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County rodeo boasts winners Jett Stewart wins amateur calf roping saddle HEPPNER G T 50¢ azette imes VOL. 137 NO. 35 6 Pages Wednesday, August 29, 2018 Jett Stewart rode away with the coveted Morrow County Amateur Calf Rop- ing saddle from the 2018 Morrow County Rodeo Aug. 19. There were two win- ners for the MOCO all- around cowboy for 2018 with a tie between Willy Gentry and Gus King. Wes Aragon won the saddle in the ranch bronc riding and Sue Gibbs took home the buckle in the Jan- ice Davis Memorial barrel racing. The winning team in Gentry and Wacy Coil work together to catch the calf in the hide race was Gus King Willy the ribbon roping event. -Photo by Juli McDonald. Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Heppner student honored at state fair Elizabeth Finch, a fourth grader from Heppner Elementary School, was honored during a reception held at the Oregon State Fair in Salem on Sunday, Aug. 26. Elizabeth’s art- work was chosen from over 2,000 submitted to the AITC Calendar Art Con- test. The contest celebrates Oregon’s many agricultural and natural resource goods and is sponsored annually by Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation (AITC). This year, 2,011 en- tries from across the state entered artwork featuring Oregon agriculture and natural resources into the contest. The winning art is published in a school-year calendar and distributed statewide. The contest is open to all Oregon pub- lic, private, charter and homeschool students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Since Oregon pro- duces over 220 different commodities, students have a wide variety of subjects from which to choose. Elizabeth said, “I drew a horse herding cattle. I like to draw horses and I thought I would be good at drawing cows and horses. I chose to draw that scene because I thought it would look pretty. I chose the scene because it is one of the commodities of Heppner. A lot of people have cattle.” “The calendar contest is a great project for teach- Looks like the mutton is doing the bustin’ with this young cowpoke. -Photo by Juli McDonald. Above: Elizabeth Finch was honored for her art work. Below: Drawing selected for the calendar by Elizabeth Finch. ers and students. It gives them an opportunity to teach about and discuss the bounty and beauty of Oregon agriculture and incorporate art into their classrooms,” said Jessica Jansen, AITC executive director. Each month in the calendar features one of the winning student’s art and each day of the year has a fact about agriculture. Besides having their artwork published in the calendar, each winning stu- dent received a $50 award and certificate. The art- work of all 13 winners will be on display during the Oregon State Fair which runs through Labor Day in Salem. Calendars are free to Oregon teachers and can be ordered for just $4 on oregonaitc.org/shop. Community Bank pays students for good grades In the eighth year of Community Bank’s Earn While You Learn program, 704 student-customers in the eastern Oregon and southeast Washington area cashed in on their good grades, earning a total of $16,777. Community Bank CEO Tom Moran had this to say about the EWYL program, “Community Bank is proud to announce the continued success of our Earn While You Learn program, which couples two items we are very passionate about; en- couraging the academic success of our young peo- ple, and learning the value of savings. This program is also an excellent example of how banking with a lo- cally owned and operated institution directly benefits the people of our commu- nities. Thank you to our customers who ultimately help the bank fund our local programs like Earn While You Learn, as well as other sponsorships and donations in our neck of the woods.” The program is de- signed to encourage stu- dents in their academic success by awarding Com- munity Bank youth savings account customers for their G-T Trophy Corner good grades. During the months of June and July, all Community Bank branches accepted end-of-the-year report cards from students in first through twelfth grade. For every top grade (indicated on the grad- ing system used for each school) in a main school subject that appeared on the report card, Community Bank deposited $1 into their Community Bank youth savings account. The Earn While You Learn Program is an annual reward of $1 per top grade, up to $50 annually per student, with payments given for the whole school year in June and July. The Heppner Ga- zette-Times wants to see pictures of your trophy animals from this hunting season. Stop by to have your picture taken, drop off photos, mail them to PO Box 337 in Heppner, email them to editor@ rapidserve. net or text cell phone photos to 541-980-6674. Chace Jones, Heppner, took his archery buck in the Silvies unit on Aug. 25, opening morning. His antelope was taken in the Malheur unit on Aug. 24. Both animals were taken under the youth mentor program. -Contributed photo and Tate Gentry. It was the team of Devin Robinson and Devin Rea who took first place in team roping. They were fol- lowed by Jaiden Mahoney and Gus King. Third place went to Lane Bailey and Jeff Bailey. Ribbon roping team of Gus King and Coy Patter- son took first place, John- ny Pederson and Stephen Thompson took second and Willy Gentry and Wacy Coil came in third. Devin Robinson placed first and Tony Currin sec- ond in open tie down calf roping. Breakaway roping went to Jacee Currin. Jett Stewart took second. It was Brandon Davis who stuck on the cow the longest during cow riding. Bo Foster and Willy Gentry came in second and third. The top steer rider was Blaine McClure. Senior barrel racing had Jessica Lewis tying up first place with Jaiden Mahoney second and Libby Lewis third. Intermediate barrels was Mary Ashbeck in first, Tenley Rosenbalm in sec- ond and Paige Miller in third. Zandra Masterson came in first in the junior barrel racing event, with Reece Weygandt in second and Marcus McGuire in third. Coming in first in mutton bustin’ was Jordan Fredericks. Second was a tie with Jack Eckman and Landry James. Gavin Wade Browne and Alexander Bo Foster rides away on his cow in the cow riding. -Photo by Juli McDonald. Flores tied for third. Always a favorite at the rodeo are the stick horse races. Taking the first-place trophy for the three-and- under group was Olivia Mooney, followed by Ellie Jean Fennern in second and Ian Macias in third. Emmitt Mooney was the winner in the four-to-five age group, followed by Urijah Wed- ding and Jack Eckman. Placing first in the six-and- seven-year-old group was Ketch Fennern, followed by Charlie Mullins and Morgan Milligan. First Heppner community meeting deemed successful By Sheryll Bates The Heppner citizen and business community meeting was held on Mon- day, Aug. 20 with over 200 community people and had a strong agency turn out of at least 10 representatives to hear the communica- tion from the community members. The meeting was organized by Melissa Lind- say, Heppner Chamber of Commerce and the City of Heppner. Businesses and community members had been expressing concern with some of the recent van- dalism of the parks, theft and suspicious neighbor- hood activity that had been taking place. “Heppner, be- ing a proud, proactive com- munity got together to share their concerns and work to develop some solutions to what they felt was not the kind of community they wanted Heppner to become. The community members were respectful and ex- pressed their willingness to get involved because they love their community,” said Sheryll Bates, Chamber of Commerce director. Tiah Sanderson Devin with Sade Project Manage- ment served as the facilita- tor and the evening started with expressed concerns and questions of the com- munity members present. Anyone wanting to share was given the opportunity, some had questions for specific agencies, some had concerns of what the community could do, but through this sharing those present heard the message over and over, “What can we (our community) do to change this?” One of the solutions suggested was to start a neighborhood watch and address some of the suspi- cious neighborhood activity and vandalism that had recently been observed and what to do to curtail this. It was suggested that everyone needed to be more observant and document what they saw and report it to the sheriff’s office, no matter how small they thought it was. Video could be helpful and the question 3 was asked what were the homeowner rights? Community members brought up code violations and the necessity to better enforce the codes, asked what it would take to have better enforcement, would it be necessary to hire a city employee to focus specifically on those issues, the city and sheriff’s office work together to address any code violations. It was mentioned that the city is working on ratification of enforcement of the city codes. There is concern about the drug abuse that is af- fecting the community and creating further crime. It affects not just the individ- ual, but children and family. It was noted that there is a need to include assistance to high school students as well. 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