SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 28, 2017
RODEO QUALIFIERS
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in Winnemucca, NV July
3-8. Silver State is a rodeo
for junior high and high
school rodeo contestants
who place fifth through 15 th
at their state finals. Jaiden
and Blane, children of Mike
and Nicole Mahoney of
Heppner, both qualified at
the Oregon state finals held
recently.
Jaiden Mahoney, who
qualified for the National
High School Rodeo finals in
barrel racing, also qualified
for Silver State in her other
events of pole bending,
goat tying and breakaway
roping.
Blane Mahoney quali-
fied for Silver State in the
junior high
division of
High School
Rodeo in all
six of his
events—
breakaway
roping, goat
Blane
Mahoney
tying, team
roping, rib-
bon roping, chute dogging
and rifle shooting.
The top four junior high
contestants in the state qual-
ify for the National Junior
High Rodeo Finals held
in Lebanon, TN last week.
Jett Stewart, the 13-year-
old son of Jason and Sybil
Stewart of Heppner, quali-
Above: Jaiden Mahoney competing in barrel racing at this
year’s OHSRA State Finals in Prineville. -Photo by Lindsey
Wyllie Below: Jett Stewart in team roping at the Oregon
Junior High Rodeo finals. -Contributed photo
fied by taking first in break-
away roping, team roping
and goat tying at the state
competition. He also took
fourth in the state in ribbon
roping. Jett attended nation-
als last year, taking ninth in
the nation in team roping.
He opted not to travel to
Tennessee this year, choos-
ing instead to attend rodeos
closer to home during the
summer.
Vision fulfilled with new
Boardman pool, rec center
Ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday opens doors
to a 30-year vision of the Boardman community
Sitting just north of
SAGE Center and the new
Blue Mountain Community
College Workforce Train-
ing Center on Olson Road,
Boardman Pool and Rec-
reation Center is the latest
development to address the
needs of a growing commu-
nity. The recreation center
has been a vision of the
community for more than
30 years, solidifying with
the passing of a $12.390
million bond in November
2014. That vision is fully
realized with the opening
of its doors on July 1.
The city of Boardman
has a population of approxi-
mately 3,400, but thousands
of employees commute dai-
ly to the companies in the
Port of Morrow. Through
the years, many in the com-
munity touted the idea of
building an indoor pool
and recreation center, but
it took the vision and per-
sistence of a five-member
park board of directors to
develop a workable plan to
pass a general obligation
bond and figure out a way to
pay for the operating costs
of a huge facility.
“Our vision of this rec-
reation center is to provide
a safe, affordable space for
our community to enjoy,”
stated Karen Pettigrew,
Boardman Park and Recre-
ation District board chair,
“and to encourage more of
the commuting workforce
to move their families to
our community.”
The Boardman Pool
and Recreation center is ap-
proximately 43,000 square
feet and includes a four-
lane swimming pool with
a two-story slide, therapy
pool, recreation pool with
a vortex (a circular area
where water is jetted to
create a vortex) and 27’ tall
climbing wall.
It also includes sev-
eral named/sponsored areas
such as the Tillamook Gym-
nasium, Boardman Foods
Multi-Purpose Room,
Port of Morrow Weights
and Cardio Room, Lamb
Weston Aerobics Room
and Umatilla Electric Life-
guard Station. Other nam-
ing opportunities are still
available.
The Boardman Park
and Recreation District
invites the community to
celebrate the opening of
Boardman Pool and Recre-
ation Center at the ribbon
cutting ceremony on Satur-
day, July 1, from 11 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. The ribbon cut-
ting is scheduled for 11:30
a.m. followed immediately
by a community barbecue,
tours of the facility and
membership enrollment.
The recreation center will
open for regular business on
Sunday, July 2, at 12 p.m.
The center will be open
with extended operating
hours daily, with 24-hour
access to some amenities.
The community has the
opportunity to enroll in an-
nual memberships, month-
to-month memberships, or
can drop in for a daily rate.
HHS announces honor roll
Heppner High School
has announced the students
named to the 2016/17 Se-
mester 2 Honor Roll. They
are, listed by grade:
12 th Grade—Emily Ce-
cil 4.0, Kolby Currin 4.0,
Kellie Eadler 4.0, Bryan
Fowler 4.0, Logan Grieb
4.0, Traylor Hamby 4.0,
Trevin Horne 4.0, Jacob
Lindsay 4.0, Kevin Murray
4.0, Timothy Jaca, Kane
Sweeney, Timothy Gould,
Caden Hedman.
11 th Grade—Morgan
Correa 4.0, Sophie Grant
Grant 4.0, Nicole Proph-
eter 4.0, Brianne Smith 4.0,
Casey Fletcher, Jason Rea,
Cami VanArsdale.
Eighth Grade—Mad-
elyn Nichols 4.0, Hannah
Palmer 4.0, Aimee Doherty,
Brinley Dompier, Roy
Collins, Hunter Greenup,
Genevieve Smith, Alexis
Cutsforth.
Seventh Grade—Kyle
Boor 4.0, Cody Fletcher
4.0, Blake Carter, Blane
Mahoney, Kason Cimmi-
yotti, Hannah Finch, Jett
Stewart, Roen Waite.
BRITTNER RETIRES
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lives good and do the
best you could for ‘em,”
Louis was grand marshal
she says.
for the Morrow County
She recalls a brief
Fair and Rodeo in 1968,
time working in Herm-
and Margaret Cason was
iston when Heppner’s
a teacher in Heppner
nursing home shut down.
for many years. Brittner
“I never really quit,”
recalls that her own first
she says. “I was just tem-
grade class was the last
porarily out of work.”
class Margaret taught
She returned to Pio-
before retirement.
neer Memorial at the
When the Casons
request of Molly Rhea,
retired, they moved to
the Beaverton/Hillsboro Brittner used to ride cattle drives working on the medi-
area, taking their grand- like this one with local rancher cal floor and handling a
daughter with them. Floyd Jones, pictured in this G-T variety of tasks, includ-
Brittner, who was in ju- archive article driving cattle by the ing changing dressings,
courthouse in Heppner. -Archive
a skill she says Sandi
nior high at the time, was photo
Hanna taught her. She
put in a private school to
enjoyed during her early
helped out frequently in
meet her grandmother’s
exacting standards of edu- life was driving cattle with the emergency room.
Floyd Jones, who often
“I always got stuck in
cation.
“Grandmother was drove large herds of cattle there with the drunks, be-
very picky,” she recalls. “It right through Heppner. Pho- cause I could handle them,”
didn’t do me any good to be tos in the G-T archives Brittner says.
show Jones and his cattle
She officially retired
picky or not.”
Brittner graduated from drives, and Brittner can a couple of years ago, but
Laurelwood Academy in even point to herself in a has stayed on, working one
night a week until last Oc-
Gaston, OR and then went photo or two.
“I enjoyed doing it, and tober. Now, though, Brittner
on to Portland Community
College, graduating as a it helped him out,” says says it’s time to retire for
good, and she was honored
Licensed Practical Nurse Brittner.
After two years in at a retirement barbecue
(LPN) in 1966. She says
she has since taken classes Paulina, the young family with coworkers on June 28.
She says plans to do
through Pioneer Memorial, moved to North Powder
to keep up her certifica- for a year before heading some visiting with her
tion and keep up with the to Montana. They stayed sons—one local and one in
there until 1981, when the Portland—four grandkids
changes in medicine.
“There’s been a whole Brittners’ marriage ended and three great-grandchil-
lot of changes through the in divorce. She returned dren, and she’s busy trying
to Heppner with sons Ted to figure out Facebook on
years,” she says.
Brittner also got mar- and Leonard, and returned her new phone and tablet.
ried in 1966, and the couple to her work at Pioneer Me- She also says she has people
moved to Heppner a year or morial. She stayed there, she visits around town. And
two later. She started with working first at the hospital while she may go out of
Pioneer Memorial Hospital and then as a charge nurse town on visits, she says she
has no plans to leave.
shortly after the move, stay- at the nursing home.
“Many of the people
“Every time I leave, I
ing there until she and her
husband went in with fam- I had (at the home) were end up coming back,” she
ily on a ranch near Paulina, people I’d known my whole quips. “So I’m not leaving
life—which was kind of any more.”
OR in 1977.
One of the things she fun, to try to make their
Pastor Brudevold
returns to Heppner
Rev. Keith Brudevold,
formerly of Heppner, is
returning this week after an
absence of nine years. He
will be assuming once again
the position of pastor of the
Heppner United Methodist
Church.
Rev. Brudevold lived
in Heppner for six years,
beginning in 2002. He
4.0, Alex Lindsay 4.0,
Reiah Waite 4.0, Diana
Healy.
10 th Grade—Carson
Brosnan 4.0, Madison
Combe 4.0, Jacee Cur-
rin 4.0, Claire Grieb 4.0,
Jaiden Mahoney 4.0, Jenna
McCullough 4.0, Hunter
Nichols 4.0, Leo Waite 4.0,
Kaitlyn Martin, Gibson
McCurry, Stephany DuBry,
Charles Cason, Keegan
Gibbs, Caitlyn Scrivner,
Jacob Wallace, Trevor An-
tonucci.
Ninth Grade—Kellen
will once again reside at
Grace House, the parsonage
for the church located on
Church Street.
His first Sunday in
the pulpit will be July 2;
friends and church family
are welcome to join the
reunion at 10:30 a.m. The
theme for the Sunday will
be A Nation Under God.
GET READY FOR FAIR & RODEO!
The Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo will be held
August 16th - 20th, 2017.The Hepper Gazette will publish it's annual
special fair edition on August 9th. Reserve your spot in the Special
Fair Edition of the Gazette and the 2017 Oregon Trial Pro Rodeo Pro-
grams Today. These publications are an excellent way to reach visitors
and the people of Morrow County. The deadline to be included in
these publications is July 31!
CALL MEGAN TO DISCUSS YOUR AD FOR THIS
YEARS FAIR EDITION AND THE 2017 OREGON
TRAIL PRO RODEO PROGRAMS.
Open house planned for
new advocacy center
The public is invited to an open house reception to
celebrate the opening of Domestic Violence Services’s
new advocacy center in Heppner.
The open house will take place Wednesday, July 19,
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the first floor of the Gilliam-
Bisbee Building (in the former Veteran Services Office)
in Heppner.
Call Mary for more information, 541-276-3322.
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