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www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Saturday, July 11, 2015 A11 David Russo helms HR School Board Staff previews process for facility planning update By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA News editor In its lone meeting for July, Hood River County School Board on Wednesday welcomed two new members and assigned a new chair and vice-chair. Dr. David Russo accepted the gavel from former chair Jan Veldhuisen Virk, who said, “I just love this part.” Next item of business was to elect a vice-chair, and that honor went to Kateri Os- borne Lohr. Tom Scully and Chris Reitz, both elected in May 2015, joined the board offi- cially on Wednesday, and Su- perintendent Dan Goldman administered the oath of of- fice. Reitz and Scully succeed Liz Whitmore and Bob Danko, who opted not to run for re-election. Goldman told the board that for the next biennium, the final State School Fund- ing figure from the Depart- ment of Education is $7.4 bil- lion statewide, higher than the $7.25 billion discussed earlier in the Legislative ses- sion but lower than the $7.5 billion needed to hold pro- grams and services at cur- rent levels for most districts. Hood River School District had to cut $1.4 million for 2015-16. “The work we did made a big difference,” Goldman said of lobbying efforts in Salem in recent months. “It was a step in the right direc- tion at the end (of the ses- sion),” he said. “We have to be super-careful about our funds.” He said in August he will present the board with specifics on state funding G ENESIS Continued from Page A1 younger, I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to work as much,’ but now, I’m like, ‘You need me to work? OK, I’ll go in.’” The Heights Ice Cream is open seasonally, from March until the first week of Sep- tember, from noon until clos- ing. “Closing” depends on how busy it is at the Taque- ria, and could be anywhere from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Actually, her parents opened the shop to compli- ment the Taqueria and bring an ice cream parlor to the Heights. “We only had Mike’s (Ice Cream) up until we started, so my dad wanted to put in something for the locals, be- cause Mike’s is downtown and we’re on the Heights,” she said, noting that there are many neighborhoods nearby. Quezada works five to six days a week in four hour shifts. If she’s opening the shop, she begins by unlock- ing the doors, preparing the ice cream (taking the caps off the tubs), placing outside chairs and cleaning, and then cleaning the inside. “Sometimes, not a lot, some people will be waiting at the door when I get there, and I’ll have to go right into Photos by Kirby Neumann-Rea BOARD CHAIR David Russo and vice chair Kateri Osborne Lohr, below, listen during Wednesday’s meeting in Parkdale; in the chair’s absence, the vice-chair presides. Newly-elected board members Chris Reitz and Tom Scully settle in after taking the oath of office. At right is long-time board member Jan Veldhuisen Virk. and its impact on Hood River schools. The board also heard an update on facilities planning by architect Eric Holzer and facilities manager Danny Garcia, who with staff are going through every school in the district analyzing and photographing structural conditions in each room of every building. By the end of July, every space will have been visited and the data will be collated and ready to be used to determine priorities for future repairs and up- grades. A committee of staff and citizens will be appoint- ed to work with district this fall to formulate recommend- it,” she said. Then she serves customers and cleans until her shift ends. She currently manages two other employees, al- though a third should be coming onboard soon. The stores most popular flavor: Tillamook Mudslide. It’s also Quezada’s favorite. One awkward aspect of being a high school-aged manager: “I’m supposed to be the boss of someone I see every day in school,” she said. “Like, sometimes I can say hi, but I can’t really be their friend and their boss.” The best thing about her job — besides the 20 flavors of ice cream it carries from Tillamook, Cascade Glacier, Columbia Valley Farms and Blue Bunny — is the money she’s been able to earn and save. “I was able to buy my own car because I saved up. I paid the down payment of my car because the past two years, I worked and I was saving,” she said. “The money is good for stuff like that, for neces- sities and for college.” While Heights Ice Cream doesn’t do many events, they did sell ice cream at Jackson Park after the Fourth of July parade — around 800 cones worth — and will be at the Lavender DAZE festival July 18-19 at Hood River Lavender in Odell. “It’s crazy because you don’t have everything on ed priorities that will go into funding decisions for facili- ties. That process will in- clude public forums and in- terviewing community mem- bers and personnel who work at each site. “We’ve seen nothing sig- nificant” in terms of defi- ciencies, according to Holzer, “but we are looking at what maintenance has been de- ferred and what needs to be taken care of to ensure the best lear ning environ- ments.” In terms of current re- pairs, Goldman also told the board that brickwork repair at Hood River Middle School and asbestos abatement in the entryway of May Street school will be paid for this summer by the last of the capital expenditure bond funds approved by voters in 2011. The board also approved a $75,000 special procurement to replace the broken boiler at Hood River Middle School and ensure the heating sys- tem is up and running by the time school starts in the fall. hand, so if something goes wrong, you’re going to have to improvise,” she said. “And it gets busier at events than it does here.” The high school junior doesn’t plan on going into business after college — she would rather pursue litera- ture — but she does find there are advantages to the experience she’s gained from her position. “If I want to get a job (in college) … my experience will help me get one quickly,” she said. And experience with cus- tomers made for an easier transition from Mid-Colum- bia Adventist Christian School to Hood River Valley High School last year. “It’s helped my people skills because I have to talk to random people every day. When I first started going to the high school, I didn’t find it hard to talk to (other stu- dents), so that’s how I made friends.” While she hasn’t settled on a college yet, she does have a career plan. “I don’t want to be an ice cream scooper forever,” she said. “I like reading a lot, and I want to write a book … be- cause I like that feeling that I get, when I’m reading a book and I’m like, ‘Oh, my good- ness!,’ the feelings they make come out of you just by words.” Photo by Patrick Mulvihill ATTACK FROM ABOVE: helicopter dumps a load of water from the Hood River. All of the Gorge is in extreme fire danger status and a burn ban is in effect. F IRE Continued from Page A1 ation site. In the meantime, engines roared down a gravel path that runs along the Middle Fork, heading for the fire. Ground crews sealed off a perimeter in order to defend four nearby homes (on the way to Lost Lake) and a piece of Kiyokawa orchard land. An Oregon Department of Forestry helicopter hovered over the scene and dropped river water onto the blaze. By about 3 p.m., the fire was “controlled” but not com- pletely “contained,” said Parkdale Fire Chief Mike McCafferty. According to McCafferty, fire crews were 40 strong at the peak of the fire. Equip- ment included 12 engines, a bulldozer (to clear a path through weeds to the fire), and an ODF helicopter. Park- dale Fire was the first de- partment on scene because Dee lies in their service area. Police reopened all roads by Tuesday evening, and most fire crews cleared out by 6 p.m. ODF crews remained on scene through the night and spent the next several days “mopping up,” said Greg Borton, Wy’East Fire Dis- trict Chief. They were also “gridding,” which means combing the scene inch by inch for new hot spots. As of Thursday, a cause of the fire was not determined. McCafferty said the fire was the biggest of the sum- mer so far in Hood River County. However, he said the Fourth of July weekend was surprisingly calm despite “extreme fire danger.” “I would say, fireworks- wise, people were very sup- portive on the extreme fire danger and no fireworks, (and) activities that cause havoc,” said McCafferty. While the County fire de- partments typically get 15 to 20 firework related calls be- fore Fourth of July, they got only one this year. “We had one small fire caused by fireworks,” said Trammel. McCafferty indicated that the countywide drought re- sponse, in which locals have strived to save water, is a mixed blessing. 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