SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Heppner volleyball team
defeats Enterprise
The Mustangs rally around ZaBrena Masterson as she
jumps up for a spike.
Senior ZaBrena Masterson
fights for the ball against the
net. -Photos by Susan Hisler.
Morgan Cutsforth (#14) gets ready to dump the ball down
over the net.
Senior Serena Humphreys
(#25) sets the ball.
By Hannah Finch
Last Saturday, October
9, the Heppner volleyball
girls traveled to Union,
where they played both
Union and Enterprise. The
first game was lost 0-3, but
this didn’t dishearten the
Mustangs, who beat Enter-
prise 3-1 right afterwards.
The girls have shown some
impressive resilience this
season, and it doesn’t seem
to be dying down anytime
soon.
Next Tuesday, October
19, Heppner will have their
senior night. ZaBrena Mas-
terson and Serena Hum-
phreys are this year’s only
seniors. It is also pink night,
where the student section
will be dressing in pink in
respect to Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. The
school is encouraging fans
to wear pink as well. The
Mustangs will be playing
against Stanfield, so settle
in for a good game.
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Good News Only
By Doris Brosnan
Yes, the swimming
pool has closed for the
season, but the therapy pool
remains a cold-weather
option. By calling Skip
Matthews at 541-256-0383,
interested people can learn
details for renting on a per-
month basis, per-month-
per-family basis, renting
for an hour for one person
or for an hour for a small
group. As Skip explains,
different scenarios have dif-
ferent charges, and during
the chilly months, the pool
can become quite busy, so
talking to him will get a
plan in place.
Congratulations and
happy retirement to Sam
Bellamy. Sam is apparent-
ly ready for some “down
time,” for he has sold his
business to John Ferguson.
Early this month, Shir-
ley Connor was surrounded
by family for celebration
of her 80 th birthday. And
how special it was. For
the first time in nineteen
years, all of her children
(and spouses and children
who could come) were with
her; Deann from CO- with
daughters Sierra and Whit-
ney and Whitney’s Dax,
who is six; Greg and wife,
Jodi, from Asotin; Penny
and husband, Doug, from
LaGrande, with daughter
Anica and husband, Torrey,
and their K’Lani (6) and
Katie; Eric and wife, Irene,
from Fall City, WA, with
daughter Clara. A niece
and a cousin added to the
festivities that included 21
for dinner at G&B on Sun-
day, the 3 rd .
Judy Buschke enjoyed
lunch with 11 friends at the
Elks on Thursday, the 7 th ,
a special part of her 83 rd
birthday celebration. The
beautiful bouquet was a
bonus, and the cards and
calls from many family
members made the day one
to remember.
Veda George, who is
a fourth-grader in a fam-
ily of hunters, once again
proved her prowess as a
hunter last week. Last year,
Veda, daughter to Destiny,
granddaughter of Cam and
great-granddaughter of Kit,
was determined to go deer
hunting, so she put in many
hours to perfect her shoot-
ing and handling of a rifle.
Her reward was her clean
hit of a three-point buck, in
the mentored-hunter pro-
gram. This year, again in
the mentored-hunter pro-
gram, Veda made a perfect
shot of an elk at 235 yards.
Maybe a bit disappointed
by the lack of antlers, Veda
grabbed the ears as though
they were antler bases and
smiled the smile of a suc-
cessful hunter.
This is homecoming
week at Ione High School.
Every day has added an
activity to increase the ex-
citement, such as the mud
wars. Tomorrow, everyone
is invited to the noise pa-
rade at 2 p.m. in the park
and then to the volleyball
match at 5. And the bonfire
will blaze after that. On
Friday, the football team
will host Dufur at 7 p.m.,
and the homecoming court
will be presented during
halftime. Topping off the
week will be the dance on
Saturday, a chilly outdoor
affair at the park.
Good news for anyone
who likes pie but prefers
that someone else make
them: HHS FBLA members
are again selling home-
made pies. Advisor Jeanne
Collins reports that the
members do actually make
the crusts and the fillings,
under her and Rita Berg-
strom’s watchful eyes, and
will be doing that after
school hours beginning on
November 15. Orders may
be placed until November
11 with FBLA students or
by calling the high school at
541-676-9138. The average
yearly number of these pies,
which are delivered frozen,
is 200. The varieties are
lemon icebox, Oreo, apple,
cherry, mixed berry, peach,
pecan and pumpkin. This
is an opportunity to mark
one chore off one’s holi-
day-dinner list of things
to make and to support
the organization’s effort to
fund their trip to the Ore-
gon convention and to pay
members’ dues.
If you enjoy reading
others’ tidbits about happy
happenings, you can be sure
that others will enjoy read-
ing yours. Send your good-
news tidbits before Monday
afternoon to dbrosnan123@
gmail.com, or call 541-676-
5382 or 541-223-1490, or
stop me on the street.
Here’s hoping that
some good news comes to
everyone reading this.
Octoberfest to benefit Woolery
Project event center
The Woolery Project
will hold their 7 th annu-
al Oktoberfest on Satur-
day, October 16 at the Ione
American Legion Hall.
Tickets to the event are $35
at the door and will include
dinner. Social hour begins
at 4:30 p.m. and dinner at
6. Music will be provided
by Frank Carlson and Dan
Robinson and bar service
by Route 74.
The dinner, provided
by Paradise Rose Chuck-
wagon, will include tri-
tip or barbecued chicken,
raspberry vinaigrette salad,
cheesy potatoes, bourbon
beans, rolls, grilled veggies
and berry cobbler with fresh
whipped cream.
The event will include
a raffle, games and an auc-
tion with over 30 silent
auction items. An example
of auction and raffle items
include a Big Loop Henry
rifle, 12-gauge shotgun,
tires, locally made quilts
and a small greenhouse. A
bunkhouse dinner for 10
and a $1,500 rental from
Blue Mountain Rental as
well as handmade juniper
items will also be included.
The proceeds from
this event, and all of the
Woolery Project events, are
used to pay for profession-
al services necessary for
building the event center
that is planned in Arlington.
Professionals hired include
The Woolery group plans to build a barn-like structure event
center in Arlington.
grant writers, engineers and
accounting firms who are
now working on getting
the grants and completing
the site plan. The group
hopes to break ground on
the event center next spring.
The Woolery Proj-
ect is a small, grassroots
non-profit working to se-
cure and build an event
center for use by the citi-
zens of the eastern part of
Oregon, or anyone who
needs a large, open venue
for destination weddings,
memorial services, concerts
and theatre – really any
event that requires a large
building with open space
and spectacular views.
Called “The Woolery,”
the center will provide
room for any number of
events, a heritage center and
a central point of focus for
tourism and recreation in
the community. The large
barn-like structure will also
provide many opportunities
for the region, socially, eco-
nomically and historically.
DA’s Report
Morrow County District Attorney Justin Nelson has
released the following report:
-Gena Tortolani plead guilty to disorderly conduct,
90 days in jail imposed.
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