EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Podiatry services
return to MCHD
As COVID-19 restric-
tions are lifted for vital
outpatient services, Board
Certified Foot and Ankle
Specialist, Dr. Kessa Mau-
ras, of Mt. Hood Podia-
try, has returned to serve
Morrow County residents
at Morrow County Health
District’s Pioneer Memo-
rial Clinic in Heppner. Dr.
Mauras will continue to see
patients from one to two
Fridays per month, with the
potential of increasing her
time in Heppner based on
the needs of the community
and patients.
While podiatric medi-
cine and surgery encompass
many areas, Dr. Mauras is
most passionate about dia-
betic foot ulcer prevention,
wound healing and limb
salvage. According to the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), ap-
proximately 73,000 ampu-
tations of lower limbs are
performed on those with
diabetes in the U.S. every
year.
Dr. Mauras is commit-
ted to educating patients
Grants recognized
for August yard of
the month
Dr. Kessa Mauras
about the prevention of foot
related medical conditions,
providing them with as
many resources as possible
so that in her words, “they
don’t become a statistic.”
She also shared that too
often, a skin injury or a
small wound can quickly
escalate to something more
serious when there is a de-
lay in receiving a medical
evaluation and appropriate
treatment.
Questions for Dr. Mau-
ras regarding her services in
Morrow County, or to in-
quire about an appointment,
contact Mt. Hood Podiatry
at 541-386-1006.
By Kay Proctor
Taking care of three
city lots that their home
sits on has earned Greg and
Virginia Grant the Yard of
the Month recognition for
August.
Situated between two
dead-end streets at 680
South Alfalfa Street, the
Grants enjoy the quiet
neighborhood that has a
baseball field, a city park,
Willow Creek, a hillside
walking trail and good
neighbors.
Ed and Marylee Hiem-
stra lived in the house when
Willow Creek Dam was
constructed behind the
property about 40 years
ago. Ed made sure that the
Corps of Engineers built
a nice wooden pole fence
on the back property and
Marylee, missing her back-
yard view of the Willow
Creek Valley, made sure
lots of trees were planted.
The fence and quite a few
of the trees are still there.
Rock terraces and mature
plantings add to the charm
of the 1937 bungalow.
Originally from Elgin,
Greg came to Heppner
to teach at Heppner High
School (HHS) where he
is now the Head Teacher,
Head Coach for football
and golf, and Athletic Di-
rector.
Virginia moved to
Heppner from La Grande,
worked as a dental hygienist
and somehow found time to
coach the HHS cheerlead-
ers. The two met through
Virginia’s brother, the late
Juan Elguezabal, who also
taught and coached at Hep-
pner schools.
The Grants’ daughter,
Sophie, is home for the
summer from Pacific Uni-
versity and son, Kellen, a
2020 HHS graduate, will
attend Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity.
The whole family en-
joys golfing and playing
in tournaments. Greg also
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Greg and Virginia Grant.
hunts and fishes and Vir-
ginia likes to work in the
yard. She collects large
rocks found in their travels,
hauling them home to find
a spot to put them.
With permission from a
local rancher, Greg hauled
home a rustic wood live-
stock trough. It now holds
a cactus given to her by her
sister and it’s Virginia’s
favorite plant, although
she especially likes snap-
dragons.
Favorites of Greg’s are
the tomatoes, tomatillos
and peppers he grows in an
enclosure. Virginia likes
to cook and makes a green
sauce from their harvest. At
one time, Greg grew a very
large vegetable garden with
drip lines for irrigation but
is on break from that for
now due to losing crop after
crop to deer raids.
Greg has found their
soil to be sandy. He has
also found a network of
old iron pipes and chunks
of glass, probably leftover
from the long-ago soda bot-
tling plant which the nearby
abandoned Soda Street was
named for.
In the past year, Kellen
and Greg rototilled, shov-
eled, packed sand, leveled
and completed a 28’ x 35’
backyard patio patterned
with different sized pavers,
some weighing nearly 70
lbs. This has become both
Greg’s and Virginia’s favor-
ite place in their yard.
The family dog, a Ger-
man Drahthaar named Mi-
ley, likes to help out by
gathering walnuts dropped
from a neighboring tree into
their backyard, pack them
to the front yard, and then
crack them open to eat.
When asked for gar-
dening tips, Greg says to
“ask advice from someone
who has been there and
done that” while Virginia
laughs and says to “have the
kids pull the weeds.”
Yard of the Month is
co-sponsored by the Hep-
pner Volunteers, MCGG/
Green Feed Store and the
City of Heppner.
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