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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2018
LOCAL
Singers offer St. Paddy’s cheer
HERMISTON HERALD
Musical entertainment,
dancing, sing-a-longs and
lots of blarney are featured
during performances of John
Doherty & the Irish Singers.
To enhance your St. Pat-
rick’s experience, be sure to
catch one of their local per-
formances. The group will
gather around microphones
to sing traditional Irish tunes
that they’ve mastered over
time. In addition, they will
strum a variety of instru-
ments (both traditional and
non-traditional) and encour-
age merriment throughout
the weekend. Catch John
Doherty & the Irish Sing-
ers at:
•Friday from 7-10 p.m.
at Sno Road Winery, 111 W.
Main St., Echo. No cover
charge. Food and drinks
available for purchase.
•Saturday during the 10
a.m. Irish Coffee Hour at A
Wee O’Ireland Celebration
at the Heppner Elks Lodge,
142 N. Main St. No cover
charge for the all-ages event.
Food and drinks available
for purchase throughout the
town’s festival.
•Saturday from 7-10 p.m.
at Great Pacific Wine & Cof-
fee Co., 403 S. Main St.,
Pendleton. There is no cover
charge for the all-ages show.
Food and drinks available
for purchase.
•Sunday 5-7 p.m. during
the Traditional Irish Dinner
at the Pendleton Convention
Center, 1601 Westgate. The
cost is $12 per person or $35
for a family.
The Sunday event serves
as a fundraiser for the Life
Teen program, which sup-
ports area youths in attend-
ing various Catholic-based
conferences, retreats, camps
and activities. In addition to
the musical entertainment,
the fourth annual event
includes a meal of Irish stew,
corned beef and cabbage,
salad, Irish soda bread and
trifle.
Also, Irish beer will be
available for purchase.
Tickets for the Irish Din-
ner can be purchased by con-
tacting Jacquie at 541-969-
9333, hitzman4@msn.com
or Tiffany at 541-310-0856.
mac.com or 541-276-0346.
For more about the associa-
tion, visit www.oregonmta.
org.
Jews for Jesus.
For more information,
call 541-481-9437. For
more about Jews for Jesus,
visit
www.jewsforjesus.
org.
BRIEFS
STAFF PHOTO BY TAMMY MALGESINI
Leprechauns will be out in force during this weekend’s A Wee Bit O’Ireland Celebration. The
36th annual event is Thursday through Sunday in Heppner.
Heppner celebrates
St. Patrick’s Day
By TAMMY MALGESINI
COMMUNITY EDITOR
Everyone can claim to be
a wee bit o’ Irish during St.
Patrick’s Day in Heppner.
Sheryll Bates, Heppner
Chamber of Commerce
executive director, invites
people to Shamrock Central
as they paint the town green
during the 36th annual A
Wee Bit O’Ireland Cele-
bration. While the major-
ity of the shenanigans take
place Saturday, the event
kicks off Thursday with a
vendor’s square (9:30 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m.) and a drama
performance (7 p.m.) writ-
ten and directed by Father
Gerry Condon. “Searching
For Meaning” is free but
donations are accepted on
behalf of “Anson Strong,”
benefiting the family of
Anson Fairbank, a local
2-year-old with leukemia.
New this year is Mur-
ray’s Irish Beer and Wine
Fest. Featuring Dan Burns
3D Productions — an elec-
trifying live DJ show com-
plete with music, lights, fog
and more — it kicks off Fri-
day at 8 p.m. at the Mor-
row County Fairgrounds.
Admission is free. Food
and drinks will be available
for purchase.
Musical entertainment,
food and fun will be aplenty
as people from near and afar
celebrate the town’s Irish
heritage. Joe and Leanne
Lindsay, their children,
Ryan, Cori Jo and Andrew,
and other extended family
members are grand mar-
shals of the Great Green
Parade (Saturday, 1 p.m.).
Also, the Lindsay gang
will surely share some blar-
ney during the Irish Coffee
Hour (Saturday, 10 a.m.).
Actually 90 minutes
long, the coffee klatch is a
weekend highlight, Bates
said. It features music, an
Irish Brogue Contest, cash
prizes and running com-
mentary between host
Tom Melton, Condon (a
retired Catholic priest),
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden and
local attorney Bill Kuhn.
Although new to the cof-
fee gang, Kuhn’s corny
jokes have earned him the
seat previously reserved
for Dominic Monahan, a
retired attorney.
Other Saturday activities
include the Welly Toss (10
a.m.). It features launch-
ing Wellington boots for
ol’ Irish fun and braggin’
rights. And, when Pioneer
Memorial Hospital dis-
covered some old gurneys,
Bates said it was a sign to
bring back the Bed Races
(11 a.m.).
Also,
last
year’s
O’Planky Race (11:30 a.m.)
revival was quite a crowd-
pleaser, she said. In addi-
tion, activities for young
lads and lassies will be
plentiful during Top O’The
Hour (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.).
The Road Bowling, Bates
said, has been moved up
to Saturday. If that sounds
right up your alley, gather
a team of four and register
by 1 p.m. for the 3 p.m. lane
assignments.
The event also includes
sheep dog trials, a Cruz-In
car show, a children’s tal-
ent show and the annual
Friends of the Library book
sale. Also, be sure to fork
out some dough for a col-
lector’s button for a chance
to win a $100 pot o’ gold.
The drawings are Satur-
day at CEILI (2-4 p.m.) and
during the CrossStrung per-
formance (7:30-9:30 p.m.).
“We try to have some-
thing for everybody, so it’s
not just the coffee hour and
the parade and then every-
one drinks beer,” Bates
said. “It’s just a lot of fun.”
For more information,
including a link to a full
schedule, visit www.face-
book.com/st.patrickscele-
bration. For questions, call
541-676-5536.
Music workshop
focuses on eye-hand
coordination
Jews for Jesus
An upcoming music missionary to speak
workshop will examine
ways to further develop in Boardman
hand-eye coordination of
piano students.
The free event is offered
by the Umatilla-Mor-
row District of the Oregon
Music Teachers Associa-
tion. Presented by Deborah
Cleaver, “Where to Look
When: Developing Hand-
Eye Coordination” is Satur-
day, March 17 from 10 a.m.
to noon at the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, 850 S.W. 11th St.,
Hermiston.
The workshop is open
to music teachers and any-
one else who is interested
in attending. Advanced reg-
istration is not required.
Participants are welcome
to bring examples of pas-
sages that cause problems
for their students. For more
information, contact Sue
Nelson at musicdoc3@
Alan Bond of Jews for
Jesus is a guest speaker at
the Boardman First Baptist
Church.
The public is invited to
hear Bond’s presentation,
which is titled “Christ in
The Passover.” The free
event is Friday at 7 p.m.
at the church, 200 Willow
Fork Drive, Boardman.
Founded in 1973, Jews
for Jesus started as a small
group of young Jew-
ish believers in Jesus in
the Haight-Ashbury dis-
trict of San Francisco. It
has expanded to 13 coun-
tries and 25 cities around
the world and has embraced
new, creative modes of
ministry to keep up with
today’s technology. Bond
is a senior missionary at
the San Francisco branch of
Nazarene church
hosts ladies paint
night
A ladies paint night is
planned at the Hermiston
Church of the Nazarene.
Paint with Friends is
Tuesday, March 20 from
6:30-8:30 p.m. at the
church, 1520 W. Orchard
Ave., Hermiston. The activ-
ity is open to girls in fourth
grade through adults. A
donation jar will be avail-
able to assist with expenses.
No experience is neces-
sary for the beginner’s level
painting project. All sup-
plies are provided, although
if you have a favorite paint
brush you can bring it
along.
To register or for more
information, contact 541-
567-3677, hermistonnaz@
gmail.com or visit www.
hermistonnazarene.org.
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