delibertis, Caden George,
Reece Gorham, Irelynn
Kollman, Zandra Master-
son, Landon Mitchell, Ari-
anna Worden.
Mrs. Gibbs (Fourth
Grade)—Hayley Akers,
Bill Alldritt, Ty Boor, Adan
Guerra, Jake Lentz, Paul
Lindsay, Ireland Martin,
Trevor Nichols, Madison
Palmer, Lexi Gurinko,
Camryn Scrivner, Hailey
Wenberg, Brook Wilson,
Katherine Wilson, Daemon
Worden, Isaiah King.
Mrs. Piper (Fifth
Grade)—Jace Coe, Cody
Fletcher, Aubri Rodriguez,
Kegan Steagall, Conor
Brosnan, Kylie Boor.
Mrs. Dowdy (Sixth
Grade)—Gracey DeLoach,
Sage Ferguson, Marlee
Mitchell, Hannah Palm-
er, Aimee Turrell, Jayden
Wilson, Blake Wolters,
Madelyn Nichols, Serenity
Rodriguez.
Heppner Day Care awarded Rural
Community Grant
SPOKANE, Wash.—
Northwest Farm Credit
Services has announced
that it has awarded the
Heppner Day Care Inc. a
$1,500 Northwest FCS/
CoBank Rural Community
Grant Award. The grant will
be used to help with roof
replacement and an energy-
efficient window upgrade.
Heppner Day Care
Board Vice President Kacee
Lathrop said, “We can’t
thank Northwest Farm
Credit Service enough for
their generous contribution
of $1,500 to our non-profit
organization, Heppner Day
Care Inc. We extend our
gratitude for their Rural
Communities Grant Pro-
gram and the funding they
provide. This grant will be
used to assist in replacing
the roof on the day care
facility, which provides
Jacee Currin (left) and Jaiden Mahoney (right) qualified for
NJHR finals in Iowa later this month. –Contributed photo
ribbon roping.
Both girls also were
selected to represent their
events on the 2015 Oregon
Team Cinch, Jacee as a
team co-captain. Oregon
Team Cinch recognizes
12 outstanding cowgirls
and cowboys that excel in
both the arena and in their
classroom grades. Cinch
provides shirts and pants for
the team members.
The girls both compet-
ed in six events this season:
barrel racing, pole bending,
breakaway roping, goat ty-
ing, ribbon roping and team
roping. They also placed in
the All-Around category,
Jacee in second and Jaiden
in third for the year. The
$75,000 in prizes, contes-
tants will also vie for more
than $100,000 in college
scholarships and the chance
to be named NJHFR Cham-
pion.
Again this year, the
Saturday championship
performance will be tele-
vised nationally on RFD-
TV. Live broadcasts of each
rodeo performance will
air online at NHSRATV.
com. Performance times
are 7 p.m. on June 21, and
9 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day
thereafter.
To follow Jacee and
Jaiden’s performance, visit
NHSRA.org for daily com-
plete results.
Heppner students
at ‘Music in May’
(L-R): Heppner Day Care teacher Lynan Scott, Northwest Farm Credit Services representa-
tive Meghan Golden, and teachers Andrea Collins and Merry Chandler with a group of day
care youth. –Contributed photo
not only day care, but also
preschool, after school and
summer learning programs
and activities.”
This year Northwest
FCS, with support from
CoBank, has awarded 46
rural grants totaling near-
ly $100,150. Since 2007,
Northwest FCS has present-
ed 399 rural grants totaling
more than $810,900. The
next rural grant deadline is
October 1, 2015. Northwest
FCS customers who think
their rural projects may be
eligible, visit northwestfcs.
com for more information.
HES announces final
Rev. Tony AR drawing winners
Long-Drew
for year
Amy and
Evelyne
Next Sunday, June 14, at
10:30 AM and 6:00 PM
our pastoral candidates will be with us for services.
We will have pot luck lunch together at noon. If
you have a home church, please be faithful to it. If
you do not have a church membership, come join
us for service and lunch. You will meet what may
possibly be the next pastor of Christian Life Center!
These are great people! You will enjoy their music
and ministry of the word even if they don't stick
around permanently.
Three Heppner High
School students were se-
lected this year to partici-
pate in the annual Music in
May Festival held on the
Pacific University campus
in Forest Grove, OR.
Cara Arbogast, Kane
Sweeney and Reiah Waite,
along with Mr. and Mrs.
Drake, left early Thursday
morning, May 21, to join
the rest of the more than
400 students from through-
out the Pacific Northwest.
The final AR (Accelerated Reader) drawing for the 2015-2016
The Music in May Fes-
school year was drawn on June 3 at Heppner Elementary; the tival, celebrating its 67 th
winners were Tyson Vawser, Adan Guerra and Paige Beebe.
anniversary, hosted the stu-
–Contributed photo
dents May 21-23 for three
Ray Grace's New Book
days of rehearsals and les-
sons, which culminated in
a concert on Saturday, May
23, at the Stoller Center.
The event is sponsored
by the Pacific Music De-
partment. Students stay in
residence halls with school
chaperones for the three-
day festival and conclude
the weekend with a concert
Available locally at Murray's
featuring orchestra, choir
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(L-R): Cara Arbogast, Reiah Waite and Kane Sweeney par-
ticipated in the Music in May Festival in Portland recently.
–Contributed photo
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•Vinyl Lettering
•Magnetic Door Signs
•Plastic Corrugated Yard Signs
and band.
Music in May was
started in 1948 by former
Pacific University music
education professor Rich-
ard Greenfield. High school
band, choir, and orchestra
students are selected to
participate based on their
school music ensemble
director’s recommendation
and the instrumentation
needs of the Music in May
ensembles.
“As I watch the devel-
opment of the students and
the performance groups
over this three-day event,
I am always amazed at the
talent and integrity of our
students,” said Heppner
music teacher Rick Drake.
“Their love of music
and desire to perform well
becomes obvious. It is a
great opportunity and tre-
mendous privilege to be
selected to, and participate
in this, one of the longest
running music festivals of
its kind in the U.S.”
VBS 2015
Coming June 15th-19th
COME JOIN US at Camp
Kilimanjaro vacation bible school!
Heppner Christian Church 6:30-8:00 PM
Preschool- 6th Grade Welcome.
Please contact Sam Bellamy with any
questions (541)561-8881