Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 11, 2018 -- TWO
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David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
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A View from the Green
Men’s golf results
announced
Twenty-six golfers
played on Sunday, July 8
at Willow Creek Country
Club. The two-man event
consisted of three nine-hole
rounds, with the formats of
a scramble, chapman and
alternating shot.
Low net was Ralph
Walker and Rick Johnston
with a score of 80 and sec-
ond place went to Jeff and
John Edmundson with 85.5.
Low gross went to Der-
ek Gunderson and Charlie
Ferguson with a 94 and
second to Josh Coiner and
John McCabe with 95.
Mike Doherty got KP
on hole number five.
The next men’s play
will be held Sunday, July 15
and will be hosted by Bill
Morris, Delbert Binschus
and Steve Marlatt.
Couple awarded
doctorate degrees
Fourteen Willow Creek
Country Club senior golfers
won points at the par 72
Condon Golf Course in the
Columbia-Blue Senior Golf
Association Tournament
on June 11. According to
a spokesperson, weather
and course conditions were
excellent.
The WCCC winners
are as follows:
-Columbia Division
(handicap 17 and below)
gross with a tie for third
was Barry Munkers and Jim
Doherty with 76, Ron Bow-
man in fifth with 77 and
John Boyer in eighth with
81. Net was Jim Swanson
in fourth with 66.
-Blue Division (hand-
icap 18 to 23) gross was
John Edmundson in third
with 86, Gary Watkins in
seventh with 91 and Steve
Marlatt in eighth with 94.
Net was Dale Boyd in
fourth with 67.
-Senior Division (hand-
icap 24 and above) gross
was Roger Ehrmantraut,
fourth with 97 and a tie for
fifth was Dave Creswick
and Bill Morris with 98. Net
in seventh place was Ralph
Walker with 75 and eighth
was Tom Martin with 76.
The next CBSGA tour-
nament will be at the Bea-
con Rock Golf Course in
North Bonneville, WA on
July 9. Registration for the
special play at the Indian
Creek Golf Course at Hood
River on Oct. 1 will contin-
ue at the sign up table.
Celebration of Life
Births
Norah Jean Heath
–Ryan and Katie Heath
of Pendleton announce
the birth of a daugh-
ter, Norah Jean Heath.
Norah was born April
25, 2018 at 6:15 a.m.
at St. Anthony’s Hos-
pital in Pendleton. She
weighed 7 pounds,
9 ounces and was 20
inches long.
Norah joins her
big sister Jorie Lynn
Heath.
Maternal grandparents
are Theresa Crawford, Hep-
pner and Craig Hams, Ione.
Paternal grandparents
Senior golfers play
at Condon
Willie Maddern
are Rita Hiatt and the late
Larry Heath of Heppner.
Norah’s great-grand-
A celebration of life
and potluck luncheon will
be held for Willie Maddern,
Heppner, on July 14 at 1
p.m. at the Morrow County
Fairgrounds in Heppner.
Maddern was born
Sept. 1, 1950 in Loma Lin-
da, CA and passed away on
May 21, 2018 at OHSU.
He is survived by his wife
Sally; two sons, Jeremy
and Jody; six grandchildren
and numerous nieces and
nephews.
The family requests do-
nations be made in his name
to the Nixyaawii Communi-
ty School athletic program,
73300 July Grounds Ln,
Pendleton, OR 97801.
The Heppner Christian
Church will hold Vacation
Bible School Monday, July
23 through Friday, July 27
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The
program is for children
from age three through
sixth-grade.
This year’s theme will
be “Discovering Jesus from
eternity past to eternity
future.” A barbecue dinner
will be provided on Fri-
day evening for the whole
family.
For additional informa-
tion or questions, call 541-
980-9391 or 541-561-8881.
The Loop Morrow
County Transportation will
be holding its quarterly
STF Advisory committee
meeting on July 17 at 3 p.m.
at the Boardman City Hall,
200 City Center Circle in
Boardman. On the agenda
will be revenue/expense
reports, 5311 federal grant,
Statewide Transportation
Improvement Fund and
other business for the good
of the order.
Following the STF Ad-
visory committee meeting,
there will be a meeting of
the Statewide Transpor-
tation Improvement Fund
(STIF). This meeting is for
the organization of an ad-
visory committee for STIF.
This advisory committee
will be responsible for dis-
bursing funds as per ODOT
rules and regulations that
Morrow County will be
receiving from HB 2017.
The public is encouraged to
attend this meeting.
For further informa-
tion please contact Anita
Pranger at The Loop office
at 541-676-5667.
The USDA Forest Ser-
vice Pacific Northwest Re-
gion announces that the
recently launched Pacific
Northwest Forest Service
recreation app is now avail-
able in both Android and
iOS mobile platforms.
The app serves as a
complement to the Forest
Service’s traditional web-
site by offering a more
mobile-friendly way of
connecting to the outdoors.
Based on a mapping inter-
face that allows visitors to
find recreational opportuni-
ties near them, the app pro-
vides information on hiking locations and office hours who visit,” said Jim Peña,
trails, camp-
and alerts on Pacific Northwest Regional
ing, picnick-
fires and road Forester. “We heard people
ing, boating
closures.
want more mobile-friendly
areas and
“This mo- ways of getting their hiking,
more across
bile app is one camping and other recre-
16 national
of many ways ation information, and this
forests, one
we are trying app delivers just that.”
national sce-
to do our part
The iOS version of
nic area and
t o b e g o o d the app was released in
two nation-
neighbors and May and already has nearly
al volcanic
support both 10,000 downloads with a
monuments
the communi- 4.7 rating in the Apple app
in Oregon
ties we serve store.
and Washington. The app and the recreation users
also provides other import-
ant information on passes
and fees, visitor center
United Methodist volunteers will serve lunch on
Wednesday, July 18 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Lunch
will be fish and chips, sunshine carrots, sliced tomatoes,
Frank Carlson is the
bread sticks and ice cream for dessert.
entertainer scheduled to
Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is perform at the Ione Legion
$3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
Hall on Sunday, July 22
at 6 p.m. Carlson comes
from Baker City and per-
forms every other Friday
at the VFW there and also
entertains at many eastern
Oregon events.
According to a source,
you should know most of
the words to the songs that
Murray’s Drug is now
Carlson sings, they are fun
to listen to and his music is
accepting applications
great for dancing.
Tacos Hometown will
be set up in the parking
lot to provide food for the
event and you are welcome
to bring your own bever-
ages.
This second free con-
cert for Ione’s Music in
the Park will be held at
the legion hall this time so
there is a dance floor. The
summer music series is fa-
cilitated by the Ione Library
Board and funded by the
Morrow County Unified
Recreation District.
Rebecca and Richard Matthews.
parents are Wayne and
Dianna Hams of Ione and
Susan Lindemuth of An-
chorage, AK.
Christian Church to
hold bible school
Rebecca (Jepsen) Mat-
thews and husband, Richard
Matthews both graduated
with a Doctor of Physical
Therapy degree (DPT) from
Eastern Washington Uni-
versity at the commence-
ment ceremony held Satur-
day, June 16 in the Spokane
Arena.
Rebecca is the daughter
of Bill and Nancy Jepsen of
Heppner and a 2012 grad-
uate of Ione High School.
Rebecca and Richard are
both employed as physical
therapists at Wallowa Me-
morial Hospital in Enter-
prise, OR.
LCAC meeting
rescheduled
Due to the 4 th of July holiday, the regularly scheduled
LCAC meeting for July was rescheduled to the second
Thursday this month. The meeting will be held Thursday,
July 12 at 9 a.m. in the upstairs conference room of the
Bartholomew building, 110 N Court St, Heppner.
Forest Service recreation app available
The Loop to hold
quarterly meeting
Frank Carlson to
perform at Ione
Community lunch menu
for a pharmacy techni-
cian at our Heppner lo-
cation. Full time/
Mon-Fri, experience
preferred, background
check and drug screen
required. Contact
John or Ann Murray
for more details.
541-676-9199.
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Ione Oregon. 97843
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