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.
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