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Heppner TSA competes at state level Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 27, 2022 -- NINE Lexington to celebrate second annual May Day event Lexington residents enjoying the 2021 May Day event. -Contributed photos. Pictured (L-R): Front; Daemon Worden, Jacob Finch, Madison Palmer, Roen Waite, Saul Lopez, Hannah Finch, Ty Boor, Cameron Proudfoot and Dailen Schultz. Back; Jaime Cavan-Harris, Karver Wilkins, Jacob Haugen, Brian Lindsay, Thomas Bales, Trevor Nichols, Cody Fletcher and Joe Sherman. -Contributed photo. The Heppner High School TSA Chapter at- tended the Oregon Tech- nology Student Association State Conference. They competed in VEX Robot- ics designing, building and controlling a robot to move game pieces around the ring. First place winners were Cody Fletcher, Joe Sherman and Trevor Nich- ols; second place, Ty Boor and Cameron Proudfoot; third place, Jacob Finch and Daemon Worden. Technology Problem Solving involved designing and building a bridge as long and tall as possible to support a golf ball. Second place winners were Trevor Nichols and Joe Sherman; third place, Roen Waite and Dailen Shultz. Dragster Design in- volved designing and build- ing a compressed air pow- ered race car. First place, Ty Boor; third place, Karver Wilkins. Fashion Design was designing uniforms for employees of a theme park ride called the “Power Death Notices Ralph W. Akers – Ralph W. Akers of Board- man, OR, was born Septem- ber 21, 1941, in Ione, OR. He died on November 17, 2021, in Kennewick, WA at the age of 80 years. A celebration of life service with military honors will be held Saturday, April 30, 2022, at 1 p.m. at the old Akers homestead, 2.2 miles downstream from Ione, follow the flags. Please share memories of Ralph with his family at burnsmortuaryhermiston. com. Burns Mortuary of Hermiston is in care of arrangements. FISHERMAN'S NIGHT Thursday, April 28th Oyster & Cod Dinner Dinner at 6:30pm Lodge at 8pm Lots of Raffle Items! Members & Guests Only A big Thank You to Theresa Crawford, Kandy Boyd and all our Election Board members on Administrative Professionals Day! You make a difference. Theresa and Kandy have gone above and beyond the normal expectations to support the Clerks office during the COVID-19 pandemic. They both came in and completed their jobs just like it was any other day. My office can’t offer the services we do without them. I want everyone to know how grateful I am to have them work for me and you. I’d also like to thank all the election workers that help us run great elections in Morrow County. Thank You for your hard work and dedication. Bobbi Childers, Morrow County Clerk Charger.” First place, Mad- ison Palmer; third place. Brian Lindsay and Thomas Bales. The next competition is Technology Bowl where teams of three go head to head with other teams an- swering technology related questions as quickly as possible. The Junior High TSA Chapter will be having their spring competition May 11 th . They will be compet- ing in Technology Problem Solving and Solar Powered Race Cars. Four Heppner TSA stu- dents will be attending the National TSA Conference in June located in Dallas, TX. Those attending are TSA state president Hannah Finch and TSA state officers Serena Humphreys, Madi- son Palmer and Jacob Finch along with their advisor Dave Fowler. In 2021 a small group of residents in Lexington wanted to start something positive to draw the com- munity together. They de- cided that “May Day” was a good time to celebrate the town, the community and the coming of spring. Spring is ushering in with new life of livestock and the springing up of crops, the growing of gar- dens and leaving winter be- hind. “The goal was to bring a few traditions of May Day and add some more that we hope will grow and carry on for years to come. We wanted to supplement the surrounding communities and add to the opportunities to come together,” noted Juli Kennedy, Lexington’s mayor. “As Heppner has St. Patrick’s Celebration, Ione has the 4 th of July and now Lexington has May Day. It has been a very long time since Lexington has had anything like this and the responses have been overwhelming,” Kennedy continued. The committee is look- ing forward to seeing ev- eryone Saturday, May 7 at the town hall in Lexington, 425 F Street. They kick off the morning at 9 a.m. with a 5k run/walk, there will be pies, baked goods, a bouncy house, kid’s activities and a parade at 11 a.m. that goes down Arcade Street and back to town hall. The event will also host food vendors, raffles, a car show and a corn hole tournament. There will be an open house at the Bellamy House (old Lexington school) from noon to 4 p.m. on May 7 as well with a candi- date’s forum sponsored by the Republican Party from 12:30 to 2 p.m. The Lexington Fire Department is having a breakfast that morning at 8 a.m. as well and the pro- ceeds for the breakfast will go to the Fire Department. The rest of the fundraising going on will be going to help our Grand Marshal Asher Schonbachler for medical needs. Watch next week’s issue of the Heppner Gazette-Times for a story about Asher. Do You Have Something to Share? Our newly updated website makes it easy to: •Submit news •Submit birth, engagement and wedding announcements •Send us photos •Submit letters to the editor •Place ads •Start a new subscription www.heppner.net Weekly deadline for all news and advertising is Monday at 5pm. 188 W Willow, Heppner • 541-676-9228
