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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 7, 2018 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ Published weekly by Sykes Publishing, LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676- 9228. Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or david@rapidserve. net. Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $31 in Morrow County; $25 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 65 years or older); $37 elsewhere; $31 student subscriptions. David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5.25 per column inch. Cost for classified ad is 50¢ per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $6.05 per column inch. For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Dates for pub- lication must be specified. Affidavits must be required at the time of submission. Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries: Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines. Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary. For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author. The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters. All letters MUST include the author’s address and phone number for use by the GT office. The GT reserves the right to edit letters. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10. Death Notice Elizabeth J. Allen, 36, of Portland, a former Ione resident, died Sunday, March 4, 2018, at Portland. She was born September 11, 1981, at Bend, OR. No services are planned at this time. Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in care of arrange- ments. St. Pat’s Three-on-three basketball tournament to be held March 16 The Heppner St. Patrick’s Day three-on- three basketball tournament will be held again this year on Friday night, March 16, at Heppner High School starting a 6 p.m. Te a m s n e e d t o show up by 5:30 p.m. to register and warm up. Each team can have three or four people on it and the tourna- ment is open to both boys’ and girls’ teams with sev- eral age division brackets. Winning teams will receive awards. The tournament is hosted by the Heppner Mustang goys’ basketball team. For more information or to pre-register, contact coach Jeremy Rosenbalm at jeremy.rosebalm@morrow. k12.or.us. Cost is $10 per player. AWANA Club plans events The local AWANA Bi- ble Club is planning some special events for March and April. On Sunday afternoons, March 11 and 18 from 3-5 p.m., the club will have a two-week video lesson series entitled “Why Do We Celebrate Easter”. During spring break week from school, club will not be held on Sun- day, March 25, or April 1. However, there will be a joint AWANA roller skat- ing party in Hermiston on Wednesday night, March 28 from 6– 8 p.m. with the Boardman and Stanfield AWANA Clubs. Club will resume on April 8, and conclude on April 15 with the annual AWANA Grand Prix Race and Awards. AWANA is the joint effort of several local churches. Children from kindergarten through the sixth grade are welcome to attend the club which meets at Willow Creek Baptist Church at 560 Minor Street. Essential oils classes planned at library The Oregon Trail Library in Heppner has sched- uled a series of classes on essential oils. The classes, lead by Anna McElligott, are free and open to the public. Classes are as follows: Essential Oils-Tuesday, March 13, 6 p.m.; Kids and Essential Oils, Wednesday, March 21, 6 p.m.; Toxin Free Living with Essential Oils, Wednesday, April 4, 6 p.m.; Taking Care of Mom and Baby with Essential Oils, Tuesday, April 10, 6 p.m.; Boost Your Immune System with Essential Oils, Wednesday, April 18, 6 p.m.; and Essential Oils and Beauty, Tuesday, April 24, 6 p.m. Commissioner Russell appointed to state recreation committee Morrow County bers who review and es- Commissioner Don Rus- tablish a priority sell has been ap- list for the Land pointed to the and Water Con- Oregon Outdoor servation Fund Recreation Com- Grant Program. mittee represent- Russell said he ing counties east was pleased to of the Cascades. have received the The appointment appointment and was made by Or- looked forward to egon Parks and serving. “I think Recreation De- this will be ben- partment Direc- County Commis- eficial to Morrow tor Lisa Sumption sioner Don Russell County.” He said last week. It will county parks rely be a four-year term. on state grants for some of The committee is their funding for improve- composed of nine mem- ments and operations. ST. PAT’S WEEKEND -Continued from PAGE ONE (previously known as the KUMA Coffee Hour) and make sure to visit the Morrow County Heritage and Agricultural Museums; Leprechaun Run for those children in grades K-6 and a “O’Planky and Bed Race Team Relays before the Great Green Parade which is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Following the parade there will be other activities, including bouncy houses and other inflatable units for preschool children through High School at the HES Gym from 1:30- 5:30p.m. at the “Bouncin’ Leprechauns Fun Zone”. There will be CEILI from 2-4 p.m., Ewe-Do-Bingo and O’Ducky Race; Road Bowling has been moved to Saturday, starting at 3 p.m., with registration at 2:30 p.m. and will be held out at Balm Fork Road as in the past. So if you haven’t put your team together, stop by and pick up a form at the Chamber office. The evening will close out with some great entertainment: “The Old Time Fiddlers” will be performing at the Fairgrounds Dance Hall, starting at 6:30 p.m; there will be a local children’s Talent Show from 6-7:20 p.m. and “CrossStrung and their Dancers” will be performing starting at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Parish Hall. So make sure you come ready to enjoy some great music. The Wee Hours O’Benefit Breakfast will be served at the Old Fire Hall on Willow Street from 9 pm. – 3 a.m. so stop and have an early breakfast and donate to a great cause. Sunday will offer up Heppner Christian Church’s Fundraiser Breakfast served at the Heppner Christian Church from 7:30-9:30 a.m.; there is no charge for the breakfast, but a donation will be appreciated to help support “Hope2Liberia”; and this will be your final chance to watch the Sheep Dog Trials. The St. Patrick’s Committee hopes you will participate in as much of the weekend as you can! For more information, call 541-676-5536, visit www. heppnerchamber.com or visit us on facebook at “St. Patrick’s Celebration Heppner Oregon USA”. We are looking forward to seeing you … don’t forget to wear your green (or there will be lots of selection for you to buy). Whether you are Irish when you come, you will certainly be Irish when you leave… so come and join us for a great weekend. Arts and crafts for sale during St. Pat’s The Morrow Coun- ty Creative Artists will be at a new place during the St. Patrick’s Celebration in Heppner. Members will have items for sale in the front part of the St. Patrick’s Senior Center at 190 N. Main St. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, March 16, and from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 17. Some of the artists will be in the front room and some will be in the hall. Items for sale will include sterling silver jew- elry and ball point pens by Dennis Wall and dressed stuffed animals, crocheted top towels, decorations, jelly and, new this year, doggie clothes by Don and JoAnn Shannon. Dave Williams will have wood items, leather and jewelry and Carmen Williams will have cro- cheted towels, blankets and stuffed animals. Darla Hanson will have a variety of different mediums of paintings. “Our local people are very creative,” com- mented a group spokes- person. Obituaries Barbara Struthers Barbara Jeanne Patrick’s Senior Hotel in Struthers, 96, of Heppner, Heppner in 1989. Ralph died in 2001, Ore., died March 2, 2018, in Pendleton, Ore. Recitation and Barbara remained in of the Rosary will be held the senior hotel until 2012, Friday, March 9, at 7 p.m. when she moved to Willow at St. Patrick’s Catholic Creek Terrace assisted liv- Church in Heppner. A fu- ing facility in Heppner. Barbara was a neral mass will be held Sat- homemaker her urday, March 10, entire life, and en- at 11 a.m. at St. joyed gardening, Patrick’s Catho- painting, knitting lic Church, with and sewing. She a luncheon to volunteered exten- follow at the sively in the com- church parish munity, including hall. Barbara’s Camp Fire, OSU ashes will be in- Extension Ser- terred Saturday, March 10, at 3 Barbara Struthers vice and 4-H, the Heppner Neigh- p.m. in St. Jo- seph’s Catholic Cemetery borhood Center and the altar society of the Catholic in Condon, Ore. Barbara was born Church. She was honored September 11, 1921, on a with a Lifetime Achieve- farm near Weston, Wyo- ment Award for Commu- ming, to Charles and Hazel nity Service in 1998 by (Hartz) Reilly. She was the the Heppner Chamber of oldest of six children, grow- Commerce. Barbara is sur- ing up in Wyoming, Idaho and Eastern Oregon. She vived by her son Ed (Ma- married Ralph Struthers on rie) Struthers of Pendleton; June 10, 1939, in Payette, brother Clayton (Lucy) Idaho, and graduated from Reilly of Kuna, Idaho; Vale High School in 1940. seven grandchildren; 13 Two children were born great-grandchildren; and 14 from this union, Evelyn in great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded 1940 and Edwin in 1944. Barbara and Ralph in death by her husband of lived in Hereford, Ore., un- 62 years, Ralph Struthers; til 1951 when they moved daughter Evelyn McKin- to Condon. In 1965 they ney; sisters Jackie Galla- moved to southeast Oregon, gher and Margaret Linder; living in Crane, Frenchglen and brothers Edwin and and Juntura until Ralph’s Robert Reilly. Memorial dona- retirement in 1976. They moved to Heppner in 1985 tions may be made to the to be closer to their son Ed, American Cancer Society. and were the first residents Sweeney Mortuary of Hep- of the newly renovated St. pner is in care of arrange- ments. Bouncin’ Leprechauns Fun Zone back again The Heppner Day Care, Heppner Chamber of Commerce and City of Heppner is once again bringing in an event es- pecially for kids during the St. Patrick’s Day Cel- ebration. Bouncin’ Lepre- chauns Fun Zone will offer a variety of bouncy hous- es and carnival games, a kid’s paradise! There will be activities available for children of all ages. Event will take place Saturday, March 17th from 1:30pm to 5:30pm in the HES gym. Admission for chil- dren five and younger will be $5.00 and children six and older will be $10.00. Admission is good for the entire event. Children must be accompanied by an adult. We also ask that all participants wear socks. Library has new books The Heppner Branch of the Oregon Trail Library District has the following new books avail- able: Fiction-“The Girls in the Picture” by Melanie Ben- jamin, “Act of Revenge” by Dale Brown, “Blood Sisters” by Jane Corry, “The Wanted” by Robert Crais, “Still Me” by Jojo Moyes; “Dark in Death” by J. D. Robb, “Arms From the Sea” by Rich Shapero, “Fall From Grace” by Danielle Steel, “Sour Creek Valley” by Max Brand and “Rang- er’s Revenge” by James J. Griffin; and Non-fiction- “Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics” by Dan Harris. Dinner to benefit Howard A benefit pasta dinner and auction for DeRina Howard of Heppner is planned for this Saturday, March 10, from 5:30-9 p.m. at the Heppner Elks Club. DeRina is recovering from thyroid cancer and a thyroidectocmy. Funds raised from the dinner and auction will go toward her expenses. The dinner will include pasta, Olive Garden salad, bread sticks and dessert. Cost is $12 per person, $8 for children 12 and under or $40 for a family. MURRAY'S IRISH BEER AND WINE FEST FRIDAY MARCH 16 8 pm -12 am Join us for a 'Wee Welcome Home Party" to start the weekend off! Morrow County Fairgrounds Food, Fun and Music No admission required Music by DAN BURNS 3D PRODUCTIONS MURRAY'S BEER AND WINE TICKETS $5.00 EACH OR 5 FOR $20 - ID REQUIRED Food and Non -alcoholic drinks available for purchase by St. Patrick’s Altar Society All ages welcome- Children must be accompanied by an adult Morrow County Unified Recreation District will not be sponsoring Murray’s Irish Beer and Wine Fest
