THREE - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 22, 2018
A View from the Green
Senior golfers play
at Umatilla
Willow Creek senior
golf club members com-
peted in the Columbia-Blue
Senior Association tourna-
ment at the Big River Golf
Course in Umatilla on Aug.
13.
Results for the Willow
Creek members are:
-Columbia division
(handicap 18 and below)
fifth place in gross went
to Barry Munkers with a
score of 81and Tom Shear
placed fifth in net with a
score of 67.
-Blue division (handi-
cap 18-23) seventh went to
Steve Marlatt with 73.
-Senior division (hand-
icap 24 and above) second
place went to Dave Cres-
wick with his score of 94.
The next Colum-
bia-Blue senior tournament
will be held at the China
Creek Golf Course in Ar-
lington on Sept. 10, with
7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. tee
times. Lunch will be pro-
vided by the China Creek
ladies group for a nominal
charge. Players wishing to
reserve a cart should call
the China Creek pro shop
at 541-454-2000.
Men’s club results
announced
Twenty golfers partici-
pated in Sunday men’s play
at Willow Creek Country
Club on Aug. 19.
In the two-man best
ball, it was a three-way tie
for gross with the teams of
Barry Munkers/Ron Bow-
man, Josh Coiner/Slater
Mitchell and Brian Fallow/
Jake Mahan, all with a score
of 59.
Net was also a three-
way tie with Dale Boyd/
Dave Mitchell, Dave Cres-
wick/Mike Bergstrom and
Roger Ehrmantraut/Steve
Marlatt with 48.
Individual gross was
Slater Mitchell with a 62
in first place, Ron Bowman
Kris Lindner took low with a 64 in second and Bri-
gross on flight C and low
net was Bunnie Lindsay.
Nancy Arnson had the least
putts.
Judy Harris had a chip-
in on holes seven and nine.
Della Heideman had a bird-
ie on hole four. Longest
putt on number eight went
to Nancy Propheter, KP on
hole four to Della Heide-
man and KP second shot to
Lorrene Montgomery.
The Edie Skow net
championship and club
championship will be held
Sept. 4 and 5.
Over the Tee Cup
The Willow Creek
Country Club ladies play-
day hosted 17 ladies on
Aug. 14.
Low gross of the field
went to Nancy Propheter
and low net to Judy Harris
and Sharon Harrison. Least
putts of the field was split
by Pat Dougherty and Pat
Edmondson.
Low gross for flight A
was Virginia Grant and low
net was Loa Heideman.
Flight B low gross went
to Della Heideman, low net
to Karen Haguewood and
least putts to Betty Burns.
an Fallow with a 64.
Individual net was a tie
between Delbert Binschus
and Roger Ehrmantraut in
first with a 55. Second was
a tie with Ralph Walker and
Dale Boyd with a score of
56.
Delbert Binschus got
KP with 11 feet, 3 inches
and Rick Johnston got KP
second shot with 7 feet, 1
inch.
The course will be
closed Aug. 22-24 to pave
the parking lot. The next
men’s play will be on Sun-
day, Aug. 26 and will be
hosted by Matt Bergstrom,
Charlie Ferguson and Jerry
Gentry.
Morrow last in college educated,
first in healthy diet
Highest in mobile home living,
lowest in housing costs
Local dairy offers
free corn
John Vandenbrink dairy has field
of corn for school donations
A recent report issued by OSU and Ford Foundation shows
interesting statistics about the counties in Oregon, and how
they compare to one another on various aspects.
RUSSELL
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district the meeting was
unlikely to commence in
Morrow County.
Aug. 3 rd I received
a phone call from Tuck-
er Billman in Greg’s La
Grande office inviting me
to attend a meeting with
Greg Walden and Dr. Scott
Gottleib in Bend, OR the
following Tuesday morn-
ing. I asked if I could invite
Sara, and the answer was
yes. My assumption was
that 50 or so people would
attend the meeting and
it would consist of local
elected public officials and
medical professionals from
Central Oregon. I wasn’t
sure how much time we
would have allotted to us,
but Sara agreed to make
the seven-hour drive from
Reno to meet me, and my
wife Susan, who also has
Celiac disease.
Tuesday morning, Sara
and I arrived a few minutes
early to the hotel confer-
ence room that was much
smaller than anticipated,
joining a handful of other
early attendees. The few
we introduced ourselves to
indicated that they repre-
sented large pharmaceuti-
cal manufacturers. Shortly
thereafter, Greg Walden,
Dr. Gottleib and addition-
al staff members arrived.
There were only about 12
people in the room and a
round of introductions re-
Report compares
life in Oregon’s
counties
vealed representatives from
Oregon Health Science
University, Sara Russell –
consumer advocate for a
day, Don Russell – Morrow
County Commissioner, a
half a dozen people rep-
resenting the pharmacy
industry, Greg Walden and
Commissioner Gottleib of
the FDA. We were given the
floor for about 15 minutes,
and when I say we, I really
mean Sara.
Sara worked as a phar-
macy tech for nine months
when she was going to col-
lege and now works in the
insurance industry in Reno
with a heavy emphasis on
group medical coverage.
She told the audience that as
a well-informed consumer
she had difficulties finding
out if the medication pre-
scribed was safe for her or
her seven-year-old son to
take. It’s not the active in-
gredient that’s the problem,
rather the filler ingredients
that make a pill a pill. In-
gredients like starch, cellu-
lose, Vitamin E or caramel
coloring are all red flags for
potential gluten sources.
Everyone listened intently
and seemed to understand
the problem. Dr. Gottleib
indicated that the FDA has
included suggested word-
ing to specify gluten in a
working draft that may be
finalized soon. Sara asked
if suggested wording was
Off Rhea Creek Road near Ione take Morter Lane until you
come to the “Drive Slow” sign, from there go 1.5 miles to the
field of sweet corn.
The John Vandenbrink
dairy in Ione is offering free
sweet corn again this year to
anyone who wants to pick
some. Owners John and
Janna Vandenbrink just ask
that you put some money
in the donation box at the
field to help fund the local
school. “All the money
will go to the Ione School
Foundation,” said John,
when encouraging people
to come out and pick. He
estimated the corn will be
getting ripe and ready in
about a week or so.
Directions to the corn
are before you get to Ione,
take Rhea Creek Road.
Then turn on Morter Lane
until you come to a “Drive
Slow” sign, take that road
south about 1.5 miles and
you will come to the field
and a sign that says Sweet
Corn. “Come on out and
get some. It’s really good,”
says John.
strong enough to ensure
execution and was quickly
told by the representatives
present from the indus-
try that FDA suggestions
are taken very seriously.
Sara also proposed that
the FDA regulate labeling
consistency and placement
for products advertising
as gluten free to ease frus-
trations many consumers
experience when grocery
shopping, which was well
received by the FDA rep-
resentatives for future con-
sideration.
It was a great oppor-
tunity for Sara and me to
advocate for the estimated
3.5 million people in this
country that have Celiac.
I’m also certain that if Greg
Walden were not the Chair
of the Energy and Com-
merce committee for the
House of Representatives
it would not have happened.
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By David Sykes
A recent report issued
by Oregon State University
and the Ford Foundation,
shows data on various as-
pects of populations and
living conditions in all 36
Oregon counties. Morrow
ranks high in some areas
and low in others.
For instance, the num-
ber of people age 25 or old-
er with a four-year degree or
greater in Morrow County
is 10 percent, last out of the
36 counties. However, in
the high school graduation
rate Morrow is ranked num-
ber five with 84.5 percent
graduating. Low college
graduation has not slowed
down our earning potential,
however, with this study
ranking us at number seven
in the state with an average
of $54,441 in annual house-
hold income. However, a
later study moved Morrow
County up to the number
three ranking in average
household income in the
state of Oregon. Wheeler is
the lowest county in income
at $33,400.
On the housing front
the report shows Morrow
residents have low housing
costs, with just 23 percent
of its citizens paying greater
than 30 percent of their in-
comes toward housing. We
also have the highest per-
centage of our population
living in mobile homes, at
29.3 percent.
We also rank high in
property taxes collected
with per-capita at $2,708
in tax per person, number
three in the state. The figure
is arrived at by dividing the
total taxes collected, by the
number of people residing
in the county, so does not
break out residential and
business taxes paid.
We are also ranked top
in the state in healthy eat-
ing, with the highest per-
centage (by a long ways,
48.8 percent) reporting
eating the recommended
amounts of fruits and veg-
etables per day. The next
highest is Grant county at
30.9 percent. By the way,
who is not eating their veg-
gies? Curry county not do-
ing well at 5.9 percent not
eating healthy food.
In other general overall
statistics, Morrow has 61.2
percent of its population
classified as white and 34.7
percent Latino. We have an
unemployment rate of five
percent and a labor partic-
ipation rate of 61 percent.
The Oregon By The
Numbers report was re-
leased for the first time this
year, but is expected to be
an annual study. It is of
interest to those wanting to
know where we rank as a
county compared to others
in the state. The study cov-
ers many categories besides
those listed above includ-
ing: child poverty and child
abuse, crime, voter partici-
pation, smoking, vaccina-
tion rates, birth weights,
broadband access, vehicle
miles traveled and more.
“Oregon by the Num-
bers is a collaborative effort
between The Ford Family
Foundation and Oregon
State University. Together,
we designed this printed re-
port for local decision mak-
ers,” says Anne Kubisch,
President of the Ford Fam-
ily Foundation in Roseburg.
“We anticipate that Oregon
by the Numbers will be pro-
duced annually to support
communities across the
state as we all work to build
our collective future.
Additional copies
of this edition are avail-
able through the Foun-
dation’s Select Books
program (www.tffforgjse-
lect-books). A PDF ver-
sion is also available,” she
wrote.
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