2005 Queen and Grand Marshall Announced! The Queen for the 2005 Pioneer Picnic is Marion Culley, Presented by her son Bob Culley and Tim Crampton. The Grand Marshall for the 2005 Pioneer Picnic is Don smock and was presented by Hank Thompson.
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| 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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