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Heppner teams punch tickets to state golf tournament HEPPNER G T 50¢ Girls take district championship azette imes VOL. 135 NO. 20 8 Pages Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon The Mustang girls’ and boys’ golf teams traveled to the district competition in Pendleton last week, where the girls brought home a championship while the boys took an impressive second place. Pictured are: Back L-R: Caitlyn Scrivner, Claire Grieb, Sophie Grant, Amanda Rea, Madison Combe, Riane Dompier. Front L-R: Charles Cason, Reno Ferguson, Cason Mitchell, Logan Grieb, Logan Burright, Dan Bretsch. -Contributed photo -See fully story PAGE THREE Health partnership aims to immerse medical students in rural health care and way of life Published May 16, 2016 by Northeast Oregon AHEC. Reprinted with permission. According to the Na- tional Rural Health Asso- ciation, only about 10 per- cent of physicians practice in rural America despite the fact that nearly one-fourth of the population lives in these areas. “When I tell people who are not from a rural community that I wish to practice rural medicine they generally give me the same response. They react with a look of sympathy and congratulate me on my al- truistic sacriice to society,” said Nicholas West, MD small-town life is like,” said candidate 2019, at Oregon Emily Thompson, MD can- Health & Science Univer- didate 2019 at OHSU, from sity (OHSU) School of Heppner, OR. Medicine, from Imbler, OR. First-year medical stu- This illustrates the un- dents Thompson, West and deniable need for the redis- Abigail Huddleston are part tribution of primary care of a rural student advisory providers, but how? group to the assis- “I believe phy- tant dean of rural sicians from small medical education t o w n s a r e mo r e in the OHSU School likely to return to of Medicine. During small towns. By tak- their spring enrich- ing on a leadership Emily ment week, May 23 role as a medical Thompson to 25, these students student from a small along with North- town, I hope to create more east Oregon Area Health opportunities for medical Education Center (NEOA- students to experience what HEC) have planned activi- ties in three communities in Northeast Oregon, includ- ing Heppner, La Grande and Pendleton. The op- portunity was offered to all OHSU first-year medical students. “We are pleased to work with NEOAHEC on this rural enrichment expe- rience for medical students. We’re inding exposure to rural communities and rural medical practices opens students’ eyes to possibili- ties they hadn’t considered before, which will hope- fully mean more rural phy- Teen arrested for rest stop stabbing A 17-year-old Idaho boy allegedly stabbed a 51-year-old woman in the women’s restroom at rest stop near Boardman Satur- day afternoon, police say. Morrow County Sher- iff’s Ofice received a 9-1-1 call at 3:44 p.m. Saturday reporting an attack in the restroom of the state rest stop off the westbound side of I-84, just outside of Boardman. Oregon State Police responded, and po- lice arrested Talon James Davis of Clarkston, ID, who -See RURAL HEALTH/PAGE will turn 18 in June. TWO The victim, Sandra Byers, was taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston with non-life- threatening injuries. She was reportedly released Monday morning. Davis was lodged at Northern Oregon Region- al Correctional Facility (NORCOR) in The Dalles with bail set at $100,000. Davis is being charged with irst-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. Because assault I is a Mea- -See TEEN ARRESTED FOR STABBING/PAGE THREE Area bids farewell to long-time Local girl on target in archery community members, volunteers championship Al and Jean Brazell stand in the midst of a few of the lowers that are Jean’s pride and joy. Among her other pursuits, she is an avid gardener, and husband Al says he has been spoiled by all the fresh fruits and vegetables over the years. -Photo by Andrea Di Salvo By Andrea Di Salvo The Heppner Method- ist Church will bid farewell to long-time choir director Jean Brazell this Sunday as she and husband Albert “Al” Brazell of Lexington attend worship there for the last time as members. They leave for a new home out- side of Roy, WA on May 28. However, her time as choir director at the Meth- odist church—important as that is—only scratches the surface of the Brazell’s involvement in the South Morrow County Commu- nity. Neither of the Brazells was born her, though Jean, who turns 73 the day they move, came here young— her father brought the fam- ily up from Central Oregon around 1947 to take up G-T Trophy Corner Kayden Piper, 7, of Heppner caught this 10-1/2 inch trout at Anson Wright Park on Sunday, May 15. It was his second time ishing. -Contributed photo G-T closed Memorial Day The Heppner Gazette- Times ofice will be closed Memorial Day, May 30, for the holiday. All news and ad deadlines will be Friday, May 27, by 5 p.m. The newspaper ofice will reopen on Tuesday, May 31. wheat farming outside of Ione. “I’ve been around do- ing 4-H and all that when I was a kid,” she says. Jean Martin attended school in and graduated from Ione before going on to obtain a Bachelor of Science in home economics from Oregon State Univer- sity. Al Brazell’s journey to Lexington was a little longer. Born in West Palm Beach, FL and raised in northern Florida where his father was stationed at an Air Force base, Al says he came west “for the trees.” “My uncle had a saw- mill, and I used to work there. A big tree there is two feet in diameter,” the 73-year-old says. “I wanted to see the really big trees.” He attended OSU to pursue a degree in forestry. The two met there, and were married in the Meth- odist church in Corvallis. As it turned out, though, he decided working for the forest service wasn’t for him. After the couple spent a summer at a guard sta- tion in Utah, he went into logging for a short time. The two then both attended the University of Idaho, she to obtain a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in home ec and he to inish his bachelor’s degree in forestry. Even though he never worked for the forest service, Al Brazell still says it was worth the time, espe- cially the machine classes. “It’s amazing how much of that info you use in a lifetime,” he says. “It wasn’t wasted time.” Jean had been teaching while he inished his degree, but didn’t argue when Al took them to Castle View, WA to work for Longview Fibre. He worked there for nearly 10 years, while she taught and then subbed, and raised their two children, Brian and Kathleen. They left Western Washington -See BRAZELLS SAY GOODBYE/PAGE EIGHT Brianne Smith, an eighth grader at Heppner Junior/Senior High School, spent Mother’s Day week- end in Redding, CA defend- ing her national title at the second largest Marked 3D Archery competition in the world. This was Brianne’s last year in the Youth Bow- hunter Freestyle (BHFS) class, in which the archers use a compound bow with ixed sites, short stabilizer and a release. At the end of the weekend Brianne had Brianne Smith with four of her Wyoming state trophies; she won her fourth national also completed a set of four national trophies over Mother’s marked 3D championship, Day weekend. -Contributed photo winning all three years she was in the youth class and once as a cub. Brianne was curious about archery from an early age. Her dad, Brian Smith, is an avid archer and hunter. She watched her dad come home from hunting with his bow and she watched him come home from archery tournaments with trophies. When Brianne was two, her dad bought her a recurve bow and taught her how to shoot. Noticing Brianne’s desire to shoot archery, her mom, Megan Smith, gave up archery to help Brianne participate in the sport. At age three Brianne par- ticipated in her irst archery shoot. By age ive Brianne had won her irst state archery tournament, the Wyoming State 3D in 2007. She con- tinued her winning streak by winning three archery categories at age six: Wyo- ming State Field, Wyoming State Target and Wyoming Students at Heppner High School celebrated prom on Satur- day, May 7. Pictured is the prom court. Front L-R: Princesses State 3D. As a pre-teen she con- Sydney Maben and Jessica Kempken. Middle L-R: Princess tinued to impress the adult Kaelyn Lindsay, Queen Rylee Kollman, King Kaden Clark Heppner shines on prom night and Princess Caitlyn Bailey. Back L-R: Princes Tommy Bred- ield, C.J. 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