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HEPPNER Bookworms celebrate 90 years G T 50¢ azette imes Pictured (L-R): Linda Riney, Claudia Hughes, Sally Walker, Jackie Allstott, Suzanne Jepsen, Pat Edmundson, Cara Osmin, Babette Wall, Molly Rill, Sharon Harrison, Doris Brosnan and Cherry Webber. -Photo by Bobbi Gordon. the occasion. The group also celebrated Suzanne Jepsen’s 90 th birthday on the 23 rd . Suzanne was born VOL. 137 NO. 44 10 Pages Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon in Heppner on the same day the Bookworms held its first meeting, Oct. 26, 1928. Ninety years ago a group of 12 women in Mor- row County gathered to form a book club, calling it Bookworms. The original members were Mrs. Charles Smith, Miss Madge Coppo- ck, Mrs. J.T. Lumley, Mrs. E.F. Bloom, Mrs. Spencer Crawford, Mrs. Paul Gem- mell, Mrs. J.O. Turner, Mrs. A.A. McAtee, Miss Leta Humphreys, Miss Lulu Hager, Mrs. H.C. Case and Mrs. Rodgers. In 1998, while celebrat- ing their 70 th anniversary, a news story stated that the city library was located next to the Gazette-Times, where the city police used to be housed. During that If you’ve got Arachnophobia you might want to avoid the Kuhn Law Offices in Heppner this week. Or maybe if you like a good time, some of the members Halloween display, just stop by and take a look. Spiders are crawling everywhere, but just until Halloween is over. Attorney served as librarians. School Bill Kuhn and his assistant Bobbi Winter are in the spider’s web above. -Photo by David Sykes teachers brought their class- es to the library for story hour, but since there was no furniture, the Bookworms I o n e F FA m e m b e r Ione Community School wove strips of newspaper Grace Ogden took second and is the daughter of Jarrod into mats for the children place in the National FFA and Alison Ogden. In ad- to sit on. Creed Career Development dition to FFA, Grace plays In the early years of the event held in Indianapo- volleyball and basketball, is club, the same book was lis, IN on Oct. 25 and 26. a member of 4-H and serves discussed at each meeting Ogden became eligible to as a 4-H ambassador for the because they could only compete in the event after county. obtain one or two copies winning the Oregon State The FFA Creed Career at a time. The books were FFA Creed Career event in Development event allows passed around the members March at the state FFA Con- students to develop leader- vention held in Bend, OR. ship skills by participating “It is estimated that in public speaking activities over 144,000 first year FFA and by stimulating interest members participate in the in leadership and citizen- creed contest at some level ship. Participants must re- Heppner High School throughout the country. cite the FFA Creed from will be hosting a program Grace was number two, an memory and answer three to honor local veterans for absolutely incredible feat questions from the judges their service to our coun- for a young freshman,” said indicating familiarity with try on Thursday, Nov. 8 OSU Extension agent and the subject and the ability at 10:30 a.m. in the high former FFA advisor, Erin to think quickly. Partici- school gymnasium. All Heideman. “Our school pants are judged on voice, veterans, past and present and our community is over- stage presence, power of Grace Ogden with her Creed Speaking award. -Contributed whelmingly proud of Grace expression, general effect photo. and her efforts.” and response to questions. Grace is a freshman at Spiders, Spiders everywhere! The Bookworms Club of Heppner celebrated their 90 th birthday on Oct. 23 at the Morrow County Muse- um. Each of the ladies in the club dressed as a dif- ferent decade to celebrate Ione FFA member wins national contest Suzanne Jepsen celbrated her 90th birthday. and each had only a day or two to read the book. According to records, there were some amusing stories about the ladies ironing and reading, bathing and reading and cooking and reading just to get the book finished and passed to the next lady. The club now meets twice a month Septem- ber through May and each member chooses their own book to review. Over the years the Bookworms have donated books to the cur- rent library as well as to other groups, such as, Hill- crest School for Girls, the Veterans’ Hospital in Walla Walla, Pioneer Memori- al Hospital, the Salvation Army and the Neighbor- hood Center. When the current library opened in Heppner in 1960, the ladies sponsored a silver tea to cel- ebrate the opening and have held other events to benefit the library throughout the years. Local veterans to be honored military personnel are in- vited to attend. A complimentary lunch will be provided for all veterans and their spouses following the program. The program is open to the public. ‘Fall back’ this Sunday Morrow County Health District selects surveyor Morrow County Health District Board selected Primm Land Surveying, Hermiston, to survey Pi- oneer Memorial Hospital campus to determine if the site is amenable to expan- sion for renovation or re- building. Primm’s bid was not the low bid at $8,850, but another bid, from JUB at $6,850, did not include the specificity required. “We need expertise,” said a board member. Primm had indicated a start date of November 12. The board directed CEO Bob Houser to make arrangements with Primm. Now that the Irrigon Clinic remodel is nearing completion, MCHD is seek- ing to determine the feasi- bility of “modernization” of the hospital and clinic facilities. Houser also reported the district has completed a telephone interview with a physician from Polson, MT, and is working on an onsite visit with her sometime in November. He said the dis- trict has also conducted a skype interview with a phy- sician from Cheyenne, WY, who was to have visited the district on Oct. 30, with an interview on Oct. 31. He also said he has interviewed several phy- sician’s assistants for the Irrigon position and the district has made an offer to a candidate for the Pioneer Memorial Clinic position. That candidate was to have responded Tuesday. Also at the meeting, the board approved a request for $3,498 for the purchase of 25 football helmets for the Irrigon Grid Kids Foot- ball program and for $3,000 to $3,400 from Greg Grant, Heppner High School ath- letic director, to purchase portable Automated Arti- ficial Defibrillators for the school and for travel. The purchases will come from the health district’s com- munity benefit grant funds. Newly-hired com- munications/community relations manager Katie Siri was introduced at the meeting. In other business, the board received the fol- lowing information from Houser: -the annual Critical Ac- cess Hospital report was presented on October 16 with public/patient input given by David Sykes and Robin Bredfield. -annual Rural Health Clinic reports were sched- uled for October 18 for the Ione Community Clinic, October 22 for the Irrigon Medical Clinic and October 30 for Pioneer Memorial Clinic. -Pioneer Memorial Hospital has held its annual Chicken Soup and Flu Shot Clinic for employees. -Toni Young was named third quarter safety champi- ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. New communications/com- munity relations manager Katie Siri on for her role in steriliz- ing the scopes following procedures. Co-champions were Danny Sharp, Nate Kennedy and Mike Skow, Maintenance Department, for the “outstanding job of remodeling the Emergency Department and main RN station to accommodate the Omnicell units in a safe and timely manner while staff worked around them.” -Scott Coombs, archi- tect with Clark/Kjos will be on site November 8 to review proposed renova- tions to the hospital clinic with department managers and providers. -the new Irrigon Medi- cal Clinic addition is com- pleted and staff moved in October 23-25, with the first patient seen on Oc- tober 26. “Phase II now begins,” said Houser. The new schedule was moved The days are getting shorter, and it’s time to “fall back.” The Gazette-Times would like to remind ev- eryone to set their clocks back for the end of Daylight Savings Time this Sunday, Nov. 4. from the end of January to the first part of February. The board also declared numerous no longer used items as surplus. Chief Financial Offi- cer Nicole Mahoney pre- sented the following profit and loss statement through September to the board: MCHD received $919,727 in gross patient revenue for September, less $18,332 in provision for bad debts, plus $5,169 in contractual and other adjustments for $13,163 in revenue de- -See HEALTH DISTRICT/ PAGE FIVE PMI NUTRITION RED FLANNEL DOG & CAT FOOD 10 % OFF Morrow County Grain Growers Green Feed & Seed 242 W. Linden Way, Heppner • 676-9422 • 989-8221 (MCGG main office)
