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Weston Chamber of
Commerce
Educator and Citizen of the Year
for 2004
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Educator
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Citizen
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Martha Bartleson
Athena-Weston Middle School
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Tim Crampton Former City of
Weston Mayor |
Monday, April 25, 2005 Union-Bulletin, Walla Walla, Washington
Weston honors citizens at banquet
By Sheila Hagar of the Union-Bulletin
WESTON - Weston's Annual Chamber Award Banquet was well attended
Saturday night as residents turned out to honor their own.
The Citizen of the Year award went to former Mayor
Tim Crampton, recognition long overdue, presenter Jim Davis said
Saturday evening.
Crampton served on the City Council from 1992 to 1998, and as mayor of
the city from 1998 to 2003. He is currently president of the Umatilla
County Pioneer Association and of the Weston Chamber of Commerce.
Crampton's work on the Weston Downtown Commission in obtaining grants
for city improvements, as well as numerous other volunteer activities,
has been a real service to the community, Davis said.
It was important to let people know how instrumental Crampton has been
in helping Weston move forward, Davis told the Union-Bulletin this
morning.
Martha Bartleson, Weston's 2005 Educator of
the Year, began teaching at the Athena-Weston Middle School in 1989.
In presenting the award, Rick Hensel, superintendent of Athena-Weston
School District, told the crowd of Bartleson's willingness to assume
extra duties such as running the noon concession stand and the school's
recycling program, school staff said today.
In addition, the teacher prepares a memory book for every departing
eighth-grader and has served as secretary of the Athena-Weston Teacher's
Association and the Athena Library Board. She teaches seventh- and
eighth-grade language arts classes, and is much-loved by her students,
Hensel said during his speech Saturday.
Bartleson was a semi-finalist in the Innovations in Teaching competition
in 1999.
Grand marshal for the 2005 Pioneer Picnic Parade will be
Don Smock, a life-long Weston resident and
farmer.
Hank Thompson, who presented the honor, told the assembled folks that
Smock's family arrived in the area from Utah in 1905.
Smock, 72, attended area schools, graduating from Weston High School in
1950. He and wife Mary then helped farm his family's land, which has
been designated a century farm, and worked for the Weston Cemetery
District for 30 years. In addition, he has volunteered at the Pioneer
Picnic for the past decade, Thompson said today.
Marion Culley will be the Queen of the
Umatilla County Pioneer Picnic this year. That honor was presented
Saturday night by her son Bob Culley of Pendleton.
Marion Culley, who was born to a Valley pioneering family, grew up on
Mill Creek in Walla Walla. She previously tasted festival fame as a
Walla Walla County Fair Farmerette in the 1930s, he told the U-B today.
His mother, 85, received her degree from St. Mary Hospital School of
Nursing, and met her future husband while tending to his appendix
surgery. She went to work at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton during
the Vietnam War years, retiring at age 70.
Culley continues to do volunteer nursing from Athena to Milton-Freewater,
and is considered Weston's first line of defense for first aid, her son
said.
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