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2A ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2019 ❚ APPEAL TRIBUNE IN BRIEF July 3rd Celebration at Oregon Garden On July 3, the Oregon Garden is the place for food, drinks, live music and a free fireworks dis play. Planned by the Ore gon Garden Foundation and presented by Roth’s Fresh Markets, it’s Silver ton Day. The day starts at with the garden’s opening at 9 a.m. At 4 p.m., food ven dors and bars will start serving. Face painting, a balloon artist, a bounce house, and yard games will also kick off. Free admission starts at 5 p.m., and is followed with live music at 6 p.m. Featured performers are The FlexTones and 3Riv ers Crossing. Fireworks begin at 10 a.m., with the music starting up again and continuing until 11:30 p.m. Mt. Angel Fourth of July Mt. Angel’s oldfash ioned celebration starts on the Fourth of July with a parade at 11 a.m. The theme is “Small Town, USA.” Fireworks start about 10 p.m. at Mt. Angel Middle School, 460 E. Marquam St. Free clogging workshop for kids ages 5-12 Address: P.O. Box 13009, Salem, OR 97309 Phone: 503-399-6773 Fax: 503-399-6706 In a free workshop on July 10, your energetic child will discover the joy of clogging. Silver Creek Clogging is offering a one hour dance workshop, where he or she will learn introductory clogging steps, dance to lively mu sic, learn a short dance routine, and leave with a certificate of completion and lots of smiles. Advanced registration is required. For more info and to enroll, visit https://silvercreekclog ging.com/discover/ Email: sanews@salem.gannett.com Web site: www.SilvertonAppeal.com Staff News Director Don Currie 503-399-6655 dcurrie@statesmanjournal.com Advertising Westsmb@gannett.com Classifieds: call 503-399-6789 Retail: call 503-399-6602 Legal: call 503-399-6789 Missed Delivery? 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Main Statesman Journal publication Suggested monthly rates: Monday-Sunday: $22, $20 with EZ Pay Monday-Saturday: $17.50, $16 with EZ Pay Wednesday-Sunday: $18, $16 with EZ Pay Monday-Friday: $17.50, $16 with EZ Pay Sunday and Wednesday: $14, $12 with EZ Pay Sunday only: $14, $12 with EZ Pay To report delivery problems or subscribe, call 800-452-2511 To Place an Ad Resigns Continued from Page 1A played a part in his deci sion to retire now. “Continuing as super intendent is an option, but when some individ uals become louder and louder, and they provide no solutions to consider, that’s not in my best in terest,” he said while an nouncing his retirement at a board work session on June 24. “The most important thing, it’s not in the best interest of stu dents.” Criticism of the dis trict’s leadership and di rection has cropped up in some public testimony at board meetings and on social media over the last few years. Calls for change leading up to the 2017 school board elec tion, when, for the first time in local history, a po litical action committee formed and backed can didates in the race. That PAC, Silverton Opportunity, let its state registration lapse last year, but its founder, Na seem Rakha, still testifies regularly at board meet ings. Her husband, Chuck Sheketoff, formerly the director of the progres sive nonprofit Oregon Center for Public Policy, closely follows school district meetings, re quests public documents, and regularly emails and posts to Facebook for those interested. Over the past few years, their – and others’ – public criticism of the school district has ranged from Silverton High’s handling of a proTrump student rally in 2016, a former board member’s political comments on Facebook, the elimina tion of students’ college fair trip and the commit tee process for writing district policy. Most recently, the cou ple joined teachers and parents frustrated over administrators’ handling of a pair of teachers who filed grievances after be ing disciplined over a grading disagreement. An outside arbitrator found in the teachers’ fa vor, upholding their com plaint of retaliation from their principal other ad ministrators for partici pating in union activity. “We get it. We own it. We have to own it,” Bel lando said. He and Asst. Supt. Dandy Stevens said in their closing remarks on Monday that they are sor ry about the situation, while both noting that the arbitrator sustained only one of dozens of com plaints filed by the union. In her comments, Ste vens painted a picture of high school staff that’s di vided against itself. “It’s time the high school staff looked to themselves,” she said. “There are two groups, the nonverbal majority and the vocal minority, who are involved in an unhealthy subculture that breeds an usversus them mentality … these people are the people who are coming and mak ing public comments at every meeting. These people do not represent the Silverton and Silver Falls School District that I know.” Stevens leaves this month to start a new job as Gervais School Dis trict’s superintendent. The board had already hired Busch this spring to take over her duties, most of which related to hu man resources. Bargain ing with teachers now falls to him and the board overseeing him. Originally, when Bel lando proposed retire ment, he asked the board for an additional year of temporary employment that would’ve kept him in Silverton through spring of 2020. He submitted Published every Wednesday by the Statesman Journal, P.O. Box 13009, Salem, OR 97309. USPS 469-860, Postmaster: Send address changes to Appeal Tribune, P.O. Box 13009, Salem, OR 97309. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID: Salem, OR and additional offices. Send letters to the editor and news releases to sanews@salem.gannett.com. both proposals at the June 10 board meeting, saying later he was sur prised by critical com ments from the public. “Doubledipping” has been somewhat common among public employees who can start collecting retirement but want to continue working part time. Locally, some re tired Silver Falls teachers draw retirement while subbing halftime. State law is set to change Jan. 1 to allow fulltime work postretirement. “On my part, it really was an honest request for the board to consider," Bellando said. “I was a lit tle surprised by the feed back from the communi ty, so I responded to what I read within my board and withdrew both re quests.” Two weeks later, he followed up with a retire ment request only. “Had it been possible to know all the circum stances, if you could’ve worked six more months – or a year – I would’ve appreciated that,” board member Jon Edwards told Bellando. Besides bargaining, there’s plenty of business on the school district’s ta ble: two charter schools’ contracts up for renewal, a longrange facilities planning committee needing a consultant and meeting dates, and talk of turning Mark Twain and Robert Frost schools into K5’s. “Your new superinten dent will guide you and lead you in these impor tant processes, as long as you allow that person to do his or her job,” Bellan do said. He thanked six of the seven board members for “putting kids first,” “au thentic dialogue” and “thinking for yourself,” indirectly referencing the State Senate District 10 up for grabs in 2020 ment. Similar to Boles’ ap pointment to the state senate, the Republican party will choose three candidates from which the commissioners will choose her successor. If they don’t complete that in 30 days, Gov. Kate Brown can choose her successor. With Winters’ passing, the District 10 position will be up for election in the 2020 election. The person who wins that will serve two years, and it will be up for a fouryear term on the 2022 ballot. The district has been a stronghold for the Repub lican Party since Winters was first elected to the position in 2002, and subsequently won reelec tion every four years, in cluding defeating current state Rep. Paul Evans, D20, 53 percent to 46 percent in 2006. “The Democrats are going to come after this,” Ainsworth said. Boles, who won her first election in the 2018 election cycle, said she is ready for the challenge. “I expect this will be one of the biggest if not the biggest race in 2020,” Boles said. “That is why I put my name forward. I know the kind of effort it’s going to take all the way down the pike.” bpooehler@States- manJournal.com or Twitter.com/bpoehler Funding Conservation Angler filed a 2017 lawsuit that said hatcheryraised summer steelhead negatively im pact wild winter steel head, which are protected by the federal Endan gered Species Act. That lawsuit ultimate ly pushed the Corps, a federal agency, to elimi nate funding for the pro gram. But the state stepped in to fund the program following legis lation and support from Oregon Sen. Fred Girod, RStayton, said Polly. “We’re definitely frus trated,” said David Mos kowitz, executive director of Conservation Angler. “This is bad for wild fish and an unbelievable thing for the state to be paying for at the same time that it’s laying off teachers.” Moskowitz said the money would be better spent on improving habi tat for native winter steelhead, which have been teetering on the brink of extinction fol lowing years of very low returns. He said Conservation Angler would strongly consider legal action to combat the decision. Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter, photographer and videographer in Oregon for 11 years.Urness can be reached at zur- ness@StatesmanJour- nal.com or (503) 399- 6801. Find him on Twitter at @ZachsORoutdoors. Continued from Page 1A Joining rogue Republican party Eleven Republican Senators staged a walk out June 20 over House Bill 2020, denying the body the quorum needed to vote on it. As a member of the House, Boles voted against House Bill 2020. She told the commis sioners she gave three speeches on the house floor during a sixanda half hour session trying to defeat the bill. “I have the opportuni ty to vote on some of this legislation twice if they have an opportunity to come back,” Boles said. “And I’m going to go back and finish to the best I can my duties as a state rep. Obviously, we have constitutional dead lines we’re up against. I absolutely intend to meet those.” After Boles resigns her state representative posi verbal skirmishes he and board member Shelly Nealon have had in public meetings since her elec tion in 2017. Nealon declined to comment but told Bellan do at the meeting, “I am disappointed that you re signed tonight. It’s not secret that you and I didn’t see eyetoeye all the time … but I wanted to work really hard to heal our district.” Since that meeting, online comments have flooded social media, but statements at the meet ing were short. Buchholz, the chairman, and board members Stadeli and Jennifer Traeger each thanked Bellando for his service. Ron Valoff said, “It sickens me” to see public criticism pushing his departure, and Vice Chair Tim Roth called him “a person of the highest character.” Rep. Denyc Boles, R-Salem, answers interview questions from Marion and Polk County Commissioners at Courthouse Square in Salem on Tuesday. The nominees were selected to replace Salem’s late Sen. Jackie Winters for Senate District 10. MICHAELA ROMÁN/STATESMAN JOURNAL tion Friday, the Marion County Commissioners will be tasked with ap pointing Boles’ replace PUBLIC POLICY NOTICES Public Notices are published by the Statesman Journal and available online at w w w .S ta te s m a n J o u r n a l.c o m . The Statesman Journal lobby is open Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can reach them by phone at 503-399-6789. In order to receive a quote for a public notice you must e-mail your copy to SJLegals@StatesmanJournal.com , and our Legal Clerk will return a proposal with cost, publication date(s), and a preview of the ad. LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICE DEADLINES All Legals Deadline @ 1:00 p.m. on all days listed below: ***All Deadlines are subject to change when there is a Holiday. The Silverton Appeal Tribune is a one day a week (Wednesday) only publication • Wednesday publication deadlines the Wednesday prior LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICE RATES Silverton Appeal Tribune: • Wednesdays only - $12.15/per inch/per time • Online Fee - $21.00 per time • Affidavit Fee - $10.00 per Affidavit requested Continued from Page 1A jig, that you can fish all summer long,” said Bruce Polly, vice president of the Coastal Conservation Association Oregon. Meanwhile, the move was a setback for conser vation groups that sought to eliminate summer steelhead. The nonprofit Willam ette Riverkeeper and