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Thursday April 23,1981
Poison control
class successful
Advanced school transportation costs discussed
The Vernonia School District 47J
Budget Committee held its second
meeting on Thursday, April 16,1981.
Chairman Howard Hopkins called the
meeting to order and the minutes
’ were approved as read. District
Superintendent,
Art
Parrow,
Horse logging
olive and well
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has a positive effect on wildlife as
well.
Horses and mules, it was explained,
use smaller trails and paths, and are
more maneuverable creating less
damage to the wood you’re moving
and the trees left standing. They
don’t tear up vital seedlings and
undergrowth or compact soil as badly
either. Horses cost less to operate but
are a lot slower we were told.
According to Ott “The machinery
logger can move three to four times
the wood that a horse can.” On one
job, Ott says, it took him seven hours
to move one big “hunk of wood” to a
landing, whereas a machine could
have done it in no time, but a machine
couldn’t get in and move it without
tearing up trees and landscape.
Thinning is nothing new as a
forestry practice. Many private
woods owners and local tree farmers
have used this and other methods for
years. There have always been horse
loggers, about ten in northwest
Oregon mostly doing work in national
forests and water sheds, for obvious
reasons. If you have a backyard or
hundreds of acres of trees that you
' need advice on managing or thinning
contact any of these men for help and
information. For the date of the next
“Woodland Tour” contact your
county forestry agent. It was a most
infonnative tour and enjoyed by all
attending, don’t miss the next one.
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Commercial & Residential
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429-7622
proceeded to explain the District
Center expenditure proposals.
Within
the
District
Center
expenditures,
two
items
were
discussed in length by the committee.
The first was the transportation costs
to and from Portland Community
College for advanced classes for high
school students. Several committee
members spoke in favor of this
program while some committee’
members questioned the expense of
the program in a year when District
receipts
have
been
drastically.
reduced from the state arid federal
levels.
The second heavily discussed item
in the District portion of the budget
was the proposed transfer of funds
from the District to the School Lunch
Program. The subsidy from the
District is proposed at $28,000, an
increase of $23,000. Superintendent
Parrow explained that this increase is
due to reduced subsidy in this
program from the federal level.
Currently, those students that pay
full price for a meal are subsidized
through federal reimbursement at
approximately 474 per lunch. This
subsidy is in the form of cash and
commodity
food.
The
federal
government has totally eliminated
this subsidy for 1981-82. Those
students that are on reduced-price
lunch would lose Vs of the current
subsidy of cash and commodities. The
District increased subsidy of the
school lunch program also assumes
that the students would pay
increased prices for lunches. The
proposed increased lunch prices for
elementary students would be 904
and high school students would pay
954 for their lunch. At present 67
percent of students eating lunch in
the cafeteria pay full price, 6 percent
pay reduced-price and the remainder
are on the free lunch program. There
has been no reduction in subsidy from
the federal level for the free lunch
students. The total loss of funds from
federal sources in the lunch program
is estimated to be in excess of $48,000
for the next school year, Parrow said.
The budget committee continued
by taking a detailed look at the High
School
Center
expenditures.
Questions were raised on equipment
for the home economics, shop,
business and math departments. The
possibility of charging students a fee
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for driver education was also
considered. The committee voted to
Mike Johnson and Steven Katz
remove
$600
for
instructional
held a Poison Control class on April
services in the high school health and
16 for interested members of the
physical
education
department,
community.
eliminating the fees for bowling and
Johnson, Forest Grove Hospital
emergency room supervisor, and
golf.
The budget as proposed to the
Katz, a Forest Grove pharmacist,
Budget Committee has deleted the
paid special attention to safe
high school forest products program.
guarding the home from accidental
A number of individuals from the
poisoning and pointing out poisons,
community spoke in favor of this
such as garden supplies and
program
and
requested
its
household
cleaners,
we
often
reinstatement
in
the
budget.
overlook.
Numerous
budget
committee
Emergency care for poison victims,
members voiced their concern that
including when to induce vomiting
this program had been deleted as they
and when not to and methods of
felt that it served a great value in a
flushing irritants from skin surfaces
community
whose
principal
were also discussed.
occupation is the timber industry.
An ample supply of “Mr. Yuck!”
Discussion was held regarding the
identification stickers to warn your
athletic program. A recommendation
children of poisons are available at
that several sports (cross crountry,
the Vernonia Freedom office.
wrestling, golf and track) be cut,
leaving only boy’s football and
WOMEN‘S CITY BOWLING
basketball and girl’s volleyball and
TOURNAMENT
basketball, was made. It was also
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proposed that the J V football
Marita Woods
program be reduced by one game and
Rose Weissenbuehler
that football games be held only on
Donna Reynolds
Saturday afternoons. The total
Salee Marion
elimination of interscholastic athletic
Florence Newton
competition at the elementary school
Singles * Carol Hogan 511 scratch
level was also proposed. Corisiderable
Bette Weaver 608 hdcp.
discussion was held on these
Doubles -
proposals by members of the
Joyce Johnson & Pat Eager 1068 scratch
committee and the audience.
Bess Moser & Dot White 1118 hdcp.
The budget committee will meet I Hi Series - Joyce Johnson 578 scratch
Salee Marion 631 hdcp.
again on April 21 and 23 at 7:30 pm in
Hi Game - Joyce Johnson 220 scratch
the School district office. All
Jennifer Ragsdale 239 hdcp.
interested
members
of
the
All Events - Joyce Johnson 1627 scratch
community are invited to attend
Freda Pederson 1690 hdcp.
t Triple Score - Helen Clarke
these meetings.
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Employment Specialist for this
summer’s SYEP, Mrs. Kit Lucey,
announced this week that up to 90
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Scappoose, Vernonia, St. Heleris,
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job description forms for jobs
beginning in June (after the end of
school).. Federal minimum wages are
$3.35 per hour. Youth who are eligible
will be interviewed in the schools by
Intake Representative, Ms. Jane
Martinez
beginning
in
May.
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factors: low incoriie and learning
disability.
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