TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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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? Only Jesus can
offer us that bread, because “He is the Bread of life.”
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Death Notice
Dorothy M. Green—Dorothy M. Green, 101, of
Lexington, OR passed away on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
A graveside service will be announced later. Sweeney
Payton Mortuary has been entrusted with the arrange-
ments (sweeneypaytonmortuary.com).
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
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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
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