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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 18, 2025 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ Published weekly by Sykes Publishing and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 177 N Main St. Telephone (541) 676-9228. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or sykeschris@hotmail.com Web site: www.heppner.net. Post- master send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: In Morrow County $36/year. Outside Morrow County $41/year. In County Senior Rate (65 years or older) $31/year. 9 month Student student subscriptions $36/year. Chris Sykes ...............................................................................................Publisher Andrea DiSalvo ............................................................................................. Editor Cindi Doherty.........................................................................................Advertising All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5.65 per column inch. Cost for classified ad is 55¢ per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $16 up to 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $6.15 per column inch. For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Dates for publi- cation must be specified. Affidavits must be requested at the time of submission. Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries: Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines. Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary. For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author. The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters. All letters MUST include the author’s address and phone number for use by the GT office. The GT reserves the right to edit letters. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $16 Golf at WCCC Over the Tee Cup Eleven ladies attended the Willow Creek Country Club for a hot and breezy ladies play day on Tuesday, June 10. Karen Thompson had low gross of the field. Tif- fany Clement had low net of the field. Corol Mitchell had least putts. For flight A, Pat Dough- erty had low gross. For flight B, Shirley Martin had low gross, Sha- ron Harrison low net and Karen Smith-Griffith least putts. Corol Mitchell had a chip-in on #13. Other events: Colleen Neubert, Pat Dougherty and Karen Thompson. Willow Creek Sunday men’s play Seventeen participated in men’s play on Sunday, June 15, at Willow Creek Country Club. Results are as follows: KP #4-13, Charlie Fer- guson 3’8”. KP 2nd shot #6-15, Jeff Watkins 2’6”. Net—1 st , Tom Shear, 57; 2 nd /3 rd (tie), Tim Hed- man-Gary Watkins, 60. Gross—1 st , Dennis Peck, 64; 2 nd , Charlie Fer- guson, 66; 3 rd , Jeff Watkins, 67. There will be no Sun- day play the next two weeks. Next Sunday is the Jo Pettyjohn Tournament, and the following weekend is the Men’s Invitational Tour- nament. The next men’s play will be on July 6. Host- ing the event will be John Bowles and Duane Disque. Cemetery district to meet The Heppner Cemetery Maintenance District will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, June 26, at 5:15 p.m. The meeting will be held via phone. Agenda items include minutes of previous meet- ing, review of treasurer’s report, adoption of the 2025-2026 budget, making appropriations, and impos- ing and categorizing tax. Meetings of the Hep- pner Cemetery Mainte- nance District are open to the public according to ORS 192.640(1). With questions or to attend by phone, please contact Amy Kollman at 541-377-1055. Spiritually Speaking Father Thankachan Joseph Jesus calls us to be bread for others This Sunday, the church celebrates the Solemnity of the Corpus Christi, the “Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ.” The 20 th and 21 st centuries are known for people making souvenirs of their memorable events of life. But Jesus thought of it two thousand years ago. We can see it in the Gospel of John (13:1): “Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father,” He called His disciples together to celebrate. The Holy Eucharist is the parting gift of the Lord Jesus to us before His departure to the Father. Food is a main factor in human lives. Families work hard to satisfy their stomachs as well as those of others who depend on them. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Beth- lehem means the place of bread, place of meat. Jesus was born to become bread for everyone and to quench the spir- itual and physical hunger of everyone. Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist as the memorial of His presence with us. Is Jesus really present in the Holy Eucharist? Every day and at every Eucharistic celebration, the real pres- ence of the Lord takes place. Every Mass involves a true Eucharistic miracle in which the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Our Lord. The real presence of the Lord is felt in the Eucharistic bread that is kept in the tabernacle. Eucharistic miracles take place every day on every continent. A story from the life of St. Antony of Padua (1195-1231), whose feast was last Friday, is one testament to this as he engaged in conversation with a particularly stubborn heretic in a city called Rimini. What are you hungering for? Jesus satisfies the phys- ical hunger of humans before the spiritual one. The Eu- charistic discourse of Jesus in the Gospel of John begins with the miracle of loaves. He fulfills the natural hunger of everyone before He begins the spiritual discourse. The temptation of the Lord in the desert begins with the tempter asking Jesus to change the stones into bread since the Lord was hungry. In the last judgment scene, too, we read that to the people on the right He says, “Come you that are blessed by my Father! I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink” (Mathew 25: 34-35). From these examples, we need to assume that Jesus addresses the basic needs of human life first. The Lord is always available to satisfy the hunger and thirst of humans. What does the Feast of Corpus Christi teach us to do? Do we approach Him for physical food or spiritual food? As humans we cannot live on bread alone. We need more than food to live. In the Gospel of John, when he speaks about the vine and branches and in the Eucharistic discourse, too, Jesus reminds us that without Him, we cannot live. “I tell you solemnly, if you do not eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you will not have life in you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I in him anyone who eats this bread will live forever” (John 6:53-54). On the feast of Corpus Christi, Jesus offers various kinds of ‘bread’ to the faithful to gratify their many hungers. To people who followed Him into the desert, and who were starving, He offered ordinary bread and so satisfied their physical hunger. To the person with leprosy whose body was falling apart, He offered the only bread that mattered—the bread of physical healing. To the lonely woman at Jacob’s well, He offered the bread of human kindness and acceptance. To sinners He offered the bread of forgiveness. To the rejects and outcasts, by mixing with them, He offered the bread of empathy and companionship. To the widow of Nain, and Martha and Mary, who had lost someone dear to them, He offered the bread of compassion. To the thief who died by His side, He offered the bread of repentance and reconciliation with God. As Jesus has become bread and gratified the human deprivation, it is our time to satisfy human needs of people around us. Is there anyone hungry around me? How do I approach such situations and become bread for someone in need? What bread are we looking for? 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DONUT DAY -Continued from PAGE ONE thank you, hold doors, turn of service-minded people.” The doughnuts provid- ed by the Neighborhood Center were made by Kev- in and Nita Reser at the Hermiston Donut Shop and purchased by The Neigh- borhood Center with funds from the AWS ChangeX Grant and the Salvation Army. Clark says the dough- nuts were intended to ex- press gratitude to those traditionally honored on Donut Day but also to those who serve the community in small ways every day— those who say hello and in lost cell phones, carry heavy loads and offer cold drinks of water on a hot day. “The people tradition- ally being recognized share with us their stories and experiences, and we all learn to serve one another beautifully from them, so thank you for your service to one another, our country and this community that so many call home,” says Clark. “I hope a donut found its way to you and, if not, know that we are grateful to you still.” Seniors Matter June Menu June 3 - Chicken Pot Pie, Garden Salad, Dessert June 10 - Breakfast Casserole, Coffee Cake, Peaches June 17 - Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo, Garden Salad Dessert June 24 - Sloppy Joes, Chips, Pickle Spears, Dessert Ad sponsored by Bank of Eastern Oregon Lunch & Dinner Menu 6/19 - 6/25 Thursday - Hot roast beef dip with macaroni salad Friday - Grilled Buffalo chicken blue cheeseburger with grapes & coleslaw Dessert option - Bucknums strawberry shortcake a la mode $4 Ruckus Music fest 5pm fairgrounds Saturday - Bratwurst with sauerkraut, chips, and watermelon Ruckus Music fest 4pm fairgrounds Sunday - Closed Monday - 1/2 order biscuits and gravy, 2 eggs and hashbrown pattys Tuesday - Pastrami Reuben with deep fried zucchini Tuesday Night 6-9pm $2 hard shell tacos Wednesday - Teriyaki chicken rice bowl WWW.HEPPNER.NET Submit News, Advertising & Announcements Letters To The Editor Send Us Photos Start A New Subscription
