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
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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/
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Resigns
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
