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  fireworks  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
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In a free workshop on
July  10,  your  energetic
child will discover the joy
of  clogging.  Silver  Creek
Clogging is offering 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
certificate  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  first
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 testifies
regularly  at  board  meet­
ings. Her husband, Chuck
Sheketoff,  formerly  the
director  of  the  progres­
sive  non­profit  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
filed 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 filed 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  first,”  “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  first  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
first  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  effort
it’s  going  to  take  all  the
way down the pike.”
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Funding
Conservation Angler filed
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  definitely  frus­
trated,”  said  David  Mos­
kowitz, executive director
of  Conservation  Angler.
“This  is  bad  for  wild  fish
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
floor  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  finish  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
flooded 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  fish  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 nonprofit Willam­
ette  Riverkeeper  and