Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 10, 2016
The View from the Green
Over the Tee Cup
Seventeen ladies teed
off on a beautiful, sunny
day, Tuesday, Aug. 2, at
Willow Creek Country
Club.
Low gross of the field
went to Virginia Grant, with
low net to Pat Edmundson
and least putts of the field
to Kristi Smalley.
For flight A, Nancy
Propheter had low gross
and the long drive, Eva
Kilkenny took low net, and
Corol Mitchell least putts
of the field.
For flight B, Shirley
Martin and Pat Dougherty
tied for low gross, while
Sharon Harrison had low
net, and Betty Burns had
least putts and the long
drive.
For flight C, Karen
Haguewood took low gross
and long drive, while Sue
Edson had low net and
Mary Riggs least putts.
KP for all flights went
to Sharon Harris.
Chip-ins were Corol
Mitchell and Tiffany Cle-
ments. Karen Thompson
had a birdie.
Church men to host
golf fun day
The men of St. Wil-
liam’s and St. Patrick’s
Catholic churches will host
a Holy Name Men’s Golf
Tournament this Saturday,
Aug. 13, at the Willow
Creek Country Club.
The men say both men
and women are welcome to
join in the golf fun day, and
need not be accomplished
golfers to participate. The
format will be four-person
teams in a best ball format;
players can come with a
four-person team or come
as singles or pairs and be
matched up at the event.
Registration will begin
at 7:45 a.m. with tee-off
at 8:15 a.m. Lunch will be
provided by the church altar
societies around 10:30 a.m.
Prizes will be awarded
for the top team and best
shots. Cost is $30 per per-
son; proceeds go to the
Holy Name Men’s Student
Scholarship Fund.
Boardman native
joins PNGC Power as
VP
Portland-based gen-
eration and transmission
cooperative PNGC Power
has named Boardman na-
tive Scott Russell as vice
president of transmission
and contracts.
In this role, Russell
will be responsible for
overseeing PNGC Power’s
transmission agreements
for all of PNGC Power’s
members. Columbia Basin
is not one of PNGC Power’s
members, but Umatilla
Electric is one of the 15
northwest electric distribu-
tion cooperative utilities
with service territory in
seven western states.
Russell will also repre-
sent PNGC Power’s interest
in regional transmission
issues.
“Scott comes to PNGC
with a proven track record,”
said PNGC Power Presi-
dent and CEO Beth Looney.
“He has the experience
and background we were
looking for in this highly
demanding position.”
“I am very excited to
join Beth and her experi-
enced management team,”
Russell said. “I look for-
ward to representing the
member cooperatives’ in-
terests on all transmission
issues to ensure that cost
effective power continues
to flow to their service ter-
ritories.”
Russell joined the
PNGC Power team on Aug.
1. Previously he worked for
Portland General Electric
in various capacities in-
cluding financial analysis,
corporate planning and con-
tract negotiation. Russell
received both his bachelor
of science in economics,
and his master of science
in economics from Oregon
State University.
Chamber lunch meeting
The next lunch meeting of the Heppner Chamber
of Commerce will be an all entities report on Thursday,
Sept. 1, at noon in Heppner City Hall conference room.
There will be no meeting Aug. 18 due to the Morrow
County Fair.
Cost of lunch is $10. Chamber lunch attendees are
asked to RSVP at 541-676-5536 no later than the Tuesday
before to guarantee a lunch.
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Jamie Nasario performs Aug. 15 at
Boardman
Singer Jamie Nasario
will perform for the Music
in the Parks free outdoor
summer concert series at
7 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the
Boardman Marina Park,
located off N. Main Street
on Marine Drive.
Hailing from the small
town of Echo, OR, Jamie
Nasario has caught the at-
tention of many listeners,
far and wide. Her soul-
driven voice and bluesy
repertoire capture the clas-
sic vibe from the 50s and
60s while still maintaining
a modern flavor. Although
fairly new to performing,
Nasario’s raw talent and
sultry singing sounds far
Jamie Nasario
from unrefined. Nasario is
backed by guitarist Luke
Basile and drummer Dennis
“Too Short” Rogers. To-
gether, this acoustic trio has
a captivating presence and
showcases talent beyond
their years.
The Music in the Parks
concert series is held each
summer alternating be-
tween Boardman and Ir-
rigon Marina Parks. The
concerts are free to the
public and begin at 7 p.m.
on Mondays through Aug.
22. Visitors are encouraged
to bring chairs and blankets.
Concessions will be avail-
able for purchase at the
event, courtesy of Judy’s
Chuck Wagon.
The Music in the Parks
series is funded by the Mor-
row County Unified Recre-
ation District and Portland
General Electric and spon-
sored by the North Morrow
Community Foundation.
The final concert of the
2016 Music in the Parks
concert series features Fall-
out in Irrigon on Aug. 22.
CHERYL TALLMAN RETIRES
-Continued from PAGE ONE Suburban Hospital School Crystal and Derrin, were of the year, are making a
do home health nursing,
because that’s all we had,”
Tallman says. “Then we
added hospice in 2003. It’s
been really nice to do both.”
Her story began quite a
way from Morrow County.
She was born in Aberdeen,
SD, where her family lived
until moving to Manhattan,
MT when she was three.
“Those were my fa-
ther’s roots, and he moved
there to help his dad on the
farm in Montana,” she says.
Her father was a carpenter
and her mother a nurse, so
her later decision to become
a nurse came naturally. In
fact, Tallman’s daughter is
also a nurse, making three
generations of nurses in the
family.
Cheryl was raised in
Manhattan, attending the
same school for all 12 years
and graduating in 1965. She
shares that they had their
50 th class reunion last year,
an event for which she, sur-
prisingly, used her hospice
experience.
Tallman shares that, out
of their class, six classmates
have already passed away.
On her prompting, the class
had a memorial service
with luminaries for those
classmates, an idea she at-
tributes to her experience
in hospice.
“It was from learning
from our chaplain and what
he does at hospice memo-
rials—I felt very comfort-
able leading our class in a
memorial,” she says. “If I
hadn’t had my experience
nursing in hospice, I prob-
ably wouldn’t have thought
of that.”
When she graduated
from high school, her father
told her he would pay for
her college education if she
attended a year of Bible col-
lege. So, she moved to Port-
land, OR and spent a year at
Multnomah School of the
Bible. True to his word, her
father than supported her
continued education at West
of Nursing in Oak Park,
IL, outside of Chicago. She
graduated from the three-
year diploma program as
a registered nurse in 1969.
“It was an old-time
nursing school—the dorm
was a wing of the hospital,
so we actually lived in the
hospital itself,” Tallman
recalls.
“They used student
nurses to work in the hospi-
tal,” she adds, saying it was
valuable experience that
helped her step with ease
into the workforce. “When
I graduated I was able to
step out of school into any
hospital in the United States
and practice nursing skills. I
had that confidence.”
“My education beyond
that has been through my
work, keeping up with the
latest trends in health care,”
she says.
Tallman says she was
“just an adventurous kid,”
which is why, she says, she
decided to make another
long-distance move, this
time to work at Virginia
Mason Hospital in Seattle.
She stayed there until 1973.
“A certain male came
into my life at that time,”
she says. “It changes ev-
erything.”
It was then that Oregon
man Terry Tallman courted
her long-distance, regularly
driving from Corvallis, OR
to Seattle so they could
spend time together. They
were married in 1974, when
she was 27.
The couple moved to
Adrian, OR, where Terry
worked with his father and
brother on the family farm.
In 1976, their oldest son,
Jonathan, was born. The
family relocated to Board-
man in 1978 and took up
farming there, growing
lilies, melons and potatoes,
as well as custom harvest-
ing potatoes. They kept that
up until Terry was elected
Morrow County Judge in
1999. Their other children,
born in 1979 and 1981, and
Cheryl Tallman dedicated
herself to raising her family
and helping with the family
business.
“Till my oldest was 16,
I basically worked enough
to keep my RN license,”
she says, adding that she
did a lot of different things
to accomplish that, from
working at the Boardman
clinic to volunteering at
Red Cross blood drives.
“I felt I wanted to raise
my children as more of a
full-time mother. And my
husband was farming and
I was able to help on the
farm. And that worked re-
ally well until Molly Rhea
snatched me into home
health.”
Tallman says she has
found fulfillment in her
work as a home health and
hospice nurse.
“I feel like I could keep
going on. I still love my
job. I’m physically able to
perform my duties. I feel
I’ve gained a lot of experi-
ence that is useful. That’s
just how I feel,” she says,
though she admits there
are aspects she won’t miss.
“There are changes that
are a little harder for me
to adapt to,” says Tallman,
giving as examples new
insurance requirements
and computerized record-
keeping, “so not having to
embrace them is a relief.”
“Foremost I will miss
the daily encounters with
my patients and their fami-
lies as I’m helping them go
through a crisis, supporting
them and guiding them.
That’s what I miss—help-
ing people solve their prob-
lems,” says Tallman. “I’ll
still be doing that, but not
in as formal a way.”
Tallman says she and
husband Terry, who retires
as county judge at the end
list of things to do in retire-
ment. Tallman, a skilled
quilter, says she would like
to spend more time quilting.
“I love to work with my
hands and make things,”
she says.
She also says there are
people from their past with
whom they’d like to re-
connect, especially those
from a Christian organiza-
tion called The Navigators.
Tallman says individuals
in that organization were
instrumental in helping
the Tallmans in their faith
walk, and many of them are
scattered around the U.S.
or serving as missionaries
overseas.
“Those people are near
and dear to us. Maybe we’ll
be able to visit them and
encourage them,” says Tall-
man.
However, she says the
main priority in their plans
is Terry’s father, who is 90
years old and still lives in
Boardman. “We want to be
with him,” she says. “Any
decisions will be prioritized
by his health.”
Though moving for-
ward into retirement, Tall-
man says she found her call-
ing in nursing, especially as
a nurse for home health and
hospice.
“I really feel that my
working in home health and
hospice has been the thing
that fits with my personal-
ity, my skills and my love.
Meeting with patients in
their homes—it’s the thing
that really satisfies me,”
she says. “I am really a
grass roots nurse. I never
wanted to be an administra-
tor. I never wanted to be a
teacher, teaching nursing to
other nurses.
“I wanted to work with
patients in their situations.
That’s my love. That’s my
niche.”
Boardman to
refinance water,
sewer bonds
During its Aug. 2 meet-
ing, the Boardman City
Council passed a resolution
authorizing the refinancing
of all of the city’s general
obligation water and waste-
water bonds. City Manager
Karen Pettigrew said, while
the interest rates are lower,
the city could refinance
these bonds and save tax-
payers an estimated $1.6
million in interest.
The wastewater bond
is a 40-year bond issued
in 2003 in the amount of
$3,000,000. The water bond
is a 25-year bond refinanced
in 2006 in the amount of
$3,560,000. The loans were
used for additions and im-
provements to the city’s
water and wastewater col-
lection and treatment fa-
cilities. The city expects to
refinance these bonds with
an interest rate at no more
than three percent.
In other city business,
councilors passed a resolu-
tion to increase garbage
rates in October. They dis-
cussed a proposed chronic
nuisance ordinance and set
a date for a workshop to
discuss the language of the
proposed ordinance. Coun-
cilors voted to approve a
hardship permit to allow
an injured horse to be kept
within the city limits until
Sept.1 at 129 NW Columbia
Avenue.
The next meeting of
the Boardman City Council
will be Tuesday, Aug. 16, at
6:30 p.m. for a workshop
session.
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