County rodeo boasts winners
Jett Stewart wins amateur calf roping saddle
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VOL. 137
NO. 35
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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.
Community members
brought up the need for
more law enforcement, pos-
sibly local vs. contract with
-See COMMUNITY MEET-
ING/PAGE FOUR
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